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Monday, 25 Oct 2021

Seminar: Evaluating cool-season turf grasses as potential perennial groundcovers for maize production

Oct 25, 2021

4:25 PM - 5:15 PM

Room 118, Horticulture Hall

free

Research Lectures

Join this in-person webinar to hear Allen Chen, Ph. D. Student at Iowa State University, discuss his dissertation research investigating the potential us of perennial cool-season turf grasses as groundcover for maize production.

Tuesday, 26 Oct 2021

Workshop: Write Winning Grant Proposals

Oct 26, 2021

8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Room 3580, Memorial Union

Free (workbook purchase suggested)

Research Training, development

Write Winning Grant Proposals is presented by John Roberts from Grant Writers' Seminars and Workshops LLC and organized by the Office of the Vice President for Research for faculty and staff. This workshop will emphasize idea development and writing strategies that are of proven value in preparing a grant application. Registration is free; space is limited.

Wednesday, 27 Oct 2021

Informed Consent and the IRB

Oct 27, 2021

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

206 Durham Center

free

Research Training, development

We'll help you learn about the informed consent process, including participant recruitment and the informed consent document. Discussion will center around what's required of you as the researcher, and best practices for designing and administering consent.

Seminar: Competition dynamics of phytoplankton species in eutrophic water columns

Oct 27, 2021

3:10 PM - 4:00 PM

401 Carver Hall

free

Research Lectures

Joins this Mathematical Biology Seminar to hear Dr. Adrian Lam, Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics of the Ohio State University, discuss research into phytoplankton populations in competition for light. Dr. Lam will discuss two different aspects of this research.

Seminar: How Does Tempering Affect the Local and Global Properties of Fractional Brownian Motion?

Oct 27, 2021

4:25 PM - 5:10 PM

Zoom

free

Research Lectures

Join this Probability, Analysis and Data Science (PADS) seminar to hear Dr. Farzad Sabzikar, Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University, discuss the effects of tempering the power-law kernel of the moving average representation of a fractional Brownian motion (fBm) on some local and global properties of a Gaussian stochastic process.

Thursday, 28 Oct 2021

Seminar: Uniform Turán density

Oct 28, 2021

2:10 PM - 3:00 PM

401 Carver Hall

free

Research Lectures

Join this Discrete Math Seminar to hear Samuel Mohr, postdoc at the Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University, discuss the concept of uniform Turán densities, present a way to obtain lower bounds using color schemes, and give a glimpse of the proof for determining a uniform Turán density.

Webinar: Nanovaccine Institute series

Oct 28, 2021

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Online

free

Research Lectures

"Organoid as a New Platform to Develop Oral Vaccines and Nanomedicines," Qun Wang, Iowa State chemical and biological engineering.

Friday, 29 Oct 2021

Seminar: Polarimetric Radar Sensors for Detection of Power Lines in Strong Clutter Background

Oct 29, 2021

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Zoom

free

Research Lectures

High voltage powerlines and their supporting towers are considered a major safety hazard for helicopters and other low-flying aircrafts. Discussion on how to prevent such accidents.

Seminar: A computational modeling framework to assess the effects of carbon fiber bracing on ankle joint function and contact mechanics

Oct 29, 2021

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Webex

free

Research Lectures

Join this webinar to hear from Dr. Donald Anderson, Professor of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation from the University of Iowa Health Care, discuss research into addressing post-traumatic osteoarthritis mobility-related impairment.