MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23

"Identification and Characterization of JC Virus Variants Present in Two Pediatric and Two Adult Progressive Multifocal Leukoencaphalopathy Patients," Jason Newman, Penn State, 9:00 a.m., 220 South Frear Laboratory, host: Richard Frisque, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (865-3072).

"Nonstationary Shot Noise and Sensitivity of LIGO Interferometers," Malik Rakhmanov, California Institute of Technology, 1:00 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry (863-9605).

"Bernoulliness of the Bowen-Margulis Measure on Certain Non-compact Quotients of Exotic Hyperbolic Spaces," Florence Newberger, Penn State, 3:30 p.m., 102 McAllister Buliding, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Collective Excitations of the Dilute 2D Quantum Hall System" (condensed, atomic, and molecular physics), Steve Simon, Lucent Technologies, 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, Department of Physics (863-1162).

"Scab of Wheat and Barley: A Re-emerging Disease of Devastating Impact," Weimin Gao, Penn State, 3:35 p.m., 112 Buckhout Laboratory, Department of Plant Pathology (865-3761).

"Dosage Compensation in Drosophila: A Paradigm for the Study of Eukaryotic Transcription Regulation," John C. Lucchesi, Emory University, 4:00 p.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, host: Jerry Workman, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (865-3072).

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24

"Dimension and Large-Scale Geometry," John Roe, Penn State, 11:15 a.m., 218 Thomas Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Structure Prediction in Computational Chemistry and Biology: Protein Folding and Peptide Docking," Christodoulos A. Floudas, Princeton University, 11:15 a.m., 110 Wartik Laboratory, host: Costas Maranas, Department of Chemical Engineering (863-9958).

"The Determination of the Microstructure of Materials by Analytical Transmission Electron Microscopy," Shang-Cong Cheng, Penn State, 12:00 noon, 339 Davey Laboratory, Center for Materials Physics (863-1162).

"Proliferation of de Sitter Space," Raphael Garcia, Stanford University, 1:00 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry (863-9605).

"The Role of Interaction Strengths in Food Webs," Kevin McCann (faculty candidate), University of California, 2:30 p.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, host: Andrew Clark, Department of Biology (863-3891).

"Complex Multiplication of Elliptic Curves," Ling Long, Penn State, 3:35 p.m., 113 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Using Sensory Evaluation to Study Human Ingestive Behavior," Stephen Specter, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., S-209 Henderson Building, Intercollege Graduate Program in Nutrition (865-0108).

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25

(none)

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26

(holiday break)

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27

(holiday break)

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28

(none)

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29

(none)

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