DBI November 2006 Events
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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Organic/Inorganic Chemistry Seminar 4:00 pm
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DSU Nobel Laureate Public Lecture 11:00 am

DBI Luncheon Seminar 12:00 pm

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Chemical Engineering Seminar 10:00 am

POSE Seminar 3:00 pm

Biochemistry Seminar 4:00 pm

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Analytical/Physical Chemistry Seminar 4:00 pm
7
Election Day
University Closed

Condensed Matter Seminar 2:00 pm

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Materials Science and Engineering Seminar 10:00 am

Mathematical Sciences Topology Seminar 3:45 pm

Biological Sciences Seminar 4:00 pm

Organic/Inorganic Chemistry Seminar 4:00 pm

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Mathematical Science Applied Math Seminar 10:30 am
10
POSE Seminar 3:00 pm

Mathematical Science Discrete Math Seminar 4:30 pm

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Chemistry/Biochemistry Interface Seminar 12:30 pm

DSU Anthony C. Janetos Lecture 7:00 pm

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IDT Vendor Show and Seminar 11:00 am

Organic/Inorganic Chemistry Seminar 4:00 pm

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DBI Luncheon Seminar 12:00 pm
17
Mechanical Engineering Seminar 12:15 pm

Biochemistry Seminar 4:00 pm

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Analytical/Physical Chemistry Seminar 4:00 pm
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Chemistry/Biochemistry Interface Seminar 12:30 pm
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Thanksgiving Day
University Closed
24
Thanksgiving Recess
University Closed
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Cyber Monday

Mathematical Sciences Seminar 2:00 pm

Mathematical Sciences Seminar 2:30 pm

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Mathematical Sciences Seminar 1:45 pm
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Bioscience Breakfast 7:30

Materials Science and Engineering Seminar 10:00 am

Mathematical Sciences Seminar 3:45 pm

Biological Sciences Seminar 4:00 pm

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DBI Luncheon Seminar 12:00 pm

DBI Luncheon Seminar Series

All Luncheon Seminars will be held on Thursdays
In Delaware Biotechnology Institute Conference Room 102
from 12:00pm – 1:00pm unless noted otherwise
(Lunch begins at 11:45am)
Events Schedule

November 2

“Environmental microbiology in the informatics era: lessons from extreme environments”
Joe Grzymski, Post Doctoral Fellow, Desert Research Institute, Nevada

November 9

Cancelled

November 16

“Unique Properties of Nano-Engineered Optical Materials”
Sylvain Cloutier, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
UD Electrical & Computer Engineering

November 30

12:00pm – 1:00pm, DBI Conference Room 102
Diana Haddad, Ph.D., Assistant Professor - Delaware State University – Dept. of Biology
"Mining the Plasmodium falciparum proteome for the identification of malaria vaccine candidates"
Lunch begins at 11:45am

Bioscience Breakfast

more information >>

November 29

7:30am-9:00am, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
Special Guest – Lt. Governor John C. Carney, Jr.
A networking event bringing together bioscience-focused individuals to foster collaboration and growth of the Delaware bioscience community

IDT Vendor Show and Seminar

November 15

11:00am – 1:00pm, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
Mitchell Gore, Ph.D., Regional Manager, Integrated DNA Technologies
“Recent Developments in SI RNA and Anti -Sensing Gene Knockdown”
Lunch and refreshments will be provided
Host:  Milton Berrios – IDT mberrios@idtdna.com

Biological Sciences Seminars

http://www.udel.edu/bio/

November 8

4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
Dr. Ruth Ann Word, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
“Transcriptional Regulation of Cervical Competency during Pregnancy”

November 29

4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
Dr. Kathleen Ignatoski, Department of Urology - University of Michigan Health Systems
“erbB Receptors in Bone Metastasis”

Biochemistry Seminars

http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/sem-b.htm

November 3

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab – UD Campus
Professor Dongping Zhong
TBA
Host: Junghuei Chen

November 17

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab – UD Campus
Professor James Stivers
TBA
Host: Eugene Mueller

Chemistry/Biochemistry Interface Seminars

http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/sem-cb.htm

November 14

12:30-1:30pm, 210 Brown Lab – UD Campus
Dr. Kenneth A. Jacobson, Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, NIDDK, NIH
“Protective Rule of Extracellular Purines: Medical Chemistry of Adenosine and P2Y Receptors”

November 21

12:30-1:30pm, 210 Brown Lab – UD Campus
Dr. John Kozarich, President, Activx Biosciences Corp
TBA

Analytical/Physical Chemistry Seminars

http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/sem-ap.ht

November 6

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab
Professor Geoffrey Smith
“Are Organic Aerosols 'Radically' Altered in the Atmosphere? Kinetics and Product Studies Using an Aerosol Mass Spectrometer”
Host: Murray Johnston, mvj@udel.edu

November 20

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab
Professor Leslie Butler
“3D Chemical Analysis of Materials with X-ray and Neutron Tomography”
Host: Cecil Dybowski, dybowski@chem.udel.edu

Organic/Inorganic Chemistry Seminars

http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/sem-io.htm

November 1

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab – UD Campus
Professor Terri Odom
TBA
Klaus Theopold

November 8

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab – UD Campus
Professor Veronika Szala
“Metals in Biology: Copper and the Amyloid-beta peptide of Alzheimer's Disease”
Host: Charles Riordan

November 15

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab – UD Campus
Professor Carston (Rick) Wagner
TBA
Joel Schneider

Chemical Engineering Seminar

www.che.udel.edu/seminars

November 3

10:00am, 102/103 Colburn Laboratory – UD Campus
Refreshments are available at 9:45am
Dr. Kyle Vanderlick, Princeton University
“Marring, Merging, and Manipulating Lipid Membranes”

Materials Science and Engineering Seminars

http://www.mseg.udel.edu/

November 8

10:00 – 11:00am, 102 Colburn Lab – UD Campus
Dr. Karl Amundson, E Ink Corporation
“Towards Electronic Paper”
* Light refreshments will be available *
Host: Bob Opila

November 29

10:00 – 11:00am, 102 Colburn Lab – UD Campus
David James, Rodel
TBA
Host: Bob Opila

POSE Seminars

November 3

3:00pm, 203 Robinson Hall – UD Campus
Dr. Bruce Lipphardt, UD College of Marine and Earth Studies
“Status of the Delaware Bay mouth HF radar network”
(Refreshments will be served following the seminar)

November 10

3:00pm, 203 Robinson Hall – UD Campus
Chet Grosch, Old Dominion University - Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography
“Langmuir Turbulence in Shallow Water: Large Eddy Simulation”
(Refreshments will be served following the seminar)

Condensed Matter Seminar

November 7

2:00pm, 215 Sharp Lab – UD Campus
"Spin Transport Effects in Heusler Alloys"
Thomas Ambrose, Seagate Research - Pittsburgh, PA
Host: John Xiao

Delaware State University Nobel Laureate Public Lecture

November 2

11:00am, EH Auditorium, Delaware State University
Professor Horst Störmer - winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics
"Nanoscience: What's That?"
In this public lecture, Professor Stormer will magnify and explore the wondrous nano-world and reveal its enormous potential to shape our future. The lecture is free and open to the public. Groups planning to bring approximately 14 or more people are requested to phone 302-857-6500, so we can ensure seating is available. Otherwise no reservations are required.
For additional information contact:  Beverly Hartline, Dean at Phone: 302-857-6500

DSU Anthony C. Janetos Lecture

November 14

7:00pm, Longwood Auditorium, School of Management Building
Delaware State University, Dover
Host: Stephen Taylor, Ph.D., Delaware State University
Free and open to the public; no registration necessary

Mechanical Engineering Seminar

November 17

12:15pm - 1:15pm, 114 Spencer Lab – UD Campus
Dr. Kumbakonam Rajagopal, Texas A&M University
“WHAT IS A FLUID AND HOW DO WE MODEL THEM?”

Mathematical Sciences Seminars

November 8

Topology Seminar
3:45pm, Purnell Hall Rm. 238 – UD Campus
Janusz Lysko, Widener University
“Filament sets in homogenous continua, Part 3”

November 9

Applied Math Seminar
10:30am, Ewing Hall Rm. 436 – UD Campus
Petri Fast, LLNL
TBA

November 10

Discrete Math Seminar
4:30pm, Ewing Hall Rm. 436 – UD Campus
TS Michael, United States Naval Academy
“Math and Sports: Duplicate Bridge Ratings and Diagonally Dominant Matrices”

November 27

Probability Seminar
2:00pm, 341 Smith Hall – UD Campus
Jason Schweinsberg, UC San Diego
“The loop-erased random walk and the uniform spanning tree on the four-dimensional
discrete torus”

November 27

Analysis and PDE Seminar
2:30pm, 436 Ewing Hall – UD Campus
Dr. Andreas Rathsfeld, WIAS, Berlin, Germany
“Sensitivity analysis for Scatterometry and Reconstruction of Periodic Grating Structures”
Host: George Hsiao

November 28

Applied Math Seminar
1:45pm, 436 Ewing – UD Campus
Michael Shay, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Delaware
TBA

November 29

Topology Seminar
3:45pm, 238 Purnell Hall – UD Campus
David Bellamy, University of Delaware
“The set function T and contractibility of continua”