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Seminars included on this schedule are in these three series: |
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| Spring Semester 2008 | Michigan State University | ||
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Seminars begin at 11:30 a.m. Fridays, with refreshments served at 11:15 a.m.
Seminars are in |
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| Friday, January 18 | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
| Jeff Schenker , Dept. of Mathematics, Michigan State University | |||
| The Mathematics of Currents Occuring in the Quantum Hall Effect | |||
| Friday, January 25 | Engineering Seminar | ||
| John Brady , Dept. of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology | |||
| The Osmotic Motor | |||
| Friday, February 1: Seminar rescheduled to March 14 (see below) | |||
| Friday, February 8 | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
| Alan Hunt , Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan | |||
| Breaking the Diffraction Limit: Committing an Optical Misdemeanor for Microfluidics and Cell Biology | |||
| Friday, February 22 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
| Robin Buell , Dept. of Plant Biology, Michigan State University | |||
| Insights into the Rice Genome | |||
| Friday, February 29 | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
| Harry Dorn , Dept. of Chemistry, Virginia Tech | |||
| Fullerene-Based Nanomaterials for Biomedical and Information Technology Applications | |||
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Friday, March 14
(rescheduled from Feb. 1) |
Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
| Ian Dworkin , Dept. of Zoology, Michigan State University | |||
| Using Weak Perturbations to Probe Gene Networks and Phenotypic Variation | |||
| Friday, March 21 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
| Jianguo Liu , Dept. of Fish & Wildlife, Michigan State University | |||
| Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems | |||
| Friday, March 28 | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
| Shaul Mukamel , Dept. of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine | |||
| Coherent Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy of Proteins: Femtosecond Analogue of Multidimensional NMR | |||
| Friday, April 4 | Engineering Seminar | ||
| Ravi Kane , Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Renesselaer Polytechnic Institute | |||
| The Design of Nanoscale Therapeutics and Nanostructured Materials | |||
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Friday, April 11 ** CANCELLED ** |
Engineering Seminar | ||
| George Georgiou , Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin | |||
| Engineering the Next Generation of Therapeutic Proteins | |||
| Friday, April 18 | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
| Olgica Bakajin , Dept. of Chemistry & Materials Science, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | |||
| Carbon Nanotube Nanofluidics | |||
| Friday, April 25 | Engineering Seminar | ||
| Russ Composto , Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania | |||
| Dispersion and Self-Assembly of Nanospheres and Nanorods in Polymer Nanocomposite Films | |||
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Seminar Organizers: |
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Engineering Seminars: | |||
| Christina Chan, Chemical Engineering & Material Science | krischan@egr.msu.edu | ||
| Michael Mackay, Chemical Engineering & Material Science | mackay@msu.edu | ||
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Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminars: | |||
| Michael Feig, Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease | feig@msu.edu | ||
| Marianne Huebner, Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease | huebner@msu.edu | ||
| Charles Ofria, Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease | ofria@msu.edu | ||
| David Arnosti, Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease | arnosti@msu.edu | ||
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Interdisciplinary Physics Seminars: | |||
| Carlo Piermarocchi, Physics & Astronomy | carlo@pa.msu.edu | ||
| Lisa Lapidus, Physics & Astronomy | lapidus@pa.msu.edu | ||
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Prior semesters:
Fall 2007;
Spring 2007;
Fall 2006;
Spring 2006;
Fall 2005;
Spring 2005;
Fall 2004; |
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