From gocke at seas.upenn.edu Mon Oct 6 01:00:02 2008 From: gocke at seas.upenn.edu (SEAS Calendar) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 01:00:02 -0400 Subject: [Events-at-seas] Events at SEAS this week Message-ID: <200810060500.m96502Ep008177@stag.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 October 6th: ------ Tuesday, October 7, 2008 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Graphics Lecture: Paul Torrens, Arizona State University Paul Torrens, Director of the Geosimulation Laboratory at Arizona State University, presents his lecture, "Modeling Complex Urban Systems." Levine Hall (Wu & Chen) http://cg.cis.upenn.edu/hms/ ------ Wednesday, October 8, 2008 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM IRCS/CCN Brain and Language Series: Thomas Grabowski Thomas Grabowski, Department of Neurology, Iowa University, presents his lecture, "Streams of knowledge in the naming brain." 3401 Walnut (400A Conference Room) http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/brainlang/2008/fall/grabowski.htm ------ Wednesday, October 8, 2008 3:15 PM to 4:15 PM CBE Seminar - Cherie Kagan, U Penn ESE Cherie R. Kagan, Assoc Prof of Elec and Sys Engr and Mat Sci and Engr, U Penn, speaks on "Engineering Charge Transport and Energy Flow in Molecular and Nanoscale Materials and Devices" Levine Hall (Wu and Chen Auditorium) http://www.seas.upenn.edu/cbe/seminars.html ------ Thursday, October 9, 2008 10:40 AM to 12:00 PM MSE SEMINAR Dr. Taeghwan Hyeon, Seoul National University, Large-Scale Synthesis of Uniform-Sized Nanoparticles and their Designed Assembly and Multifunctional Biomedical Applications" 3231 Walnut Street, LRSM Building (LRSM Auditorium) http://www.seas.upenn.edu/mse ------ Thursday, October 9, 2008 10:40 AM to 12:00 PM MSE SEMINAR Professor Taeghwan Hyeon, National Creative Reserch Initiative Center For Oxide Nanocrystalline Materials and School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, "Large-scale Synthesis of Uniform-sized Nanoparticles and their Designe 3231 Walnut Street, LRSM BLDG. (LRSM AUDITORIUM) http://www.seas.uepnn.edu/mse ------ Thursday, October 9, 2008 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM MEAM Seminar: Andrea Prosperetti, Charles A. Miller, Jr. Distinguished Prof., Johns Hopkins Univ. "Some flows with bubbles and particles" Towne Building (337) http://www.me.upenn.edu/events/Prosperetti_Abstract.html ------ Friday, October 10, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM GRASP Seminar Series Presents...Longin Jan Latecki, Temple University Wu and Chen Auditorium, (Levine 101) http://www.grasp.upenn.edu/seminar/AY-2008/LonginJan_Latecki.html From gocke at seas.upenn.edu Mon Oct 13 01:00:02 2008 From: gocke at seas.upenn.edu (SEAS Calendar) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:00:02 -0400 Subject: [Events-at-seas] Events at SEAS this week Message-ID: <200810130500.m9D502VU026059@stag.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 October 13th: ------ Tuesday, October 14, 2008 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM GRASP Special Seminar...Ioannis Poulakakis, University of Michigan 3330 Walnut Street, (Levine 315) http://www.grasp.upenn.edu/seminar/AY-2008/Ioannis_Poulakakis.html ------ Wednesday, October 15, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM ESE Dept. - Nano-Device Colloquia Series,-Dr. Adrian Ionescu, Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology "Evading Moore's Law" Towne (337) http://www.ese.upenn.edu ------ Wednesday, October 15, 2008 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM Electrical and Systems Engineering Dept. Seminar, Dr. Yigal Bejerano, Bell Labs "Fairness and Load Balancing in Wireless LANs" Towne (337) http://www.ese.upenn.edu ------ Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:15 PM to 4:15 PM CBE Seminar - K. Dane Wittrup, MIT K. Dane Wittrup, C.P. Dubbs Prof of Chemical and Biological Engr, MIT, speaks on "Tumor Targeting: Theory and Experiment" Levine Hall (Wu and Chen Auditorium) http://www.seas.upenn.edu/cbe/seminars.html ------ Thursday, October 16, 2008 10:40 AM to 12:00 PM MSE SEMINAR Professor Michael Rubinstein, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Simple Views on Self-Healing Materials" 3231 Walnut Street, LRSM AUDITORIUM (LRSM AUDITORIUM) http://www.seas.upenn.edu/mse ------ Thursday, October 16, 2008 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Bioengineering Seminar Sridhar Raghavachari, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, "The Spatial Dimensions of Excitatory Synaptic Transmission". 337 Towne ------ Thursday, October 16, 2008 3:00 PM to 4:15 PM CIS Distinguished Lecture Series presents, Alex Aiken Computer Science Department Stanford University Wu & Chen (101 Levine Hall) http://www.cis.upenn.edu/departmental/events/Aiken.shtml ------ Friday, October 17, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM GRASP Seminar Series Presents...Laurent Younes, Johns Hopkins Wu and Chen Auditorium, (Levine 101) http://www.grasp.upenn.edu/seminar/AY-2008/Laurent_Younes.html ------ Friday, October 17, 2008 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EMTM Seminar: Street-Smart Innovation to Align Emerging Technology and Business Explore both the myth and reality of cultivating a culture of Intellectual capital: new patents, drugs, best business practices and others. Levine Hall (Wu and Chen Auditorium) ------ Monday, October 20, 2008 10:45 AM to 1:00 PM EMTM Seminar: Energy and Global Warming Speaker:TBD Levine Hall (Wu and Chen Auditorium) From gocke at seas.upenn.edu Mon Oct 20 01:00:02 2008 From: gocke at seas.upenn.edu (SEAS Calendar) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:00:02 -0400 Subject: [Events-at-seas] Events at SEAS this week Message-ID: <200810200500.m9K502G7005085@stag.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 October 20th: ------ Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM IME Interdisciplinary Seminar Series Jasna Brujic, Ph.D., Department of Physics, NYU, "Protein Physics From Single Molecule Experiments" Vagelos (2000) ------ Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Graphics Lecture: Amy Baylor, NSF Amy Baylor, Program Director, Human-Centered Computing Cluster (NSF) will present her lecture, "Anthropomorphic interface agents as persuasive technology." Annenberg School (109) http://cg.cis.upenn.edu/hms/ ------ Wednesday, October 22, 2008 3:15 PM to 4:15 PM Chance Distinguished Lecture - Jay D. Keasling Jay D Keasling, Prof of Chem Engr and Bioengr, UC Berkeley; Dir. Phys Biosci Div, Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab, presents the Britton Chance Distinguished Lecture in Engineering and Medicine on "Synthetic Biology for Synthetic Chemistry" Levine Hall (Wu and Chen Auditorium) http://www.seas.upenn.edu/cbe/Chance.html ------ Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:40 AM to 12:00 PM MSE SEMINAR Professor Zhigang Suo, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, "Large Deformation and Instability in Swelling Gels" 3231 Walnut Street, LRSM Building (LRSM Auditorium) http://www.seas.upenn.edu/mse ------ Friday, October 24, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM GRASP Seminar Series Presents...Yoshiaki Sakagami, Honda Research Institute USA Inc. Wu and Chen Auditorium, (Levine 101) http://www.grasp.upenn.edu/seminar/AY-2008/Yoshiaki%20_Sakagami.html ------ Friday, October 24, 2008 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM IRCS Noon Colloquium: Natascha Mueller Natascha Mueller, Professor of Linguistics and Romance Languages, University of Wuppertal, presents her lecture, "Code-switching in young bilingual children." 3401 Walnut (400A Conference Room) http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/colloq/2008/fall/mueller.htm From gocke at seas.upenn.edu Mon Oct 27 01:00:02 2008 From: gocke at seas.upenn.edu (SEAS Calendar) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:00:02 -0400 Subject: [Events-at-seas] Events at SEAS this week Message-ID: <200810270500.m9R502BN001183@stag.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 October 27th: ------ Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM IME Interdisciplinary Seminar Series Taher Saif, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, "Memory Under Tension" Vagelos Research Labs (2000) ------ Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM CIS Distinguished Lecture Series presents, Merick Furst College of Computing Georgia Tech Wu & Chen (101 Levine Hall) http://www.cis.upenn.edu/departmental/events/Merrick.shtml ------ Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM How Computers Will Steal the 2008 Election How Computers Will Steal the 2008 ElectionRebecca Mercuri, Ph.D.Notable Software, Inc.Tuesday, October 28, 7 p.m.Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hallmatuszek at cis.upenn.edu Levine (Wu & Chen Auditorium) ------ Wednesday, October 29, 2008 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM NanoDay at Penn 2008 Exhibits and multimedia show throughout the day in the Towne Building and Levine Hall. Towne (1st Floor) http://www.nanotech.upenn.edu/nano_day.html ------ Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM NanoDay at Penn High School Research Fair Regional high school students present their research posters and compete in the NBIC NanoDay Science Fair, Awards at 3 PM. Levine Hall (Lobby) http://www.upenn.edu/nano_day.html ------ Wednesday, October 29, 2008 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM NBIC Award for Research Excellence Naomi Halas, Rice University is awarded the NBIC award and will speak about her research in nanoscale science. Title: When Plasmons Interact, Worlds Collide. A reception follows. Levine Hall (Wu and Chen Auditorium) ------ Thursday, October 30, 2008 10:40 AM to 12:00 PM MSE SEMINAR Dr. Gregory Exarhos, Chemical & Materials Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, "Carbohydrates as Reduction Templates and Precursors to Carbon Nanospheres LRSM Bldg., 3231 Walnut Street (Auditorium) http://www.seas.upenn.edu/mse ------ Thursday, October 30, 2008 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Bioengineering Seminar Gerhard Hummer, Ph.D., Chief, Theoretical Biophysics Section, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. "Simulation of Protein-Protein Binding: >From Encounter Complexes to Multi-Protein Assemblies". 337 Towne Bldg ------ Thursday, October 30, 2008 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM MEAM Seminar: Howard H. Hu, Associate Professor, Dept. of Mech. Eng., Univ. of Penn. "Simulations of Particulate Flows" Towne Building (337) http://www.me.upenn.edu/events/Hu_Abstract.html ------ Thursday, October 30, 2008 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM Electronic Arts tech talk Lauren Paone, Penn alum and software engineer for Electronic Arts, will give a tech talk about EA. Levine Hall (Wu & Chen) http://cg.cis.upenn.edu/hms/ ------ Friday, October 31, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM GRASP Seminar Series Presents...Peter Allen, Columbia University "Graspit!: A Visualization and Simulation Engine for Grasping Research" Wu and Chen Auditorium, (Levine 101) http://www.grasp.upenn.edu/seminar/AY-2008/Peter_Allen.html ------ Friday, October 31, 2008 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM GRASP Seminar Series Presents...Hugh Durrant-Whyte, Univ of Sydney, Australia "Information, Fusion and Control in Autonomous Networks" Skirkanich Hall, (Berger Auditorium) http://www.grasp.upenn.edu/seminar/AY-2008/Hugh_Durrant-Whyte.html ------ Friday, October 31, 2008 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM IPD Seminar: Popcorn, Perception, and the Man in the Mirror Carissa Carter, David Ngo & Jesse Silver from Stanford University. Reception at 5pm. Skirkanich Hall (Berger Auditorium) http://www.me.upenn.edu/ipd/events.html