Academics

November 18

Meat Raffle
2:00 PM-6:00 PM
Leicester Rod & Gun Club

The Music of Pepper Adams Lecture & Concert
3:00 PM-4:00 PM, 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 7:30 PM-8:30 PM
Alden Memorial

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Physics Colloquium, ": Nano structure - Thermal properties of melt-shear Oriented iPP / MWCNT thin films," by Parvathalu Kalakonda, Graduate Student, WPI Physics Department
4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Olin Hall

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SEMINAR- "Leveraging Uncertainty to Realize Sustainable Engineering Systems: Case Studies Across Three Industries", by Randolph E. Kirchain, Ph.D., Principal Research Scientist, Materials Systems Laboratory, Engineering Systems Division, M.I.T.
10:00 AM-11:00 AM
Higgins Laboratories

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1st Annual Firla Concert
2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Worcester Art Museum

Holiday Concert: An American Christmas with Worcester Polytechnic Institutes Firla Ensemble and Vocal Performance Lab
2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Worcester Art Museum

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Physics Colloquium, "Stewardship of the Biosphere IQP," by Steve Thuo, Physics Department Undergraduate Student
4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Olin Hall

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Graduate Seminar - Coupling Biochemistry, Mechanics, and Hydrodynamics to Model Sperm Motility, by Professor Sarah D. Olson, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Higgins Laboratories

Seminar Series: Catherine Kuo, PhD (Tufts) Embryonically Inspired Mechanoregulation of Stem Cell Tenogenesis
4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Gateway Park

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H. J. Gay Lecture-Luc Tartar (University of Paris, Carnegie Mellon University)-From ODE to "beyond PDE"
4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Salisbury Laboratories

Cartoon College
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
Salisbury Laboratories

Cartoon College
7:00 PM-9:00 PM
Salisbury Laboratories

Holiday Concert
7:30 PM-9:00 PM
Alden Memorial

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Joseph Fehribach (WPI)-Matrices and Their Kirchhoff Graphs
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Salisbury Laboratories

Prof. David Thaw, The Efficasy of Cybersecurity Regulation
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Fuller Laboratories

Cello and Piano Recital
7:00 PM-8:00 PM
Alden Memorial

December 1

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Holiday Concert: Voices from Worcester State University and Burncoat High School
2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Worcester Art Museum

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Film showing: Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis
7:30 PM-9:30 PM
Salisbury Laboratories

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Brown Bag Holiday Concert
12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Alden Memorial

Why is Dynamic Robotic Simulation So Bad? And When Will It Get Better?
12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Higgins Laboratories

GRADUATE SEMINAR - "Multiscale Analysis of Wave Propagation in Heterogeneous Structures" by Filippo Casadei, Ph.D., Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Higgins Laboratories

French Discussion
6:00 PM-7:00 PM
Salisbury Laboratories

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Zhenya Guo, PhD Student : Visually Mining Interesting Patterns in Multivariate Datasets
9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Campus Center

Zhenya Guo, PhD Student : Visually Mining Interesting Patterns in Multivariate Datasets
9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Campus Center

Fourth Annual Gregory Stockmal Reading by Kathleen Spivack
7:30 PM-8:30 PM
Salisbury Laboratories

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Erhan Bayraktar (University of Michigan)-On the Multi-Dimensional Controller and Stopper Games
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Stratton Hall

Prof. Kevin Bauer,Improving Security and Performance in Low-Latency Anonymity Networks
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Fuller Laboratories

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Holiday "Pops" Concert
8:00 PM-9:30 PM
Mechanics Hall

Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra Holiday Pops Concert
8:00 PM-10:00 PM
Mechanics Hall

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Mahadevan Ganesh (Colorado School of Mines)-Navier-Stokes equations on rotating surfaces: Regularity, algorithm, analysis, and simulation
2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Stratton Hall

Mourad Sini (RICAM, Austrian Academy of Sciences)-Inverse scattering by interfaces using multifrequency measurements
3:00 PM-4:00 PM
Stratton Hall

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CBC Seminar Series: Amy C. Rosenzweig, Ph.D. "Biological Methane Oxidation"
12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center

Physics Colloquium, "PREDICTED RESPONSES FOR A PARTICULATE DETECTION SYSTEM," by Professor Mark Tries, Associate Professor of Physics at UMASS Lowell
4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Olin Hall

Seminar Series: Angelica Gonzalez, PhD (Yale)
4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Gateway Park

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