Friday, 04 Mar 2016
Astronomy Seminar
A Mid-Infrared Search for Substellar Companions: Research Update (Alan Hulsebus, Iowa State University)
Planetarium Show: Cosmic Recycling
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 and join us for an evening under the stars!
Performance: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons)
In France before the revolution two aristocrats who were former lovers now compete with each other in games of seduction and revenge, meeting in private to boast about their talents and conquests. Their sexual targets are virtuous, but that does not concern the pair. After all, they are heartless competitors, or are they? This script combines the worst parts of life such as betrayal and manipulation to the happiest emotions of being in love.
Saturday, 05 Mar 2016
Performance: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons)
In France before the revolution two aristocrats who were former lovers now compete with each other in games of seduction and revenge, meeting in private to boast about their talents and conquests. Their sexual targets are virtuous, but that does not concern the pair. After all, they are heartless competitors, or are they? This script combines the worst parts of life such as betrayal and manipulation to the happiest emotions of being in love.
Sunday, 06 Mar 2016
Performance: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons)
In France before the revolution two aristocrats who were former lovers now compete with each other in games of seduction and revenge, meeting in private to boast about their talents and conquests. Their sexual targets are virtuous, but that does not concern the pair. After all, they are heartless competitors, or are they? This script combines the worst parts of life such as betrayal and manipulation to the happiest emotions of being in love.
Monday, 07 Mar 2016
Competing Orders in Low-dimensional Correlated Electron Systems: Cooper Pairing near Magnetic Instability,BCS-BEC Crossover and Topological Interfaces
Ilya Eremin, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum
Enzymes Stepping on Landmines
Steve Presse Purdue University
Statistics Seminar
Population causal inference: from local efficiency to global efficiency without resorting to direct approximation, Gary Chan, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle
ISU Chamber Orchestra
Jacob Harrison, conductor of Chamber Orchestra
Friday, 11 Mar 2016
Astronomy Seminar
Precision Reconstruction of Gamma Ray Sources at Multi-TeV Energies (Rita Wells, Iowa State University)
Monday, 21 Mar 2016
Statistics Seminar
Functional and imaging data in precision medicine: Towards optimal treatment selection, Todd Ogden, Professor of Biostatistics (Psychiatry), Columbia University, New York City
Topological Electronic States and Materials
Zhong Fang Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
Tuesday, 22 Mar 2016
Women's and Gender Studies series
"Fembodyment of Conscious Learning," Christiana Langenberg, ISU English. Part of a series of informal, brown-bag lunch symposiums.
Wednesday, 23 Mar 2016
Coffee, Cookies and Computation
We will host an informal "round table" focused on current and future high-performance computing applications related to research interests in our department. We will also discuss organizing seminars on topics of interest that arise and for which volunteers are identified.
Coffee, Cookies and Computation
Coffee, Cookies and Computation, Amanda Weinstein and James Vary, Iowa State University
Coffee, Cookies and Computation
We will host an informal "round table" focused on current and future high-performance computing applications related to research interests in our department. We will also discuss organizing seminars on topics of interest that arise and for which volunteers are identified.
Friday, 25 Mar 2016
Astronomy Seminar
Reconciling theory and observations: the ongoing struggle ( Jill Neeley , Iowa State University)
Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
"The hothouse climate of the dinosaur age: Fossil and chemical evidence and predictions for the future" by Dr. Brian Huber, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.
Monday, 28 Mar 2016
Retirement reception: Marty Spalding
Marty Spalding is retiring from his position as associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and from the faculty of the genetics, development and cell biology department. A short program will begin at 2:15 p.m.
Statistics Seminar
General Glivenko-Cantelli Theorems, Professor Krishna Athreya, Iowa State University, Ames
Thursday, 31 Mar 2016
Retirement reception: Nera Davis
Nera Davis, a clerk in the computer science department. is retiring after 22 years of service at Iowa State, the last 14 in computer science.
Adam Schwartz
Meeting with Ames Lab Director (for CMP senior staff and PIs only)