Steve Lindaas, Physics and Astronomy, attended the summer meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) July 14–17. He organized and led the Physics and Society topical discussion session, presided over a session on Labs and Activities for Sustainability and a panel on Teaching Controversial Topics. As chair of the Committee on Science Education for the Public he is […]
John Buncher, Physics and Astronomy, attended the “FPGA Exercises in the Advanced Lab” ALPhA immersion July 24-26 at the University of Minnesota. Field Programmable Gate Arrays are flexible microprocessor devices that are ubiquitous in industry. The Advanced Laboratory Physics Association is affiliated with the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) and runs advanced laboratory sessions to help departments update their […]
Dr. Adam M. Goyt, Mathematics, gave the talk “A Marcus-Tardos / Stanley-Wilf type result for Ordered Set Partitions” at the 11th Annual Permutation Patterns Conference in Paris, France July 1, 2013. http://web.mnstate.edu/goytadam/talks/SWOP.pdf
By: Kris Kerzman, Variety contributor, INFORUM No one needs reminding of the seismic shift we’re seeing in how we consume our media as once-analogue technologies make way for digital platforms and the gizmos we buy to host them. Ryan Christianson certainly doesn’t, and in relation to book publishing, he can boil it all down with startling word economy. “Music was […]
Dr. Marilea Bramer, Philosophy, presented her paper titled “Power, Wealth, and Influence, or Friends?” at the 30th International Social Philosophy Conference on July 11 at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT. Bramer also chaired a session titled “An Appetite for Disorder.” In addition, Bramer was nominated and elected to the Graduate Student Paper Award committee for the 31st International Social Philosophy […]