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

8 to 14 October 2007

MONDAY, 8 OCTOBER

"The Communication Complexity of Correlation," Parhladh Harsha, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, 10:00 a.m., 113 Information Sciences and Technology Building, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (865-9505).

"On-Chip Droplet and Particle Manipulation by Electric Fields: Applications in Microfluidics and Colloidal Assembly," Orlin D. Velev, North Carolina State University, 11:15 a.m., 106 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"The Ammonia-Borane Complex as a Hydrogen-Storage Material," Patty Nguyen, Penn State, 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry Building, host: Harry R. Allcock, Department of Chemistry (865-3527).

"Ferrocene Derivatives in Antitumor Research," Darlene Biziak, Penn State, 3:00 p.m., 102 Chemistry Building, host: Ayusman Sen, Department of Chemistry (863-2406).

"A Quest for Genes in the Loire Valley: An Original Approach to Discover New Sources of Resistance to the Witches' Broom Pathogen of Cacao in Near-Isogenic Lines of Tomato," Jean-Philippe Marelli, Penn State, 3:30 p.m., 112 Buckhout Laboratory, Department of Plant Pathology (865-6761).

"Managing for Complexity: Linking Structures, Processes, and Scales," Eric Zenner, Penn State, 3:35 p.m., 118 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Ecology (863-3371).

"Some Remarks on Arnold Diffusion," Mark Levi, Penn State, 3:35 p.m., 106 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Cell Fate Specification in the Drosophila Blastoderm Involves Runt-Dependent Regulation of Transcriptional Elongation," J. Peter Gergen, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 4:00 p.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, host: David Gilmour, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (863-8905).

"Redox Regulation of Gene Expression by Selenoprotein," K. Sandeep Prabhu, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., S-209 Henderson Building, Intercollege Graduate Program in Nutrition (865-3448).

TUESDAY, 9 OCTOBER

"The Van den Bergh Duality and the Modular Symmetry of a Poisson Variety," Vasiliy Dolgushev, University of California, 2:30 p.m., 315 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Forward and Reverse Hippocampal Place-Cell Sequences During Ripples," Kamran Diba, Rutgers University, 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, host: John Collins, Department of Physics (863-9759).

"Introduction to KAM-Theory, Part One," Andrey Gogolev, Penn State, 3:30 p.m., 216 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"New Proofs of Identities of Lebesgue and Gollnitz via Tilings," David Little, Penn State, 3:35 p.m., 315 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

WEDNESDAY, 10 OCTOBER

"ProtoFlex: Virtualized Full-System Emulation of Multiprocessors Using Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)," James Hoe, Carnegie Mellon University, 10:00 a.m., 113 Information Science and Technology Building, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (867-2360).

"Unintegrated Parton Distribution Functions," Anna Stasto, Penn State, 2:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, host: John Collins, Department of Physics (863-9759).

"Zoll Surfaces as Counterexamples to a Geodesic Length Conjecture," Chris Croke, University of Pennsylvania, 3:35 p.m., 106 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Cosmology with Tens of Thousands of Galaxy Clusters: Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) maxBCG Algorithm Results with Dark Energy Survey (DES) Prospects," Timothy McKay, University of Michigan, 4:00 p.m., 538 Davey Laboratory, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics (865-0418).

"Development of Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid (GABA) Innervation Patterns in Cerebral and Cerebellar Cortex," Josh Huang, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 4:00 p.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory, host: Bernhard Luscher, Penn State Neuroscience Institute (865-5549).

THURSDAY, 11 OCTOBER

"C^0 Symplectic Topology, Part Two," Peter Spaeth, Penn State, 12:00 noon, 114 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Who Needs Horticulture Research?" Paul Karlovich, C. Raker & Sons, 12:20 p.m., 108 Tyson Building, 12:20 p.m., 108 Tyson Building, Department of Horticulture (865-2571).

(title to be announced), Mark Levi, Penn State, 2:30 p.m., 113 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Support Points of Locally-Optimal Designs for Nonlinear Models with Two Parameters," Min Yang, University of Missouri, 4:00 p.m., 201 Thomas Building, Department of Statistics (865-1348).

"The Universe in Quantum Gravity," Martin Bojowald, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., 117 Osmond Laboratory, Department of Physics (863-9759).

(title to be announced), David Hurtubise, Penn State, 5:00 p.m., 106 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

FRIDAY, 12 OCTOBER

"Numerical Simulations of General Gravitational Singularities," David Garfinkle, Oakland University, 11:00 a.m., 320 Whitmore Laboratory, Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos (863-9605 or www.gravity.psu.edu).

"Mechanisms of Insect Adaptation to Plant Defense," Keyan-Zhu Salzman, Texas A&M University, 11:10 a.m., 107 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building, host: Gary Felton, Department of Entomology (865-1895).

"Adrenergic Regulation of Body Temperature and Weight: The Cold Facts About Adenosine Monophosphate (AMP)-Activated Protein Kinase (AMPK) in Fat," Kurt Saupe, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 11:15 a.m., 127 Noll Laboratory, Intercollege Graduate Program in Physiology (865-3453).

"Bye-Bye, Planet Pluto" (video), 3:35 p.m., 211 Davey Laboratory, Physical and Mathematical Sciences Library (865-7617 or www.libraries.psu.edu/pams/filmseries.html).

"Stability Analysis of Stationary Solutions for the Cahn-Hilliard Equation," Peter Howard, Texas A&M University, 3:35 p.m., 106 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

SATURDAY, 13 OCTOBER and SUNDAY, 14 OCTOBER

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