Thurs. Aug. 28, 2003 Welcoming "Tea"
Thurs. Sept. 4, 2003 WFU Physics Research Part I
Thurs. Sept. 11, 2003 WFU Physics Research Part II
Thurs. Sept. 18, 2003 Professor Brian Matthews, U. Oregon -- "Tolerance and Intolerance in Protein Structure and Function" (Postponed until Nov. 20th.) In his place, Professor Richard Williams presented an impromptu talk entitled "Scintillators for particle physics, medical imaging, oil drilling, transportation security, neutron spectroscopy and more -- a report on the SCINT2003 conference"
Thurs. Sept. 25, 2003 Professor Steven Vogel, Duke U. -- "When Muscle Mattered Most: The Biomechanics of Some Ancient Tasks"
Thurs. Oct. 2, 2003 Professor Promod Pratap, UNCG -- Kinetics of Substrate Interaction with the Sodium Pump
Thurs. Oct. 9, 2003 Professor Hanli Liu, U. Texas at Arlington and Dr. Yueping Zeng, Wuhan Univ. of Sci. & Techn. The Physics and Analysis of Non-invasive Optical Imaging
Thurs. Oct. 16, 2003 (Fall break 10/17/03)
Thurs. Oct. 23, 2003 Professor Heinz-Bernd Schüttler, U. Georgia -- Random Walks through the Gene Machine: the Ensemble Method of Biological Circuit Identification
Thurs. Oct. 30, 2003 No seminar -- student and faculty participation in Project Pumpkin.
Thurs. Nov. 6, 2003 Professor Gerbrand Ceder, MIT -- "The physics of transition metal oxides in rechargeable lithium batteries" Note: seminar will be held at 3 PM
Thurs. Nov. 13, 2003 Professor Gary Pielak, UNC -- "Protein Biophysics in Cells"
Thurs. Nov. 20, 2003 Professor Brian Matthews, U. Oregon -- "Tolerance and Intolerance in Protein Structure and Function"
Thurs. Nov. 27, 2003 (Thanksgiving Holiday)
Thurs. Dec. 4, 2003 Professor Scott Wollenwebber, WFU School of Medicine -- "Positron Emission Tomography: From Basic Physics to Functional Images"
CANCELLED: Mon. Dec. 8, 2003 Professor Stuart Kauffman, U. Penn. -- "Understanding Genetic Regulatory Networks" Note: Seminar will by held at 12 noon in Room 125 in Winston Hall. (This seminar was arranged by the Biology Department; refreshments will be served at 11:45 AM before the seminar)