Category: Presentations and Talks

The Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics will present Dr. Kapildeb Ambal, assistant professor of physics at Wichita State, as he discusses “Quantum magnetic field sensing and its potential for industrial applications” at 3 p.m. Friday, April 12 in 123 Wallace Hall.

Join the Department of Political Science and the Global Learning Center of Wichita from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, April 20 in 100 Lindquist Hall for Dr. Doris Chang’s talk regarding the 2024 presidential election in Taiwan.

Dr. Chang, professor of political science, will discuss the following:

• How does the 2024 presidential elections in Taiwan and the United States affect U.S.-China-Taiwan eelations?
• How does Taiwan exercise its alternative sovereignty in the international community?
• What are the key industries in Taiwan that makes it indispensable to the rest of the world?

Chiyoko Myose will give an artist talk in conjunction with her immersive art installation “A Thread X A Thread,” from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 16 in 210 McKnight Art Center.

Chiyoko Myose is an artist originally from Wakayama, Japan, now based in Wichita. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Doshisha Women’s College in Kyoto, Japan, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from Wichita State. Her works are primarily painting and installation art. Chiyoko has been showing her works through exhibitions and commissions regionally, nationally and internationally including Japan and Italy.

“A Thread X A Thread” will be on display in the McKnight Art Center atrium from April 12 though April 26.

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a public lecture by Dr. Mark Walsh, Maynooth University, Ireland, titled “Isotopy, Concordance and Intermediate Curvatures” at 3 p.m. Friday, April 12 in 372 Jabara Hall.  Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

Dr. Walsh is a geometer who studies the relationship between topology and curvature. His early work concerned the space of Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature (psc) on a smooth compact manifold. There he made a significant contribution to a famous problem: whether concordant psc-metrics are isotopic. He also exhibited certain loop space structures on this space in the case when the underlying manifold is a sphere. More recently, his work has involved other curvature conditions, in particular Ricci curvature as well as intermediate Ricci and scalar curvatures.

The Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences began Oct. 12, 1987. The lecture series was originally funded by the Boeing Aircraft Company (1987-1992) and organized by Professor Gary Crown. Since it began, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics has been bringing mathematicians and scientists from around the world to campus. For more information about The Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences, contact the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at 316-978-3160.

As humanity looks beyond the star system, it will need a culture of art and literature to provide perspective for those exploring and colonizing new frontiers. Join Interstellar Seminar from 2:30 to 3:20 p.m. Wednesday, April 10 in 104 Jabara Hall or online.

As an interdisciplinary artist, Daniela de Paulis works at the interface of the arts and sciences by collaborating with radio telescopes worldwide. Her performance art combines technologies and philosophies that advance astrobiology, neurobiology and new space through public engagement. She is a member of the IAA SETI Permanent Committee to better the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and to communicate across the universe through art.

Zoom details and archived seminars can be found on the Wichita Space Initiative webpage.

The Department of Biological Sciences’ Seminar Series continues from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, April 8 in 218 Hubbard Hall with Dr. Jeroen Roelofs, KU Medical Center, with his talk, “Stress Induced Relocalization of Proteasomes into Condensates.”

As always, seminars are open to the public and undergraduates are encouraged to attend.

Bill DeGrado, Toby Herfindal Presidential Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of California San Francisco, will give a public lecture, “Extreme de novo protein design,” at 3:30 p.m. Monday, April 15 in 208 Hubbard Hall. He will also give a technical lecture, “Use of integrin antagonists to disrupt pathological mechanical force-dependent processes in fibrosis and severe asthma,” at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 16 in 224 McKinley Hall.

DeGrado is an early pioneer in the field of protein design, and coined the term de novo protein design, meaning the design of proteins from first principles. His research has led to the discovery of Brilacidin, which is now in Phase 3 clinical trials for drug-resistant Staphylococcal aureus infections, and integrin inhibitors for treating Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.

The Watkins Visiting Professorship was created in 1974 by the Watkins Foundation. The grant is now provided through the Watkins fund, a part of the Wichita State Foundation and Alumni Engagement’s endowment. For more information about the lecture series, contact Dr. David Eichhorn, associate dean for faculty development and research, at 316-978-6659.

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a public lecture by Lei Ni, University of California, San Diego, titled “Two Ambrose-Singer theorems and the Chern connection” at 3 p.m. Friday, April 19 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

Lei Ni is a professor of mathematics at UC San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in 1998 at UC Irvine and was a research assistant professor at Purdue University and then a Szego assistant professor at Stanford University, before joining UC San Diego in 2002. His research interests lie in the areas of differential geometry, complex geometry and partial differential equations. His scholarly contributions are extensive, comprising over 60 published articles and co-authorship of five books on Ricci flow. He is a recipient of the Sloan Fellowship and a member of the 2018 class of AMS Fellows. In addition, he served as the chair of the Department of Mathematics at UC San Diego from 2016 to 2020 and has mentored 20 students and postdocs.

The Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences began Oct. 12, 1987. The lecture series was originally funded by the Boeing Aircraft Company (1987-1992) and organized by Professor Gary Crown. Since it began, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics has been bringing mathematicians and scientists from around the world to campus. For more information about The Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences, contact the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at 316-978-3160.

The Department of Biomedical Engineering within the College of Engineering is hosting Dr. Ryan Barrs, a postdoctoral researcher at the Medical University of South Carolina, from 2 to 3 p.m. Friday, April 5 in 134 Woolsey Hall and on Teams.

Barrs will present “Nanowired human cardiac organoids for heart repair” to students, staff, faculty and industry partners. For access to the Teams meeting, send an email to lindsey.ott@wichita.edu.

The Department of Aerospace Engineering within the College of Engineering is hosting Dr. Tri Ngo, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Central Florida, from 10:50 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, April 5 in 209 Wallace Hall.

Ngo will present “A Synergistic Approach to Interdisciplinary Research in Complex Dynamical Systems and Control: Case Studies on Helicopter Shipboard Landings and Floating Offshore Wind Turbines” to students, staff, faculty and industry partners.