Past Events
Speaker: Peter Frazier, Operations Research & Information Engineering Department, Cornell University; and Staff Data Scientist, Uber Engineering
Title: Bayesian Optimization for Materials Design and Drug Discovery
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Mansour Shayegan, Princeton University
Title: <to be announced>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: David Kaplan, Institute for Nuclear Theory and Department of Physics, University of Washington
Title: Computing Reality
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2018, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Artemis Spyrou, Michigan State University
Title: The synthesis of heavy elements in stellar explosions
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2018, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Chris Kochanek, The Ohio State University
Title: In Search of: The Formation of a Black Hole
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Jose Avalos, Center for Energy and the Environment and Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Princeton University
Title: Spatial and Temporal Control of Yeast Isobutanol Production with Subcellular Engineering and Optogenetics
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Richard Muller, University of California at Berkeley
Title: A Tale of Two Technologies: Fracking and Nukes
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
This talk is free and open to the public.
Speaker: Richard Muller, University of California at Berkeley
Title: The Conversion of a Climate Change Skeptic…and why it is OK to disbelieve
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018, 8:00 pm
Location: 1410 BPS Bldg.
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Performer: Chen-Yu Huang, Assistant Professor of Harp, Michigan State University
Date: Fri, 14 September 2018, 5:30 pm
Location: 1300 FRIB LaboratoryThe September 14th program includes pieces by Grandjany, Haydn, de Falla, Pigovat, Chertok and Smetana.
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.