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2020-21 Seminars

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For the Fall 2020 semester, the Thompson Hall Seminars will be held virtually on Thursdays, from 4:10 to 5 p.m. (PDT). They are open to the general public.

Students, faculty, staff, and guests are invited to enter the Thompson Hall Seminar site at 4 p.m. (PDT). 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 to the seminar site.

The Thompson Hall, Science, and Mathematics Seminars, have been held regularly since 1978-79. Once again, the seminar series will feature presentations by Puget Sound faculty and students and guest speakers on a wide range of topics. Please join us in welcoming the following speakers.

 

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Presentation Schedule, Fall 2020

September 3, 2020

Title TBA

Oscar Sosa, Assistant Professor

University of Puget Sound, Department of Biology

4:10 p.m. (PDT)

Host: Jo Crane

September 10, 2020

Summer Quest: A celebration of student research, scholarship, and creative work

All summer research students will present posters of their research
4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

This will be a virtual event. Details TBA.

September 17, 2020

Title TBA

Emily Tollefson, Assistant Professor

University of Puget Sound, Department of Chemistry

4:10 p.m. (PDT)

Host: Jo Crane

September 24, 2020

Discovering the forest among the trees: Testing community assembly hypotheses in the forgotten layers of temperate and tropical ecosystems

Michelle Spicer, Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Puget Sound, Department of Biology

4:10 p.m. (PDT)

Host: Carrie Woods

October 1, 2020

Title TBA
Adrianne Akmajian
Makah Fisheries Management
4:10 p.m. (PDT)
Host: Joel Elliott

October 8, 2020

Title TBA

Jake Price, Assistant Professor

University of Puget Sound, Department of Mathematics

4:10 p.m. (PDT)

Host: Jo Crane

October 15, 2020

Title TBA

Thelma Madzima, PhD, Assistant Professor

University of Washington, Bothell

4:10 p.m. (PDT)
Host: Andreas Madlung

October 22, 2020

Title TBA

Erika Milam, Professor
Princeton University, History of Science Program

4:10 p.m. (PDT)

Host: Amy Fisher

October 29, 2020

Title TBA

Grace Ferrara (Class of 2013), Natural Resource Management Specialist, West Coast Region

NOAA Fisheries, U.S. Department of Commerce

4:10 p.m. (PDT)

Host: Dan Burgard

November 5, 2020

Title TBA

Dr. Chris Agard

Educational Testing Service

4:10 p.m. (PST)

Host: Stacey Weiss

November 12, 2020

Title TBA

Shira Goldstein (Class of 2010)

4:10 p.m. (PST)

Host: Barry Goldstein

November 19, 2020

Title TBA

Brett Klaassen, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Puget Sound, Department of Physics

4:10 p.m. (PST)

Host: Rachel Pepper

November 26, 2020 Thanksgiving
December 3, 2020

State of the Climate Series, Part 1

Steven Neshyba, Professor

University of Puget Sound, Department of Chemistry

4:10 p.m. (PST)

Host: Jo Crane

 

Presentation Schedule, Spring 2021

January 21, 2021

State of the Climate Series, Part 2

Steven Neshyba, Professor

University of Puget Sound, Department of Chemistry

4 pm

January 28, 2021

Measuring the impact of military flights on the Olympic Peninsula soundscape

Lauren Kuehne, Independent Researcher

Omfishient Consulting

Host: Carrie Woods

February 4, 2021  
February 11, 2021  
February 18, 2021  
February 25, 2021

Title TBA

Sarah McQuate, Ph.D. (Class of 2007), Public Information Officer

University of Washington

Host: Eric Scharrer

March 4, 2021

Title TBA
Madison Cox (Class of 2015), Graduate Student
University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Microbiology
4 pm, Thompson 175
Host: Stacey Weiss

March 11, 2021  
March 18, 2021 Spring Break
March 25, 2021  
April 1, 2021  
April 8, 2021  
April 15, 2021  
April 22, 2021  
April 29, 2021