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SPRING
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FALL
2002
Monday,
August 26, 2002
Topic: College of Science and Engineering
Faculty and Staff Meeting
Sponsor: COSE Dean's Office
Time: 11:15 am
Place: SCI 101
Agenda: Introduction of new faculty and staff; introduction of faculty
receiving promotions and/or tenure; introduction of new Chairs; update
on Hensill Hall; discussion of budget issues; discussion of enrollment
issues; Summer session; future tenure-track job searches.
Tuesday,
August 27, 2002
Topic: CBLS M.S. thesis defense: "Investigating
the Role in HIV-1 Tat in Viral Persistence and Latency"
Speaker: James Daniel Irwin
Sponsor: CBLS
Time: 1:30 pm
Place: Science Bldg. Room 206
Wednesday
August 28, 2002
Topic: CBLS M.S. thesis defense: "Measurement
of imflammatory cytokine levels in experimental rhinovirus-infected
airways in humans"
Speaker: Ada Chan
Sponsor: CBLS
Time: 10:00 am
Place: Becton Dickinson Immunodiagnostic Systems, San Jose, CA
Thursday August 29, 2002
Topic: CBLS M.S. thesis defense: "nef
Sequence Comparison among HIV Patients Responding to Highly Active Antiretroviral
Therapy"
Speaker: Jonathan Woo
Sponsor: CBLS
Time: 1:30 pm
Place: Science Bldg. Room 206
Thursday, September 5, 2002
Topic: Early signals necessary for
the induction
of fruiting body formation in Myxococcus xanthus
Speaker: Dr. Mitch Singer, Associate Professor, Section of Microbiology,
UC Davis
Sponsors: GENENTECH and MARC/RISE Student Programs
Time: 4:10 PM
Place: HSS 154
Monday, September 9, 2002
Topic: Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Faculty Research Talks
Prof. Roger Bland: "Sounds from the Deep - Research at Pioneer Seamount"
Prof. Zhigang Chen: "From Solitons to Photonic Lattices"
Prof. Adrienne Cool: "Scouting for Binary Stars from Earth and Space"
Prof. Maarten Golterman: "Weak Kaon Decays and CP Violation"
Prof. Jeff Greensite: "The Gluon Chain Model"
Prof. Susan Lea: "Magnetic Neutron Stars and Mathematical Physics"
Prof. James Lockhart: "Faint Signals: Spacetime Distortion to Biomedical Imaging"
Prof. Ron Marzke: "Galaxies and Quasars at High Redshift"
Prof. Barbara Neuhauser: "Icy ICs: Doubly-Integrated Superconducting Circuits"
Sponsor: Physics and Astronomy Department
Time: 4:00 PM
Place: Thornton Hall 411
Wednesday, September 11, 2002
Topic: Including Observed Patchiness in Plankton Models:
an example from Georges Bank, NW Atlantic using wavelets and fractal interpolation
Speaker: Dr. Karin Fisher, Romberg Tiburon Center, SFSU
Sponsor: Romberg Tiburon Center
Time: Noon Ð 1:00 pm
PM
Place: Bay Conference Center @ RTC, 3152 Paradise Drive, Tiburon, CA 94920
Directions: www.rtc.sfsu.edu/bcc/bcc_directions.htm
rtcinfo@sfsu.edu (415) 338-6063
Wednesday, September 11, 2002
Topic: Piecewise Linear Functions
Speaker: Prof. Sergei Ovchinnikov, SFSU
Sponsor: Mathematics Department
Time: 4:10-5:00 PM
Place: Thornton Hall Room 211
Wednesday, Sept 18, 2002
Topic: The New Thyroid Testing Guidelines
Fair
Sponsor: CBLS
Speakers: Laurence M. Demers, PhD, Penn State Univeristy, Hershey, PA,
David Cooper, MD, Director of Endocrinology, Sinai Hospital, and Director,
Thyroid Clinic, John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Time: 10:45am to 12:30pm
Place: Science Bldg, Room 206
Description: This highly-informative audioconference is for anyone interested
in thyroid diseases. Extensive information will be presented about thyroid
disease, serologic thyroid markers, and updated guidelines for thyroid
testing.
This program is approved by AACC for 1.5 Category 1 Accent CEU credit
hours. Please join the CBLS department for this free event.
Thursday, September 19, 2002
Topic: Colloquium in Microbiology,
Cell and Molecular Biology
Speaker: Dr. Carmen Domingo, Assistant Professor, SFSU
Sponsors: GENENTECH and MARC/RISE Student Programs
Time: 4:10 PM
Place: HSS 154
Wednesday, September 25, 2002
Topic: Ecology and Ecophysiology
of Cold Seep Clams in Monterey Bay
Abstract:
Sea floor seepage of fluids rich in sulfide and methane occur in
several geologic settings in Monterey Bay and supports faunal
communities based on chemosynthesis (cold seep communities). These cold seep communities are dominated by vesicomyid clams that rely nutritionally on sulfur-oxidizing endosymbiotic bacteria. Variation in the species composition among and within seep communities is linked directly to pore fluid chemistry, suggesting that geochemistry, rather than biological interactions, plays a fundamental role in structuring these communities.
Physiological adaptations mediating sulfide toxicity and production
by bacterial symbionts vary considerably between the two dominant
vesicomyids (Calyptogena kilmeri and C. pacifica), resulting in
divergent 'strategies' to contend with environmental variability.
Calyptogena kilmeri, which inhabits sulfide-rich seeps, has a low sulfide binding affinity and greater sulfide tolerance than C.
pacifica. The apparent ecological trade off between these
adaptations allows for limited metabolism and growth with a wide
spatial distribution, or a high growth potential with a more
restricted distribution. Furthermore, differences in metabolic
potential likely contribute to differences in the population dynamics
of each species.
Unlike entirely heterotrophic metazoans, the evolution of
bivalve-bacterial symbioses appears linked to selective pressures
influencing both the host and its symbionts. Because host
metabolism, growth, and reproduction are coupled directly to symbiont production, diversification in this group has probably arisen in response to selection for maximal rates of symbiont productivity in a spatially heterogeneous environment.
Speaker: Dr. Jim Barry Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Sponsor: Romberg Tiburon Center
Time: Noon -1:00 pm
Place: Bay Conference Center @ RTC, 3152 Paradise Drive, Tiburon, CA 94920
Directions: www.rtc.sfsu.edu/bcc/bcc_directions.htm
rtcinfo@sfsu.edu (415) 338-6063
Wednesday, September 25, 2002
Topic: Bees in Berkeley
Speaker: Gordon Frankie, UC Berkeley
Sponsor: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series
Time: 12:10pm - 1pm
PM
Place: Hensill Hall Room 501
Wednesday, September 25, 2002
Topic: Factorization of Almost Periodic
Matrix Functions and its Applications
Speaker: Ilya Spitkovsky, College of William and Mary
Sponsor: Mathematics Department
Time: 4:10pm - 5pm
Place: Thornton Hall 211
Thursday, September 26, 2002
Topic: Brassinosteroid Signal Transduction
in Arabidopsis:
From a Cell-surface Receptor Kinase to the Nucleus
Speaker: Dr. Zhiyong Wang, , Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution
of Washington
Sponsors: GENENTECH and MARC/RISE Student Programs
Time: 4:10 PM
Place: HSS 154
Monday, September 30, 2002
Topic: Paid Summer Internships for Minority Students - Information Session
Interested in learning the "ins and outs" of Corporate America? Want an early start on a successful career? More than 900 Fortune 1000 companies nationwide sponsor INROADS college interns.
Sponsor: MESA Program
Time: 1:00 pm-2:00 pm. Pizza and drinks will be served.
Place: Science Building, Rm. 256
Monday, September 30, 2002
Topic: Color Sub-Pixel Rendering and Improved Display Architectures
Abstract:
Color subpixel rendering allows luminance information to be located at subpixel resolution, increasing the information efficiency of color
displays. Commerical applications of subpixel rendering on conventional architectures exist today, examples being ClearType(tm) from Microsoft and CoolType(tm) from Adobe Systems. These applications are handicapped by
color display architectures that were not designed with subpixel rendering in mind. Optimizing displays, along with algorithms designed for these displays, promises to increase image quality and reduce cost well past currently available systems.
Human Vision System characteristics, subpixel rendering theory, algorithms, and displays co-optimized for subpixel rendering efficiency and human vision system characteristics will be presented. Comparisons with conventional color display architecture and commercial subpixel rendering
performance will be explored. A high resolution display panel using an improved architecture and subpixel rendering will be demonstrated.
Speaker: Candice H. Brown Elliott, Founder, Board Chair, & CTO
ClairVoyante Laboratories, Inc.
Sponsors: Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Time: 4:00 p.m. - Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.
Place: TH 411
Wednesday, October 2, 2002
Topic: Sudden oak death in California:
Evaluating the consequences of an introduced pathogen
Speaker: Brice McPherson, UC Berkeley
Sponsor: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series
Time: 12:10pm - 1pm
Place: Hensill Hall Room 501
Wednesday, October 2, 2002
Topic:
Parametrizing Algebraic Varieties
Speaker: Karen Smith, U. of Michigan and MSRI
Sponsors: Mathematics Department
Time: 4:10 pm - 5 pm
Place: Thornton Hall 211
Wednesday, October 2, 2002
Topic: Microscopic Modeling of Phase Shift Masking
Abstract:
The roadmap for Moores law of semiconductor density has some bumps and curves as we confront the barriers of optical lithography. We need patterns smaller than the wavelength of the light source creating them. Phase shift masking offers a potential solution to achieving high density circuits using conventional photomasking equipment. Stanley Mazor, Director of Training for Numerical Technologies will discuss these new techniques and describe applications of this technology.
Speaker: Stanley Mazor, Numerical Technologies
Sponsors: PERNET Colloquium/Computer Science Department
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Place: Thornton Hall 331
Wednesday, October 2, 2002
Topic: Decadal-Centennial Variability in Marine Ecosystems
of the Northeast Pacific Ocean: the use of fish scales deposition in sediments.
Speaker: Dr. Diego Holmgren, Romberg Tiburon Center
Sponsor: Romberg Tiburon Center
Time: Noon to 1:00 pm
PM
Place: Bay Conference Center @ RTC, 3152 Paradise Drive, Tiburon, CA 94920
Directions: www.rtc.sfsu.edu/bcc/bcc_directions.htm
rtcinfo@sfsu.edu (415) 338-6063
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