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Seminars included on this schedule are in these three series:
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| Spring 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, January 12 | Room 224 Physics-Astronomy Building | ||
| Ned Wingreen, NEC Research Institute, Princeton University | |||
| Designability of Protein Structures | |||
| Friday, January 19 | Room 208 Biochemistry Building | ||
| Chris Adami, California Institute of Technology | |||
| Evolution in Digital Organisms | |||
| Friday, January 26 | Room 1281 Anthony Hall, Engineering Building | ||
| Don Brenner, North Carolina State University | |||
| Atomistic Modeling of the Inorganic and Organic Carbon World | |||
| Friday, February 2 | Room 224 Physics-Astronomy Building | ||
| Walter Whiteley, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada | |||
| Rigidity of Molecular Structures | |||
| Friday, February 9 * | Room 224 Physics-Astronomy Building * | ||
| Gunter Wagner, Yale University | |||
| The Evolution of Mutational Robustness: Opportunities from Constraints | |||
| Friday, February 16 | Room 224 Physics-Astronomy Building | ||
| Albert-László Barabási, Notre Dame University | |||
| Nineteen Degrees of Separation: The Topological Structure of the WWW | |||
| Friday, February 23 | Room 208 Biochemistry Building | ||
| Charles Taylor, University of California, Los Angeles | |||
| Population Structure of the Malaria Vector, Anopheles Gambiae, in Mali, West Africa | |||
| Friday, March 2 | Room 1281 Anthony Hall, Engineering Building | ||
| Jim Davidson, Vanderbilt University | |||
| Applying Diamond Films | |||
| Friday, March 16 | Room 1281 Anthony Hall, Engineering Building | ||
| Giles Brereton, Michigan State University | |||
| Oxygenation by Liquid Infusion in Medicine/Environment | |||
| Friday, March 23 | Room 224 Physics-Astronomy Building | ||
| Tien Yien Li, Michigan State University | |||
| Solving Polynomial Systems | |||
| Friday, March 30 |
Room 1208 Engineering Building (changed from Room 1281 Anthony Hall, Engineering Building) | ||
| Mehmet Toner, Harvard University | |||
| Hepatic Tissue Engineering | |||
| Friday, April 6 | Room 208 Biochemistry Building | ||
| Gloria Elliott, Michigan State University | |||
| Death by Freezing: Thermophysical Response of Tissues to Low Temperatures | |||
| Friday, April 13 | Room 224 Physics-Astronomy Building | ||
| Erik Demaine, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada | |||
| Folding and Unfolding Linkages, Paper, and Polyhedra | |||
| Friday, April 20 | Room 208 Biochemistry Building | ||
| Bruce Tidor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |||
| Solvation Effects on Protein Folding, Binding and Design: Exploring the Electrostatic Balance | |||
| Friday, April 27 | Room 208 Biochemistry Building | ||
| Régis Pomès, University of Toronto | |||
| Modeling Proton and Water Movement in Proteins | |||
| Friday, May 4 | Room 224 Physics-Astronomy Building | ||
| Samir Hanash, University of Michigan | |||
| Operomics: Integrating Genomics, Transcriptomics and Proteomics | |||
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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 Seminar: Room 1281 Anthony Hall, 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 | ||
| Charles Ofria, Center for Microbial Ecology | ofria@msu.edu | ||
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Seminar details, including links to speaker homepages, are at: |
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