UAF weekly science calendar

Submitted by Center for Global Change
Phone: 474-5818
11/12/04

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16

1 p.m. - 009 West Ridge Research Building (WRRB)
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
Using IDL to Visualize Scientific Data
Sergei Maurits, ARSC Visualization Specialist
Information: ARSC

5 p.m. - Wood Center Pub
Quaternary Quaff and Query, sponsored by the Alaska Quaternary Center
Reconstructing the Last 10,000 Years of Climate Change in the Arctic: Stable Isotope Measurements on Chironomids
Yiming Wang, Ph.D. candidate, WERC Alaska Stable Isotope Facility and Dept. of Geology & Geophysics
Information: 474-7810 or Sarah Fowell

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18

1 p.m. - 106 Chapman Building
Department of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
The Insolvability of the Fifth Degree Polynomial
Jonathan Wiens, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, UAF
Information: http://www.math.uaf.edu/dms/Colloquium.html or David Maxwell

3:40 p.m. - 183 Arctic Health Research Building
Natural Resources Management Graduate Seminar
Presentation by NRM graduate student (presenter and topic TBA)
Information: 474-7188

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19

Noon-1 p.m. - 342 Duckering Building
Civil & Environmental Engineering Seminar
Accelerated Construction - Key to Problems of Aging Highway Bridges
John Ma, Civil & Environmental Engineering Dept., School of Engineering & Mines, UAF
Information: 474-7241

3:30 p.m. - Elvey Auditorium, 214 Elvey Building
Life Sciences Seminar Series, sponsored by the Institute of Arctic Biology and the Department of Biology & Wildlife
Novel Ideas of the Evolution of Mammalian Heterothermy
Michael Harris, Institute of Arctic Biology and the Department of Biology & Wildlife, UAF
Information: 474-7640 or IAB

3:30 p.m. - 201 Natural Sciences Facility
Department of Geology and Geophysics Seminar
Landfast Ice Evolution at Barrow, Alaska
Andrew Mahoney, graduate student, Department of Geology and Geophysics, UAF
Information: 474-7565 or Geology and Geophysics Department

3:30 p.m. - 304 Eielson Building
Anthropology Colloquium Series
Behind the Curtain: The Making of the Tanacross Learner’s Dictionary
Nick Thoman, M.A. student in Linguistics and Alaska Native Languages, UAF
Information: 474-7288 or Anthropology Department

3:45 p.m. - Globe Room, 215 Elvey Building
Department of Physics Journal Club
Weekly informal presentation.
Information: http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/journal_club.htm or 474-7339