Thursday, 19 Apr 2012
Chemical & Biological Engineering and Materials Science Engineering Departments
Graduate Seminar Series Speaker Nicholas Kotov, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan
Computer Science Distinguished Lecture
The 2012 Robert Stewart Distinguished Lecture, with Larry Smarr, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, La Jolla, Calif. Smarr is a physicist and leader in scientific computing, supercomputer applications, and Internet infrastructure. The lecture is in partnership with the HCI Graduate Program Emerging Technologies Conference.
Engineering in the Navy: Contingencies to Construction
Rear Admiral Katherine Gregory will discuss the U.S. Navy's construction, engineering and humanitarian efforts in Japan after the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011. Rear Admiral Gregory is the commander of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific and Pacific Fleet Civil Engineer. She is the first female flag officer in the United States Navy Civil Engineer Corps. Jellinger Lecture Series
Seminar: Statistical Bioinformatics
Rasna Walia, ISU BCB graduate student, will lead an analytical discussion on using statistical approaches in bioinformatics.