Wells College Science Colloquium
Fall 2008


Science Colloquium features speakers in all areas of the sciences, including Wells students and faculty, and researchers from other institutions. Science Colloquium meets on Fridays during the fall and spring semesters from 12:40 to 1:30 in Stratton Hall 209. All are welcome to attend. For further information, please contact Professor Jackie Schnurr or Professor Carol Shilepsky

DATE SPEAKER/EVENT
Friday, September 5 Summer Research and Internship Poster Session in Stratton Atrium, 12:30-1:30pm (sponsor: Professor Schnurr)
Friday, September 12 Dr. Doug Glazier Juniata College, Are there general laws in biology? An exploration of how rate of energy use scales with body size (host: Professor Vawter)
Friday, September 19 Dr. Sandy Shilepsky, Wells College, The mind of God: Google, Math and More (host: Professor C. Shilepsky)
Friday, September 26 Dr. Paul Curtis, Cornell University Managing deer in suburban landscapes (host: Professor Schnurr).
Friday, October 3 Melanie Parker, '06, El Nino/Southern Oscillation and the shallow water approximation, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University (host: Professor Heinekamp).
Friday, October 17 Joel Brock, Understanding surface growth/processing: Bridging the gap between atomistic mechanisms and surface morpholog School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, (host: Professor Heinekamp)
Friday, October 24 Caren B. Cooper, Cornell University Lab of Ornithology, From Hummingbirds to Turkeys: How Body Size Constrains Avian Incubation Rhythms (host: Professor Vawter).
Friday, October 31 Hod Lipson, Associate Professor of Mechanical \& Aerospace Engineering and Computing & Information Science, Cornell University What do robots dream of? On cognitive machines and other self-modeling systems (host: Professor Adams).
Friday, November 7 Dr. Glenn Johnson, Prof of Bio and Dept. Chair at SUNY Postdam, Conservation biology of Blanding's turtles in northern New York (host: Professor Vawter).
Friday, November 14 Nancy Huntly, Idaho State University and the National Science Foundation Understanding people in the web of Nature: the Aleut and their North Pacific ecosystem (host: Professor Schnurr).
Friday, November 21 Michael Washburn, Executive Director for the Resident's Committee to Protect the Adirondacks Conservation Activism in the 21st Century: The Adirondack Case (host: Stephen Gilchrist).  
Friday, December 5 Dr. Robert Loce, Principal Scientist, Xerox Corporation, Optics in Vision and Art (host: Professor Collmer)

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Spring 2009

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