Science

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

16 Feb 2006	Dr. Selcuk Akturk, School of Physics, Georgia Institue of Technology " The Measurement of the Shortest Events Ever Created "
23 Feb 2006	Prof. Colin Graham, Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Koc University " The mystery of the Fourier transform "
2 Mar 2006	Dr. M. Cem Guclu, Department of Physics, Istanbul Techical University " Physics of Ultra-Peripheral Nuclear Collisions "
9 Mar 2006	Prof. M. Ali Alpar, Sabanci University " Kilohertz Quasi-Periodic Oscillations and the Modes of an Accretion Disk "
16 Mar 2006	Prof. Vasif Hasirci, Dept. Biological Sciences, Biotechnology Research Unit and BIOMAT, METU " Scaffolds and Carriers for Tissue Engineering "
24 Mar	Dr. Sinan Unver, Univesity of Chicago " Drinfel'd-Ihara relations for p-adic multi-zeta values "
30 Mar 2006	Prof. Ergin Sezgin, Texas A&M University " Branes, Supersymmetry and Higher Dimensions "
6 Apr 2006	* SPRING BREAK *
13 Apr 2006	Prof. Dr. Lutfi Ovecoglu, Metalurji ve Malzeme Mühendisligi Bölümü, Istanbul Teknik Universitesi " Investigations using Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) Techniques in Materials Science "
18 Apr 2006	Prof. Piotr Garstecki, Polish Academy of Sciences " Bubbles and Droplets in Microfluidics "
20 Apr 2006	Dr. Thorsten Rheinlander, London School of Economics " An entropy approach to hedging of derivatives "
27 Apr 2006	Prof. Dr. Huseyin Isci, Department of Chemistry, METU " Electronic Absorption And MCD Spectra For Octacyanometallate Complexes [M(CN)8]n-, M = Mo(IV), Mo(V), W(IV), W(V) "
28 Apr 2006	Dr. Oguzhan Gurlu, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Nano-scale Science Department, Stuttgart, Germany " Through the seeing needle: "Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy on Metal/Semiconductor Surfaces" "
4 May 2006	Dr. Baris Coskunuzer, Gibbs Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Yale University " On the Number of Solutions to the Asymptotic Plateau Problem "
8 May 2006	Prof. Dr. Bulent Atalay, University of Mary Washington " Matematik ve Mona Lisa: Leonardo da Vinci'nin Sanati ve Bilimi "
11 May 2006	Prof. Kristin Bennett, Mathematical Science Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute " Optimization Challenges in Machine Learning "
18 May 2006	Prof. Vural Altin, Bogazici Universitesi, Nukleer Muh. Bolumu " Kiyaslamali Enerji Uretim Surecleri (az biraz aritmatik, biraz da grafikle) "
22 May 2006	Prof. Baha Balantekin, Eugene P. Wigner Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison " Supernovae and the origin of elements "
24 May 2006	Michel Haddad, National Instruments " National Instruments Profile "
25 May 2006	Prof. Dirk Zahn, Max-Planck Institute, Dresden " Exploring Reaction Mechanisms from Atomistic Simulations: New Insights in Crystal Nucleation, Phase Transitions and Segregation Processes "
1 Jun 2006	Prof. Dr. Leonard M. Sander, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor " Patterns and Growth in Highly Malignant Brain Tumors "
8 Jun 2006	Sibel Ozkan, Auburn University, AL " Partial Hamilton decompositions of complete graphs with no 2-factor in the leave "
15 Jun 2006	Prof. James G. Fujimoto, MIT " Biomedical imaging using optical coherence tomography "
22 Jun 2006	Prof. Diane Donovan, Univ of Queensland " Studying Cognitive Complexity by Analyzing the Intrinsic Structure of A Latin Square "
10 Jul 2006	Prof. Rod Ruoff, Northwestern University " (i) Synthesis & Characterization of Boron and Metal Boride Nanostructures (ii) Novel High-aspect Ratio Platelets and Their Use in Composites (iii) Mechanics of Nanotubes and Nanowires"