Past Events
Speaker: Jef Boeke, Institute for Systems Genetics and Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, New York University
Title: Writing Genomes: Designing a Eukaryotic Genome from the Bottom Up
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Michael Harms, Institute of Molecular Biology and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Oregon
Title: Biophysics of Protein Evolution
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Peter Drummond, Swinburne Institute of Technology, Australia
Title: Simulations of exponentially complex many-body systems
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
Free and open to the public.
Date: Saturday, 18 August 2018, 11:00 am to 5:00 pm (last tours start at 4:00 pm)
Location: NSCL/FRIB Laboratory on South Shaw Lane
For more information, see https://frib.msu.edu/news/2018/openhouse-2018.html
Poster sessions by students from P-A's 2018 REU Program.
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018, 2:00–3:00 pm
Type: Student research poster session
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Poster sessions by students from P-A's 2018 REU Program.
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2018, 2:00–3:00 pm
Type: Student research poster session
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: John Preskill, Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech
Title: Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018, 8:00 pm
Location: 1300 FRIB Laboratory
A 42-minute digital presentation ahead of an upcoming national screening tour of Humanity Needs Dreamers: A Visit With Marie Curie, a living history film written and performed by Susan Marie Frontczak.
Title: Humanity Needs Dreamers: A Visit With Marie Curie
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018, 5:30 pm
Location: 1300 FRIB Laboratory
Performer: Young Hyun Cho, Associate Professor of Piano, Michigan State University
Date: Fri, 20 July 2018, 5:30 pm
Location: 1300 FRIB Laboratory
The July 20th program includes pieces by Haydn, Liszt, Debussy and Chopin.
Performers: Lia Naviliat-Cuncic (soprano) and Manuel Vieillard (piano)
Date: Fri, 25 May 2018, 5:30 pm
Location: 1300 FRIB Laboratory
The May 25th program includes pieces by Mozart, Schubert and Rossini.
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Speaker: Karen Guillemin, Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon
Title: “Teaming with Microbes: Lessons from the Zebrafish Intestine"
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Alan Nathan, University of Illinois
Title: Physics of Baseball
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018, 2:45 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Refreshments – 2:45 pm; Awards – 3:15 pm; P-A Choir – 3:40 pm.
Title: Abrams Planetarium: How We Observe Our Universe
Arranged by: Shannon Schmoll, Director, Abrams Planetarium, MSU
Show premiere at 7 pm: “Chasing the Ghost Particle”
Talk at 8 pm by: Tyce DeYoung, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, MSU
Free and open to the public.
Date: Friday, 20 Apr 2018, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Location: Abrams Planetarium
Title: MSU Observatory: How We Observe Our Universe
Presented by: Laura Chomiuk, MSU Observatory Director and Asst. Professor, Physics & Astronomy, MSU
Free and open to the public.
Date: Friday, 20 Apr 2018, 7:00 – 11:00 pm
Location: MSU Observatory
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Speaker: Jay Narayan, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University
Title: Novel Q-Materials by Nonequilibrium Activation for Next-Generation Solid State Devices
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Title: “New Worlds, New Horizons: The 'Decadal Survey' and How Astronomers Decide Which Big Telescope to Build Next”
Speaker: Jay Strader, Associate Professor, MSU Astronomy & Astrophysics
Free and open to the public.
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018, 7:30 pm
Location: Abrams Planetarium
Speaker: Noah Finkelstein, University of Colorado
Title: Educational Transformation at a Critical Time: the promises of disciplinary engagement
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
Title: Exploring the Sounds of Our Solar System
Speaker: Robert Alexander, Sonification Specialist, Astronomy, University of Michigan
Free and open to the public.
Date: Saturday, 14 Apr 2018, 6:00 – 6:45 pm
Location: Abrams Planetarium
Title: Up From Nothing
Speaker: Sam Austin, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Physics & Astronomy and FRIB/NSCL, MSU
Free and open to the public.
Date: Saturday, 14 Apr 2018, 5:00 – 5:30 pm
Location: Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) Auditorium (room 1300)