SCIENCE SEMINARS: DECEMBER 13 TO 19, 1999

MONDAY, DECEMBER 13

"A Bulky Benzoate Ligand for Modeling the Carboxylate-Rich Sites of Non-Heme Diiron Enzymes," John Hagadorn (faculty candidate), University of Minnesota, 2:30 p.m., S-5 Osmond Laboratory, Department of Chemistry (865-6553).

"Detecting the Earliest Galaxies in the Universe," Rennan Barkana, Institute for Advanced Study, 4:00 p.m., 541 Davey Laboratory, host: Jane Charlton, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics (865-0418).
 
 
 

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14

"Low-Coordinate Copper Complexes in Models of Tyrosinase and 'Blue' Copper Sites," Patrick Holland (faculty candidate), University of Minnesota, 2:30 p.m., S-5 Osmond Laboratory, Department of Chemistry (865-6553).

"Control of Sexual Behavior and Neural Development by the Dissatisfaction Nuclear Receptor," Michael McKeown (candidate department head), Salk Institute, 4:00 p.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, host: Andy Clark, Eberly College of Science (863-0212).

"Structural Shields of Smad Proteins in TGF-b Signaling," Yigong Shi, Princeton University, 4:00 p.m., S-5 Osmond Laboratory, Department of Chemistry (863-0889).
 
 
 

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15

"Encapsulation of the Iron-Molybdenum Cofactor of Nitrogenase by Linear and Cyclic Peptides," Richard Koerner (faculty candidate), Harvard University, 2:30 p.m., S-5 Osmond Laboratory, Department of Chemistry (865-6553).

"Components and Materials for Optical Networks," Alastair M. Glass, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs Innovations, 5:00 p.m. (reception at 4:30 p.m.), 189 Materials Research Laboratory, Materials Research Institute (863-8407).
 
 
 

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17

"Can We Trust the Results We are Getting by the Finite Element Method (FEM)?" Ivo Babuska, University of Texas, 3:30 p.m., 102 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).
 
 

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18 and SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19

(none)
 
 

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