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Dr. Ryan Giedd will be the guest speaker at the MSE Seminar at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 1, in McNutt 204. Giedd's presentation is titled, "New Carbon-Based Electronic Device Applications." Giedd is the executive director of Jordan Valley Innovation Center as well as a professor in the department of physics, astronomy and materials science at Missouri State University.
Professor Larry Hench, inventor of Bioglass, will be giving a public lecture on "21st century challenges for materials science" at noon on Thursday, April 24, in Room 204 of McNutt. Bioglass is the first human-made material that bonds to living tissue, and it is used globally for a wide variety of therapeutic applications.
In addition, Hench is the author of the "Boing, Boing the Cat" series of children's books. These books are intended to introduce engineering and science topics to kids. He will be signing copies of his books at 11:30 a.m. in McNutt.
Dr. Taylan Altan, professor and director of the Center for Precision Forming at Ohio State University, is giving a lecture at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 10, in Room 120 of the Butler-Carlton Building. Everyone is invited. This lecture on precision forming is sponsored by mechanical and aerospace engineering, the Intelligent Systems Center and the Academy of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineers. For more information, contact Lila Kolker at kolkerl@mst.edu or 341-4662.
Faculty candidate Weichiang Pang of Texas A&M University will present a seminar on "Performance-Based Seismic Design of Low and Mid-Rise Engineered Wood-Frame Construction" from 2:15-3:15 p.m. Monday, March 17, in Room 315 Butler Carlton Hall. The campus is invited to attend.
Civil, architectural and environmental engineering faculty candidate Lesley H. Sneed from Purdue Univeristy will present a seminar on the "Influence of Member Depth on the Shear Strength of Concrete Beams" at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, March 12, in Room 216 of Butler-Carlton Hall. The campus is invited to attend.
Dr. Delbert Day, Curators' Professor emeritus of materials science and engineering, will present a biological sciences seminar on "Destroying Malignant Tumors Using Radioactive Glass Microspheres," at noon on Monday, March 10, in Room 126 of Schrenk Hall at Missouri S&T. Day will describe how glass microspheres developed at Missouri S&T are being used by physicians to successfully treat patients with liver cancer in the United States, Europe and Asia.
Dr. Jian Zhao will present a seminar on "Nonlinear Shear Lag in Thin-Walled Structures under Extreme Loading" at 2:15 p.m. Friday, March 7, in Room 216 of the Civil Engineering Building. Zhao is a candidate for a faculty position in the civil, architectural and environmental engineering department at Missouri S&T. The campus community is invited to Friday's seminar. For more information, email belarbi@mst.edu.
The engineering management and systems engineering department will be hosting seminars by faculty candidates starting March 3. Dr. Rahul Rai, a visiting faculty member in the mechanical engineering department at Fresno State University, will speak at 1:30 p.m. Monday, March 3, in Room G-14 of the library. Rai's research is on computational methods that aid engineering designers early in the process. Rai earned his master's degree from Missouri S&T and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.
You are invited to a civil, architectural and environmental engineering department seminar on "Multi-Hazard Resistant Highway Bridge Piers" by Shuichi Fujikura, a Ph.D. candidate from the University of Buffalo,at 2:15 p.m. Monday, March 3, in Room 315 of the Civil Engineering Building. For more information, email belarbi@mst.edu.
Dr. Jeffrey Wadsworth, executive vice president for the Battelle Memorial Institute's Global Laboratory Operations, is the 19th A. Frank Golick Lecturer at Missouri S&T. Wadsworth will deliver two lectures on campus. He will present "Three Puzzles in Materials Science" at noon Wednesday, March 5, and "The History of Genuine Damascus Steels and Attempts to Rediscover How They were Made," at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 6. Both lectures will be held in Room 204 of McNutt Hall. The lectures are free and open to the public.
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Dr. Oh-Sung Kwon will present a seminar on "Multi-Platform Hybrid Simulation Framework and its Application to Soil-Structure Interacting Systems" at 2:15 p.m. Friday, Feb. 29, in Room 216 of the Civil Engineering Building. Kwon is a candidate for a faculty position in the civil, architectural and environmental engineering department at Missouri S&T. The campus community is invited to Friday's seminar. For more information, email belarbi@mst.edu.
The Missouri S&T department of mathematics and statistics is hosting two upcoming public lectures:
Dr. Mark Abramson of the Air Force Institute of Technology will give a talk ("Mesh Adaptive Direct Search Algorithms for Constrained Mixed Variable Optimization") at 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, in Room G-5 of the Rolla Building.
Dr. Radu Dascaliuc of Indiana University will present "Navier-Stokes Equations and Turbulence Theory" at 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 18, in Room G-5 of the Rolla Building.
The History Club is presenting a lecture, "What the Zephyr Can Teach Us about the Prius," by Dr. Jeffrey Schramm from 4-5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20, in Room 103 H-SS. The general public is invited. Lear what an old train teaches us about new automobiles. Refreshments provided. For more information, contact Dr. Diana Ahmad, ahmadd@mst.edu, or 341-4817
Your time is important . . . and limited. To raise your level of success, you must become more knowledgeable and efficient in your time management. Time management, in essence, is self management. This interactive session encourages personal change and provides useful strategies to achieve goals. The seminar, presented by Patti Fleck, will begin a noon on Wednesday, Feb. 13, in the Carver/Turner Room of the Havener Center.
Jimmie Briggs, a St. Louis native and author of “Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War,” will give several public talks at Missouri University of Science and Technology in February. Briggs will discuss the need for ethical leadership in the global community as part of the Black Man’s Think Tank Leadership series starting at 7 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 11, in the Havener Center on the Missouri S&T campus. Read the full story online.
Professor David Coley of the University of Maryland will be presenting a lecture, "A Wikked Tonge: Speaking Power in Chaucer’s Manciple’s Tale," at 3 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4, in Room 201 H-SS. The lecture, which is open to the public, is being hosted by Missouri S&T's English and technical communication department.
The campus community and general public are invited to a special guest lecture by Dr. Dean Swinford, assistant professor at Fayetteville State University, at 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, in Room 201 H-SS. The lecture, which is being hosted by the Missouri S&T department of English and technical communication, is titled "Kepler's Somnium: A Choir of Monstrous Voices."
Dr. Wayne Huebner, professor and chair of materials science and engineering, is presenting a seminar on "Life sciences from an engineer's perspective," at noon on Monday, Jan. 28, in Room 126 of Schrenk Hall. The general public is invited to this biological sciences seminar.
Eric Bryan, Ph.D. and postdoctoral teaching fellow at St. Louis University, will be giving a lecture at 3 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28, in Room 201 H-SS. The lecture, "Reshaping the Sacred and Profane: The Impact of Medieval Christianization on Norse Pagan Concepts of Space and Guardianship," is hosted by the Missouri S&T department of English and technical communication. The campus community is invited.
The Energy Research and Development Center is pleased to invite researchers and students to a seminar with Dr. Michael Quah from Concurrent Technology Corporation at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, in St Pat’s Ballroom B of the Havener Center. Quah will engage the Missouri S&T community on "Alternative Energy and Defense," a topic that springs from the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.
The Baptist Student Union will present a free lecture by Dr. Andy McIntosh at 7 p.m. Jan. 25 in Leach Theatre. McIntosh will discuss the scientific validity of creationism and evolution in his talk, titled "Design, Thermodynamics and Information - from mindless matter or by God's Word?" A question- and answer-session will follow the lecture.
McIntosh is a researching professor in the thermodynamics and combustion theory in the fuel and energy department at University of Leeds.
For more information, email Daronn at dawp82@mst.edu or Randy at bsu@mst.edu.
The department of biological sciences will host a seminar at noon Monday, Nov. 12, in Room 126 of Schrenk Hall. Rachel Carter of Ozark Testing will present "The Water Cycle after the Drain." Refreshments will be provided.
The student research seminar series hosted by the mathematics and statistics department continues at noon Wednesday, Nov. 7, in Room G5 of the Rolla Building. Col. Tom Akers will speak about the art of teaching mathematics. The campus community is invited.
Dr. Atrayee Banerjee of Texas A&M University will disscuss "A Toxicologist's Perspective of Alcoholic Liver Disease: A Major Public Health Problem," at noon on Friday Nov. 2 in Room 126, Schrenk Hall.
A biological sciences seminar will be held at noon on Monday, Oct. 29, in Room 126 of Schrenk Hall. Graduate student Erin Pringle will discuss the identification and characterization of phenylalanine ammonia-lyase gene family members in Glycine max.
The mathematics and statistics student research seminar continues on Mondays and Wednesdays from noon to 12:50 p.m. with discussions on finite model theory and its applications. Seminar sessions take place in Room G5 of the Rolla Building. Travis Service, a graduate student in computer science, is this week's speaker. The campus community is invited. For more information, email insall@umr.edu.
Professor Mark Dunster from San Diego State University is visiting UMR's department of mathematics and statistics this week. Dunster will give a talk on "resonance and almost nonuniqueness in the scattered field of a dielectric circular cylinder" at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, in Room G5 of the Rolla Building). This interdisciplinary topic will be of interest to faculty and graduate students from several UMR departments.
Kate Drowne, director of the UMR Writing Center, will present "Clear Writing, Successful Proposals" from 3-4:40 p.m. Oct. 15 in the Meramec/Gasconade Room of the Havener Center.
The workshop is the first in a series sponsored by the graduate studies office. The workshops are open to all UMR graduate students, faculty and staff. While registration is not required, an email to wac@umr.edu indicating your intent to attend will reserve your place. Drop-ins are welcome if space is available. For more information, please contact the graduate studies office at 341-4141.
The student research seminar series featuring math and statistics lectures continues Monday, Oct. 1. Aaron Goldsmith will present "Forcing the GCH (Generalized Continuum Hypothesis)" from noon to 1 p.m. in Room G5 of the Rolla Building. The campus community is welcome.
Dr. Peter Wu, vice pressident and chief scientist at Spirit AeroSystems Inc. will be speaking on aircraft design, manufacturing and innovation at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25, in Room 125 of the Butler-Carlton Building. The general public is invited. Wu's presenation is part of the Porth Lecture Series.
UMR undergraduate Michael Purser will discuss the fundamentals of "set theory" Wednesday, Sept. 17, from noon to 1 p.m. in Room G5 of the Rolla Building. The lecture is part of a student research seminar series that provides a forum for undergraduate and graduate students in mathematics and statistics to present their findings. The campus community is invited. For more information, call 341-4901 or email insall@umr.edu.
Malgorzata Marciniak, a graduate student in mathematics, will speak on introductory topics in the theory of differentiable manifolds from noon to 1 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 10, in Room G5 of the Rolla Building. Marciniak will continue with a session from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 12, in the same room. This is part of a student research seminar series. For more information, contact Dr. Matt Insall at 341-4901 or insall@umr.edu.
Susan Morales of General Motors will be on campus Sept. 17 to give a technical presentation, "GM Redefines the Crossover Segment-- Outlook, Acadia and Enclave." Morales is a vehicle chief engineer, midsize crossover SUV, at GM. All students and the campus community are invited to attend the presentation from 4-5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 17, in the St. Pat's Ballroom of the Havener Center. Vehicles will be available for review after the presentation.
Undergraduates and graduate students interested in mathematics and statistics will have a forum to share research ideas this fall from noon to 1 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays in Room G5 of the Rolla building. Topics to be discussed in these student research seminars include differential geometry, trends in university-level math education, independence proofs and finite model theory. The first speaker (Aug. 27 and Aug. 29) is Malgorzata Marciniak, a graduate student in mathematics. Marciniak will discuss differential geometry. The seminars are open to the general public. For more information, including information about possible seminar course credit or independent study course credit, contact Dr. Matt Insall, associate professor of mathematics, at 341-4901 or insall@umr.edu.