SCIENCE SEMINARS: AUGUST 30 TO SEPTEMBER 5, 1999
SCIENCE SEMINARS: AUGUST 30 TO SEPTEMBER 5, 1999
MONDAY, AUGUST 30
"Dependence of Reaction Rate of a Reactive Lattice on Jump Probability," John Lewis, Memorial University (Newfoundland), 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, host: Roger Herman, Department of Physics (865-4972).
"Regulation of Early Embryonic Expression of Mouse Hoxc8 Gene," Cooduvalli
Shashikant, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, host: David
Gilmour, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (865-3072).
TUESDAY, AUGUST 31
"Convex Minimization and Variational Inequalities: An Introduction to
the Problem Class and Discretization," Ralf Kornhuber, Free University
of Berlin (Germany), 4:00 p.m., 102 McAllister Building, Department of
Mathematics (865-7527).
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1
"Instrumental Challenges in Gravitational Wave Observatories," Gabriela
Gonzalez, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., 541 Davey Laboratory, host: Pablo Laguna,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics (865-0418)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2
"Critical Values of Motivic L-Functions and the Partition Function," Ken Ono, Penn State, 11:15 a.m., 220 Willard Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).
"The Meaning of Chaos," Grzegorz Swiatek, Penn State, 3:00 p.m., 103 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).
"Growth Factor Signaling and Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor--a
(PPARa)," Courtney Nugent, Penn State, 3:35 p.m., 16 Agricultural Sciences
and Industries Building, host, L. Sordillo, Department of Veterinary Science
(863-5786).
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
"Numerical Evolutions of Black Hole Spacetimes: Current Issues and Problems," Mijan Huq, Penn State, 2:20 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry (863-9605).
"Bifurcation Problems Associated with Monge-Ampere Operators," Jon Jacobsen,
Penn State, 3:30 p.m., 102 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics
(865-7527).
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 and SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
(none)
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