- SCIENCE AT THE EDGE -

Traditionally distinct scientific disciplines are merging to create new opportunities. Share the excitement and challenge through seminars and discussions with nationally recognized pioneers in science at the edge.

Seminars included on this schedule are in these three series:
Interdisciplinary Physics Seminars, Engineering Seminars, and Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminars.
A poster of this schedule is available (PDF format).

Spring Semester 2009 Michigan State University
Seminars begin at 11:30 a.m. Fridays,  with refreshments served at 11:15 a.m.
 
Seminars are in Room 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building (unless noted otherwise)
 
Friday, January 16 Engineering Seminar
  Frederick Pinkerton, Materials and Processes Lab, General Motors Research & Development Center
  New Compounds, New Chemistries, and Nanoconfinement: Advances in Complex Hydrides for Storing Hydrogen
 
Friday, January 23 Engineering Seminar
  Shelley Minteer , Department of Chemistry, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO
  Enzyme Immobilization for Bioelectrocatalysis
 
Special Seminar:
Thursday, January 29 		Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar
Jointly sponsored with the MSU Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
  Michael DeWeese , Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
  One Physicist's View of the Brain - Coding, Computation, and Selective Attention in the Cortex
 
Friday, January 30 Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar
  Ernst-Ludwig Florin , Center for Nonlinear Dynamics and Dept. of Physics, University of Texas at Austin
  Thermal motion: From basic physics to biological applications
 
Friday, February 6 Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar
  Mark Richter , Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas
  Regulation of Rotational Catalysis by the Chloroplast ATP Synthase
 
Friday, February 13 Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar
  William Dorland , Department of Physics, University of Maryland
  Turbulence in 5 Dimension
 
Friday, February 20 Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar
  Yann Chemla , Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Viral DNA Packaging One Step at a Time
 
Friday, February 27 Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar
  William Heller , Center for Structural Molecular Biology and Chemical Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Small-angle X-ray and Neutron Scattering for Biological Systems: Recent efforts at ORNL
 
Friday, March 6 Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar
  Stanislav Molchanov , Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  Probabilistic Problems Related to the CLRST (Cwikel - Lieb - Rozenblum - Solomyak - Tirring) Inequalities
 
Friday, March 27 Engineering Seminar
  Paul Lett , Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards & Technology, University of Maryland
  Phase Space Dynamics in a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate
 
Friday, April 3 Engineering Seminar
  (postponed until May 29 - see below)
 
Friday, April 10 Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar
  David Dubnau , Public Health Research Institute Center, Univ. of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
  Noise and Bimodality in Bacterial Development: A Switch and a Rheostat
 
Friday, April 17 Engineering Seminar
  Robert Brown , Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University
  Thermochemical Technologies for the Production of Biofuels
 
Friday, April 24 Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar
  (postponed until May 22 - see below)
 
Friday, May 1 Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar
  Kevin Plaxco , Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at Santa Barbara
  Better Living through Biosensors
 
Friday, May 22
(rescheduled from April 24) 		Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar
  Joan-Emma Shea , Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at Santa Barbara
  Simulations of Protein Aggregation into Amyloid Fibrils
 
Friday, May 29
(rescheduled from April 3) 		Engineering Seminar
  Christina Smolke , Department of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
  Engineering Molecular Information Processing Devices to Program Cellular Behavior
 
Friday, June 5 Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar
  Eileen Furlong , European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
  A Genomics View of Gene Regulatory Networks
 
    
Seminar Organizers:
 
Interdisciplinary Physics Seminars:
Lisa Lapidus, Physics & Astronomy lapidus@pa.msu.edu
Jeffrey Schenker, Mathematics jeffrey@math.msu.edu
 
Engineering Seminars:
Christina Chan, Chemical Engineering & Material Science krischan@egr.msu.edu
 
Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminars:
David Arnosti, Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease arnosti@msu.edu
David Weliky, Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease weliky@chemistry.msu.edu

Further information on some seminars may be found at:
http://www.qbmi.msu.edu/seminars.php

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Prior semesters:    Fall 2008;   Spring 2008;   Fall 2007;   Spring 2007;   Fall 2006;  
Spring 2006;   Fall 2005;   Spring 2005;   Fall 2004;   Spring 2004;  
Fall 2003;   Spring 2003;   Fall 2002;   Fall 2001;   Spring 2001