Previous Seminar Listings

MONDAY, Oct. 22
4:00 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes:  Quality Counts,” Dr. Kalman B. Migler, National Institute of Standards and Technology and Polymers Division.  Refreshments at 3:45 in 128 Olin Hall.

4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM – Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Nonlinear Dynamics of Heart Rhythm Disorders,” Robert Gilmour, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor Rockefeller Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  SPECIAL SEMINAR, 119 Baker Lab., “The Virtue of the Impure:  Chemical Biology of Spiders, Worms, and Bacteria Revealed by Direct NMR,” Frank Schroeder, Cornell University.  Refreshments will be served.

TUESDAY, Oct. 23
12:00 NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY  CENTER  SEMINAR SERIES,  G01 Biotech Building, “TBA,” Rong  Dong, Ober Research Group, Cornell University.   Please  feel  free  to  bring  your lunch.  Refreshments will be served.  For more information view www.nbtc.cornell.edu/technology_platform.htm

4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “The Persistent Spin Helix:  Spin Propagation in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas,” Joseph Orenstein, UC at Berkeley.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  SPECIAL SEMINAR, 119 Baker Lab., “Gilbert Newton Lewis – His Life, Death, and the Missing Nobel Prize,” Patrick Coffey, UC at Berkeley.  Refreshments will be served.

4:45 JOINT PHYSICS/ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM – THE THOMAS GOLD LECTURE SERIES, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “The Double Pulsar System J0737-3039,” Professor Andrew G. Lyne, University of Manchester.

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 24
12:15 THE BOVAY PROGRAM IN THE HISTORY AND ETHICS OF ENGINEERING SEMINAR SERIES, 310 Rhodes Hall, “Space Debris as Environmental Hazard,” David Wright, Union of Concerned Scientists.

12:15 CENTER FOR NANOSCALE SYSTEMS (CNS) SEMINAR SERIES, 700 Clark Hall, “Writing a Resume that Works," Dr. Geoffrey Nunes, DuPont Central Research and Development.  Pizza at noon.

1:30 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab., “TBA,” Lance Dixon, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “A Novel Excess Calcium Binding Site Model of Neurotransmitter Exocytosis,” Joel R. Stiles, Carnegie Mellon University.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “TBA,” Alexander Vladimirsky, Cornell University.   Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall.

THURSDAY, Oct. 25
2:45 MACHINES AND ORGANISMS:  LOCOMOTION AND MANIPULATION SEMINAR, 201 Thurston, “Pumping and Jumping:  Toward Simple Rules that Transcent Size,” Steve Vogel, Duke University.

3:35 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AND DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 255 Olin Hall, “Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing:  The Process is the Product,” Dr. Jeffrey Robbins, Bristol-Myers Squibb.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR – JOHNSON MEMORIAL LECTURE, B11 Kimball Hall, “Learning from Nature’s Hierarchical Materials,” Dr. Peter Fratzl,” Max Planck Institute.  Refreshments at 4:00 in the MS&E Lounge, 260 Bard Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  ROESSLER LECTURE, 119 Baker Lab., “Tinkering with Nature’s Macrolides,” Alois Furstner, Max-Planck-Institut fur Kohlenforschung.  Refreshments will be served.

4:45 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES  PRESENTS:  THE THOMAS GOLD LECTURE SERIES, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Pulsars – The Finest Clocks in the Universe” Professor Andrew G. Lyne, University of Manchester.

FRIDAY, Oct. 26
1:30 MEDIA, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATION COLLOQUIUM SERIES, 213 Kennedy Hall, “Species Panic:  On the Human in Wildlife Filmmaking,” Cynthia Chris, College of Staten Island, CUNY.  Refreshments will be provided.

3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “Dynamics of Transition and Turbulence in Fluid Flows,” Divakar Viswanath, University of Michigan. Refreshments at 4:30 in 657 Rhodes Hall.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR – JOHNSON MEMORIAL LECTURE, 140 Bard Hall, “Deformation and Fracture Mechanisms in Biological Materials,” Dr. Peter Fratzl,” Max Planck Institute.  Refreshments at 4:00 in the MS&E Lounge, 260 Bard Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  ROESSLER LECTURE, 119 Baker Lab., “Progress in Metal-Catalyzed C-C-Bond Formations,” Alois Furstner, Max-Planck-Institut fur Kohlenforschung.  Refreshments will be served.