Tuesday, 31 Mar 2009
Computer science colloquium
Xiang-Yang Li, associate professor of the department of computer science, Illinois Institute of Technology, presents "Online Spectrum Scheduling in Wireless Networks."
Lecture: Tolerance
"Tolerance: Vice or Virtue?" Otto Selles, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Mich. An overview of how the concept of tolerance developed in the West, particularly during the Enlightenment, and the place of tolerance in contemporary society, both globally and locally.
President's Lecture in Chemistry: Dudley Herschbach
"The Impossible Takes a Little Longer: Reflections on Teaching Science as a Liberal Art," Dudley Herschbach is the Frank B. Baird Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard and recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry. His research on the crossed molecular beam technique is one of the most important advances within the field of reaction dynamics and has allowed scientists to better understand how chemical reactions take place.