The Frontiers In Science (FIS) program is intended to introduce students from all disciplines and academic levels to the beauty and fun of scholarly pursuits in the natural and physical science disciplines, and to engage faculty in interdisciplinary and multi-institutional research activities. The foundation of the FIS program are monthly seminar presentations on leading-edge interdisciplinary research in biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, and physics, and open discussions on opportunities in science as a career, research training internships for students, and faculty research collaborations.

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• Science Building 2, Rm 242 (SCI2, Rm 242)
• 12:00 (noon) - 1 pm
• Refreshments (soda, pizza) are usually served (starting ~ 11:45 am) at the seminar on the third Thursday of the month.

Seminars are generaly held the third Thursday of every month throughout the academic school year. But always check the schedule below for exact days, because the schedule is always adjusted for recognized holidays, semester breaks and final exam schedules.

• April 29, 2010
  • A Superconducting Tunneling Microscope: Probing Superconductivity at the Atomic Scale, Robert Dynes, Physics, UCSD
  
  
• April 15, 2010
  • Detecting the Most Distant Supernovae: Insight into How Galaxies Form & Evolve, Jeff Cooke, California Institute of Technology
  
  
• March 18, 2010
  • , Jeff Noel,
  
  
• March 4, 2010
  • A Day in the Life of an Industrial Physicist, Neil Dilley, Quantum Design, Inc.
  
  
• February 18, 2010
  • Probing an Electrorheological Colloid: General Mechanism for Negative Capacitance, Jason Shulman, Texas Center for Superconductivity, Univ Houston
  
  
• February 4, 2010
  • Thermodynamic Modeling of Liquid Viscosity, Marcio Cordoso, Federal Univ Rio de Janeiro