Seminar Schedule
2025-2026 science seminar Schedule
Upcoming Presentation is on March 12th
A Little Language Can Go A Long Way
Adam Teichert
Language can exercise our minds and provide tools for thinking about and solving problems. In this talk, we explore some striking examples. We give particular attention to the Lambda Calculus---a minuscule formal language that, with some initial effort, can express anything computable and that has influenced many modern programming languages.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, September 4 | Kevin Powell | Playing Tic-Tac-Toe on a Boolean Lattice |
| Thursday, September 11 | Jared Breakall | Mixing what shouldn’t Mix: The Sauce-y Chemistry of Emulsions |
| Thursday, September 18 | Hike to the S | Hike to the S |
| Thursday, October 2 | Kari Arnoldsen | When Math Goes Wrong |
| Thursday, October 9 | Richard Lambert | Stat Wars Episode I: The Dark Side of Data |
| Thursday, October 23 | Doug Gilbert | The Art of Engineering Design |
| Thursday, October 30 | Keith Steurer | Leadership vs. Management: Why should they be different? |
| Thursday, November 6 | Jon Pugmire's students | Double Star Observations |
| Thursday, November 13 | Larry Smith | The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Thursday, November 20 | Kate Baustian (invited by Scott Meek) | Sanpete Groundwater/Precipitation Study |
| Thursday, January 22 | Kevin Powell | Polynomial Magic |
| Thursday, January 27 | Kevin Powell | Throwing a 4-dimensional Ball, Drinking From a Klein Bottle, and Homological Algebra |
| Thursday, February 19th | Dave Love | The enlightenment, philosophy, mysticism, and the origins of modern science: how have ancient ideas shaped the way we see the natural world? |
| Thursday, February 26, 2026 | Michael E. Olson | If Anything Can Go Wrong, It’s Probably Entropy |
| Thursday, March 12, 2026 | Adam Teichert | A Little Language Can Go A Long Way |
| Thursday, March 19, 2026 | Lindsay Chaney | |
| Thursday, March 26, 2026 | Riley Bradshaw | |
| Thursday, April 9, 2026 | Jon Pugmire | Double Stars and Gaia |
| Thursday, April 16, 2026 | Jeannie Kleinhans | Science Podcasts: What are they good for? |