Momentum 2011 sponsored by the Institute on the Environment
Oceanographer and National Geographic explorer-in-residence Sylvia Earlewill headline an entertainment-filled evening looking at the wonder of Earth's "blue heart"--its oceans.
7:30 p.m.
Date: 04/26/2011
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Location: Ted Mann Concert Hall
Cost: $20 individual / $15 students
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Moos Tower 2-530
Hans Rosling, MD, PhD
Professor Hans Rosling is a world renowned leader in the field of Global Health. He directs the Gapminder Foundation in Stockholm which has developed web services viewed by millions on the internet describing how health of our planet's 7 billion people is closely linked to social realities, money and the environment.
April 25, 2011
1:00 - 3:30
Walter Library, 4th floor
MSI will host a Research Exhibition on Monday, April 25, 2011. MSI researchers will present posters of their work using MSI resources. Prizes will be awarded to the finalists and the Grand Prize winner.
Posters will be judged in one of the following categories:
High-performance computing research
Hard sciences
Biological/medical sciences
The Exhibition will begin at 1 p.m. Poster presenters will be at their posters to discuss their work and answer questions during 1:30-2:30. The prizes will be awarded at 3 p.m. Light refreshments will be served throughout the afternoon.
FFI
What: An event especially for--but not exclusive to--faculty active in professional societies and publishing
When: Monday, April 25, 2011 • 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Where: 120 Elmer L. Andersen Library
Free and open to the public
Special Guest Speaker, A. Townsend Peterson
University Distinguished Professor
Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center
The University of Kansas, Lawrence
Three faculty members from the University of Minnesota from across disciplines will participate in the forum. The panelists will give short presentations on their current societies and publishing models as well as serve as respondents to the special guest speaker's presentation.
Register here for the presentation.
nEWB's prevailed against the Gondwana Liberation Front in this year's Science Quiz Bowl. Check back for photo's and videos of this year's SQB at the SQB website.
Tuesday April 19 at 7:00 pm (6:00 doors)
Presented by The Bell Museum of Natural History and Bryant Lake Bowl
at Bryant Lake Bowl
University of Minnesota mechanical engineering professor Jane Davidson will shed light on how solar technology helps us harvest and store solar energy for use in our homes, workplaces, and automobiles.
FFI and tickets.
Time:
Poster Session 1: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Poster Session 2: 1:15-2:45 p.m.
Poster Session 3: 3-4:30 p.m.
Award Presentation: 4:30-5 p.m.
Location:Coffman Memorial Union, Great Hall
Apr 13, 11-5
Undergraduate Research Symposium
More than 250 undergraduates from the University will present the results of their research projects at this event. These research projects span a diverse spectrum of disciplines and include students from all the undergraduate colleges.
Chris Volinsky (Statistics Research Department, AT&T Labs-Research)
7:00pm, Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Willey Hall 175
In October 2006, Netflix kicked off a $1M competition by releasing 100 million movie ratings as a training set to be used to build a better recommendation system for their on-line movie rental business. This landmark data set generated intense interest from the statistics and machine learning communities, and attracted entries from over 3000 teams from academia and industry. In this talk, I will review our team's experience analyzing this data and document our journey towards winning a share of the million dollar prize.
Sunday, April 10
7:30 pm
101 Walter Library
Cheer on the best CSE quiz bowl teams in the the Science Quiz Bowl championship this Sunday evening.
World renowned physicist and best-selling author Michio Kaku will discuss his new book Physics of the Future: How Science will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100, on Thursday, April 7 at 7:00 p.m. at the University of Minnesota Bookstore in Coffman Memorial Union.
FFI
CSE Students: Register here by April 6th. (Only 32 teams can register so do it now!)
Kick off CSE Week by playing in the Science Quiz Bowl! Teams of CSE students can put their acumen to the test and compete for prizes in this intramural tournament covering all kinds of science. The Science Quiz bowl takes place on April 10 from 1-8 pm in Walter Library, but please come at 12:30pm so that there is enough time for registration and team photos.
For more information about the Science Quiz Bowl, visit http://sciweb.lib.umn.edu/sciencequizbowl/.
