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

25 September to 1 October 2006

MONDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER

"Metallurgy in a Beaker: Nanoparticle Toolkit for Solid-State Synthesis," Raymond Schaak, Texas A&M University, 12:00 noon, S-5 Osmond Laboratory, host: Thomas Mallouk, Department of Chemistry (863-9637).

"Essential Microscopy for Plant Sciences," Richard J. Howard, DuPont, 12:10 p.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory, host: Seogchan Kang, Intercollege Graduate Program in Plant Biology and Department of Plant Pathology (863-3846).

"Biogeochemical Response of Sonoran Soils to the 20th-Century History of Land-Use Change," David Lewis, Penn State, 1:25 p.m., 118 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building, Intercollege Graduate Program in Ecology (865-5557).

"The RNase-MRP Enzyme May Gate Entry of RNA into Ribosomal Processing Pathway," Lasse Lindahl, University of Maryland, 4:00 p.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, host: Paul Babitzke, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (865-0002).

RESCHEDULED -- NOW SHOWING ON WEDNESDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER:
"Darwin's Nightmare" (video), 7:00 p.m., 112 Walker Building, Department of Geography (register by emailing Amy Glasmeier: akg1@psu.edu -- 865-3433).

TUESDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER

"Spin Coupling and Ansiotropy Effects in Engineered Atomic Structures," Cyrus Hirjibehedin, IBM Almaden Research Center, 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, host: Jun Zhu, Department of Physics (865-4376).

"Searching for the Unknown Unknowns in Atmospheric Oxidation Chemistry," William Brune, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., 22 Deike Building, Department of Geosciences (865-2622).

TITLE CHANGED AFTER EMAIL DISTRIBUTION:
"Unusual Evolutionary Patterns of rRNA Gene Families in Eukaryot." Alex Rooney, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 4:00 p.m. (refreshments at 3:45 p.m.), 101 Althouse Laboratory, host: Masatoshi Nei, Department of Biology (863-7334).

"Darwin's Nightmare" (video), 7:00 p.m., 112 Walker Building, Department of Geography (register by emailing Amy Glasmeier: akg1@psu.edu -- 865-3433).

WEDNESDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER

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

"Surveying the Tera-Electron-Volt (TeV) Northern Sky with Milagro," Sabrina Casanova, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, host: Soeb Razzaque, Department of Astronomy (865-8485).

"The Cube Conjecture and the Nonintegrable Analog of Dvoretzky Theorem," Nikita Netsvetaev, St. Petersburg State University (Russia), 3:35 p.m., 106 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

ADDED AFTER EMAIL DISTRIBUTION:
"Glycine Metabolism in Intact Leaves by In-Vivo Labeling and 13C {15N} Rotational-Echo Double-Resonance (REDOR) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)," Jacob Schaefer, Washington University in St. Louis, 4:00 p.m., 341 Deike Building, Center for Environmental Chemistry and GeoChemistry + Center for Environmental Kinetics Analysis (865-1781).

"Listeria monocytogenes Autolysins and Bacterial Subversion of Innate Immunity," Laurel L. Lenz Jr., National Jewish Medical and Research Center, 4:00 p.m., 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building, host: Na Xiong, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences (863-2933 or email: nux1@psu.edu).

DATE CHANGE AFTER EMAIL DISTRIBUTION:
"Darwin's Nightmare" (video), 7:00 p.m., 112 Walker Building, Department of Geography (register by emailing Amy Glasmeier: akg1@psu.edu -- 865-3433).

THURSDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER

"Reproduction and Stress in the Domestic Fowl: When Sex Matters," Alexander Jurkevich, University of Arkansas, 10:00 a.m., 324 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building, host: Ramesh Ramachandran, Department of Poultry Science (865-5202 or email: rameshr@psu.edu).

ADDED AFTER EMAIL DISTRIBUTION:
"From Polymers to Bionanomedicine: Endless Opportunities," Coray Colina, Penn State, 10:10 a.m., 26 Hosler Building, Department of Materials Science and Engineering (865-4992).

"Polycarbonate-Chain Packing and Dynamics by Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)," Jacob Schaefer, Washington University, 12:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry Building, host: Karl T. Mueller, Department of Chemistry (863-8674).

"Habitable-Planet Formation," Avi Mandell, Kenneth Moody, and Stephen Redman, Penn State, 2:00 p.m., 240 Deike Building, Penn State Astrobiology Research Center (865-4074).

"Noncrossing Partitions, Meanders, and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra," David Savitt, University of Arizona, 2:30 p.m., 113 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Ginzburg-Landau Theory of Supersolids," Jinwu Ye, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., 117 Osmond Laboratory, host: Reka Albert, Department of Physics (865-6123).

"Multivariate Time Series: Introduction and Applications," Ginger Davis, University of Virginia, 4:00 p.m., 201 Thomas Building, Department of Statistics (865-1348).

"Panic Disorders," Tom Uhde, Penn?State, 4:00 p.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory, host: Bernhard Luscher, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences (863-3650).

(title to be announced), Jay Parrish, Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 4:00 p.m., 202 Research West Building, Department of Geosciences (865-7965).

FRIDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER

(Mathematical Physics seminar title to be announced), James Barton, Penn State, 10:10 a.m., 106 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Decoding Pheromone Channels of the Longhorned Beetles," Larry Hanks, University of Illinois, 11:15 a.m., 107 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building, hosts: Entomology Greaduate Students, Department of Entomology (865-1895).

"Uptake of Anions and Cations by Synthetic Layered Double Hydroxides," Jingwen Zhang, Penn State, 12:20 p.m., 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences (863-1601).

"The Chemical Physics of Ionic Liquids: Life Without a Dipole Moment," Mark Kobrak, Brooklyn College, 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry Building, host: Mark Maroncelli, Department of Chemistry (865-0898).

"The Story of '1': How a Single Digit Created Math and Changed the World" (video), 3:30 p.m., 211 Davey Laboratory, Physical and Mathematical Sciences Library (865-7617 or www.libraries.psu.edu/pams/filmseries.html).

(Computational and Applied Mathematics seminar title to be announced), Junping Wang, National Science Foundation, 3:35 p.m., 106 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, Climate Change, and Atlantic Hurricanes," Michael Mann, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., 112 Walker Building, Department of Geography (865-3433).

SATURDAY, 30 SEPTEMBER and SUNDAY, 1 OCTOBER

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