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UF ISE Fall Seminar Presentation by Karen Smilowitz, Ph.D. 10/28/2022 starting at 11:45am In-Person Weil 406 & Virtual Seminar Title: “Emerging trends and new research directions in volunteer management” Abstract: Nonprofit organizations often face challenges related to meeting time-dependent, and sometimes time-critical, operational needs with a workforce comprised of volunteers or a mix of volunteers […]

Mavrik Zavarin, Ph.D. Director, Glenn T. Seaborg Institute Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Dr. Mavrik Zavarin received his BS in chemistry and PhD in Soil Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. He has spent much of his career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory studying actinide environmental chemistry. He is currently the director of the Glenn T. […]

The University of Florida has dedicated tremendous resources to the application of AI in disciplines across the campus. There are over 100 new AI faculty who have been added to our ranks, and more to come. We have set aside October 27-28, 2022, as AI Days to welcome those faculty to UF and highlight the research and […]

Elif Ertekin Associate Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering Department University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Elif Ertekin is an Associate Professor and Director of Mechanics Programs at the Mechanical Science and Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a faculty affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Materials […]

Timothy P. Spicer, Ph.D., Research Professor and Senior Scientific Director, Department of Molecular Medicine, UF Scripps Biomedical Research Timothy P. Spicer Ph.D. is a research professor and Senior Scientific Director in the Department of Molecular Medicine at UF Scripps Biomedical Research. He joined Scripps Research in Florida in 2005. Tim has more than 30 years […]

The UF ABE Biocomplexity Engineering research group (members and collaborators of the ABE Hydrological Modeling Lab Led by Dr. Rafael Muñoz-Carpena) invite you to join our weekly research seminar presentations by a diverse network of researchers in and outside UF ABE, on various topics geared towards learning about complex systems and solutions within the discipline […]

Title: The importance (and benefits) of being a part of a professional organization Abstract: Dan Beaty and Thuha Nguyen will talk to students about their involvement with ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers) – an organization of choice for all transportation professionals. They will share stories on the adventure they experienced, the friends they made, and […]

MATTHEW TIRRELL, PH.D. Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering University of Chicago Center for Molecular Engineering and Materials Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Title: Electrostatic Self-Assembly of Charged Macromolecules: New Physics and New Applications Abstract: Nature exploits all available covalent and non-covalent interactions for unparalleled spatiotemporal control over hierarchical length scales of macromolecular and supramolecular structure. […]

Title: “Communicating Strategies to Congregations for Exiting a Pandemic” Abstract: The purpose of our project was to humbly communicate scientific strategies to exit the current pandemic to a religious community in a manner to overcome science skepticism. Differences between trust in science and trust in religion is more pronounced in secular societies where various ideas […]

Wesley Hines, Ph.D. Department Head, Nuclear Engineering University of Tennessee Dr. Wesley Hines is a Chancellor’s Professor and the Head of the Nuclear Engineering Department at the University of Tennessee, where he has been for 28 years.  Dr. Hines has authored over 350 technical papers in the areas of artificial intelligence and advanced statistical techniques applied […]