Previous Seminar Listings

MONDAY, Mar. 3
3:00 THE BOVAY PROGRAM IN THE HISTORY AND ETHICS OF ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 203 Phillips Hall, “Sustainable Engineering:  Oxymoron or Utopia?”  Brad Allenby, Arizona State University.

4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Remarkable Nanostructured Forms of Carbon,” Mildred Dresselhaus, Institute Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Special Historical Ceremony with refreshments following colloquium, second floor Rockefeller Hall.

4:00 SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “Biomedical Applications of Quantitative Microscopy Techniques,” Dr. Michelle Dawson, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School.  Refreshments at 3:45 in 128 Olin Hall.
  
TUESDAY, Mar. 4
12:00 NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY  CENTER  SEMINAR SERIES,  G01 Biotech Building, “TBA,” Saveed Tavazoie, Princeton 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 AND SCHOOL OF APPLIED & ENGINEERING PHYSICS SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Equilibrium Phases of a Dipolar Magnetic Superfluid,” Mukund Vengalattore, UC at Berkeley.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SERIES, B11 Kimball Hall, “TBA.”   Refreshments at 4:15 in the Upson Lounge.

WEDNESDAY, Mar. 5
1:30 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab., “TBA,” Ian Low, Northwestern University.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “On Developing a Quantitative Phase and Polarization Microscope for Bio-Imaging,” Remy Tumbar, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “Space Weather Forecasting Using System Identification Techniques,” Harish Palanthandalam-Madapusi, Syracuse University.   Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall.

THURSDAY, Mar. 6
2:45 MACHINES AND ORGANISMS: LOCOMOTION AND MANIPULATION SEMINAR, 201 Thurston Hall, “Evolutionary Biorobotics:  Creating Simulated Vertebrates to Test Adaptation Hypotheses,” John Long, Vassar College, Biology and Bioengineering.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Bldg., “The Herschel Space Observatory:  Potential, Plans, and Current Status,” Paul F. Goldsmith, NASA Herschel Project Scientist, Senior Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 105 Space Sciences Bldg.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 140 Bard Hall, “Excitonic Energy Transfer:  Lessons from Nature and Possible Applications to Artificial Solar Energy Harvesting,” Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University.  Refreshments at 4:00 in the MS&E Lounge, 260 Bard Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, GENERAL CHEMISTRY COLLOQUIUM, 119 Baker Lab., “Searching for Simplicity:  From Gas-Liquid Scattering to Single Molecule RNA Folding,” David Nesbitt, University of Colorado.

FRIDAY, Mar. 7
1:30 MEDIA, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATION COLLOQUIUM SERIES, 213 Kennedy Hall, “Let us Protect Our Future:  HIV, Behavior Theory, Cultural Tailoring, and Sex among South African Adolescents,” John B. Jemmott, III, University of Pennsylvania.