Previous Seminar Listings

MONDAY, Jan. 28
4:00 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “Block Copolymer Thin Films as Nanofabrication Templates,” Richard A. Register, Princeton University.  Refreshments at 3:45 in 128 Olin Hall.

4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM – Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Quasiparticle Extinction Due to Mottness – the Achilles’ Heel of High-Tc Superconductivity,” J.C. Seamus Davis, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor Rockefeller Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, CBI SEMINAR, 119 Baker Lab., “Discovery and Mechanistic Deconvolution of New Chemical Probes of Angiogenesis Among Known Drugs,” Jun Liu, Johns Hopkins Medical School.

TUESDAY, Jan. 29
12:00 NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY  CENTER  SEMINAR SERIES,  G01 Biotech Building, “TBA,” Quan Hao, 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 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SERIES, B11 Kimball Hall, “Novel On-Chip Isotachophoresis Assays,” Juan G. Santiago, Stanford University.  Refreshments at 4:15 in the Upson Lounge.

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 30
4:15 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING &  SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 155 Olin Hall, “TBA,” Dr. Padmavathi Sundaram, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.  Refreshments at 4:00 in 128 Olin Hall.

4:30 THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “Nonlinear Gear Vibrations:  Practical Problems and Analytical Successes,” Robert Parker, Ohio State University.   Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall.

THURSDAY, Jan. 31
3:35 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AND DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 255 Olin Hall, “New Spine Implant Technologies:  Total Disc Replacement and Dynamic Motion Preservation,” Steven M. Kurtz, Corporate Vice President, Exponent, Inc.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Building, “Shooting the Moon:  Is There Science at z ï‚» 0?”  Jim Bell, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 105 Space Sciences Building.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 140 Bard Hall, “TBA,” Dr. Ruchirej Yongsunthon, Corning, Inc.  Refreshments at 4:00 in the MS&E Lounge, Bard 260.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, GENERAL CHEMISTRY COLLOQUIUM, 119 Baker Lab., “Design and Synthesis of Selective Dipeptidyl Peptidase 4 Inhibitors:  Discovery of JANUVIA (sitagliptin), a New Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes,” Ann Weber, Merck.

FRIDAY, Feb. 1
2:30 CHESS JOURNAL CLUB, 380 Wilson Lab, “Gluing with an Iron Fist:  How Small Snails Turn Gels Into Strong Adhesives,” Andrew Smith, Ithaca College.  Refreshments will be served.

3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “Kronecker Product Approximation and Computational Multilinear Algebra,” Charles Van Loan, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 4:30 in 657 Rhodes Hall.