Past Events
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Speaker: Dimitri Kusnezov, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
Title: “Computational Modeling in Physics”
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017, 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Location: NSCL Lecture Hall 1200
Speaker: John Ralston, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Kansas
Title: “How to Find Gold in Data: If Any!”
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Laura Chomiuk, Michigan State University Department of Physics & Astronomy
Title: Rethinking the Fundamentals of Classical Nova Explosions
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Sohini Ramachandran, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Director of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology, Brown University
Title: Causes and Consequences of Human Genomic Variation
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Peter Pesic, St. John's College, Santa Fe
Title: Music and the Making of Modern Physics
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Neil Kane, Director, Undergraduate Entrepreneurship, Michigan State University
Title: Changing the World in Nine Easy Steps: Entrepreneurship in STEM
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Shannon Schmoll, Director of Abrams Planetarium
Free and open to the public.
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017, 7:30 pm
Location: Abrams Planetarium
The MSU College of Natural Science will host the investiture of Dr. Chien-Peng “C.-P.” Yuan as Wu-Ki Tung Endowed Professor of Particle Physics on Tuesday, October 17 at 2:30 p.m. in Room 1415 of the Biomedical Physical Sciences Building (567 Wilson Rd., East Lansing, MI). There will be a reception immediately following the ceremony.
Speaker: Orly Alter, Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah
Title: Multi-Tensor Decompositions for Personalized Cancer Diagnostics and Prognostics
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: David Poulson, Michigan State University School of Journalism
Title: : Beyond journals: Communicating science to those who make the decisions and pay the bills
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Sunduz Keles, Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics and Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: Statistical data integration for genomic and epigenomic data
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2017, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society
Title: Breaking the Myth of the "Non-Traditional" Physicist: The Real Story About Employment for Physics Graduates
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2017, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: James Bardwell, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, University of Michigan
Title: Watching a Chaperone Fold a Protein at High Resolution
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Wolfgang Bauer, Michigan State University
Title: The Physics of Green Energy – Parking Long Solar Panel Project
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
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Speaker: Insoo Hyun, Department of Bioethics, Director of the CWRU Stem Cell Ethics Center, Case Western Reserve University
Title: Ethics at the Edge of Science: Biomedical Ethics of Genome Engineering
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: John Ralston, University of Kansas
Title: How Fundamental are YOUR Constants?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
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Speaker: Pankaj Metha, Department of Physics, Boston University
Title: Understanding Emergent Behaviors in Biology: From Cell Fate to Microbial Ecosystems
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
The MSU College of Natural Science will host the investiture of Dr. Johannes Pollanen as Jerry Cowen Chair of Experimental Physics on Thursday, September 14 at 11:30 a.m. in Room 1400 of the Biomedical Physical Sciences Building (567 Wilson Rd., East Lansing, MI). There will be a reception immediately following the ceremony.
R.S.V.P. acceptances only by September 11, 2017 to Sara Ford at fordsar2@msu.edu or (517) 884-0290
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Speaker: Julie Posselt, University of Southern California
Title: Inclusive Graduate Education: Linking Recruitment, Admissions, and Retention Practices for Equitable Access and Wellbeing
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2017, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Chelsea Harris, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
Title: TBA
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2019, 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Location: Abrams Planetarium