Previous Seminar Listings

MONDAY, Nov. 5
4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM – Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Theories of the Explosive Death of Massive Stars,” Adam Burrows, University of Arizona.  Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor Rockefeller Hall.

TUESDAY, Nov. 6
12:00 NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY  CENTER  SEMINAR SERIES,  G01 Biotech Building, “Biotechnology Research Overview,” Po Ki Yuen, S & T Corning, Inc.   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, “Pairing Versus Superfluidity in Ultracold  Fermi Gases,” Wilhelm Zwerger, Technical University of Munich.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SERIES, B17 Upson Hall, “Targeted Energy Transfer in Coupled Oscillators:  Theory & Applications,” Lawrence Bergman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Refreshments in the Upson Hall Lounge at 4:15.

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 7
12:15 THE BOVAY PROGRAM IN THE HISTORY AND ETHICS OF ENGINEERING SEMINAR SERIES, 310 Rhodes Hall, “Second-Guessing Engineers:  How to Learn from Blunders in Technology,” William Lynch, Wayne State University.

1:30 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab., “TBA,” Oliver DeWolfe, Colorado University.

3:30 EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR, 2146 Snee Hall, “A Multiscale Investigation of the Climate Variability Over East and West Africa,” Fred Semazzi, North Carolina State University.  Refreshments at 3:00 in the Snee Hall Reading Room.

4:30 THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “Imagination in Science,” Bruce Lewenstein, Cornell University.   Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall.

THURSDAY, Nov. 8
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,” Dr. Tom Corso, Advion.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Building, “The Era of Comparative Exoplanetology,” Dave Charbonneau, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 105 Space Sciences Building.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  GENERAL COLLOQUIUM, 119 Baker Lab., “Coenzyme A and Natural Biosynthesis,” Michael Burkart, UC at San Diego.  Refreshments will be served.

FRIDAY, Nov. 9
3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for the Modeling of Free Surface Flows using High-Order Boussinesq Approximations,” Jan S. Hesthaven, Brown University.  Refreshments at 4:30 in 657 Rhodes Hall.