Charles V. Schaefer, Jr.
    School of Engineering and Science
 
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September  
Aug 28
Mon
2:00pm
Babbio 110
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Eiji Okamoto, Tsukuba University, Japan
Pairing-Based Cryptography
Aug 29
Tue
4:00pm
Morton 205
Nonlinear Systems Seminar
Michael Kovalyov, University of Alberta, Canada
Properties of some non-soliton wave-particle solutions of integrable equations
Sep 6
Wed
1:30pm
Burchard 124
Control of Quantum Systems Seminar
Markku Jasskelainen, Dept. of Physics & Engineering Physics
Coherent acceleration of matter waves in circular waveguides
Sep 6
Wed
3:30--5:00pm
Babbio 104
Art, Music & Technology - Media Industry Forum
Duda Penteado, Director of Progamming, Hope Center Art Academy
Beauty for Ashes, In Search of Peace
Sep 11
Mon
2:00pm
Babbio 110
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Jeff Nickerson, Stevens Institute of Technology
Security in Context: Recent Research in Sensor Placement
Sep 13
Wed
1:00pm
Peirce 216
Humanities Forum
Ed Foster, Department of History
What They Saw Wasn't What They Got: Hollywood, The Cold War, and Emblems of Desire
Sep 13
Wed
1:30pm
Burchard 124
Control of Quantum Systems Seminar
Svetlana Malinovskaya, Dept. of Physics & Engineering Physics
Control of CARS for Imaging Biological Structure and Dynamics
Sep 13
Wed
2:00pm
McLean 119
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Richard A. Clark, SUNY at Stony Brook, School of Medicine
Fibronectin contains 3 promiscuous, but selective, growth factor (GF)-binding domains that tether active GF to the ECM: Implications for tissue engineering
Sep 13
Wed
4:00pm
Howe Ctr, 2nd Flr
Faculty Club
Department of Philosophy
Robert Gilman, Dept of Mathematical Sciences
What do Mathematicians Speak of When They Talk About Space?
Sep 20
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
Steve Bloom, Dept of Computer Science
Bertrand Russell: My Fallen Idol
Sep 20
Wed
3:00pm
Kidde 104
Stevens Society of Mathematicians
Ionut Florescu, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Mini-lecture Series in Stochastic Integration
Sep 20
Wed
4:00pm
Babbio 122
Center for Science Writings
Mark Fischetti, Contributing Editor, Scientific American
Solving Katrina: Preventing the Next Disaster
Sep 25
Mon
2:00pm
Babbio 110
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Goce Jakimoski, Stevens Institute of Technology
Primitives and Schemes for Non-atomic Information Authentication
Sep 27
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University
The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
Sep 27
Wed
1:30pm
Burchard 124
Control of Quantum Systems Seminar
Tom Weinacht, SUNY at Stony Brook
Coherent Learning Control of Atomic and Molecular Dynamics
Sep 27
Wed
2:00pm
McLean 119
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Gill Diamond, UMDNJ, New Jersey Dental School
Antimicrobial Peptides in the Airway
Sep 27
Wed
3:30--5:00pm
Babbio 104
Art, Music & Technology - Media Industry Forum
Scott Hull, Recording Engineer and Producer
The Hull Truth: Platinum Mastering for Major Stars
October  
Oct 2
Mon
3:00pm
Lieb 319
Note the time
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Ionut Florescu, Dept of Mathematical Sciences
Statistical approach to the Decision Diffie-Hellman Problem
Oct 4
Wed
11:00am
Babbio 104
Nanotechnology Seminar
Bachua Gu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Surface enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for chemical and biological detection
Oct 10
Tue
3:00pm
Lieb 319
Note the time
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Murray Elder, Dept of Mathematical Sciences
Stack Sorting and Permutation Patterns
Oct 11
Wed
11:00am
Babbio 104
Nanotechnology Seminar
Gary Eden, University of Illinois
New opportunities for plasma science in nonequilibrium low temperature plasmas confined to microcavities: There's plenty of room at the bottom
Oct 11
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
Harold Dorn, Department of History
Soviet Philo-Semitism
Oct 11
Wed
1:30pm
Burchard 124
Control of Quantum Systems Seminar
Stefan Strauf, Dept of Physics & Engineering Physics
Controlling light-matter interaction at the nanoscale - novel nanophotonic devices
Oct 11
Wed
2:00pm
McLean 119
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Jiwen, Chen, Schering - Plough Research Institute
Seeing is Believing: Application of Imaging Mass Spectrometry for Drug Discovery
Oct 11
Wed
3:30--5:00pm
Babbio 104
Art, Music & Technology - Media Industry Forum
Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus, LoVid
High Art with LoVid
Oct 16
Mon
2:00pm
Babbio 110
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Ali Mili, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Next Generation Software Engineering Perspectives from Ultra Large Scale Systems
Oct 18
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
Garry Dobbins, Department of Philosophy
God: Wanted Dead or Alive
Oct 18
Wed
1:30pm
Burchard 124
Control of Quantum Systems Seminar
Herschel Rabitz, Princeton University
Controlling Quantum Dynamics Phenomena with Shaped Laser Pulses Acting as Using Photonic Reagents
Oct 18
Wed
2:00pm
McLean 119
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Steven O. Smith, SUNY
Cell membrane binding proteins and peptides (tentative)
Oct 18
Wed
2:30pm
Lieb 319
Note the time
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Jacob Ratkiewicz, Indiana University
Badvertisements: Stealthy Click-Fraud with Oblivious Accomplices
Oct 18
Wed
4:00--7:00pm
Howe Ctr, 4th Flr
Bissinger Room
Center for Science Writings
Michio Kaku, City University of New York
The End of Science: a debate with Michio Kaku
Oct 23
Mon
2:00pm
Babbio 110
Computer Science - Vision Seminar
Scott Lewis, Firaxis Games
Immersion, Realism, and Abstraction in Video Game Design
Oct 23
Mon
3:00pm
Lieb 319
Note the time
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Alex Tsow, Indiana University
Warkitting: the Drive-by Subversion of Wireless Home Routers
Oct 25
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
Larry Levine, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Laying the Foundations of Orthodox Judaism in the U.S: 1880-1945
Oct 25
Wed
1:30pm
Burchard 124
Control of Quantum Systems Seminar
Robert Gilman, Dept of Mathematical Sciences
Quantum Algorithms
Oct 25
Wed
2:00pm
McLean 119
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Michael Hadjiargyrou, SUNY at Stony Brook
Electrospun Biodegradable Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering
Oct 25
Wed
3:30--5:00pm
Babbio 104
Art, Music & Technology - Media Industry Forum
David Weiss, Editor, MIX Magazine
International Music Technology Journalism
November  
Nov 1
Wed
11:00am
Babbio 104
Nanotechnology Seminar
Stefan Strauf, Dept of Physics & Engr Physics
Controlling light-matter interaction at the nanoscale: novel nanophotonic devices
Nov 1
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
M. G. Narasimhan, National Institute of Advanced Studies, India
The Role of Logic in Indian Philosophy
Nov 1
Wed
1:30pm
Burchard 124
Control of Quantum Systems Seminar
Gerhard Paulus, University of Texas A&M
Attosecond double-slit experiment
Nov 1
Wed
2:00pm
McLean 119
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Tatyana Polenova, University of Delaware
Magic Angle Spinning NMR Spectroscopy of Proteins, Protein Interfaces and Metal Sites in Metalloenzymes
Nov 1
Wed
4:00pm
Howe Ctr, 2nd Flr
Faculty Club
Department of Philosophy
Ebon Fisher, Dept of Art, Music & Technology
Art and Science are Dead: Nurturing Living Systems and Living Ideas as a New Cultural Paradigm
Nov 6
Mon
2:00pm
Babbio 110
Computer Science - Vision Seminar
Sharon Huang, Lehigh University
Shape Registration and Establishing Correspondences in Implicit Spaces
Nov 8
Wed
11:00am
Babbio 104
Nanotechnology Seminar
Peter Searson, Johns Hopkins University
Multifunctional nanowires
Nov 8
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
Martin Finkelstein, Seton Hall University
TBD
Nov 8
Wed
2:00pm
Burchard 715
Control of Quantum Systems Seminar
Kunal Das, Fordham University
Interaction-Induced Adiabatic Quantum Pumping of Spin-Singlets
Nov 8
Wed
3:30--5:00pm
Babbio 104
Art, Music & Technology - Media Industry Forum
Mandy Morrison, Artist
Cultural Structures and Archetypes
Nov 8
Wed
4:00pm
Babbio 122
Inter-Religious Forum
Panel Discussion moderated by Susan Schept, Dept of Social Sciences
The Patriarch Abraham: Muslim, Jewish, Roman Catholic, and Lutheran perspectives
Nov 8
Wed
5:00pm
Burchard 430
Quantum Electron Physics & Technology Seminar
Michael Bonitz, Kiel University, Germany
Strong Coulomb correlations in electron-hole systems
Nov 13
Mon
9:00am-5:00pm
Stevens / Columbia / IBM Research: Security and Privacy Day
To be held at IBM
Details to follow.
Nov 15
Wed
11:00am
Babbio 104
Nanotechnology Seminar
Myriam Sarachik, City College of New York
Molecular nanomagnets
Nov 15
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
Bernard Gallois, Dept of Chemical, Biomedical, and Materials Engineering
The Blank Plate: Beans, Genes and Darwinian Gastronomy
Nov 15
Wed
1:30pm
Burchard 124
Control of Quantum Systems Seminar
Susanne Yelin, University of Connecticut and Harvard ITAMP
Quantum computation using single and ensemble polar molecules
Nov 15
Wed
3:00pm
McLean 104
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Steve Granick, University of Illinois
Nanoparticle-assisted fun with phospholipid vesicles and other novel colloidal particles
Jointly with the Dept of Chemical, Biomedical, and Materials Engineering
Nov 15
Wed
3:30--5:00pm
Babbio 104
Art, Music & Technology - Media Industry Forum
David Moulton, Moulton Laboratories
Psycho Acoustics of Transducer Design and Marketing
Nov 27
Mon
2:00pm
Babbio 110
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Eran Yahav, IBM Research
Correctness-Preserving Derivation of Concurrent Garbage Collection Algorithms
Nov 29
Wed
1:30pm
Burchard 124
Control of Quantum Systems Seminar
Paul Brumer, University of Toronto
Recent Developments in the Coherent Control of Molecular Processes
December  
Dec 4
Mon
Canceled Computer Science - Security Seminar
Naftaly Minsky, Rutgers University
Interaction Control: Unification of Access Control and Coordination in Distributed Systems
Dec 6
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
Pierre Zoberman, Université de Paris XIII
Literature and Ideology: The Case of Early Modern France
Dec 6
Wed
2:00pm
McLean 119
Chemistry & Chemical Biology - Graduate Student Defense
Presenters to be announced at a later date.
Dec 6
Wed
2:00--5:00pm
DeBaun
  Auditorium
Art, Music & Technology
Students from Art & Technology and Music & Technology Programs
First Annual Showcase
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