Previous Seminar Listings

MONDAY, April 28
4:00 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING SEMINAR, 165 Olin Hall, “What do Cell Rheology Experiments Really Measure?” John C. Crocker, University of Pennsylvania.  Refreshments at 3:45 in 128 Olin Hall.

4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “The Search for Dark Matter with the XENON Experiment,” Elena Aprile, Columbia University.  Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, second floor Rockefeller Hall.

4:30 MEDIA, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR, 374 Rockefeller Hall, “News at Work:  Imitation in an Age of Information Transparency,” Pablo J. Boczkowski, Northwestern University.

TUESDAY, April 29
12:15 CENTER FOR NANOSCALE SYSTEMS (CNS) CAPES SEMINAR SERIES, 700 Clark Hall, “Research at an Undergraduate Institution,” Yutan Getzler, Kenyon College, and Suely Black, Norfolk State University.  Pizza at noon.

4:30 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Deriving Structure from Computational Evolution,” Paul Francois, Rockefeller University.  Refreshments at 4:15.

WEDNESDAY, April 30
4:30  BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “Stop-Action Movie of UvrD Helicase Unwinding DNA 1 Base Pair at a Time,” Wei Yang, National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Disease.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “From Multiscale Modeling to Virtual Surgery:  Some Applications of Meshfree Approximations,” to “Some Advances in Digital Surgery,” Suvranu De, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.   Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall.

THURSDAY, May 1
2:45 MACHINES AND ORGANISMS: LOCOMOTION AND MANIPULATION SEMINAR, 701 Clark Hall, “Adhesion and Friction Forces in Everyday Life,” Jacob Israelachvili, UC at Santa Barbara.

3:35 DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING & DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, 255 Olin Hall, “The Cellerator:  A Case Study in Bioengineering Entrepreneurship,” Thomas M. Quinn, Canada Research Chair in Soft Tissue Biophysics, and McGill University.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Bldg., “Not Your Grandmother’s Hll Regions:  An X-Ray Tour of Massive Star-Forming Regions,” Leisa Townsley, Penn State University.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 105 Space Sciences Bldg.

4:30 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR, B11 Kimball Hall, “TBA,” Kristi Anseth, University of Colorado.  Refreshments at 4:00 p.m. in the MS&E Lounge, 260 Bard Hall.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, GENERAL CHEMISTRY COLLOQUIUM, 119 Baker Lab, “Chaperone-Assisted Protein Folding,” Dave Thirumalai, University of Maryland.

FRIDAY,  May 2
 No Seminars Today

This is the Last Seminar Notice for the Spring Semester.
Next notice will be for the week of September 8, 2008.