Wednesday, 02 Apr 2014
Statistics Seminar
"JRC Experience with Area Frame Sampling", Jacques Delince, European Commission Joint Research Centre, IPTS - Agriculture and Life Sciences in the Economy, Seville, Spain
Thursday, 03 Apr 2014
TBA
Dr. Arkady Shekhter NHMFL - Los Alamos/LANL
Friday, 04 Apr 2014
Performance: Into the Woods
Familiar fairy tale characters learn the hard way that the "Happily Ever After" they sought isn't necessarily the end of story. For example, Cinderella begins to wonder if her prince is only charming, but not really sincere and almost everyone will face a frightening giant in the woods.
Saturday, 05 Apr 2014
Performance: Into the Woods
Familiar fairy tale characters learn the hard way that the "Happily Ever After" they sought isn't necessarily the end of story. For example, Cinderella begins to wonder if her prince is only charming, but not really sincere and almost everyone will face a frightening giant in the woods.
Sunday, 06 Apr 2014
Performance: Into the Woods
Familiar fairy tale characters learn the hard way that the "Happily Ever After" they sought isn't necessarily the end of story. For example, Cinderella begins to wonder if her prince is only charming, but not really sincere and almost everyone will face a frightening giant in the woods.
Monday, 07 Apr 2014
Workshop: Economic, Environmental and Societal Sustainability
Iowa State researchers will examine new approaches for collaboration among the sciences, the humanities and business in fields related to sustainability. Preregistration is required.
Statistics Seminar
"Zodiac: A Comprehensive Depiction of Genetic Interactions in Cancer by Integrating TCGA Data", Yuan Ji, Director, Biomedical Research Informatics, Northshore University Health System, University of Chicago, Chicago,Illinois
Thursday, 10 Apr 2014
Computer Science Colloquium
"Mining High-Throughput Biological Data," Xiang Zhang, Case Western Reserve, Cleveland. A reception precedes the talk.
Expansion of pair and multibody interactions in a truncated compact basis
Nikolai A. Zarkevich, Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University
Friday, 11 Apr 2014
Electronic Structure of Gadolinium and Terbium at Extreme Pressure
Gilberto Fabbris Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis
CANCELED: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
"Aerosol-Cloud Interactions and Climate Change" by Leo Donner, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
Planetarium Show: Life and Death in the Universe
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(6:30 p.m.) will be 20 minutes and for kids. Shows at 7 and 7:30 p.m. and are suitable for all ages. Tickets for the shows will be available at the door starting at 6:15 p.m. Seating is limited.
Canceled: Into the Woods
This event has been canceled and will not be rescheduled.
Saturday, 12 Apr 2014
Canceled: Into the Woods
This event has been canceled and will not be rescheduled.
Sunday, 13 Apr 2014
Canceled: Into the Woods
This event has been canceled and will not be rescheduled.
Monday, 14 Apr 2014
From the Lab to the Heavens - New Optical Constants of Cosmic Silicates and How to Use Them
Angela Speck University of Missouri
Statistics Seminar
"Relative fixed-width stopping rules for Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations", James Flegal, Department of Statistics, University of California-Riverside
Wednesday, 16 Apr 2014
Remembering Bill Kunerth
Long-time journalist and political activist Bill Kunerth will be remembered by friends and foes alike. Kunerth taught journalism at Iowa State for 31 years (1957-88) and continued to live in Ames until 2004. He was a champion of the First Amendment and fought to ensure that universities and state agencies abided by the Iowa open meetings and records laws.
Friday, 18 Apr 2014
Chemistry seminar
"Newborn Screening for Lysosomal Storage Diseases," Michael Gelb, University of Washington, Seattle.
CANCELED: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
"The Rise of Oxygen in Earth's Early Ocean and Atmosphere" by Tim Lyons, University of California, Riverside, CA.
Monday, 21 Apr 2014
It's All About Energy! The Impact of First Principles Theories and Computation
Giulia Galli University of Chicago
Statistics Seminar
"Random Matrix Theory and Covariance Matrix Estimation", Wei Biao Wu, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Wednesday, 23 Apr 2014
Presentation: What Matters to Me and Why
In about five minutes each, 10 individuals from the Iowa State community will present on life experiences, lessons learned and values solidified. A time for Q&A will follow their talks.
Thursday, 24 Apr 2014
Thermalization via classical Yang-Mills
Mark York, McGill University, Canada
Friday, 25 Apr 2014
CANCELED: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
"Extension, Transtension, and Changes in Deformation Style in Eastern California during the Past 15 Million Years" by Doug Walker, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
Quark Angular Momentum Distribution in the Transverse Plane
Lekha Adhikari, New Mexico State University, Los Cruces, NM
Planetarium Show: The Galaxy and Beyond
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.
Saturday, 26 Apr 2014
ISU Symphony Orchestra
Jacob Harrison, conductor
Monday, 28 Apr 2014
Carbon Negative Technologies
Robert C. Brown Bioeconomy Institute, Iowa State University