Previous Seminar Listings

MONDAY, Mar. 24
3:30 EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR, 2146 Snee Hall, “An Adjoint-Derived Forecast Sensitivity Study of Hurricane Floyd (1999),” Michael Morgan, University of Wisconsin.  Refreshments at 3:00 in the Snee Hall Reading Room.

4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Gene Surfing in Microorganisms,” David Nelson, Harvard University.  Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor Rockefeller Hall.

4:15 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, 165 Olin Hall, “The Changing Face of the Extracellular Matrix under Force:  Role of Fibronectin in Mechanotransduction,” Dr. Michael L. Smith, ETH Zurich.  Refreshments at 4:00 in 128 Olin Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, ORGANIC/ ORGANOMETALLIC SEMINAR, 119 Baker Lab., “Inorganic and Bioinorganic Reaction Mechanisms:  QM and QM/MM Studies,” Jeremy Harvey, University of Bristol.
  
TUESDAY, Mar. 25
12:00 NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY  CENTER  SEMINAR SERIES,  G01 Biotech Building, “Developing Multifunctional Magnetic Nanoparticles for Imaging and Delivery Applications,” Shougeng Sun, Brown 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, “TBA.”   Refreshments at 4:15 in the Upson Lounge.

WEDNESDAY, Mar. 26
1:30 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab., “TBA,” Michael Lublinsky, University of Connecticut.

4:15 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, 155 Olin Hall, “Liver Tissue Engineering:  From Lasers to Grapefruits,” Dr. Yaakov Nahmias, Harvard Medical School.  Refreshments at 4:00 inside 128 Olin Hall.

4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “In Search of Control:  Protein Folding, Self Assembly and Molecular Chaperones,” Hays S. Rye, Princeton University.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “Mechanics as a Theory of Everything: Newton, Maxwell, and Intelligibility,” Peter Dear, Cornell University.   Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, BLOMQUIST LECTURE, 119 Baker Lab., “Some Personal Thoughts on Developments in the Field of Organic Synthesis,” David Evans, Harvard University.

THURSDAY, Mar. 27
12:00 LES EASTMAN SERIES DISCUSSION, 231 Phillips Hall, “The Terahertz Frontier:  The History of Velocity-Modulated Devices,” Tom Lee, Stanford University.  Refreshments at 11:45 in 231 Phillips Hall Lounge.

2:45 MACHINES AND ORGANISMS: LOCOMOTION AND MANIPULATION SEMINAR, 201 Thurston Hall, “TBA,” Knoek van Soest, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

3:35 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING & DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, 255 Olin Hall, “Research and Development of Combination Products,” Dr. Ruth Cheng, Strategic Partnerships, Boston Scientific Corporation.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Bldg., “X-Ray Pulsars and the Search for the Supra-Nuclear Equation of State,” Sharon Morsink, University of Alberta.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 105 Space Sciences Bldg.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 140 Bard Hall, “Bio-Inspired Mineralization:  Hydrogels and Self-Assembled Monolayers,” Lara Estroff, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 4:00 in the MS&E Lounge, 260 Bard Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, BLOMQUIST LECTURE, 119 Baker Lab., “Asymmetric Synthesis with Chiral Metal Complexes,” David Evans, Harvard University.

FRIDAY, Mar. 28
9:00 MEDIA, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATION COLLOQUIUM SERIES,  106 Olin Library, “The New Intellectual Properties of Knowledge and Issues of Access,” John Willinsky, University of British Columbia.

1:30 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab., “TBA,” Haim Goldberg, Northwestern University.

3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “Efficient Cut-Based Image Segmentation Techniques,” Dorit S. Hochbaum, UC at Berkeley.  Refreshments at 4:30 in 657 Rhodes Hall.