Colloquium Schedule, Fall 2009

All talks will be held on Thursday, except where noted, at 4:30 P.M. in Room 58 Exley Science Center with refreshments at 4:10 P.M., Room 58 (Foyer) Exley Science Center.

Date

Speaker

Title

September
24th

Dr. Wilma Olson
Mary I. Bunting Professor of Chemistry
Rutgers University Keynote speaker of the Molecular Biophysics Retreat --

Talk location at the Wadsworth Mansion

"DNA Mechanics and Gene Regulation"
October
22nd Adam Sobel, '89
Associate Professor
Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Columbia University
"Dynamics of tropical weather and climate".
29th Marivi Fernandez-Serra
Physics & Astronomy SUNY, Stony Brook, NY

"The Hydrogen bond: source of water exotic properties and key to future's green energy source"

November
5th Prof. Ami Vardi
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
Pattern formation in dipolar BECs
12th

Jeevak Parpia,
Professor of Physics,
Cornell University

Dissipative mysteries -- experiments on glasses at low temperatures.

19th

Professor Reinhold Blumel,
Wesleyan University

The Chair's Colloquium
26th Thanksgiving Break
December
3rd Dr. David Wright, Ph.D. '06
Department of Physics
Yale University
"Imaging Molecules in Superfluid Helium"
10th Josh Gurian, '04
University of Virginia
"From one to many photons: Microwave Ionization of Rydberg Atoms"

Please E-mail Caryn Canalia with additions, updates or questions


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