Current Seminars and Colloquia in the Natural Science and Mathematics
Spring 2008

April | May

 

April 2008
  • Tuesday 4/29/08
    MSCS Colloquium
    SC188 at 1:30 pm
    Title:  Mathematics and Disease:  The Case of Tuberculosis
    Presented: Carlos Castillo-Chavez
  • Wednesday, 4/30/08
    Physics
    2:00 - 3:00 pm in SC170 (Bag lunch in Buntrock Commons 221 at noon)
    Brett Anderson '08
    Physics Major, St. Olaf College
    My Undergraduate Research Experience: Inertial Fusion Energy (direct drive), Plasma Physics, and a Rockin' Good Time!
    http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/physics/colloquium/Anderson_04-30-08.htm
  • Wednesday 4/30/08
    St. Olaf College Science Symposium
May 2008
  • Thursday, 5/1/08
    ChemistryDistinction Seminar – SC 378 3:00 refreshments, 3:15 seminar begins.

    James McKone
    Distinction Seminar Presentation
    Title: Transition Metal Dithiolenes
    There will be other students presenting on this date as well.  More information to follow.

  • Friday 5/2/08 
    Science Symposium

    2:15 p.m. – Plenary Address I
    Science Center 280
    The Big Picture: Linking Pesticide Science and Health Effects
    Dr. Warren P. Porter, Professor of Zoology, Professor of Environmental Toxicology and Invited Affiliate in Engineering Physics at the University Wisconsin–Madison.

    3:30 p.m. – Plenary Address II
    Science Center 280
    Four Things You Should Know about Nuclear Waste
    Dr. Allison Macfarlane, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia; Affiliate of the Program in Science, Technology and Society at MIT and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.

    7:30 p.m. – Plenary Address III
    Science Center 280
    Green Chemistry and the Future
    Dr. Terry Collins, the Thomas Lord Professor of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University; Honorary Professor at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.
  • Wednesday 5/7/08
    Physics
    2:00pm, SC170
    Cullen O'Neill '09 (and one or more other student researchers?) Research Talks