2023-2024 science seminar Schedule
Upcoming Presentation is on March 21st
Michael A. Olson
Agar Art: Create art using a nonpathogenic strain of Escherichia coli genetically engineered to express a variety of pigments.
Date | Speaker | Topic |
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Thursday, January 18 | Kevin Powell | Compass, Straightedge, and Galois |
Thursday, January 25 | Larry Smith | The Sciences vs. the Liberal Arts |
Thursday, February 1 | Michael E. Olson | PageRank: Google's Groundbreaking Algorithm for Searching the Web |
Thursday, February 8 | Shad Ashton | Utah Geologic Survey's Geohazards program |
Thursday, February 15 | Renee Faatz | Geologic maps - how to read and interpret them, and find all sorts of useful information like where to look for things like gold, fossils, where not to build and many other cool things. |
Thursday, February 22 | Dave Love | Something on plants.... TBD |
Thursday, February 29 | Kari Arnoldsen | Leap Day and other interesting vignettes from history |
Thursday, March 14 | Adam Teichert | The legacy of vector-space word representations |
Thursday, March 21 | Rebecca Roberts and Diane Hill | Making Sense With Numbers |
Thursday, March 28 | Michael A. Olson | Bacteria Art |
Thursday, April 4 | Jon Tyler | Rational function approximations |
Thursday, April 11 | Jeannie Kleinhans | Astronomy, math, physics, biology and chemistry - part 2!- This time with geology |
Thursday, April 18 | Chad Dewey | Stop Getting Lost! Free and easy map making tools with your phone. |