| Sun 5/20/12 2 pm | Goldsmith 226 |
| Everytopic Seminar |
| Josh Sussan (Max Planck) |
| Braid group actions and Heisenberg categorification |
| Hosted by Joel Bellaiche |
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| Thu 5/24/12 4 pm | Abelson 126 |
| MRSEC Seminar |
| Hunter King (UMass, Amherst) |
| TBA |
| Hosted by Z. Dogic |
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| Fri 6/8/12 12 noon | |
| Special Seminar |
| Sumantra Chattarji (NCBS, Bangalore, India) |
| To be or not to be afraid: neuronal encoding of fear generalization in the amygdala |
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| Thu 6/14/12 4 pm | Abelson 126 |
| MRSEC Seminar |
| Christopher Harrison (Schlumberger-Doll Research, Cambridge) |
| Schlumberger: Microfluidics in the Oilfield |
Microfluidic devices present many advantages when performing measurements at elevated temperatures and pressures that make them interesting for downhole implementation in oilfield tools. For example, pressure containment and manipulation becomes much easier and safer when the stored volume (and energy!) of fluid is minimized. In addition to the engineering advantages, the small volumes associated with microfluidic sensors allow us to exploit physical phenomena that are not readily accessible at the macroscopic scale, especially with regards to thermal pulses to nucleate phase transitions. This presentation will review our programÕs recent development of microfluidic sensors to measure fluid density and viscosity, including a discussion of recent work on the measurement of bubble point and dew point pressures. |
| Hosted by Seth Fraden |
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