Saturday, 01 Oct 2016
Performance: Mr. Burns, a post-electric play
"Meaning is everywhere. We get Meaning for free, whether we like it or not. Meaningless Entertainment, on the other hand, is actually really hard." Warning: This production contains adult language and content.
Sunday, 02 Oct 2016
Performance: Mr. Burns, a post-electric play
"Meaning is everywhere. We get Meaning for free, whether we like it or not. Meaningless Entertainment, on the other hand, is actually really hard." Warning: This production contains adult language and content.
ISU Wind Ensemble
Dr. Michael Golemo is the director. The Wind Ensemble is recognized as the top concert band at Iowa State. Striving for perfection and playing for the love of music, the sixty members of the Wind Ensemble perform the finest quality literature composed for winds including music from the 16th century through the most contemporary works available for winds. The Wind Ensemble performs works for smaller chamber ensembles to the full ensemble.
Monday, 03 Oct 2016
ISU Theatre Auditions: The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Roles available for approximately 10 men and 6 women. ISU Theatre auditions are open to all ISU students.
Physics Colloquium: Probing the Higgs Boson and Beyond--Future Colliders in Particle Physics
Xinchou Lou, Institute of High Energy Physics Beijing
Tuesday, 04 Oct 2016
ISU Theatre Auditions: The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Roles available for approximately 10 men and 6 women. ISU Theatre auditions are open to all ISU students.
Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
"Breaking the ice: an exploration of ice, rheology, boundary conditions, and (ice)" by Dr. Liz Logan, Univ of Texas, Austin.
Thursday, 06 Oct 2016
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Guichuan Yu University of Minnesota
Friday, 07 Oct 2016
Planetarium Show: Solar System Astronomy
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: Mr. Burns, a post-electric play
"Meaning is everywhere. We get Meaning for free, whether we like it or not. Meaningless Entertainment, on the other hand, is actually really hard." Warning: This production contains adult language and content.
Saturday, 08 Oct 2016
Performance: Mr. Burns, a post-electric play
"Meaning is everywhere. We get Meaning for free, whether we like it or not. Meaningless Entertainment, on the other hand, is actually really hard." Warning: This production contains adult language and content.
Sunday, 09 Oct 2016
Performance: Mr. Burns, a post-electric play
"Meaning is everywhere. We get Meaning for free, whether we like it or not. Meaningless Entertainment, on the other hand, is actually really hard." Warning: This production contains adult language and content.
Monday, 10 Oct 2016
Tuesday, 11 Oct 2016
Roundtable: Confronting privilege in the classroom
A roundtable discussion to help faculty and teaching assistants share strategies and experiences to elevate the level of discourse on the topic of privilege. By working together, we can empower each other to capitalize on teachable moments and help students manage the fear, anger and anxiety that comes with confronting issues of privilege.
Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
"The Obstacles are Largely the Same: on Climate Change and Education Reform" by Dr. Don Duggan-Haas, Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, NY.
Thursday, 13 Oct 2016
Non-Equilibrium Quantum Phenomena: Rydberg Bosons, Dirac Fermions and Beyond
Jigang Wang, Iowa State University
Special Colloquium
Jigang Wang, Iowa State University
ISU Jazz Combos
The leading small jazz groups on campus commence again to feature profile concerts about some of their favorite artists. Learn about who these people are and hear the young musicians delve deeply into tunes that are either written or made famous by these iconic jazzers. This concert also serves as the swan song for two of the more talented jazz saxophonists to grace the stage in over a dozen years.
Friday, 14 Oct 2016
Saturday, 15 Oct 2016
Town and Gown concert
Chelsea Wang, piano; and Ida Kavafian, violin. This will be their first full concert together, featuring solo and duo works.
Monday, 17 Oct 2016
Particle Astrophysics and the Afterlife of Stars
Amanda Weinstein*, Iowa State University
Tuesday, 18 Oct 2016
Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
"An overview of climate system modeling and prediction at NCAR" by Dr. Joe Tribbia, NCAR, Boulder, CO.
Thursday, 20 Oct 2016
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Peter Sprau, Cornell University
The pion diffractive process
Arkadiusz Trawinski, University of Warsaw
Friday, 21 Oct 2016
Astronomy Seminar: Precision Reconstruction of Gamma Ray Sources at Multi-TeV Energies
Rita Wells, ISU
Sunday, 23 Oct 2016
ISU Symphonic Band and ISU Concert Band
The Symphonic Band is an 80-member ensemble that explores traditional as well as contemporary works by composers such as Percy Grainger, Malcolm Arnold, Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Leonard Bernstein. The Symphonic Band is conducted by Steven Smyth, Associate Director of Bands. The Concert Band performs a variety of rich literature and approximately 100 students take part in this group.
Monday, 24 Oct 2016
Dynamic Sensing at the Nanoscale with DNA
Michael Poirier, Ohio State University
Tuesday, 25 Oct 2016
Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
"1000 Dams Down and Counting/The Great Missoula Floods of the Last Ice Age" by Dr. James O'Connor, USGS, Portland, OR.
Performance: ISU Wind and Percussion ensembles
Dr. Michael Golemo is the director. The Wind Ensemble is recognized as the top concert band at Iowa State. Striving for perfection and playing for the love of music, the sixty members of the Wind Ensemble perform the finest quality literature composed for winds including music from the 16th century through the most contemporary works available for winds. The Wind Ensemble performs works for smaller chamber ensembles to the full ensemble.
Thursday, 27 Oct 2016
Topological Kondo insulators and Topological Crystalline Kondo Insulators
Kai Sun, University of Michigan