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Seminars included on this schedule are in these three series:
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| Spring Semester 2004 | Michigan State University | ||
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Seminars begin at 11:30 a.m. Refreshments served at 11:15 a.m.
Seminars are in (Exception this semester: the April 23 CBM Seminar is at 1:00 p.m. in Room 1415 BPS Bldg.) |
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| Friday, January 23 | Center for Biological Modeling Seminar | ||
| John Marko, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Physics | |||
| Micromechanical Study of DNA Organization from Protein-DNA Interactions to Whole Chromosomes | |||
| Friday, January 30 | Campus Theory Seminar | ||
| Bill Wedemeyer, Michigan State University, Departments of Biochemistry and Physics & Astronomy | |||
| Folding Proteins on a Laptop | |||
| Friday, February 6 | Engineering Seminar | ||
| Christopher Ober, Cornell University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering | |||
| Advances in Lithography: Taking Nanoscale Structures from Microelectronics to Biotechnology | |||
| Friday, February 13 | Center for Biological Modeling Seminar | ||
| So Hirata, William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |||
| "Computational" Spectroscopy for Molecules and Polymers | |||
| Friday, February 20 | Campus Theory Seminar | ||
| Ethan Vishniac, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Physics and Astronomy | |||
| Magnetic Fields in Stars and Galaxies: Dynamo Theory in the 21st Century | |||
| Friday, February 27 | Engineering Seminar | ||
| Michael Strano, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | |||
| Understanding and Exploiting the Surface Chemistry of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes | |||
| Friday, March 5 | Center for Biological Modeling Seminar | ||
| Peter Kuhn, Palo Alto Research Center, The Scripps Research Institute | |||
| High-Throughput Biophysical Methods in Structural Proteomics and Drug Discovery | |||
| Friday, March 19 | Campus Theory Seminar | ||
| Turab Lookman, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theory Division | |||
| Elasticity-Driven Nanoscale Texturing in Functional Materials | |||
| Friday, March 26 | Engineering Seminar | ||
| Bernd Gotsmann, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory | |||
| Nanoindentation of Polymers with Heated Tips: Data Storage Applications and Fun(damental) Science | |||
| Friday, April 2 | Center for Biological Modeling Seminar | ||
| Stephen Harvey, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Biology | |||
| Molecular Modeling Approaches to Understanding Viral Assembly | |||
| Friday, April 9 | Campus Theory Seminar | ||
| Ned Wingreen, NEC Laboratories America, Inc. | |||
| E. Coli's Division Decision: Modeling Min-Protein Oscillations | |||
| Friday, April 16 | Engineering Seminar | ||
| Eric Amis, NIST Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, Polymers Division | |||
| Exploiting the Innovators Dilemma: New Paradigms in Polymer Science | |||
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Friday, April 23 at
1:00 pm in 1415 BPS Bldg. (note different time and room) |
Center for Biological Modeling Seminar | ||
| Wah Chiu, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | |||
| Electron Cryomicroscopy of Macromolecular Complex | |||
| Friday, April 30 | Campus Theory Seminar | ||
| Mark Newman, University of Michigan, Department of Physics | |||
| Large-Scale Structure of Social and Biological Networks | |||
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Seminar Organizers: |
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Engineering Seminars: | |||
| Michael E. Mackay, Chemical Engineering & Material Science | mackay@msu.edu | ||
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Center for Biological Modeling Seminars: | |||
| Michael Feig, Chemistry and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | feig@msu.edu | ||
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Campus Theory Seminars: | |||
| Phillip 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; Fall 2003 |
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