Fall 2014

School of Science Colloquium Series – Fall 2014

September 23, 2014 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-101

Faculty Research Colloquium

Dr. Dimitris Papamichail, Department of Computer Science, TCNJ – “Algorithmic Redesign of Protein Coding Genes”

Dr. Christopher Murphy, Department of Biology and Office of Academic Affairs –
“Acoustic Communication in Treefrogs”

October 28, 2014 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-101

Faculty Research Colloquium

Dr. Michael Ochs, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, TCNJ –
“Bayesian Statistics for Biomedical Data”
Dr. David McGee, Department of Physics, TCNJ –
“Rewards, Opportunities, and Challenges: Teaching and Research in Germany with TCNJ Students”

November 12, 2014 (Wed.)

5:00 – 6:00 pm
Roscoe West 201

Guest Speaker: Co-Sponsor of the Sarnoff Lecture Series

Dr. David Brock, Senior Research Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation –
“RCA and the Early History of Microcircuitry”

Biology Colloquium Series – Fall 2014

September 17, 2014 (Wed.)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
SCP-101

Guest Speaker

Dr. John Jungck, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Delaware –
“Biological Insight from Morphogenesis to Morphospace: Computational Biological Visualization, Quantitative Image Analysis, and Exploring Complex Data”

October 7, 2014 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-101

Guest Speaker

Dr. Raj Vadigepalli, Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson University –
“Molecular regulation and cell phenotypes governing the multi-scale control of liver repair”

October 21, 2014 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-101

Guest Speaker

Dr. Dale Cameron, Ursinus College –
“Rogue Proteins or Heritable Molecular Switches? The Unfolding Story of Prions”

November 4, 2014 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-101

Guest Speaker

Dr. Emilie Snell-Rood, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota –
“Costs and Constraints in the Evolution of Plasticity and Brain Size”

Chemistry Colloquium Series – Fall 2014

October 7, 2014 (Tues.)

6:00 – 8:00 pm
SCP-319

ACS Webinar

Douglas Dollemore and Darcy Gentleman, ACS Office of Public Affairs –
“Speaking Simply: Communicating your Science”

October 8, 2014 (Wed.)

1:30 – 2:30 pm
C-121

Guest Speaker

Dr. Malcolm Forbes, The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill –
“Photodynamic Therapy, Toils and Troubles: Problems Solved With Tiny Bubbles”

November 5, 2014 (Wed.)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
C-121

Guest Speaker

Dr. Dan Mindiola, University of Pennsylvania –
“Methane activation and dehydrogenation of volatile alkanes C2-C8. Can we do better than burn or crack them?”

November 19, 2014 (Wed.)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
C-121

Guest Speaker

Dr. Paramjit Arora, New York University –
“Plucking the High Hanging Fruit: A Systematic Approach for Targeting Protein Interfaces”

Computer Science Colloquium Series – Fall 2014

September 5, 2014 (Fri.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
Forcina Hall 408

Faculty Research Colloquium

Dr. David G. Cooper, Department of Computer Science, TCNJ –
“Affect Detection for a Class Computerized Geometry Tutoring System“

October 24, 2014 (Fri.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
Education 113

Guest Speaker

Matthew Tom-Wolverton, Tumblr –
“Behind the Scenes at Tumblr”

November 7, 2014 (Fri.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-101

Guest Speaker

Shawn Sivy, Director, Networking & Technical Services, TCNJ –
“This is Not Your Home Network: Understanding the design of the TCNJ wireless and wired networks, how they work and how they get the most out of them”

November 18, 2014

12:30 – 1:30 pm
Forcina Hall 408

Guest Speaker

Jonathan Curry and Sarah Jacalone, Linode –
“Linode Presents: The Nuts and Bolts of Cloud Hosting and Virtualization”

Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium Series – Fall 2014

Semptember 24, 2014 (Wed.)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
SCP-229

Student REU Experiences- Presented by Pi Mu Epsilon and the Department of Mathematics

Jessica Perez, North Carolina State University –
“Modeling the Interaction Between Inflammatory and Cardiovascular Dynamics“
Vince Longo, University of Hawaii at Hilo –
“The Abelian Sandpile Model”

Physics Colloquium Series – Fall 2014

September 19, 2014 (Fri.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-317

Faculty Research Colloquium

October 7, 2014 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-317

Faculty Research Colloquium

Dr. Shane McGary, Department of Physics, TCNJ –
“When Plates Collide/Making Moons”

October 17, 2014 (Fri.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-317

Guest Speakers

Raha Ghassemi and Cory Leahy, Physics Alumni, May 2014, TCNJ –
“International Study Experiences and Opportunities with the TCNJ Physics Department”

November 4, 2014 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-317

Guest Speaker

Michael Erickson and John Ferrie, Physics Alumni, TCNJ –
“Transitioning to Graduate Level Coursework and Research”

November 21, 2014 (Fri.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-317

TBA

Spring 2015

School of Science Colloquium Series – Spring 2015

February 13, 2015 (Fri.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
Roscoe West Hall Room 201

Guest Speaker

Dr. Michael Zimmerman, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost, Evergreen State College –
“What the Evolution/Creation Debate Can Teach Us about the Relationship between Religion and Science”

February 24, 2015 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-101

Faculty Research Colloquium

March 2, 2015 (Mon.)

7:00 – 8:00 pm
Mayo Concert Hall

Interdisciplinary Seminar- Guest Speaker

James Barrat, Author of Our Final Invention –
“Artificial Intelligence: Promise, Ethics and Peril”

March 24, 2015 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
Business Bldg Student Lounge (Lower Level)

Guest Speaker- CANCELLED

Dr. John C. Warner, Founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer, Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry –
“Green Chemistry: The Missing Element”

April 28, 2015 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-101

Faculty Research Colloquium – Sabbatical Presentations

Biology Colloquium Series – Spring 2015

February 18, 2015 (Wed.)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
BIO 209

Guest Speaker

Dr. Robert Pringle, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University –
“How species interactions govern the structure, functioning, and robustness of African savannas”

April 9, 2015 (Thurs.)

5:00 – 6:00 pm
Library Auditorium

Guest Speaker: Co-Sponsored by TCNJ’s African American Studies Program

Dr. Ruha Benjamin, Center for African American Studies, Center for Health and Wellbeing, Princeton University –
“‘Discriminatory Design’: From Park Bench to Lab Bench, Who’s Designing Our Future?”

April 10, 2015 (Fri.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-101

Guest Speaker

Dr. Neal Overstrom, Director, The Nature Lab, Rhode Island School of Design –
“Multiple Ways of Seeing; What the Art/Design Studio Offers to Science”

April 17, 2015 (Fri.)

8:00 – 9:00 pm
Business Bldg Student Lounge

Guest Speaker- Following Tri-Beta Induction

Dr. Victor DiRita, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Associate Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, University of Michigan –
“Cholera: Why is it still a threat in the era of antibiotics and vaccines?”

Chemistry Colloquium Series – Spring 2015

February 4, 2015 (Wed.)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
C-121

Guest Speaker

Dr. Robert Gambogi, Research Director and Fellow, Johnson and Johnson Consumer Products –
“Lessons Learned in Consumer Healthcare”

March 4, 2015 (Wed.)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
C-121

Guest Speaker

Dr. Nicole Morozowich, 3M –
“From Bone Tissue Engineering to Industrial Adhesives Research – the Journey from Graduate Academic Research to Industry”

April 15, 2015 (Wed.)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
C-121

Guest Speaker

Professor Gerrik Lindberg, Assistant Professor, Computational Chemistry and Materials Science, Northern Arizona University –
“Ions at the Air-Water Interface: Determining the pH of Interfacial Water”

Computer Science Colloquium Series – Spring 2015

March 27, 2015 (Fri.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
Forcina 408

Guest Speaker

Dr. André Bondi, Siemens Corporation, Corporate Technology –
“Methods and Processes for Ensuring the performance of Software Systems”

April 21, 2015 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
Forcina 408

Guest Speaker

Dr. Ko Nishino, Associate Professor, Drexel University–
“Recognizing Materials in Images“

Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium Series – Spring 2015

January 30, 2015 (Fri.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-222

Guest Speaker

Dr. Marianna Ollar –
“Models of Divisible Good Auctions”

February 13, 2015 (Fri.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-229

Guest Speaker

Hetal Kapadia, Rutgers University –
“Deligne Pairings, Discriminants, and Kahler Geometry”

February 25, 2015 (Wed.)

11:00 – 11:50 am
SCP-229

Guest Speaker

Dr. Elizabeth Johnson, George Mason University –
“Why is Statistical Literacy so Important?”

March 25, 2015 (Wed.)

11:00 – 11:50 am
SCP-229

Guest Speaker

Dr. Matthew Malef, US Army –
Career and Research Talk

April 22, 2015 (Wed.)

11:00 – 11:50 am
SCP-229

Guest Speaker

Dr. Rachel Ward, The University of Texas at Austin –
“Geometric Clustering: Efficient Algorithm and Guaranteed Optimality”

April 29, 2015 (Wed.)

11:00 – 11:50 am
SCP-229

Guest Speaker

Dr. Hans U. Boden, McMaster University –
“Virtual Knots and Knotted Surfaces”

Physics Colloquium Series – Spring 2015

February 20, 2015 (Fri.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-117

Guest Speaker

Knicole Colon, TCNJ Alumna, Lehigh University –
“Investigating the Formation of Exotic Extrasolar Planets”

March 3, 2015 (Tues.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-117

Guest Speaker

James Napolitano, Temple University –
“Neutrinos, Nuclear Reactors and the Origins of Matter”

April 7, 2015 (Fri.)

12:30 – 1:30 pm
SCP-117

Guest Speaker

Dr. Benjamin Gross, Chemical Heritage Foundation –
“How RCA Led the Way to a Physics Nobel”

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Fall 2014

School of Science Colloquium Series – Fall 2014

Biology Colloquium Series – Fall 2014

Chemistry Colloquium Series – Fall 2014

Computer Science Colloquium Series – Fall 2014

Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium Series – Fall 2014

Physics Colloquium Series – Fall 2014

Spring 2015

School of Science Colloquium Series – Spring 2015

Biology Colloquium Series – Spring 2015

Chemistry Colloquium Series – Spring 2015

Computer Science Colloquium Series – Spring 2015

Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium Series – Spring 2015

Physics Colloquium Series – Spring 2015

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