Previous Seminar Listings

MONDAY, Feb. 18
4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM – Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “The Physics of Crude Oils:  What Downhole Nuclear Magnet Resonance Can Tell Us About Crude Oils,” Denise Freed, Schlumberger-Doll Research.  Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor Rockefeller Hall.
  
4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, LAUGHLIN LECTURE, 119 Baker Lab., “Living in Confinement:  The Phases of Confined Liquids.  Why is Water so Different?:  Confining Water and other Complex Fluids,” Jacob Klein, Weizmann Institute of Science.

TUESDAY, Feb. 19
12:00 NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY  CENTER  SEMINAR SERIES,  G01 Biotech Building, “TBA,” Lara Estroff, 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 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “TBA,” William Ryu, Princeton University.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SERIES, B11 Kimball Hall, “Measurement of the Local Mechanical Environment of Skeletal Tissues,” Elise Morgan, Boston University.   Refreshments at 4:15 in the Upson Lounge.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, LAUGHLIN LECTURE, 119 Baker Lab., “Living in Confinement:  The Phases of Confined Liquids.  The Molecular Origins of Biological Lubrication,” Jacob Klein, Weizmann Institute of Science.

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 20
3:00 CHESS/ERL JOINT SEMINAR, 380 Wilson Lab, “A Proposed Soft X-Ray FEL Facility,” Roger Falcone, UC at Berkeley and Advanced Light Sources.  Refreshments will be served.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “Nonlinear Optics for Studies of Cerebrovascular Disease,” Chris Schaffer, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “Computational Approaches for Simulating Transient Response in Solids and Structures,” Christopher Earls, Cornell University.   Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall.

THURSDAY, Feb. 21
1:30 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “TBA,” Jay Hubisz, FLAL.

4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Nernst Effect and Magnetohydrodynamics Near Quantum Criticality in Superconductors, Graphene and Black Holes,” Markus Mueller, Harvard University.  Refreshments at 4:15.

FRIDAY, Feb. 22
12:30 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab, “TBA,” Oliver M. DeWolfe, Colorado.  Pizza at noon.

1:30 MEDIA, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY:  COMMUNICATION COLLOQUIUM SERIES, 213 Kennedy Hall, “Hidden Consequences of the Group Serving Bias:  Causal Attributions and the Quality of Group Decision Making,” Jack Goncalo, Cornell University.

3:00 CHESS JOURNAL CLUB, 380 Wilson Lab, “Overview of the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (NSRL), China, and a Capillary Test,” Ruipeng Li, CHESS.  Refreshments will be served.

3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “One Plus One Could Equal Three,” Alan Oppenheim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Refreshments at 4:30 in 657 Rhodes Hall.