Science 198: Perspectives on Science

2005-2006

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Lectures and Reading - Fall Term 2005

2 September 2005: Richard Prum: Why are blue birds blue? Physics and evolution of biological phontonic crystals.

Professor Prum's Website; Paper 1; Paper 2

16 September 2005: Meg Urry: Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy

http://www.aip.org/pnu/2000/split/pnu479-1.htm

Article on Dark Matter

30 September 2005: Ann Valentine: Bioinorganic chemistry of titanium in medicine and the environment.

1) Chapter 1 from SJ Lippard and JM Berg "Principles of Bioinorganic Chemistry" (University Science Books, 1994).

2) PART of Chapter 7 from RM Roat-Malone's "Bioinorganic Chemistry: A Short Course." (John Wiley & Sons 2002). If you are interested this whole textbook is available on the web at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jissue/104084175

3) The Protein Data Bank's (PDB's) Molecule of the Month page at: http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/molecules/molecule_list.html

14 October 2005: Michel Devoret: Quantum coherence and quantum computation.

Quantronics Lab Website: http://www.eng.yale.edu/qlab/

A Short Introduction to Quantum Computing

S.L. Braunstein: Quantum Computing

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantu m_computer

28 October 2005: Diane Krause: Adult and embryonic stem cells.

Stem Cell Pirmer; Reference 1; Reference 2.

11 November 2005: Mark Johnson: Water cluster cocktails: Electrons and protons on the rocks.

Prof. Johnson's Website;

Reference 1;

Reference 2;

Reference 3

2 December 2005: Research Symposium

Lectures and Reading - Spring Term 2006

20 January 2006: Erin Lavik: Growing and repairing tissue

3 February 2006: Ronald Smith: The 'Greenhouse Effect' and global warming

17 February 2006: John Carlson: Odor coding in the Fly

24 February 2006: Mark Reed: Microelectronics: To the end of the road (map) and beyond.

24 March 2006: Jorge Galan: Striking a balance: Interaction of Salmonella with host cells.

7 April 2006: Enrique De La Cruz: Mechanism of energy transduction and cooperativity in molecular motors.

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