Faculty Commons

This faculty-only meeting place to promote fellowship, collaboration and schlorship, has new dates and topics added:

March 21, 2006 - 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., Conference Room 6202 in 5057 Woodward - “Linguistics”

April 11, 2006 - 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., at Children’s Hospital of Michigan (Room TBD) - “Children’s Research at CHM”

May 9, 2006 - 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., Conference Room 6202 in 5057 Woodward - Topic to be announced.

Suggestions for future topics are always welcome. Please send your topic ideas to Nancy Christ, Director of Interdiciplinary Research, nchrist@med.wayne.edu.

Nano@Wayne

Tuesday, February 21 at 2:30 p.m. in the Welcome Center Auditorium:
Speaker: Dr. Charles Winter from WSU Department of Chemistry
Topic: The Synthesis and Characterization of Metal and Semiconductor Nanoparticles (topic may change)

Tuesday, March 7 at 2:30 p.m. in the Welcome Center Auditorium:
Speaker: Dr. Mark Ratner from Northwestern University
Topic: Charge Transport in Molecular Junctions- Tunnel Barriers and Beyond

Tuesday, March 21 at 2:30 p.m. in the Welcome Center Auditorium:
Speaker: Dr. Claudio Verani, from WSU Department of Chemistry
Topic: Redox-Driven Magnetic Switching

Tuesday, April 4 at 2:30 p.m. in the Welcome Center Auditorium:
Speaker: Dr. Joseph Hupp from Northwestern University
Topic: TBA

Tuesday, April 18 at 2:30 p.m. in the Welcome Center Auditorium:
Speaker: Dr. Evi Goldfield from WSU Department of Chemistry
Topic: Theoretical Calculations on the Interactions of Small Molecules with Nanotubes

Tuesday, May 2 at 2:30 p.m. in the Welcome Center Auditorium:
Speaker: Dr. Cathy Murphy from the University of South Carolina
Topic: TBA

Tuesday, May 16 at 2:30 p.m. in the Welcome Center Auditorium:
Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Brock from WSU Department of Chemistry
Topic: Synthesis and Properties of Nanoparticles and Nanostructures: From Phosphide Nanoparticles to Chalcogenide Aerogels

Tuesday, June 6 at 2:30 p.m., Site to be Announced:
Speaker: Dr. Gregory Lanza from the University of Washington
Topic: TBA

Department of Mathematics: Annual Owen G. Owens Lecture

The Mathematics Department sponsors an annual Owen G. Owens Lecture. A short biography of Professor Owens and information on this lecture series may be found at http://www.math.wayne.edu/~lowell/owens_bio.htm and http://www.math.wayne.edu/~lowell/1992-2005%20Owens_Lecturers.htm .

This lecture deals with the issue of computer-assisted mathematical proofs. http://www.math.binghamton.edu/zaslav/Nytimes/+Science/+Math/sphere-packing.20040406.html is a 2004 New York Times article that explains this issue in the context of the proof of the Kepler Conjecture by this year’s lecturer, Dr. Thomas Hales.

The lecture will take place on February 20 at 3:00 p.m. in the Bernath Auditorium of the Adamany Undergraduate Library.