- SCIENCE AT THE EDGE -Traditionally distinct science disciplines are merging to create new and startling opportunities. Share the excitement and challenge each week through seminars and discussions with nationally recognized pioneers in science at the edge.
Seminars included on this schedule are in these three series:
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| Fall Semester 2001 | Michigan State University | ||
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Seminars begin at 11:30 a.m. Refreshments served at 11:15 a.m.
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| Friday, September 7 | Room 224 Physics-Astronomy Building | ||
| Juyang Weng, Michigan State University | |||
| Autonomous Mental Development by Robots and Animals | |||
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Friday, September 21
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Room 1208 Engineering Building | ||
| Erdogan Gulari, University of Michigan | |||
| From Idea to Commercialization: Development of a New Biochip | |||
| Friday, September 28 | Room 224 Physics-Astronomy Building | ||
| Peter Bates, Michigan State University | |||
| Mathematical Modeling of Phase Transitions in Materials | |||
| Friday, October 5 | Room 1208 Engineering Building | ||
| Susan Sinnott, University of Florida | |||
| Nano-Fluidics and Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanotube-Based Membranes and New Materials | |||
| Friday, October 12 | Room 224 Physics-Astronomy Building | ||
| Boris Shklovskii, University of Minnesota | |||
| Low Temperature Physics at Room Temperature in Water: Charge Inversion in Chemistry, Biology & Gene Therapy | |||
| Friday, October 19 | Room 208 Biochemistry Building | ||
| Joe Landman, MSC.Software, Supercomputing | |||
| Scalability Matters: Why We Need to Make Bioinformatics Programs Scalable, and Results from Work on Various Programs | |||
| Friday, October 26 | Room 208 Biochemistry Building | ||
| Gerhard Hummer, National Institutes of Health | |||
| Computational Analysis of Water and Proton Movements in Proteins | |||
| Friday, November 2 | Room 1208 Engineering Building | ||
| Ramani Narayan, Michigan State University | |||
| Sustainable Bio-Based Materials | |||
| Friday, November 9 | Room 224 Physics-Astronomy Building | ||
| Mark Robbins, Johns Hopkins University | |||
| Where Does Friction Come From? | |||
| Friday, November 16 | Room 1208 Engineering Building | ||
| Christine Schmidt, University of Texas at Austin | |||
| Tissue Engineering Strategies for Nerve Regeneration | |||
| Friday, November 30 | Room 208 Biochemistry Building | ||
| Alexei Stuchebrukhov, University of California - Davis | |||
| Biological Charge Transfer | |||
| Friday, December 7 | Room 224 Physics-Astronomy Building | ||
| Geoffrey West, Los Alamos National Laboratory | |||
| The Tree of Life: Universal Scaling Laws in Biology from Molecules and Cells to Whales and Ecosystems | |||
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Campus Theory Seminar: Room 224 Physics-Astronomy Building | |||
| M. F. Thorpe, Physics & Astronomy | thorpe@pa.msu.edu | ||
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Engineering Interdisciplinary Seminars: Room 1208 Engineering Building | |||
| Virginia Ayres, Electrical & Computer Engineering | ayresv@egr.msu.edu | ||
| John McGrath, Mechanical Engineering | mcgrath@msu.edu | ||
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Center for Biological Modeling Seminar: Room 208 Biochemistry Building | |||
| Shelagh Ferguson-Miller, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | fergus20@msu.edu | ||
| Leslie Kuhn, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | kuhn@agua.bch.msu.edu | ||
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Seminar details, including links to speaker homepages, are at: Prior semesters: Spring 2001 |
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