Colloquia and Seminars

 Fall 2007
Unless otherwise posted, all colloquia are held at 4 pm on Fridays in Math/Science Center E300
DATE SPEAKER TITLE and ABSTRACT
September 7 Sid Redner
Boston University		 Statistical Physics of Citations
September 14 Michael Falk
University of Michigan		 The statistical mechanics of shear banding in metallic glasses
September 21 Sidney Perkowitz
Emory University		 Hollywood Science: Golden Eagles and Turkeys of Science on Screen or, Where's the Sci in Sci Fi Films?
September 25 (Tu!) Stephen Morris
University of Toronto		 Order and scale selection in Columnar Joints
October 9 (Tu!)
Noon-1p
White Hall 205		 Luminaries in Science Series:
Carlos Bustamante
University of California, Berkeley		 Development of novel methods of single-molecule manipulation and detection
October 12 Michael Shlesinger
Office of Naval Research		 Physics of the Glass Transition
October 19 Family Day
 Planetarium open house
October 26
>> 3:00pm << 		Alessandro Vespignani
University of Indiana		 Mobility networks and the worldwide spread of epidemics
Joint Seminar with Computational Life Science
Location: White Hall, Room 102, 3pm
November 2 Darryl Kropf
University of Utah		 Polarity establishment and asymmetric division in fertilized eggs
November 9 Mark Novotny
Mississippi State University		 Are Small-World Nanomaterials Possible?
November 16 Marin Soljacic
MIT		 Photonic Crystals: when the only limit is imagination
November 23 Thanksgiving
No Colloquium
November 30 Andrew Lyon
Georgia Institute of Technology		 Soft Interactions in Colloidal Assembly
December 7 David Swigon
University of Pittsburgh		 Mesoscale modeling of DNA elasticity and DNA-protein assemblies

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