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Tuesday February 02

Department of Chemical Engineering Shell Seminar Series: The Catalytic Conversion of Biomass-Derived Polyols to Fuels and Chemicals on Carbon Supported Pt-Re Catalysts

4:00 PM

Dante Simonetti, University of California-Berkeley CLTM Building, Room 102

Physics Colloquium: Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth of Silicon Micro/Nanowire Arrays for Energy Applications

4:00 PM

Joan Redwing, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University Meyer Hall, Room 220

Wednesday February 03

Materials Science Student Seminar Series: Fabrication of an Intermediate-Temperature Anode-Supported Planar SOFR Via Tape Casting and Lamination

4:00 PM

Chung Min An Hill Hall, Room 202

Thursday February 04

Department of Geophysics Heiland Lecture: Extending Seismology into Buildings: Studies of the UCLA Factor Building and Beyond

4:00 PM

Monica Kohler, research engineer, Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) at UCLA Green Center, Metals Hall

Materials Science Research Seminar Series: Intersections Between New Modeling Methods and new Nanomaterials for the Development of Effective Corrosion Inhibitors

4:00 PM

Dr. Ron Cook, Principal Scientist at TDA Research Inc. Hill Hall, Room 202

Van Tuyl Lecture: Structural geology of the Garden of the Gods: fault linking zones in a contractional setting, examined within the context of the Laramide orogeny

4:00 PM

Christine Siddoway, Geology Department Chair, Colorado College Steven A.F. Smith, Istitutio Nazionale di Geofiscia e Vulcanologia (INGV) Rome Berthoud

Friday February 05

CARDI Seminar: Exploring the Manifold of Seismic Waves: Application to Phase Detection

12:00 PM

Francois Meyer, Electrical Engineering, CU-Boulder Brown Building, Room 260

Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences Colloquium: PLFS: A Checkpoint Filesystem for Parallel Applications

3:00 PM

John Bent, Los Alamos National Laboratory Chauvenet Hall, Room 143

Tuesday February 09

Physics Colloquium: Singlet Fission - Can it be Harnessed for Solar Cells

4:00 PM

Josef Michl, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder Meyer Hall, Room 220

Spring 2010 Career Fair

9:30 AM

Student Recreation Center Download the program guide.

Wednesday February 10

Hennebach Program in the Humanities: Extreme Ice Survey

7:30 PM

James Balog, author, photographer and director/founder of Boulder’s Extreme Ice Survey; he has authored six other books and his images are regularly

Thursday February 11

Department of Geophysics Heiland Lecture Student Presentations

4:00 PM

“A New Approach to Efficient Computation in Potential Fields Using an Adaptive Mesh and Wavelet Transforms” Kristofer Davis, PhD Candidate

Environmental Science & Engineering: An Adventurous Course through Navigable Waters

12:30 PM

John McCray, Mines Environmental Science & Engineering Division Coolbaugh Hall, Room 219

Van Tuyl Lecture: Linking the dynamics of the earth's interior with regional stratigraphy sequences and global sea level since the Mesozoic

4:00 PM

Michael Gurnis, California Institute of Technology Berthoud Hall, Room 241

Friday February 12

MCS Colloquium: Finite Element Modeling of Highly Variable Geomaterials

3:00 PM

D.V. Griffiths, Colorado School of Mines Chauvenet Hall, Room 143

Saturday February 13

Chinese "Tiger Year" Spring Festival

5:30 PM

Traditional Chinese food will be served from 5:30 -7 p.m. and the festival show will follow. $5 per person. (Because of the capacity of the ballrooms,

Monday February 15

President's Day

No classes.

Tuesday February 16

Physics Colloquium: Problems in shallow-water acoustics: low-shear speed sediments and coherence length estimates in the presence of internal waves

4:00 PM

Jon Collis, Mathematical & Computer Sciences, Colorado School of Mines Meyer Hall, Room 220

Thursday February 18

Department of Geophysics Heiland Lecture: Outlook for Energy

4:00 PM

Leonard J. Srnka, chief research geoscientist, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston Green Center, Metals Hall

Friday February 19

Department of Geophysics Special Lecture: Effects of VTI Anisotropy, Data Coverage, and Initial Models on Marine CSEM 3D Data Inversion

10:00 AM

Leonard J. Srnka, chief research geoscientist, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company Berthoud Hall, Room 205

Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences: Shape Reconstruction and Classification

3:00 PM

Songming Hou, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Louisiana Tech University Chauvenet Hall, Room 143

Tuesday February 23

Metallurgy/Materials Science Seminar: Microstructure and Phase Selection in Supercooled Alloys Exhibiting Metastable Miscibility Gaps

1:00 PM

Abraham Munitz, Nuclear Research Center-Negev Hill Hall, Room 300

Not Your Parents' Writing Pedagogy: How Writing Can Foster Learning in Engineering and Science Courses

12:00 PM

Jon A. Leydens, associate professor, Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies Lunch is provided, please RSVP to hkuo@mines.edu. Hill Hall, Room

Physics Colloquium: First-principles design of functional materials for energy applications

4:00 PM

Su-Huai Wei, Theoretical Materials Science Group, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Meyer Hall, Room 220

Wednesday February 24

2009 Faculty Senate Distinguished Lecture: The CSM Humanitarian Engineering Minor Program - Opportunities for Engineering Students Interested in Direct Service to the Underserved

4:00 PM

David Munoz, associate professor, Mines Division of Engineering Director of Humanitarian Engineering Minor Metals Hall, Green Center For more info, see

Metallurgy/Materials Science Seminar: Soft Matters: Structure, Function and Optoelectronics

4:00 PM

Ziqi Liang, NREL Hill Hall, Room 202

Thursday February 25

Department of Geophysics Heiland Lecture: Geophysics, Infrastructure, and Kaitiakitanga

4:00 PM

William Murphy, managing scientist, e4sciences|Earthworks, Sandy Hook, CT Green Center, Metals Hall

EndNote Web Brown Bag

12:00 PM

EndNote Web is a web-based bibliographic management application to store and organize citations as well as create bibliographies. Megan Tomeo, reference

ESE Seminar: Investigating Nanoscale Features of Pore Networks in Geologically Active Systems

12:30 PM

Alexis Navarre-Sitchler Coolbaugh Hall, Room 219

Metallurgy/Materials Science Seminar: Bone Repair Biomaterials: The Challenge of Integrating Materials into Bone

4:00 PM

Reed Ayers, assistant professor of Biomaterials, MME, Mines Hill Hall, Room 202

Friday February 26

CARDI Seminar: Control of Building HVAC Systems: Challenges and Opportunities

12:00 PM

Bryan P. Rasmussen, Texas A&M University Brown Building, Room 260

CSM Academy Town and Gown Lecture: Wind Energy: U.S. and Global Trends and Contributions

4:00 PM

C.B. Luce Professor Katie Johnson Boettcher Room, Arthur Lakes Library

Department of Chemical Engineering Shell Seminar Series: Biofuels from Biomass: Refinery Integration Strategies for Pyrolysis Luquids

3:00 PM

Robert Baldwin, NREL Berthoud Hall, Room 241

Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences Colloquium: The Polyhedral Model and AlphaZ: A tool for program transformation and parallelization

3:00 PM

Sanjay Rajopadhye, Computer Science Department, Colorado State University Chauvenet Hall, Room 143

Geotechnical Seminar: Soil-Structure-Interaction in an Integral Bridge Subjected to a Combined Thermal and Gravity Loading

10:30 AM

Dunja Perić, associate professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Kansas State University Brown Building, Room 260

Saturday February 27

Holi - The Festival of Colors

2:00 PM

Experience Indian culture, play with colors and water, and enjoy Indian snacks. (Remember your clothes are going to get drenched in colors.) Admission:

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Events (02/09/10)

Physics Colloquium: Singlet Fission - Can it be Harnessed for Solar Cells

  • 4:00 PM
  • Josef Michl, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder Meyer Hall, Room 220

Spring 2010 Career Fair

  • 9:30 AM
  • Student Recreation Center Download the program guide.

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