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Science Seminar 5 to 11 December 2005

MONDAY, 5 DECEMBER

"Arabidopsis as Entomologist: Insect-Response Transcriptomes and Metabolomes are Species Specific," Jack C. Shultz, Penn State , 12:20 p.m., 105 Wartik Laboratory, host: Daniel Cosgrove, Intercollege Graduate Program in Plant Physiology (863-3892).

"Battle Wreckage, Bryozoans, and Artificial Reefs," Roger Cuffey, Penn State, 1:30 p.m., 118 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building, Intercollege Graduate Program in Ecology (863-5895).

"Piezoelectric Polymers," David Lee, Penn State, 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry Buidling, host: Harry Allcock, Department of Chemistry (865-3527).

"The Pierre Auger Observatory: A Description, Status, and First Results," Matthew Malek, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, 2:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, host: Tyce DeYoung, Department of Physics (863-9594).

"A Short Introduction to Noncommunicative Geometry," Nigel Higson, Penn State, 3:00 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory, Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry (863-9605 or www.gravity.psu.edu).

(Dynamics and Geometry title and speaker to be announced), 3:30 p.m., 106 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Heterokaryon Formation and Parasexual Recombination in a Population of the Chestnut-Blight Fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica ," Michael Milgroom, Cornell University, 3:30 p.m., Department of Plant Pathology (865-6761).

ADDED AFTER EMAIL DISTRIBUTION:
"Evaluating Yields of Four Tomato Cultivars Under Two Different Fertilization and Irrigation Regimes During the First Year of Transitioning to Organic Production in High Tunnels," Adam Montri, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., 111 Tyson Building, Department of Horticulture (865-2571).

"High-Resolution Single-Molecule Studies of Protein Dynamics," Haw Yang, University of California, 4:00 p.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, host: Tracy Nixon, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (865-3072).


TUESDAY, 6 DECEMBER

"An Introduction to Degrees of Unsolvability: Part VII," Stephen G. Simpson, Penn State, 2:30 p.m., 106 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

(title to be announced), Carley Paulsen, National Council for Scientific Research (France), 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, host: Ying Liu, Department of Physics (863-0090).

"Nonlinear Fokker-Planck Navier-Stokes Systems," Peter Constantin, University of Chicago, 4:00 p.m., 106 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

(title to be announced), Peter Hudson, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., 100 Life Sciences Building (with videoconferencing to Lecture Room D at College of Medicine), Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences (863-3650).


WEDNESDAY, 7 DECEMBER

"Hawaii: The 50th State" (video), 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike Building, Fletcher L. Byrom Earth and Mineral Sciences Library (863-7073).

"The New Data-Acquisition System for the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) Telescope: Transient Waveform Recorder Data-Acquisition System (TWRDaq)," Wolfgang Wagner, University of Dortmund (Germany), 2:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, host: Tyce DeYoung, Department of Physics (863-9594).

"Three-Dimensional Transmission-Electron Microscopy (3D-TEM) for the Characterization of Nano-Structured Materials" by Moonhee Kim and "Planar Integrated Optical Waveguide Spectroscopy of Thin Films and Interfaces" by Caiyan Lu, Penn State, 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry Building, hosts: Paul Weiss and Nick Winograd, Department of Chemistry (865-3693 or 863-0001).

"Strong Laws of Large Numbers for Weighted Averages," Michael Lin, Ben Gurion University (Israel), 3:30 p.m., 106 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Erythropoietin-Receptor Signaling and the Transcriptional Program of Red-Cell Maturation," Saghi Ghaffari, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 4:00 p.m., 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, host: Bob Paulson (863-6306).

"Ground-Based Optical and Infrared Telescopes of the Next Decade," Jeremy Mould, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, 4:00 p.m., 538 Davey Laboratory, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics (865-0418).


THURSDAY, 8 DECEMBER

"Control of Electric Polarization: Using Magnetic Field in Magnetic Oxides with Long-Wavelength Magnetic Structures," Tsuyoshi Kimura, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs Innovations, 11:15 a.m., 135 Reber Building, Department of Materials Science and Engineering (865-4992).

"Observations on the Two-Variable Jacobian Conjecture," Edward Formanek, Penn State, 11:15 a.m., 106 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Bioimaging with Mass Spectrometry," Nicholas Winograd, Penn State, 12:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry Building, Department of Chemistry (863-0001).

"Oxidative Stress Enzymes in Anaerobes," Dan Lessner, Penn State, 2:00 p.m., 240 Deike Building, Penn State Astrobiology Research Center (865-4074).

"A Bayesian Model for Integrating Heterogeneous Biological Information," Shane Jensen, University of Pennsylvania, 4:00 p.m., 201 Thomas Building, Department of Statistics (865-1348).

"Decision Making Under Uncertain Climate Change: Implications for the Design of Climate-Observation Systems," Klaus Keller, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., 112 Walker Building, Department of Meteorology (863-8566).

"Integration and Symplectic Reduction for Teichmueller Space," Scott Wolpert, University of Maryland, 4:00 p.m., 114 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

(title to be announced), Andrew Belmonte, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., 117 Osmond Laboratory, host: Reka Albert, Department of Physics (865-6123).


FRIDAY, 9 DECEMBER

"Meet Your Neighbor: Center for Childhood Obesity Research," Leann Birch, Penn State, 11:00 a.m., 127 Noll Lab, Noll Physiological Research Center (865-3453).

"Fickle Favoritism in Caterpillar Cuisine: An Investigation into the Dynamics of Generalist and Specialist Foraging Strategies on a Model Plant, Arabidopsis thaliana," Nate McCartney, Penn State, 11:15 a.m., 118 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building, host: Jack Schultz, Department of Entomology (863-4438).

ADDED AFTER EMAIL DISTRIBUTION:
"Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy," Jing Dong, Penn State, 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry Building, host: Mark Maroncelli, Department of Chemistry (865-0898)

"Justice, Governance, and the Limits to Care" by Lynn Staeheli, University of Colorado, and "Care and Responsibility: Between the Near and Far" by Vicky Lawson (Miller lecture), University of Washington, 4:00 p.m., 112 Walker Building, Department of Geography (865-3433).


SATURDAY, 10 DECEMBER to SUNDAY, 11 DECEMBER

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