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The Science Seminar Series Spring 2009 Schedule 

Contact angle and dental practices

Dr. Chiayi Shen, Dept. of Dental Biomaterials

University of Florida

Hosting Dept: Physics, Astronomy and Geosciences–Engineering Studies Program

Thursday, January 29 , 2009 4pm

Bailey Science Building Auditorium Room 1011

Conservation Agriculture: Past, Present, and Future

Paul M. White and Thomas L. Potter, Research Chemist USDA-ARS

Southeast Watershed Research Laboratory

Hosting Dept: Chemistry

Thursday, February 5 , 2009 4pm

Powell Hall Auditorium

Modeling the Active Site of Nickel-Containing Superoxide Dismutase: A New Role for Nickel in Biology

Dr. Todd C. Harrop, Department of Chemistry

University of Georgia

Hosting Dept: Chemistry

Thursday, February 12 , 2009 4pm

Powell Hall Auditorium

Achieving Sustainability through Revolutions in End-Use Applications of Thermal Energy

Dr. Srinivas Garimella

Director of Sustainable Thermal Systems Laboratory

School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech

Hosting Dept: Physics, Astronomy and Geosciences - Engineering Studies Program

Thursday, February 19 , 2009 4pm

Powell Hall Auditorium

Geoarchaeology of Governor's Island in New York Bay

Dr. Donald Thieme

Valdosta State University

Hosting Dept: Physics, Astronomy and Geosciences

Thursday, February 26 , 2009 4pm

Powell Hall Auditorium

Dr. Billy Jackson

Valdosta State University

Hosting Dept: Math & Computer Science

Thursday, March 5 , 2009 4pm

Powell Hall Auditorium

TBA

Jason G. Romine, Ph.D.

Florida Program for Shark Research Florida Museum of Natural History

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL

Hosting Dept: Biology

Thursday, March 12 , 2009 4pm

Bailey Science Building Auditorium Room 1011

 

Spring Break Week

 

Thursday, March 19 , 2009 4pm

Powell Hall Auditorium

Reading Chemical "Fine Print": The Key to Exploiting Nature's Isotopic Complexity

Dr. Alan Marshall Robert O. Lawton Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Director, Ion Cyclotron Resonance Program National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Florida State University

Hosting Dept: Chemistry

Thursday, March 26 , 2009 4pm

Powell Hall Auditorium

Are There Spuriously Induced Temperature and Precipitation Trends in the Southeast United States?

Dr. Jason Allard

VSU Department of Physics, Astronomy, and Geosciences

Hosting Dept: Physics, Astronomy, and Geosciences

Thursday, April 2, 2009 4pm

Powell Hall Auditorium

Fault slip rates and the distribution of strain along an evolving segment of the Pacific-North America plate boundary

Dr. Kurt Frankel

Georgia Institute of Technology

Hosting Dept: Physics, Astronomy, and Geosciences

Thursday, April 9 , 2009 4pm

Powell Hall Auditorium

TBA

Travis Key

Biology Graduate Student

Valdosta State University

Hosting Dept: Biology

Thursday, April 16 , 2009 4pm

Bailey Science Building Auditorium Room 1011

Dr. Christine K. Payne, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Georgia Institute of Technology

Hosting Dept: Chemistry

Thursday, April 23 , 2009 4pm

Powell Hall Auditorium

 

Last week of classes