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Monday, April 14, 2008

Zoology Spring Seminar
Dr. Dee Denver
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
Model Selection and Estimation with Multiple Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces
Dr. Ming Yuan, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall
Rediscovering an Ancient Forage (Teff) and Adding Value to Modern Grain
Presented by: Steve Norberg
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Horning Lecture-Recital -- "French Impressions - A Musical Voyage"
Dana Whiteside, baritone, and James Johnson, piano
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Benton Hall  |  Free

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

"Shelf Sediment Dispersal Mechanisms and Deposition on the Waiapu River Shelf, New Zealand"
Tara Kniskern, University of California Santa Cruz/Virginia Institute of Marine Science
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
Tales of the unexpected: From maize pollen to Arabidopsis roots, and beyond
John Fowler, Associate Professor, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, OSU
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Horning Visiting Scholar Lecture - Lawrence M. Principe
"The Noble Art of Alchemy: Contents and Contexts"
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Crash Course in Astrology
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

"Swash Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport - New Solutions and Continuing Problems"
Tom Baldock, University of Queensland, Australia
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
"Small-Scale Population Structure in Coastal Cod: How Does Spatial Structure in Fitness-Oriented Traits Compare to Population Genetics?"
Halvor Knutsen and Esben Moland Olsen, Inst. of Marine Research, Flodevigen Marine Research Station, Norway
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
Divination, Oh My!
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
CGRB Seminar: Craig Roy, Yale University School of Medicine
"Subversion of Eukaryotic Vesicle Transport Pathways by the Intracellular Pathogen Legionella pneumophila"
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Spring Hydrology Seminar 2008
Water in the West
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
Environmental Ethics and Invasive Species
Invasive Species Conservation Biology & Mgt
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Nash Hall  |  Free
Modeling climate change impacts on mountain hydrology: integrating vegetation dynamics with changes in snow accumulation and melt
(Spring Hydrology Seminar Series, Water in the West)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
Relationship Signs
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free

Thursday, April 17, 2008

"What Ship Observations and Model Errors Tell Us about Tropical Eastern Pacific Climate"
Simon de Szoeke, NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO
10:00 am - 11:00 am  |  Burt Hall
"Tracing the Transformations of Organic Carbon in Marine Sediments using Natural Carbon Isotopes"
Tomoko Komada, Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, and Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Francisco State University
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
Eastern Zodiac: the twelve elements
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Linus Pauling Institute Seminar Series
"Oxidative Stress and Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's Disease Brain: Central Role of Amyloid Beta-Peptide and Insights from Redox Proteomics"
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Starker Lecture - Role of Planted Forests in the Pacific NW: Meeting Societal Demands in a Dynamic Environment
The Role of Planted Forests in Conserving Biodiversity in Forest Stands and Landscapes
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Richardson Hall  |  Free
Modeling of contaminant degradation by chemotactic bacteria: exploring the formation and movement of bacterial bands
Dr. Markus Hilpert, The John Hopkins University
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Burt Hall  |  Free
The North Himalayan Gneiss Domes, Southern Tibet: A window into middle crustal processes during continental collision
Speaker: Jeff Lee, Central Washington U. (Geology Seminar), Dept. of Geosciences
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
Horning Visiting Scholar Lecture - Lawrence M. Principe
"The Place of Alchemy in Early Modern Culture and the History of Science"
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Is the Bible's Morality Out of Date?
A debate free and open to the public
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free
Is the Bible's Morality Out of Date?
Sponsored by The OSU Socratic Club
7:00 pm - 9:15 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free
Austin Entrepreneurship Program Fireside Chat
Larry Hawley Brown, Earl & Brown Co., Inc.
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Weatherford Hall

Friday, April 18, 2008

Horning Visiting Scholar Lecture - Lawrence M. Principe
"The Transmutations of Chymistry: Products and Pathways"
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Valley Library  |  Free
WIC 2008 Spring Luncheons
"Adding Exhibits and Graphics to the WIC Experience"
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free
DHE Research/Creative Activity Seminars
Korean and Latina Women's Perceptions of Gerotechnologies and Objective Phyiscal Environmental Freatures that Facilitate/Hinder Walking of Older Adults
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Milam Hall  |  Free and open to public
Ecosystem Service Markets: Cash, Conservation, or Can of Worms?
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm  |  Richardson Hall
"Environmental amenities and urban spatial structures."
Speaker: JunJie Wu, AREc (Geography Seminar), Dept. of Geosciences
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
Queer Astrology
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Pride Center  |  Free

Saturday, April 19, 2008

I Heard it in Class
A conference on myths and stereotypes perpetuated in schools.
10:00 am - 4:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free