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"