SCIENCE SEMINARS: SEPTEMBER 7 TO 13, 1998
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8
"RNA Technology: New Frontiers in Biotechnology," Robert H. Davis, Colorado University, 10:00 a.m., 111 Wartik Laboratory, host: Costas Maranas, Department of Chemical Engineering (863-9958).
"Chiral Conjugated Polymers and Asymmetric Catalysis," Lin Pu, University of Virginia, 11:15 a.m., S-5 Osmond Laboratory, Department of Chemistry (865-4041).
"Higher Index Theory and Duality," Nigel Higson, Penn State, 11:15 a.m., 113 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).
"Gravitational-Wave Detection: What Then Must we do?," Peter Saulson, Syracuse University, 12:00 noon, 339 Davey Laboratory, Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry (863-9605).
"Selmer Groups of Elliptic Curves: II," Ken Ono, Penn State, 12:20 p.m., 113 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).
"Separation Principles in Logic and Analysis," Stephen Simpson, Penn State, 2:30 p.m., 113 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).
"When Proteins Go Bad: A Cellular Tolerance Mechanism," Davis Ng, Penn State, 2:30 p.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, host: Richard Ordway, Department of Biology (863-5693).
"Diffractive Processes and QCD Perturbation Theory" (elementary particles and fields), Francesco Hautmann, Penn State, 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, Department of Physics (865-7534)
"Life Science at the Macro Level: The Mechanics of Human Bone Gain and Loss" (colloquium with video conferencing links to other campuses), Peter R. Cavanagh, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., 101 Thomas Building, Life Sciences Consortium (863-3650).
"Multigrid Method in H(div) and H(curl)-II," Douglas Arnold, Penn State, 4:00 p.m., 102 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
"Characterization of Phosphotransacetylase from Methanosarcina thermophila," Prabha Iyer, Penn State, 11:15 a.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (865-3072).
"Fredholm Representation Rings," Nigel Higson, Penn State, 11:15 a.m., (room to be announced), Department of Mathematics (865-7527).
(title to be announced), Steve Cohen, University of Glasgow (Scotland), 11:15 a.m., 106 Osmond Laboratory, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).
"LIGO and Gravitational-Wave Phenomenology," Sam Finn, Penn State, 1:00 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory, Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry (863-9605).
"Fun with Carbon Nanotubes: Doping, Stretching, Squashing, Rearranging, and Irradiating" (colloquium), Vincent Crespi, Penn State, 3:30 p.m., 101 Osmond Laboratory, Department of Physics (863-0163).
"Modulation of the Inducible Isoform of Nitric Oxide Synthase," Faith Zamamiri, Penn State, 3:35 p.m., 16 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building, host: L. Sordillo, Department of Veterinary Science (863-5786)
"Consistency of Regression Estimators," Michael Lin, Ben-Gurion University (Israel), 4:00 p.m., 201 Thomas Building, Department of Statistics (865-1348).
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
"Dynamic Surface Reconstruction Using Variational Level Set Method," Hongkai Zhao, Stanford University, 3:30 p.m., 102 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (865-7527).
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
(none)
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
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