2021, September 20-24

Monday, September 20

MSCS Colloquium: Data Science in Cancer Genomics: Filtering Artifactual Mutations in Clinical Archival Samples
Jaime Davila, St. Olaf Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
3:30 pm, RNS 310 – Everyone is Welcome

Biology Seminar: Speed Date the Biology Faculty
Biology Faculty
4 PM, RNS 4th Floor Atrium

Tuesday, September 21

Physics WAPhLS (Women in Astronomy and Physics Lecture Series): Research Talk on the Holographic Principle and its Impact on Spacetime.
Dr. Elena Caceres, University of Texas, Austin
5:30 pm, Zoom Link

Information Session: Engineering Dual Degree at Washington University Information Session
4:30 PM, RNS 290
Ronald W. Laue (the Sr. Assistant Dean for Engineering Dual Degree Program at Washington University) will host an information session for St. Olaf students interested in learning more about the dual degree engineering program. Through a partnership with Washington University, St. Olaf students who take a set of prerequisite courses, complete St. Olaf degree requirements, and maintain a certain GPA can be directly admitted into a 2 year BE program or a 3 year Masters program in Engineering. If you want to learn more, please join!

Wednesday, September 22

No Seminar

Thursday, September 23

No Seminar

Friday, September 24

Chemistry Seminar: Local Binding Environment: A Substrate’s View of Protein-RNA Molecular Recognition
Rodrigo Noriega, Assistant Professor, Physical and Materials Chemistry, University of Utah
3:15-4:15, ZOOM

MSCS Research Seminar: Clamped Subcategories in Auslander-Reiten Theory
Ryan Coopergard ’15, Visiting Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
3:30 pm, RNS 204