SCIENCE SEMINARS: NOVEMBER 22 TO 28, 1999

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22
 

"Amidocarbonylation: Catalysis, Reaction Scope, and Industrial Applications" by Wenjun Tang and "Nucleophilic Carbenes: Development, Properties, and Catalytic Applications" by Jason Waldkirch, Penn State, 11:15 a.m., S-5 Osmond Laboratory, Department of Chemistry (865-4041).

"Anxiety Research in a Small Biotech Company" (Alliance with Industry lecture), Dorothy Gallager, Neurogen Corporation, 1:00 p.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory (teleconference from Hershey), host: Joan Lakoski, Life Sciences Consortium (863-3792).

"Black-Hole Dynamics," Sean Hayward, Penn State, 2:20 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory, Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry (863-9605).

"Halogen Etching of Si(100)-2x1: Dependence On and Vacancy Creation and Surface Concentration," Koji S. Nakayama, Tohoku University (Japan), 2:30 p.m., S-5 Osmond Laboratory, host: Paul Weiss, Department of Chemistry (863-8461).

"The World of Ultracold Atomic Vapors: From Molecular Formation to Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC)," N. Bigelow, University of Rochester, 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, host: Wolfgang Ernst, Department of Physics (865-6123).

"Recurrent and Stable-Recurrent Functions on the Path Space of a Countable Graph," Boris Gurevich, Moscow State University (Russia), 3:30 p.m., 102 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Chromosomal Rearrangement and Its Molecular Mechanisms in Fungi," Weimin Gao, Penn State, 3:35 p.m., 112 Buckhout Laboratory, Department of Plant Pathology (865-3761).

"On Compact Riemannian Manifolds with Noncompact Holonomy Groups," Burkhard Wilking, University of Pennsylvania, 3:35 p.m., 115 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).
 
 

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23

"Mining of Genomic and Physiological Data," Gregory Stephanopoulos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 11:15 a.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory (with video conferencing to other locations), host: John M. Tarbell, Department of Chemical Engineering and Life Sciences Consortium Biomolecular Transport Dynamics Option, (863-4801).

"Carbon Nanotubes as Nanometer-Scale Chemical and Biological Probes," Adam Woolley (faculty candidate), Harvard University, 2:30 p.m., S-5 Osmond Laboratory, Department of Chemistry (865-6553).

"Power Corrections in the Single Dressed Gluon Approximation: The Average Thrust as a Case Study," E. Gardi, École Polytechnique at Palaiseau (France), 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, host: John Collins, Department of Physics (863-0783).

"Dynamic Theories for Liquid Crystals," Chun Liu, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., 102 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Vitamin A, Interferons, and Antibody Responses," Katie DeCicco, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., 110 Wartik Laboratory, Intercollege Graduate Program in Nutrition (865-3448).
 
 

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24 to SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28

(no seminars -- Thanksgiving break)
 
 

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