Category: Presentations and Talks

Join the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry for its next weekly seminar which will take place at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25 in 224 McKinley Hall. The department is honored to host Dr. Cheng Li from Oak Ridge National Laboratory who will present a talk titled “Neutron Scattering for Chemistry, Materials Science, and Biology.”

Join the Graduate School for a special session with award-winning faculty members from 1 to 2 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23 in 266 Rhatigan Student Center, Pike Room.

Gain valuable tips from experienced professionals that will help you enhance your teaching skills and classroom effectiveness.

Lunch is provided, but you must RSVP.

If you are a GTA or are interested in teaching, you won’t want to miss this session. WSU faculty members who have been recognized for their teaching will share what they do in the classroom at 2 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23 in 266 Rhatigan Student Center, Pike Room.

Lunch is provided, but you must RSVP.

Whit Gibbons, professor emeritus of ecology at the University of Georgia and Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, will present a public lecture, “Turtle tales from a long life in the slow lane: Mysteries and discoveries in a never ending story” at 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23 in 218 Hubbard Hall.

Gibbons has written 30 books and more than 250 scientific publications on conservation and the environment, with a focus on reptiles and amphibians. He has given environmental commentaries on National Public Radio and written more than 1,000 popular articles published in magazines and newspapers. His weekly environmental column, Ecoviews, was initially distributed by the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group and has appeared for more than 40 years. He wrote the merit badge booklet Reptile and Amphibian Study for the Boy Scouts of America in 1993.

The Watkins Visiting Professorship was created in 1974 by the Watkins Foundation This grant is now provided through the Watkins fund, a part of the Wichita State University Foundation’s endowment.

Join the physics department for a special physics seminar at 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19 in 127 Jabara Hall. The talk features Dr. Hengzhou Sookie Liu, Florida Polytechnic University, who will present on “Magneto-Optical Studies of Quantum Magnetic Materials.”

You are invited to the upcoming EEPS 700 Graduate Seminar featuring Dr. Daniel A. Laó-Dávila, professor and associate head of the Boone Pickens School of Geology at Oklahoma State University, from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19 virtually via Zoom.

Dr. Laó-Dávila will present: “Segmentation, Linkage, and Propagation of the Isla de Mona Fault: Earthquake Processes Along the Caribbean – North America Plate Boundary.”

This lecture will explore how fault segmentation and structural linkage govern earthquake rupture behavior and seismic hazard along active plate boundaries. The seminar will be particularly relevant for scholars and students working in structural geology, tectonics, seismic hazard and plate-boundary processes.

Join the next physics seminar at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18 in 127 Jabara Hall. The talk features Dr. Bin Liu, University of Michigan, who will present on “Light-matter Strong Coupling in Organics and 2D Quantum Materials for Fundamental Physics and Device Innovation.”

Mark your calendars now: At 9:30 a.m. Thursday, March 12 in 110 Woolsey Hall, Frank A. Boettger Auditorium, Eyal Redler and Omer Nagar — co-founders of The Garage global venture capital platform and Barton School of Business’s Centennial Venture Capitalists in Residence — will deliver a keynote fireside chat, “What Venture Capitalists Are Betting on Now: AI, Fintech, and the Future of Scalable Innovation.”

Doors open at 9 a.m.

Redler and Nagar manage a $100 million fund investing in early-stage companies across artificial intelligence, fintech, enterprise solutions and other disruptive technologies. During this forward-looking conversation, they will share what investors are prioritizing right now, how venture capitalists evaluate opportunity in uncertain markets, and what it takes to build scalable innovation in today’s AI-driven economy.

Stick around after the keynote to connect with fellow students, faculty, entrepreneurs and business leaders who are shaping Wichita’s innovation ecosystem. The keynote event is free and open to the public. Share with your students, colleagues and networks.

Join the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry for its next weekly seminar which will take place at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18 in 224 McKinley Hall. The department is honored to host Professor Christopher Solis from Florida State University who will present a talk titled “Mechanisms of (Dis)assembly of Cardiac Muscle Sarcomeres: Zooming into the Z-Disc Proteins.”

Join mathematics for a public lecture by Dr. Sorin Dragomir from Università degli Studi della Basilicata. The lecture, titled “Kähler geometry of smoothly bounded strictly pseudoconvex domains versus contact geometry of their boundaries,” will take place at 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 371 Jabara Hall.