Events Archive
Presentations
Wendy Cho
A Computational Approach to Redistricting Reform
Legislative redistricting occurs every ten years in the United States, following the decennial census. Ideally, the resulting districts provide fair representation for every citizen. In practice, many district lines are drawn carefully to favor or…
Soon-Jo Chung
Control and Motion-Planning Algorithms for Robotic Falcons to Prevent Airport Bird Strikes
The rapid and ubiquitous proliferation of reliable rotorcraft platforms such as quadcopters has resulted in a boom in aerial robotics. However, rotorcraft have issues of safety, high noise levels, and low…
Amanda Ciafone
Food for Thought: A new Center for Advanced Study public events series featuring presentations of research and creative projects by recent CAS Associates and Fellows.
This informal series includes talks that were canceled after campus shut down in Spring 2020. With the possibility of in-person…
Julie Cidell
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Nicole Riemer
11:00am, Julie Cidell, Corridors and Confluences: Four-Dimensional Spaces of Distribution along and around the Des Plaines-Kankakee River Confluence
The area near the confluence of the Des Plaines and Kankakee Rivers in northeastern Illinois contains the largest inland port in North America.…
Karin Dahmen
Universal Slip Statistics: From Nanopillars to Earthquakes
The deformation of many solid materials is not continuous, but discrete and jerky, with sudden, intermittent slips, similar to earthquakes. Professor Dahmen will discuss a simple model that predicts that the statistical distributions of the…
Sandy Dall'erba
This paper uses a structural decomposition method to understand the factors at the origin of the decrease in irrigated water use in agriculture in the U.S.
Incorporating research conducted in collaboration with Andre F. T. Avelino (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO), Professor Dall’…
Jerry Dávila
At first glance, the recent creation in Brazil of policies to pursue racial integration - which include admissions quotas in most public universities - was a sudden reversal of doctrines that denied the existence of discrimination and racial inequality. With a closer look, we see a history of…
J.C. Séamus Davis
The Twenty-Fifth Arnold O. Beckman Lecture on Science and Innovation
Everything around us, everything each of us has ever experienced, and virtually everything underpinning our technological society and economy is governed by quantum mechanics. Yet this most fundamental physical theory of nature…
Jane Desmond
How do you find the heartbeat on a snake? Can a dog tell you what's hurting? How do you do a vasectomy on an elephant? (hint--very carefully!) These are some of the questions that veterinarians face that their peers in human medicine do not. As veterinarians say: "Real Doctors Treat More than One…
Rafiq Dossani
India and Pakistan's border disputes date to their independence in 1947, resulting in three wars, uncounted skirmishes and, in 2002, nearly a nuclear war. The most persistent conflict has been over Kashmir, whose causes are rooted in national identity, religion and human rights. The Kashmir…
Marc Doussard
In the span of a decade, city legislation on workplace pay and basic economic rights has gone from improbable to commonplace. This surprising development upends decades of conventional wisdom that warns reformers against attempting to address structural inequalities at City Hall. Why do demands for…
Damian Duffy
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John Jennings
What is the art form found in comic books, comic strips, graphic novels and manga? Comics scholars, curators and graphic novelists John Jennings and Damian Duffy are here to provide the answer, or at least explain the question. They will discuss the history and future of the comics medium in the…
Jess T. Dugan
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Vanessa Fabbre
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Gloria Allen
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Mary Statzer
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Join us for a conversation with photographer Jess T. Dugan and social worker Vanessa Fabbre on the making of To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults. Seeking subjects whose lived experiences exist within the…
Nora El-Gohary
Optimal infrastructure maintenance decisions can only be achieved if we can turn the massive volumes of data from multiple sources into useful information and actionable knowledge. The sheer size of the data in the infrastructure domain, in addition to its scatteredness (across multiple sources)…
Augusto Espiritu
This paper explores the possibilities and pitfalls of Hispanism as a critique of Americanization in the U.S. insular empire (the Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico) through a comparative intellectual history centered on the canonical literary figures of Jorge Mañach (1898-1961), Antonio Pedreira (…
Pang Eun-Jin
The screening of The Way Back Home (2013) will be followed by discussion with the director. The Way Back Home chronicles the struggles of a young woman trying to return home to South Korea, after an arrest in Paris and imprisonment on the island of Martinique.
South Korean actress and director Pang…
Jeffrey Filippini
This talk will introduce the quest to understand the universe’s birth with SPIDER, an ambitious instrument to observe the oldest light in the cosmos from a balloon high above Antarctica. Professor Filippini will discuss SPIDER’s first adventure in Antarctic ballooning, the new cameras developed for…
Jason Finkelman
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Rudolf Haken
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Cody Jensen
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Will Patterson
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John Meyers
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Additional material and information:
CU Folk and Roots Festival Live Streaming, October 23-24, 2020
COVID Commissions (Cody Jensen: original material with direction from patrons on a pay-what-you-can basis)
Bayreuth International Online Folk Orchestra (Rudolf Haken,…
Cara Finnegan
Throughout U.S. history, presidents have participated in photography as subjects, producers, and consumers of photographs. This book project, American Presidents and the History of Photography from the Daguerreotype to the Digital Revolution, investigates how presidents have helped to shape…
Charles Gammie
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Benjamin Marx
Food for Thought: A new Center for Advanced Study public events series featuring presentations of research and creative projects by recent CAS Associates and Fellows.
This informal series includes talks that were canceled after campus shut down in Spring 2020. With the possibility of in-person…
Lynford Goddard
In this talk, Professor Goddard will discuss several new forms of optical microscopy that his group developed this past year. Their goal was to recover tiny nanoscale features using a conventional microscope. This problem is challenging because of the low signal to noise ratio for such features. In…
Philip Godfrey
Networking at the Speed of Light
Our interactive experiences on the Internet depend on low latency, where even milliseconds matter. In principle latencies could nearly match the speed of light. But today, the Internet is typically more than 10x and often more than 100x slower than this bound.…
George Gollin
For a price, it is possible to acquire unearned academic degrees from non-existent universities that market diplomas over the internet. The support services offered by these vendors include "verification" of credentials on behalf of clients and the creation of letters of recommendation written by…
Laura H. Greene
Superconductivity, first discovered in 1911, is the loss of all electrical resistance by certain materials when cooled to very low temperature. In 1986, and more recently in 2007, two new high-temperature superconductors were discovered which superconduct at much more easily obtainable temperatures…