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SCIENCE AT THE EDGE

Traditionally distinct science disciplines are merging to create new and startling opportunities. Share the excitement and challenge each week through seminars and discussions with nationally recognized pioneers in science at the edge

Seminars included on this schedule are in these three series: Interdisciplinary Physics Seminars, Quantitative Biology and Modeling Seminars, and Engineering Seminars.

Fall Semester 2004 @ Michigan State University
  • Seminars begin at 11:30 a.m.
  • Refreshments served at 11:15 a.m.
  • Seminars are in Room 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building.
Friday, September 17
(Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar)

Chong-Yu Ruan, Michigan State University, Physics and Astronomy

Ultrafast Electron Crystallography: An Atomic-Scale Structural and Dynamical Probe for Complex Systems

Friday, September 24
(Quantitative Biology and Modeling Seminar)

Gavin Reid, Michigan State University, Chemistry

Quantitative Proteome Analysis by Stable Isotope Labelling and Mass Spectrometry

Friday, October 1
(Engineering Seminar)

Kenneth S. Schweizer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Departments of Materials Science, Chemistry, and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Structure, Phase Separation, Gelation and Viscoelasticity of Nanoparticle-Polymer Suspensions

Friday, October 8
(Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar)

Martin Caffrey, Ohio State University, Biophysics, Biochemistry and Chemistry

A Lipid's Eye View of Membrane Protein Crystallization in Mesophases

Friday, October 15
(Quantitative Biology and Modeling Seminar)

Gianluigi Veglia, University of Minnesota, Chemistry

Probing Intramembrane Protein-Protein Interactions by NMR Spectroscopy

Friday, October 22
(Quantitative Biology and Modeling Seminar)

Evan Dorn, California Institute of Technology, Computation and Neural Systems

Life Not as We Know It: How Digital Life Can Aid the Search for Extraterrestrial Organisms

Friday, October 29
(Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar)

John Rehr, University of Washington, Seattle, Department of Physics

Unraveling the Mysteries of Complex Systems with X-Ray Spectroscopy: Theory and Computation vs Experiment

Friday, November 5
(Engineering Seminar)

Kathryn Uhrich, Rutgers University

Biodegradable Polymers for Drug Delivery

Friday, November 12
(Quantitative Biology and Modeling Seminar)

Isabel Novella, Medical College of Ohio, Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Peculiarities of RNA Virus Evolution

Friday, November 19
(Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar)

Turab Lookman, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theory Division

Elasticity-Driven Nanoscale Texturing in Functional Materials

Friday, December 3
(Engineering Seminar)

Allen Minton, National Institutes of Health

Effects of Macromolecular Crowding Upon Protein Conformation and Stability

Seminar Organizers:

Engineering Seminars:

Quantitative Biology and Modeling Seminars

Interdisciplinary Physics Seminars:

Other Semesters of Science at the Edge: