Previous Seminar Listings

MONDAY, Feb. 4
4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM – Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Electroweak Superconductivity,” Andrew Cohen, Boston University.  Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor Rockefeller Hall.

4:00 SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “Nanoconfinement Effects on Glass Formation and Glassy Behavior of Polymers,” Rodney D. Priestley, Northwestern University.  Refreshments at 3:45 in 128 Olin Hall.

TUESDAY, Feb. 5
12:00 NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY  CENTER  SEMINAR SERIES,  G01 Biotech Building, “TBA.”  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, “3D Topological Insulators and 2D Anderson Delocalization,” Shinsei Ryu, UC at Santa Barbara.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SERIES, B11 Kimball Hall, “Simulating the Primary Atomization of Turbulent Liquid Jets,” Marcus Herrmann, Arizona State University.  Refreshments at 4:15 in the Upson Lounge.

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 6
1:30 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “TBA,” Ira Z. Rothstein, Carnegie Mellon University.

4:30 THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “1D and 2D Atomistic-Continuum Models for Deformations of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes,” Karthick Chandraseker, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall.

THURSDAY, Feb. 7
1:15 SPECIAL LASSP THEORY SEMINAR, 609 Clark Hall, “Soft Random Solids and Their Spatial Elastic Heterogeneity,” Xiaoming Mao, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

3:35 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AND DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 255 Olin Hall, “TBA,” Stephen N. Oesterle, MD, Medronic, Inc.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Building, “Will the Smooth Stellar Spheroid Please Stand Up?”  Heidi Newberg, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.   Refreshments at 4:15 in 105 Space Sciences Building.

4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “TBA,” Eun-Ah Kim, Stanford University.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 140 Bard Hall, “TBA.”   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., “Vibrational Energy Flow in Proteins,” David Leitner, University of Nevada, Reno.

FRIDAY, Feb. 8
12:30 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “TBA,” Spencer Chang, New York University.

1:00 SPECIAL LASSP THEORY SEMINAR, 701 Clark Hall, “Mott Transition and Universality at Finite Temperatures,” Stefanos Papanikolaou, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

3:00 CHESS JOURNAL CLUB, 380 Wilson Lab, “Visualizing Complex Electronic Structure with Spectroscopic Imaging STM,” J.C. Seamus Davis, Cornell University.  Refreshments will be served.

3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “Regulation of the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle:  From Molecular Networks to Cell Physiology,” John J. Tyson, Virgina Polytechnic Institute & State University.   Refreshments at 4:30 in 657 Rhodes Hall.