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FALL 2005 Monday, August 22, 2005 Topic: Beginning-of-the-year College of Science & Engineering faculty and staff meeting Sponsor: COSE Monday August 29, 2005 Topic: Faculty Research Interests - Part 1 Prof. Debra Fischer
Sponsor: Physics and Astronomy Department
Thursday September 1, 2005 Topic: Cell-cell signaling mechanisms during embryonic tissue development Speaker: Dr. Felipe-Andrés Ramírez-Weber,
SFSU Thursday September 8, 2005 Topic: Human Genetics: The SNP Endgame Speaker: Dr. Neil Risch, Professor and Director,
UCSF Center for Human Genetics Friday, September 9, 2005 Teaster Baird
Sponsor: Chemistry and Biochemistry Department Monday September 12, 2005 Topic: Faculty Research Interests - Part II Prof. Mary Barsony:
Sponsor: Physics and Astronomy Department
Thursday September 15, 2005 Topic: Stress responses in disease
models: The roles of ATF3, Speaker: Dr. Tsonwin Hai, Associate Professor
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Friday, September 16, 2005 Topic: A novel strategy for the preparation of zeolite films on gold
Monday, September 19, 2005 Topic: Monitoring chemical pollutants in the San Francisco Bay Speaker: Daniel Oros, San Francisco Estuary Institute Directions: Click
here.
Monday September 19, 2005 Topic: Physics and Astronomy Student Research Activities - Part I Dave Abouav:
Sponsor: Physics and Astronomy Department
Thursday September 22, 2005 Topic: Ectoderm-Dermomyotome Interactions
and Lipid Raft Signaling Speaker: Dr. Wilfred Denetclaw, SFSU, Department
of Biology Friday, September 23, 2005 Topic: Nitrohaloalkenes - valuable building blocks for the directed synthesis of heterocycles
Monday September 26, 2005 Topic: Physics and Astronomy Student Research Activities - Part II Karen Aiken:
Sponsor: Physics and Astronomy Department
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Topic: Compassionate Conservation:
Speaker: Rod Fujita, Senior Scientist, Environmental
Defense Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Topic: Toward Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management Speaker: Rod Fujita,
Senior Scientist, Environmental Defense
Thursday September 29, 2005 Topic: Maintenance of stem cell populations in plants Speaker: r. Jennifer Fletcher, Plant Gene Expression
Center, USDA Monday, October 3, 2005 Topic: One if by land, two if by sea: the "missing" source of atmospheric methyl halides Speaker: Rob Rhew, University of California,
Berkeley Directions: Click here. Monday October 3, 2005 Topic: Observations of M-Dwarf AU Mic with the Hubble Space Telescope Speaker: Dr. Paul Kalas Asst. Research
Astronomer, Astronomy Deptartment, U. C. Berkeley
Tuesday, October 4, 2005 Topic: The Comforts of Ignorance and
the Benefits of Arrogance or, Speaker: Dr. Edmund
Medley PE, CEG of GeoSyntec Consultants
Thursday October 6, 2005 Topic: Functional roles of the wall-associated receptor kinases Speaker: Dr. Zheng-Hui He, Biology, SFSU Monday October 10, 2005 Topic: New Colors from Fiber Lasers Abstract: We have designed and built fiber laser sources that operate at new wavelengths suitable for telecommunications and for blue light for displays. These new wavelengths normally have a much smaller gain than other, competing wavelengths, and so cannot be used. However, our new optical fiber acts like a filter, causing the unwanted wavelengths to tunnel out of the core in the same way that alpha-particles tunnel out of a nucleus. Other aspects of the fiber are understood by appealing to the Bloch wavefunctions of solid-state physics, and to chaos theory. Speaker: Dr. Gregory Keaton, Laser Scientist,
Lightwave Electronics Corporation Wednesday October 12, 2005 Topic: New results on Primes: 45 minutes
of fame is enough
Speaker: Dan Goldston, San Jose State University Monday, October 17, 2005 Topic: Environmental stress response of estuarine animals: a tool for monitoring ecosystem health and predicting consequences of environmental change. Speaker: Dietmar Kultz, University of California,
Davis Directions: Click
here.
Monday, October 31, 2005 Topic: What mating has to do with marine bioinvasions? Speaker: Keun-Hyung Choi, Romberg Tiburon Center Directions: Click
here.
Wednesday November 16, 2005 Topic: Survival Analysis with Long-term
Survivors
Speaker: Xian Zhou, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Thursday, November 17, 2005 Topic: Microbalites in the Carrara Formation (Early-Middle Cambrian) Southwest of Death Valley, California Speaker: Thomas
Anderson, professor of geology at Sonoma State University Thursday November 17, 2005 Topic: BKC Microbiology at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Speaker: Dr. Michelle Alegria-Hartman, of the
Biodefense Knowledge Center, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
(former SFSU Masters student) Monday November 21, 2005 Topic: The Discovery of Dark Energy Speaker: Prof. Gerson Goldhaber, Physics
Dept., University of California, Berkeley Thursday, November 29, 2005 Topic: Tidal Marsh Processes and Geomorphology Speaker: Dr. Ray
Torres, University of South Carolina Thursday December 1, 2005 Topic: New Techniques in Molecular Cytogenetics: Impact on Genetic Medicine Speaker: Dr. Katherine A. Rauen, Assistant
Adjunct Professor, Department of Pediatrics/Division of Medical Genetics
and Medical Director DNA Direct. Monday December 5, 2005 Topic: Digging in the Stellar Graveyard Abstract: White dwarfs represent the eventual fate of 99% of all stars in the Milky Way and offer insight into long term stellar evolution and the history of the Galaxy itself. Due to their very low luminosities in general, one can look much more deeply into their environments compared to main sequence stars like the Sun. Recent efforts have just begun to reveal superplanets, commonly called brown dwarfs, around a few nearby white dwarfs, while directly detecting jovian planets in these systems remains a quite challenging goal. However, there is new evidence for a class of white dwarf with orbiting cometary and/or asteroidal material - an almost certain signpost of planetary systems which have survived the death of their host stars. Speaker: Dr. Jay Farihi, Gemini Observatory Tuesday December 6, 2005 Topic: Spiral Waves in Excitable Media
Speaker: De Witt Sumners, Florida State University Wednesday December 7, 2005 Topic: A mathematical model of periodic
mass treatments for blinding trachoma
This Masters thesis outlines the mathematical model that was built to simulate how the infection, Chlamydia trachomatis, spreads throughout a community in a real life situation. Data previously collected from the Guraghe zone in Ethiopia, Africa was used to estimate two parameters: "rate of infection transmission" and the "rate of recovery from the infection". The model is stochastic and incorporates periodic antibiotic treatments. Speaker: Kathryn Maxey Thursday December 8, 2005 Topic: Regulation of Gene Expression in the Retina Speaker: Dr. Vijay P. Sarthy, Professor of Cell
and Molecular Biology, Northwestern University Feinberg Institute of
Medicine
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