Chocolate and String Theory Featured in NS&M Colloquium Series
The most recent two lectures for the Natural Science and Mathematics Colloquium series focused on the mathematics behind a chocolate-eating game and the properties of the universe. The first of the two...
View ArticleMaile On Burns: “Cure Occasionally, Relieve Often, Console Always”
Dr. Robert Maile’s presentation at the Natural Sciences and Mathematics Colloquium Wednesday, titled, “The Challenges of Burn Injury,” focused on the impact of trauma and burn-related emergencies on...
View ArticleProfessor Estimates Power of Gerbil Sun
For the final Natural Science & Mathematics (NS&M) Colloquium lecture of the semester, Dr. Larry Weinstein, a physics professor from Old Dominion University and co-author of Guesstimation:...
View ArticleProfessor Predicts the Future, Discusses Error
For the first Natural Science and Mathematics Colloquium of the semester, Southern Polytechnic State University professor A. Bowdoin Van Riper presented on how views of the future have changed over the...
View ArticleEscher’s Geometry Explained
As part of the Natural Science and Mathematics Colloquia Series, St. Mary’s mathematics professor Susan Goldstine presented The Geometries of Escher on Wednesday, Feb. 3. Her presentation discussed the...
View ArticleCollege Professors Discuss Art and Science of Beer
In front of a large audience of St. Mary’s students, professors, and community members, College professors Jeffrey Byrd and Andy Koch presented the complicated science and subtle art behind beer...
View ArticleProfessor Discusses Neuromuscular Disease Research
Baylor College of Medicine professor Thomas Cooper expressed his research lab’s interest in neuromuscular disease in the fifth lecture of the Natural Science and Mathematics Colloquium Series this...
View ArticlePenn State Professor Discusses Life of Indian Math Genius
On Wednesday, Oct. 20, as part of the Natural Science and Mathematics Colloquium Series, Penn State University Professor George Andrews discussed the history of the mathematics genius Srinivasa...
View ArticleNOAA Officer Presents on Subaquatic Cartography
Lieutenant Commander Ben Evans of the Office of Coast Survey at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) presented on his work in underwater charting and navigation at the College’s...
View ArticlePreservation: The Sciences in Art and Art History
On Feb. 23, United States Library of Congress preservation research scientist Lynn Brostoff presented her studies of ancient artifacts and works of art using scientific methods in her lecture “Using...
View ArticleChemistry Professor Discusses Fight Against Tuberculosis
On Nov. 16, for the last lecture of the semester in the Natural Science and Mathematics (NS&M) Colloquium Series, Cynthia S. Dowd, a researcher and assistant professor of chemistry at George...
View ArticleAlgebraic Coding Theory, Transmission Techniques
On Wednesday, Feb. 1, the Natural Science and Mathematics Colloquium, “Trusty Transmission Techniques,” was given by Alissa Crans, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Loyola Marymount University, and...
View ArticleRecovering Vanishing Images in Paintings
On Wednesday, Feb. 8, Jennifer Mass, senior scientist and head of the Scientific Research and Analysis Laboratory at Winterthur Museum in Delaware, presented her lecture entitled, “When masterpieces...
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