Fall 2013

Spring 2014

• 3:00 – 4:00 pm

• Mayo Concert Hall

“Lessons from the $1,000,000 Netflix Prize”

• 11:30 am – 12:30 pm

• Mayo Concert Hall

• Dr. Roger Hangarter, Indiana University –

“Plants: They Whisper, Talk, and Even Move”

• 12:00 – 1:00 pm

• Education 212

“The Ecology of Alien Invasions”

• SCP-101

• Dr. Danielle Guarracino, Department of Chemistry, TCNJ

“Biochemical Mimicry: Imitating Nature with Peptidomimetics”

• Dr. Robert Cunningham, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, TCNJ

“Transfers between Algebraic, Numeric, and Graphic Representations: A Cautionary Tale”

• 11:30 am – 12:30 pm

• SCP-101

• Dr. Benny Chan, Department of Chemistry, TCNJ

• Dr. Matthew Cathell, Department of Technological Studies, TCNJ

• Dr. Suriza van der Sandt, Department of Mathematics, TCNJ

“Increasing Diversity and Persistence in STEM: The case for LBGTQ Students and Faculty”

• 4:00 – 5:00 pm

• SCP-101

• Dr. Jeffrey Erickson, Department of Biology, TCNJ

“Breathing and Babysitting: The Pet-1/Serotonin Connection”

• Dr. Tuan Nguyen, Department of Physics, TCNJ

“Shedding Light on Neural Connectivity”

• 11:30am – 12:30 pm

• SCP-101

“Complex species interactions, in savannas and on small islands”

• 11:30am – 12:30 pm

• SCP-101

• Dr. Roger Hangarter, Indiana University –

“Function and Mechanisms of Light-induced Chloroplast Movements in Leaf Cells”

• 11:30am – 12:30 pm

• SCP-101

“Developing DNA Sequencing Technology: From an Idea to the Clinic”

• SCP-101

“Re-constructing past life and environments”

• 8:00 – 9:00 pm

• Education 115

• Dr. Nancy C. Walworth, Department of Pharmacology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School –

“Avoiding Danger While Maintaining Stability: The Importance of Cell Cycle Checkpoints and Related Stories from Fission Yeast”

• 11:30am – 12:30 pm

• SCP-101

“Life in the treetops: Ecophysiological strategies of canopy epiphytes in a tropical montane cloud forest”

• 6:30 – 8:00 pm

• C-121

“Love Potion #9: The Chemistry of Scent and Fragrance”

• 11:00am – 12:00 pm

• C-121

• Dr. Nathan West, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of the Sciences –

“Developing Sustainable Chemical Feedstock by Utilizing Transition Metal Catalysts”

• 9:30 – 10:30 am

• C-122A

• William Wood, Director of Chemistry, Cambridge Isotopes Laboratories (CIL)

“Stable Isotopes in Spectroscopy and Spectrometry”

• Forcina Hall 408

“Computing Professionalism: Do Good and Avoid Evil…and Why It Is Complicated to Do that in Computing”

• Mayo Concert Hall

• Screening of the Docudrama about Alan Turing and Q&A with Executive Producer Patrick Sammon

• 11:30am – 12:30 pm

• SCP-101

“Developing DNA Sequencing Technology: From an Idea to the Clinic”

• 4:00 – 5:00 pm

• SCP-229

• Dr. Brian Egleston, Fox Chase Cancer Center-

“Being a Biostatistician: Summarizing the effects of multiple diseases on health outcomes”

• 11:30 am – 12:30 pm

• SCP-229

• 11:30am – 12:20 pm

• SCP-317

“Taking Technology to Market”

• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm

• SCP-317

“The Solar Neighborhood Cradle”

• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm

• SCP-317

“Building Better (and More) Physics Educators”

• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm

• SCP-317

“Underwater Hearing and the Squishy Head Problem”

• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm

• SCP-317

• 4:00 – 5:00 pm
• SCP-101

• Dr. Lynn Bradley, Department of Chemistry, TCNJ – “Exploring London through the World of Art and Chemistry”

• Dr. David McGee, Department of Physics, TCNJ – “Science in Early 20th Century Germany – The Birth of Atomic Physics and the Rise of Uncertainty”

• 4:00 – 5:00 pm
• SCP-101

• Dr. Don Hirsh, Department of Chemistry, TCNJ – “Measuring Distances in Proteins and DNA Using Molecular Magnets”

• 4:00 – 5:00 pm
• SCP-101

“The Biomedical Research Funding Crisis in the United States”

• 4:00 – 5:00 pm
• SCP-101

• Dr. Wendy Clement, Department of Biology, TCNJ –

“Searching for trees to tell tales of the past: Using fieldwork, genomics and morphology to unravel the evolutionary history of Viburnum”

• Dr. Nancy Hingston, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, TCNJ –

“Geodesics in 2 Dimensions”

• 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
• SCP-101

• Dr. Aimee Richard, Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine –

“Host and Bacterial Factors Influencing Transmission of Streptococcus pneumoniae”

• 1:00 – 2:00 pm
• SCP-101

• Biology Faculty, Department of Biology, TCNJ –

“Meet the Professors”

• 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
• SCP-101

• Dr. Janet Alder, Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Rutgers University and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School –

“Towards Alternate Antidepressant Approaches: Neuropeptide VGF in Animal Models”

• 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
• SCP-101

• Dr. Alex Dornburg, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University –

“The Horrors of (Studying) Diversification in the Sea”

• 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
• C-121

• Dr. Don Nuzzio, President of Analytical Instrument Systems, Inc. –

“Chemistry in the Extreme”

• 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
• C-121

• Dr. K. Travis Holman, Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University –

“The Remarkable Chemistry of Container molecules (and their Materials)”

• 2:00 – 3:00 pm
• Library Auditorium

• Trenton Local ACS –

“Lighting the Fires that Move your Tires: The Chemistry of Motorcycles and Cars”

• 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
• C-121

• Dr. Christine Thomas, Brandeis University –

“Metal-Metal Bonds in Heterobimetallic Complexes and Applications Towards Small Molecule Activation and Catalysis”

• 11:30am – 12:30pm
• Forcina 410

• 3:30 – 4:30pm
• Forcina 408

• Mr. Kevin Coughlin, Bank of America Merrill Lynch –“Building an Online Personal Brand”

• 3:30 – 4:50pm
• Forcina 407

• TCNJ Alumni, Live via Google Hangouts –

“Graduate School Experience and Advice”

• 11:30am – 12:30pm
• Education Building 113

• Scott Smedresman, Esq., SorinRand, LLP –

“Startup Speed Meets Legal Logjam: Navigating the Landscape of Online Privacy and Data Security Law”

• 11:30am – 12:30pm
• Forcina 408

• Stephen Lombardi, PhD Candidate in Computer Science, Drexel University –

“Graduate School Life and Computer Vision Research”

• 11:30am – 12:30pm
• Education Building 113

• Bert Navarette, GM and Managing Partner, Tigerlabs –

“Building a Startup Community”

• 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
• SCP-229

• Dr. David Reimer, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, TCNJ

“Intuition in Mathematics, a Historical Perspective”

• 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
• SCP-229

• 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
• SCP-229

• Dr. Katherine Socha, Educational Director of Math for America –

“Sea Battles, Benjamin Franklin’s Oil Lamp, and Jellybellies”

• Aaron Kutnick, Consultant of Math for America –

“Careers at Math for America”

• 4:00 – 5:30 pm
• SCP-229

• 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
• SCP-229

• Dr. Jill Calhoun, Women in Mathematics at the National Security Agency –

“NSA Careers and Internships”

• 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
• SCP-229

• Dr. Matt Luther, McMaster University –

“Continuous Logic and Spaces of Non-positive Curvature”

• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm
• SCP-117

• Dr. Paul Pigram, LaTrobe University, Melbourne Australia –

“International Study Opportunities for Physics Majors”

• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm
• SCP-317

• Dr. Michael Hayden, Department of Physics, University of Maryland Baltimore County –

“Wideband THz time domain and optical-pump THz-probe spectroscopy using electro-optic polymer sensors”

• 11:30 am – 12:20 pm
• SCP-317

• Dr. Eugenia Etkina, Department of Science Education, Rutgers University –

“Using physics to help students develop scientific habits of mind”

• 4:00pm – 5:00 pm
• SCP-317

• Dr. Ivan Biaggio, Department of Physics, Lehigh University –

“Excitons in the Rubrene Single Crystal: Fission, Fusion, Diffusion, and Dissociation”