FALL 2026 WEEKLY COLLOQUIUM SERIES
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 20262:55 PM Pizza & Drinks3:05 PM–4:20 PM TalkBiological Sciences Room 247Zoom Link |
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Secrets of Corneal Physiology
Dr. Barry Weissman
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
ABSTRACT
Irving Fatt PhD was a Professor in both Optometry & Engineering at the University of California Berkeley. He took the ideas he had developed about transport through porous media and applied them to understanding the physiology of the eye. I had the privilege of being one of his graduate students in the 1970s.
Irv was one of a small group of scientists who conducted a research campaign to understand why the cornea of the human eye is transparent to visible wavelengths of light whereas the sclera, made of essentially the same materials, is not. This half century effort, described in this talk, led to many advances in understanding corneal, ocular, & systemic physiology, and secondarily enabled the development of physiologically successful contact lenses to assist in the preservation and enhancement of human vision.
Fall 2026 Colloquium Schedule
(will be updated throughout the semester)
Meets every Thursday in Biological Sciences Room 247
2:55 PM Pizza & Drinks · 3:05 PM–4:20 PM Talk
Date | Invited Speaker | Institution | Title |
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09/03/2026 | Department Faculty | California State University, Los Angeles | Department Research Opportunities (Meet & Greet) |
09/10/2026 | Ondrej Chvala | University of Texas at Austin | U.S. Nuclear Power: Then, Now, and Next |
09/17/2026 | Christine Nattrass | University Tennessee, Knoxville | Making the most out of comparing data and models |
09/24/2026 | Barry Weissman | David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA | Secrets of Corneal Physiology |
10/01/2026 | Travis Olson | University of Houston | |
10/08/2026 | Shawn Pollard | University of Memphis | Disorder by Design: Ferrimagnets for High-Speed, Low-Power Spintronics |
10/15/2026 | Yannis Semertzidis |
| Conquering the high frequency axion dark matter range |
10/22/2026 | Axel Drees | State University of New York at Stony Brook | |
10/29/2026 | Ondrej Chvala | University of Texas at Austin | |
11/05/2026 | Rahul Patel |
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11/12/2026 | TBA | ||
11/19/2026 | Sara Callori | California State University, San Bernardino | From Myth to Material: A Materials Physics Perspective on Adamantium |
11/26/2026 | Thanksgiving – Campus Closed | ||
12/03/2026 | Megan Connors | ||
12/10/2026 | Jonathan Daniel | ||
Archived access to the Zoom recording of Dr. Caitlin Duffy's talk from October 9, 2025, "When Metals Become Strange"
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