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Princeton history professor to deliver 2024 Geddes W. Simpson Distinguished Lecture

Hill Auditorium Barrows Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

This endowed lecture series facilitates campus visits and presentations by prominent speakers with expertise at the interface of science and history. In the past, the series has hosted a broad range of speakers from varied academic disciplines. Simpson was a distinguished faculty member who began his 55-year career at UMaine with the College of Life […]

Mathematical and Computational Properties of Differential Equations for Fluid Flows in Deformable Domains

Hill Auditorium Barrows Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

Giovanna Guidoboni, professor and dean of the College of Engineering, will be speaking in the colloquium. Her talk will be on "Mathematical and computational properties of differential equations for fluid flows in deformable domains." For more information on the colloquium, click here. 

EVENT CANCELLED Howard B. Schonberger Peace and Justice Lecture

Hill Auditorium Barrows Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

Brittany Luby, Associate Professor of History, University of Guelph, will deliver a lecture on the history and future of manomin (wild rice) cultivation for the Niisaachewan Anishinaabe Nation in Ontario, Canada. This talk will be the annual Howard B. Schonberger Peace and Justice Lecture.

Learn How to Save a Life: Overdose Response And Naloxone Training

Hill Auditorium Barrows Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

The UMaine campus community is invited to a seminar called "Learn How to Save a Life: Overdose response and naloxone training." The seminar will provide information about the  Community First Responder Program which is a two year grant funded collaboration with the University of Rhode Island. The goals of the Community First Responder Program are to educate […]

The Large-Time Behavior of Heat Kernels

Hill Auditorium Barrows Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

Dr. Evan Randles from Colby College will be speaking in the colloquium; the talk will be "The large-time behavior of heat kernels". In the talk, Randles will motivate the study of the large-time behavior of heat kernels by connecting it to the classical problem in Fourier analysis of understanding the behavior of convolution powers of signed measures. […]

Department of Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium: ‘Fermat’s last theorem, L-functions, and the Langlands program’

Hill Auditorium Barrows Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

The next colloquium for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics is set to take place on March 8, featuring assistant professor Gilbert Moss. His talk will be on "Fermat's last theorem, L-functions, and the Langlands program." It will involve surveying some of the tools and techniques used in the proof of Fermat's last theorem, including elliptic curves, L-functions, […]

Enacting a New Past in the Andes

Hill Auditorium Barrows Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

The Department of Modern Languages and Classics is hosting a talk by Professor Luis Millones Figueroa. In recent years, several communities in the Andean region are carrying out folk theater productions that revisit their relationship to their pre-colonial or colonial past. This talk will use the examples of the "tallanes" and the "chancas" in Peru, […]

Soil as Archive: Agroecological History, Soil Conservation, and Place-Based Pedagogy in Appalachia

Hill Auditorium Barrows Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

The History Department's 2022–23 symposium series will hold its next meeting on Feb. 27 at 3:15 p.m. in Hill Auditorium, located in Barrows Hall. Dr. Cody Miller of Appalachian State University will be delivering a talk titled "Soil as Archive: Agroecological History, Soil Conservation, and Place-Based Pedagogy in Appalachia." This talk is the 2022 Babcock Lecture […]

Babcock Lecture 2023: Cody Miller, Lecturer of Sustainable Development, Appalachian State University

Hill Auditorium Barrows Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

Dr. Cody Miller of Appalachian State University will be delivering a talk titled Soil as Archive: Agroecological History, Soil Conservation, and Place-Based Pedagogy in Appalachia. This talk is the 2022 Babcock Lecture which welcomes back a graduate of the Department of History. Due to demand, a Zoom option has been added. Click here to register. The History Department Symposium Series, […]

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