All seminars are Tuesday at 12:05 pm in 4274
Chamberlin Hall except as noted. Refreshments will be served.
Short List
Sep 3, 2013 - Jim Blair, Milton and Edgewood College
Sep 10, 2013 - Robin Chapman, Communicative Disorders
Sep 17, 2013 -
Sep 24, 2013 - Adam Bincer, Physics
Oct 1, 2013 -
Oct 8, 2013 -
Oct 15, 2013 - Bernard Z. Friedlander, Psychology
Oct 22, 2013 - Michelle Girvan, University of Maryland (Clay
Memorial Lecture)
Oct 29, 2013 -
Nov 5, 2013 -
Nov 12, 2013 -
Nov 19, 2013 -
Nov 26, 2013 -
Dec 3, 2013 -
Dec 10, 2013 -
Abstracts
September 3, 2013
The taxonomy of fuels
Jim Blair, Milton and Edgewood College
Internal and external combustion engines
Piston engines vs gas turbines and the fuel requirements for
both.
Additives: What is octane number, and the pros and cons of
various ways to increase it: Tetraethyl lead,
MTBE, aromatics, and alcohols.
Did cumene win the Battle for Britain?
How the source of lead contamination can be
determined from the unusual isotopic properties of that
element.
The tradeoff between the different kinds of pollution emitted
by internal combustion motors.
The pros and cons of ethanol as a fuel for cars.
Why it is easier to make bio-diesel and bio-jet fuel than
bio-gasoline.
Why a modern jet fighter would have been useful in WW I, but a
WW II Spitfire or P-51 Mustang would not have been.
September 10, 2013
One Hundred White Pelicans: poems on climate change
Robin Chapman, UW Department of Communicative Disorders
The poems of this book arose from the Chaos and Complex Systems
Seminars on climate change; they engagethe questions of causal
contributions to change, now and in the past; why it should matter
to us now; and what we can do about it. Students and
investigators in the field are especially welcome to contribute to
substantive discussion of these issues.
September 24, 2013
Hydrogen energy levels in n dimensions via group theory
Adam Bincer, UW Department of Physics
October 15, 2013
From here to there: From neuroscience of the human brain
to complex system realities in every day human life
Bernard Z. Friedlander, Department of Psychology, Emeritus,
University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
Can we adapt burgeoning progress in neurocellular electrochemistry
to human behavior in the disorderly theaters of real life in which
our individual and social
narratives unfold? Can we identify critical conceptual and
practical issues that must be recognized and solved if we are to
reconcile
the divergent criteria of explanatory natural sciences and
the interpretive sciences of human behavior?
