Past Events
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)
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, 4:00 – 4:45 pm
Location: Abrams Planetarium
Title: Nuclear Science From a Whole New Angle
Speaker: Zachary Constan, Outreach Coordinator, Cyclotron, MSU
Free and open to the public.
Date: Saturday, 14 Apr 2018, 2:15 – 2:45 pm
Location: Abrams Planetarium
Title: Tour the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory
Arranged by: Zachary Constan, Outreach Coordinator, Cyclotron, MSU
Free and open to the public.
Date: Saturday, 14 Apr 2018, 2:00 – 2:45 pm
Location: NSCL (Cyclotron Building, look for the flag)
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Speaker: Yuanfeng Guan, Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, University of Michigan
Title: Machine Learning: From Genomics to Images
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Martin Savage, University of Washington
Title: Quantum Chromodynamics in the Exascale Era with the Emergence of Quantum Computing
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
Title: Science of Star Wars
Speaker: Shannon Schmoll, Director, Abrams Planetarium, MSU
Free and open to the public.
Date: Tuesday, 10 Apr 2018, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Location: Abrams Planetarium Sky Theatre
Title: An Elegant Weapon: How to Build a Lightsaber
Speaker: Casey Cavanaugh, Cinematographer, Visual Arts, Independent
Free and open to the public.
Date: Tuesday, 10 Apr 2018, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Location: Abrams Planetarium Exhibit Hall
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Speaker: Sangbae Kim, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Bio Inspired Robotics – MIT Cheetah Robot: A New Design Paradigm for Physical Interaction
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Rebecca Surman, University of Notre Dame
Title: The Astrophysical Origins of the Heaviest Elements
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
Location: 1415 BPS Bldg.
Speaker: Sara Roccabianca, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University
Title: Inter-constituent interaction in soft biological tissues: What do cells really feel?
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 1400 BPS Bldg.
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.
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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.
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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