Monday, 04 Apr 2016
Sizing Up the Stars
Tabetha Boyajian, Yale University
Statistics Seminar
Garritt Page, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Wednesday, 06 Apr 2016
Women's and Gender Studies series
""Feminism, Backlash and Difficult Choices: The Controversy over Barbara Bush's Wellesley College Commencement Speech," Maggie LaWare, ISU English. Part of a series of informal, brown-bag lunch symposiums.
Efficient Eigensolver Methods For very large, sparse matrices using high performance computers
James P. Vary, Iowa State University. NOTE: This lecture is also a lecture in the High Performance Computing Seminar Series.
Friday, 08 Apr 2016
Astronomy Seminar
Steady, Near-exponential Galaxy Disks Produced by Scattering Processes (Dr. Curt Struck, Iowa State University)
Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
"Do urban stream restorations scale up? An analysis of the ecosystem function of re-naturalized stream channels" by Dr. Peter Levi, Drake University, Des Moines.
ISU Chamber Orchestra
Jacob Harrison, conductor of Chamber Orchestra
Musical: The Secret Garden
Mary Lennox's her parents die in a cholera epidemic and she is sent to live in Yorkshire with relatives she has never met. She is unhappy with everything about her. Then, shortly after she arrives, she notices a vine covered wall which surrounds a secret garden. A bird helps her find the key to the door and the next day she discovers the door itself hidden behind the overgrowth. She pushes open the door and her life begins to change.
Saturday, 09 Apr 2016
Undergraduate Conference: Transforming Gender and Society
Join undergraduate students and faculty from the women's, gender and sexuality studies programs around the state of Iowa. Conference presentations include topics such as original research, creative work, pedagogy, activism and thematic discussions. Presentations will draw from cross-disciplinary and cutting-edge issues in the field of feminist scholarship and praxis.
Musical: The Secret Garden
Mary Lennox's her parents die in a cholera epidemic and she is sent to live in Yorkshire with relatives she has never met. She is unhappy with everything about her. Then, shortly after she arrives, she notices a vine covered wall which surrounds a secret garden. A bird helps her find the key to the door and the next day she discovers the door itself hidden behind the overgrowth. She pushes open the door and her life begins to change.