Category: Presentations and Talks

Join the Department of Physics for its next physics seminar at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1 in 226 Jabara Hall and on Zoom. The seminar features Daniel Gopman from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host Dr. Federico Rabuffetti from the Wayne State University Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at its next colloquium from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1 in 224 McKinley.

Dr. Rabuffetti will talk about “Using Light to Probe Temperature.”

Colloquiums are open to the public and undergraduates are encouraged to attend.

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a public lecture by Dr. Dmitri Pavlov from Texas Tech University.

The lecture, titled “Locality of quantum field theories and the Stolz-Teichner program,” will start at 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

The Department of Biological Sciences’ fall 2023 seminar series continues from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 30 in 218 Hubbard Hall. Join Dr. Fabio Machado, Ph.D., from Oklahoma State University, for his talk, “From Micro to Macroevolution in Morphological Studies.”

Seminars are open to the public and undergraduates are encouraged to attend.

Emporia-based printmaker/engraver, James Ehlers, will deliver a talk from 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2 in 210 McKnight Art Center, with a reception following.

Clayton Staples Gallery in 205 McKnight Art Center is currently showing a series of works from Ehlers entitled “The Thing I Feared Came Upon Me” that draws from contemporary cultural references, including memes and emojis as well as darker themes such as memento-mori.

James Ehlers was born and raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He earned his MFA from the University of Florida and is currently the Don and Mary Glaser Distinguished Professor of Engraving Arts at Emporia State. Since 2007, he has given numerous engraving workshops at various events including the Frogman’s Printmaking Workshop in South Dakota, IMPACT Printmaking Conferences at Dundee, Scotland and Bristol, England, MAPC in Minnesota), and universities around the country.

Join the Department of Physics for its next physics seminar at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25 in 226 Jabara Hall.

The seminar features Dr. Isaac Rutel from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and his talk, “Medical Physics as a Career Path for Researchers:  Some Work Peri and Post Clinic.” There will also be a discussion in 042 Jabara Hall for students following the seminar.

Vamsi Mootha, M.D., professor of systems biology and medicine at Harvard Medical School, is the second featured speaker in the Watkins Visiting Professor series. Join Fairmount College for his public seminar, “Mitochondria and oxygen: from evolutionary origins to human disease,” at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26 in 208 Hubbard Hall.

His separate scientific seminar, “Mitochondrial parts, pathways, and pathogenesis” will be presented at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27 in 224 McKinley Hall.

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 at 316-978-6659.

In conjunction with “Where We Belong: Refugee Stories from Wichita,” Yeni Silva-Renteria, executive director of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) Kansas, will speak at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24 in the Beren Gallery at the Ulrich Museum of Art. A reception will be held starting at 5:30 p.m.

Silva-Renteria will discuss the IRC’s refugee resettlement efforts in Wichita and the larger context of such efforts in the U.S. today.

The Department of Biological Sciences’ fall 2023 seminar series continues from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 23 in 218 Hubbard Hall. Join Dr. Heather Rice from the Oklahoma Health Science Center for her talk, “The physiological function of the amyloid precursor protein.”

Seminars are open to the public and undergraduates are encouraged to attend.

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a public lecture by Dr. Yen-Chang Huang from the National University of Tainan, Taiwan and visiting researcher from the University of Georgia.

The lecture, titled “Geometric integral formulas in the Heisenberg groups,” will start at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 20 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.