Friday, 01 Apr 2016
Astronomy Seminar
p-ellipse Orbit Approximations, Lindblad Zones, and Resonant Waves in Galaxy Disks (Part 1) ( Dr. Curt Struck , Iowa State University)
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 and join us for an evening under the stars!
CANCELLED - Faculty Recital: Jonathan Sturm, Viola
Faculty member Jonathan Sturm will perform.
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.
Sunday, 10 Apr 2016
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.
Monday, 11 Apr 2016
Searching for Dark Matter Shining in Gamma Rays
Simona Murgia, University of California, Irvine
Statistics Seminar
Hua Liang, Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics, Department of Statistics, George Washington University, Washington D.C.
Wednesday, 13 Apr 2016
When Neutrinos Collide
Professor Matthew Wetstein, Iowa State University
Thursday, 14 Apr 2016
Friday, 15 Apr 2016
Astronomy Seminar
Miras, Mass Loss, and the Ultimate Fate of the Earth (Dr. Lee Anne Willson, Iowa State University)
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, 16 Apr 2016
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.
Sunday, 17 Apr 2016
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.
Carillon Concert
Junior Johnathan Germick will perform a student concert with the Cunningham Quartet -- four siblings that have attended (Craig and Carrie) or currently attend (Cayla and Casey) Iowa State.
Monday, 18 Apr 2016
Carillon Concert
A real-time, remote collaborative concert. ISU carillonneur Tin-Shi Tam will perform via live link with Michael Mitacki, head of percussion studies at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. The concert also will be available online (live only, no archived version will be available).
Lecture: ISU Carillon
"ISU Carillon Keeps Up with the Times," Richard Watson, founder of Meeks, Watson and Co., Georgetown, Ohio. Watson will talk about bell-making, tuning, hanging and recording. Watson led the 1992-94 renovation of the carillon. The lecture is sponsored by the Stanton Memorial Carillon Foundation.
Determining the Structure of the Milky Way Galaxy: Past, Present, and Future
Bob Benjamin, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Statistics Seminar
Estimating subgroup-specific treatment effects via concave fusion, Jian Huang, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Department of Biostatistics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Wednesday, 20 Apr 2016
Open House
Celebrating 50 years of Iowa State's Intensive English and Orientation Program. A short program will begin at 3:15 p.m. Enjoy refreshments and displays.
J/Psi Production and Polarization
Quarkonia Production and Polarization, Nels Hotvedt, Iowa State University