Charles V. Schaefer, Jr.
    School of Engineering and Science
 
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September
All talks are 1 hour unless otherwise noted
September 2 Labor Day, No Classes
September 4 10:00 AM: Convocation Piece Room
September 5 2:00 PM: Multimedia, Vision and Visualization Seminar, "From Movies to 3D Models; the Strucutre-from-Motion Problem", Speaker Dr. John Olienis, NEC Research Institute, Lieb 3rd floor conference room
September 6 3:00 PM: CS Security Seminar, "What's new in primality testing ", Speaker Carl Pomerance, Bell Labs, Fielding Room, 3rd floor, Howe Center
September 10 End of Add/Drop for Fall Semester
September 11 TBD Chemistry Seminar, "Using Debye-temperature factors to design a new model of protein dynamics", Speaker Marc Mansfield, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Stevens Institute of Technology
September 20 2:00 PM: Physics Colloquia, "Low-Temperature Calorimetry: A New Spectroscopic Tool for Particles and Quanta ", Speaker Professor Henry Stroke, NYU - Physics Dept, Room 714-715 Burchard Building
September 25 12:00 PM: Humanities Forum, Edward Foster "Sex, Symbols, and the Decadent American" Howe Center, Skyline Room
2:00 PM: CS Seminar, Speaker Manu Malek, Stevens
September 26 3:30 PM: Nonlinear Systems Seminar, Vassilios Kovanis, Corning Incorporated, "Domesticating instabilities: The case of diode lasers subject to delayed feedback" Pierce, Room 218
September 27 2:00 PM: Physics Colloquia, "High sensitive and spatially resolved THz-spectroscopy of organic and inorganic materials", Speaker Dr. Martin Brucherseifer, Stevens Physics Dept, Room 714-715 Burchard Building
October
All talks are 1 hour unless otherwise noted
October 2 1:30 PM: Full Faculty Meeting, Burchard Room 118
October 4 2:00 PM: Physics Colloquia, "Discrete Ordinate Radiative Transfer Theory in Earth's Atmosphere including Rotational Raman Scattering; a General Quasi-Analytic Solution", Speaker Dr. Robert Spurr, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Room 714-715 Burchard Building
October 7 Fall Recess
October 8 No Classes 5:00 PM: Chemistry Seminar, "Mechanism of Laser Methods for MS Analysis of Complex Bioorganic and Inorganic Matrices: Matrix Decomposition Assists Desorption ", Speaker Victor Talroze, University of California San Francisco, Maclean 510
October 9 12:00 PM: Humanities Forum, Harold Dorn "Was Stalin a Great Man?" Howe Center, Skyline Room
2:15 PM: Chemistry Seminar, "The Molecular Design of Functional Polymer Surfaces for Biomaterial Applications", Speaker Jeffrey T. Koberstein, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, jk1191@columbia.edu, Maclean 510
October 11 2:00 PM: Physics Seminar, "Nonequilibrium Fluctuations and Decoherence in Nanoelectromechanical Devices", Speaker Dr. Anatoly Yu Smirnov, D-Wave Systems Inc. Vancouver, Canada, Room 714-715 Burchard Building
October 16 12:00 PM: Humanities Forum, Arthur Donovan "Containerization and Society" Howe Center, Skyline Room
TBD Chemistry Seminar, E. Kharlampieva & other of SS students
October 17 3:30 PM: Nonlinear Systems Seminar, Jiri Vesely, Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia, Pierce, Room 218
October 18 2:00 PM: Physics Seminar, "Experiments to Understand High Temperature Plasma Confinement in Dipole Magnetic Fields", PROF. Michael E. Mauel, Columbia University Dept. of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Room 714-715 Burchard Building
October 21 5:00 PM: issa Colloquium, "Using genomic tools and natural systems to create smarter crops", Speaker Ian Baldwin, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Location Hayden Lounge
October 23 12:00 PM: Humanities Forum, Morris Pierce (Rochester U.): "The Erie Canal", Fielding Room
TBD Chemistry Seminar, Corey Strickland (guest of AKG)
3:30 PM: Stochastic Systems Seminar, Professor C. T. Kelley, North Carolina State University, "Sampling Methods and Implicit Filtering", Pierce, Room 218
October 25 2:00 PM: Physics Seminar, "Non-Equilibrium High Pressure Plasmas and Applications", Speaker Prof. Mounir Laroussi, Old Dominion University Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Room 714-715 Burchard Building
October 28 3:00 PM mV2 Seminar Series, CS Dept, Speaker Professor Peter Alen, Columbia University, Dept of Computer Science
October 29 3:30 PM: Nonlinear Systems Seminar, Fotios Harmantzis, Stevens Institute of Technology, TBA
October 30 12:00 PM: Humanities Forum, James McClellan "The Transmission of Knowledge Across Cultural Boundaries" Howe Center, Fielding Room
TBD Chemistry Seminar, Mark E. Tuckerman, Dept. of Chemistry, NYU, mark.tuckerman@nyu.edu 212-998-8471
November
All talks are 1 hour unless otherwise noted
November 1 2:00 PM: Physics Seminar, "Successful Strategies for Empowering Students to Get High Paying and Rewarding Employment After Graduation", Speaker Prof. Brian Schwartz, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Room 714-715 Burchard Building
3:30 PM: issa Colloquium, "Christine de Pizan and defining literary culture", E. Jeffrey Richards, University of Wuppertal, Skyline Suite, Howe Center
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM: Symposium on Mathematical Optimization, Room TBA
November 2-4 The Biennial Conference for Literary Translation
November 6 12:00 PM: Humanities Forum, Mary Ann Hellrigel, "The State of the Art?: Electricity at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900" Howe Center, Fielding Room
TBD Chemistry Seminar, N. Panikov, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Stevens Institute of Technology
November 7 3:30 PM: Nonlinear Systems Seminar, "A Gentle Introduction to Billiards: Why and a Little Bit of How", Marco Lenci, Stevens Institute of Technology, Pierce, Room 218
November 8 2:00 PM: Physics Seminar, "Inverse Methods in Coherent and Incoherent Scattering", Speaker Prof Jakob J. Stamnes, Department of Physics, University of Bergen Norway, Room 714-715 Burchard Building
November 13 1:30 PM: Full Faculty Meeting, Burchard Room 118
4:00 PM: Chemistry Seminar, R. Lobrutto, Merck, 732-594-1987
November 14 3:30 PM: Stochastic Systems Seminar, Souran Manucheri, Stevens Institute of Technology, Pierce, Room 218
November 15 2:00 PM: Physics Seminar, "Water Vapor Feedbacks in the Tropical Upper Troposphere", Speaker Prof. Kenneth R. Minschwaner, Department of Physics, New Mexico Tech, Room 714-715 Burchard Building
November 20 12:00 PM: Humanities Forum, Garry Dobbins "Marxism: The Enron of Ideologies" Howe Center, Fielding Room
TBD Chemistry Seminar, Hernando J. Sosa, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, The Bronx, NY hsosa@aecom.yu.edu 718-430-3456
2:00 - 4:00 PM: Interreligious Forum, "FREE WILL AND FAITH: An interreligious dialog on the concept of free will from the perspectives of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism with commentary from the perspective of philosophy", Speakers: Ms. Deb Sheridan - Christian Views, Rabbi Robert Scheinberg - Jewish Views, Mr. Islam Elfayoumi - Muslim Views, Dr. M. G. Prasad - Hindu Views, Dr. J. Ossar - A Philosophical Perspective, Fielding Room (3rd fl), Howe Center
November 21 3:30 PM: Nonlinear Systems Seminar, "Towards Maximally Tough Nearly-Cubic Graphs", Lynne Doty, Marist College, Pierce, Room 218
November 22 2:00 PM: Physics Seminar, "Science and Art of Fluid Motion", Speaker Prof Norman J. Zabusky, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University, Room 714-715 Burchard Building
November 27 Until Sunday Dec. 1 Thanksgiving Recess
December
All talks are 1 hour unless otherwise noted
December 4 12:00 PM: Humanities Forum, TBA, Fielding Room
December 5 3:30 PM: Nonlinear Systems Seminar, "Geometry and Analysis in Conformal Field Theory", David Radnell, Rutgers University, Pierce, Room 218
December 6 4:00 PM: issa Colloquium Skyline Suite, Howe Center
December 9 Last Day of Classes
3:30 PM: Nonlinear Systems Seminar, "Microdisk Lasers, Billiards, and Closed Orbits in Subriemannian Geometry", Vadim Zharnitsky, Bell Labs, Pierce, Room 218
December 10 - 21 Review and Exam Period
December 12 3:30 PM: Stochastic Systems Seminar, "Portfolio Optimization with Drawdown Constraints", Stan Uryasev, University of Florida, Pierce, Room 218
December 22 - Jan 1 Winter Recess
January 2003
All talks are 1 hour unless otherwise noted
January 2 Winter Intersession
January 15 Spring Semester Classes Begin
January 29 Full Faculty Meeting
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