Charles V. Schaefer, Jr.
    School of Engineering and Science
 
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September  
Sep 7
Wed
11:00am
Burchard 715
Physics Colloquium
Igor Aronson, Argonne National Laboratory
Self-Assembly of Microtubules and Molecular Motors
Sep 12
Mon
2:00pm
Burchard 124
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Hugo Krawczyk, IBM T.J. Watson
HMQV: A High-Performance Secure Diffie-Hellman Protocol5A
Sep 14
Wed
11:00am
Burchard 715
Physics Colloquium
Ajit Subramaniam, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
The Use of Ocean Color Remote Sensing for Water Quality Monitoring in Massachusetts Bay
Sep 14
Wed
1:30pm
McLean 119
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Veronika Kozlovskaya, Stevens Institute of Technology
One- and two-component Hydrogels derived from Hydrogen-bonded multilayers
Sep 14
Wed
3:00pm
Howe Ctr, 2nd Flr
Faculty Club

4:15pm
Faculty Club
Department of Art, Music & Technology
damili ayo, artist, author, performer
How to Rent a Negro     [Reception to follow]

A Panel Discussion  -  Race, Class and Politics: The Implications of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans
Sep 21
Wed
11:00am
Burchard 715
Physics Colloquium
Hiroshi Matsui, Hunter College, CUNY
Bionanotechnology Approach in Material Synthesis and Device Fabrication by Applying Peptide/Protein Assemblies
Sep 21
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
Akif Kirecci, Department of History
Huntington Before Huntington: Ziya Gökzlp's Theory of Turkish Nationalism
Sep 21
Wed
4:15pm
Peirce 218
Department of Social Science
Arnold Urken, Dept of Social Science, Rev. Geoffrey Curtiss, All Saints Episcopal Parish, and John Horgan, Center for Science Writings
A Panel Discussion:   Is the US Becoming a Theocracy?
Sep 26
Mon
2:00pm
Burchard 124
Computer Science - Security Seminar
John Linwood Griffin, IBM T.J. Watson
Intelligent Storage Systems(!) and Intelligent Security Systems(?)
Sep 26
Mon
3:00pm
Kidde 104
Stevens Society of Mathematicians - Seminar
Naomi Daven, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Maximal Tutte Sets and D-Graphs
Sep 28
Wed
11:00am
Burchard 715
Physics Colloquium
Slava Rotkin, Lehigh University
Gapping Nanotubes: When the Symmetry is a Subject of Device Engineering
Sep 28
Wed
1:30pm
McLean 119
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
John Dodd, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Triazines and Pyrrolotriazines as potential therapeutics in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Sep 29
Thu
11:30am
Howe Ctr, 4th Flr
Bissinger Room
Center for Science Writings
John Stachel, Center for Einstein Studies, Boston University
A discussion on Einstein and the Theory of Relativity
A light buffet lunch to follow
Sep 30
Fri
9:00am
CoRE Bldg
Room 101
Third Rutgers-Stevens Workshop on Optimization of Stochastic Systems
Rutgers University, Busch Campus, CoRE Building, Room 101
Workshop Theme:  Risk-Averse Optimization
Oct 1
Sat
9:00am
CoRE Bldg
Room 101
Third Rutgers-Stevens Workshop on Optimization of Stochastic Systems
Rutgers University, Busch Campus, CoRE Building, Room 101
Workshop Theme:  Risk-Averse Optimization
October  
Oct 3
Mon
2:00pm
Burchard 124
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Anna Lysyanskaya, Brown University
TBA
Oct 4
Tue
4:00pm
Peirce 218
Mathematical Sciences - Seminar in Nonlinear Systems
Ionut Florescu, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Sharp estimation of the almost-sure Lyapunov exponent for the Anderson model in continuous space
Oct 5
Wed
11:00am
Burchard 715
Physics Colloquium
Mike Stopa, Harvard University
TBA
Oct 5
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
George Dourdounas, Department of History
On Monks and Circle Squarers
Oct 5
Wed
1:30pm
McLean 119
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Jay Tagat, Schering-Plough Research Institute
The Discovery of a Second Generation CCR5 Antagonist (Sch 417690) for Treating HIV-1 Infection
Oct 11
Tue
7:00pm
Howe Ctr, 4th Flr
Bissinger Room
Commemorating Albert Einstein's Annus Mirabilis
Professors Ed Whittaker (Physics), James McClellan (History), John Horgan (Science Writings) and Garry Dobbins (Philosophy)
What's So Special About Relativity?
Oct 12
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Calder Room
Humanities Forum
M.G. Prasad, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Science and Sanskrit in Ancient India
Oct 12
Wed
1:30pm
McLean 119
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Kathryn Uhrich, Rutgers University
TBA
Oct 13
Thu
11:00am
Burchard 715
Special Physics Colloquium
Dr. G. Alagar Ramanujan
Gravity: A New Perspective
Oct 14
Fri
10:30a -- 4:00p
Howe Ctr, 4th Flr
Bissinger Room
DIMACS Fall Mixer II
Open to all members of the Stevens community.
For further program information:   click here >>
Registration Requested;   RSVP to Maria Sohor (sohor@dimacs.rutgers.edu) by October 11
Oct 18
Tue
4:00pm
Peirce 218
Mathematical Sciences - Seminar in Nonlinear Systems
Pavel Dubovski, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Phase Transition and Uniqueness in the Coagulation-Fragmentation Kinetics
Oct 19
Wed
11:00am
Burchard 715
Physics Colloquium
Robert Blick, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Field Emission in Nano-Electrochemical Systems
Oct 19
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
Brane Mozetic,
TBA
Oct 19
Wed
1:30pm
McLean 119
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Scott Mittman, Rutgers University
The Reaction of Soil Microbial Communities to Copper Using a Newly Developed Chemically Defined Medium
Oct 21
Fri
1:30pm
McLean 515
Chemistry & Chemical Biology -- Special Seminar
John Moses, University of London
Biomimetic studies towards Natural Product synthesis
Oct 24
Mon
2:00pm
Burchard 124
Computer Science - Security Seminar
R. Sekar, SUNY Stony Brook
Taint-Enhanced Policy Enforcement: A Practical Approach for Defeating a Wide Range of Attacks
Oct 26
Wed
11:00am
Burchard 715
Physics Colloquium
Lev Tsimring, Institute for Nonlinear Sciences, UC, San Diego
Delay Induced Stochastic Oscillations in Gene Regulation
Oct 26
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
Harold Dorn, Department of History
Jews and Genes: the Khazar Hypothesis
Oct 26
Wed
3:00pm
Kidde 228
Stevens Debate Club
Religion Inhibits Science
Refreshments will be available.
Oct 27
Thu
2:00pm
Peirce 220
Generic Complexity Seminar
Alexei Miasnikov, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Generic Complexity
Oct 31
Mon
2:00pm
Burchard 124
Computer Science - Vision Seminar
Adam Finkelstein, Princeton University
Modeling by Drawing
Oct 31
Mon
3:00pm
Kidde 104
Stevens Society of Mathematicians - Seminar
Rebecca Wright, Department of Computer Science
Privacy-Preserving Data Mining in the Fully Distributed Model
November  
Nov 2
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
Claudia Hart, Department of Art, Music and Technology
Virtual Sex: The Female Body in Digital Art
Nov 2
Wed
1:30pm
McLean 119
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Richard A. Clark, SUNY at Stony Brook
TBA
Nov 4
Fri
11:00am
Peirce 220
Algebra and Cryptography Seminar
Jean-Camille Birget, Rutgers University
Graphical Passwords
Nov 7
Mon
2:00pm
Burchard 124
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Sam Owre, SRI International
Formalizing Strand Spaces in PVS
Nov 8
Tue
4:00pm
Peirce 218
Mathematical Sciences - Seminar in Stochastic Systems
Efe A. Ok, New York University
Delay Aversion
Nov 9
Wed
11:00am
Burchard 715
Physics Colloquium
Kurt Becker, Department of Physics and Engineering Physics
Microplasmas, a New World of Low-Temperature Plasmas
Nov 9
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
Edward Foster, Department of History
A Scandal at Oxford: Administrative Pressures and the Right to Say What You Mean
Nov 9
Wed
1:30pm
McLean 119
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Raisa Talroze, University of California
Induction and Stabilization of Mesophases in Macromolecular Systems with Non-Covalent Interaction
Nov 14
Mon
9:00am
Howe Ctr, 4th Flr
Bissinger Room
Stevens / Columbia / IBM   Security and Privacy Day
Contact Professor Dominic Duggan (dduggan@cs.stevens.edu) for more details.
Nov 15
Tue
4:00pm
Peirce 218
Mathematical Sciences - Seminar in Nonlinear Systems
Paul Wright, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
The Notorious Piston Problem and Some Recent Results Obtained by Averaging
Nov 16
Wed
1:30pm
McLean 119
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Robert Lu, US Food and Drug Administration
New nanocarriers mimicking lipoprotein structure for delivery of DNA vaccine
Nov 17
Thu
2:00pm
Peirce 220
Generic Complexity Seminar
Ayan_Mahalanobis, Department of Mathematical Sciences
The Cramer-Shoup Cryptosystem
Nov 21
Mon
2:00pm
Burchard 124
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Adrian Spalka, University of Bonn, Germany
A PKI-Variant for Secure Communication in a Local Group
Nov 21
Mon
3:00pm
Kidde 104
Stevens Society of Mathematicians - Seminar
Michael Zabarankin, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Riemann Boundary-value Problems for Analytic Functions in Hydrodynamics of 3D Stokes Flows
Nov 22
Tue
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 4th Flr
Bissinger Room
Center for Science Writings
George Johnson, Author and New York Times reporter
Searching for Miss Leavitt
A light lunch will be served beginning at 12:30pm.
Nov 22
Tue
4:00pm
Peirce 218
Mathematical Sciences - Seminar in Nonlinear Systems
Itai Shafrir, Technion, Israel
On a Class of Vector-valued Singular Perturbation Problems
Nov 28
Mon
2:00pm
Burchard 124
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Arnie Rosenthal, Mitre Corporation
Scalable Access Policy Administration: Opinions and a Research Agenda
Nov 29
Tue
4:00pm
Peirce 218
Mathematical Sciences - Seminar in Nonlinear Systems
Joel Rogers, Brooklyn Polytechnic University
Function Spaces with Norms Given by Capacities of Level Sets and the Regularity of Solutions of some PDE's
Nov 30
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
Maria Plochocki-Williams, Department of Literature
Letters in the Detective Novel
Nov 30
Wed
1:30pm
McLean 119
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Peter Ma, University of Michigan
Tricks to turn polymers into bone
Nov 30
Wed
3:00pm
Howe Ctr, 4th Flr
Bissinger Room
Humanities Forum
Lisa Dolling, Department of Philosophy
Panel Discussion: Does Sex Equal Gender?
Dec 1
Thu
2:00pm
Peirce 220
Generic Complexity Seminar
Igor Lysenok, Russian Academy of Sciences
Introduction to Equations in Words and Free Groups
December  
Dec 5
Mon
2:00pm
Burchard 124
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Yiqun Lisa Yin, independent security consultant
TBA
Dec 6
Tue
4:00pm
Peirce 218
Mathematical Sciences - Seminar in Nonlinear Systems
Marco Lenci, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Newtonian Random Walks in 2D
Dec 7
Wed
11:00am
Burchard 715
Physics Colloquium
Saskia Fischer, Universitat Ruhr-Bohum
Direct energy spectroscopy of superpositioned quantum wire states
Dec 8
Thu
3:00pm
Burchard 715
Physics Colloquium
Markku Jaaskelainen, University of Arizona
Nonlinear Sagnac interferometry with guided matter waves
Dec 9
Fri
11:00am
Peirce 220
Algebra and Cryptography Seminar
Alexandra Boldyreva, Georgia Institute of Technology
Public-Key Encryption in a Multi-User Setting: Privacy, Anonymity and Efficiency
Dec 14
Wed
4:30--6:30pm
Howe Ctr, 4th Flr
Bissinger Room
Center for Science Writings
Andrew C. Revkin, Science and Environment Reporter, New York Times
The Melting Arctic and Other Tales of Global Warming
Refreshments will be served.
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