EVENTS
SEMINARS |WORKSHOPS | OTHER EVENTS
Lectures Open to Everyone
February 12
1:00-2:20p, virtual
Ishita Mukerji (Director, CIS), Introduction to CIS
February 19
1:00-2:20p, virtual
Alexis May (Psychology), Understanding the How and Why of Suicide
February 26
1:00-2:20p, virtual
Brian Stewart (Physics, Environmental Sciences), Using Systems Thinking to Approach Problems Large and Small
March 5
1:00-2:20p
CIS Senior Majors: Abrar Habib (Personick/Jimenez-Hoyes lab), Isabella Jaffe (Holmes lab), Jack Kwon (Weir lab), Simon van Deursen (O'Neil lab)
March 12
1:00-2:20p
David Moller (CIS, IDEAS), Hoppin' with IDEAS - Wesleyan Integrated Design, Engineering, and Applied Science minor
March 19
1:00-2:20p, virtual
Seth Redfield (Astronomy, Planetary Sciences), Blue Skies on Distant Worlds
March 22, 2021 Special Seminar: An entrepreneurial approach to the Covid 19 crisis
2:50-4:10 pm, virtual link
Loren D. Williams, Georgia Tech
Hear about how a Professor of Chemistry assembled a team of over 30 researchers at Georgia Tech to develop a cheap COVID test that can be done in a research laboratory. Highlighted here in ASBMB news.
March 27
1:00-2:20p, virtual
Pavel Oleinikov (Quantitative Analysis Center), From words to pixels and back: similarity search work in Wesleyan Media Project
April 2
1:00-2:20p
Ruth Johnson (Biology), From gene list to tissue: figuring out which gene expression changes are meaningful for tissue morphogenesis
April 9
1:00-2:20p, virtual
Katherine Brunson (Archaeology, East Asian Studies), Introduction to Archaeological Science and Environmental Archaeology: Examples from Ancient China
April 16
1:00-2:20p, virtual
Alison O'Neil (Chemistry, Neuroscience and Behavior), Using human stem cells to model neurodegenerative disease
April 23
1:00-2:20p, virtual
Teresita Padilla-Benavides (Molecular Biology and Biochemistry), Differential mechanisms for transcriptional regulation of myogenic and metal homeostasis genes mediated by copper and copper-dependent transcription factors
April 30
1:00-2:20p, virtual
Brian Northrop (Chemistry), Plastic Electronics: The Design or Organic Semiconductors
May 7
1:00-2:20p, virtual
Ellen Thomas (Earth and Environmental Sciences, Joe Webb Peoples Museum), Global Warming in Earth's Past
WORKSHOPS |OTHER EVENTS | SEMINARS
February 17
5:30-6:30p
Molecular Visualization with VMD
February 24
5:30-6:30p
Panel Data Analysis with Pandas
March 3
5:30-6:30p
CUDA programming for High Performance Computing
March 17
5:30-6:30p
TensorFlow Nuts and Bolts: Data Wrangling and Data Munging
April 7
5:30-6:30p
Introduction to Raspberry Pi
April 21
5:30-6:30p
Python Animated Graphics
By Appointment
Raspberry Pi Workshop, this will be conducted in small groups, prerequisite: Introduction to Raspberry Pi (April 7)
OTHER EVENTS | SEMINARS | WORKSHOPS
February 13, 2021 Research-a-Palooza!
This is a division-wide event to introduce and inform students about the ongoing research in faculty labs. This virtual event will include a general information session followed by break-out sessions based on departments and research topics.
- 12:30-1:30pm "How to Get Into Research" Panel: Click to View the Zoom Recording
- 2:00-4:30pm Department Q&A Sessions
Zoom Track A | Zoom Track B | |
2-2:30pm | Chemistry | Astronomy, Planetary Science |
2:30-3pm | MB&B, Molecular Biophysics | E&ES, College of the Environment |
3-3:30pm | Biology | Physics |
3:30-4pm | Neuroscience & Behavior | Math, Computer Science |
4-4:30pm | Psychology |
February 25, 2021 CIS Prospective Majors Virtual Open House
12:30-1:00pm
Majoring in science or math? Interested in research? Learn how the CIS linked major can accelerate your goals.
March 19, 2021 Deadline for summer research application and CIS major applications
TBD Celebration of Science Theses
12:30p-2:00p, TBD
Poster presentations by Natural Sciences and Mathematics Honors and MA Students. Do join us in appreciation of our students' achievements!