For the fall semester of 2009 Sigma Xi will be meeting on Tuesdays for lunch at the College Club
from September 15 though December 15. 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
|
|
September 15
|
John Brady
Department of Geosciences
|
Siphons, Water Clocks, and Exponential Decay |
|
September 22
|
Marjorie Senechal
Mathematics
|
From Board Games to
Complexity |
|
September 29
|
Bronwyn Bleakley
Biological Sciences
|
Evolutionary Genetics of Cooperation and Cannibalism |
|
October 6
|
Gail Scordilis
Educational Outreach
|
20 years of the SSEP and the new Center for Science
Outreach |
|
October 13
|
Autumn Recess
|
No Talk |
|
October 20
|
Denise McKay
Engineering
|
Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies |
|
October 27
|
Christine White-Ziegler
Program in Biochemistry
|
A Tale of Two Temperatures: How bacteria adapt to growing in you and
other places you might care about |
|
November 3
|
Ronny Alexandersson
Environmental Science and Policy Program
|
Teaching outdoor in Uppsala and at Smith College - Lab, excursions and Biology Student Teachers |
|
November 10
|
Andrew J. Guswa
Engineering
|
Out in the Rain: Investigations at the Ada and Archibald MacLeish Field Station |
|
November 17
|
Carolyn Wetzel
Biological Sciences
|
In search of a plant protease function |
|
November 24
|
Thanksgiving Recess
|
No Talk |
|
December 1
|
Piotr Decowski
Department of Physics
|
Mysterious neutrinos - the most abundant form of matter |
|
December 8
|
John Burk
Biological Sciences
|
Gardens 2009: Germany and Spain |
|
December 15
|
Allen Curran
Geology
|
Report on a Scientific Workshop in China (Tentative title) |
