Previous Seminar Listings

MONDAY, Oct. 29
4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM – Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Electronic Liquid Crystals,” Steven Kivelson, Stanford University.  Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor Rockefeller Hall.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 155 Olin Hall, “Going Beyond Petroleum for Global Energy and Chemicals,” Evelyn Taylor Pearson, Technology Networks Manager, BP.  Refreshments at 3:30 in 128 Olin Hall.

TUESDAY, Oct. 30
12:00 NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY  CENTER  SEMINAR SERIES,  G01 Biotech Building, “TBA,” Bob Austin, Princeton University.   Please  feel  free  to  bring  your lunch.   Refreshments will be served.  For more information view www.nbtc.cornell.edu/technology_platform.htm

12:15 CENTER FOR NANOSCALE SYSTEMS (CNS) SEMINAR SERIES, 700 Clark Hall, “The Coupling of Mechanical and Magnetic Degrees of Freedom in Magneto Electromechanical Systems,” Dr. Gerrit Bauer, Kavli Institute of NanoScience.  Pizza at noon.

4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Controlled Exchange Interactions between Pairs of Neutral Atoms in an Optical Lattice,” Trey Porto, National Institute of Standards and Technology.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SERIES, B17 Upson Hall, “Heat Transfer Enhancement in Dense Suspensions of Agitated Solids:  Theory, Experiments and Implications for Nanofluids,” Michel Louge, Cornell University.  Refreshments in the Upson Hall Lounge at 4:15.

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 31
12:15 THE BOVAY PROGRAM IN THE HISTORY AND ETHICS OF ENGINEERING SEMINAR SERIES, 310 Rhodes Hall, “Understanding Potential Weapons Proliferators,” Geoff Forden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

1:30 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab., “TBA,” Itay Yavin, Princeton University.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “Playing Extreme Sports with Single Biological Molecules,” Taekjip Ha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Refreshments at 4:15.

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

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  CBI SEMINAR, 119 Baker Lab., “Halogenation of Unactivated Carbon Centers in Natural Products Biosynthesis,” Danica Galonic Fujimori, Harvard Medical School.  Refreshments will be served.

THURSDAY, Nov. 1
2:45 MACHINES AND ORGANISMS:  LOCOMOTION AND MANIPULATION SEMINAR, 201 Thurston, “TBA”.

3:35 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AND DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 255 Olin Hall, “TBA”.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Building, “MHD Turbulence and Transport in Accretion Flows,” James Stone, Princeton University.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 105 Space Sciences Building.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 140 Bard Hall, “Block Copolymer Thin Films:  Ordering Transitions and Coarsening Phenomena,” Peter Green, University of Michigan.  Refreshments at 4:00 in the MS&E Lounge, 260 Bard Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  GENERAL COLLOQUIUM, 119 Baker Lab., “DYNAMICS ON THE NANOSCALE:  Time-Domain Ab Initio Studies of Quantum Dots, Carbon Nanotubes, and Molecule-Semiconductor Interfaces,” Oleg Prezhdo, University of Washington.  Refreshments will be served.

FRIDAY, Nov. 2
4:00 LEPP JOURNAL CLUB SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab., “Heavy Ion Physics from RHIC to LHC,” Jan Rak, BNL.  Refreshments at 3:45.