Seminar Series

2009-2010 Schedule

September 22, Tuesday, 4:15 pm
Kendade 203
Topic: If I Only had a Brane: Life in More than Three Dimensions
Speaker and affiliation: Gary Felder, Smith College

September 29, Tuesday, 4:15 pm
CANCELLED - due to Mountain Day; to be rescheduled
Kendade 203
Topic: Yes, Wii Can Do Physics with VPython
Speaker and affiliation: Roberto Salgado, Mount Holyoke College

October 6, Tuesday, 4:15 pm
Cleveland L3
Topic: Adventures on the energy landscape: Watching single proteins fold
Speaker and affiliation: Elizabeth Rhoades, Yale

October 15 (note day - Thursday) 4:15 pm
CANCELLED - will reschedule in the spring
Kendade 203
Topic: Inorganic Materials Research: In a World of Magnets and Miracles
Speaker and affiliation: Ram Seshadri, UC Santa Barbara

October 20, Tuesday, 4:15 pm
Kendade 203
Topic: Yes, Wii Can Do Physics with VPython
Speaker and affiliation: Roberto Salgado, Mount Holyoke College

October 27, Tuesday, 4:15 pm
Kendade 203
Topic: How to Find a Summer Science Internship
Speaker and affiliation:  Janice Hudgings, Mount Holyoke College

November 3, Tuesday, 4:15 pm
Kendade 203
Topic: Mechanics of Life at Micro-Scale
Speaker and affiliation: Vesna Damljanovic, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

November 4, (note day -Wednesday), 4:15 pm
Kendade 203
Topic: The Physics and Geometry of Sphere Packings
Speaker and affiliation: Shomeek Mukhopadhyay, Columbia University

November 12, (note day -Thursday), 4:15 pm
Kendade 203
Topic: Next-generation Solar Cells: How New Semiconducting Materials Can
Help Solve the Energy Crisis
Speaker and affiliation: Alexi Arango, MIT

November 19, (note day -Thursday), 4:15 pm
Kendade 203
Topic: Seeing Under the Surface with Diffusing Photons
Speaker and affiliation: Soren Konecky, UC-Irvine

November 23, (note day - Monday), 4:15 pm
Kendade 203
Topic: Biophysics at Biointerfaces
Speaker and affiliation: Dmitri Petrovykh, University of Maryland

December 1, Tuesday, 4:15 pm
Kendade 203
Topic:
Speaker and affiliation: John Savage, Cornell University