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NSO 2008 > Proseminars > Science &
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Ecologic Future of Pharmaceutical Research
Albert J. Giovenella, PhD, Adjunct Professor
This proseminar will discuss ecologic, economic, and scientifically-innovative issues affecting the future of the pharmaceutical industry in the US.
| Location: |
Williams Hall, Room 318 |
| Course: |
PROS 100-304 |
| Time: |
3-5 p.m. |
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Local Archaeology and Penn Undergraduates
Robert L. Schuyler, Associate Professor & Associate Curator
This proseminar provides an introduction to the Museum's "South Jersey Project," which involves the exploration of 19th through 20th century archaeological sites in the local area. The project and the class associated with it (Anthropology 219) are unique on campus in that they allow Penn undergraduates to participate in field excavations during the regular academic year. The results of six seasons (2001-2006) of fieldwork will be presented using slides and artifacts.
| Location: |
University Museum, Room 329 |
| Course: |
PROS 100-206 |
| Time: |
2-4 p.m. |
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Musings about Mathematical Models and the Music Market
Peter Fader, Professor of Marketing
Professor Fader's research centers on building formal models of sales patterns and customer behavior in a number of different contexts. Recently, he has been focusing much of his efforts on the music industry. Not only has he constructed a variety of models in this area, but he has also been involved in controversial topics, such as the different roles (positive and negative) that file-sharing may play in influencing music purchasing. He will discuss some of his experiences in this area, including brief overviews of some of his published work and ongoing projects.
| Location: |
Huntsman Hall, Room TBA |
| Course: |
PROS 100-405 |
| Time: |
4-6 p.m. |
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Quantum Computer and Information Science
Max Mintz, Professor of Computer and Information Science
Dr. Mintz will present an elementary overview of an exciting subject that combines Quantum Physics with Computer and Information Science. If Quantum Computation becomes a practical reality, then we will be able to efficiently solve several very interesting classes of problems which seem, at present, to be beyond the reach of classical computation. For example, we will be able to efficiently factor large composite integers and thereby render useless the present encryption technology known as RSA public key encryption.
| Location: |
Levine Hall, Room 307 |
| Course: |
PROS 100-110 |
| Time: |
1-3 p.m. |
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Start of Particle Physics
Evelyn Thomson, Assistant Professor
This fall marks the debut of the world's highest energy particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Thomson will discuss the most important questions about the nature of the universe that researchers at Penn and at universities around the world can answer with experimental data from the Large Hadron Collider in the next few years. She will also show how researchers can use data from a giant detector (half the size of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris) to discover new particles, and complete the forty years-long hunt for a peculiar particle called the Higgs boson.
| Location: |
Williams Hall, Room 220 |
| Course: |
PROS 100-208 |
| Time: |
2-4 p.m. |
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