Seminars

Abstract: Prof. Cassandra Paul and David Webb have spent the last several years cataloguing ways that average grade differences between different demographic groups can be minimized or removed by changing the structure of the introductory physics course in question.

Title: Funnel control: origin and recent advances by Stephan Trenn

Abstract: Trust in elections underpins democratic legitimacy. Yet technology is reshaping elections–how people vote, how campaigns mobilize, the information environments citizens navigate, and the risks electoral systems confront. These transformations unfold amid mounting pressures on democracy and measurable global democratic decline.

Abstract: Gas phase metal clusters can act as a model system to investigate the active sites of more complex catalyst materials whose reaction mechanisms are poorly understood. However, real-world catalysts often comprise multiple elements with a mixing ratio optimized for better selectivity and reactivity based on screening.

Abstract: Our climate is warming, and along with it, extreme weather events that can cause large human and economic loss, are on the increase.