SIGMA XI LUNCHEON TALKS
SPRING 2000
Please contact Chris Golé at cgole@math.smith.edu for further information. Fill in this form if you want to give a talk. Click here for past schedules.
February 1: Steven A. Williams and Sandra J. Laney
Topic: The River Blindness Vaccine Project in Cameroons, West Africa
February 8: Craig Thomas and Charles Schweik
(Center for Public Policy and Administration, Umass)
Topic: Lizards and Landsat: Using Remote Sensing Data to Monitor Habitat Conservation Planning
February: 15: Charles (Chuck) Johnson
Topic: "Hey Chuck, What's a Bond? Understanding Fixed Income Investments"
February 22: Piotr Decowski
Topic: Brief History of Mass
February 29: Dietrich Lueerssen
Topic: Light Out of Semiconductors: Why Defects Can Be Desirable
March 7: Eric Hurley
Topic: Cognitive Development and Communalism
in Africa-American Culture
March 21: Jim Johnson
Topic: Analyzing your Lifestyle: Fear or Fun
March 28:Virginia Hayssen
Topic: Seminal Issues and Pregnant Pauses
April 4: Robert Burger
Topic: Really old mountains in Montana: what do we know and how do we know it?
April 11: Dick White
Topic: Galileo and the Environmental Revolution
April 18 : Pau Atela, Marjorie Senechal, Ileana Streinu & Greg Young
Topic: I build and I understand
April 25 : Margaret Anderson
Topic: Jacobson's organ and A&E's "Love Chronicles"