Science

Unless indicated otherwise, all seminars are at 16:45 in the Science Building Room Z 42.

29 Sept 2005	Dr. Bruno Viana, Laboratoire de Chimie Appliquee de l'Etat Solide "Development of Yb lasers and applications"
6 Oct 2005	Dr. Ali Kaya, Department of Physics, Bogazici University "Brane gas cosmology: an application of string theory to cosmology"
13 Oct 2005	Prof. Thomas W. Okita, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University "Metabolic Engineering of Starch for Enhanced Plant Growth and Productivity"
20 Oct 2005	Prof. Iskender Yilgor, Department of Chemistry, Koc University "Nanostructured, functional copolymers and their possible applications"
27 Oct 2005	Prof. Alex Rubinov, School of Inf. Tech. and Math. Sci. (SITMS) University of Ballarat, Australia "Abstract convexity and its applications"
3 Nov 2005	%%%% SEKER BAYRAMI (no seminar) %%%%
10 Nov 2005	Dr. Ferit Ozturk, Department of Mathematics, Bogazici University "Do there exist higher order geometries?"
16 Nov 2005	(cancelled) Dr. Andreas Isemann, Femtolasers Produktions GmbH, Vienna, Austria "Overview of femtosecond applications and femtosecond sources"
17 Nov 2005	Prof. Lon J. Mathias "Antimicrobial Polymers and Nano-clay Delivery Systems"
24 Nov 2005	Dr. Vural Butun, Department of Chemistry, Osmangazi University "Novel surface-active water-soluble block copolymers and novel nano-spheres"
1 Dec 2005	Dr. Ira Cooke, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany "Simulating lipid bilayers at large length scales: patchy vesicles, cylindrical micelles and coated viruses"
6 Dec 2005	Dr. Ilya Gerhardt, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH, Zurich "Single Molecules under Local Probes"
15 Dec 2005	Dr. Muhittin Mungan, Department of Physics, Bogazici University "String Matching and 1d Lattice Gases"
22 Dec 2005	Prof. Ali Alpar, Sabanci University "Kilohertz Quasi-Periodic Oscillations and the Modes of an Accretion Disk"
28 Dec 2005	Dr. Mustafa Guler "Presentation and recognition of functional groups on self-assembling peptide amphiphile nanofibers"
29 Dec 2005	Prof. Roland Netz, Physics Department, Technical University, Munich "Microscopic Modelling of DNA: From Chromatin to Nanomachines"
2 Jan 2006	Dr. Kazim Buyukboduk, Department of Mathematics Stanford University "Trivial Zeros, Kolyvagin Systems and Main Conjectures of Iwasawa Theory"
5 Jan 2006	Dr. Vural Gokmen, Dept of Food Engineering, Hacettepe University "Acrylamide in foods"
2 Feb 2006	Dr. Nick Cavenagh, School of Mathematics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia "An introduction to latin trades"