Archive for September, 2016

The Global Challenges week, from Sept. 26-30, brings together Ohio University students, faculty, staff, and community members who share an academic interest in the major global challenges of today and tomorrow.  This week-long event focuses on global hunger, climate change, health crises, and human disasters which can only be addressed through the pooling […]

The community is invited to Ohio Energy, Ecology, Culture: A Humanities Roundtable on Friday, Sept. 30, from 4:30–6:30 p.m. in Baker Center Theater. This event is co-sponsored by the Sustainability Studies theme, the Ohio: Sense of Place theme, the English Department, the College of Arts & Sciences, the School of […]

The Condensed Matter & Surface Sciences Colloquium Series presents Lucas Vazquez Besteiro of Ohio University on “Hot Carrier Generation in Plasmonic Nanoparticles,” on Thursday, September 1, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245. Abstract: Certain materials, such as noble metals, support collective charge carrier oscillations when excited with electromagnetic fields. The quanta […]

The Center for Campus and Community Engagement hosts “Community Coffee Talks” on a variety of different themes throughout the year. The next Coffee Talk is Friday, Sept. 2, from 2-3:30 p.m. in Baker 235 on the topic of History and Heritage, with an emphasis on Southeast Ohio.  No registration required. […]

The Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series presents Marcelle Soares-Santos of Fermilab on “he Dark Energy Survey and Gravitational Waves” on Friday, September 2, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245. Abstract:  DES is an ongoing imaging sky survey, the largest such survey to date. Its main science goal is to shed […]

Dynamical Systems Seminar presents Dr. Winfried Just, Professor of Mathematics, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, at 4:10p.m. in 127 Morton Hall. He will discuss “Discrete Dynamical Systems: The Linear, the Nonlinear, and the Chaotic, Part II.” Abstract: This is the second of several tutorial lectures intended to establish a common background […]

Science Café features Dr. Daniel Phillips on “Symmetries in Nature: A Key to the Subatomic World” on Wednesday, Sept. 7, at 5 p.m. in the Baker Center Front Room. Phillips, Professor of Physics & Astronomy and Director of the Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, thinks that the quest to […]