SCIENCE SEMINARS: SEPTEMBER 13 TO 19, 1999

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

"Gravitational Waves from Unstable Neutron Stars," Keith Lockitch, Penn State, 2:20 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory, Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry (863-9605).

"Phase Transitions in the Structure of Solid Surfaces," William Saam, Ohio State University, 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, host: Milton Cole, Department of Physics (863-0165).

"The Completely Bounded Approximation Property for SO(n,1)," Nigel Higson, Penn State, 3:35 p.m., 115 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Identification of Intracellular Signaling Pathways Controlling Skeletal Myogenesis," Sally Johnson, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, host: Carol Gay, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (865-3072).

"The Gierer-Meinhardt System: The Breaking of Homoclinics and Multi-Bump Ground States," Michal Kowalczyk, Carnegie Mellon University, 4:30 p.m., 311 Boucke Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).
 
 

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

"Protein and Gene-Based Cardiovascular Therapeutics: An Engineering Obstacle Course," Scott L. Diamond, University of Pennsylvania, 11:15 a.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory, host: John M. Tarbell, Department of Chemical Engineering/Bioengineering Program/ Life Sciences Consortium Biomolecular Transport Dynamics Option (863-4801).

"Random Sequences of 0's and 1's," Stephen Simpson, Penn State, 2:30 p.m., 122 Thomas Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"L1-Retrotransposition and Exon Shuffling" (colloquium), Haig Kazazian, University of Pennsylvania, 4:00 p.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory/overflow: 101 Thomas Building (with video conferencing to other locations), Life Sciences Consortium (863-3650).
 
 

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

"Plastid Sedimentation Kinetics in Wild-Type and Starchless Mutants of Arabidopsis," Scott MacCleary, Penn State, 12:20 p.m., 112 Buckhout Laboratory, Intercollege Graduate Program in Plant Physiology (865-7069).

"Superbubble Activity and the Multiphase Interstellar Medium (ISM) in Galaxies," Salley Oey, Space Telescope Science Institute, 4:00 p.m., 541 Davey Laboratory, host: Robin Ciardullo, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics (865-0418).

"On Symplectic Filling Volume and Minimal Surfaces in Normed Spaces," Dima Burago, Penn State, 4:30 p.m., 111 Thomas Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).
 
 
 

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

"Gamma Values and Linear Independence in Characteristic p," Matthew Papanikolas, Penn State, 11:15 a.m., 220 Willard Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Investigating the Role of the MBC/CRK (Myoblast City/Adapter Protein Crk) Pathway in Myoblast Fusion and Dorsal Closure," Brian Galletta, Penn State, 11:15 a.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, host: Susan Abmayr, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (865-3072).

"Spherical Point Distributions, Energy Functionals, and Numerical Integration," Peter Grabner, Technical University of Graz (Austria), 1:25 p.m., 314 Boucke Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Natural Disasters: The Physics Reality," Kevin Furlong, Penn State, 3:30 p.m., 101 Osmond Laboratory, host: Paul Cutler, Department of Physics (865-2832).

"Characterization and Improved Diagnosis of Neospora caninum Induced Abortion in Pennsylvania Dairy Cattle," Lore Boger, Penn State, 3:35 p.m., 16 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building, host: L. Sordillo, Department of Veterinary Science (863-5786).

"Multiscale Analysis of a Semiparametric Model via Penalized Maximum Likelihood," Guenther Walther, Stanford University, 4:00 p.m., 201 Thomas Building, Department of Statistics (865-1348).
 
 

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

"Dynamics of Vesicles Subject to Adhesion," Epifania Virga, University of Pavia (Italy), 3:30 p.m., 102 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).

"Ratner's Rigidity Theorems: I," Florence Newberger, Penn State, 3:30 p.m., 307 Boucke Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).
 
 

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 and SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

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