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Friday, January 20th 2012
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Charlie Geyer, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota
Subject: What Statistics 101 Doesn't Teach, But Should
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, January 27th 2012
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Francis Everitt, W.W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Sanford University.
Subject: When Did Physics Begin?
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, February 3rd 2012
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Jos Uffink, Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota
Subject: Causality Principles and Probability in Physics
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, February 10th 2012
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Adelheid Voskuhl, History of Science, Harvard University
Subject: Robots and Machines: Android Automata and Early Industrialization in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, February 17th 2012
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Brett L. Walker, Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, Montana State University, Bozeman
Subject: Toxic Archipelago: The Hybrid Causes of Industrial Disease in Japan
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, February 24th 2012
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Author: Mark Borrello, University of Minnesota; Readers: Ben Kerr, University of Washington, and Rob Richards, University of Chicago
Subject: Author Meets Readers: Evolutionary Restraints: The Contentious History of Group Selection
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, March 2nd 2012
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Bruce Hevly, Department of History, University of Washington and Bruce Hunt, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
Subject: Panel Discussion: Nineteenth-Century Physics and the Natural World: Thermodynamics, Glaciers, Explorers
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, March 9th 2012
No HST Colloquium this week.
Friday, March 16th 2012
No HST Colloquium this week.
Friday, March 23rd 2012
No HST Colloquium this week.
Friday, March 30th 2012
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Jeffrey Mullins, Department of History, St. Cloud State University
Subject: Forming a Nation, Re-Framing a Profession: Race, Medical Science, and Physician Understandings of American Identity
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, April 6th 2012
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Rebecca Slayton, Program in History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota
Subject: Efficient, Secure, Green: The Shifting Logic of 'Smart' Grids
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, April 13th 2012
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Craig Calendar, University of California, San Diego
Subject: The Flow of Time: Stitching the World Together
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, April 20th 2012
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Jacqueline deVries, Department of History, Augsburg College
Subject: Youth and Sex: Science, Religion and Sex Education in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, April 27th 2012
No HST Colloquium this week.
Friday, May 4th 2012
No HST Colloquium this week.
Friday, May 11th 2012
No HST Colloquium this week.
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