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FALL 2003
Monday, August 25, 2003 Topic: College of Science & Engineering
beginning-of-the-semester meeting
Sponsor: COSE
Topic: Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
as Antiviral Agents
Speaker: Dr. Dabney Dixon, Department of Chemistry,
Georgia State University Thursday, September 4, 2003 Topic: Developmental control of the foregut motor system in the moth, Manduca sexta
Monday, September 8, 2003 Topic: Faculty Research Talks Speakers: Prof. Barbara Neuhauser: "Icy ICs: Doubly-Integrated
Superconducting Circuits" Sponsor: Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Wednesday, September 10, 2003 Topic: Stream incision, tectonics, uplift, and evolution of the topography of the Sierra Nevada, California Speaker: John Wakabayashi, Independent Consultant
(website at http://www.tdl.com/~wako)
Thursday, September 11, 2003 Topic: Viral gene regulation in the HIV-1 latent reservoir
Friday September 12, 2003 Topic: Two Faculty Seminars Dr. Sergio Aragon Sponsor: Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
Wednesday September 17, 2003 Topic: Remote Sensing Using Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED:
.Friday September 19, 2003 Topic: The Mysteries of Red Wine Pigments Speaker: Dr. Andrew Waterhouse, Department of
Viticulture & Enology, UC Davis Monday September 22, 2003 Topic: The Coastal Zone of Southern Africa: Management and Research Speaker: Dan Baird University of Port Elizabeth
(South Africa) Monday September 22, 2003 Topic: Student Research Talks II CARA HENSON Sponsor: Physics and Astronomy Department
Wednesday, September 24, 2003 ABSTRACT: I will introduce the concept of triangulation of a point set or a polytope, and that of local move ("geometric bistellar flip") between two triangulations. My goal will be to describe an example of a point set (in dimension 5, but yet "visualizable") whose graph of flips is not connected. Time permitting, some algebraic-geometric consequences of this fact will be discussed.
Thursday, September 25, 2003 Topic: Adrenocorticotropic hormone
modulation of Interleukin 2 production Dr. Wilfred Denetclaw has kindly agreed to act as Dr. Clarke's faculty host. Please let him know if you would like to schedule a time to meet with the speaker on Thursday. You will find links to the speaker's web site and a list of publications, as well as this semester's schedule of speakers, at http://online.sfsu.edu/~pasion/Biol871_colloquium.htm
Monday September 29, 2003 Topic: Languages of Genetic Information: Why do living organisms have 4 nucleotide bases and 20 amino acids? ABSTRACT Speaker:Professor Apoorva Patel, Centre for Theoretical
Studies and Supercomputer Education
Wednesday October 1, 2003 Topic: New Approaches for Studying the Oceanic Phosphorous Cycle Speaker: Adina Paytan, Stanford University
Friday October 3, 2003 Topic: How Do Cells Respond to Hormones? Molecular Mechanisms of Steroid and Thyroid Hormone Signalling Speaker: Dr. Bea Darimon, Department of Chemistry,
University of Oregon
Sunday, October 5, 2003
Open House On Sunday, October 5th, children and adults alike can explore the fascinating world of San Francisco Bay during "Discovery Day," an interactive science exhibition and open house at San Francisco State University's Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies (RTC).
Discovery Day is a free festival of educational fun that includes marine animal touch tanks, scientific exhibits, live music, art, and more. An annual event, Discovery Day offers the offers the public a unique opportunity to spend the day behind the scenes learning about the scientific research activities that take place at the Center. In addition to science- and art-related activities for children, the festival will include exhibits by RTC scientists and students that highlight the Center's contributions to understanding and caring for the San Francisco Bay environment and beyond. A BBQ lunch is available for $5. There is plenty of free parking on-site. For more information about Discovery Day and
directions see Sponsor: RTC
Wednesday, October 8, 2003 Topic: The Theory of Partitions ABSTRACT: If n is a natural number, then a partition of n is a representation of n as the sum of one or more natural number summands. For example, 7 = 3+2+2 is a partition of 7. Let p(n) denote the number of partitions of n. My talk will concern exact formulas and estimates for p(n), and will also discuss some other partition functions. Speaker: Neville Robbins, SFSU
Thursday, October 9, 2003 Topic: The Discovery of California's First Known Meteorite Impact Crater Speaker: Richard G. Blake, California Registered
Geologist, Associate Program Leader for Fossil Energy, Lawrence Livermore
Labs Thursday, October 9, 2003 Topic: Promoting Transcription and Motiliy in Bacilli
Friday, October 10, 2003 Topic: Extending Performance/Selection Criteria of Wide Pore Silica Substrates Speaker: Vernon Bartlett, HPLC Innovations Manager,
Restek Corporation Wednesday, October 15, 2003 Topic: Unicellular N2
Fixing Cyanobacteria from the Abstract: Luisa will present a version of her dissertation defense. Speaker: Luisa Falcon RTC/SUNY Stony Brook Wednesday, October 15, 2003 Topic: Antarctic and Global Climate Change: What Have We Learned From the Coldest Place on Earth? Speaker: Dr. Robert Dunbar, Professor of Geological
and Environmental Sciences
Friday, October 17, 2003 Topic: College of Science & Engineering Open House for High School Students Sponsor: COSE
Wednesday, October 22, 2003 Topic: Finding mathematical information ABSTRACT: Abstract: Some students and colleagues have asked for help in finding information about specific areas of mathematics in which I'm not expert. Of course, I've talked with many over the years about general sources on technical, social, and organizational aspects of our discipline. And recently, I've needed to look for details in the history of my own subject, foundations of geometry. This informal colloquium will consider old and new methods of digging. Have you noticed that techniques are changing fast? It's based partially on an instructive website I wrote a year ago, and--I hope--on questions, tips, and comments from students and colleagues in the audience. Speaker: James Smith, SFSU
Friday, October 24, 2003 Topic: Molecular Modeling and Biochemical Characterization of Rhodococcal Cytochrome P450s Speaker: Dr. Nancy Gerber, San Francisco State
University Wednesday October 29, 2003 Topic: Protozoan-Metazoan Linkages
in Planktonic Food Webs: Speaker: Gretchen Rollwagen Bollens, Romberg
Tiburon Center
Thursday, October 30, 2003 Topic: Science & Engineering Career Fair Sponsor: COSE Friday, October 31, 2003 Topic: Novel Properties and Emerging Applications of Nanomaterials Speaker: Dr. Jin Zhang, Department of Chemistry,
UC Santa Cruz Wednesday, November 5, 2003 Topic: TBA Speaker: Sergei Ovchinnikov, SFSU
Thursday, November 6, 2003 Topic: Relationships Between Law and Science Speaker: Scott R. Morgae, Staff Counsel, State
Department of Water Resources
Friday, November 7, 2003 Topic: Atmospheric Particles: Tiny Chemical Reactors Speaker: Laura Iraci, NASA Ames Research Center Wednesday November 12, 2003 Topic: Long Term Measurements of Ecosystem-Atmosphere Speaker: Andrew Oliphant, San Francisco State
University
Wednesday, November 12, 2003 Topic: Weathering and Palagonitization of Basaltic Ash on Hawaii and Iceland as a Terrestrial Analog for Mars Speaker: Dr. Randy
Southard, Professor of Soils, Friday, November 14, 2003 Topic: Adventures in Pyrimidine Redox Enzymology Speaker: Dr. Bruce Palfey, University of Michigan Friday, November 21, 2003 Topic: The use of Mass Spectrometry for the Real-Time Detection of Airborne Bacteria and Spores Speaker: Dr. Carlito Lebrilla, Deptartment of
Chemistry, UC Davis Wednesday, November 24, 2003 Topic: Applications of Hilbert Space Frames ABSTRACT: Hilbert space frames have traditionally been used in signal/image processing. Recently, there have arisen a variety of new applications to wireless communication, internet coding, speech recognition technology, physics, Engineering, Financial Mathematics, Communciation Theory, and much more.We will look at some of the new applications of frame theory and how frame theory has also begun to impact some of the most famous unsolved problems in "pure" mathematics. Speaker: Peter Casazza, University of Missouri
Friday, December 5, 2003 Topic: TBA Speaker: Dr. Yung-Hsian Kao, Genentech
Thursday, December 11, 2003 Topic: Plant Gene Imprinting: at the intersection of DNA repair and gene transcription
Thursday, December 18, 2003 Topic: The Halting Story of the Cyclin
G Family: its Ins and Outs,
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