There are three Athens Algebra Seminar features the week of March 26. The March 27 seminar, from  4:30-5:30 p.m. in Morton 313, is a new installment the ongoing reading seminar on Nearrings. Doctoral student Majed Zalaiee is taking a reading course on the subject, and his lectures are part of […]

The Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series presents Volker Koch, of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,  on “The Properties of Strongly Interacting Matter” on Friday, March 30, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245. Abstract: In this talk I will discuss some of the properties of strongly interacting matter at temperatures in excess […]

The Psychology Colloquium Series presents Dr. Shayne Piasta on “Efforts to Improve Language and Comprehension in Early Childhood and Elementary Classrooms” on Friday, March 30, at 11:50 a.m. in Porter 102. Piasta is associate professor of Reading and Literature in Early and Middle Childhood in the Department of Teaching and […]

The Geological Sciences Colloquium Series presents Derek Sawyer on “Earthquakes and Submarine Landslides on Continental Margins” on March 30 at 2 p.m. in Clippinger 205. Sawyer is an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University School of Earth Sciences. Abstract: Earthquakes are a primary trigger of submarine landslides yet some […]

The Ohio University Lectures in the History and Philosophy of Science presents Dr. Alison Wylie discussing “Radiocarbon Dating and Robustness Reasoning in Archaeology” on Friday, Feb. 22, at 4 p.m. in Scripps 111. Wylie is Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. This lecture is free and open […]

The Center for Law, Justice and Culture is hosting Innocence: Wrongful Convictions and Exonerations in the U.S. Criminal Justice System featuring Mark Godsey and Roger Dean Gillispie on Thursday, March 1, at 5 p.m. in Scripps 111. The Ohio Innocence Project is one of the most successful organizations in the nation in its efforts to […]

The Wealth and Poverty theme presents Dr. Klara Sabirianova Peter on “Limits to Wage Growth: Understanding the Wage Divergence between Immigrants and Natives” on Friday, March 2,  from 3-4:15 p.m. at Alden 319. Abstract: This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide […]