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

28 January to 3 February 2002

 

MONDAY, 28 JANUARY

"Development of Stress, Strain, and Response in Artificial Muscles," Neal Abrams, Penn State, 11:15 a.m., S-5 Osmond Laboratory, Department of Chemistry (863-9791).

"The Importance of Agricultural Habitat to Monarch Butterflies," Karen Oberhauser, University of Minnesota, 11:15 a.m., (room to be announced), host: Ecology/Entomology Graduate Programs (865-1895).

"The Roof is Often Greener on the Other Side of the World," David Beattie, Penn State, 12:20 p.m., 10 Tyson Building, Department of Horticulture (863-2191).

"Wilson Loops and Phases of Gauge Theories and Gravity," Abhay Ashtekar, Penn State, 3:00 p.m. 318 Osmond Laboratory, Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry (863-9605).

"Nonuniform Hyperbolicity and Rigidity," Anatole Katok, Penn State, 3:30 p.m., 102 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"An Introduction to Secondary Characteristic Classes: I," John Roe, Penn State, 3:35 p.m., 307 Boucke Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Crystal Structure of the E. coli Protein DegP, a Novel Protease-Chaperone Machine," Tim Clausen (faculty candidate), Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, 4:00 p.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, host: Song Tan, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (865-3072).

"Reflections on the Kenya NutriBusiness Project," Audrey Maretzki, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory, Department of Nutrition (865-3448).

 

TUESDAY, 29 JANUARY

"General Infinitary Distributive Laws and Related Games in Boolean Algebras: 2," Natasha Dobrinen, Penn State, 2:30 p.m., 113 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Experimental Observation of the Bogoliubov Transformation for a Bose-Einstein Condensed Gas," Johnny Vogels, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, host: Kurt Gibble, Department of Physics (863-5343).

"A Local Wellposedness Result for Quasilinear Wave Equations in 2+1 Dimensions," Princeton University, 4:00 p.m., 116 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Molecular Mechanisms of Auxin Biosynthesis and Signal Transduction," Yunde Zhao (faculty candidate) Salk Instiute, 4:00 p.m. (refreshments at 3:45 p.m.), 101 Althouse Laboratory, Department of Biology (863-4562).

 

WEDNESDAY, 30 JANUARY

"Molecular Population Genetics of Sequence-Length Diversity in the Alcohol Dehydrogenase Region of Drosophila pseudoobscura," Stephen Schaeffer, Penn State, 12:10 p.m., 317 Mueller Laboratory, Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics (863-7334).

"Pathology in Granulomatous and Fibrotic Inflammation is Determined by the Functional Differentiation of Macrophages and Other Innate Effector Cells," Matthias Hesse, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 4:00 p.m., 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building, host: Robert Paulson, Department of Veterinary Science (863-6306).

 

THURSDAY, 31 JANUARY

"Coin-Tossing and Laplace Inversion," J.C. Gupta, Ohio State University, 4:00 p.m. 104 Thomas Building, Department of Statistics (865-1348).

"Molecules, Muscles, and Machines: Universal Performance Characteristics of Motors," Jim Marden, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., 117 Osmond Laboratory, host: Jayanth Banavar, Department of Physics (863-1089).

"Two-Component Circuitry in Arabidopsis Cytokinin Signal Transduction," Ildoo Hwang (faculty candidate), Massachusetts General Hospital, 4:00 p.m. (refreshments at 3:45 p.m.), 101 Althouse Laboratory, Department of Biology (863-4562).

"Irregularities of Distribution," Hugh Montgomery, University of Michigan, 4:30 p.m., 102 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

 

FRIDAY, 1 FEBRUARY

"A New Metric Connection for the Space Time," Carlos Kozemah, University of Cordoba (Argentina), 11:00 a.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory, Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry (863-9605).

"Genetic Discussion of Chromatin Function (Chromatin lecture #3 of 11), Mitchell Smith, University of Virginia, 2:30 p.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (863-8256).

"Welcome to Noll, This is What We Do," Noll Physiological Research Center Faculty, 3:00 p.m., 127 Noll Laboratory, Noll Physiological Research Center, (865-3454).

"An Introduction to Secondary Characteristic Classes: II," John Roe, Penn State, 3:35 p.m., 307 Boucke Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"On the Trail of Phosphorus: From the Acid Soils of Borneo to the Eutrophic Waters of New York," Peter Kleinman, United States Department of Agriculture, 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building, 3:35 p.m., Department of Crop and Soil Sciences (863-1601).

 

SATURDAY, 2 FEBRUARY

"Mammoths, Moose, and How Animals Might Influence Earth's Response to Climate Change," (Frontiers lecture #3 of 6), Eric Post, Penn State, 11:00 a.m., 100 Thomas Building, Eberly College of Science (863-8453).

 

SUNDAY, 3 FEBRUARY

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