Academics

October 21

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CBC Seminar Series: Robert Stahelin, Ph.D. "Investigation of the Assembly and Egress of the Ebola Virus"
12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center

GRADUATE SEMINAR - "Digital Image Correlation Applied to Structural Dynamics, Structural Health Monitoring, and Wind Energy", by Professor Christopher Niezrecki, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA
2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Higgins Laboratories

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Italian Opera's Greatest Moments
8:00 PM-10:00 PM
Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts

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CBC Second Year Seminar: Sarju Patel "Role of Sinorhizobium meliloti Cu+- and Zn2+-ATPases in Metal homeostasis and Plant-Microbe interaction"
12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center

GRADUATE SEMINAR - Emergent Behavior of Swarms as Deformable Bodies, by Professor Suhada Jayasuriya, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Higgins Laboratories

Seminar Series: Dr. Akira Tsuda, PhD(Harvard) "Particles in the Lungs"
4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Gateway Park

November 1

Consortium's Got Talent
7:00 PM-10:00 PM
Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts

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Digital Arts & Humanities Symposium
8:00 AM-11:00 PM
Campus Center

Prof. David Brown, Some Issues in Computational Design Creativity
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Fuller Laboratories

Yongzhi Steve Xu (University of Louisville)-Inverse problems for a mathematical model of breast cancer
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Stratton Hall

Digital Humanities & Arts Symposium at WPI
3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Campus Center

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Digital Arts & Humanities Symposium
8:00 AM-11:00 PM
Campus Center

Digital Humanities & Arts Symposium at WPI
9:00 AM-10:30 AM
Campus Center

Annual WPI Pops Concert
4:00 PM-5:30 PM
Alden Memorial

Bob Marley Tribute - Hope Road - Nov 3 - Tammany Hall
Tammany Hall

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Jonathan Gillard, PhD (University of Cambridge, UK)-Assessing risk of arterial plaque rupture: insights from MRI and biomechanics
4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Gateway Park

Physics Colloquium, "When X-Rays and People Collide, " by Dr. Christopher B. Martel, Director, Dept. of Health Physics, Brigham & Women's Hospital
4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Olin Hall

Seminar Series: Jonathan Gillard, PhD (Cambridge University)"Assessing risk of arterial plaque rupture: insights from MRI and biomechanics "
4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Gateway Park

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Teledyne Benthos Underwater Vehicles - Engineering With Knowledge
9:00 AM-10:00 AM
Higgins Laboratories

BBT Seminar Series: "Stay cool, stay clean: sterilizing a mist reactor for micropropagation" by Liwen Fei
4:15 PM-5:15 PM
Gateway Park

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A New Class of Industrial Robot (Introduction to Baxter)
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Fuller Laboratories

Alden Voices and Technichords Concert
12:00 PM-12:30 PM
Campus Center

CBC Seminar Series: Yaroslava Yingling, Ph.D. "Molecular modeling of soft materials: from biopolymers to nanoparticles"
12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center

GRADUATE SEMINAR - "Interrogation of the Fundamental Subspaces of the change in Flexibility Regarding Damage", by Professor Dionisio P. Bernal, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Higgins Laboratories

Seminar Series: Martin Yarmush, PhD (Rutgers/MGH)"Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for Protection and Repair of Injured Vital Organs"
4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Gateway Park

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Gang Shen (North Dakota State University)-On Change-point Problem
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Stratton Hall

Prof. Ralph Morelli, An Introductory CS Course in Mobile Computing
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Fuller Laboratories

Jae-ho Lee (University of Wisconsin at Madison)-Q-polynomial distance-regular graphs and the DAHA of rank one
2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Stratton Hall

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Artist David Hume Kennerly
3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Olin Hall

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English and German Readings
4:00 PM-5:30 PM
Salisbury Laboratories

Physics Colloquium, "Structure, energy landscape, fluctuations: Keys to protein dynamics and functions," by Dr. Hans Frauenfelder, Senior Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory
4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Olin Hall

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Robotics in Minimally Invasive Surgery: Planning, Training and Intervention
9:00 AM-10:00 AM
Higgins Laboratories

Mini-Lecture Series, "Lecture 1: The Mossbauer effect and quasi-elastic neutron scattering" and Lecture 2: "The storyof a misinterpreted phenomenon," by Dr. Hans Frauenfelder, Senior Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory
12:00 PM-2:00 PM
Gateway Park

BBT Seminar Series:"Acquisition of regeneration competence in adult fibroblasts is accompanied by upregulation of protein arginine methyltransferase 8 (PRMT8)" by Sarah Runge
4:15 PM-5:15 PM
Gateway Park

French Circle Meeting
6:00 PM-7:00 PM
Atwater Kent Laboratories

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Harunori Monobe (Meiji University)-On a free boundary problem related to amoeba motion
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Stratton Hall

CBC Seminar Series: David P. Giedroc, Ph.D. "Transition Metal Homeostasis in Bacterial Pathogens: Structure and Mechanism"
12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center

Glee Club & Simple Harmonic Motion Concert
12:00 PM-12:30 PM
Campus Center

GRADUATE SEMINAR - "On the Modeling of Geothermal Heating Systems", by Professor Burt Tilley, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Higgins Laboratories

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CANCELED Outcasts - Penikese Island
3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Stratton Hall

Seminar Series: Sheldon Weinbaum, PhD (City College of New York)
4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Gateway Park

The Comedy of Errors
7:00 PM-8:30 PM
Little Theatre

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Henry Cohn (Microsoft Research and MIT)-Order and disorder in energy minimization
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Salisbury Laboratories

Prof. Alan Mislove:Leveraging social networks in systems design
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Fuller Laboratories

The Comedy of Errors
7:00 PM-8:30 PM
Little Theatre

Brass and Organ Gala Concert
7:30 PM-8:30 PM
First Baptist Church

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The Comedy of Errors
7:00 PM-8:30 PM
Little Theatre