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Colloquium: “Novel Material Platforms and Transdimensional Lattices for Metaphotonic Devices” – February 5, 2019, at 2:00 PM
Viktoriia Babicheva, PhD, College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona George P. Williams, Jr. Lecture Hall, (Olin 101) Tuesday, February 5, 2019, at 2:00 PM There will be a reception with refreshments at 1:30 PM in the lounge. All interested persons are cordially invited to attend. ABSTRACT Optical metamaterials are three-dimensional structures with rationally designed […]
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Colloquium: “Wearable Smart Interfaces: A Pervasive Power Interaction with the Environment” Thursday, January 24, 2019, at 2:00 PM
Jun Chen, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University George P. Williams, Jr. Lecture Hall, (Olin 101) Wednesday, January 24, 2018, at 2:00 PM There will be a reception with refreshments at 1:30 PM in the lounge. All interested persons are cordially invited to attend. ABSTRACT Energy crises and global […]
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Colloquium: “Gravitational Wave Astrophysics: A New Era of Discovery.” – January 23, 2019, at 4:00 PM
Jessica McIver, PhD, Senior Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics, Caltech George P. Williams, Jr. Lecture Hall, (Olin 101) Wednesday, January 23, 2018, at 4:00 PM There will be a reception with refreshments at 3:30 PM in the lounge. All interested persons are cordially invited to attend. ABSTRACT Large-scale interferometric detectors including LIGO and Virgo sense gravitational waves; minuscule fluctuations […]
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Masters Defense: “Assessing Mutations In a Zinc Finger Domain of NF-ΚB Essential Modulator (Nemo) Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations” – Friday, November 30, 2018
Terra Dwayne Colvin, Jr., Masters Candidate, Public Presentation in Olin Physical Laboratory, Room #107 Friday, November 30, 2018, at 2:30 PM Fred Salsbury, PhD, Advisor The defense will follow. ABSTRACT Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations permit the probing of biomolecular systems in both high spatial and temporal resolution. Advances in computing power and techniques combined with […]
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Colloquium: “Probing electronic and magnetic interactions at complex-oxide interfaces” – Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 4:00 PM
Professor Divine Kumah, Department of Physics, North Carolina State University George P. Williams, Jr. Lecture Hall, (Olin 101) Wednesday, November 28, 2018, at 4:00 PM There will be a reception with refreshments at 3:30 PM in the lounge. All interested persons are cordially invited to attend. ABSTRACT Complex oxide materials provide a wide range of […]
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Masters Defense: “Interactions Between Heme-Globins and Ligands” – Tuesday, November 20, 2018, at 10:00 AM
Lauren Nelson, Masters Candidate, Public Presentation in ZSR Library, Auditorium Tuesday, November 20, 2018, at 10:00 AM Dany Kim-Shapiro, PhD, and Sam Cho, PhD, Advisors The defense will follow. ABSTRACT Neuroglobin (Ngb) is a hexacoordinated heme protein closely related to hemoglobin (Hb) and myoglobin (Mb) and normally found in the brain and nervous systems. To […]
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Colloquium: “Why does hydronium diffuse faster than hydroxide in liquid water? An accurate first-principles’ modeling of H-bond structure and proton transfer in liquid water” – Wednesday, November 14, 2018, at 4:00 PM
Professor Xifan Wu, Temple University George P. Williams, Jr. Lecture Hall, (Olin 101) Wednesday, November 7, 2018, at 4:00 PM There will be a reception with refreshments at 3:30 PM in the lounge. All interested persons are cordially invited to attend. ABSTRACT Proton transfer via hydronium and hydroxide ions in water is ubiquitous. It underlies […]
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Colloquium: “Energy Landscapes for Protein Folding and Misfolding” Dr. Peter Wolynes, Wednesday, October 31, 2018, at 4:00 PM
Dr. Peter G. Wolynes, Bullard-Welch Foundation Professor of Science; Professor of Chemistry, MSNE, and Physics and Astronomy at Rice University, George P. Williams, Jr. Lecture Hall, (Olin 101) Wednesday, October 31, 2018, at 4:00 PM (Colloquium sponsored jointly with WFU Dept. of Chemistry) There will be a reception with refreshments at 3:30 PM in the […]
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Colloquium: “The Mechanical and Structural Properties of Fibrin Fibers” – Wednesday, October 17, 2018, at 4PM
Professor Martin Guthold, Department of Physics, Wake Forest University George P. Williams, Jr. Lecture Hall, (Olin 101) Wednesday, October 17, 2018, at 4:00 PM There will be a reception with refreshments at 3:30 PM in the lounge. All interested persons are cordially invited to attend. ABSTRACT Blood coagulation leads to the formation of a blood […]
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Colloquium: Reality, Truth, and Objectivity: Reflections on Steven Weinberg’s “Against Philosophy” – Wednesday, October 10, 2018, at 4PM
Professor Gordon Brittan, Montana State University George P. Williams, Jr. Lecture Hall, (Olin 101) Wednesday, October 10, 2018, at 4:00 PM There will be a reception with refreshments at 3:30 PM in the lounge. All interested persons are cordially invited to attend. ABSTRACT In Dreams of a Final Theory, Steven Weinberg writes that “Today’s scientists” […]