Previous Seminar Listings

MONDAY, Feb. 11
4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM – Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Wringing Yet More Reality from the Cosmic Microwave Background:  New Data from the CAPMAP Polarization Experiment and More,” Suzanne Staggs, Princeton University.  Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor Rockefeller Hall.

4:00 SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “Biophotonics:  Lighting the Way,” Andrea M. Armani, California Institute of Technology.   Refreshments at 3:45 in 128 Olin Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, ORGANIC/ORGANOMETALLIC SEMINAR, 119 Baker Lab., “Total Syntheses of Himbacine and Himgaline and Discovery of a Potent Himbacine-based Antithrombotic Agent,” Sanuel Chackalamannil, Schering Plough.

TUESDAY, Feb. 12
12:00 NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY  CENTER  SEMINAR SERIES,  G01 Biotech Building, “TBA,” Ray Molloy, Graduate Student, Cornell 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 CNF TECHNICAL SEMINAR, 254 Duffield Hall, “Introduction to the Orion Helium Ion Microscope,” Zeiss Corporation.

4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “The Matter-Light Quantum Interfaces for Scalable Quantum Networks,” Hui Deng, California Institute of Technology.  Refreshments at 4:15pm.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SERIES, B11 Kimball Hall, “Development of Surrogate Jet Fuels,” Dr. Meredith Colket, United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, Connecticut.   Refreshments at 4:15 in the Upson Lounge.

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 13
4:15 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING & SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 155 Olin Hall, “Receptor-Mediated Adhesion of Circulating Cells,” Michael R. King, University of Rochester.   Refreshments at 4:00 in 155 Olin Hall.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “Cellular Autofluorescence:  Towards Quantitative Biochemistry and Cell Pathology,” Ahmed Heikal, Pennsylvania State University.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “TBA,” Assad Oberai, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.   Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, BAYER LECTURE, 119 Baker Lab., “Mechanophore-Linked Polymers and Mechanically Responsive Materials,” Jeffrey S. Moore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

THURSDAY, Feb. 14
4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Building, “Direct Detection of Extrasolar Planets and the Gemini Planet Imager,” Bruce Macintosh, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 105 Space Sciences Building.

4:00 SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “Stereocontrol in Polyketides,” Dr. Adrian T. Keatinge-Clay, UC at San Francisco.   Refreshments at 3:45 in 128 Olin Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, BAYER LECTURE, 119 Baker Lab., “Dynamic Covalent Chemistry of Linear and Cyclic Oligomers,” Jeffrey S. Moore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

FRIDAY, Feb. 15
3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “Some Problems in Second-Gradient Nonlinear Elasticity,” Timothy Healey, Co