Science Seminars is a weekly list of science-related seminars sponsored by colleges, research institutes, and other organizations throughout Penn State. Science Seminars is published by the Penn State Eberly College of Science as a service to Penn State and its surrounding communities

Science Seminars

10 to 16 October 2005

MONDAY, 10 OCTOBER

"New Paradigm for Disease Mechanisms: The Functional Analyses of Rice-Xanthomonas oryzae Interactions," Bing Yang, Kansas State University, 10:00 a.m., 324 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building, College of Agricultural Sciences (863-9164).

(title to be announced), John Badding, Penn State, 12:00 noon, S-5 Osmond Laboratory, Center for Nanoscale Science/MRSEC (863-0007).

"Learning from Seeds: Stress Tolerance and Control of Seed Germination," Tuan-hua David Ho, Washington University, 12:20 p.m., 105 Wartik Laboratory, host: Mark Guiltinan, Intercollege Graduate Program in Plant Physiology (863-3892).

"Forecasting the Incursion of Soybean Rust into the North American Continental Interior During Summer 2005," Scott Isard, Penn State, 1:30 p.m., 118 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building, Intercollege Graduate Program in Ecology (863-5895).

"Microreactors, Encapsulated Catalysts, and Mechanisms: New Tools and Techniques for Polymer and Small Molecule Synthesis," Tyler McQuade, Cornell University, 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry Building, host: Blake Peterson, Department of Chemistry (865-2969).

"Representation Theory for Free Groups," Nigel Higson, Penn State, 2:30 p.m., 106 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"A Coordinated Framework for Managing Soybean Rust," Scott Isard and Erick De Wolf, Penn State, 3:30 p.m., 112 Buckhout Laboratory, Department of Plant Pathology (865-6761).

"Invariant Line Field in the Geodesic Flow of Negatively Curved 3-Manifolds and Hyperbolization," Chengbo Yue, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 3:30 p.m., 106 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"The Impact of Vitamin A on the Expression and Transcriptional Activity of Interferon-Regulatory-Factor-1 Involvement of Multiple Mechanisms," Xin Luo, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., 209 Henderson South Building, Graduate Program in Nutrition (865-3448).

"Structure, Evolution, and Dynamics of Transcriptional Regulatory Networks," Madan Babu Mohan, National Institutes of Health, 4:00 p.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, host: Arthur Lesk, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (865-3072).

TUESDAY, 11 OCTOBER

"Measurement of the Electron-Electric-Dipole Moment Using Gadolinium Iron Garnet (GdIG)," L.R. Hunter, Amherst College, 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, host: David Weiss, Department of Physics (863-3076).

"Middle-Wisconsin Ice Advance in the Western Finger Lakes: A Stratigraphic Record Contemporaneous with Heinrich Event H4," Richard Young, State University of New York, 4:00 p.m., 22 Deike Building, Department of Geosciences (865-2622).

"Structure and Function of Complex Networks: From Biology to the World Wide Web," Alessandro Vespignani, Indiana University, 4:00 p.m. 100 Life Sciences Building (with video conferencing to Lecture Room D at College of Medicine), Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences (863-3650).

"Diversity Oriented Synthesis (DOS) for Drug Discovery" (Sponsors Days 2005 keynote), Michael Foley, Infinity Pharmaceuticals, 8:00 p.m., 102 Chemistry Building, host: Blake Peterson, Department of Chemistry (865-2969).

WEDNESDAY, 12 OCTOBER

"Riches from the Earth" (video), 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike Building, Fletcher L. Byrom Earth and Mineral Sciences Library (863-7073).

"Genome-Wide Functional Analysis of TAF1 and MOT1, Regulators of the TATA-Box-Binding Protein," Jordan Irvin, Penn State, 2:30 p.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, host: Frank Pugh, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (865-3072).

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

THURSDAY, 13 OCTOBER

(title to be announced), Ward Plummer, University of Tennessee, 11:15 a.m., 135 Reber Building, Department of Materials Science and Engineering (865-4992).

"National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Collaborative Program on the Societal and Economic Impacts of Weather Information," Jeffrey K. Lazo, NCAR, 12:00 noon, 529 Walker Building, Department of Meteorology (863-8566).

"Weathering of Basalt on Mars and Earth," Libby Hausrath and Alexis Navarre, Penn State, 2:00 p.m., 240 Deike Building, host: Susan L. Brantley, Penn State Astrobiology Research Center (865-4074).

"The Sensitivity of United States Economic Sectors to Weather Variability," Jeffrey K. Lazo, National Center for Atmospheric Research, 4:00 p.m., 112 Walker Building, Department of Meteorology (863-8566).

"Sumatra Earthquake and Tsunami Offshore Survey (SEATOS): A Marine Survey of the Sumatran Convergent Margin in the Region of the 26 December 2004 Earthquake," Don Fisher, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., 202 Research West Building, Department of Geodynamics (865-7965).

FRIDAY, 14 OCTOBER

"Allison's Farm: Teaching Sustainable Agriculture to Elementary-School Students," Bailey Klinestiver, Penn State, 11:15 a.m., 118 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building, host: Mary Barbercheck, Department of Entomology (863-2892).

SATURDAY, 15 OCTOBER

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SUNDAY, 16 OCTOBER

Added after email distribution:
"Spin Cycle: How the Media Portrays Climate Change" (Research Unplugged lecture), Paul Knight and Fred Gadomski, Penn State, 2:00 p.m. (refreshments at 1:45 p.m.), Penn State Downtown Theatre Center, 127 S. Allen Street, NOVA + WPSU + Office of Research Publications (865-3477).

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