- 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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| Spring Semester 2003 | 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 17 | Room 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building | ||
| Michael E. Mackay, Michigan State University | |||
| Nanotechnology and Polymers | |||
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Tuesday, January 21 (Note special non-Friday Seminar) |
Room 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building | ||
| Shariar Mobashery, Wayne State University | |||
| Antibacterials as Wonder Drugs and How Their Effectiveness is Being Compromised | |||
| Friday, January 31 | Room 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building | ||
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Rawle Hollingsworth,
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A Glycochemistry Revolution and its Implications for the Structure and Properties of Drugs Through Advanced Materials
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| Friday, February 7 | Room 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building | ||
| Richard Spontak, North Carolina State University | |||
| An Emerging Role for Polymer Nanocomposites: Novel Reaction Media and Separation Membranes | |||
| Friday, February 14 | Room 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building | ||
| Seth Fraden, Brandeis University | |||
| Engineering Entropy: Progress and Puzzles | |||
| Friday, February 21 | Room 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building | ||
| Richard A. Blevins, Director of Bioinformatics, Merck & Company | |||
| Deep Genome Data Mining - Applications in Drug Discovery | |||
| Friday, February 28 | Room 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building | ||
| Rob Carpick, University of Wisconsin | |||
| New Insights into Friction: Nano-Scale Studies Using Scanning Probe Microscopy | |||
| Friday, March 14 | Room 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building | ||
| Wayne Anderson, Northwestern University | |||
| Structural Genomics and the Accelerating Pace of Structural Biology | |||
| Friday, March 21 | Room 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building | ||
| Bart Selman, Cornell University | |||
| Connections Between Statistical Physics and Computational Complexity | |||
| Friday, March 28 | Room 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building | ||
| Andrea Chow, Caliper Technologies | |||
| Lab-on-a-Chip: Development and Applications | |||
| Friday, April 4 | Room 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building | ||
| Ron Larson, University of Michigan | |||
| DNA in Microflows | |||
| Friday, April 11 | Room 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building | ||
| Laurence Florens, The Scripps Research Institute | |||
| A Proteomic View of the Malaria Parasite Life Cycle | |||
| Friday, April 18 | Room 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building | ||
| Gregory Voth, University of Utah | |||
| The Computer Simulation of Proton Transport in Biomolecular Systems | |||
| Friday, April 25 | Room 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building | ||
| Michael Deem, Rice University | |||
| Natural Evolution, Disease, and Localization in the Immune System | |||
| Friday, May 02 | Room 1425 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building | ||
| Bill Rossen, University of Texas, Austin | |||
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Application of Percolation Concepts to | |||
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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: | |||
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S. D. Mahanti, Physics & Astronomy P. M. Duxbury, Physics & Astronomy |
mahanti@pa.msu.edu duxbury@pa.msu.edu | ||
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Further information on these seminars are at: Prior semesters: Fall 2001; Spring 2001; Fall 2002 |
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