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April 2008

 




Chemistry and Chemical Biology Seminar

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 4 p.m. (Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.), Darrin Communications Center, room 324

Speaker: Tom Mallouk (The Pennsylvania State University) “Nanostructural Design of Photocatalysts and Photoelectrochemical Cells”

Earth Sciences Joint Colloquia Series

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m., University at Albany (Earth Science Bldg., Room 232)

Speaker: Jon Kim (Vermont Geological Survey) "Application of Tectonics to Groundwater Problems in Vermont"

Earth Sciences Joint Colloquia Series

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Speaker: Kevin Furlong (Penn State University) "Bringing Plate Tectonics Into the 21st Century: Lessons from New Zealand"

Biology Seminar

Monday, April 7, 2008 noon (Refreshments at 11:45), Bruggeman Room, 2nd floor of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies

Speaker: P. Bryant Chase (Florida State University) “From Calcium Control to the Heart to Cardiomyopathy”

Earth Sciences Joint Colloquia Series

Wednesday, April 9, 2008 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Science Center 3W13

Speaker: Linda Warren (University of Arizona)

Herta Leng Lecture

Wednesday, April 9, 2008 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Refreshments at 3:30), DCC 324

Speaker: Edwin Kellogg '60 (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) "The New Astronomy: Into the Heart of the Universe with X-rays"

Biology Seminar

Monday, April 14, 2008 noon (Refreshments at 11:45), Bruggeman Room, 2nd floor of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies

Speaker: Kevin O’Connell (NIH/NIDD) “Controlling Centrosome Size and Duplication in the C Elegans Germ Line”

Chemistry and Chemical Biology Seminar

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 4 p.m. (Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.), Darrin Communications Center, room 324

Speaker: Sam Gellman (University of Wisconsin)

Physics Colloquium

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Refreshments at 3:30), CII 3051

Speaker: Neer Asherie (Yeshiva University) "The Phase Behavior of Thaumatin"

Biology Seminar

Monday, April 21, 2008 noon (Refreshments at 11:45), Bruggeman Room, 2nd floor of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies

Speaker: Susan Singer (Carleton College) “Comparative and Genomic Approaches to Understanding Flowering Legumes”

Chemistry and Chemical Biology Seminar

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 4 p.m. (Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.), Darrin Communications Center, room 324

Speaker: James Muckerman (Brookhaven National Laboratory) “Artificial Photosynthesis”

DiPrima Lecture

Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 4 p.m., Amos Eaton 214

Speaker: Linda Petzold (University of California, Santa Barbara) "Multiscale Simulation of Biochemical Systems"

Earth Sciences Joint Colloquia Series

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Science Center 1W01

Speaker: Nick Christie-Blick (Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory) "Confronting the low-angle normal fault paradox"

Physics Colloquium

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Refreshments at 3:30), CII 3051

Speaker: Jie Shan (Case Western University) "Probing Charge Transport by Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy"

Chemistry and Chemical Biology Seminar

Friday, April 25, 2008 4 p.m. (Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.), CBIS, Bruggeman Room

Speaker: John Tully (Yale University) “Chemical Dynamics at Metal Surfaces: The Role of Electronic Excitations”

Mathematical Sciences Colloquium

Monday, April 28, 2008 4 p.m., Amos Eaton 214

Speaker: Robert F. Henrick (Johns Hopkins University) "Mathematics as a Launching Pad"

Physics Colloquium

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Refreshments at 3:30), CII 3051

Speaker: Zheng-Tian Lu (Argonne National Laboratory) "Simple Atom, Extreme Nucleus: Laser Trapping and Probing of Helium-8"

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