Sept. 18-22, 2017

Monday, Sept. 18

Psychology Speaker: How Culture influences Our Emotions
Speaker: Jeanne Tsai, Ph.D., Stanford University

Dr. Jeanne Tsai, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, will be delivering the Psychology Department’s annual Millert Memorial lecture.  Her talk promises to help us better understand how something as personal and individual as our emotions is influenced by cultural factors.
3:30-4:30 PM, Viking Theater
 
MSCS Colloquium: How Many Ways are there to juggle?
Speaker: Matthew Wright, St. Olaf Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Abstract: If you watch a skilled juggler, you may see balls (or other objects) flying through the air in intricate patterns. What patterns are possible? Starting with a few basic axioms about juggling, we can use mathematics to describe all “jugglable” patterns. In this talk, I will explain how integer sequences can help us enumerate all such patterns. This talk will feature modular arithmetic, Möbius inversion, and – of course – live juggling.
3:30 pm – RNS 310
Biology Seminar: The Time for Biomedical Discovery
Mark A. McNiven, Ph.D., Director, Mayo Center for Biomedical Discovery
4:00 pm, RNS 410
Dr. McNiven will cover why now is an exceptional time for young investigators to pursue a career in biomedical discovery.  Thoughts on career choices and different pathways to success are provided.

Tuesday, Sept. 19

No Events 

Wednesday, Sept. 20

No Events

Thursday, Sept. 21

No Events

Friday, Sept. 22

Chemistry Seminar: New Developments in Preparative and Imaging Mass Spectrometry
Julia Laskin, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University
3:15 pm, RNS 310

MSCS Research Seminar: Continuity and chaos in discrete dynamical systems
Speaker: T. H. Steele, Professor, Weber State University, Ogden Utah

Abstract:  In the latter part of the nineteenth century, there was a belief in the deterministic, clockwork precision of the universe. From this belief arose an interest in establishing the stability of the planetary motions in our solar system. Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway, initiated a mathematical competition in 1887 to celebrate his sixtieth birthday in 1889. One of the problems, posed by Karl Weierstrass, dealt with this stability: ”Given a system of arbitrarily many mass points that attract each other according to Newton’s laws, assuming that no two points ever collide, give the coordinates of the individual points for all time….”

3:40 pm, RNS 204