Science Workshops
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Science Workshops are held on Fridays at 1 p.m. in Dickinson 225. SNACKS are provided.
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[edit] Science Workshops, Fall 2008
September 5: The Science & Math Show featuring New Students, Old Students, New Faculty, and Old Faculty
September 12: Dr. Tim Schroeder - "Missing: The Earth's Crust"
September 19: Dr. Christina Dunn - "Creating the Giant: Fabricating the mirrors of the European Extremely Large Telescope"
September 26: Dr. Valerie Imbruce - "Cultivating Chinese Eggplant in Honduras: Pitfalls and Promises of Global Markets"
October 3: A Discussion on the Future of American Health Care Policy with Dr. Richard Cooper of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania Note Special Location - Upcaf
October 10: Dr. Carol Pal - "The Older, Smarter, Sister of Sir Robert Boyle: Science, History, and the Incomparable Lady Ranelagh."
October 17 - No Workshop - Long Weekend
October 24 - Forum on Finding and Securing Research Positions over Summers and FWTs
October 31 - TBA
November 7 - TBA (a phytochemist is coming!!!)
November 14 - Dory Dawson - Thesis Presentation (Title forthcoming)
November 21 - Wesley Bernegger - Thesis Presentation (Title forthcoming)
Novemver 28 - No Workshop - Thanksgiving
December 5 - TBA
[edit] Ideas
- Feel free to add any ideas for science workshop topics here!!!
[edit] Science Workshops, Spring 2008
- February 22 - Stomp the Chumps!
- February 29 - Wesley Bernegger presents research on his FWT work with giant moths.
- March 7 - Reid Ginoza presents his FWT research on mathematical modeling of common transcriptional regulatory mechanisms
- March 14 - no workshop
- March 21 - Dr. John Bullock - The Life and Death of Rhenium (and a couple of ducks...)
- March 28 - Dr. Jason Zimba - Selected Crises in American Math Education
- April 4 - Dr. Amie McClellan - Characterization of a mysterious yeast Hsp40 (40 kilodalton Heat Shock Protein) named CWC23...
- April 11 - NO WORKSHOP (long weekend)
- April 18 - Katie Van Munster presents.........title forthcoming
- April 25 - Dr. Betsy Sherman - On beauty: and how to measure it
- May 2 - Thesis Presentation - Ryan Smith - Synthesis and Electrochemistry of W(CO)5L Complexes
- May 9 - A Day With Chem 4 - Student Poster Session, Presentations & Munchies
- May 16 - Aya Aiken presents.....AND James Burtis presents....titles forthcoming!........
- May 23 - Student presentations in computing and math:
Reid Ginoza: Mathematics for the Faithful
Kim Lockrow: Linear Algebra and the Leverrier-Fadeev Method
[edit] Science Workshops, Fall 2007
- September 12th - Meet/Meet-n-Greet??
- September 19th - NOTE: THIS WEEK'S TALK WILL BE HELD IN UPCAF!!!
Kathryn Furby: Losing Nemo - Raising conservation awareness through aquariums
- September 26th - Andrew McIntyre: The Fourth Dimension
- October 3rd - NO WORKSHOP (Faculty Meeting)
- October 10th - Joe Holt: words, combinatorics, and algorithm design - oh my!
- October 17th - Gary Jaroslow: SEA Semester: Exploring the 3-dimensional realm of the ocean
(Sea Education Association;Woods Hole, MA)
- October 24th - TBA
- October 31st - NO WORKSHOP (Faculty Meeting)
- November 7th - NO WORKSHOP (Plan Day)
- November 14th - Joe Kravitz: The making of a New England blizzard - precursors from the Arctic
- November 21st - NO WORKSHOP (gobble gobble)
- November 28th - NO WORKSHOP (Faculty Meeting)
- December 5th - Tentative; research seminar by Kathleen LoGiudice, Union College -- ecology and epidemiology of Lyme Disease. (contact Kerry w/ questions)
[edit] Science Workshops, Spring 2007
- February 28 - Summer research opportunities
- March 7 – Online Research Tools in Science
- March 14 – Faculty Meeting
- March 21 – Janet Foley- Light on gold:The effects of relativity on photochemistry
- March 28 – No Workshop
- April 4 – Tyler Twombly - Investigation of Ssa1p ATPase activation by a novel Hsp40
- April 11 – Long Weekend begins
- April 18 – Advanced Topics in Math - Student Talks. ALSO a rep from School for Field Studies will be on campus, and will be in Commons 11-1, and could come by workshop after: PLEASE SPREAD WORD..
- April 25 – Plan Day, no Workshop
- May 2 – Faculty Meeting, No Workshop
- May 9 – Faculty Meeting, No Workshop
- May 16 – Liz Yenidjeian and Ryan Smith - Synthesis & Electrochemistry of Tungsten Tetracarbonyl Complexes W(CO)4(LL) and W(CO)4(L)2
- May 23 Tristram Savage-Pinte: Motion-induced blindness.
- May 30 – (Last day of classes)
[edit] Science Workshops, Fall 2006
- September 6 – "Meet the science and math faculty!"
- September 13 – Kerry Woods, "Scorpions and Saguaros in January"
Information session about the January 2007 Desert Ecology class in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona (with photos from 2005 class). If you are interested, you will need to make plans soon. If you can't come to this workshop, talk to Kerry Woods - September 20 – Betsy Sherman, "There's a fungus among us"
- September 27 – Amie Jo McClellan, "Who is Hsp90 and why is there so darn much of it? Using yeast to explore genome-wide questions..."
- October 4 – No workshop - faculty meeting
- October 11 – Mathematics and Science FWT Discussion
- October 18 – Adam Boucher "Math you can swallow" - A discussion of the qualitative fluid dynamics of hot cocoa. (Cocoa will be provided)
- October 25 – "The Projectile Puzzle" with Jason Zimba.
- My house in Vermont is set into a steep hillside. At the bottom of the hill, at the edge of the property, there is a bog, or perhaps you could call it a marsh. (We have learned a lot of synonyms for 'swamp' since buying this house.) One day, not too long after moving into the house, I was standing down at the edge of the, ah, fen, amusing myself by throwing rocks into the water. Standing there at the bottom of such a steep hill, it occurred to me to ask: if I want the rocks to land as far out into the water as possible, should I stand on the shoreline, or should I move back up the slope a ways?
- November 1 – No workshop - faculty meeting
- November 8 – Kerry Woods, Global Change: Climate is changing now, has always changed, will continue to change whatever we do. So what? Some background and questions, both about how climate works and why it might (or might not) matter to us. In preparation for Woodworth Lecture following week. Check out Ruddiman's book 'Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum' if you want more (it'll be in bookstore)
- November 15 – Note the change: Anti-evolution in America. Betsy Sherman will discuss the context of the upcoming visit of Judge Jones, who handed down the opinion in the Dover, PA, Intelligent Design-teaching case. Judge Jones will be visiting Bennington College on Nov. 27.
- November 22 – TBA
- December 1 – Note the change: Kaylee Tock, "Symmetry in Newts", 1:00 pm Dickinson reading room
