For the fall semester of 2008, Sigma Xi will be meeting on Tuesdays for lunch at the College Club
from September 16 though December 9. Talks begin at 12:15 pm and are open to all faculty and
staff (and to students by invitation).
The schedule will be revised as talks are added.
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic
|
|
16 September
|
Bob Merritt
Department of Biology
|
"I'm my own Grandpa": Genetics and Marriage Laws |
|
23 September
|
Per Lundgren
EE, Chalmers University of Technology,
Sweden
|
Construction work at the end of the silicon road |
|
30 September
|
Piotr Decowski
Department of Physics
|
Large Hadron Collider at CERN - Large Expectations |
|
7 October
|
Mel Steinberg
Department of Physics
|
19th Century Hijacking: How the Highbrow Theorists Made Electrical Potential Unintelligible to the Rest of Us |
|
14 October
|
Fall Break
|
No Talk |
|
21 October
|
Steven A. Williams
Biological Sciences
|
In Search of the Endangered Black-Footed Ferret: A Tale of
Genes, Parasites and Recovery |
|
28 October
|
(US)^2
Student-Faculty Luncheon
|
In McConnell Foyer |
|
4 November
|
Nat Fortune
Department of Physics
|
If magnets were voters: geographic frustration, fluctuating
opinions, and cooperative solutions to magnetic ordering in a triangular
Heisenberg antiferromagnet |
|
11 November
|
Robert B. Laughlin
Kahn Institute Visitor
(Physics Nobel Prize 1998)
|
The Crime of Reason
|
|
18 November
|
Rob Gutermuth
Astronomy
|
The Right Tool for the Job: New Views of Sun-like Star Formation from
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope |
|
25 November
|
Thanksgiving Recess
|
No Talk |
|
2 December
|
Per Lundgren
EE, Chalmers University of Technology,
Sweden
|
Differences that matter - contrasting higher education in science and
engineering in Sweden |
|
9 December
|
Jim Johnson
Department of Exercise and Sport Studies
|
Can Athletic Injuries be Prevented? |
