Previous Seminar Listings

MONDAY, April 7
4:00 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “Motion of Droplets on Surfaces Induced by Noise and a Bias,” Manoj Chaudhury, Lehigh University.  Refreshments at 3:45 in 128 Olin Hall.

4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Quantum Simulations with Ultracold Atoms,” Markus Greiner, Harvard University.  Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor Rockefeller Hall.

TUESDAY, Apr. 8
12:00 NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY  CENTER  SEMINAR SERIES,  G01 Biotech Building, “TBA,” Adele Boskey, Weill Medical School, 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, “Counterflow Condensates:  From Projected Metallic Hydrogen to Multicomponent Bose-Einstein and Excitonic Condensates,” Egor Babaev, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  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, Apr. 9
1:30 PARTICLE THEORY SEMINAR, 311 Newman Lab., “TBA,” Arvind Murugan, Princeton University.

3:30 EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SEMINAR, 2146 Snee Hall, “Numerical Modeling of High Reynolds Number Stratified Wakes and Implications for Oceanic and Atmospheric Turbulence,” Peter Diamessis, Cornell University.  Refreshments at 3:00 in the Snee Hall Reading Room.

4:30 THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “Nanomechanics of Biological Systems:  Bridging Single Molecule and Continuum Mechanics Descriptions of Cell Adhesion,” Huajian Gao, Brown University.   Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall.

THURSDAY, Apr. 10
2:45 MACHINES AND ORGANISMS: LOCOMOTION AND MANIPULATION SEMINAR, 201 Thurston Hall, “TBA,” Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland.

3:35 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING & DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, 255 Olin Hall, “TBA,” Dr. Jon Rowley, Aastrom Biosciences.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES PRESENT:  THE JOSEPHINE LAWRENCE HOPKINS FOUNDATION COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Bldg., “Following the Water:  A Trek Through Interstellar Clouds to Other Star Systems,” Gary Melnick, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 105 Space Sciences Bldg.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, 140 Bard Hall, “Materials Science for Next Generation Nuclear Energy,” Dr. Chris Stanek, Los Alamos National Laboratory.  Refreshments at 4:00 in the MS&E Lounge, 260 Bard Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, GENERAL CHEMISTRY COLLOQUIUM, 119 Baker Lab., “Keep Your Friends Close, and Your Enemies Closer:  How Can NO Synthase Make and Release NO?” Dennis Stuehr, Lerner Research Institute and Cleveland Clinic.

FRIDAY, Apr. 11
1:30 MEDIA, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY:  COMMUNICATION COLLOQUIUM SERIES, 213 Kennedy Hall, “Communicating the History of Science:  A Critical Analysis of Internet-Based Timelines,” Stephen Hilgartner, Cornell University.

3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “Equation-Free Modeling and Computation for Complex Systems,” Yannis G. Kevrekidis, Princeton University.  Refreshments at 4:30 in 657 Rhodes Hall.