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

7 to 13 OCTOBER 2002

 

MONDAY, 7 OCTOBER

"Raman Lineshapes in Manganates," Sushanta Dattgupta, S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (India), 9:30 a.m., S-5 Osmond Laboratory, host: Mark Maroncelli, Department of Chemistry (865-0898).

"The Synthesis and Applications of Ynolate Anions in Synthetic Organic Chemistry," Pooja Aggarwal, Penn State, 11:15 a.m., S-5 Osmond Laboratory, Department of Chemistry (863-3811).

"Cold Tolerance in Tomato," Arnold Bloom, University of California, 12:20 p.m., 10 Tyson Building, Department of Horticulture (863-3371).

"Homobimetallic Cooperativity in Homogeneous Catalysis," George Stanley, Louisiana State University, 1:15 p.m., S-5 Osmond Laboratory, Department of Chemistry (863-2460).

"How the Weak Interaction Can Prevent Gravitational Waves," Ben Owen, Penn State, 3:00 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory, Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry (863-9605).

"Disease Prevention by Genes and Silicon," Justin M. Dillon, Penn State, 3:30 p.m., 112 Buckhout Laboratory, Department of Plant Pathology (865-3761).

"Livshitz Theorem for the Unitary Frame Flow," Svetlana Katok, Penn State, 3:30 p.m., 102 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Behavorial Treatment of Obesity," Gary D. Foster, University of Pennsylvania, 4:00 p.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory, Intercollege Graduate Program in Nutrition (865-3448).

"Stress and Adaptive Responses in Bacteria," V. James Hernandez, State University of New York, 4:00 p.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, host: Paul Babitzke, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (865-3072).

 

TUESDAY, 8 OCTOBER

(title to be announced), Arnold Bloom, University of California, 12:20 p.m., 107 Wartik Laboratory, Department of Horticulture and Intercollege Graduate Program in Plant Physiology (863-3892).

"The E-Theory of the Muchnik and Medvedev Lattices," Stephen Binns, Penn State, 2:30 p.m., 312 Boucke Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"X-Ray Study of Wetting Phenomena," Peter Pershan, Harvard University, 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, host: Milton Cole, Department of Physics (863-0165).

How Tadpoles Turn into Frogs," Don Brown, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 4:15 p.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory (video conferencing to College of Medicine), Life Sciences Consortium (863-3650).

 

WEDNESDAY, 9 OCTOBER

"Divergent and Birth-and-Death Evolution of KIR Genes in Higher Primates," Li Hao, Penn State, 12:10 p.m., 317 Mueller Laboratory, Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics (863-7334).

(title to be announced), Yuri Kifer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 3:30 p.m., 102 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

ROOM CHANGE AFTER EMAIL DISTRIBUTION:
"How We Do Science," Paul Weiss, Penn State, 8:00 p.m., 122 Heritage Hall / HUB Robeson Center, Department of Chemistry (865-3693).

 

THURSDAY, 10 OCTOBER

"Exploring the Mechanisms of RNA Folding and Catalysis," Philip Bevilacqua, Penn State, 12:15 p.m., S-5 Osmond Laboratory, Department of Chemistry (863-3812).

"Black Holes and Numerical Relativity," Bernd Bruegmann, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., 117 Osmond Laboratory, host: Ben Owen, Department of Physics (863-9597).

"Hierarchical Mixtures-of-Experts for Generalized Linear Models: Some Results on Denseness and Consistency," Wenxin Jiang, Northwestern University, 4:00 p.m., 102 Thomas Building, Department of Statistics (865-1348).

"Routing on a Curve: Implementing Networking Functions in Emerging Networks," Badri Nath, Rutgers University, 4:00 p.m., 209 South Henderson Building, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (865-9505).

 

FRIDAY, 11 OCTOBER

"Super-Selection in Quantum Geometry: A Uniqueness Result," Hanno Sahlmann, Penn State, 11:00 a.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory, Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry (863-9605).

"Chemical Ecology and Management of Large Wood-Boring Insects in British Columbia," Dean Morewood, Penn State, 11:15 a.m., 118 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building, Department of Entomology (865-1895).

"Construction and Destruction of Microtubules," David Odde, University of Minnesota, 12:15 p.m., 210 Hallowell Building (video conferencing to College of Medicine), Department of Bioengineering (865-1407).

(title to be announced), Simon Tavener, Colorado State University, 3:30 p.m., 102 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"The Evaluation of Various Cultivation Methods for the Renovation of Turfgrasses," Philip Corman, Penn State, 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building, 3:35 p.m., Department of Crop and Soil Sciences (863-1601).

 

SATURDAY, 12 OCTOBER and SUNDAY, 13 OCTOBER

(none)

 

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