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Fall 2007 Schedule
Seminars take place on Fridays, at noon, in Clarke 210, unless otherwise indicated.
| September 7th | "Safety in the Laboratory" |
| September 14th | Dr. Richard Murray, Department of Earth Sciences, Boston University, "Micronutrient Fe limitation of oceanic biological production in the modern and the past: Potential influences on climate change" |
| September 21st | Dr. Laura Cooley, "Delving into the Nuts and Bolts of the Cytoskeleton: Details of Actin Filaments and Bundles, their Structure and Interactions" |
| September 28th | Dr. Marcelo Gleiser, Department of Physics, Dartmouth College, "What We Know and Don't Know About the Universe" |
| October 5th | Dr. Christopher Lipinski, Melior Discovery, "Medicinal chemists: What are they? Who is good at it? What is the future?" |
| October 12th | "Career Paths for Science Majors" |
| October 19th | Dr. Jenny Hoffman, Department of Physics, Harvard University, TBA |
| October 26th | "Student Research Prospectuses" |
| November 2nd | "Summer Research Opportunities" |
| November 9th | Dr. Robert J. Santoro, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Penn State University |
| November 16th | Dr. Carthene Bazemore-Walker, Department of Chemistry, Brown University |
| November 23rd | Dr. Craig Arnold, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University |
| December 7th | Dr. Theodore Dibble, SUNY College of Environmental Science, "Organic Chemistry in the Atmosphere" |
| December 14th | End-of-semester party |
Spring 2007 Schedule
Seminars take place on Fridays, at noon, in Clarke 210, unless otherwise indicated.
| January 26 | "Ethics in Science" Moderated by Prof. Glênisson de Oliveira, Physical Sciences Dept., RIC |
| February 2 | "Solid State NMR and Materials Characterization" Prof. Luis Smith, Chemistry Dept., Clark University |
| February 9 | "Investigations of Electromigration: An Important
Failure Mechanism in Semiconductor Devices" Prof. David Heskett, Physics Dept., University of Rhode Island |
| February 16 | "Exploring Electron Transfer Dynamics with Density
Functional Theory" Prof. Troy Van Voorhis, Chem. Dept., MIT |
| February 23 | "Sweet Medicine: New Carbohydrate-based Strategies
for Cancer Treatment" Prof. Marc D'Alarcao, Chemistry Dept., Tufts Univ. |
| March 2 | "Bioinorganic Chemistry of Titanium in Medicine and the
Environment" Prof. Anne Valentine, Chemistry Dept., Yale University |
| March 8 Thr. 7:00 pm | Topic: Women in Science Prof. Miaki Ishii, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, Harvard Univ. |
| March 9 Sigma Xi Lect. | "New Technique for Earthquake
Detection: Case Study of the Disastrous Sumatran Earthquake of December 26,
2004" Prof. Miaki Ishii, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, Harvard Univ. |
| March 23 | Topics: Physics of Correlated Electron Systems Prof. Vidya Madhavan, Physics Dept., Boston College |
| March 30 | Science Olympiad Meeting Organized by Prof. Elaine Magyar |
| April 6 | Topic: Pharmacology TBA |
| April 13 | [ORGA NSF workshop] |
| April 20 | "Surprising Conformations of Substituted Acetylenes" Robert Bohn, Chemistry Dept., University of Connecticut |
| April 27 (9 am - 4 pm) | Rhode Island College Research Conference |
| May 4 | Sigma Xi Symposium (Talks and Poster Session) |
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