as interdisciplinary as it gets!

We’re back with Science Fair, Bwog’s weekly curated list of interesting STEM-related talks, symposiums, and events happening on campus. For science and non-science majors alike, our list will bring you events that will satisfy your scientific curiosity for everything from astronomy to zoology, and everything in between.

For anyone, related-majors and non-majors alike:

  • “House for King and Slave: Patients and Medical Practice in the Medieval Islamic Hospital” (Monday, February 26, 6pm, Heyman Center for the Humanities)
    • “This lecture series will explore the enigma of how what we write relates back to the experience of bodies in different stages of health and disease. Our speakers will explore how the medical humanities build on and revise earlier notions of the “medical arts.” At stake are the problems of representation and the interpretation of cultural products from the past and present through medical models.”
  • Film Screening: “A Dangerous Idea” (Tuesday, February 27, 7:45pm, 501 Schermerhorn)
    • “A documentary about genetics, eugenics, and the American Dream,” film screening organized by the Research Cluster on Science and Subjectivity (RCSS), free snacks!
  • “Transparency, Fairness, and Privacy challenges with targeted advertising in social medias” (Tuesday, February 27, 2:30pm, CS Conference Room)
    • “In this talk, we present three key challenges with social media advertisement platforms: (i) Transparency: how can users learn what data is known about them and how it is being used? (ii) Fairness: can advertisers target users in a discriminatory manner and if so how can we detect that? (iii) Privacy: does the advertisement platform leak personal information of users? For each of these challenges, we present initial solutions and discuss remaining open questions.”
  • “Women in Sustainability: Navigating Your Career” (Tuesday, February 27, 5-6pm, Faculty House) – RSVP at link
    • “This event focuses on how women navigate careers in sustainability, exploring the female perspective on professional development and advancement in this growing field. The panel features an impressive group of women working in diverse sustainability roles, including sustainable finance, corporate sustainability, and green building.”

  • “The Marginalization in Medicine Conference” (Saturday, March 3, 9am-5pm) – RSVP at link
    • “This is an all-day conference that aims to address social determinants of health, facilitate engaging discussions as related to inequalities in the current health care system, and provide students with opportunities to establish relationships with medical school admissions representatives. Additionally, this conference aims to improve the opportunities for pre-med students of color in fields where they are underrepresented.”

Intended for more advanced students of the given subject (but still open to all interested students):

  • Physics Colloquium: “Life Electric: What can microbes teach us about electron transport, energy, and sustainability?” (Monday, February 26, 4:15pm, 428 Pupin)
    • “Electron Transfer (ET) is the stuff of life. The stepwise movement of electrons within and between molecules dictates all biological energy conversion strategies, including respiration and photosynthesis… We will describe new experimental and computational approaches that revealed how bacteria organize heme networks on outer cell membranes, and along the quasi-one-dimensional filaments known as bacterial nanowires, to facilitate long-range charge transport.”
  • “Data Driven Discovery and Decision Making – A Paradigm Shift for Large Scale Experimental Science” – Data Science Institute Colloquium Talk by Kerstin Kleese van Dam (Tuesday, February 27, 11am-12:30pm, 412 CEPSR)
    • “New instrument technologies are enabling a new generation of in-situ and in-operando experiments, with extremely fine spatial and temporal resolution, that allows researchers to observe as physics, chemistry and biology are happening. These new methodologies go hand in hand with an exponential growth in data volumes and rates – petabyte scale data collections and terabyte/sec.”

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