Monday, March 3, 2008 noon (Refreshments at 11:45), Bruggeman Room, 2nd floor of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies

Speaker: Sally Temple (Albany Medical College)

Tuesday, March 4, 2008 4 p.m. (Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.), CII, Low Bldg., Room 3051

Speaker: Rama Bansil (Boston University) “Gelation of Mucin—A Mechanism for Protecting the Stomach From Digesting Itself”

Tuesday, March 4, 2008 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Amos Eaton 214

Speaker: Erkki Somersalo (Helsinki University of Technology) "Hypermodels and Qualitative Information in Imaging"

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

Speaker: Tracy Quan (Rutgers University) "Utilizing nitrogen isotopes as a paleoredox proxy"

Thursday, March 6, 2008 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Amos Eaton 214

Speaker: Ildar Gabitov (University of Arizona) "Transition Phenomena in Metamaterials"

Tuesday, March 11, 2008 4 p.m. (Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.), Darrin Communications Center, room 324

Speakers: Jordan Mader, Kelly Perry, and Guoqing Qian (Benicewicz Lab)

Monday, March 17, 2008 noon (Refreshments at 11:45), Bruggeman Room, 2nd floor of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies

Speaker: Gian Garriga (UC Berkeley)

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4 p.m. (Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.), Darrin Communications Center, room 324

Speaker: John Syka (Thermo Fisher Scientific) “The Path to Electron Transfer Dissociation Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry: A Story From an Engineer Working in a Chemist's Field”

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Amos Eaton 214

Speaker: Jie Shen (Purdue University) "Fast Spectral-Galerkin Methods: Algorithms, Analysis and Applications"

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., DCC 324

Speaker: Sean P.S. Gulick (University of Texas at Austin, JOI/USSSP Distinguished Lecturer) "One Rock to Change the World: The Story of the Chicxulub Impact Crater"

Thursday, March 19, 2008 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Sage 3510

Speaker: David E. Keyes (Columbia University) "A Nonlinearly Implicit Manifesto"

Physics Colloquium

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Refreshments at 3:30), CII 3051

Speaker: Timothy Newman (Arizona State University) "Stochastic dynamics in biological systems: applications to embryogenesis and biochemical networks"

Thursday, March 20, 2008 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Science Center 1W01

Christa Plazcek (Purdue University) “Climate in the dry central Andes over geologic, millennial, and interannual timescales”

Thursday, March 20, 2008 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Amos Eaton 214

Speaker: David E. Keyes (Columbia University) "Domain Decomposition Methods for Partial Differential Equations"

Monday, March 24, 2008 noon (Refreshments at 11:45), Bruggeman Room, 2nd floor of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies

Speaker: Brad Yoder (University of Alabama)

Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Science Center 1W01

Speaker: Patricia Medeiros (Rutgers University) "Molecular Biomarkers as Tracers of Environmental Processes"

Physics Colloquium

Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Refreshments at 3:30), CII 3051

Speaker: Yiping Zhao (University of Georgia)

Friday, March 28, 2008 4 p.m. (Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.), CII, Low Bldg., Room 3051

Speaker: Steven Boxer (Stanford University) “Imaging and Reaction Dynamics in Model Membranes: Soft Nanoscience”

Monday, March 31, 2008 noon (Refreshments at 11:45), Bruggeman Room, 2nd floor of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies

Speaker: Bulent Yener (RPI) "Graphs and Hypergraphs in System Biology and Beyond"