Fall 2015

School of Science Colloquium Series – Fall 2015

September 22, 2015 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-101

Faculty Research Colloquium

Dr. Marcia O’Connell, Biology Department, TCNJ –
“How to make a zebrafish embryo: It’s all about the timing”
Dr. John Allison, Chemistry Department, TCNJ –
“A Forensic Investigation into a Very Cold Case of Local Interest: The Kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh’s Baby”

October 27, 2015 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
Education Bldg 212

Guest Speaker

Andrew Grant, award-winning science journalist and TCNJ Physics Alumnus, Science News Magazine –
“Dispatches from a Science Journalist”

November 24, 2015 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-101

Faculty Research Colloquium

TCNJ-Novo Nordisk Colloquium Series – Fall 2015

October 20, 2015 (Tues.)

4:00 – 5:00 pm
SCP-101

Guest Speakers

Dr. Todd M. Hobbs, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer and Dr. Henriette Mersebach, Executive Director of Clinical Development & Research – Diabetes & Obesity, Novo Nordisk in North America –
“How a Drug is Born”

November 13, 2015 (Fri.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-101

Guest Speaker

Dr. David Ungar, Director in the BioPharm Medical group for Novo Nordisk in North America –
“Advancements in Understanding of Bleeding Disorders”

Biology Colloquium Series – Fall 2015

October 9, 2015 (Fri.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-101

Guest Speaker

Jason Wong, New York University- School of Medicine –
“V(D)J Recombination and Genome Integrity Using Cutting Edge Research Technologies”

October 21, 2015 (Wed.)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Education 212

Guest Speaker- Co-sponsored by the Department of Biology

Dr. Ella Watson-Stryker, TIME Magazine 2014 “Person of the Year”, MSF/Doctors Without Borders –
“The Role of Health Promotion in an Ebola Outbreak in West Africa”

November 6, 2015 (Fri.)

12:30 – 1:20 pm
SCP-101

Guest Speaker

Dr. Christopher Dolanc, Department of Biology, Mercyhurst University –
Title TBA

Chemistry Colloquium Series – Fall 2015

September 16, 2015 (Wed.)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
C-121

Guest Speaker

Dr. Jessica Hoover, West Virginia University –
“Copper-Catalyzed Oxidative Decarboxylative Coupling Reactions“

October 7, 2015 (Wed.)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
C-121

Guest Speaker

Dr. Jessica Molek, Scientific Manager, Downstream Process Development, BioPharm R&D, Glaxo Smith Kline –
“Industrial production of a monoclonal antibody: Perspectives from biopharmaceutical process development”

October 21, 2015 (Wed.)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
C-121

Guest Speaker

Professor Graham Dobreiner, Temple University –
“The influence of Lewis acids on organometallic chemistry“

November 4, 2015 (Wed.)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
C-121

Guest Speaker

Joselle McCracken, TCNJ Chemistry Alum, U. Illinois Urbana Campaign –
“Not Just Plastic: 3D Printing for Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering…And Other Things I Learned in Grad School”

November 18, 2015 (Wed.)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
C-121

Guest Speaker

Dr. Marion Emmert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute –
“Breaking strong bonds and recovering rare earths selectively: Adventures in sustainable chemistry”

Computer Science Colloquium Series – Fall 2015

September 15, 2015 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
Forcina 408

Faculty Research Colloquium

Dr. Vinayak Elangovan, Visiting Assistant Professor, TCNJ –
“Human-Vehicle Interactions (HVI) Recognition Using Spatiotemporal Analysis”

October 7, 2015 (Wed.)

12:00 – 6:30 pm
Education 212

Guest Speaker

Nate and Greg, Engineers, Google –
Lightning Tech Talk

October 20, 2015 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
Education 113

Guest Speaker

Dr. Gregory Abowd, ACM Distinguished Speaker, Regents’ and Distinguished Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology –
“Beyond Ubiquitous Computing: Technology Advances and Applications”

November 6, 2015 (Fri.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
Forcina 408

Faculty Research Colloquium

Dr. Mark Russo, Adjunct Professor, TCNJ –
“Big Data in the Chem Lab”

Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium Series – Fall 2015

September 8, 2015 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:50 pm
SCP-101

Guest Speaker

Brendan Kelly, TCNJ Alum and 2015 Recipient of the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize, Harvard University –
“How many ways can I get to the coffee shop?”

September 23, 2015 (Wed.)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
SCP-229

Student Summer REU Experiences

September 25, 2015 (Fri.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-117

Seminar on Internships in Mathematics and Statistics

Mathematics and Statistics Majors, TCNJ –
“Internship and Opportunities for Mathematics and Statistics Majors”

October 28, 2015 (Wed.)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
SCP-229

Guest Speaker

Dr. Patrick Rault, Recipient of the Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching from the MAA and the Council on Undergraduate Research’s Faculty Mentoring Award, SUNY Geneseo –
“A New Matrix Invariant”

November 10, 2015 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-229

Guest Speaker

Dr. Teo Paoletti, TCNJ Alumnus and Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, Montclair State University –
“Considering and Studying Students’ Mathematics: A Journey from TCNJ to a Ph.D. in Mathematics Education”

Physics Colloquium Series – Fall 2015

September 18, 2015 (Fri.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-317

Student Summer Research Experiences

Physics Majors, TCNJ –
Summer Research Experiences

October 6, 2015 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-317

Faculty Speaker

Dr. Gregory Herman, New Jersey Geological & Waters Survey and Adjunct Professor, TCNJ and Rider University –
“4-dimensional visualization of Earth systems”

October 16, 2015 (Fri.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-317

Guest Speaker

Dr. John Bochanski, Department of Physics, Rider University –
“Where does the Milky Way End?”

November 3, 2015 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-317

Guest Speaker

Dr. Clayton Myers, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory –
“Bringing the Cosmos Down to Earth: Studying Astrophysical Processes in Laboratory Experiments”

November 20, 2015 (Fri.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-317

Faculty Speaker

Dr. Joseph L. Baker, Department of Chemistry, TCNJ –
“Biomolecules in Motion: Molecular Modeling and Simulation of Biomolecular Systems”

Spring 2016

School of Science Colloquium Series – Spring 2016

February 23, 2016 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
Education 212

Guest Speaker

Dr. Larry Abbott, Co-Director, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University –
“Sense for Randomness in Neural Circuits”

March 9. 2016 (Wed.)

3:00 – 4:00 pm
SCP-101

Special Presentation

Dr. Margaret H. Benoit, Associate Professor of Physics and Coordinator of TCNJ Honors Program, TCNJ –
“A Trip through NSF as a Rotating Program Officer: What I Learned about Peer Review and Science Management”

March 22, 2016 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-101

Faculty Research Colloquium

April 20, 2016 (Wed.)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Mildred and Ernest E. Mayo Concert Hall

Guest Speaker- Co-Sponsored by the School of Engineering

Dr. Hod Lipson, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University –
“Robotic Scientists: Automating discovery, from cognitive robotics to computational biology”

April 26, 2016 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-101

Faculty Research Colloquium

TCNJ-Novo Nordisk Colloquium Series – Spring 2016

March 29, 2016 (Tues.)

4:00 – 5:00 pm
SCP-101

Guest Speaker

Dr. Fannie Smith, Medical Director, Diabetes & Obesity, Novo Nordisk in North America –
“Advancements in Type 1 Diabetes”

April 12, 2016 (Tues.)

4:00 – 5:00 pm
SCP-101

Guest Speaker

Dr. Cory Gamble, Medical Director, Diabetes & Obesity, Novo Nordisk in North America –
“Overview of Incretins and the Science Behind GLP-1”

Biology Colloquium Series – Spring 2016

February 12, 2016 (Fri.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-101

Guest Speaker

Dr. Eric Goldwasser, Rowan University- School of Osteopathic Medicine –
“Alzheimer’s disease, autoantibodies, and the blood-brain barrier: new answers to old questions”

March 25, 2016 (Fri.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-101

Guest Speaker

Dr. Michael Reiskind, Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University –
“Vector Ecology: Invasions, Interactions, and Evolution in the World’s Most Dangerous Organisms”

April 8, 2016 (Fri.)

8:00 – 9:00 pm
Education 115

Guest Speaker- Tri-Beta (Biology Honor Society) Induction Ceremony Keynote Speaker

Dr. Michael Kalos, Chief Scientific Officer, Cancer Immunobiology, Eli Lilly and Company –
“Engineering the Immune System Against Cancer”

April 22, 2016 (Fri.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-101

Guest Speaker

Dr. Erik Cordes, Department of Biology, Temple University –
“The Ecology of the Deep Sea: What We Have Learned from Exploration and Exploitation”

Chemistry Colloquium Series – Spring 2016

February 3, 2016 (Wed.)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
C-121

Guest Speaker

Dr. Bill Metzler, Associate Director, Lead Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Emeritus –
“Beyond Activity Measurements: Leveraging Biophysics and Structure for Hit Identification and Prioritization”

April 6, 2016 (Wed.)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
C-121

Guest Speaker

Dr. Catherine Grimes, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware –
“Chemical Tools for Studying the Activation of the Intracellular Innate Immune Protein Nod2”

April 20, 2016 (Wed.)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
C-121

Guest Speaker

Dr. Ian Harrison, University of Virginia –
“Alkane Activation of Catalytic Metal Surfaces: Reaction Dynamics and Energy Transfer at the Gas-Surface Interface”

April 21, 2016 (Thurs.)

6:30 – 7:30 pm
SCP-101

Guest Speaker- Co-sponsored by the Trenton Section of the American Chemical Society, the TCNJ Student Chemists Association, and the TCNJ Art and Art History Department

Margaret Little, Senior Conservator of Objects, The Barnes Foundation –
“The Art and Science of Art Conservation: When works of art begin to deteriorate, how are they repaired?”

Computer Science Colloquium Series – Spring 2016

February 16, 2016 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
Forcina Hall 408

Technical Talk

Lockheed Martin –
Information Session with Lunch

Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium Series – Spring 2016

February 9, 2016 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-229

Guest Speaker

Dr. Matthew Willis, Connecticut College –
“The Combinatorics of Counting Catalan Numbers”

February 11, 2016 (Thurs.)

3:30 – 4:30 pm
SCP-117

Guest Speaker

Dr. Michael J. Barany, Princeton University –
“Taking Nicolas Bourbaki Personally: How the most intriguing mathematician in modern history tried (and failed, twice) to join the American Mathematical Society”

February 24, 2016 (Wed.)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
SCP-229

Guest Speaker

Dr. Helen Moore, Bristol-Myers Squibb –
“How a Math Equation Revolutionized Treatment for HIV”

March 2, 2016 (Wed.)

2:30 – 4:00 pm
SCP-230

CSTM Guest Speaker

Dr. Steffen Marcus, Dr. Jeremy Russell, Dr. Andrew Clifford, and Dr. Judit Kardos, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, TCNJ –
“The More You Know the Further Your Students Will Go!”

March 10, 2016 (Thurs.)

2:00 – 3:00 pm
SCP-117

Guest Speaker

Dr. Farshid Safi, University of Central Florida –
“Modeling with Mathematics to Build Content Knowledge for Teaching”

April 27, 2016 (Wed.)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
SCP-229

Guest Speaker

Dr. Michele Meisner, TCNJ Alumna, PhD Program in Biostatistics, NC State University –
“Elucidating Gene by Environment Interactions (GxE) Associated with Interindividual Variation in Response to Chemical Exposure”

Physics Colloquium Series – Spring 2016

February 2, 2016 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-317

Guest Speaker

Dr. Mukti M. Rana, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Physics and Engineering & Optical Science Center for Applied Research, Delaware State University –
“Inspired By Nature – A Spider Web Design for Reducing Thermal Conductance of Uncooled Infrared Detectors and Current Research Opportunities at DSU”

March 1, 2016 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-317

Guest Speaker

Dr. Nathan Magee, Associate Professor, TCNJ –
“Opportunities in Physics Education: The NSF-TCNJ Robert Noyce Scholarship Program”

April 5, 2016 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-101

Guest Speaker

Dr. Michael Mumma, Director, The Goddard Center for Astrobiology, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center –
“The Search for Life on Mars”

Past Seminars/Colloquia Schedule

Seminars/Colloquia 2015-2016

Fall 2015

School of Science Colloquium Series – Fall 2015

TCNJ-Novo Nordisk Colloquium Series – Fall 2015

Biology Colloquium Series – Fall 2015

Chemistry Colloquium Series – Fall 2015

Computer Science Colloquium Series – Fall 2015

Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium Series – Fall 2015

Physics Colloquium Series – Fall 2015

Spring 2016

School of Science Colloquium Series – Spring 2016

TCNJ-Novo Nordisk Colloquium Series – Spring 2016

Biology Colloquium Series – Spring 2016

Chemistry Colloquium Series – Spring 2016

Computer Science Colloquium Series – Spring 2016

Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium Series – Spring 2016

Physics Colloquium Series – Spring 2016

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