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Seminars included on this schedule are in these three series: |
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| Fall Semester 2006 | Michigan State University | ||
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Seminars begin at 11:30 a.m. Refreshments served at 11:15 a.m.
Seminars are in |
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| Friday, September 8 | Engineering Seminar | ||
| Steve Granick , Depts. of Chemistry, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, and Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |||
| Polymer-Assisted Fun with Phospholipids | |||
| Friday, September 15 | Quantitative Biology and Modeling Seminar | ||
| Shinhan Shiu , Dept. of Plant Biology, Michigan State University | |||
| Genome Evolution and Gene Duplication in Eukaryotes | |||
| Friday, September 22 | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
| Stephen Wells , Center for Biological Physics, Arizona State University | |||
| Geometric Simulation of Mobility in Macromolecules | |||
| Friday, September 29 | Engineering Seminar | ||
| Eva Harth , Dept, of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University | |||
| Utilization of Macromolecular Architectures: Synthesis of Highly Targeted Intracellular Delivery Systems and the Design of Organic Quantum Dots | |||
| Friday, October 6 | Quantitative Biology and Modeling Seminar | ||
| Sharon Hammes-Schiffer , Dept. of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University | |||
| Hydrogen Tunneling and Protein Motion in Enzyme Reactions | |||
| Friday, October 13 | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
| Carlo Piermarocchi , Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University | |||
| Optical Quantum Control of Spin Interactions in Nanostructures | |||
| Friday, October 20 | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
| Mark Worden , Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University | |||
| Nanostructured Interfaces that Express Protein Activities | |||
| Friday, October 27 | Quantitative Biology and Modeling Seminar | ||
| Julie Mitchell , Depts. of Biochemistry & Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison | |||
| Using Shape Specificity and Biochemical Contacts to Predict Protein Interface Hot Spots | |||
| Friday, November 3 | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
| Alessandro Vespignani , Dept. of BioInformatics, Indiana University | |||
| Epidemic Modeling in Complex Networks | |||
| Friday, November 10 | Engineering Seminar | ||
| Nicholas Kotov , Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan | |||
| Organization of Materials at Nanoscale: Hard but Necessary | |||
| Friday, November 17 | Quantitative Biology and Modeling Seminar | ||
| Risto Miikkulainen , Dept. of Computer Science, University of Texas, Austin | |||
| Constructing Intelligent Agents through Neuroevolution | |||
| Friday, December 1 | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
| Steve Plimpton , Biophysics Group, Sandia National Laboratories | |||
| Cell Modeling and Simulation | |||
| Friday, December 8 | Engineering Seminar | ||
| Todd Emrick , Dept. of Polymer Science & Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | |||
| Organic & Polymer Synthesis in Nanoscience - from Composite Materials to Interfacial Assembly and Capsules | |||
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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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Quantitative Biology and Modeling Seminars: | |||
| Michael Feig, Quantitative Biology and Modeling Initiative | feig@msu.edu | ||
| Marianne Huebner, Quantitative Biology and Modeling Initiative | huebner@msu.edu | ||
| Charles Ofria, Quantitative Biology and Modeling Initiative | ofria@cse.msu.edu | ||
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Interdisciplinary Physics Seminars: | |||
| Phillip M. Duxbury, Physics & Astronomy | duxbury@pa.msu.edu | ||
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Further information on some seminars may be found at:
Prior semesters:
Spring 2006;
Fall 2005;
Spring 2005;
Fall 2004;
Spring 2004;
Fall 2003; |
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