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Seminars included on this schedule are in these three series:
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| Fall Semester 2003 | Michigan State University | ||
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Seminars begin at 11:30 a.m. Refreshments served at 11:15 a.m.
(unless otherwise specified) All Seminars are in |
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| Friday, September 5 | Campus Theory Seminar | ||
| Stefan Boettcher, Emory University Dept. of Physics | |||
| Using Extremal Dynamics to Optimize Large Disordered Systems | |||
| Friday, September 12 | Center for Biological Modeling Seminar | ||
| Ioan Andricioaei, University of Michigan Dept. of Chemistry | |||
| Changes in the Energy Landscape: From Simple Peptides to a DNA Polymerase Complex | |||
| Friday, September 19 | Engineering Interdisciplinary Seminar | ||
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Paula Hammond,
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| Polymer Multilayer Assembly and Chemically Directed Surface Patterning | |||
| Friday, September 26 | Campus Theory Seminar | ||
| Anil Jain, Michigan State University Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering | |||
| Biometric Authentication: How Do I Know Who You Are? | |||
| Friday, October 3 | Engineering Interdisciplinary Seminar | ||
| Paul West, Pacific Nanotechnology | |||
| Nanotechnology and the Atomic Force Microscope | |||
| Friday, October 10 | Center for Biological Modeling Seminar | ||
| Lydia Kavraki, Rice University Dept. of Computer Science and Bioengineering | |||
| Modeling the Conformational Flexibility of Proteins | |||
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Friday, October 17
1:00 p.m. (note different time) |
Campus Theory Seminar Joint with CBM Symposium on Biological Networks | ||
| Mark Newman, University of Michigan Dept. of Physics | |||
| The Structure of Social and Biological Networks | |||
| Friday, October 24 | Center for Biological Modeling Seminar | ||
| C. Titus Brown, California Institute of Technology, Davidson Laboratory | |||
| Towards an Understanding of Development: Gene Regulatory Networks & cis-Regulation | |||
| Friday, October 31 | Engineering Interdisciplinary Seminar | ||
| Kenneth Carter, IBM-Almaden | |||
| Surface Reactions from Patterned Crosslinked Networks | |||
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Wednesday, November 5
(Note: special non-Friday Seminar) |
Center for Biological Modeling Seminar Joint with the MSU Dept. of Mathematics | ||
| John Schotland, University of Pennsylvania Dept. of Bioengineering | |||
| Optical Tomography at the Nanoscale | |||
| Friday, November 7 | Center for Biological Modeling Seminar | ||
| Teresa Head-Gordon, University of California-Berkeley Dept. of Bioengineering | |||
| Computational and Experimental Methods Applied to Protein Structure and Function | |||
| Friday, November 14 | Campus Theory Seminar | ||
| Vijay Pande, Stanford University Dept. of Chemistry | |||
| Folding@Home: Using Worldwide Grid Computing to Tackle Fundamental Barriers in Biomolecular Simulation | |||
| Friday, November 21 | Engineering Interdisciplinary Seminar | ||
| Stuart Rowan, Case Western Reserve University Dept. of Macromolecular Science and Engineering | |||
| Supermolecular Polymerization, A Route to Responsive Materials | |||
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Seminar Organizers: |
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Engineering Interdisciplinary Seminars: | |||
| Michael E. Mackay, Chemical Engineering & Material Science | mackay@msu.edu | ||
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Center for Biological Modeling Seminars: | |||
| R. Cukier, Chemistry | cukier@cem.msu.edu | ||
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Campus Theory Seminars: | |||
| P. M. Duxbury, Physics & Astronomy | duxbury@pa.msu.edu | ||
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Further information on these seminars are at: Prior semesters: Fall 2001; Spring 2001; Fall 2002; Spring 2003 |
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