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IPST WEEKLY CALENDAR - FALL 2006
Tuesday,
September 5th
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: John F. Hawley, University of Virginia
Topic: The General
Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Black Hole Accreation
Disks
and Jets
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
September 6th
2:00PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Gadi Fibich
Tel Aviv University
Topic: New Singular
Solutions of the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation (NLS)
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall06/index.htm
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room, Lower Level, LPS 8050
Greenmead Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740 (301)935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Professor Peter Kofinas
Fischell Department of Bioengineering, UMCP
Topic: Functional
Polymer Nanostructures for Nanobiotechnology Applications
4:00PM
- CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Vlad Sadchenko
Department of Chemistry, George Washington University
Topic: Ultrafast Thermal
Desorption Spectroscopy and Microcalorimetry: New Tools to
Uncover Mysteries of Ice
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Tuesday,
September 12th
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Robert A.Walker
Department.of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMCP
Topic: At Arm's Length
- Correlating Molecular Structure with Interfacial Solvation
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Walter Gander
Department of Computational Science, ETH Zurich
Topic: Generating Numerical
Algorithms Using Computer Algebra
http://www.math.umd.edu/dept/seminars/nas
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Theodore Hodapp
Hamline University
Topic: Physics Teaching:
The Role of College and Universities in the Preparation of Future Teachers
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
September 13th
2:00PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor David Hoff
Department of Mathematics, Indiana University
Topic: Lagrangean
Structure and Propagation of Singularities in Multidimensional Compressible
Flow
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall06/index.htm
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room, Lower Level, LPS 8050
Greenmead Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740 (301)935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Professor Dimitri Basov
Physics Department, University of California,
San Diego
Topic: An Infrared
Probe of Charge Injection in Organic Field Effect Transistors
Monday, September
18th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Sergei Sukharev
Department.of Biology, UMCP
Topic: The Gating Mechanism
of the Bacterial Mechanosensitive Channel MscS
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:00 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: D. Aaron Roberts
NASA/GSFC
Topic: Lots of Things
We Don't Know About Solar Wind Turbulence
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
September 12th
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Jocelyn Rodgers
Institute for Physical Science and Technology,
UMCP
Topic: Nonuniform Charged
Systems: Accurate Short-Ranged Simulations
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Milan Mihajlovic
Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
Topic: Efficient Preconditioning
of the Navier-Stokes Equations with the Free Surface Condition
http://www.math.umd.edu/dept/seminars/nas
4:00 PM - PHYS 1412
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
ISR DISTSINGUISHED LECTURE
Speaker: Professor Steven Strogatz
Cornell University, Theoretical and Applied Mathematics
Topic: The Emerging
Science of Spontaneous Order
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
September 20th
10:00 AM - 2168 A. V. Williams Bldg.
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
ISR DISTSINGUISHED LECTURE
Roundtable Discussion
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
2:00PM - CSIC 4122
(Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Efthimios Kaxiras
Department of Physics, Harvard University
Topic: Simulations
of Complex Materials Across Multiple Scales
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall06/index.htm
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room, Lower Level, LPS 8050
Greenmead Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740 (301)935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Dr. Lee J. Richter
Surface and Microanalysis Science Division, NIST,
Gaithersburg, MD
Topic: Optical Characterization
of Semiconducting Polymer Thin Films
Thursday,
September 21st
12:15 PM - 1207 ERB
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEINAR
Speaker: Stefan Koehler
Emory University
Topic: Swimming
in A Granular Medium
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday, September
22nd
3:00 PM - 0112 CHEM (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Anne Krapiel
Princeton U niversity
Topic: Role
of Molybdenum and Other Oroanions in the Nitrogen Cycle of Soils
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Monday, September
25th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:00 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: James L. Burch
Southwest Research Institute
Topic: Magnetospheric
Multiscale - The Reconnection Mission
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
September 26th
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
11:00AM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Dr. Mourad Sadqi
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UMCP
Topic: Atom by Atom
Analysis of Global Downhill Protein Folding
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Andrea Bonito
Department of Mathematics, UMCP
Topic: Three-Dimensional
Viscoelastic Flows with Complex Free Surfaces: Numerical Simulations
and
Mathematical Analysis of Simplified Problems
http://www.math.umd.edu/dept/seminars/nas
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Paul McEuen
Cornell University
Topic: Carbon Electronics:
From "String" Theory to Nanoguitars
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
September 27th
2:00PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Selim Esedoglu
Department of Mathematics, University of
Michigan
Topic: Finding Global
Minimizers of Segmentation and Denoising Functionals
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall06/index.htm
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room, Lower Level, LPS 8050
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740; (301)935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
No Seminar
Thursday,
September 28th
12:15 PM - ERB 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday, September
29th
12:00 PM - CSS 4311
FLUID DYNAMICS REVIEWS SEMINAR/BURGERS PROGRAM
Speaker: Professor Rainald Lohner
School of Computational Sciences, George
Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Topic: Simulation
of Flows with Violent Free Surface Motion
Monday, October
2nd
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:00 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Ken McCracken
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Topic: Long-Term Changes
in the Cosmic Radiation and the Heliomagnetic Field;
1428-2005
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
October 3rd
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Dr. Iqbal Hamza
Department of Animal and Avian Sciences, UMCP
Topic: Notes
from the Underground: Specifications of Heme Trafficking Pathways
in C. Elegans
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Jurgen Mimkes
Physics Department, University Paderborn, Germany
Topic: Chemistry of
Social Bonds: A Thermodynamic View of Socio-Economic Systems
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.math.umd.edu/dept/seminars/nas
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: John Hall, Nobel Prize Winner
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Topic: The Optical
Frequency Comb - A Tool of Many Uses
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
October 4th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Nigel Goldenfeld
Department of Physics, University of Illinois
Topic: Beyond Phase
Field Models: Renormalization Group Approach to Multiscale Modeling
in Materials Science
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall06/index.htm
2:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Dr. Mike Tarlov
National Institutes of Standards and Technology
Topic: Recent
Advances in Surface Science of Biomolecules
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room, Lower Level, LPS 8050
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740 (301)935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Dr. William D. Oliver
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Topic: Microwave-Induced
Sideband Cooling: Atomic Physics with a Superconducting
Persistent-Current Qubit
4:30 PM - CHEM 1402
(Chemistry Lecture Hall)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Dr. Alfred Bader
Alfred Bader Fine Arts
Topic: The Real
History of The Benzene Ring Structure
Richard Anschutz, Archibald Scott
Couper and Josef Loschmidt: A Detective at Work
Cohosted by the ACS and NIH
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Thursday,
October 5th
12:15 PM - ERB 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker #1: Shmuel Fishman
Technion
Topic: Tunneling
Out of Phase Space Islands of Maps
and
Speaker #2: Matt Cornick ( tentative)
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic:
State Estimation of a Rayleigh-Benard Convection Experiment
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday, October
6th
3:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Mark Ellison
Ursinas College
Maryland Symposium on Chemistry Research at Undergraduate Institutions
Topic: Gas Absorption
on Carbon Nanotubes
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Monday, October
9th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Lori Goldner
Optical Technology Division, National Institute
of Standards and Technology
Topic: Optical
Interrogation of Single Biomolecules and Molecular Complexes,
with Applications to RNA/Protein
Complexes
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
October 10th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Dr. Michael Jarstfer
University of North Carolina
Topic: Chemistry
to Study Telomere Biology
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Olga Dudko
Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health
Topic: Single Molecule
Experiments: Rates and Activation Free Energies
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Ivo Babuska
Institute for Computational Science and Engineering,University
of Texas at Austin
Topic: Are the
Computational Results Reliable?
http://www.math.umd.edu/dept/seminars/nas
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Distinguished Teacher Lecture
Speaker: E. F. (Joe) Redish
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: Thoughts on
Teaching Physics While Listening to Ravel's Bolero;
Implications of Research on Learning and
Knowing
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
October 11th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall06/index.htm
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room, Lower Level, LPS 8050
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740 (301)935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Professor Wolfgang Losert
Physics Department and Institute
for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Topic: Forced
Shape Deformations of Interfaces and Biopolymer Networks
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Dr. Bill Phillips
National Institute of Standards and
Technology and UMCP
Topic: Coherent
Atoms in Optical Lattices
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Thursday,
October 12th
11:00AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Mr. James Creagan
UMCP (Advisor: Professor Lyle Isaacs)
Topic: To
be Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - ERB 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Juri Toomre
JILA and Department of Astrophysical & Planetary
Sciences, University of Colorado
Topic: Unfolding
the Sources of Solar Magnetism
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday, October
13th
4:00 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: J. Randy Jokipii
University of Arizona
Toic: New Insights
into the Solar-Wind Termination
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Monday, October
16th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Elliot Elson
Biophysics, Washington University, St. Louis
Topic: Can the Collagenase Brownian
Ratchet Exert a Significant Force on a Cell?
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Chris Paranicas
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Topic: The Inner Magnetosphere
of Saturn as Revealed by the Cassini Spacecraft
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
October 17th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Dr. George Lorimer
Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMCP
Topic: GroEL:
A Cellular Nanomachines
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Elliot Elson
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine
Topic: Molecular
Cluster-Size Distributions from Fluorescence Fluctuations
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. J. M. Cascon
Department of Mathematics, University of
Salamanca, Spain
Topic: Convergence
and Optimality of an AFEM for General Second Order Linear Elliptic PDE
http://www.math.umd.edu/dept/seminars/nas
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Distinguished Teacher Lecture
Speaker: Kevork Abazajian
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic:
The New Cosmology
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
October 18th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall06/index.htm
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room, Lower Level, LPS 8050
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740 (301)935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Dr. Alexander Efros
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington,
DC
Topic: Mode
Locking of Electron Spin Coherence in Singly Charged Aluminum Dots
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Dr. Bill Phillips
National Institute of Standards and Technology
and UMCP
Topic: Coherent
Atoms in Optical Lattices
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Thursday,
October 19th
11:00AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Dina Merrer
Barnard College
Topic: Mechanism
of Carbene Additions to Cycloropenes: Dynamics and Strain
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - ERB 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Juan G. Restrepo
Northeastern University
Topic: Characterizing
the Dynamical Importance of Network Nodes and Links
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
JOINT CSCAMM/MATH/NORBRT WIENER CENTER
Speaker: Professor Anna Gilbert
Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
Topic: Fast
Algorithms for Space Analysis
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall06/index.htm
Friday, October
20th
3:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Dr. Tom Moffat
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Topic: To be
Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Monday, October
23rd
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Dr. Tatiana Rostovtseva
Section on Molecular Transport, Laboratory of Physical
and Structural Biology,
NICHD, NIH
Topic: Major Mitochondrial Channel,
VDAC: Transport Properties and Their Regulation
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Gordon D. Holman
NASA GSFC
Topic: Results from
X-Ray Observations of Solar Flares with the Ramaty High Energy Solar
Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI)
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
October 24th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker:
Dr. Ron Orlando
Carbohydrate Research Center, University
of Georgia
Topic: Proteomics
and Glycoproteomicss, Answering Questions or Creating Them?
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Dr. Denis Tsygankov
Institute for Physical Science and Technology,
UMCP
Topic: Wrong-way
Walking and Hidden Steps of Molecular Motors
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Professor Leszek Demkowicz
Institute for Computational Engineering
and Sciences, Department of Aerospace Engineering
and Engineering Mechanics, University of
Texas at Austin
Topic: hp-Finite
Elements for Maxwell Equations: Discrete Compactness and hp-Convergence
for Maxwell Eigenvalues
http://www.math.umd.edu/dept/seminars/nas
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: John E. Harris
Stanford University
Topic: Evidence for
a Quark-Gluon Plasma at RHIC
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
October 25th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
No Seminar
CSCAMM WORKSHOP
Analytical and Computational Challenges of Incompressible Flows at
High Reynolds Number
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall06/index.htm
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room, Lower Level, LPS 8050
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740 (301)935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker:
Professor Ichiro Takeuchi
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
and Center for
Superconductivity Research, UMCP
Topic: Combinatorial
Approach to Materials Discovery
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Alex Benderskii
Wayne State University
Topic: Coherent
Nonlinear Spectroscopies of Surfaces and Interfaces
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Thursday,
October 26th
CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
MARKER SYMPOSIUMS:
1:00PM
Speaker: Professor Luis Echegoyen
Clemson University
Topic: Chemical
and Electrochemical Properties of Fullerenes, Endohedral Fullerenes
and Other Carbon Compounds
2:00PM
Speaker: Professor Lyle Isaacs
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: The Cucurbit
[n]uril Family
3:30PM
Speaker: Professor Peter Stang
University of Utah
Topic: Nanoscale
Molecular Architecture: Design and Self-Assembly
of Metallocyclic Polygons Via Coordination
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - ERB 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: To be Announced
Topic: To be
Announced
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday,
October 27th
3:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Patrick Hatcher
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Old
Dominion University
Topic: Adduction
of Peptides to Natural Organic Matter: Implications of N Cycling
in the Environment
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Monday, October
30th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Maria Kurnikova
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,
PA
Topic: Molecular
Modeling of Structure and Energetics of Ion Channel-Forming
Protein-Polysaccharide Complexes
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Frank McDonald
Institute for Physical Science and Technology,
UMCP
Topic: Where Were
the Anomalous Cosmic Rays When Voyager 1 Crossed the Termination Shock
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
October 31st
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Dr. George Cody
Carnegie Geophysical Institute of Washington
Topic: Hydrothermal
Organic Reactions, Transition Metal Sulfides, and the Origins of Life
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Surajit Sengupta
S. N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences,
Kolkata, India
Topic: Microstructure
Selection During Solid State Transformations: The Role of
Non-Elastic Variables
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Luc Mieussens
Mathematiques pour l'Industrie et la Physique,
Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse
Topic: Numerical
Simulations of Rarefied Gases in Curved Channels: Thermal Creep,
Circulating Flow, and Pumping Effect
http://www.math.umd.edu/dept/seminars/nas
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Jogesh Pati
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: Quest
for Unification: Probings Through Neutrino Oscillations, Matter
Asymmetry
and Decay of the Proton
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
November 1st
8:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Paul Dagdigian
Johns Hopkins University
Topic: Cavity
Ring-Down Spectroscopy for Basic and Applied Studies: Spectroscopy
of Transient Polyatomic Intermediates and
Detection of Explosives
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122
(Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Michael Vogelius
Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University
Topic: Electromagnetic
Imaging and Cloaking
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall06/index.htm
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room, Lower Level, LPS 8050
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740 (301)935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Dr. Charles YC Lee
US Air Force Office of Scientific Research,
Arlington, VA
Topic: AFOSR
Interests on Organic Photonics
Thursday,
November 2nd
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
Room 0112, Marker Seminar Room
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Mr. Huan Wang
UMCP (Advisor: Professor Steven Rokita)
Topic: Metal-Based
Supramolecular Chemistry
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - ERB 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker #1: Tom Carroll
Naval Research Laboratory
Topic:
Using a Phase Space Statistic to Detect Resonant Objects
and
Speaker #2: Andrew Pomerance
University of Maryland, College
Park UMD
Topic:
Locally Forced Biopolymer Networks: Viscoelasticity on the Filament
Scale
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday, November
3rd
12:00 Noon - ENGR 2164
FLUID DYNAMICS REVIEWS/SEMINARS OF THE BURGERS PROGRAM
Speaker: Professor Kaye L. Brubaker
Department of Civil Engineering, UMCP
Topic: Is Summer Getting
Longer? Trends in the Northern Hemisphere Water Cycle
3:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Joseph Loo
Department of Chemistry, University of
California, Los Angeles
Topic: To be
Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Monday, November
6th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Nahee Park
Ewha Womans University, Korea
Topic: Measuring
for the Charge of High Energy Cosmic-Ray Particles in the CREAM Experiment
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
November 7th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Dr. Don Burke
University of Missouri-Columbia
Topic: Stretching
the Speed Limits and Evolutionary Limits of RNA Catalysis
Host:
Dr. Kahn
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Alexi Lozinski
Department of Mathematics, University of
Houston
Topic: Modeling
and Simulations of Gas Bubbles in a Fluid
http://www.math.umd.edu/dept/seminars/nas
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Leo Kadanoff
University of Chicago
Topic: Computer
Simulation and Prediction - The Good The Bad and The Awful
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
November 8th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall06/index.htm
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room, Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740 (301)935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Dr. Oh-Kil Kim
Chemistry Division and Institute for Nanoscience,
Naval Research Laboratory,
Washington, DC
Topic: One-Dimensional
Energy/Electron Transfer Through a Helical Channel
4:00PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Dr. Philip Anfinrud
National Institutes of Health
Topic: Watching
Proteins Function with Picosecond Time-Resolved Laue Crystallography,
Time-Resolved Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering,
and Molecular Dynamics Simulations
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Thursday,
November 9th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
Room 0112, Marker Seminar Room
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Mr. Wei Zhang
UMCP (Advisor: Professor Lawrence Sita)
Topic: To be
Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - ERB 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker #1: Kyle Gustafson
University of Maryland
Topic:
Fractional Diffusion and Finite Larmor Radius Effects in 2-D Plasma Models
and
Speaker #2: Cory Poole, University of Maryland
Topic:
To be Announced
For further information, contact:Wolfgang Losert, Coordinator.
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
3:30 PM - MATH
3206
PDE/APPLIED MATH SEMINAR
Speaker: Daniel Koester
University of Augsburg, Germany
Topic: Numerical
Simulation of Acoustic Streaming on Surface Acoustic Wave-Driven Biochips
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars/pde
Friday, November
10th
3:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Student Seminar
Speaker: Ms. Marjan Alagmand
UMCP (Advisor: Professor Neil Blough)
Topic: To be
Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Monday, November
13th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Dyche Mullins
Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, University
of California, San Francisco
Topic: The Secret
Life of Actin
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND C, OSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: John Krizmanic
NASA GSFC
Topic: The
Orbiting Wide-Angle Collectors (OWL) Experiment: Observing Ultra-High
Energy
Cosmic Rays from Space
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
November 14th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Dr. San Shi
Children's National Medical Center
Topic: Family
Portrait of the Transcarbamylases
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Saar Rahav
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
UMCP
Topic:
The Classical Limit of Quantum Transport
1:45PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Dr. Murthy Gudipati
IPST, UMCP, NASA Ames and University
of Cologne
Topic:
Understanding the Evolution of Dirty-Ices in the Universe – From the
Chemical Physics Perspective
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.math.umd.edu/dept/seminars/nas
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: John Thomas
Duke University
Topic: Optically-Trapped,
Strongly-Interacting Fermi Gases
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
November 15th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Rodrigo Platte
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics, Arizona State University
Topic:
A Hybrid Fourier-Chebyshev Pseudospectral Method for Non-Periodic
Hyperbolic Problems
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall06/index.htm
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room, Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740 (301)935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Dr. Josefino C. Comiso
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Topic: Arctic
Warming Signals Associated with Greenhouse Gases
4:00PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Eric Bittner
University of Houston
Topic: Ultra-fast
Energy Transfer and Exciton Breakup Dynamics in DNA: Does DNA Act
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Thursday,
November 16, 2006
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Bioscience Day
Speaker: Professor Steven Benkovic
Pennsylvania State University
Topic:
Advances in Enzymology
and
Speaker: Dr. Jeff Gildersleeve
National Cancer Institute
Topic: Carbohydrate
Chemistry and Glycobiology
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - 1207 Energy
Research Building
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar .
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
THIRD
ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE BURGERS PROGRAM FOR FLUID DYNAMICS
1:00-5:30PM
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, UMCP
Rooms 1107 and 1111
Invited Lecturers:
#1 Gijs Ooms
J.M. Burgerscentrum,
The Netherlands
#2 Elias Balaras
University of Maryland
#3 Shiyi Chen
Johns Hopkins University
#4 Alan Faller
Professor Emeritus, University
of Maryland
Friday, November
17th
12:00 NOON - ENGR 2164
FDR SEMINAR
Speaker: Martin Van Hecke
University of Leiden
Topic: A
Stationary Granular Fluid
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
3:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Student Seminar
Speaker: Ms. Marjan Alagmand
UMCP (Advisor: Professor Neil Blough)
Topic: To be
Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Monday, November
20th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Dr. Gang Dong, Faculty
Candidate
Yale University School of Medicine,
Department of Cell Biology
Topic:
Structural Insights into the Final Stages of Exocytosis - The Architecture
and Assembly of the Exocyst
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:30 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Mr. Darren Bykowskii
UMCP Advisor: Professor Michael
Doyle
Topic: Synthetic
Applications of the Vinylcarbenes: Ylide, Cyclopropanation, and
C-H Insertion Reactons
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Arpita Upadhyaya
Institute for Physical Science and
Technology, UMCP
Topic:
Polymerization and Adhesion in Cellular Movements: Pushing, Pulling
and Sticking
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND C, OSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Moo Hyun Lee
Institute for Physical Science and
Technology, UMCP
Topic: Performance
of the CREAM Calorimeter
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
November 21st
10:00 AM - CHEM 3219
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Dissertation Defense
Speaker: Ms. Hui Li
UMCP Advisor: Professor Janice Reutt-Robey
Topic:
N-Heteroaromatic Acid Adlayer Structures Under Hydrogen Bonding Influence:
A Comprehensive UHV-STM/XPS/RAIRS Study
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Sean Sun
Mechanical Engineering and Whitaker
Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Topic: The
Physics of Bacterial Cell Division
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Igor Griva
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University
of Maryland, Baltimore County
Topic: Case Studies in
Shape and Trajectory Optimization: Catenary Problem
http://www.math.umd.edu/dept/seminars/nas
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Nergis Mavalvala
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic: Gravitational
Wave Detection: What's new? What next?
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
November 22nd
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall06/index.htm
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room, Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740 (301)935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
No Seminar
Thursday,
November 23rd
No Seminars - Thanksgiving
Friday, November
24th
No Seminars - Thanksgiving Break
Monday, November
27th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Arthur LaPorta
Institute for Physical Science and Technology,
UMCP
Topic: Observing
the Sequence-Specific Kinetics of an RNA Polymerase Molecule Using
Optical Tweezers
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Matthew Hill
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Topic: The Tangle
of Ion Populations in the Termination Foreshock and Heliosheath
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
November 28th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
(As in the past, each seminar will be preceded by an informal cafeteria
lunch to which all are welcome, departing from Room 2100B about five minutes
after 12:00 Noon.)
Speaker: Professor Sow-Hsin Chen
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering,
M.I.T.
Topic: Dynamic
Crossover in Protein Hydration Water and the Glass Transition in Biopolymers
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Douglas P. Hamilton
University of Maryland
Topic: Neptune's
Satellite Triton: A Retrospective
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
November 29th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (#406)
CSCAMM
Speaker: Professor Boaz Nadler
Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
Weizmann Institute of Science
Topic: Statistical
Data Analysis and Stochastic Dynamical Systems – A Two Way Street
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall06/index.htm
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room, Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740; (301)935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Professor Anna Kidiyarova-Shevtchenko
Microtechnology and Nanoscience Department
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Topic: Rapid
Single Flux Quantum Superconducting Digital Technology
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room/Bldg, #091)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor George Flynn
Columbia University
Topic: Probing
Self-Assembly and Chemistry at Interfaces: A Sub-Nanometer View
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Thursday,
November 30th
11:00 AM CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room/Bldg. #091)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Ram Hosmane
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Topic: Artificial
Blood. Cell-Free Oxygen Carriers Based on Hemoglobin
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - 1207
ERB
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Oreste Piro
Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma
de Mallorca, Spain
Title:
Left or Right? Follow the Flow!
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
This is the lecture in the PDE/Applied Math Seminar at 3:30 PM given in
connection with the Aziz Lecture, which is on November 30, 2006.
Speaker: Professor George Papanicolaou
Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
Topic: Optimal
Illumination in Array Imaging
Friday,
December 1st
12:00 PM - Martin Hall 3164
FLUID DYNAMICS REVIEW
Speaker: Jim Jenkins, Cornell University
Topic: Dense
Inclined Flows of Granular Materials
http://www.physics.umd.edu/calendar
3:00 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
AZIZ LECTURE
Speaker: Professor George Papanicolaou
Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
Topic: Imaging
in Random Media
3:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room/Bldg. #091)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Dr. Jeff Long
Naval Research Laboratory
Topic: Mesoporous
Three-Dimensional Nanoarchitectures for Sensing, Catalysis,
Energy Storage, and –Conversation, and You-Name-It!
Monday, December
4th
1:00 PM - 1201 Physics Building
Special IPST Seminar, joint with the Quantum Information & Physics
Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Bub
Department of Philosophy, UMCP
Topic: Quantum
Computation from a Quantum Logical Perspective
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. R. Blake Hill
Johns Hopkins University
Topic: A Model
for the Membrane-Induced Conformational Change of Bcl-xL
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Tea & Cookies 4:00-4:30 PM
Speaker: Fred Ipavich
University of Maryland
Topic: Solar
Wind Heavy Ion Systematics
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
December 5th
8:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room/Bldg, #091)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Dr. David Benson
Wayne State University
Topic: Designing Proteins
to Function at Materials Interfaces to Generate Analytical Reagents
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Thomas C. Schelling
Department of Economics, UMCP
Topic: Modeling Voluntary
Segregation Among People: An 'Agent-Based' Approach
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Christian Kreuser
Department of Mathematics, University of Augsburg,
Germany
Topic: Convergence of
Adaptive Finite Element Methods for $p$-Laplace Equation
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM
- PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: David Spergel
Princeton University
Topic: Cosmology
After WMAP
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
December 6th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (#406)
CSCAMM
Speaker: Professor Teng Li
Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMCP
Topic: Modeling
the Deformation of Organic/Inorganic Hybrids Mechanics of
Flexible Macroelectronics
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall06/index.htm
2:30 PM - PHYS 1201
SPECIAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Alexander Rodin
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Topic: Moscow
Phystech - Building A Research University
3:30
PM - Seminar Room, Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740; (301)935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Professor Michael E. Fisher
Institute for Physical Science and Technology,
UMCP
Topic: MOLECULAR
MOTORS: Observations and Theory
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room/Bldg, #091)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Claudio Margulis
University of Iowa
Topic:
Simulations of the Dynamic and Thermodynamics of Room Temperature Ionic
Liquids
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Thursday,
December 7th
11:00 AM CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room/Bldg. #091)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Ms. Emily Potts
Advisor: Professor Philip DeShong
University of Maryland
Topic: To be
Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - 1207
ERB
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
2:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room/Bldg. #091)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Dissertation Seminar
Speaker: Mr. Shenghu Zhou
Advisor: Professor Bryan Eichhorn
University of Maryland
Topic: Architecture
Controlled Bimetallic Nanoparticles for Heterogeneous Catalysis http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Friday,
December 8th
Notice: Acad. Evgeny Velikhov is visiting campus.
Acad. Velikhov is the President of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy.
He is also Chairman of the Development Board for the International Thermonuclear
Pilot Reactor (ITER),
and a Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (see
http://www.kiae.ru/eng/str/direct/vep.htm
for more details). During his visit he will give a seminar and a
public lecture:
1 1:00-Noon
- 1207 ERB
Topic: Magneto-rotational Instability
3:30-4:30 PM 1110 Kim Engingeering Bldg.
Topic: Energy Security and the
Russian Role .
Monday, December
11th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Marco Colombini
Biology Department , UMCP
Topic: Ceramide Channels
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar (AGU )
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
December 12th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
(As in the past, each seminar will be preceded by an informal cafeteria
lunch to which all are welcome,
departing from Room 2100B about five minutes after 12:00 Noon.)
Speaker: Daphne A. Fuentevilla
Department of Chemical Engineering, UMCP
Topic: Modeling Voluntary
Segregation Among People: An 'Agent-Based' Approach
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Jing Zou
Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical
Modeling, UMCP
Topic: The Super
Fast Spectral Method for Multiscale PDEs
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
No Seminar
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
December 13th
2:00 PM - 4122 CSIC (#406)
CSCAMM
No Seminar
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall06/index.htm
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room, Lower Level, LPS
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
No Seminar
Thursday,
December 14th
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112
No Seminar
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - 127 ERB
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
Friday, Demcember
15th
No
Seminars
Monday, December
18th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
December 19th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
No Seminar
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
December 20th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (#406)
CSCAMM
No Seminar.
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall06/index.htm
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room, Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740 (301)935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
No Seminar
Thursday,
December 21st
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
No Seminar
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - ERB 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday,
December 22nd
No Seminars
Next Week
University Closed - Holiday Break
Return on January 2, 2007
No Seminars Scheduled
Monday, January
8th - Friday, January 12th
No Seminars Scheduled
Monday, January
15th - Friday, January 19th
No Seminars Scheduled
Monday, January
22nd - Friday, January 26th
No Seminars Scheduled
END OF
SEMESTER
Updated
2/19/07
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