Archive for March, 2016

Science Café presents Dr. Ronan Carroll on “The Rise of the Superbugs,” on Wednesday, March 16, at 5 p.m. in the Baker Center Front Room. About 12,000 people die every year in the United States from infections caused by MRSA, which is an antibiotic-resistant form of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus. […]

The Fire to iPhone theme presents #WhatDoesIslamMeanToYou, a TEDx Ohio University event, on March 16 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Athena Theater. The event includes a discussion on the perceptions of Muslims in America, focusing on the impact of social media platforms that help spread a positive or […]

Dr. Khalil Muhammad speaks about race in America on Thursday, March 17,  at 7:30 p.m. in Baker Ballroom. Muhammad is the Executive Director of the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, NY. He is leaving that post in July to take a tenured teaching position at Harvard University. […]

The Wealth and Poverty Theme announces a public lecture by Deborah Frieze on “How I Became a Localist” on Friday, March 18, from 2-3:30 p.m. in the Walter Hall Rotunda Abstract: Most of our big systems—education, healthcare, government, business—are failing our communities. What if we stopped trying to fix them? Deborah Frieze says […]

The Environmental & Plant Biology Colloquium Series presents Dr. Steven L. Stephenson on “Global Biodiversity of Myxomycetes” on Friday, March 18, at 11:50 a.m. in Porter Hall 104. Stephenson is a research professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Arkansas. Abstract: The myxomycetes (also called slime molds) […]

The Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series presents Arkady Pikovsky of  the Potsdam University, Germany on “Chaotic destruction of Anderson localization in nonlinear lattices” on Friday, March 18, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245. Abstract:  Anderson localization is a universal phenomenon preventing transport in disordered linear media. I discuss how nonlinearity […]

The Ohio University-Ohio State University Ring Theory Seminar presents Dr. Jonathon Brown on “Diagonal preserving ring *-isomorphisms of Leavitt path algebas” on Friday, March 18,  at 4:45-5:45 p.m. in Cockins Hall 240, OSU-Columbus. Brown is Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Dayton. Abstract: Abrams and Tomforde conjectured that the […]