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Watch: SMU Economics Center Director on NBC DFW RE: GOP tax plan

NBC 5 Originally Posted: September 28, 2017 Republicans in Congress are now turning their attention to overhauling the tax code. There are three key points of the tax reform proposal you should know for how they could affect your earnings. WATCH

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Event: Oct. 30, Porting Applications to MICs and GPUs

Event Date: October 30 Location: Fondren Library E110 Time:12:00 – 2:00 PM The Fall 2017 CSC workshop series provides a hands-on experience that guides researchers from the basics of using SMU’s HPC resources to specific topics in parallelization and debugging. Additionally, the topics will cover information useful for researchers to quickly begin to use the new […]

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Event: Oct. 23, Introduction to Jupyter Notebooks

Date: October 23 Event Location: Fondren Library E110 Time:12:00 – 2:00 PM The Fall 2017 CSC workshop series provides a hands-on experience that guides researchers from the basics of using SMU’s HPC resources to specific topics in parallelization and debugging. Additionally, the topics will cover information useful for researchers to quickly begin to use the new […]

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Event: October 16, Parallel Python

Event Date: October 16 Location: Fondren Library E110 Time:12:00 – 2:00 PM The Fall 2017 CSC workshop series provides a hands-on experience that guides researchers from the basics of using SMU’s HPC resources to specific topics in parallelization and debugging. Additionally, the topics will cover information useful for researchers to quickly begin to use the new […]

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Life As One Of SMU’s Faculty In Residence Is Never Dull

SMU Magazine Originally Posted: August 2017 Just ask David Son, professor of chemistry in Dedman College, and wife Heidi – or take a look at photos and memories from a year at Boaz Commons. In 2014, David Son was named Boaz FiR and the 61-year-old residence hall was retrofitted with an apartment that houses the […]

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How scientists (including an SMU Dedman College seismologist) monitor North Korea’s nuclear tests

Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: September 8, 2017 At 9:30 p.m. Central time last Saturday, detectors around the world picked up signs of a massive explosion in the vicinity of North Korea’s nuclear test site. The country claimed, for the second time in less than two years, that it had successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb, a weapon […]

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Joint MathBio Monday Seminar/Mathematics Colloquium: Jane Hawkins, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Event Date: September 11, 2017 Location: 0131 Dedman Life Sciences Bldg Time:v3:30-4:30 pm Contact: Andrea Barreiro Email: abarreiro@smu.edu Virus dynamics: Markov processes and cellular automata as tools in their modeling and analysis Link for more information: http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Academics/Departments/Math/Seminars  

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Watch: Cullum Clark, Director of the new SMU Economics Center, weighs in on lessons learned from Katrina & Harvey

Fox 4 Originally Posted: August 29, 2017 While it’s unclear how many evacuees are expected in North Texas, there is some idea of what will unfold during the next several months. With the Dallas mega shelter at the convention center expected to quickly fill up once more evacuees arrive, officials are frantically looking for other places to […]

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Why the Famous Folsom Point Isn’t a Smoking Gun

Sapiens Originally Posted: August 29, 2017   Remember the iconic Folsom point? The one that I said, in my last post, changed the future of archaeology? To recap: On August 29, 1927, paleontologists from the Colorado Museum of Natural History (renamed the Denver Museum of Nature & Science in 2000) discovered a stone projectile point embedded […]

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Construction begins on international mega-science experiment to understand neutrinos

SMU Research Originally Posted: July 24, 2017 SMU is one of more than 100 institutions from around the world building hardware for a massive international experiment — a particle detector — that could change our understanding of the universe. Construction will take years and scientists expect to begin taking data in the middle of the […]