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Day

Week

Month

Term

Thursday, March 1, 2012

All Day Ongoing

Registration for Spring Term 2011–12

Academic

7:30am – 8:30am

POWER Vinyasa FLOW Yoga Class

Braun Athletic Center, Aerobics Room

10:00am – 1:00pm

Household Equipment Loan Pool (HELP)

234 S. Catalina Ave.

10:30am – 11:30am

Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding Building

12:00pm – 1:00pm

ESE & Society Discussion Group

South Mudd 162

Linking Knowledge with Action: an approach to science grantmaking

Kai Lee, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation,

12:30pm – 1:30pm

AltC-PhD Speaker: The Science of Art Conservation - Getty Conservation Center

Schlinger 101

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Radiation Safety Orientation

Keith Spalding Building

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Baxter B125

How Social Information Modulates Human Decision Making

Hauke Heekeren, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Free University, Berlin,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

New concepts in molecular and energy transport within carbon nanotubes: near infrared sensors, resonant ion channels, and thermopower waves

Michael Strano, Professor, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Computer Science Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

How local is the local field potential?

Gaute T. Einevoll, Computational Neuroscience Group, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Informal Biology seminar

Broad 100

Quantitative microscopy of mobility and binding in vivo

Malte Wachsmuth, Cell Biology & Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Labortory (EMBL),

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 206

Computational Models for Multi-Scale Modeling of Deformation and Failure in Polycrystalline and Poly-phase Materials

Somnath Ghosh, Director, Computational Mechanics Research Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

STABILITY AND COMPLEXITY IN MODEL BANKING SYSTEMS

Robert May, Lord May of Oxford, Fellow of Merton College, The University of Oxford,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Archaeologies of Performance: Ritual Movement through Greek Sacred Space

Joan Breton Connelly, Professor of Classics, Art History; Director, NYU Yeronisos Island Excavations, Cyprus, New York University,