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 Blümel, 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 View previous Colloquia Schedules