Previous Seminar Listings

MONDAY, April 30
2:00 LESTER EASTMAN SEMINAR, 231 Phillips Hall, “Anatomy of the Single-Chip Phone,” Dennis Buss, Texas Instruments.  Refreshments at 1:45.

4:00 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “The Dynamics of Colloidal Rod Suspensions Under Induced-Charge Electrophoresis,” Eric Shaqfeh, Stanford University.  Refreshments at 3:45 in 128 Olin Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  CBI SEMINAR SERIES, 119 Baker Lab., “TBA,” Coran Watanabe, Texas A&M University.  Refreshments will be served.

TUESDAY, May 1
11:15 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  BAKER LECTURE, 119 Baker Lab., “Reactions at Solid Surfaces:  Principles of Heterogeneous Catalysis,” Gerhard Ertl, Fritz Haber Institute.  Refreshments will be served.

12:00 NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY  CENTER  SEMINAR SERIES,  G01 Biotech Building, “GPCR Chips,” Joydeep Lahiri, Biochemical Technologies, Corning, Incorporated. Refreshments will be served. For more information view www.nbtc.cornell.edu/seminar_series.htm.

12:15 CORNELL FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR, 178 Rhodes Hall, “Experimental Eulerian and Lagrangian Investigations in Turbulent Flows,” Sathyanarayana Ayyalasomayajula, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 12:00 in 178 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 SCHOOL OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND INFORMATION ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 253 Rhodes Hall, “Queues with Many Servers:  The QED Regime,” Petar Momcilovic, University of Michigan.  Refreshments at 3:45 in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SERIES, B-11 Kimball Hall, “TBA,” Dr. Steve Waydo. 

4:30 MESSENGER LECTURE SERIES, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “The Invention of Science:  Poetry and Technology,” Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate, Holder of the Josey Chair in Science and Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin.

4:45 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “Concerted Motion in Living Systems,” Mingming Wu, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 128 Olin Hall.

WEDNESDAY, May 2
4:00 MESSENGER LECTURE SERIES, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “The Invention of Science:  Mathematics and Philosophy,” Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate, Holder of the Josey Chair in Science and Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, \"Life As A Lipid:  Rafts, Dynamics and Interactions,\" Erin Sheets, Pennsylvania State University.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “Biologically Inspired Wavy Surface Adhesion,” Pradeep Guduru, Brown University.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall. 

THURSDAY, May 3
11:15 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  BAKER LECTURE, 119 Baker Lab., “Reactions at Solid Surfaces:  Mechanisms of Catalytic Reactions,” Gerhard Ertl, Fritz Haber Institute.  Refreshments will be served.

12:15 CNS SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Photonic Crystal Devices and Circuits for Classical and Quantum Information Processing,” Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University.  Pizza at Noon.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 140 Bard Hall, “TBA,” Paula Hammond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Refreshments at 4:00 in the MS&E Lounge, 260 Bard.

7:30 MESSENGER LECTURE SERIES, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology,” Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate, Holder of the Josey Chair in Science and Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin.

FRIDAY, May 4
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This is the Last Seminar Notice for the Spring Semester.
Next notice will be for the week of August 27, 2007.