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Event: Feb. 15 Intersections of Creativity and Interdisciplinarity A Panel Discussion and Interactive Event

Event Date: February 15, 2017 Location: Meadows Museum Time: 6:00 p.m. Creativity approaches the innovative, novel, and valuable in multiple fields, encompassing education, design, science, leadership and many others; it is by definition an interdisciplinary endeavor. It is in this spirit, we are pleased to offer three panelists who are embracing creativity in a variety […]

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Event: Feb. 1, Introduction to Parallel Computing on ManeFrame

Event Date: February 1, 2017 Location: Caruth Hall 314 Time: 1:00 – 3:00 PM The Spring 2017 Center for Scientific Computation (CSC) workshop series will provide a hands-on experience that will guide researchers from the basics of using SMU’s supercomputing resources to advanced parallelization usage. New users are encouraged to take advantage of the introductory “Introduction […]

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Jewish Studies 4th Annual Judeo-Spanish Culture Week

Monday, Jan. 23, 5:00-6:15 pm, McCord Auditorium of Dallas Hall, SMU campusCo-sponsored with the Medieval Studies Program Prof. Maya Soifer Irish, Rice University, lecture “Jews and Christians in Medieval Castile: Tradition, Coexistence, and Change” Thursday, Jan. 26, 7:30 pm, Stern Chapel at Temple Emanu-El, 8500 Hillcrest Ave, Dallas, TX 75225Co-sponsored with the Rabbi Levi A. […]

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DPS will be held at 7:30pm on January 11th

The January meeting for the DPS will be held at 7:30pm on January 11th at Brookhaven College, Building H, Ellison Miles Geotechnology Institute, 3939 Valley View Lane, Farmers Branch, TX  75244. Our special speaker is Dr. Louis Jacobs, professor of geology and president of the Institute for the Study of Earth and Man at Southern Methodist University. […]

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A robust and efficient adaptive multigrid solver for the optimal control of phase field formulations of geometric evolution laws

Event Date: January 20, 2017   Location: Clements Hall 126 Time: 3:30–4:30 (Refreshments are served 15 minutes before the talk) Mathematics Colloquium Talk by Anotida Madzvamuse (University of Sussex). Link for more information: https://wiki.smu.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=115179645 Contact: A. J. Meir,  ajmeir@smu.edu    

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Philosophy of Art: A Workshop

Event Date: Nov. 11, 2016 Location: Florence Hall 100 Time : 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. (see website for detailed schedule) Join the DCII “Languages of Art and the Art of the Conceptual” Fellows seminar for their first workshop of the semester. Invited speakers will discuss, “Some Ideas about the Metaphysics of Stories”, “Artistic Luck”, […]

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Department of Mathematics Research Colloquium: Efficient time-domain DG methods for wave propagation

Event Date: October 26, 2016 Location: Clements Hall 126 Time: 3:30–4:30 (Refreshments are served 15 minutes before the talk) Mathematics Colloquium Talk by Jesse Chan (Rice University) Link for more information: https://wiki.smu.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=105578503 Contact: A. J. Meir

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SMU Lecture Oct. 20: Political Leanings May Be Genetic

SMU NEWS Originally Posted: October 11, 2016 Fear and disgust reflexes correlate with stronger conservative values DALLAS (SMU) – In the past 30 years, scientists have discovered that traits like alcoholism, sexual orientation and being left-handed are determined genetically, rather than by an individual’s environment. Now, Rice Political Science Professor John R. Alford wants to […]

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Social Science in the Age of Social Media

Event date: Monday, September 26 Location: Forum, Hughes-Trigg Theater Time: 11:45 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. Social Science in the Age of Social Media. Join Kieran Healy, Associate Professor of Sociology at Duke University as he lectures on the role of social media platforms in academic disciplines. The talk will discuss the character of “latently public” work resulting […]

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SMU Department of English – Gilbert Lecture Series

Date: 10/06/2016 Location: Dedman Life Science Building, room 131 Time: 6pm Come see Robert S. Levine of The University of Maryland present ‘Frederick Douglass in Fiction: From Harriet Beecher Stowe to John Updike and James McBride,’ as part of the English Department’s Gilbert Lecture Series. The event will start at 6pm on October 6th in The […]