Williams College Science Calendar

Friday, November 6, 2009

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 Fletcher

Refreshments are served at some Science Center events.

Friday, November 6
Sigma Xi Research Lectures
Speaker: Dr. Michelle Thaller, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Assistant Director for Science Communication
Part II: On the Precipice of a New Universe: A Review of NASA's Discoveries of the Last Decade
Time/Place: 4:15 pm, Wege Auditorium, Thompson Chemistry Laboratory

Friday, November 6
Biology Seminar
Speaker: Robert Burgess, Jackson Labs
Title: Mouse Models of Heritable Peripheral Neuropathy (Charcot-Marie Tooth Disease)
Time/Place: 1:10 pm, Room 112, TBL

Friday, November 6
Chemistry Colloquium
Speaker: Professor Daniel Aalberts, Williams College
Title: Loopy Stabilization of RNA Loops: How Entropy Creates Order
Time/Place: 1:10 pm, Room 202, Thompson Chemistry Lab

Friday, November 6
Joint Physics and Astronomy colloquium
Speaker: Dan Robb '93, Berry College
Title: Modeling the Growth of a Hexagonal Nanoparticle
Time/Place: 2:30 pm, Room 205, Thompson Physical Laboratory

Monday, November 9
Mathematics and Statistics Department Colloquium
Speaker: Crosby Fish '10, Williams College
Title: Look Out for Number One: Applications of Benford's Law
Time/Place: 1:00 p.m., Room 106, Bronfman

Tuesday, November 10
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: Anne Skinner, Chemistry Department
Title: The Mysterious Middle Stone Age
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory

Tuesday, November 10
Geosciences Dept. Class of 1960 Scholars Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Nancy Rabalais, Louisiana Univ. Marine Consortium
Title: Nutrients: The Other Global Change
Time/Place: 4:00 p.m., Room 105, Clark Hall

Wednesday, November 11
Mathematics and Statistics Department Colloquium
Speaker: Samantha Baldwin '10, Williams College
Title: Likelihood Ratio Test
Time/Place: 1:00 p.m., Room 106, Bronfman

Friday, November 13
Mathematics and Statistics Department Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Michael Daub '08
Title: Geometric Galois Representations
Time/Place: 1:00 p.m., Room 106, Bronfman

Friday, November 13
Biology Seminar
Speaker: Cliff Tabin, Harvard Medical School
Title: TBA
Time/Place: 1:10 pm, Room 112, TBL

Friday, November 13
Joint Physics and Astronomy colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Dave Mathews, University of Rochester Medical School
Title: Predicting the 3D Structure and Dynamics of RNA
Time/Place: 2:30 pm, Room 205, Thompson Physical Laboratory

Monday, November 16
Psychology Class of 1960 Scholars Lecture
Speaker: Jason Mitchell, Harvard University
Title: Using Self to Understand Others: fMRI Studies of Social Cognition
Time/Place: 4:00 pm, Room 105, Bronfman

Tuesday, November 17
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: Mihai Stoiciu, Math/Stat Department
Title: Fractal Sets of Fractional Dimension: Interpolating Between Points and Lines
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory

Friday, November 20
Biology Seminar
Speaker: Charles Mann, Science Writer
Title: TBA
Time/Place: 1:10 pm, Room 112, TBL

Tuesday, December 1
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: Betty Zimmerberg, Psychology Department
Title: TBA
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory

Friday, December 4
Biology Seminar
Speaker: Andy Bass, Cornell University
Title: Talking Heads: Ancestral Origins of Vocal Basis for Acoustic Communication
Time/Place: 1:10 pm, Room 112, TBL

Friday, December 4
Chemistry Colloquium, Class of 1960 Scholars
Speaker: Professor Vy Dong, University of Toronto
Title: Catalytic Transformations of C-H Bonds, Carbon Dioxide, and Simple Olefins
Time/Place: 1:10 pm, Room 202, Thompson Chemistry Lab

Friday, December 4
Joint Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Speaker: Prof. Melissa Eblen-Zayas, Carleton College
Title: TBA
Time/Place: 2:30 p.m., Room 205, Thompson Physical Laboratory

Tuesday, December 8
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory

Tuesday, February 9
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: Amanda Beeson, Mathematics and Statistics Department
Title: TBA
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory

Tuesday, February 16
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory

Tuesday, February 23
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory

Tuesday, March 2
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory

Tuesday, March 9
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: Laurie Heatherington, Psychology Department
Title: TBA
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory

Tuesday, March 16
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory

Tuesday, April 6
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory

Tuesday, April 13
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory

Tuesday, April 20
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory