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IPST WEEKLY CALENDAR - FALL 2007
Thursday,
June 7th
12:15 PM - Room 1207, Energy Research Facility
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Wally Manheimer
NRL
Topic:
To be Announced
Thursday,
June 14th
12:15 PM - Room 1207, Energy Research Facility
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Alexander Lobkhovsky
MIT
Topic:
Channels in Wet Sand Incised by Subsurface Water Flow
Tuesday,
July 10
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
12.30 PM - 1207, Energy Research Facility
Speaker: Bruce Buffett
Department of Geophysical Sciences, University
of Chicago
Topic: Numerical
Models of Planetary Dynamos
Host:
Dan Lathrop
Thursday,
August 9
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
12.15 PM - 1207, Energy Research Facility
Speaker 1: Viktor Nagy
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: Controlling
Rare Intensive Events in Spatiotemporally Chaotic Systems
Host:
Ed Ott
Questions about the seminar should be sent to wlosert@umd.edu
and
Speaker 2: Claire Christensen, Penn State
Topic:: Disease Dynamics
on a Dynamic Social Network: Measles as a Case Study
Host:
Michelle Girvan
Friday, August
10
SPACE & COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
4 PM - IPST 4301
Speaker: Professor Jae Yu
University of Texas, Arlington
Title: Development
of Digital Hadron Calorimeter for the International Linear Collider
Using Gas Electron Multiplier
Wednesday,
August 15th
SPECIAL SUMMER SEMINAR
11:00 AM - 1105 Kim Bldg. (Pepco Room)
Speaker: Robert S. Marks
Department of Biotechnology Engineering
The National Institue for Biotechnology in the Negev
The Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Topic: Development
of Chemiluminescent Optical Fiber Immuno-Sensors to Viral Antigens
Monday, September
3rd
LABOR DAY/UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY
No Seminars
Tuesday,
September 4th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Janusz Holyst
Faculty of Physics - Warsaw University of Technology
- Warsaw, Poland
Topic: Phase Transitions
and Scaling in Complex Networks
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Jose Manuel Cascon Barbero
Departmento de Matematicas - Facultad de Ciencias
- 37008 Salamanca
Topic: Quasi-Optimal
Convergence Rates for AFEM
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,
September 5th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Uri Keich
Computer Science Department - Cornell University
Topic: Estimating
the Significance of Sequence Motifs
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740, (301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
No Seminar
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
No Seminar
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Thursday,
September 6th
12:15 PM - ERF 1207 (Energy Research Facility)
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Tom Solomon
Bucknell University
Topic: Fronts
and Patterns in Advection-Reaction- Diffusion Systems
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday,
September 7th
SPECIAL SEMINAR
10:30 AM - ERF1207 (Energy Research Facility)
Speaker: Dr. Karo Ispiryan
Yerevan Physics Institute - Yerevan, Armenia
Title:
The Production and Study of Femtosecond Electron and X-Ray Bunches with
the
Help of Laser Beams:Femtosecond Oscilloscopes
1:00 PM - 2108 CHEM
& NUCLEAR ENGR. Bldg.
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker: Dr. Theodosia Gougousi
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, UMBC
Topic: Deposition
and Properties of Metal Oxide Films Formed by Atomic Layer Deposition
and
Supercritical CO2 Assisted Deposition
Monday, September
10th
4:00 PM - 1116 IPST Bldg.
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Joseph A. Nuth
Goddard Space Flight Center
Topic: Laboratory
Astrophysics is Not An Oxymoron
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
September 11th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Edward Ott
Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic: The Onset
of Coherence in Large Networks of Coupled Heterogeneous Oscillators
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Constantin Bacuta
University of Delaware
Topic: Schur
Complements on Hilbert Spaces and Saddle Point Systems
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Dr. Dan Ralph
Cornell University
Topic: Dynamics
and Spectroscopy in Nanoscale Magnetic Devices
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
September 12th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Siddhartha Mishra
Centre of Mathematics for Applications, University
of Oslo
Topic: Finite Volume
Methods for Wave Propagation in Stratified Magneto-Atmospheres
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740, (301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
No Seminar
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
No Seminar
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Thursday,
September 13th
12:15 PM - ERF 1207 (Energy Research Facility)
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: To be Announced
Topic: To be
Announced
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday,
September 14th
1:00 PM - 2108 CHEM & NUCLEAR ENGR. Bldg.
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker: Dr. Ian M. Anderson
National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST), Gaithersburg, MD
Topic: LACSBI: A New
Method for Quantitative TEM Imaging of Complex and Nanostructured
Material
Monday, September
17th
4:00 PM - 1116 IPST Bldg.
Speaker Professor Edward H. Egleman
University of Virginia, Department of Biochemistry
& Molecular Genetics
Topic: Polymorphic
Perversity in Protein Polymers
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Aron Roberts
Goddard Space Flight Center
Topic: The Complexity
of the Heliospheric Magnetic Field: Fisk vs. Parker
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
September 18th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Ludmil Zikatanov
Pennsylvania State University
Topic: Uniform Preconditioning
for Nearly Singular Elliptic Problems
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Paulo Bedaque
University of Maryland
Topic: Quarks,
Gluons and Nuclear Forces
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
September 19th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Arthur Cheng
CSCAMM, UMCP
Topic: Free Boundary
Problems: Viscous Fluids Interacting with Elastic Shells
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740, (301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
No Seminar
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
No Seminar
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Thursday,
September 20th
12:15 PM - ERF 1207 (Energy Research Facility)
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
speaker: Daniel Blair
Georgetown University
Topic: Colloids in Action:
Microscopic Insights into Clogging and Jamming
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday, September
21st
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR SERIES
1 PM - 2108 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
Speaker: Dr. Mariano Anderle
FBK-IRST, Trento, Italy
Topic: Surface
and Thin Film Analysis I: Solving Real Problems in Materials, Nano, and
Bio
SPECIAL EVENT:
Fall Open House at the Institute for Physical Science and
Technology Biophysics Laboratories
Friday, September 21, 2007
2:00 p.m. - Presentations
3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. - Laboratory Tours
I.P.S.T. - Building #85
Featured Presenters:
Dr. Arthur LaPorta
Dr. Arpita Upadhyaya
Directions: http://www.umd.edu/visitors/#directions
and
http://www.umd.edu/visitors/parking.html
Monday, September
24th
1:30-6:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
RUSSELL MARKER SYMPOSIUM
1:30-2:30 PM
Speaker: Philip A. Anfinrud
Topoif: Watching Proteins
Function with Time-Resolved X-ray Crytallography and
Time-Resolved Wide-angle X-ray Scattering
2:30-3:30 PM
Speaker: Geore H. Lorimer
Topic: Tinerking with
a Protein Folding Machine
3:30-4:00
PM Coffee Break
4:00 PM MARKER LECTURE
Speaker: Harry B. Gray
Beckman Institute, California Institute
of Technology
Topic: Mapping Protein Folding
Landscapes
5:00-6:00 PM Reception
4:30
PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
September 25th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Michael E. Fisher
Institute for Physical Science and Technology,
UMCP
Topic: Atoms
and Ions: Universality, Singularity and Particularity; Boltzmann's
Vision
a Century Later
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Nail A. Gumerov
Fantalgo, LLC and the University of Maryland,
College Park
Topic: Terascale
on the Desktop: Fast Multipole Methods on Graphical Processors
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Mike Syphers
Fermi National Accerlator Laboratory
Topic: Accelerating
Charged Particles to High Energy - - Past, Present & Future
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
September 26th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Kenneth B. Eisenthal
Columbia University
Topic: Nanoparticles
to Microparticles to Live Nerve Cells in Brain Tissue
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122
(Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Refreshments @ 3:00 PM
Speaker: Professor Luminita Vese
Department of Mathematics, UCLA
Topic: Minimization Models
and Algorithms for Image Segmentation, Image Decomposition,
and Texture Modeling
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740, (301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Refreshments @ 3:30 PM
Speaker: Gislin Dagnelie
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Topic: Prosthetic
Vision for the Blind: The Future in Sight?
Thursday,
September 27th
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Mr. Dennis Mayo
UMCP, Student Seminar
Topic: To
be Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - 1207,
Energy Research Facility
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Samuel Zambrano
Topic: Safe
Sets for Horseshoe Maps
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday,
September 28th
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR SERIES
1 PM - 2108 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
Speaker: Dr. Mariano Anderle
FBK-IRST, Trento, Italy
Topic: Surface and
Thin Film Analysis II: Solving Real Problems in Materials, Nano, and Bio
3:30 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Luis A. Echegoyen
National Science Foundation
Topic: Chemical
and Electrochemical Properties of Fullerness and Endohedral Fullerness
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Monday, September 24th
1:30-6:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
RUSSELL MARKER SYMPOSIUM
1:30-2:30 PM
Speaker: Philip A. Anfinrud
Topoif: Watching Proteins
Function with Time-Resolved X-ray Crytallography and
Time-Resolved Wide-angle X-ray Scattering
2:30-3:30 PM
Speaker: Geore H. Lorimer
Topic: Tinerking with
a Protein Folding Machine
3:30-4:00 PM Coffee Break
4:00 PM MARKER LECTURE
Speaker: Harry B. Gray
Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology
Topic: Mapping Protein
Folding Landscapes
5:00-6:00 PM Reception
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday, September 25th
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 Michael E. Fisher
Institute for Physical Science and Technology,
UMCP
Topic: Atoms
and Ions: Universality, Singularity and Particularity; Boltzmann’s
Vision
a Century Later
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Nail A. Gumerov
Fantalgo, LLC and the University of Maryland,
College Park
Topic: Terascale
on the Desktop: Fast Multipole Methods on Graphical Processors
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Mike Syphers
Fermi National Accerlator Laboratory
Topic: Accelerating
Charged Particles to High Energy - - Past, Present & Future
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday, September 26th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Kenneth B. Eisenthal
Columbia University
Topic: Nanoparticles
to Microparticles to Live Nerve Cells in Brain Tissue
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Refreshments @ 3:00 PM
Speaker: Professor Luminita Vese
Department of Mathematics, UCLA
Topic: Minimization
Models and Algorithms for Image Segmentation, Image Decomposition,
and Texture Modeling
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar Room Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740, (301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Refreshments @ 3:30 PM
Speaker: Gislin Dagnelie
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Topic: Prosthetic
Vision for the Blind: The Future in Sight?
For further information, contact Dr. David Elsaesser (301-935-6479) or
Dr. Danilo Romero(301)-935-6475.
Thursday, September 27th
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Mr. Dennis Mayo
UMCP, Student Seminar
Topic: To
be Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - 1207, Energy Research Facility
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Samuel Zambrano
Topic: Safe
Sets for Horseshoe Maps
For Further information contact: Wolfgang Losert, Coordinator
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday, September 28th
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR SERIES
1 PM - 2108 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
Speaker: Dr. Mariano Anderle
FBK-IRST, Trento, Italy
Topic: Surface and
Thin Film Analysis II: Solving Real Problems in Materials, Nano, and Bio
3:30 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Luis A. Echegoyen
National Science Foundation
Topic: Chemical
and Electrochemical Properties of Fullerness and Endohedral Fullerness
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Monday, October
1st
4:00PM*
Room 1116, IPST Bldg.
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
(*Refreshments at 3:45 PM)
Speaker: Matthew
Thompson
Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: Long-Distance
Osmotic Behavior of the Sugar-
transporting Vascular System in Plants, the
Phloem.
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
For further
information contact: Dr. Thirumalai, Coordinator
4:30 PM*
CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
(*Tea and Cookies 4:00-4:30 PM)
Speaker: Antonio
Codino
INFN and University of Perugia, Italy
Topic: A Solution
of the Knee and Ankle Problem in
the Cosmic Ray Spectrum
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
October 2nd
11:00AM
Marker Seminar Room (Chem 0112)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor
Zheng Huang
Georgia Tech
Topic: TBAhttp://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM
IPST Building Room 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: Dr. Zhonghan
Hu
IPST, University of Maryland
Topic: Transport
Properties, Optical Response and
Slow Dynamics of Ionic Liquids.
For further information contact:
Professor Christopher Jarzynski cjarzyns@umd.edu
(301)-405-4439
Professor John Weeks jdw@ipst.umd.edu
(301)-405-4802
Professor Michelle Girvan girvan@umd.edu
(301)-405-1610
3:30PM
MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Prof. Howard
Elman
Computer Science Department, UMCP
Topic: Fast Iterative
Solution of Models of
Incompressible Flow
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminar
4:00 PM*
PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Boris Altshuler
Columbia University
Topic: Many-Body
Localization.
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday, October 3rd
11:00AM
Marker Seminar Room (Chem 0112)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor
Doug Doren
University of Delaware
Topic: Molecular
Electronics on Silicon Surfaces.
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
2:00PM
CSIC Bldg. (#406), Room 4122
CSCAMM
(*Refreshments served at 3:00pm)
Speaker: Professor
Richard James
Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
University of Minnesota
Topic: Lessons on
Structure from the Structure of
Viruses.
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30PM
Seminar Room Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive
College Park, Md 20740
(301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
(Refreshments served at 3:00pm)
Speaker: TBA
Topic: TBA
For further information
please contact Dr. Michael Mandelberg (301-935-3151) or Dr. Bob Anderson
(301-405-6142).
Thursday,
October 4th
11:00AM
Marker Seminar Room (Chem 0112)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor
Scott Gilbertson
University of Texas Medical Branch,
Galveston, TX
Topic: Projects in
Diversity – and Target-Oriented
Synthesis; From Plague to Schizophrenia.
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15PM
Room 1207, Energy Research Facility
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Shmuel Fishman
Technion
Topic: Anderson Localization for the Nonlinear
Schroedinger Equation (NLS): Results and
Puzzles.
For Further information contact: Wolfgang Losert, Coordinator
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday, October 5th
11:00AM
Marker Seminar Room (Chem 0112)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor
Jiwoong Park
Cornell University
Topic: Studying Nanostructures
with Light –
Massively Parallel Characterization of
Individual Carbon Nanotubes.
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:00 PM
Rm. 2108, Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker: Dr. Ho Cheol
Kim
Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research
Center
650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120
Topic: Block Copolymer
Solutions for
Nanostructures: Electronics and Energy
Applications
Monday, October
8th
4:00 PM - 1116 IPST Bldg.
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: To be Announced
Topic: To be Announced
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar - Columbus Day
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday, October 9th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Mr. Brian Wilkins
University of Maryland, Colelge Park
Topic: To be Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - 1116 IPST Bldg.
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Adam Oberman
Simon Frazer University, Canada
Topic: Fully Nonlinear
Second Order Elliptic Partial Differential Equations:
Numerics and Game Interpretations
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Anatoly Spitkovsky
Princeton University
Topic: Magnetic Fields
and Particle Acceleration in Collisionless Shocks
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday, October 10th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor N.J. Tao
Arizona State University
Topic: Controlling Charge
Transport in Single Molecule
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
2:00 PM - 4122 CSIC Bldg. (#406)
CSCAMM SEINAR
Speaker: Dr. Amit Singer
Department of Mathematics
Topic: Geometric Inversion
Problems with Case Studies in Structural Biology and Sensor Networks
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar Room Lower Level, LPS, 8050 Greenmead Drive, College
Park, Md 20740
(301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Michael G. Taylor
Atlantic Sciences
Topic: Coherent Detection
for Fiber Optic Networks
For further information, contact Dr. Michael Mandelberg (301-935-3151)
or Dr. Bob Anderson (301-405-6142).
Thursday, October 11th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Christian Melander
North Carolina State University
Topic: Chemical Control
of Bacterial Biofilms
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - 1207 Energy Research Facility
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
For further information, contact: Wolfgang Losert, Coordinator.
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Abul Hassam
George Mason University, Chemistry Department
Topic: To be Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Friday,
October 12th
JOINT MATH/CSCAMM SEMINAR
3:00 PM - MTH 3206
Speaker: Professor Nira Dyn
School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel-Aviv
University
Topic: Subdivision
Schemes for the Refinement of Geometric Objects
If you would like to meet with Professor Dyn, please contact Agi Alipio
at aalipio@cscamm.umd.edu
Monday, October
15th
4:00 PM - 1116 IPST Bldg.
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Antoinette Galvin
University of New Hampshire
Topic: To
be Announced
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
October 16th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Ms. Melissa Resto
Student Seminar, UMCP
Topic: To be Announced
(Stereo/Plastic)
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - 1116 IPST
Bldg.
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Hal Tasaki
Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan
Topic: The Hubbard
Model and the Origin of Ferromagnetism
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor John Osborn
Department of Mathematics, UMCP
Topic: Quadrature
for Meshless Methods
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Aharon Kapitulnik
Stanford University
Topic: Search for
Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry States in Novel Superconductors
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
October 17th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Diego Troya
Virginia Tech
Topic: Making Progress
Towards the Description of the Dynamics of Large Chemical Reactions
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:00 PM - 4122 CSIC
Bldg. (#406) - Please note change of time.
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Istvan Szunyogh
Institute for Physical Science and Technology,
UMCP
Topic: Development
of a Data Assimilation System to Estimate the State of Large Spatio-
Temporally Chaotic Systems
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS, 8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Md 20740
(301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Tom Solomon
Bucknell University
Topic: Pattern Formation
and Front Propagation in Reacting Systems with Chaotic Mixing
For further information, contact Dr. Michael Mandelberg (301-935-3151)
or Dr. Bob Anderson (301-405-6142).
Thursday,
October 18th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Ms. Deana Jaber
Student Seminar, UMCP
Topic: Nucleophilic
Carbenes
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - 1207
Energy Research Facility
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Francesco Sorrentino
University of Naples Federico II
Topic: Controllability
of Complex Networks via Pinning
For further information, contact: Wolfgang Losert, Coordinator.
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday,
October 19th
1:00 PM - 2108, Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker: Prof. Do Yeung Yoon
Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University,
Korea
Topic: Surface
and Thin Film Characteristics of Polymer Melts from
Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Simulations
For more information, contact Annette Mateus at (301) 405-5207 or
amateus@umd.edu.
Monday, October
22nd
4:00 PM - 1116 IPST Bldg.
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Nicole LaRonde-LeBlanc
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMCP
Topic: To be Announced
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: James Carbary
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Topic: Adventures
at Saturn – New Results from the Cassini/MIMI Instrument
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
October 23rd
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Mr. William Shadrick
Student Seminar, UMCP
Topic: Protein Arginine
Deiminase 4 (PAD4): From Gene Regulation to Rheumatoid Arthritis
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - 1116 IPST
Bldg.
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Andriy Anishkin
Department of Biology, UMCP
Topic: Bypassing
Limitations of Conventional MD in Studies of Ion Channel Gating
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Shawn Walker
Courant Institute
Topic: Modeling
and Simulating the Fluid Dynamics of Electrowetting on Dielectric (EWOD)
with Contact Line Friction
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Sankar Das Sarma
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: Computing with
Quantum Knots: Non-Abelian Anyons and Topological Quantum Computation
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
October 24th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Ed Castner
Rutgers University
Topic: Physical Chemistry
and Ionic Liquids
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - 1207 Energy
Research Facility
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: James Yorke
Department of Mathematics, Physics, and IPST,
UMCP
Topic: Simple
Systems Without Lyapunov Exponents
Questions about the seminar should be sent to wlosert@umd.edu
2:00 PM - 4122 CSIC
Bldg. (#406) - Please note change of time.
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor David Jacobs
Computer Science, UMCP
Topic: Modeling Lighting
to Capture the Variability of Images
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS, 8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Md 20740
(301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Da-Lin Zhang
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: Numerical Simulation
of Hurricane Bonnie (1998)
Thursday,
October 25th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Henri Brunner (Tentative)
Institut fur Anorganische Chemie, Universitat
Regensburg, Germany
Topic: To be Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - 1207
Energy Research Facility
APPLIED DYNAMICS
SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday,
October 26th
No Seminars
Monday, October
29th
4:00 PM - 1116 IPST Bldg.
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Kara Hoffman
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: The IceCube
Neutrino Observatory
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
October 30th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Xue-Ping Fang
Student Seminar, UMCP
Topic: To be Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - 1116 IPST
Bldg.
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Doron Levy
Department of Mathematics and CSCAMM, UMCP
Topic: Numerical Methods
for Nonlinear Dispersive Equations
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Steve Fetter
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: Climate Change
and the Future of Nuclear Energy
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
October 31st
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Dan Chipman
University of Notre Dame
Topic: Incorporation
of a Dielectric Continuum Model of Solvation into Electronic Structure
Theory
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
2:00 PM - 4122 CSIC
Bldg. (#406) - Please note change of time.
CSCAMM SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS, 8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Md 20740
(301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Rupert Lewis
Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic: State Readout
and the dc-Squid Phase Qubit
Thursday,
November 1st
12:15 PM - 1207 Energy Research Facility
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: James A. Yorke
Department of Mathematics, Physics, and I.P.S.T.,
UMCP
Topic: Simple
Systems Without Lyapunov Exponents
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
1:00-4:30
PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
RUSSELL MARKER SYMPOSIUM
1:00-2:00 PM
Speaker: Professor Marcus Weck
New York University
Topic: Multifunctional
Materials via Self-Assembly
2:00-3:00 PM
Speaker: Professor Jeffery Davis
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: Functional
Assemblies from Nucleobases: Synthetic Ion Carriers and Channels
3:30-4:30 PM
Speaker: Professor Julius Rebek, Jr.
Scripps Research Institute
Topic: The Inner Space
of Molecules
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Friday, November
2nd
3:00
PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Ms. Qing Zhu
Student Seminar, UMCP
Topic: Metal-Mediated
Activation of Hydrogen Peroxide and Dioxygen by
Dinuclear Copper Complexes
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Monday, November
5th
4:00 PM - 1116 IPST Bldg.
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Ralph McNutt, Jr
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Topic: MESSENGER Results
from Venus Flyby 2
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
November 6th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Carol Greider
Johns Hopkins University
Topic: To be Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - 1116 IPST
Bldg.
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. John Angle
Inequality Process Institute, Maryland
Topic: A Stochastic
Generator Mimicking Wealth-Income Dynamics?
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Jean Luc Guermond
Texas A&M University
Topic: Nonlinear Approximation
in L1
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Kevin Lesko
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Topic: Underground
Science Opportunities at Sanford Laboratory: Status of South Dakota/
NSF Efforts Towards a Deep Underground S &
E Lab at Homestake
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
November 7th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Pat Kambhampati
McGill University
Topic: Ultrafast Dynamics
in Nanoscale Semiconductors
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
2:00 PM - 4122 CSIC
Bldg. (#406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Bala Balachandran
Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMCP
Topic: Microsystems:
Mechanics and Nonlinear Phenomena
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS, 8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Md 20740
(301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: David Schurig
North Carolina State University
Topic: The Transformation
Design Method and Metamaterials: Tools to Realize Invisibility,
Near-Field Magnification and Other Interesting
Effects
Thursday,
November 8th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Mr. Lei Yan
Student Seminar, UMCP
Topic: Bioorthagonal
Chemical Reporter
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - 1207 Energy
Research Facility
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Chris Wiggins
Columbia University
Topic: To be
Announced
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Michael Cann
Scranton University, Chemistry Department
Topic: To be
Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Friday, November
9th
1:00 PM - 2108 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker: Professor Howard E. Katz
Department of Materials Science and
Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Topic: Interfacial
and Nanostructural Enhancements in Organic Semiconductor Sensors and Diodes
Monday, November
12th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Peter B. O'Connor
Boston University School of Medicine
Topic: Fourier
Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry:
Improvements and Applications
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
4:00 PM - 1116 IPST
Bldg.
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Anjum Ansari
University of Illinois at Chicago, Department
of Physics
Topic: Dynamics
of Protein-DNA Interactions Probed with Laser Temperature-Jump: Role
of DNA “Bendability” in Site-Specific
Recognition
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
November 13th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
No Seminar
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - 1116 IPST
Bldg.
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
No Seminar - See Thursday @ 3:30 PM
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Robert Grober
Yale University
Topic: When Obsessions
Collide: Physics and Golf
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
November 14th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Latha Venkataraman
Columbia University
Topic: Conductance
of Single Molecule Junctions Using Amine-Gold Linkages
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
2:00 PM - 4122 CSIC
Bldg. (#406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Michelle Girvan
Department of Physics and IPST, UMCP
Topic: Finding,
Evaluating, and Generating Community Structure in Complex Networks
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS, 8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Md 20740
(301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
No Seminar
Thursday,
November 15th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Ayusmen Sen
Pennsylvania State University
Topic: Autonomous
Nanoscale Motion Through Catalysis
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - 1207 Energy
Research Facility
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
For further information, contact: Wolfgang Losert, Coordinator.
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
FOURTH
ANNUAL BURGERS SYMPOSIUM
BURGERS PROGRAM FOR FLUID DYNAMICS
1:00 - 5:30 PM - Jeong H. Kim Engineering Bldg. (Kay Boardroom/1107 &
1111)
Speaker: Detlef Lohse - Burgers Lecture
University of Twente
Topic: Zipping Wetting
- and Other Surface Phenomena
Speaker: Da-Lin Zhang
Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UMCP
Topic: Quasi-Balance
Hurricane Dynamics
Speaker: Cila Herman
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Johns
Hopkins University
Topic: Quantitative
Visualization of Oscillatory and Pulsatile Flows Using Temperature
Speaker: Jim Wallace
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & IPST, UMCP
Topic: Twenty Years
of Access to the Velocity Gradient Tensor: What Have We learned
about Turbulence
Graduate Student and Post-Doc Poster Session and Reception
http://www.burgers.umd.eduwww.burgers.umd
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
APPLIED MATH COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Professor Albert Cohen
Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Universite Pierre
et Marie Curie, Paris
Topic: Near
Optimal Recovery of Arbitrary Signals from Uncomplete Measurements
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
Friday,
November 16th
12:00 PM - 2242 H.J. Patterson Building
CELL BIOLOGY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Speaker: Professor Marat Yusupov
IGBMC Strasburg
Topic: To be
Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
3:00 PM - MTH 3206
AZIZ LECTURE
Speaker: Professor Albert Cohen
Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Universite
Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
Topic: Adaptive
Approximation by Greedy Alforithms
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
Monday, November
19th
4:00 PM - 1116 IPST Bldg.
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Marius Clore
Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National
Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases,
National Institutes of Health
Topic: Visualizing
Transient Low-population Intermediates by Paramagnetic Relaxation Enhancement
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
November 20th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Jun Liu
Johns Hopkins University
Topic: To be Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - 1116 IPST
Bldg.
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Caio Lewenkopt
Topic: Bose and
Fermi Quantum Fluids with Critical d-Wave Correlations
For further information contact:
Professor Christopher Jarzynski cjarzyns@umd.edu - 301)-405-4439
Professor John Weeks jdw@ipst.umd.edu - (301)-405-4802
Professor Michelle Girvan girvan@umd.edu - (301)-405-1610
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Shi Jin
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Topic: Computations of
Multivalued Solutions in Nonlinear PDEs
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Richard Slusher
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Topic: Designing Large
Entangled Trapped Ion State s
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
November 21st
2:00 PM - 4122 CSIC Bldg. (406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
NO SEMINAR - - THANKSGIVING BREAK
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS, 8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Md 20740
(301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
No Seminar
Thursday,
November 22nd
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
No Seminar - - Thanksgiving Break
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - 1207 Energy
Research Facility
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar - - Thanksgiving Break
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday, November
23rd
No Seminar - - Thanksgiving Break
Monday, November
26th
4:00 PM - 1116 IPST Bldg.
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Matthew J. Lang
Department of Biological Engineering, Department
of Mechanical Engineering. M.I.T.
Topic: Advances in
Single Molecule Biophysics and Measurements of Kinesin and Actin Machinery
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Jack Tueller
Goddard Space Flight Center
Topic: Hard
X-ray Surveys: A census of Black Holes
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
November 27th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Dr. Dolph Hatfield
NCI, NIH
Topic: To be Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - 1116 IPST
Bldg.
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Matthew Fisher
Microsoft, Station Q, University of California,
Santa Barbara
Topic: Bose
and Fermi Quantum Fluids with Critical d-Wave Correlations
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Wojciech Zurek
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Topic: Relative States
and the Environment: Quantum Theory of the Classical
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
November 28th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Robert Walker
Department of Chemistry, UMCP
Topic: Structure
and Solvation at Liquid Interfaces: A Molecular Balancing Act
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
2:00 PM - 4122 CSIC
Bldg. (406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Kenneth Karlsen
Centre of Mathematics for Applications,
University of Olso
Topic: Convergent
Numerical Schemes for the Camassa- Holm Equation
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS, 8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Md 20740;
(301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCE
Speaker: Puru Jena
Virginia Commonwealth University
Topic: Materials
Issues in a New Hydrogen Economy
Thursday,
November 29th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Student Seminar
Speaker: Mr. Derick Lucas
Student Seminar
Topic: To be
Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - 1207 Energy
Research Facility
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Gregg Lois
Yale University
Topic: The
Jamming Transition in Systems With Attraction .
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday, November
30th
No Seminars
Monday, December
3rd
4:00 PM - 1116 IPST Bldg.
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Howard L. Brockman
Biophysics, Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, Austin
Topic: Independent Regulation
of Phospholipid Packing and Electrostatics by
Chain Polyunsaturation and Other Structural Features
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Russell A. Howard
Naval Research Laboratory
Topic: To be
Announced
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
December 4th
1:15 PM - 1116 IPST Bldg.
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Danny Kosov
Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMCP
Topic: Electron Transport
Through Molecules
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor George Hsiao
University of Delaware
Topic: Boundary
Element Methods for the Last 30 Years
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Sean Carroll
California Institute of Technology
Topic: Why is the
Past Different from the Future?
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
December 5th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Heather Allen
Ohio State University
Topic: Air-Aqueous
Interfacial Structure: Lipids, Salts, Acids, and Water
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
2:00 PM - 4122 CSIC
Bldg. (406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Alexander Vladimirsky
Department of Mathematics, Cornell University
Topic: Causality and Efficiency:
Non-Iterative Numerical Methods
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS, 8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Md 20740;
(301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCE
Refreshments @ 3:00 PM
Speaker: Ellen D. Williams
Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic: Human Performance
Thursday,
December 6th
12:15 PM - 1207 Energy Research Facility
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Tom Wanner
George Mason University
Topic: Homological
Analysis of Complicated Random Patterns
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday,
December 7th
1:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Thomas M. Klapotke
Chair, Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians
University of Munich, Germany
Topic: New High-Nitrogen
Compounds as Energetic Ingredients for Propellants,
Propellant Charges and Explosives
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:00 PM - Rm. 2108,
Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker: Dr. Paola Barbara
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Georgetown
University
Topic: Carbon-Nanotube
Field-Effect Transistors as Chemical Sensors
3:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Xiaohong (Nancy) Xu
Old Dominion University
Topic: Design
of Single Nanoparticle Photonics and Biosensors for Real-Time Molecular
Imaging
of Single Living Cells and Embryos
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Monday, December
10th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Dr. Barry C. Thompson
University of California, Berkeley
Topic: Design
of Conjugated Polymers for Solar Cells
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
4:00 PM - 1116 IPST
Bldg.
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Clare Waterman
Chief, Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Morphodynamics
Cell Biology and Physiology Center,
National Heart, Lung And Blood Institute, National
Institutes of Health
Topic: Integrating the
Cytoskeleton with Adhesion in Directed Cell Migration
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
December 11th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Jon Lorsch
Johns Hopkins University
Topic: Probing
the Molecular Mechanics of Start Codon Recognition by the Eukaryotic
Translational Machinery
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - 1116 IPST
Bldg.
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Jodi Basner
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMCP
Topic: Unbiased Estimation
of the Potential of Mean Force
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Manuel Triglio
Department of Physics and CSCAMM, UMCP
Topic: Some
Open Problems in Numerical Relativity
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Christopher Monroe
University of Maryland
Topic: Quantum Networks
and Atomic Action At A Distance
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
December 12th
2:00 PM - 4122 CSIC Bldg. (406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS, 8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Md 20740;
(301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCE
Speaker: James Culver
Center for Biosystems Research, University of Maryland
Biotechnology Institute
Topic: An Infectious Approach
to Biofabrication
Thursday,
December 13th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Mr. Raffaele Perrotta
Student Seminar, UMCP
Topic: Asymmetric
Baeylis-Hillman
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - 1207 Energy
Research Facility
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Semina
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday,
December 14th
No Seminars
Monday, December
17th
4:00 PM - 1116 IPST Bldg.
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Robert Balaban
Laboratory Chief, Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics,
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
(NHLBI)
Topic: The Systems Biology
of the Mammalian Mitochondria
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
December 18th
1:15 PM - 1116 IPST Bldg.
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
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
No Seminar
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