Math

Math-Science Seminars

Spring 2003

Brain Control in Rats, Cats and WoMans

Water-repellent surfaces: chemical and physical factors

Connecting the Scales: An Intuitive and Effective Method for First-Principles Physics

What Does the Wave Function of the Universe Mean?

A Stroll Through Primes and Zeros of L-functions

Protein Structure-Function Analyses; The Road from Prediciton to Confirmation

Ebced Hesabı ve Şifreleme

An informal talk about basic concepts of cryptology

Bilimsel devrim uzerine dusunceler

Optical Imaging of Tissues

Centralizers of involutions in simple locally finite groups

First-principles Theory of Doping: Applications to Solar Energy Materials and Molecular Systems

Physics and Applications of Photonic Crystals

From Galois Theory and Kummer Theory to Cogalois Theory

Studies in Polymer Physical Chemistry: Surface Modification, Adhesion and Self-healing

Geometric structures on spheres and symmetry

What is string theory?

May 14,15,16, 2003: Anthony E. Siegman, McMurtry Professor of Engineering Emeritus, Stanford University.

(1st day) Masers and Lasers: Looking Back Over Fifty-Plus Years

(2nd day) Normal Modes and not so Normal Modes

(3rd day) Elementary Optics: What happens when you add gain?

Aldol Additions to Chiral Aldehydes: Lewis Acid Strength and Relative Stability of the Cornforth and Felkin-Anh Transition Structures

50 years of DNA

Acquired tolerance of hepatocellular carcinoma cells to selenium deficiency: a selective survival mechanism?

Symplectic surfaces in symplectic 4-manifolds