Williams College Science Calendar
Friday, March 5, 2010
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Friday, March 5
Mathematics and Statistics Department Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Professor Edward Burger, Mathematics and Statistics Department, Williams College
Title: Asymptotic Results Involving Ostrowski's Decomposition of Natural Numbers
Time/Place: 1:00 p.m., Room 106, Bronfman
Friday, March 5
Biology Seminar
Speaker:Michael Starnbach, Binghamton University
Title: Monitoring T Cell Responses to Bacterial Pathogens
Time/Place: 1:10 p.m., Room 112, Thompson Biology Laboratory
Friday, March 5
Joint Colloquium: Computer Science, Physics and Astronomy
Speakers: Bill Jannen `09 and Professor Daniel Aalberts, Physics
Title: Introducing Zfold: Somewhere over the RNAbow
Time/Place: 2:35 p.m., Room 203, Physics
Monday, March 8
Mathematics and Statistics Department Colloquium
Speaker: Michael Marchinetti '10, Williams College
Title: Hexing Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
Time/Place: 1:00 p.m., Room 106, Bronfman
Tuesday, March 9
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: Laurie Heatherington, Psychology Department
Title: TBA
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory
Wednesday, March 10
Mathematics and Statistics Department Colloquium
Speaker: Anne de Saint Phalle '10, Williams College
Title: The Law of Quadratic Reciprocity
Time/Place: 1:00 p.m., Room 106, Bronfman
Friday, March 12
Mathematics and Statistics Department Colloquium
Speaker: Professor Michael Evans, University of Toronto
Title: Invariant Methods for Bayesian Analyses
Time/Place: 1:00 p.m., Room 106, Bronfman
Friday, March 12
Chemistry Department Colloquium, Class of 1960 Scholars
Speaker: Justin Du Bois, Stanford University
Title: The Guanidinium Toxins: Unique Natural Products in Both Form and Function
Time/Place: 1:10 p.m., Room 202, Thompson Chemistry Lab
Friday, March 12
Joint Physics and Astronomy colloquium
Speaker: Christopher Holmes '03, Harvard University
Title: Smoke Stack to Stomach, Modeling the Global Spread of Mercury Pollution
Time/Place: 2:30 pm, Room 205, TPL
Saturday, March 13
Landscapes of the Mind Symposium
This symposium brings together artists (Susan Aldworth and Katy Schimert) and neuroscientists (Sally and Bennet Shaywitz, Yale University, and Bevil Conway, Wellesley College) for an afternoon of talks and discussions about creativity, visualizing the brain, and finding connections where art and science meet.
Time/Place: 1-5 pm, Williams College Museum of Art
Tuesday, March 16
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory
Tuesday, March 16
Interdisciplinary Gallery Talk
Title: Oedipal Blind Spot
Speakers: Lara Hutson (Biology), Gail Newman (German/Comp Lit) and Meredith Hoppin (Classics)
Time/Place: 4:00 pm, Williams College Museum of Art
Tuesday, April 6
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory
Tuesday, April 6
Psychology Class of 1960 Scholars Lecture
Speaker: Arthur Shapiro, American University
Title: Visual Illusions - Research at the Intersection of Neuroscience, Psychology, Physics, Computer Science, Art, and Philosophy
Time/Place: 7:00 p.m., Room 123, Thompson Chemistry Lab
Friday, April 9
Chemistry Department, Charles Compton Lectureship
Speaker: Professor Paul Tratnyek, Oregon Health & Sciences University
Title: TBA
Time/Place: 1:10 p.m., Room 202, Thompson Chemistry Lab
Friday, April 9
Joint Physics and Astronomy colloquium
Prof. Tiku Majumder
Williams College - Physics Dept.
Title: TBA
Time/Place: 2:30 p.m., Room 205, Thompson Physical Laboratory
Friday, April 9
Computer Science Colloquium
Speaker: Kathi Fisler, Ph.D., Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Title: TBA
Time/Place: 2:35 p.m., Room 206, TCL
Tuesday, April 13
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory
Tuesday, April 13
International Studies Colloquium
Speaker: Rajesh Kochhar, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India
Title: Colonial Use of Science and the Differential Native Responses
Time/Place: 2:35 p.m., Room 10, Weston Hall
Friday, April 16
Chemistry Department Advising Session
Time/Place: 12:30 p.m., Room 202, Thompson Chemistry Lab
Friday, April 16
Joint Physics and Astronomy colloquium
Speaker: Prof. Lori Goldner, University of Massachusetts
Title: TBA
Time/Place: 2:30 pm, Room 205, Thompson Physical Laboratory
Friday, April 16
Computer Science Colloquium
Speaker: Stephen Chong, Ph.D., Harvard University
Title: TBA
Time/Place: 2:35 p.m., Room 206, TCL
Tuesday, April 20
Tuesday Science Lunch
Speaker: Professor Oyindasola Oyelaran, Chemistry Department
Title: TBA
Time/Place: Noon, Room 211, Thompson Biology Laboratory
Thursday and Friday, April 22, 23
Sigma Xi Research Lectures
Speaker: Joan Edwards, Biology Department
Part I: TBA
Part II: TBA
Time/Place: 4:15 p.m., location to be announced
Friday, April 23
Chemistry Department Colloquium
Speaker: Professor Howard Harris, University of New Haven
Title: TBA
Time/Place: 1:10 p.m., Room 202, Thompson Chemistry Lab
Friday, April 23
Computer Science Colloquium
Speaker: J. Nate Foster `01, Ph.D., Princeton University
Title: TBA
Time/Place: 2:35 p.m., Room 206, TCL
Friday, April 30
Chemistry Department Colloquium
Speaker: Professor Gary Hoffman, Elizabethtown College
Title: TBA
Time/Place: 1:10 p.m., Room 202, Thompson Chemistry Lab
Friday, April 30
Joint Physics and Astronomy colloquium
Prof. Chad Orzel, Union College
Title: Counting Atoms for Astrophysics: Atom Traps, Neutrino Detectors, and Radioactive Background Measurements
Time/Place: 2:30 p.m., Room 205, Thompson Physical Laboratory
Friday, April 30
Computer Science Colloquium
Speaker: Laura I. Tomba, Ph.D., Bowdoin College
Title: TBA
Time/Place: 2:35 p.m., Room 206, TCL
Thursday, May 6
Class of 1960 Scholars Lecture in Computer Science
Speaker: Professor Paul Hudak, Yale University
Title: TBA
Time/Place: 8:00 p.m., Wege Auditorium, Chemistry
Friday, May 7
Chemistry Department Senior Thesis Presentations
Time/Place: 11:10 p.m., Room 202, Thompson Chemistry Lab
Friday, May 7
Computer Science Colloquium
Speaker: Class of 1960 Scholars Lecture in Computer Science
Professor Paul Hudak, Yale University
Title: TBA
Time/Place: 2:35 p.m., Room TBD
Friday, May 14
Chemistry Department Senior Thesis Presentations
Time/Place: 11:10 p.m., Room 202, Thompson Chemistry Lab