MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16

"Homogenous Catalysis: The 'MC' CO/Mn/Br System," Sherman Ponder, Penn State, S-5 Osmond Laboratory, 1:15 p.m., Department of Chemistry (865-4041).

"M-Theory as a Holographic Field Theory" (elementary particles and fields), Petr Horava, California Institute of Technology, 2:00 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, Department of Physics (865-4376).

"Theory of the Tunneling Anomaly of Superconductor in Paramagnetic Regime" (condensed, atomic, and molecular physics), Hae-Young Kee, Rutgers University, 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, Department of Physics (863-0163).

"Crystal Structures of General and Gene-Specific Eukaryotic Transcription Factor Complexes," Song Tan (faculty candidate), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland), 4:00 p.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (865-3072).

"Introduction to Operads," Alex Ulyanov, Penn State, 5:40 p.m., 104 Osmond Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17

"Molar Mass Distributions, Gelling, and Viscosity Behavior of Endlinked Polystyrene 3-Arm Star Molecules," Walther Burchard, University of Freiburg (Germany), 10:00 a.m., 301 Steidle Building, Department of Materials Science and Engineering (863-3457).

"Molecular Modeling for Engineering Design and Materials Development," Paul Mathias, Aspen Technology, 10:00 a.m., 140 Fenske Laboratory, host: Ali Borhan, Department of Chemical Engineering (865-7847).

"A Polymer With a High Optical Gain for PR Applications," Natia Tsomaia, Penn State, S-5 Osmond Laboratory, 11:15 a.m., Department of Chemistry (865-4040).

"Rare Gas Adsorption on Transition Metal Surfaces Studied by LEED," Thomas Seyller, Penn State, 12:00 noon, 339 Davey Laboratory, Center for Materials Physics (865-3639).

"Lensing in Inhomogeneous Cosmologies," Daniel Holz, University of Chicago, 2:00 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry (863-9605).

"Heavy Quark Production in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)" (elementary particles and fields), Fred Olness, Southern Methodist University and Fermilab, 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, Department of Physics (863-0783).

"Evolutionary Biology and Photosynthetic and Nonphotosynthetic Parasitic Plants," Claude dePamphilis (faculty candidate), Vanderbilt University, 4:00 p.m., 8 Mueller Laboratory, host: S. Blair Hedges, Department of Biology (865-9991).

"Cell Problems for Effective Properties of Materials," Leonid Berlyand, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., 115 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"The Interface of Nutrition Science and Nutrition Policy," Richard Allison, American Society for Nutritional Sciences, 4:00 p.m., S-209 Henderson Building, Intercollege Graduate Program in Nutrition (865-3448).

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18

"Proof of Malgrange Preparation Theorem," Alistair Windsor, Penn State, 10:10 a.m., 328E Health and Human Development East Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"New Solid-State MNMR Methods to Investigate Surface Chemistry," Daniel Raftery, Purdue University, S-5 Osmond Laboratory, 11:15 a.m., Department of Chemistry (863-0119).

"Compensatory Adjustments in Plant Nutrient Uptake: Varying Responses to CO2 Enrichment," Hormoz Bassirirad, University of Chicago, 12:20 p.m., 106 Wartik Laboratory, Intercollege Graduate Program in Plant Physiology (865-0323).

"Early Galactic Nucleosyntheses: Proton-Capture Elements in Globular Cluster Giant Stars," Chris Sneden, University of Texas, 4:00 p.m., 541 Davey Laboratory, host: Richard Wade, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics (865-0418).

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19

"Mass Hierarchy and Flat Directions in Free Fermionic String Models" (elementary particles and fields), Gerald Cleaver, University of Pennsylvania, 10:00 a.m., 210 Davey Laboratory, Department of Physics (865-4376).

"Possible Roles for Stat5 in Late Erythroid Differentiation: Mechanisms and Gene Targets," Richard Gregory, Penn State, 11:15 a.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (865-3072).

"Some Calculations of Modular Forms," David Farmer, Bucknell College, 11:15 a.m., 105 Osmond Laboratory, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Amenable Groups, Relations, and Related Topics," Alex Furman, Penn State, 11:15 a.m., 3 White Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Passivity: The Reason for our Metals-Based Civilizations," Digby D. MacDonald, Penn State, S-5 Osmond Laboratory, 12:15 p.m., Department of Chemistry (863-0889).

"Maize Genome Evolution," Edward Buckler, North Carolina State University, 12:30 p.m., 8 Mueller Laboratory, host: Simon Gilroy, Department of Biology (863-9626).

"Spin Foam Models and the Classical Action Principle," Kirill Krasnov, Penn State, 1:00 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry (863-9605).

"Ultrafast Optical Phenomena" (colloquium), Anthony Johnson, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 3:30 p.m., 101 Osmond Laboratory, Department of Physics (863-0136).

"The Effects of Episodic Stream Acidification on a Wild Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) Population," Shannon Dolte, Penn State, 3:45 p.m., 112 Buckhout Laboratory, host: Bill Sharpe, Intercollege Graduate Program in Ecology (863-7221).

"Hydration and Macromolecular Assembly," Michael Fried, Penn State, S-5 Osmond Laboratory, 4:00 p.m., Department of Chemistry (863-0889).

"Identification of Common Long-Range Dependent Components in a Vector Time Series," Bonnie Ray, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 4:00 p.m., 201 Thomas Building, Department of Statistics (865-1348).

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20

"Quantum Chemistry With Explicitly Correlated Gaussian Functions," Jack Rychlewsky, Mickiewicz University (Poland), S-5 Osmond Laboratory, 2:30 p.m., Department of Chemistry (863-0119).

"title to be announced," Steve Hou, Iowa State University, 3:30 p.m., 102 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21

"Schizophrenia" (Frontiers of Science Lecture), Anthony A. Grace, University of Pittsburgh, Kern Graduate Center Auditorium, 11:00 a.m., Eberly College of Science (863-4682).

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22

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