Monday, 15 Nov 2010
Atmospheric Science Seminar
"An Evaluation of Fall Speed Characteristics in Bin and Bulk Microphysical Schemes and Using Bin Fall Speeds to Improve Forecasts of Warm-Season Rainfall", Eric Alego, NOAA, PhD Defense
Forum: Okay We're Recycling, Now What's Next?
Ulrike Passe, ISU architecture; ISU senior Chandra Peterson; and ISU junior Casey Fangmann will reflect on what they learned at the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education 2010 Conference. They will also make a case for which sustainability initiatives ISU should implement.
United Citizens: The Supreme Court Ruling on Corporate Personhood - David Cobb
Attorney and activist David Cobb will discuss efforts to end corporate personhood after the recent Supreme Court ruling that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections. In Citizens United, the Court struck down a provision of the McCain-Feingold Act that restricted corporate-sponsored broadcast communications. Cobb was the Green Party nominee for President of the United States in 2004.
Tuesday, 16 Nov 2010
Atmospheric Science Seminar
"Development of Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale for Intensity of Tornadoes" Kishor Mehta, Civil Engineering, Texas Tech University
Atmospheric Science Seminar
"Comparison of the Characteristics and Dynamics of Summer and Winter Stationary Waves" T.C. (Mike) Chen, Atmospheric Science, Iowa State University
Valley Forge: A Story of Endurance and Transformation - Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich is the coauthor of Valley Forge, a tour-de-force novel about the unique crucible of time and place where Washington and his Continental Army were forged into a fighting force that would win a revolution and found a nation. Newt Gingrich served in Congress for twenty years and as Speaker of the House. He is a member of the Defense Policy Board and cochair of the UN Task Force. A book signing will follow.
College of LIberal Arts & Sciences Dean's Lecture Series - Alicia Carriquiry
Alicia Carriquiry is a distinguished professor of statistics at Iowa State and a researcher whose experience covers a wide range of contemporary issues, from nutrition to ballistics, genomics to traffic safety, and forensics to women in science and engineering. She will speak about her work on the design and analysis of national dietary intake surveys.
Wednesday, 17 Nov 2010
Discussion: Behind the Scenes
Attend a new presentation each month to learn more about Reiman Gardens and its many plants and butterflies.
Panel: Summer undergraduate research opportunities
Students and faculty will present information on the National Science Foundation's Research Experience for Undergraduates program and other summer research opportunities at ISU and elsewhere.
Panel: Summer undergraduate research opportunities
Students and faculty will present information on the National Science Foundation's Research Experience for Undergraduates program and other summer research opportunities at ISU and elsewhere.
Climate Change: Culture Change
Sculptor and artist Frances Whitehead is a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her collaborative research projects aim to engage the public on issues of sustainability. She recently founded SAIC4 - The Chicago Center for Climate and Culture, a research center focused on the cultural dimension of sustainable urbanism.
Lecture: Game development
Mike Upah of the Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship will share with students how to commercialize their games, start up their own game development businesses, and stay "in the black." All are invited to attend.
Leadership: The Art of Developing Followership
"Leadership: The Art of Developing Followership," Anne Mulcahy, former CEO of Xerox. She will discuss what she learned about leadership and share how those lessons are even more important in the nonprofit and political environments. Her talk will focus specifically on how leaders develop followers and that successful leaders are authentic. Fall 2010 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics and part of the World Affairs Series.
Thursday, 18 Nov 2010
Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Materials, Science and Engineering Seminar
"Putting Chemistry to Work for Nano and Biomedical Research," Younan Xia, Washington University, St. Louis.
Computer Science Distinguished Lecture
"Silence of the Labs: Why are We Still Commuting the Way We Did 40 years Ago?" Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois, Chicago.
Algorithmic Thinking in Biology
Iowa State professor of computer science Vasant Honavar directs the university's Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning and Discovery. Much of his work is aimed at helping scientific researchers access, use and share massive amounts of data. Sigma Xi Local Honor Lecture.