UAF Weekly Science Calendar, September 8 - 12

Submitted by Center for Global Change
Phone: 474-5818
09/05/03

MONDAY, SEPT. 8

3:00 p.m. - 201 Natural Sciences
Special Physics Colloquium
Is Quantum State Reduction an Objective Gravitational
Effect? Some New Theory and Experiment
Sir Roger Penrose, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor
of Mathematics at the University of Oxford
For more information call 474-7339 or -7858 or e-mail
ffden@uaf.edu

TUESDAY, SEPT. 9

2:00-2:30 p.m. - Elvey Auditorium, Geophysical Institute
Alaska Satellite Facility Technical Seminar Series
The Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada:
Change Detection with Real and Synthetic Aperture Radar Since 1981
Martin Jeffries, Geophysical Institute, UAF
For more information call 474-7621 or e-mail
rgens@asf.alaska.edu

3:30 p.m. - Elvey Auditorium, Geophysical Institute
Special Lecture Series Sponsored by the Chapman Chair (also ATM 693)
Changing Pathways in the Arctic: Lecture #2
Robie W. Macdonald, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, BC
All UAF students, faculty and staff are welcome to attend
any or all of this series of eight lectures. For more
information see the UAF WebEvent calendar or contact
Prof. Norbert Untersteiner

7:30 p.m. - Schaible Auditorium, Bunnell Bldg.
Special Science Lecture for a General Audience
Science and the Mind
Sir Roger Penrose, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor
of Mathematics at the University of Oxford
For more information call 474-7339 or -7858 or e-mail
ffden@uaf.edu

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

1:30 p.m. - 417 IARC
Atmospheric Science Informal Seminar
Exchange of Ozone and Highly Reactive Nitrogen
Compounds between the Atmosphere and the Biosphere
Gerhard Kramm, Geophysical Institute, UAF
For more information call 474-7910 or e-mail molders@gi.alaska.edu

2:00 p.m. - Elvey Auditorium, Geophysical Institute
Institute of Marine Science Weekly Seminar
Study of the Decadal Variability in the Arctic Ocean--
Greenland Sea Ice-Ocean-Atmosphere System
Thesis presentation by Dmitry Dukovskoy, Ph.D. Candidate
For more information call 474-7910 or -7289

THURSDAY, SEPT. 11

3:30 p.m. - Elvey Auditorium, Geophysical Institute
Special Lecture Series Sponsored by the Chapman Chair (also ATM 693)
Changing Pathways in the Arctic: Lecture #3
Robie W. Macdonald, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, BC
All UAF students, faculty and staff are welcome to attend
any or all of this series of eight lectures. For more
information see the UAF WebEvent calendar or contact
Prof. Norbert Untersteiner

FRIDAY, SEPT. 12

1:00 p.m. - 333 Duckering
Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series
Dynamic Failure of Interfaces and
Functionally Graded Materials
Arun Shukla, University of Rhode Island
For more information e-mail ffhl@uaf.edu

3:30 p.m. - Elvey Auditorium, Geophysical Institute
Life Sciences Seminar Series
Biocomplexity of Frost-boil Systems:
2003 Expedition to Prince Patrick and Banks Islands
Skip Walker, Institute of Arctic Biology, UAF
For more information call 474-7640 or e-mail fnlts@uaf.edu

3:30 p.m. - 201 Natural Sciences
Department of Geology and Geophysics Seminar
New Beginnings for the Department of
Geology and Geophysics
John Eichelberger and Mike Whalen, co-chairs of the
Department of Geology and Geophysics, UAF
For more information call 474-7565 or e-mail fnpsh@uaf.edu.

3:45 p.m. - Globe Room, Geophysical Institute
Department of Physics Journal Club
Weekly informal presentation
For more information see http://www.ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/journal_club.htm
or call 474-7339.