SCIENCE SEMINARS: 31 JANUARY to 6 FEBRUARY 2000

MONDAY, 31 JANUARY

"3-Dimensional Numerical Relativity Without Artificial Boundaries -- The Conformal Approach: I," Peter Hubner, Albert Einstein Institute (Germany), 2:20 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory, Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry and Department of Mathematics (863-9605 or 865-7527).

"Flows on Higher-Genus Surfaces: III," Giovanni Forni, Princeton University, 3:30 p.m., 102 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Phonons in Perovskite Thin Films Studied by Infrared Ellipsometry at the Synchrotron Light Source (BNL)," Andrei Sirenko, Penn State, 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, Department of Physics (865-9231).

"Primer on L-Theory," John Roe, Penn State, 3:35 p.m., 219 Thomas Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).
 
 

TUESDAY, 1 FEBRUARY

"Universal Pi^0_1 Classes," Stephen G. Simpson, Penn State, 2:30 p.m., 219 Thomas Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Vitamin K: Not Just for Clotting Anymore," Sarah L. Booth, Tufts University, 4:00 p.m., S-209 Henderson Building, Intercollege Graduate Program in Nutrition (865-3448).
 
 

WEDNESDAY, 2 FEBRUARY

"On Entropy-Expanding Maps: Singularities, Maximal Measures, and Periodic Points," Jerome Buzzi, Ecole Polytechnique (France), 3:30 p.m., 102 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Imaging with the Space Interferometry Mission," Ron Allen, Space Telescope Science Institute, 4:00 p.m., 541 Davey Laboratory, host: Richard Wade, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics (865-0418).

"Brains vs. Electronics: How Do We Think So Fast" (Mueller Lecture #1 of 2), John Hopfield, Princeton University, 8:00 p.m., 101 Thomas Building, host: Julian Maynard, Department of Physics (865-6353).
 
 

THURSDAY, 3 FEBRUARY

"Mechanistic Studies of Phosphotransacetylase from Methanosarcina thermophila," Prabha Iyer, Penn State, 11:15 a.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, host: Greg Ferry, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (865-3072).

"Recent Developments on the Sphere-Packing Problem," Neil J. A. Sloane, AT&T Labs Research, 11:15 a.m., (location to be announced), Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Smart Materials," L. Eric Cross, Penn State, 12:15 p.m., S-5 Osmond Laboratory, Department of Chemistry (863-0889).

"Color Vision and Smell: 'More is Different' Revisited" (Mueller lecture #2 of 2), John Hopfield, Princeton University, 4:00 p.m., 117 Osmond Laboratory, host: Julian Maynard, Department of Physics (865-6353).

"Packings in Grassmann Manifolds - or - Displaying Multi-Dimensional Data," Neil Sloane, AT&T Labs Research, 4:30 p.m., 102 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).
 
 

FRIDAY, 4 FEBRUARY

"3-Dimensional Numerical Relativity Without Artificial Boundaries -- The Conformal Approach: II," Peter Hubner, Albert Einstein Institute (Germany), 10:45 a.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory, Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry and Department of Mathematics (863-9605 or 865-7527).

"The Coarse-Novikov Conjecture for Some Nonuniformly Contractible Spaces," Heather Johnston, University of Massachusetts, 3:35 p.m., 219 Thomas Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).
 
 

SATURDAY, 5 FEBRUARY

"The Snowball Earth: A Climate Catastrophe that Life Survived" (Frontiers lecture #3 of 6), Paul Hoffman, Harvard University, 11:00 a.m., 101 Thomas Building, Eberly College of Science (863-8453).
 
 

SUNDAY, 30 JANUARY

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