What: Faculty Candidate Seminar Who: Dr. Dennice Gayme, Caltech, Pasadena, CA When: Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 11:00 AM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Energy Efficiency: From Fundamental Physics to Power Systems

What: GT Courtesy Listing Who: Dr. Markus Schneider, French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis When: Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 11:00 AM Where: MARC Building Room Auditorium Title: Electromagnetic Acceleration at the French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis (ISL)

What: GT Courtesy Listing Who: Dr. Sarah Heilshorn, Stanford University When: Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 11:00 AM Where: IBB Building Room 1128 Title: Designing Multi-Functional Biopolymers Through Protein Engineering

What: NRE 8011/8012 Seminar Who: Dr. Jess Gehin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory When: Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 11:00 AM Where: Boggs Building Room 3-47 Title: History and Technical Overview of Molten Salt Reactors

What: GT Courtesy Listing Who: Dr. Dawn Elliott, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine When: Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 11:00 AM Where: IBB Building Room 1128 Title: Intervertebral Disc Structure-Function and Mechanical Contributions to Degeneration

What: Faculty Candidate Seminar Who: Ms. Stacy Figueredo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. When: Friday, February 11, 2011 at 11:00 AM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Parabolic Solar Trough Collection: Efficient Solutions for Large Scale Energy Generation

What: Faculty Candidate Seminar Who: Dr. Allison Beese, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA When: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 11:00 AM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Finite Deformation of Anisotropic Steel Sheets Undergoing Deformation Induced Austenite-to-Martensite Transformation: Experiments and Modeling

What: Faculty Candidate Seminar Who: Ms. Barbara Botros, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA When: Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 11:00 AM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Innovative Power Cycles for Heat Utilization and Integration in an IGCC power plant

What: NRE 8011/8012 Seminar Who: Dr. Huichen Wang, Emory University When: Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 11:00 AM Where: Boggs Building Room 3-47 Title: Repair of clustered DNA damage induced by high LET radiation

What: GT Courtesy Listing Who: Dr. Leslie A. Leinwand, Director, Colorado Initiative in Molecular Biotechnology, University of Colorado, Boulder When: Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 11:00 AM Where: IBB Building Room 1128 Title: A Woman is Not a Small Man