From gocke at seas.upenn.edu Mon Mar 3 01:00:02 2008 From: gocke at seas.upenn.edu (SEAS Calendar) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 01:00:02 -0500 Subject: [Events-at-seas] Events at SEAS this week Message-ID: <200803030600.m23602xC025831@lion.seas.upenn.edu> These announcements are culled from the University calendar, so for your event to be listed you must enter them on the University calendar. We hope these announcements will be useful to you in staying in touch with the many events going on throughout the School. Events at SEAS for the week of March 3rd: ------ Monday, March 3, 2008 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM MSE SEMINAR Dr. Gang Feng, Division of Engineering, Brown University,"Nanomechanical Characterization and Modeling" 3231 Walnut Street (LRSM Reading Room) http://www.upenn.edu/mse ------ Monday, March 3, 2008 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM Patent Research Learn to use Derwent Innovations Index, USPTO, and esp at cenet to access the full text of patents, use patent families to find English language equivalents of foreign patents, and learn to use classification codes and do cited patent searches. Chemistry Library (Computer Lab) ------ Tuesday, March 4, 2008 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM MEAM Seminar: Katia Bertoldi, Postdoctoral Associate, Mechanical Engineering, MIT "Microstructures in solids: their critical role in governing material mechanical behavior" Levine Hall, (Wu and Chen Auditorium) http://www.me.upenn.edu/events/Bertoldi_abstract.html ------ Tuesday, March 4, 2008 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM IME Interdisciplinary Seminar Series Mary Teruel, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Dept of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, "Control of Plasma Translocation", Co-sponsored with the Dept of Bioengineering Vagelos Research Labs (2000) ------ Wednesday, March 5, 2008 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM Science Citation Index – Updates The Science Citation Index on the ISI Web of Science has a new look! Topics covered will include a comparison of past and present interfaces, general and citation search techniques, setting up topic and citation alerts, and learning about various citation Chemistry Library (Computer Lab) http://www.library.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/workshopmgr/workshopMgrTop?xslt_style=viewDetail&ws_id=119 ------ Wednesday, March 5, 2008 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Lecture Dr. Nader Engheta, the H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering and recipient of the 2008 Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research will present a lecture, "Curcuits with Light at Nanoscales." Levine Hall (Wu and Chen Auditorium) ------ Thursday, March 6, 2008 10:40 AM to 11:00 PM MSE SEMINAR Dr. Arthur Voter, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory,"Designing Molecular Dynamics Methods to Reach Time Scales on Which Real Things Happen" 3231 Walnut Street (LRSM Auditorium) http://www.seas.upenn.edu/mse ------ Thursday, March 6, 2008 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Bioengineering Seminar Buddy D. Ratner, Professsor, Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, "Tissue Engineering of Heart and Esophagus: Scaffold Concepts". 337 Towne ------ Thursday, March 6, 2008 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM MEAM Seminar: Patrick Le Tallec, Professor of Computational Mechanics, École Polytechnique >From Homogeneisation to Domain Decomposition in the Numerical Modelling of Materials Towne Bldg., (337) http://www.me.upenn.edu/events/Le%20Tallec_abstract.html ------ Thursday, March 6, 2008 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM CIS Distinguished Lecture Series: Daniel Thalmann Daniel Thalmann, Director of the Virtual Reality Lab (VRlab) of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland, presents his lecture, "The Challenges in Real-time Crowd Simulation" as part of the CIS Distinguished Lecture series. Levine Hall (Wu & Chen auditorium (101)) http://cg.cis.upenn.edu/hms/ ------ Friday, March 7, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM GRASP Lab Seminar - Ronen Basri, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel "Approximate Nearest Subspace Search with Applications to Pattern Recognition" Levine Hall (3330 Walnut), (Wu and Chen Auditorium) http://www.grasp.upenn.edu/seminar/index.html ------ Friday, March 7, 2008 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM CBE Graduate Student Seminar - Parag R. Shah Parag R. Shah of Professor Raymond Gorte's research group will speak. Towne Bldg. (Room 337) http://www.seas.upenn.edu/cbe/chega_seminars.html From gocke at seas.upenn.edu Mon Mar 10 01:00:02 2008 From: gocke at seas.upenn.edu (SEAS Calendar) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:00:02 -0400 Subject: [Events-at-seas] Events at SEAS this week Message-ID: <200803100500.m2A502xS004317@lion.seas.upenn.edu> These announcements are culled from the University calendar, so for your event to be listed you must enter them on the University calendar. We hope these announcements will be useful to you in staying in touch with the many events going on throughout the School. Events at SEAS for the week of March 10th: ------ Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM IME Interdisciplinary Seminar Series Stephen A. Boppart, Ph.D., Head, Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Molecular Contrast Enhancement in Coherent Optical Biomedical Imaging" Vagelos Research Labs (2000) ------ Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Electrical and Systems Engineering Dept. Seminar - Dr. Natasha Devroye, Harvard University "Cognitive Radios to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle the Unused Spectrum" Wu and Chen Auditorium (101 Levine) http://www.ese.upenn.edu/seminars.html ------ Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Bioengineering Seminar Sergey Shevkoplyas, Ph.D., Postodoctoral Fellow, Dept of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University. "Networks of Microchannels: Mimicking the Microvasculature, Separating Blood Cells, and Immobilizing Worms". Towne Building (337) ------ Friday, March 14, 2008 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM CBE Graduate Student Seminar - Eric Wong Eric Wong of Professor Scott Diamond's research group will speak Towne Building (Room 337) http://www.seas.upenn.edu/cbe/chega_seminars.html ------ Monday, March 17, 2008 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Opportuni-Tea! Seminar: Materials ProperTeas This course will teach users to locate physical and chemical properties of materials. Towne (337) http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/workshops/scitech/seminar.html From gocke at seas.upenn.edu Mon Mar 17 01:00:02 2008 From: gocke at seas.upenn.edu (SEAS Calendar) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:00:02 -0400 Subject: [Events-at-seas] Events at SEAS this week Message-ID: <200803170500.m2H502wT026103@lion.seas.upenn.edu> These announcements are culled from the University calendar, so for your event to be listed you must enter them on the University calendar. We hope these announcements will be useful to you in staying in touch with the many events going on throughout the School. Events at SEAS for the week of March 17th: ------ Monday, March 17, 2008 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM Electrical and Systems Engineering Dept. Seminar, Prof. Robert Ghrist, Univ. of Illinois "Topological Network Topology" Skirkanich Hall (Berger Auditorium) http://www.ese.upenn.edu/seminars.html ------ Monday, March 17, 2008 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Opportuni-Tea! Seminar: Materials ProperTeas This course will teach users to locate physical and chemical properties of materials. Towne (337) http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/workshops/scitech/seminar.html ------ Wednesday, March 19, 2008 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Finding Articles in Science and Engineering Using Inspec/Compendex Learn to use the INSPEC and COMPENDEX databases to locate journal articles, conference papers, and report literature in engineering and physical science fields. Moore (100B) http://www.library.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/workshopmgr/workshopMgrTop?xslt_style=viewDetail&ws_id=48 ------ Wednesday, March 19, 2008 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM IRCS/CCN Brain and Language Series: Arthur Samuel Arthur Samuel, Department of Psychology,Stony Brook University, will present his lecture, "Perceptual learning for speech: Now you see it, now you don’t." 3401 Walnut (400A) http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/brainlang/2008/spring/samuel.html ------ Wednesday, March 19, 2008 3:15 PM to 4:15 PM Quinn Lecture - John H. Seinfeld, Caltech John H. Seinfeld, Nohl Prof of Chemical Engr and Engr and Appl Sci, Calif Inst of Technology, presents the John Quinn Lecture in Chemical Engineering on the topic of "Global Climate Change." Levine Hall (Wu and Chen Auditorium) http://www.seas.upenn.edu/cbe/QuinnLecture.html ------ Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:40 AM to 12:00 PM MSE SEMINAR Professor Antoine Kahn, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University,"Conjugated Molecular Films for Organic Electronics" 3231 Walnut St., (LRSM AUDITORIUM) http://www.seas.upenn.edu/mse ------ Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Electrical and Systems Engineering Dept. Seminar - Dr. Ivana Maric, Stanford University "Cooperation and Cognition in Wireless Networks" Wu and Chen Auditorium (101 Levine) http://www.ese.upenn.edu/seminars.html ------ Thursday, March 20, 2008 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Bioengineering Seminar Cheng Zhu, Ph.D., Regents' Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Catch Bonds: Structural Bases, Physical Models, and Physiological Relevance" Towne Building (337) ------ Thursday, March 20, 2008 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM MEAM Seminar: Dr. Martin H. Müser, Assoc. Prof., Applied Mathematics, Univ. of Western Ontario Simulations of extreme conditions:From tribology to optoelectronic materials Towne Bldg., (337) http://www.me.upenn.edu/events/Muser_abstract.html ------ Friday, March 21, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM GRASP Lab Seminar - Blake Hannaford, University of Washington Levine Hall (3330 Walnut), (Wu and Chen Auditorium) http://www.grasp.upenn.edu/seminar/index.html ------ Friday, March 21, 2008 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM CBE Graduate Student Seminar - Chris Chan Chris Chan of Professor Karen Winey's research group will speak. Towne Building (Room 337) http://www.seas.upenn.edu/cbe/chega_seminars.html From gocke at seas.upenn.edu Mon Mar 24 01:00:02 2008 From: gocke at seas.upenn.edu (SEAS Calendar) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:00:02 -0400 Subject: [Events-at-seas] Events at SEAS this week Message-ID: <200803240500.m2O502sB008291@lion.seas.upenn.edu> These announcements are culled from the University calendar, so for your event to be listed you must enter them on the University calendar. We hope these announcements will be useful to you in staying in touch with the many events going on throughout the School. Events at SEAS for the week of March 24th: ------ Monday, March 24, 2008 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM HMS special lecture: David Luebke David Luebke, a chief scientist at NVIDIA, will present a lecture about "General Purpose Programming of Graphics Processors using CUDA." Skirkanich Hall (Berger auditorium) http://cg.cis.upenn.edu/hms/ ------ Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM IME Interdisciplinary Seminar Series Niren Murthy, Ph.D., School of Biomedical Engineering, GA Tech/Emory University, "New Materials for Treating and Imaging Inflammatory Diseases" Vagelos (2000) ------ Wednesday, March 26, 2008 3:15 PM to 4:15 PM CBE Seminar - Nina C. Shapley, Columbia University Nina C. Shapley, Asst. Prof. of Chemical Engr., Columbia Univ. presents the CBE Dept Seminar on "Contraction-Expansion Flows of Concentrated Suspensions and Novel Biopolymer Gel Tracer Particles" Skirkanich Hall (Berger Auditorium) http://www.seas.upenn.edu/cbe/seminars.html ------ Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Haptics lecture: Jernej Barbic Jernej Barbic, Department of Computer Science, MIT, will present a haptics lecture entitled, " An algorithm for deformations, collision detection and contact between complex deforming geometry running at haptic rates." Levine Hall (Wu & Chen (L101)) http://cg.cis.upenn.edu/hms/ ------ Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Electrical and Systems Engineering Dept. Seminar - Dr. Alejandro Ribeiro, Univ. of Minnesota "Optimal Design of Wireless Networks - Separation Principles" Towne (337) http://www.ese.upenn.edu/seminars.html ------ Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Bioengineering Seminar Weihong Tan, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, University of Florida, "Exploring the Molecular Foundation of Diseases: A Chemical Biology Approach". Towne Building (337) ------ Thursday, March 27, 2008 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM Tedori-Callinan Lecture Series "Thermo-hydro-mechanics of earthquake rupture," James R. Rice, Mallinckrodt Professor of Engineering Sciences and Geophysics, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University Levine Hall, (Wu & Chen Auditorium) http://www.me.upenn.edu/events/rice_tedori-callinan_lecture_series.html ------ Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:00 PM to 12:00 PM HMS special lecture: Jernej Barbic Jernej Barbic, Computer Science Department, MIT, will present his lecture, "An algorithm for deformations, collision detection and contact between complex deforming geometry running at haptic rates." Levine Hall (Wu & Chen (101)) http://cg.cis.upenn.edu/hms/ ------ Friday, March 28, 2008 to HMS special lecture: Hyeong-Seok Ko Hyeong-Seok Ko, of the Graphics and Media Lab at Seoul National University, will present his lecture, "Realism Becomes Accuracy." Levine Hall (Wu & Chen auditorium) http://cg.cis.upenn.edu/hms/ ------ Friday, March 28, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM GRASP Lab Seminar - Julie Adams, Vanderbilt University Levine Hall (3330 Walnut), (Wu and Chen Auditorium) http://www.grasp.upenn.edu/seminar/index.html ------ Friday, March 28, 2008 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM MEAM Seminar, Mr. Andy Perrin, Ph.D. Candidate, MEAM Department, University of Pennsylvania "Explicit Finite Difference Schemes for Particulate Flows" Towne Bldg., (337) http://www.me.upenn.edu/events/Perrin_abstract.html ------ Friday, March 28, 2008 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Opportuni-Tea! Seminar: Physical ProperTeas This course will teach users to locate physical properties of compounds, including organics, inorganics, and small molecules. Some basic spectroscopic resources will be included. Chemistry Laboratories CRET Wing, (Makineni conference room) http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/workshops/scitech/seminar.html From gocke at seas.upenn.edu Mon Mar 31 01:00:02 2008 From: gocke at seas.upenn.edu (SEAS Calendar) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:00:02 -0400 Subject: [Events-at-seas] Events at SEAS this week Message-ID: <200803310500.m2V502lg006871@lion.seas.upenn.edu> These announcements are culled from the University calendar, so for your event to be listed you must enter them on the University calendar. We hope these announcements will be useful to you in staying in touch with the many events going on throughout the School. Events at SEAS for the week of March 31st: ------ Tuesday, April 1, 2008 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Bioengineering Seminar BE Faculty Candidate: Yaakov Nahmias, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, "Liver Tissue Engineering: From Lasers to Grapefruits 337 Towne ------ Tuesday, April 1, 2008 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM IME Interdisciplinary Seminar Series Glenn D. Prestwich, Professor and Director, Center for Therapeutic Biomaterials, University of Utah, "Pragmatic Extracellular Matrices for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine" Vagelos (2000) ------ Wednesday, April 2, 2008 8:30 AM to 2:00 PM WICS High School Day for Girls For more information please visit the website listed below Levine Hall http://www.cis.upenn.edu/departmental/events/specialevents.html ------ Wednesday, April 2, 2008 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM Chemical Reaction Searching Learn to effectively and efficiently search for chemical reaction and reagent information using a host of print and online materials. Chemistry Library (Computer Lab) http://www.library.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/workshopmgr/workshopMgrTop?xslt_style=viewDetail&ws_id=3 ------ Thursday, April 3, 2008 10:40 AM to 12:00 PM MSE SEMINAR Dr. James Heath, Elizabeth W. Gilloon ProfessorDirector, NSB CancenterCaltech Chemistry, "Phonon Physics in Nanowire Materials" 3321 Walnut Street (LRSM Auditorium) http://www.seas.upenn.edu/mse ------ Thursday, April 3, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Electrical and Systems Engineering Dept. Seminar, Dr. Lara Dolecek, Mass. Inst. of Technology "Performance of Practical Low Density Parity Check Codes: A Look at Modern Coding Theory and Practice" Wu & Chen Auditorium (101 Levine) http://www.ese.upenn.edu/seminars.html ------ Thursday, April 3, 2008 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Bioengineering Seminar Yadong Wang, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech/Emory University, "New Biomimetic Polymers for Regenerative Medicine" 337 Towne ------ Thursday, April 3, 2008 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM MEAM Seminar: Gareth McKinley, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT "Elasto-Capillary Thinning and the Breakup of Complex Fluids"(or why some things are stickier than others!) Towne Bldg., (337) http://www.me.upenn.edu/events/McKinley_abstract.html ------ Friday, April 4, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM GRASP Lab Seminar - Charles Shoemaker, General Dynamics Robotic Systems "GDRS Robotics Technology and Systems" Levine Hall (3330 Walnut), (Wu and Chen Auditorium) http://www.grasp.upenn.edu/seminar/index.html ------ Friday, April 4, 2008 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM IRCS Noon Colloquium lecture series: Deb Roy Deb Roy, Director of the Cognitive Machines Group of the MIT Media Lab, will present his lecture, "Situated Language Use: Robots, Children, and Games." 3401 Walnut (400A) http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/colloq/2008/spring/roy.html ------ Friday, April 4, 2008 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Graphics lecture: Adam Bargteil Adam Bargteil, postdoctoral fellow in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, will present his lecture, "Modeling Materials and Visual Detail for Computer Animation." Levine Hall (307) http://cg.cis.upenn.edu/hms/ ------ Monday, April 7, 2008 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM Electrical and Systems Engineering Dept. Seminar, Dr. Ayman Abouraddy, Mass. Inst. of Technology "Multi-Material, Multi-Scale Optoelectronic Fibers and Fiber Arrays" Wu & Chen Auditorium (101 Levine) http://www.ese.upenn.edu/seminars.html