Fall 2012

Spring 2013

February 5, 2013 (Tues.)

• 4:00 – 5:00 pm

• SCP-101

Faculty Research Colloquium

• Dr. Edward Kim, Department of Computer Science, TCNJ –

“Towards semantic image understanding and retrieval”

• Dr. Jana Gevertz, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, TCNJ –

“Mathematical oncology: Using mathematics to understand cancer”

March 5, 2013 (Tues.)

• 4:00 – 5:00 pm

• SCP-101

Faculty Research Colloquium – Fulbright Senior Scholar Awardees

• Dr. Curt Elderkin, Department of Biology, TCNJ –

Fulbright in Germany, 2012: “Bivalve evolution and cross-cultural exchange”

• Dr. Thulsi Wickramasinghe, Department of Physics, TCNJ –

Fulbright in Sri Lanka, 2011-2012

March 20, 2013 (Wed.)

• 3:00 – 4:30 pm

• Education 212

Guest Colloquium – Science Connections Series

• Dr. Kent Kirshenbaum, Department of Chemistry, New York University and co-founder of the Experimental Cuisine Collective –

“Experiments at the interface of chemistry and cuisine”

April 19, 2013 (Fri.)

• 11:30 am – 12:00 pm

• Music Concert Hall

Arts Brown Bag – Co-sponsored Event with TCNJ Center for the Arts

• Dr. Nathan Erwin, National Museum of Natural History, Insect Zoo, Smithsonian Institution, and Ms. Rosalind Erwin, Director of the TCNJ Concert Band and Department of Music, TCNJ –

“The Music of Insects”

April 23, 2013 (Tues.)

• 4:00 – 5:00 pm

• SCP-101

Faculty Research Colloquium

• Dr. Abby O’Connor, Department of Chemistry, TCNJ –

“Progress Towards the Development of New Metal Catalysts for the Preparation of Plastics”

• Dr. Jeffery Erickson, Department of Biology, TCNJ –

“From Genes to Behavior: Knockouts, Neurotransmitters, and the Development of Respiratory Control”

January 31, 2013 (Thurs.)

• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm

• SCP-101

Guest Speaker

• Dr. Janet Slovin, US Department of Agriculture, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center –

“Genomics of the diploid woodland strawberry”

February 28, 2013 (Thurs.)

• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm

• SCP-101

Guest Speaker

• Dr. Julie Drawbridge, Dept. of Biology and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rider University –

“Amphibian pronephric duct morphogenesis: perspectives from 1943 to the present.”

March 21, 2013 (Thurs.)

• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm

• SCP-101

Guest Speaker

• Dr. Danielle Edwards, Yale University –

“The role of evolutionary genetics in Galapagos tortoise conservation”

April 12, 2013 (Fri.)

• 7:00 – 9:00 pm

• Education Building 212

Guest Speaker – Tri-Beta Biology Honor Society Induction

• Dr. Parviz Gharagozloo, CellOxess LLC, Chief Executive Officer and Founder –

“Medical Chemistry: Impact of oxidative stress in human gamete formation”

February 21, 2013 (Thurs.)

• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm

• SCC-121

Guest Speaker

• Mr. Steven Wisiewnski, University of Pennsylvania and TCNJ Alumnus –

“Stereospecific cross-coupling of secondary Organotrifluoroborates: Potassium 1-(Benzyloxy)alkyltrifluoroborates”

March 7, 2013 (Thurs.)

• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm

• SCC-121

Guest Speaker

• Dr. Peter Coneski, US Naval Research Lab –

“Designing next-generation materials for the spontaneous self-decontamination of military assets”

March 21, 2013 (Thurs.)

• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm

• SCC-121

Guest Speaker

• Dr. Stuart Nagourney, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and TCNJ –

“The measurement of Cr(VI) in soils: The science and its implications”

April 25, 2013 (Thurs.)

• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm

• SCC-121

Guest Speaker

• Dr. David Laviska, Rutgers University and TCNJ –

“Activation of C-H bonds by an Iridium Pincer complex”

February 12, 2013 (Tues.)

• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm

• Education Building 113

Guest Speaker

• Dr. Michael Gschwind, Senior Manager of System Architecture in the IBM Systems and Technology Group, and ACM Distinguished Speaker –

“Multicore computing and the cloud”

April 2, 2013 (Tues.)

• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm

• Education Building 113

Guest Speaker

• Dr. Hock Min Ng, Technical Staff Member at Bell Laboratories, Alcatel Lucent –

“iRoom: Experiments with an Intelligent Room”

January 31, 2013 (Thurs.)

• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm

• SCP-229

Faculty Speaker

• Dr. Daniel Fong, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, TCNJ –

“Diffusional-thermal theory of combustion at high pressure”

February 14, 2013 (Thurs.)

• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm

• SCP-229

Guest Speaker

• Dr. David Holleran, Department of Criminology, TCNJ –

“Disproportionate Minority Confinement in New Jersey”

February 26, 2013 (Tues.)

• 4:00 – 5:00 pm

• SCP-229

Guest Speaker

• Dr. Gary Gordon, Lafayette College –

“Moving faces to other places: Facet derangement”

March 7, 2013 (Thurs.)

• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm

• SCP-229

Guest Speaker

• Dr. Jim Foran, University of Missouri, Kansas City –

“Constructing Continuous Functions”

March 21, 2013 (Thurs.)

• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm

• SCP-229

Faculty Speaker

• Dr. Thomas Hagedorn, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, TCNJ –

Life of Pi: A Mathematical History

April 18, 2013 (Thurs.)

• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm

• SCP-229

Guest Speaker

• Dr. Phaedra Agius, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute –

The New Crystal Ball: Computational Methods in Biology

February 14, 2013 (Thurs.)

• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm

• SCP-117

Guest Speaker

• Dr. Gary Pajer, Princeton Satellite Systems and TCNJ –

Topic: Optical navigation systems

March 7, 2013 (Thurs.)

• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm

• SCP-117

Guest Speaker

• Dr. Kevin Marshall, Department of Physics, Widener University –

“Exploring Active Galactic Nuclei Through High Energy Variability”

March 28, 2013 (Thurs.)

• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm

• SCP-317

Guest Speaker

• Dr. Douglas Larkin, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program Leader, Department of Secondary and Special Education: Montclair State University, TCNJ alumni –

“Deep knowledge: Learning to teach science for understanding and equity”

April 4, 2013 (Thurs.)

• 4:00 – 5:00 pm

• SCP-117

Guest Speaker

• Dr. Carl Salter, Department of Chemistry, Moravian College –

Topic: Raman Spectroscopy

September 14, 2012 (Fri.)

•11:30 am -12:30 pm

• SCP-101

• Dr. Edward Conjura, Mathematics and Statistics – “Mathematical Modeling for the purpose of trading in the Commodity Futures Market”

• Dr. Matthew Wund, Biology – “How ‘Nurture’ can Impact the ‘Nature’ of Evolutionary Change”

October 5, 2012 (Fri.)

• 11:30 am -12:30 pm

• SCP-101

• Dr. Leeann Thornton, Biology – “Conserved patterns in cytochrome P450 enzymes”

• Dr. Andrea Salgian, Computer Science –“Finding and Recognizing Pattern in Data”

• Dr. Stephanie Sen, Chemistry – “Finding subtle pattern differences in insect biosynthetic enzymes”

October 24, 2012 (Wed.)

• 12:00-1:00 pm

• Education 212

Guest Colloquium – Nobel Laureate

• Dr. Eric F. Wieschaus, Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology and Professor of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University – “Genetic control and the mechanics of embryo development”

November 16, 2012 (Fri.)

• 11:30 am -12:20 pm

• SCP-101

Faculty Research Colloquium

• Dr. Cynthia Curtis, Mathematics and Statistics – “Knots and the Universe”

• Dr. David McGee, Physics – “Colors as an Optical Switch: Controlling Light at the Nano-scale”

September 28, 2012 (Fri.)

• 11:30 am -12:30 pm

• Biology 209

Guest Speaker

• Dr. Jim Stoeckel, Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquaculture, Auburn University – “Spermcasting spermballs and carapace cleansing worms: Adventures in mussel and crayfish ecology”

October 11, 2012 (Thurs.)

• 11:30 am -12:30 pm

• SCP-101

Alumni Presentation & Graduate Recruitment

• Mr. Michael Augello, Ph.D. candidate and TCNJ Biology Alumnus (2006), Thomas Jefferson University – “At a SLUG’s pace: Cyclin D1 driven pathways which promote lethal metastaticprostate cancer”

• Dr. Lisa Kozlowski, Associate Dean for Postdoctoral Affairs and Recruitment, Thomas Jefferson University – “Thomas Jefferson University for Your Graduate Training: Make the Discovery!”

November 13, 2012 (Tues.)

• 4:00-5:00 pm

• SCP-101

Guest Speaker

• Dr. Peter Park, Nyack College – “Fish Solving Spatial Tasks in the Wild: A Case of Ecological Divergence of Brain and Behavior in Alaskan Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) plus a Brief Intro to the HHMI Stickleback Virtual Lab”

Topic: Evolution of behavior and brain morphology in threespine stickleback fish, as well as a new online evolution lab developed through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

September 19, 2012 (Wed.)

• 11:00 am -12:00 pm

• SCC-121

Guest Speaker

• Dr. Elizabeth Papish, Drexel University – “ Biomimetic Denitrification, Hydrogenation, and Water Oxidation with New Hydrogen Bonding Ligands“

October 17, 2012 (Wed.)

• 11:00 am -12:00 pm

• SCC-121

Guest Speaker

• Dr. Romy Dominique, Hoffman-La Roche – Lead Generation Approaches in Drug Discovery, Topic: Organic synthesis

October 31, 2012 (Wed.)

• 11:00 am -12:00 pm

• SCC-121

Guest Speaker

• Dr. Oleg Ozerov, Texas A&M University – Reaction Discovery with Pincer Complexes

November 7, 2012 (Wed.)

• 11:00 am -12:00 pm

• SCC-121

Guest Speaker

• Ryan Pavlick, Penn State University – “Organometallics for the Development of Self-Motile and Crack Repair Systems”

November 28, 2012 (Wed.)

• 11:00 am -12:00 pm

• SCC-121

Guest Speaker

• Dr. Jennifer Swift, Georgetown University –“A Material Chemist’s View of Crystal Deposition Disease”

September 25, 2012 (Tues.)

• 11:30 am -12:20 pm

• Library Auditorium

Guest Speaker

• Thomas Mahoney, The College of New Jersey – Topic: Intellectual Property Law

November 27, 2012 (Tues.)

• 11:30 am -12:20 pm

• Holman Hall 252

Guest Speaker

• Supun Samarasekera, Senior Technical Manager, Mobile Vision Group SRI International Sarnoff – “Augmented Reality Systems for Gaming, Training, and Education”

September 27, 2012 (Thurs.)

• 11:30 am -12:30 pm

• SCP-229

Guest Speaker

• Dr. Gene Fiorini, Center for Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, Rutgers University – “CrIME: Criminal investigation through mathematical examination”

October 8, 2012 (Mon.)

• 11:30 am -12:30 pm

• SCP-229

Guest Speaker

• Andy Dorsett, Wolfram Research, Inc. – “Mathematica 8 in Education and Research”

October 11, 2012 (Thurs.)

• 11:30 am -12:30 pm

• SCP-229

TCNJ Speaker

• Christina Lee, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The College of New Jersey – “Brain ‘Waves’”

October 23, 2012 (Tues.)

• 4:00 – 5:00 pm

• SCP-229

Guest Speaker

• Dr. Katherine Newhall, Courant Institute at New York University – “Investigating jammed matter from a granocentric point of view”

November 13, 2012 (Tues.)

• 4:00 – 5:00 pm

• SCP-229

Guest Speaker

• Dr. Jun Zhang (tentative), Co-director of Applied Math Laboratories at New York University, Professor of Physics & Courant Institute at NYU – “Understanding Biological Locomotion in Fluids: Swimming and Flying”

October 18, 2012 (Thurs.)

11:30 am -12:20 pm

SCP-117

Guest Speaker

Will Levandowski, Geophysicist, University of Colorado at Boulder – The Mechanics and Math of Mountain Building

November 1, 2012 (Thurs.)

11:30 am -12:30 pm

Library Auditorium

Guest Speaker

Juan Maldacena, Theoretical Physicist, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton – Black Holes and the Structure of Spacetime

November 29, 2012 (Thurs.)

11:30 am -12:30 pm

SCP-117

Guest Speaker

Dr. Ingeborg Beckers, Dept. of Applied Physics and Medical Engineering, Beuth University of Applied Sciences, Berlin – Liquid crystal – Extended Depth of Field Microscopy for 3D Real-Time Imaging