Upcoming Talks: Spring 2013

2013

Apr 4 - No Talk AAUP Forum

Apr 11 - Kim Cobb, Georgia Institute of Technology - Biology

1. •Title: Coral records of past and present climate change
   

2. •Abstract: Trends in tropical Pacific climate change are poorly constrained by available instrumental records, yet play a critical role in shaping regional climate responses to rising carbon dioxide levels. Here we present data from central Pacific corals that lock in records of past temperature and rainfall into their skeletons, spanning the last 6,000 years to present-day. We show that the rates of current climate change are unprecedented in the last millennium at this tropical site, and that a powerful tropical climate cycle, the El Nino-Southern Oscillation, may be intensifying under global warming.
   

Apr 18 - No Talk Honors 200 Meeting

Recent Talks

2013

Mar 28 - Dave Chalcraft, East Carolina University - Biology

1. •Title: Biodiversity Loss and Its Ecological Consequences
   

Mar 7    Haiyan Fan-Hagenstein, Claflin University - Chemistry

1. •Title: Study of the hologen bonding between pyridine and perfluoroalkyl iodide in solution phase suing the combination of FTIR and 19F NMR
   

Feb 28    Abby Noble, FMU - Mathematics

1. •Title: Applications of Design Theory
   

Feb 14   Renata Cumbee - University of Georgia, Athens - Physics

1. •Title: Modeling Atomic Collisions in Astrophysical Environments
   

Feb 7    Philip Fulmer, FMU - Physics

1. •Title: Arduino Projects: Art, Science and Fun That Anyone Can Do
   

Jan 31    Robert Carr, FMU - Chemistry

1. •Title: Chemical Process Development of Mericitabine, a Hepatitis-C Pro-drug
   

Jan 24    Cameron Rainey, Virginia Tech - Physics

1. •Title: Measuring Roads with Precision
   

Jan 17   Miriam Ashley-Ross, Wake Forest University - Biology

1. •Title: Terrestrial jumping in teleost fishes: How is a musculoskeletal system that is under strong selection for aquatic performance “repurposed” to produce movement on land?
   

2012

Nov. 15    Shayna Wrighten, FMU - Biology

1. •Title: Insulin age-dependently modulates hippocampal function
   

Nov. 8     Michael Libby, IRIX Pharmaceuticals - Chemistry

1. •Title: Quality by Design in Pharmaceutical Development
   

Nov. 1     Matthew Noble, FMU - Math

1. •Title: A Combinatorics Open Problem Sampler Platter
   

Oct. 11    Reed Perkins, Queens University of Charlotte - Biology

1. •Title: When the Waters Rise: A story of how science is helping island cultures in Micronesia adapt to global warming
   

Oct. 4     Brian Bunton, Coastal Carolina University - Physics

1. • Title: The Strange Lives of Elementary Particles
   

Sept. 27   Barbara Taylor, SC DNR - Biology 

1. •Title: Lake Marion: Driven by the River
   

Sept. 13    Daniel Dougherty, NC State University  - Physics

1. •Title: Molecular Spintronics: Controlling Spin in Solids with Chemistry
   

Sept. 6    Chris Moore, Coastal Carolina University - Chemistry

1. •Title: At the interface between chemistry and physics: better semiconductor devices through an understanding of surface chemistry
   

Aug. 30   Ginger  Bryngelson, FMU - Physics

1. • Title: Thermonuclear Supernovae and What They Tell Us About the Fate of the Universe
   

Apr. 19     Jeff Stehouwer - Biology/Chemistry/Physics

1. • Title: The Physics, Chemistry, and Biology of Positron Emission Tomography
   

Apr. 5       Jason Dossett - Physics

1. •Title: The Dark Side of the Universe
   

Mar. 29    Shelbi Hostler - Physics

1. •Title: The Submillimeter Array
   

Mar. 22     Leslie Lovelace - Chemistry

1. • Title: Asymmetric Inhibition of Human Thymidylate Synthase
   

Mar. 1       Nick Newman - Mathematics

1. •Title: An Introduction to Design Theory and Recent Research
   

Feb. 23      Jeff Dudycha - Biology

1. •Title: Genome-by-environment interactions and the evolutionary divergence of resource exploitation.
   

Feb. 16      Scott Parker - Biology

1. •Title: Uterine epithelial surface morphology, blood vessel proliferation, and the evolution of viviparity in lizards
   

Feb. 9       Eran Kilpatrick - Biology

1. •Title: South Carolina’s Statewide Anuran Monitoring Program: Project Summary 2008 – 2011
   

Feb. 2         Jason Overby - Chemistry

1. •Title: Building a Better Metalloenzyme? Synthetic Studies of Transition Metal Active Sites
   

Jan. 26        John Ferry - Chemistry

1. •Title: Molecular strategies for measuring fate, effects and cycling in environmental systems
   

Jan. 19        Julian Buck - Mathematics

1. •Title: C*-Algebraic Models in Quantum Mechanics
   

2011

Dec. 1         Henry Slone - Biology

1. •Title: Unique Anatomical and Chemical Features of Big Mountain Sagebrush Leaf Hairs: A Proposed Heat-Sink Mechanism to Control Leaf Temperature
   

Nov. 17       Larry Engelhardt - Physics

1. • Title: Open Source Tools for Scientific Computing
   

Nov. 10      Sharon O’Kelley - Mathematics

1. • Title: Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching - What is it?
   

Nov. 3        Marshall D. McCue - Biology

1. • Title: Chasing August Krogh: physiological investigations of the bioenergetics of reptiles, birds, and insects
   

Oct. 27      Chris Simmons - Biology

1. • Title: Conservation of Swallow-tailed Kites In Coastal South Carolina: Integrating Citizen Science and Research for Conservation Planning
   

Oct. 20      Travis Knowles - Biology

1. • Title: Wildsumaco Biological Station: Research and education opportunities in the Ecuadorian rainforest
   

Oct. 6        David Szurley - Mathematics

1. • Title: Why Do We Have to Learn This II?  (Mathematics in Chemistry)
   

Sept. 15      Alan Waldman - Biology

1. • Title: DNA transactions in mammalian chromosomes: Choosing the right partner and staying faithful
   

Sept. 8       Jacob Moldenhauer - Physics

1. • Title: Observational Constraints of the Standard Model of Cosmology and Competitive Modified Gravity Models
   

Sept. 1       Heather Caldwell - Biology

1. • Title: The vasopressin 1b receptor and the neural regulation of behavior