Recently Published @ Columbia (22 May 2013)
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Biological Sciences Dept. Seminar - Monday, May 20th, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Stephen Benkovic, Evan Pugh Professor and Eberly Chair in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Penn State University
Title: “A Perspective on Biological Catalysis”
When: Monday, May 20th, 2013 - 12:00 pm
Where: 700 Fairchild
Abstract: With dihydrofolate reductase as a paradigm, we have examined the question of the importance of conformational changes and their contributions to catalysis. A variety of collaborative approaches that include nuclear magnetic relaxation, pre-steady state kinetics, fluorescence resonance energy transfer, phylogentically coherent events, and molecular dynamic simulations have focused on the parent and mutant forms of the enzyme.
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Recently Published @ Columbia (15 May 2013)
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Department of Astronomy: Public Lecture & Stargazing
Next Event: 8pm, Friday, May 17, 2013
Speaker: Emily Rice
Title: “Exoplanets Everywhere!”
Abstract: According to the most recent results from Kepler and other surveys, exoplanets are everywhere in the Milky Way Galaxy, and likely the entire Universe. But how close are we to finding another Earth or to answering the eternal question: are we alone in the Universe?
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Earth Institute Events - Week of May 13, 2013
Events listed below are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
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Deep Sea Earthquakes: Science and Technology
Speaker: Maya Tolstoy, Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences
When: Thursday, May 16 - 6-7pm
Where: AppNexus Auditorium, 28 W. 23rd St, 4th floor
Abstract: Earthquakes are constantly shaking the deep seafloor. While most of the smaller ones go unnoticed, the largest can produce devastating tsunamis, as recently seen in Japan and Sumatra. Recording these deep sea earthquakes presents a significant technical challenge. A team of Lamont scientists and engineers build and deploy rugged instruments designed to survive the extreme seafloor environment and collect vital earthquake data. Results of this work are advancing our understanding of earthquake processes and may one day lead to improved forecasting for large tsunami-generating earthquakes.
Admission is $5.00 at the door | Wheelchair-accessible | A light reception will follow each lecture
Martin Chalfie and Wafaa El-Sadr Named University Professors
Martin Chalfie
Wafaa El-Sadr
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Love of astronomy launches Pittsfield native’s education to new heights
By Jenn Smith, Berkshire Eagle Staff
PITTSFIELD — For Pittsfield native son Duane M. Lee, the next stop after graduating this year from the School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University will be starting a post-doctoral fellowship at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory in China this fall.
His story begins, however, as an African-American child growing up on Linden Street on the city’s west side, a less-affluent section of Pittsfield that also is teeming with young children full of potential and dreams.
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EFRC Regular Seminar - Jiali Gao
Title: “Mechanism of singlet fission and proton-coupled electron transfer from multistate density function theory”
Speaker: Jiali Gao, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota
When: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 4:00pm
Where: 750 CEPSR/Interschool Lab
Abstract: A multistate density functional theory (MSDFT) has been developed to characterize electronically localized diabatic configurations involved in singlet fission and proton-coupled electron transfer reactions. The method has been applied to singlet fission in tetracene and pentacene monolayers, and PCET reactions in organic dyes.
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Biological Sciences Dept. Seminar - Monday, May 13th, 12:00 pm
Title: “Tumor Suppressor Genes: Mechanisms of Inactivation, Discovery and Therapeutic Potential”
Speaker: Dr. Michael Green, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Program in Gene Function and Expression, University of Massachusetts Medical School
When: Monday, May 13th, 2013 - 12:00 pm
Where: 700 Fairchild
Host: Dr. Jim Manley
The Declassification Engine: Conference on Computational Analysis of Official Secrecy
Historians, journalists, legal scholars, statisticians, and computer scientists are meeting at Columbia University to consider how computational methods can illuminate the broad patterns of official secrecy and accelerate the declassification process.
When: Friday, May 10 2013 - 9am - 6pm
Where: Lecture Hall (3rd Floor), School of Journalism (Pulitzer Building), Columbia University
More information and registration.
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Recently Published @ Columbia (8 May 2013)
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New Technology in Surgery
The John Jones Surgical Society invites you to its 13th Annual Spring Meeting
When: Friday, May 10, 2013 - 9am-5:30pm
Where: New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, Myrna L. Daniels Auditorium Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center
Symposium Topics
- Emerging Applications
- Challenges of Commercialization
- Emerging Technologies
- Bioengineering in Surgery
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P-Chem Seminar | May 7 | @ 5:30 PM
Title: “Rationally designed complex, hierarchal microarchitectures”
Speaker: W. L. Noorduin, Harvard University
Where: Havemeyer 328
Abstract: The emergence of complex nano/microstructures is of fundamental interest, and the ability to program their form has practical ramifications in fields such as optics, catalysis and electronics. We developed carbonate/silica microstructures in a dynamic reaction-diffusion system that allows us to rationally devise schemes for precisely sculpting a great variety of elementary shapes.
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Earth Institute Events - Week of May 6, 2013
Events listed below are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
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