Colloquium Schedule, Fall 2008

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
11th
18th,
9th Annual Biophysical Retreat,
Wadsworth Mansion
421 Wadsworth St,
Middletown, CT, 4pm.		 Dr. Taekjip Ha,
Department of Physics and Center for Biophysics and
Computational Biology,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign		 "Shedding Light on helicase mechanisms one molecule at a time"
25th Chair's Colloquium State of the Department
October
2nd Sergey Buldyrev,
Yeshiva University. 		"Can spherically symmetrical potential explain water anomalies?"
9th Eric Dufresne
Yale University.		 Applying and Measuring Forces to Microscopic Objects with Light
16th
23rd

Professor Elizabeth McCormack
Bryn Mawr

The Detection and Analysis of Long-Range Double-Well States of Molecular Hydrogen
30th    
November
6th  
13th Professor Bruce M. Boghosian
  Department of Mathematics,
Department of Computer Science
Tufts University		 "A Dynamical Systems Approach to Turbulence"
20th Oleg Gang
Brookhaven National Laboratories		 "Assembly of Nano-systems via Biomolecular Encoding"
December
4th Professor Sanat K. Kumar
Department of Chemical Engineering
Columbia University		 "Anisotropic Self-Assembly of Spherical Nanoparticles"

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