Monday, 12 Nov 2012
Rebuilding the GOP after Watergate
Bring your lunch and join author Suzanne O'Dea for a discussion of her new book, Madam Chairman: Mary Louise Smith and the Republican Revival after Watergate. For much of her career, Mary Louise Smith stood alone as a woman in a world of politics run by men.
Geometry: From Riemann to Einstein and On to String Theory
String theory says we live in a ten-dimensional universe, but that only four are accessible to our everyday senses. According to theorists, the missing six are curled up in bizarre structures known as Calabi-Yau manifolds. Shing-Tung Yau is the man who mathematically proved that these manifolds exist. He is the Graustein Professor of Mathematics and chair of the Math Department at Harvard University. He has won many awards including the...
Rewiring the Brain
Dr. Michael Merzenich is a leading pioneer in brain plasticity and Emeritus Professor at the University of California at San Francisco. He was on the team that invented the cochlear implant and is cofounder of Posit Science, a company that provides brain training software clinically proven to improve cognitive performance.
Tuesday, 13 Nov 2012
Innovations and Technologies for Responding to Global Climate Change: The Role of the Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Center (RVAC), South Africa
Kingsley Kwabena Ayisi, manager of the Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Center at the University of Limpopo, South Africa, will share the center's work to assist decision makers in identifying risk from climate change to enable planning for better resiliency in the future. He will also offer opportunities for collaboration with RVAC.
American Job Prospects in a Globalized World
Iowa State graduate Christine Romans is the host of Your Bottom Line, CNN's Saturday morning personal finance and lifestyle program. In addition, she reports on the economy, politics and international business for CNN's morning shows and is also regularly featured on CNN International. Technology, Globalization & Culture Series
Muslim Footprints in Iowa: The Story of Emir Abdelkader
How did a town in northeast Iowa - Elkader - come to be named after Emir Abdelkader in 1846? John Kiser, author of "Commander of the Faithful ... The Life and Times of Emir Abdelkader: A Story of True Jihad," will discuss the relevance of this warrior and scholar for today.
Post-Election Analysis
Candy Crowley, CNN's award-winning chief political correspondent, will discuss the the 2012 election results as the Fall 2012 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics. Her talk is part of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women & Politics 20th Anniversary Celebration.
Wednesday, 14 Nov 2012
SusAg Colloquium
Farm Women and farm Sustainability: The Long View , Presenter: Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
Evaluating Student Writing and Speaking: Can Linguistics Help?
As a professor in Language Education at the University of British Columbia, Bernard Mohan worked extensively with immigrant learners in Vancouver's schools. He is a functional linguist well known for his pioneering work on language learning and content learning. Quentin Johnson Lecture in Linguistics
A Translation of the Bhagavad Gita
Mani Rao will present her translation of the "Bhagavad Gita," an ancient philosophical text central to modern Hinduism. The author of eight books of poetry, Mani Rao has twice been a visiting fellow at the Iowa International Writing Program and was the 2006 University of Iowa International Program's writer-in-residence.
Osborn Club Lecture
"Measuring the elusive: All you need to know about catching neutrinos in the Midwest," Mayly Sanchez, assistant professor of physics and astronomy. The lecture portion of Osborn Club meetings is open to the public.
Investing for All or Investing for Some: Should We Try to Develop All of Africa at Once?
Peter Orazem is University Professor of Economics at Iowa State. He recently authored four of the top fifteen strategies to improve education in the developing world cited by a panel of leading economists at the global Copenhagen Consensus 2012. College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Dean's Lecture Series.
Thursday, 15 Nov 2012
PhD Dissertation Seminar
Strategies For Recombinant Protein Production In Maize, Presenter: Xing Xu
Agronomy Seminars
Plumbing Crop Yield-Water Use Relationships, Presenter: Andy Lenssen, Department of Agronomy
Friday, 16 Nov 2012
Department seminar
"What to do with our wolves: Monitoring and managing wolf populations in todays political climate," ISU alumnus Carter Niemeyer, retired from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Refreshments served at 3 p.m.