Archive for October, 2013

The Rhetoric & Composition program is bringing Dr. Seth Kahn to campus for a free public lecture on “Justice and Justification in Activist Research: How We Argue for What We Do” on Friday, Oct. 11, from 4 to 5 p.m. in Ellis 214. Kahn is a Professor of English at […]

Award-Winning Poet Roy Bentley reads from Starlight Taxi on Oct. 31, at 7 p.m., at the Athens Public Library. Roy Bentley ’79, ’81MA has won 11 major awards for his poetry over the past 27 years of his career as a professional poet. Now he has a new cycle of […]

The Condensed Matter & Surface Sciences Colloquium series presents Dr. Andrei Kogan of the University of Cincinnati on “Transport spectroscopy of Kondo dynamics in a single-electron transistor” on Thursday, Oct. 31, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245. Kogan is Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Cincinnati. “Kondo states are […]

Environmental and Plant Biology Fall 2013 Colloquia All colloquia are Fridays at 11:50 a.m. in Porter 104. Oct. 11, Joseph Kieber, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Cytokinin Signaling in Arabidopsis: A Prokaryotic Paradigm in a Eukaryotic World.” Hosted by Dr. Allan Showalter. Oct. 18, Sasha Reed, U.S. Geological Survey, […]

The Condensed Matter & Surface Sciences Colloquium series presents Dr. Richard E. Palmer of the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, on Thursday, Oct. 24, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245. Palmer will speak on “Organizing Atoms: From Atomic Manipulation To Size-Selected Atomic Clusters.” Palmer is Professor of Experimental Physics and […]

Visiting essayist Roxane Gay visits campus to read from her work on Thursday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Faculty Commons of Alden Library. Gay is part of the Writers in Residence series presented by the Creative Writing program. Gay’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American […]

Dr. Willy Hereman, Professor and Chair of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the Colorado School of Mines, discusses “Symbolic Computation of Conservation Laws of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations” on Friday, Oct. 11, at 4:10 p.m. in Morton 322 as part of the Mathematics Department colloquium series. Pre-colloquium refreshments will be […]