Thompson Hall Science & Mathematics Seminars

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The Thompson Hall Science and Mathematics Seminars have been held on a regular basis since 1978. The seminar series features presentations by Puget Sound faculty, alumni, and invited guest speakers.

The Thompson Hall Seminars will be held virtually on Thursdays, from 4 – 4:50 p.m. (Pacific). They are open to the campus community and the general public. To request the meeting link, please contact Jo Crane, the THSMS coordinator, at jcrane@pugetsound.edu.

Students, faculty, staff, and guests are invited to begin entering the Thompson Hall seminar site at 3:50 p.m. (Pacific). If you are accessing the seminar via phone or entering the site as a guest, please allow extra time so that the moderator can grant you access into the seminar site.

Spring 2022
Fall 2022

Fall 2022 Schedule

November 17	Mary K. Kuhner, Center for Environmental Forensic Sciences Dept. of Biology, University of Washington Seattle Genetic data illuminates poaching of African elephants
September 15	Sean ONeill, Assistant Professor, PLU, Physics Worlds Not in Collision: How Saturn's Co-orbiting Moons Avoid Hitting Each Other
September 22	Dan Burgard, Professor, University of Puget Sound, Chemistry TBC
September 29	Larken Root, UPS 2009, Postdoctoral Fellow, CICOES (Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystems Studies), University of Washington Using aquaculture to turn the tide on aquatic ecosystem collapse
October 6	Mario Zimmermann, LBR Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Puget Sound, Department of Sociology and Anthropology Ancient Metabolomics and the History of Smoking in the Americas and Africa
October 13	Wendy Hoashi-Erhardt, PROGRAM LEAD, Small Fruit Plant Breeding, Puyallup Research and Extension Center, College of Agriculture, Human, and Natural Resources, Washington State University Plant Breeding for Better Berries in the Pacific Northwest
October 20	Kena Fox-Dobbs, Professor, University of Puget Sound, Geology/EPDM Isotopic insights into the 40 year evolution of an unique lake ecosystem in a new volcanic landscape
October 27	Alyssa DeVincentis, President, Vitidore, Inc. Watching the grass grow: How nature-based solutions can address the climate crisis
November 3	Ellie Barber, is scheduled for an Art and Science event at Kilworth at 7:00 p.m. Sponsored by Biology, EPDM, etc.
November 17	Mary Kuehner Brown TBD
December 1	Amanda Peng, PhD student, University of Oregon Morphological diversity in response to landscape and climate factors

Spring 2022 Schedule

January 20	Steve Diamanti, PhD Geisys Ventures Blending Oil and Water: the chemistry and engineering breakthroughs that made silicone hydrogel contact lenses possible
January 27	Chris Law–CANCELLED NSF Postdoctoral Fellow and Gerstner Scholar University of Washington and the American Museum of Natural History Linking natural history to species diversification and individual fitness
February 3	Craig Van Bruggen, UPS 2012 Postdoctoral Researcher University of Minnesota Enhancing Gene Editing with Polymerized Quinine
February 10	Carrie McIntosh Postdoctoral Researcher Scripps Institute of Oceanography A geochemical examination of the lunar pyroclastic glasses 15426 and 74220
February 17	Phillip A. Morin, PhD, UPS 1986 Research Molecular Geneticist, Marine Mammal Genetics Program Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) A tale of two porpoises: Genomics and conservation of the harbor porpoise and the critically endangered vaquita
February 24	Jack Shaw PhD Candidate in Earth and Planetary Sciences Yale University and Research Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute Using big data to understand the fossilization potential of marine communities
March 3	Joe Groom Post-doctoral researcher, Dept of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington Fighting climate change with methane-eating microbes, metals, and molecular genetics
March 10	Norma Morella Post-doctoral researcher, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Bacteriophages as a tool for microbiome manipulation in the gut
	SPRING BREAK
March 24	Zach Armstrong, UPS 2018 PhD candidate in Chemistry University of Wisconsin Understanding ultrafast energy transfer in novel solar energy materials
March 31	Julie Smith Associate Professor, Department of Biology Pacific Lutheran University The Role of Coevolution in Promoting Ecological Speciation in Red Crossbills (Loxia curvirostra complex)
April 7	Amy Fisher, Kristin Johnson, Ben Lewin, Justin Tiehen University of Puget Sound What are science, technology, health, and society studies?
April 14	Wilson Bailey, UPS 2011 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Gonzaga University Late Transition Metal Complexes for Oxidative Transformations
April 21	Caitlin Latimer MD, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology University of Washington Resistance and resilience in Alzheimer's disease
April 28	David Latimer Professor and Chair, Department of Physics University of Puget Sound The feeble interactions of self-conjugate particles

Thompson Hall Science & Mathematics Seminars

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Contact Information

Thompson Hall, Room 175

Fall 2022 Schedule

Spring 2022 Schedule