‘This Week’
November 24 to December 4, 2009
Tuesday, November 24
Polymer Physics Seminar – Dept of Materials Science and Engineering
301 Steidle Building at 10:00 a.m.
He Xie, Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University
“Fundamental Factors That Determine the Transport and Surface Charge of Desalination Membranes”Monday, November 30
Fall 2009 EarthTalk Seminar Series
112 Walker Building at 4:00 p.m.
Russel Graham, Director of EMS Museum, Penn State
“Late Pleistocene Environments of North America: Shifting Resources, Ecological Crisis and Extinction”
Tuesday, December 1
Polymer Physics Seminar – Dept of Materials Science and Engineering
301 Steidle Building at 10:00 a.m.
Eric B. Sirota, Corporate Strategic Research ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
“To Be Announced”Center for Environmental Kinetics Analysis and the Critical Zone Observatory Team, Susquehanna Shale Hills
117 EES Building at 12:00 noon
Chris Graham, Penn State University
“To Be Announced”Department of Geosciences Colloquium/ESSC
22 Deike Building at 4:00 p.m.
Jeffrey Park, Yale University
“Perche Apennino? Seismic Anisotropy, Subduction, Mantle Flow and Uplift in Central Italy”
Wednesday, December 2
Department of Geography Brown Bag Lunch Talk
319 Walker Building at 12:00 noon
Patrick Bottazzi, University of Michigan
“Land Property Rights Regime and Deforestation: Indigenous Tsimane Versus Andean Migrants in the Bolivian Lowlands”
EMS Library Video Series
105 Deike Building at 12:15 p.m.
“Heat: a Global Investigation, part 1” (60 min. video)
Department of Meteorology Colloquium
112 Walker Building at 3:30 p.m.
Chris Snyder, National Center for Atmospheric Research
“Short inertia-gravity waves generated by large-scale balanced vortices”Thursday, December 3
Materials Science & Engineering 590 Seminar
26 Hosler at 10:10 a.m.
Michael Janik, Chemical Engineering, Penn State University
“First-Principles Design of Electrocatalysts for Fuel Cells”Astrobiology Seminar
213 Deike Building at 12:15 p.m.
David Fernandez Remolar, Centro de Astrobiologia of Spain
“Microbiology and Geochemistry of the Rio Tinto Sulfuric Acid Waters: a Mars AnalogueFriday, December 4
Department of Geography Coffee-Hour
112 Walker Building at 4:00 p.m.
Deryck Holdsworth, Department of Geography, Penn State University
“Signature Geographies: Strangers, Guests, Travelers and Tourists”
A weekly listing of seminars in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. If you have any seminar or talk which you would like advertised in ‘This Week’, please send the speaker’s name, title of talk, date and time to Debra Lambert at 2217 EES Building, 863-7091, lambert@eesi.psu.edu
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