Monday, 03 Nov 2014
Statistics Seminar
"Properties of optimizations used in penalized Gaussian likelihood precision matrix estimation", Adam Rothman, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Twenty Years of Yellowstone Wolves
Douglas Smith is a senior wildlife biologist with the National Park Service and has been involved with wolves in Yellowstone since their controversial reintroduction to the park in 1992. 50th Anniversary Paul L. Errington Memorial Lecture
Wednesday, 05 Nov 2014
Executive In Residence Public Lecture
Mark Walker, the recently retired senior vice president of transportation for C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc., will give the fall 2014 College of Business Executive In Residence Lecture. His talk is titled, "Major in Supply Chain Today and Become a Leader Tomorrow" and will take place on Wednesday, November 5 in the Stark Lecture Hall, 1148 Gerdin Business Building.
Circumstantial Substantial: Martin Despang
Having lived and been educated in the tempered urban fabric of Germany, more extremely tempered Midwest, arid Southwest and Pacific Tropics of the United States made Martin Despang realize how geographies inform cultures. He will share his resulting synergistically professional and academic body of typological case studies forming a comprehensive system of well-being, which has been widely recognized in North and South America, Europe and Asia.
Thursday, 06 Nov 2014
Politically Engaged Poetry for the 21st Century
Poet Sam Taylor explores the contemporary moment, with an emphasis on politics, globalism and the urgency of our ecological crisis.
Friday, 07 Nov 2014
Stafford Lecture on Banking: Thomas Hoenig
"Leveling the Playing Field," Thomas Hoenig, an ISU alumnus and the Vice Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Comedy! The League's Steve Rannazzisi
Steve Rannazzisi plays "Kevin," the League Commissioner on FX's hit show "The League." ISU AfterDark.