
Nuclear & Particle Physics Seminar - Mary Hall Reno, PhD; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Iowa
Monday, September 8, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Searching for ultrahigh-energy neutrinos with balloon-borne neutrino telescopesMary Hall Reno, PhDUltrahigh-energy neutrinos carry information about the highest energy astrophysical sources. Neutrinos are not deflected by magnetic fields nor absorbed in transit from the source to Earth. Low fluxes of ultrahigh-energy neutrinos and their weak interactions require very large detection volumes. One technique to detect them is to use the Earth as a tau neutrino converter, in which tau leptons can...
REDCap Basic Training
Tuesday, September 9, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
This is the first step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will build a new REDCap project from scratch and cover basic features such as:
• Building forms with proper field types and validation
• Assigning user permissions
• Project backup and overview with data dictionary, codebook, pdf, and xml
• Ensuring your project works properly by testing with real world application
• Making mid-study modifications safely after having started data collection in production
• Creating...
TriNetX Basic Training
Tuesday, September 9, 2025 2:00pm to 3:00pm
This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research.
After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies.
Register by clicking the virtual event link...

Mathematical Physics Seminar - Wayne Polyzou, PhD; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Iowa
Tuesday, September 9, 2025 2:30pm to 3:20pm
Wavelet methods in quantum field theoryWayne Polyzou, PhDThis is a talk that I will present (by zoom) at JLAB later this month.I will discuss a representation of local quantum fields using Daubechies' wavelets, which are fractal-valued functions that are useful for data compression (related functions are used in jpeg photographs, the film industry, and the FBI fingerprint database). Basis functions are generated from the fixed point of a renormalization group equation by scale transformations...

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - Mark Gorski, PhD; CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University
Tuesday, September 9, 2025 3:30pm to 4:50pm
Navigating a Cosmic Maelstrom with Sub-Parsec Observations of Cool Gas Around Our Central Supermassive Black HoleMark Gorski, PhDHiding behind the dust lanes of the Milky Way lives our closest supermassive black hole (Sagittarius A* or Sgr A*). It is hailed as both our best hope to study black hole physics, accretion, feeding, and feedback, and as too complex a region to completely understand. The absence of any signatures of an active outflow and the spin orientation of the black hole are some...
Welcome Reception for David Schwebel, Vice President for Research
Tuesday, September 9, 2025 4:30pm to 6:00pm
We invite you to attend a welcome reception for David Schwebel, the university's new vice president for research, on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. The event will take place from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Levitt Center for University Advancement Rotunda, located at One West Park Road in Iowa City, Iowa. Please note that brief remarks will be delivered at 5:15 p.m.
REDCap Intermediate Training
Wednesday, September 10, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
This is the second step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover basic and intermediate features such as:
• Outputting data automatically with calculated fields
• Collecting the same data points multiple times with longitudinal and one-to-many data collection
• Standardizing your data to industry standards with ontologies and the REDCap Instrument Library
• Ways to customize your data entry experience with action tags
• Viewing data with reports, dashboards, and charts...

Exhibit Opening Celebration for ‘Paper Engineering in Art, Science, and Education’
Wednesday, September 10, 2025 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Enjoy refreshments, remarks from the curators, and an open house in recognition of the fall 2025 Main Library Gallery exhibit, Paper Engineering in Art, Science, and Education.Event Schedule 4–5:30 p.m.: Reception and open house with curators Elizabeth Yale, Damien Ihrig, and Giselle Simón 4:30 p.m.: Brief remarks in the Main Library Gallery 5:30 p.m.: Opening event ends 6 p.m.: Main Library Gallery closesAdmission to the gallery is always free. No RSVP required for this event.About the exhibit...
REDCap Surveys Training
Thursday, September 11, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
This is the third step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover survey configuration and distribution such as:
Allowing potential participants to self-initiate participation in your study with public surveys
Manually and automatically sending surveys
Administering electronic consent (e-consent) forms
Controlling survey access with conditional logic and survey login
This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training you will have a basic understanding of...
SEES 7000 Colloquium: Dr. Greg Lefevre (Civil and Environmental Engineering / IIHR - Hydroscience and Engineering)
Thursday, September 11, 2025 3:30pm
Plant Uptake and Transformation of Emerging ContaminantsGreg LeFevre (UIowa Environmental Engineering)Plants are all around us and have been a strong synergy between ecology and environmental engineering for decades. Plant can interact with pollutants both by helping to clean up environmental contaminants or may serve as an exposure route to humans for contaminants that are present in the food supply. In this seminar, I will present our research that probes mechanistic understanding of plant...