WILLIAMS COLLEGE - SCIENCE CALENDAR
Friday, October 10, 2008
The Science Calendar is posted on Friday.
Please provide future events as soon as the information becomes available,
but no later than 4:00 pm on Thursday, the day before posting.
Contact: Kate.H.Fletcher@williams.edu
Refreshments are served at many of the Science Center events.
Friday, October 10
Mathematics and Statistics Department Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Professor Bernhard Klingenberg, Williams College
Title: Simultaneous Confidence Bounds for the Relative Risk
Time/Place: 1 pm, Room 106, Bronfman
Friday, October 10
Biology Honors Students Presentations
Time/Place: 1:10 pm, Room 112, Thompson Biology Laboratory
Friday, October 10
Joint Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Speaker: Prof Marek Demianski, Warsaw University and Visiting Professor of Astronomy at Williams College
Title: TBA
Time/Place:
2:30 pm, Room 205, Thompson Physical Laboratory
Wednesday, October 15
Mathematics and Statistics Department Colloquium
Speaker: Edward Newkirk '09, Williams College
Title: Lattices and Lagrange
Time/Place: 1 pm, Room 106, Bronfman
Friday, October 17
Biology Honors Students Presentations
Time/Place: 1:10 pm, Room 112, Thompson Biology Laboratory
Tuesday, October 21
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: Steve Miller, Mathematics and Statistics Department
Title: Benford's Law and Fraud Detection, or: Why the IRS Should Care About Number Theory!
For abstract see http://www.williams.edu/go/math/sjmiller/public_html/lunchtalk
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory
Wednesday, October 22
Take Charge: How to Save on Energy Costs
Title: Solar Power Options with
Speaker:
Chris Kilfoyle and Craig Robertson
Time/Place:
6:30 pm, Williamstown Library
Friday, October 24
Chemistry/Biology/BiGP Colloquium
Speaker: Professor Carthene Bazemore-Walker, Brown University
Title: TBA
Time/Place: 1:10 pm, Room 202, Thompson Chemistry Laboratory
Thursday and Friday, October 23, 24
Sigma Xi Research Lectures
Speaker: Prof Chip Lovett, Chemistry Department, Williams College
Title: DNA Repair
Part I: DNA Repair in Mutations, Disease, and Aging
Part II: Learning about DNA Repair from Bacteria
Time/Place: 4:15 pm, Room 123, Thompson Chemistry Laboratory
Friday, October 24
Joint Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Speaker: Prof Anthony Dinsmore, University of Massachusetts
Title: TBA
Time/Place: 2:30 pm, Room 205, Thompson Physical Laboratory
Tuesday, October 28
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: Lee Park, Chemistry
Title: Measuring and Manipulating at the Nano- and Microscale. Surface Patterning Methods and AFM-based Techniques
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory
Wednesday, October 29
Take Charge: How to Save on Energy Costs
Speaker: Nancy Nylen
Title: Lowering Your Electric Bill
Time/Place: 6:30 pm, Williamstown Library
Friday, October 31
Chemistry Department Colloquium, Class of 1960 Scholars Speaker
Speaker: Professor David Ginger, University of Washington
Title: TBA
Time/Place: 1:10 pm, Room 202, Thompson Chemistry Laboratory
Friday, October 31
Joint Physics and Astronomy colloquium
Speaker: Prof Christina (Reynolds) Dunn '97, Bennington College
Title: TBA
Time/Place: 2:30 pm, Room 205, Bronfman
Tuesday, November 4
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: Morgan McGuire, Computer Science
Title:
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory
Friday, November 7
Joint Physics and Astronomy colloquium
Speaker: Andrew Speck '00, Harvard University
Title: TBA
Time/Place:
2:30 pm Room 205, Thompson Physical Laboratory
Friday, November 7
Biology Alumni Research Reunion
Panel Discussion
Time/Place: 2:30 pm, Room 112, Thompson Biology Laboratory
Poster Presentation
Time/Place: 3:15 pm, Biology Lobby
Tuesday, November 11
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory
Friday, November 14
Biology Seminar
Speaker: Stephen Bunnell, Tufts University
Title: TBA
Time/Place: 1:10 pm, Thompson Biology Laboratory 112
Friday, November 14
Joint Physics and Astronomy colloquium
Speaker: Prof Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University
Title: TBA
Time/Place:
2:30 pm, Room 205, Thompson Physical Laboratory
Tuesday, November 18
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: Chris Goh, Chemistry
Title: TBA
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory
Thursday, November 20
Psychology Class of 1960 Scholars Colloquium
Speaker: Kim Wallen, Emory University
Title: Monkey Tales: Are Primate Behavioral Sex Differences Gender Differences?
Time/Place: 4:00 pm, Room 105, Bronfman Science Center
Friday, November 21
BIMO Class of 1960 Scholar Speaker
Speaker: Philip Stahl, Washington University, St. Louis
Title: TBA
Place/time: 1:10 pm, Room 112, Thompson Biology Laboratory
Friday, November 21
Joint Physics and Astronomy colloquium
Speaker: Prof Emily Maher, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Title: TBA
Time/Place:
2:30 pm, Room 205, Thompson Physical Laboratory
Friday, December 5
Joint Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Speaker: Prof David Griffiths, Reed College
Title: TBA
Time/Place: 2:30 pm, Room 205, Thompson Physical Laboratory
Tuesday, February 3
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: Laurie Heatherington, Psychology
Title:
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory
Tuesday, February 10
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: Martha Marvin, Neuroscience
Title:
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory
Tuesday, February 17
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: Brent Heeringa, Computer Science
Title:
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory
Tuesday, February 24
Tuesday Science Lunch
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Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory
Tuesday, March 3
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: Susan Loepp, Mathematics and Statistics Department
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Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory
Tuesday, March 10
Tuesday Science Lunch
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Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory
Tuesday, March 17
Tuesday Science Lunch
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Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory
Tuesday, April 7
Tuesday Science Lunch
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Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory