Past Events
Speaker: Roberto Abraham, University of Toronto
Title: Early Results from the Dragonfly Telephoto Array
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Lawrence Weinstein, Old Dominion University
Title: Guesstimation: Solving the World's Problems on a Cocktail Napkin
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
-
Speaker: Richard Bonneau, Director, NYU Center for Data Science, Biology and Computer Science, New York University
Title: Modeling to interpret genomes (via protein structure and function) and networks (via network inference and modeling)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Title: "Astronomical Horizons" Lecture: Michigan's Extraterrestrial Visitors
Speaker: Craig Whitford, Abrams Planetarium Meteorite Collection Coordinator
Free and open to the public.
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018, 7:30 pm
Location: Abrams Planetarium
Speaker: Kate Scholberg, Duke University
Title: CEvNS and NINs: Observation of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering by COHERENT
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
-
Speaker: Amit Singer, Princeton University
Title: Mathematics for Cryo-Electron Microscopy
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Aaditya Rangan, Courant Institue of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Title: Covariate-Corrected Low-Rank Biclustering Methods for Gene-Expression and GWAS Data
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Title: The Night Sky, Animated: Our Dramatically Improving View of the Violent, Variable Universe
Speaker: Laura Chomiuk, Assistant Professor, MSU Astronomy & Astrophysics
Free and open to the public.
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018, 7:30 pm
Location: Abrams Planetarium
Speaker: Alan J. Weinstein, LIGO Lab, CalTech
Title: The Detection of Gravitational Waves by LIGO and Virgo: astrophysical implications
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
-
Note special location and time.
Speaker: Claudio Kopper, University of Alberta
Title: Chasing Neutrinos in Antarctica with IceCube
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
-
Speaker: Simon Kuhn, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Leuven
Title: Electrification of Chemical Industry: Novel Flow Reactors for the Synthesis of Fine Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2018, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Harrison Prosper, Florida State University
Title: The Automated Physicist: Experimental Particle Physics in the Age of AI
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
-
Speaker: Eugene Koonin, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, and National Institues of Health
Title: Understanding Evolution in the Postgenomic Era: Are There Tectonic Shifts?
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
-
Speaker: Cory Dean, Columbia University
Title: From 2D to 3D and back again
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.(This colloquium was originally scheduled for January 18th, but bad travel conditions intervened)
-
Speaker: Brian Gulbransen, Department of Physiology, Michigan State University
Title: Intercellular Communication as a Basis for Understanding Complex Organ Functions
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Christine Aidala, University of Michigan
Title: Spin-Momentum Correlations, Aharonov-Bohm, and Color Entanglement in Quantum Chromodynamics
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Raluca Gordân, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Duke University
Title: Sibling Rivalry in Transcription Factor Families
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2017, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Title: “GW170817: The First Object Seen With Both Gravity Waves and Light Waves is the Merger of Two Neutron Stars”
Speaker: Ed Loh, Professor, MSU Astronomy & Astrophysics
Free and open to the public.
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018, 7:30 pm
Location: Abrams Planetarium
Speaker: Darren Grant, University of Alberta
Title: Ghosts in the Ice: Searching for the Universe's most elusive particles at the South Pole
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Wen Huang, Animal Genetics and Genomics, Department of Animal Science, Michigan State University
Title: Genetics of Complex Quantitative Traits
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.