Friday, 28 Feb 2014
Geological & Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
"Reconstructing past interannual variability of sea surface temperature using ocean sediments: El Nino during the Holocene" by Tom Marchitto, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, Co.
Saturday, 01 Mar 2014
Workshop: K-12 Computational Thinking
K-12 students will learn about computational modeling and programming with Scratch -- a free, visual programming platform developed by MIT. Workshop participants also can develop a project for the April 19 Computational Thinking Competition. Online registration is required. Lunch is included, followed by an optional Scratch workshop (1-3 p.m.).
Performance: Amadeus
Amadeus tells a story of both fact and fiction about Mozart, one of the greatest composers who has ever lived. Mozart himself once described a genius by saying, "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go into the making of a genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
Sunday, 02 Mar 2014
Performance: Amadeus
Amadeus tells a story of both fact and fiction about Mozart, one of the greatest composers who has ever lived. Mozart himself once described a genius by saying, "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go into the making of a genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
Thursday, 06 Mar 2014
Computer Science Colloquium
Wei Le, Rochester Institute of Technology. A reception precedes the talk.
Geological & Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
"Earth's Changing Climate: The Transformation of the Arctic" by Henry Pollack, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Friday, 07 Mar 2014
Performance: Amadeus
Amadeus tells a story of both fact and fiction about Mozart, one of the greatest composers who has ever lived. Mozart himself once described a genius by saying, "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go into the making of a genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
Saturday, 08 Mar 2014
Performance: Amadeus
Amadeus tells a story of both fact and fiction about Mozart, one of the greatest composers who has ever lived. Mozart himself once described a genius by saying, "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go into the making of a genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
Sunday, 09 Mar 2014
Performance: Amadeus
Amadeus tells a story of both fact and fiction about Mozart, one of the greatest composers who has ever lived. Mozart himself once described a genius by saying, "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go into the making of a genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
Monday, 10 Mar 2014
Computer Science Colloquium
"In the Age of Big Data, What Role for Software Engineers?" Tim Menzies, West Virginia University. A reception precedes the talk.
Exploring the Mysteries of the Quark-Gluon Plasma
John C. Hill Iowa State University
Statistics Seminar
"Regularized Semiparametric Functional Linear Regression", Fang Yao, Department of Statistics, University of Toronto, Ontario Canada
Tuesday, 11 Mar 2014
Statistics Seminar
"Transitivity, scale-invariance, and rank tests", Thomas Lumley, Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2014
Lunch series: Women and gender studies
"The Fembodymeant of Conscious Learning: Multi-modal Opportunities for Knowledge Retention in WS Courses," Christiana Langenberg, ISU English.
Monday, 24 Mar 2014
Statistics Seminar
"Survival Prediction and Variable Selection with Simultaneous Shrinkage and Grouping Priors for Gene Expression Microarray Data", Sounak Chakraborty, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia
Tuesday, 25 Mar 2014
Discoveries that Changed the World: 1932-1942
G. H. Lander Grenoble, France
Friday, 28 Mar 2014
Lunch series: Women and gender studies
"Globalization and Cosmetic Surgery: A Comparison of Countries," Yalem Tashome, ISU anthropology.
Geological & Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
"Water Sustainability in a Changing World" by Jerry Schnoor, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
Planetarium Show - The Solar System
Are you curious about space? Do you wonder about what you can see in the night sky? If so, bring your questions and come to the ISU Planetarium to learn more. The first show, starting at 6:30 pm will be 20 minutes and for kids. Shows at 7 pm and 7:30 pm and are suitable for all ages. Free tickets for the shows will be available at the door starting at 6:15 pm. Seating is limited.
Monday, 31 Mar 2014
Skyrmions and Spirals in Two-dimensional Chiral Magnets
Mohit Randeria Ohio State University
Statisitcs Seminar
"Bayesian Variable Selection in the Presence of Multicollinearity", Joyee Ghosh, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa - Iowa City