Shear thickening fluids: what’s going on in there?
CA 302 Auditorium (CA Building)Jeff Urbach ABSTRACT We usually describe the properties of materials by categorizing them as solid, liquids, or gases, but lots of stuff doesn’t fit neatly in into any one category. … Continue reading Shear thickening fluids: what’s going on in there?
The Kobzar’s Prayer for Ukraine
CA 302 Auditorium (CA Building)Jurij Fedynskyj ABSTRACT The ancient tradition of blind minstrels in Ukraine, called kobzari, had nearly disappeared and was carried into the twenty first century by a few survivors or Soviet … Continue reading The Kobzar’s Prayer for Ukraine
On Being the Right Size, Revisited
CA 302 Auditorium (CA Building)Daniel Nicholson ABSTRACT In 1926, Haldane published an essay titled ‘On Being the Right Size’, in which he argued that the size of an organism fundamentally shapes its way of … Continue reading On Being the Right Size, Revisited
Night of Science (and Art)!
CS & CM BuildingsSee detailed description of the event on the dedicated page at https://blogs.nvcc.edu/scienceseminar/night-of-science/