SCIENCE SEMINARS: JANUARY 25 TO 31, 1999
SCIENCE SEMINARS: JANUARY 25 TO 31, 1999
MONDAY, JANUARY 25
"The Coupling of Electronic and Nuclear Motion in Small Metal Clusters" (condensed, atomic, and molecular physics), Wolfgang Ernst, Penn State, 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, Department of Physics (865-6123).
"Regulation of the Bacterial Response to Oxidative Stress: Role of a Redox-Sensitive Transcription Factor and a Regulatory RNA," Gisela Storz, National Institutes of Health, 4:00 p.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, host: Paul Babitzke, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (865-3072).
TUESDAY, JANUARY 26
"On a conjecture of Erdos and Rosenfeld About Divisors," Jorge Jimenez, University of Madrid (Spain), 9:15 a.m., 110 Thomas Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).
"Combinatorial Morse Theory," Nigel Higson, Penn State, 2:30 p.m., 319 East Health and Human Development Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).
"Growth Faltering, Milk Composition, and Energy Expenditure in Breast-Fed Infants in Rural Mexico," Salvador Villapando, Pediatric Hospital of Mexico City, 4:00 p.m., 209 South Henderson Building, Intercollege Graduate Program in Nutrition (865-3448).
"Value Distribution of Additive Statistics of Random Permutations,"
Eugenijus Manstavicius, Vilnius University (Lithuania), 4:00 p.m., 201
Thomas Building, Department of Statistics, 865-1348.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27
"Unification Schemes of Seyfert 1 & 2 Galaxies from the X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Persepective," Greg Madejski, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 4:00 p.m., 541 Davey Laboratory, host: Niel Brandt, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics (865-0418).
"Connes Fusion and the Verlinde Rules for Loop Groups of Type BCD,"
Valerio Toledano, University of Paris 6 (France), 4:40 p.m., 104 Osmond
Laboratory, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).
THURSDAY, JANUARY 28
"Hepatitis B Virus X-Associated Protein 2 (XAP2): A Member and Modulator of the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Signal Transduction Pathway," Brian Meyer, Penn State, 11:15 a.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (865-3072).
(title to be announced), Mike Zieve, Institute for Advanced Study and University of Southern California, 11:15 a.m., 117 Osmond Laboratory, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).
"Introduction to Homology Manifolds: I," John Roe, Penn State, 2:30 p.m., 319 East Health & Human Development Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).
"Quantum Hall Quarks? Observation of Fractional Charge" (colloquium), Vladimir J. Goldman, State University of New York, 3:30 p.m., 101 Osmond Laboratory, Department of Physics (863-1162).
"Sign and Rank Covariance Matrices", Hannu Oja, University of Jyvaskyla
(Finland) 4:00 p.m., 201 Thomas Building,
Department of Statistics, 865-1348.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 29
"Porous Silicon-Based Optical Sensors for Direct Sensing of Biomolecular Interactions," Victor Lin, The Scripps Research Institute, 2:30 p.m., S-5 Osmond Laboratory, Department of Chemistry (865-6553).
"On the Modelling of Sedimentation of a Suspension," Wolfgang Wendland, University of Stuttgart (Germany), 3:30 p.m., 102 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).
"Integrating Unitary Representations of Infinite-Dimensional Lie Groups,"
Valerio Toledano, University of Paris 6 (France), 4:40 p.m., 223 Thomas
Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).
SATURDAY, JANUARY 30
"How Computers Keep Getting Smaller, Faster, Cheaper" (Frontiers of
Science lecture #3 of 6), Nitin Samarth, Penn State, 11:00 a.m., Kern Graduate
Center Auditorium, Eberly College of Science (863-8453).
SUNDAY, JANUARY 31
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