EKU Chautauqua Lecture Series "Beauty Matters" presents Dr. Karen Tice (Professor and Chair of UK's Dept. of Gender and Women's Studies and author of Queens of Academe and Tales of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women.
Thursday, Dec 5 at 7:30pm at EKU Campus (O'Donnel Hall, Whitlock Building)
Sarah Lyon, University of Kentucky associate professor of anthropology, has been selected as the editor-designate of Human Organization, the flagship journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
As part of the "Reel to Reel" film series, the Special Collections library will show 'In Country' on November 19th at 7 pm in Worsham Theater.
3rd Thursday's Soup & Substance: Real Talk, Real Issues, Real People Series. A multicultural dialogue and workshop learning series that provides opportunities for peer-to-peer education. The Martin Luther King Center Emissaries present forums where individuals discuss current events and diversity issues that take place in our world. This month's topic is Rock the Vote: Do You Know Your Rights? with special guest, Dr. Melynda Price.
Join us for an interactive virtual panel featuring people who graduated with degrees in Gender and Women's Studies.
Based on the book Transforming Scholarship: Why Women and Gender Studies Students are Changing Themselves and the World
Monday, January 27, 2014 from 2-4pm.
When Going Home Is Hard: A Discussion with the VIP Center, Counseling Center, Dean of Students and health services.
Title: Some progresses on two-dimensional Riemann problems in gas dynamics
Abstract: Two dimensional Riemann problems for compressible fluid flows assume the simplest piecewise sectorial initial state but provide the most fundamental wave configurations, including the reflection of oblique shocks and vortex-shock interaction etc. In this talk I will show many fascinating pictures, based on 2D Riemann solutions, to disclose the mysteries of compressible fluid world both through analytical tools (in the form of mathematical theorems) and computational techniques (in the form of simulations). The analysis is based on the characteristic decomposition theory we developed recently, while the simulations are obtained using the generalized Riemann problem (GRP) scheme that is equipped with a highly accurate solver in the construction of numerical fluxes by a way of tracking singularities analytically and keeping entropy exactly computed.
The organization, The Conscious Consumer, will be hosting a free screening of the film Girl Rising.
The National Conference on Undergraduate Research will bring nearly 4,000 additional students from across the country to the UK campus where they will present their research and creative endeavors while meeting other like-minded students.
Title: Smoothness of isometries between subRiemannian manifolds
Abstract: In a joint work with Enrico Le Donne (Jyvaskyla, Finland), we show that the group of isometries (i.e., distance-preserving homeomorphisms) of an equiregular subRiemannian manifold is a finite-dimensional Lie group of smooth transformations. The proof is based on a new PDE argument, in the spirit of harmonic coordinates, establishing that in an arbitrary subRiemannian manifold there exists an open dense subset where all isometries are smooth.
