Colloquia and Seminars

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE and ABSTRACT
Sept 2	Min Zhou Georgia Institute of Technology	Novel Shape Memory of Metal Nanowires
Sept 9	Jim Sowell	A Menagerie of Close Binary Systems
Sept 16	Alan Middleton Syracuse University	Should physicists care if P=NP?
Sept 23	Gyorgy Korniss Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Synchronization and Transport Efficiency in Small-World Network
Sept 30	Hans Schelvis New York University	Gaining new insights into the structural and functional properties of DNA photolyase from various spectroscopic techniques
Oct 7	Duane Johnson University of Illinois-UC	Multiscaling Methods using Machine-Learning via Genetic Programming
Oct 14	Philip Nelson University of Pennsylvania	The mechanics of DNA at high curvature
Oct 21	Family Day - No Colloquium
Oct 28	Gary Grest Sandia National Laboratories	Rheology of Gravity Driven Granular Flow
Nov 4
Nov 11	Simon Singh	Big Bang - the history of a paradigm shift
Nov 18	Arik Yochelis University of California, Berkeley	Droplet motion driven by surface freezing or melting: A mesoscopic hydrodynamic approach
Nov 25	Thanksgiving Holiday
Dec 2
Dec 9	Willem Kegel Utrecht University

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