Science in the Triangle

Events taking place the week of March 8 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public:

Monday

3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

N.C. State University, 1216 Jordan Addition, Raleigh

Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Seminar: Observations of boundary layer circulations and their influence on local air chemistry

Speaker: Richard Clark, Millersville University

3:40 p.m.

N.C. State University, 105 Schaub Hall, Raleigh

Dept. of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences Seminar: Efforts to support risk-based decision making in food safety

Speaker: Lee-Ann Jaykus

4 p.m.

N.C. State University, Toxicology Auditorium, NCSU Centennial Campus

Dept. of Plant Pathology Seminar: Patterns of evolution and recent migration of the sudden oak death pathogen Phytophthora ramorum

Speaker: Nick Grunwald, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory

4 p.m.

N.C. State University, Riddick 301, Raleigh

Dept. of Physics Colloquium: Gravitational scale particle physics with torsion pendulums: A new axion search

Speaker: Seth Hoedl, University of Washington

4 p.m. to 5 p.m.

N.C. State University, 2010 Biltmore Hall, Raleigh

Dept. of Forestry and Environmental Resources Seminar: Wake nature preserves partnership and the Marks Creek Lichen survey

Speakers: Gary Perlmutter, University of North Carolina Herbarium, North Carolina Botanical Garden, and George Hess, NCSU

4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

N.C. State University, 3400 Nelson Hall, Raleigh

College of Management Lecture: Leadership opportunities in a dynamic world - how to build a house

Speaker: Charles Holliday, chairman and former CEO of DuPont

More information here.

Tuesday

11 a.m.

University of North Carolina, 1131 Bioinformatics, Chapel Hill

Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar: Simulations of protein folding in the cellular milieu

Speaker: Joan-Emma Shea, University of California, Santa Barbara

3 p.m.

American Tobacco Campus, Bay 7, Durham

Social Media, You and Your Business Panel Discussion: How to meet the challenges and how to take advantages of social media

Speaker: Chuck Hester, author, marketing executive and LinkedIn Live Raleigh founder

Cost: $25

More information here.

4 p.m.

N.C. State University, 101 David Clark Labs, Raleigh

Dept. of Plant Biology: Using variegated ‘Pothos’ (E. aureum) plants to study chloroplast biogenesis

Speaker: Jiahua Xie, Central North Carolina State University

7 p.m.

The Broad Street Cafe, 1116 Broad St., Durham

Periodic Tables: Nanomaterials in ecosystems: Should we worry?

Speaker: Dr. Emily Bernhardt, program leader at Duke University’s Center for Environmental Implication of NanoTechnology

More information here.

7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences, 11 W. Jones St., Raleigh

Megalodon Lecture Series: Why sharks matter?

Speaker: David Shiffman, marine biologist at the College of Charleston, S.C., and contributor to Southern Fried Science, a widely read marine biology blog

Cost: $6 general public, $4 museum members, $3 students

More information here.

Wednesday

11 a.m. to noon

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park

Rall Bldg. Room F193

Seminar: PKA regulation of the sodium-activated potassium channel, Slack

Speaker: Megan Nuwer, State University of New York at Buffalo

Noon

National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, 2024 W. Main St., Suite A200, Durham

Seminar: Movement paleocology and the taphonomy of behavior

Speaker: Roy Plotnick, University of Illinois

3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

N.C. State University, 1751 Varsity Dr., Centennial Campus Center for Wildlife Education, Raleigh

Dept. of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences Seminar: The North American model of wildlife conservation

Speaker: Dr. David Cobb, Chief of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission

4 p.m.

N.C. State University, 101 David Clark Labs, Raleigh

Dept. of Biology Seminar: Who put the monkey in the driver’s seat?

Speaker: Dan Ariely, Duke University

Thursday

3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

N.C. State University, 1132 Jordan Hall, Raleigh

Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Seminar: Deconstructing the conveyor belt

Speaker: M. Susan Lozier, Duke University

Friday

8:45 a.m.

Duke University, Physics 128, Durham

Workshop on Partonic Transverse Momentum in Hadrons: Quark spin-orbit correlations and quark-gluon interactions

Co-organized by Duke University, Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory and the Jefferson Lab Users Group Board of Directors

More information here.