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Seminar Schedule

2023-2024 science seminar Schedule

Upcoming Presentation is on March 21st

Create Art using Bacteria

Michael A. Olson

Agar Art: Create art using a nonpathogenic strain of Escherichia coli genetically engineered to express a variety of pigments.  

 

Science Division Seminar Schedule
Thursdays in GRSC 154 at 4:30 PM
Date Speaker Topic
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.