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

2 to 8 May 2005

MONDAY, 2 MAY

"Respiratory Responses to Temperature in Plant Roots and Fungi," David Eissenstat, Penn State, 10.00 a.m., 117 Earth-Engineering Sciences Building, Center for Advanced Carbon-Cycle Research and Education (863-7091).

"Practical Synthesis of a y-GABA-Selective Agonist," Dongwei Cai, Merck & Company, 2:00 p.m., 102 Chemistry Building, host: Xumu Zhang, Department of Chemistry (865-4221).

"Pennsylvania Terroir: How Nature and Man Make Wine Together," Mark Chien, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., 108 Tyson Building, Department of Horticulture (863-3371).

TUESDAY, 3 MAY

"Recent Advances in the Asymmetric Stetter Reaction," Ilia Korboukh, Penn State, 2:00 p.m., 102 Chemistry Building, host: Steven Weinreb, Department of Chemistry (863-0889).

"Regulation of Receptor Activity and Specificity: Lessons Learned from the Evolutionary Divergence of the Human and Mouse Ron-Receptor-Tyrosine Kinases," Xin Wei, Penn State, 2:00 p.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, host: Pamela Correll, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (865-3072).

WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY

"Gases and Gas Exchange Between the Ocean and Atmosphere" (video conference), Roberta Hamme and Steven Emerson, University of California and University of Washington, 12:00 noon, 541 Deike Building, Office of the Dean of the Graduate School and Worldwide Universities Network (863-1274).

"Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Systems," Luc Blanchet, Institute for Applied Physics (France), 12:00 noon, 318 Osmond Laboratory, Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry (863-9605).

"Adventures in Chemical Analysis," Richard Zare, Stanford University, 12:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry Building, host: Joseph Keiser, Department of Chemistry (863-3209).

THURSDAY, 5 MAY

"Near Optimality of the Priority-Sampling Procedure," Mario Szegedy, Rutgers University, 10:00 a.m., 333 Information Sciences and Technology Building, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (865-9505).

"Chemical Demonstrations," Richard Zare, Stanford University, 12:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry Building, host: Joseph Keiser, Department of Chemistry (863-3209).

"Bayesian Capture-Recapture Analysis and Model Selection for Closed-Population Models," Sujit Ghosh, North Carolina State University, 4:00 p.m., 104 Thomas Building, Department of Statistics (865-1348).

"Sex and the Single Fly: Learning and Memory in Drosophila," Leslie Griffith, Brandeis University, 4:00 p.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory, Eberly College of Science + Department of Biology + Department of Biobehavioral Health + Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences + College of Health and Human Development + Department of Chemistry (863-2753).

FRIDAY, 6 MAY

"Gravitational Radiation from Dynamical Black Holes," Sean Hayward, Penn State, 11:00 a.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory, Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry (863-9605).

SATURDAY, 7 MAY and SUNDAY, 8 MAY

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Additions or cancellations will be noted on weekly Science Seminar listings on the Web.

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