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Payne Institute Webinar – Circular Carbon Economy

The Payne Institute for Public Policy welcomes Adam Sieminski, President of KAPSARC, presenting a webinar titled Circular Carbon Economy on Tuesday, September 2, 2020 from 9:00-10:00am MT. TOPIC: CIRCULAR CARBON ECONOMY […]

Bob Weimer Mines Geology Trail Tour

Berthoud Hall 1516 Illinois St., Golden, CO, United States

Bob Weimer Mines Virtual Geology Trail Tour Virtual Meeting information: Stephen A. Sonnenberg is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. A virtual field tour of the Bob Weimer Mines […]

Graduate Seminar Series

Berthoud Hall 1516 Illinois St., Golden, CO, United States

The Graduate Student Skills Seminar is Scheduled in a Virtual Format Topic: Student-Advisor Communication: Accountability in Guidance, Mentorship, and Self-Reliance (Taking Control of Your Research) Virtual Meeting Information: Cheryl Ann […]

Payne Institute Fall Webinar – Greening the Gas System

Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Payne Fellow Dr. Dolf Gielen, Director, IRENA Innovation Technology Center, presenting Greening the Gas System on […]

Van Tuyl Lecture (Virtual): Dr. Luk Peeters, CSIRO

Berthoud Hall 1516 Illinois St., Golden, CO, United States

Luk Peeters, CSIRO Navigating Groundwater Model Uncertainty Analysis Abstract: The design of a groundwater model is based on the model objective, the management or research question that the model seeks […]

Restriction, Rationing and Responsibilities: The three R’s of pandemic ethics

The COVID-19 pandemic has generated numerous ethical challenges, from triage in the event of severe resource shortages, to ensuring the safety of essential workers, to saving lives while also preserving livelihoods. Dr Wynia will explore some of the most contentious issues faced and the most painful lessons learned for policymakers, the public, and frontline health […]

The Three Rs of Pandemic Ethics

Restrictions, Rationing and Responsibilities: the three R’s of pandemic ethics  The COVID-19 pandemic has generated numerous ethical challenges, from triage in the event of severe resource shortages, to ensuring the safety of essential workers, to saving lives while also preserving livelihoods. Dr Wynia will explore some of the most contentious issues faced and the most […]

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Physics colloquium-“The Life and Death of the Free Neutron”

Nadia Fomin University of Tennessee, Knoxville Abstract: Neutron beta decay is an archetype for all semi-leptonic charged-current weak processes. A precise value for the neutron lifetime is required for consistency […]

Graduate Seminar Series

Berthoud Hall 1516 Illinois St., Golden, CO, United States

The Graduate Student Skills Seminar is Scheduled in a Virtual Format Topic: Wellness Skills: Coping with Everyday Pressures in an Academic Environment (What’s Normal, What’s Not) Virtual Meeting Information: Cheryl Ann […]

Disability Technologies: Ethical Pitfalls and Social Responsibilities

Abstract: People often talk about designing for disabled people as engineering in a humanitarian mode, and designers are lauded for their work to help people when it concerns disability technology. There is resistance to how this work is cast from the disability community. Our community often sees projects developed without rich engagement with the relevant […]

Climate Change, Disability, and Equity: An Evening with Alex Ghenis

As climate change and our understanding of it progresses, it is clear that we will need to reduce our emissions and adapt to new environments and economies. People with disabilities are affected in unique ways by climate change, but are too often left out of plans and actions by stakeholders. Ghenis will contextualize how people […]

Contention in the Energy Sector – Webinar

–Please join the Colorado Energy Research Collaboratory as they host Payne Institute Director Morgan Bazilian for a webinar titled Infrastructure Part 1: Contention in the Energy Sector on Thursday, October 8, […]

Van Tuyl Lecture (Virtual): Lorena G. Moscardelli, Equinor

Berthoud Hall 1516 Illinois St., Golden, CO, United States

Lorena G. Moscardelli, Equinor Principal Researcher Geology Title: Deep-water Processes and Deposits, from Mass Transport Complexes in Eastern Offshore Trinidad to Mixed Siliciclastic-Carbonate Systems in Offshore Nova Scotia and a […]

Physics colloquium-“Computational 3D Fluorescence Microscopy”

Laura Waller University of California, Berkeley Abstract:  We describe a compact and inexpensive computational microscope that encodes 3D information into a single 2D sensor measurement, then exploits sparsity to reconstruct […]

Felon: A poetic and immersive play — A discourse on race, incarceration, justice.

R. Dwayne Betts will present an excerpt of the solo show that he is developing based on "Felon." The work engages with the contemporary moment, mass incarceration, and the challenges of having a complicated conversation about crime, punishment, and sorrow in contemporary America. This presentation essentially takes place in three parts. First, there is the […]

Dr. Kevin Moore, Program Director, Robotics: “Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Hazardous Materials Response”

TALKING ROBOTICS Number 1 - Join faculty and students from Mines' new Robotics Program as Professor Kevin Moore talks about robotics for hazardous materials response. Mines new Robotics Program will hold the first of three discussions about current topics in robotics, based on articles in the September 2020 Robotics & Automation Magazine, a special issue […]

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Countdown to Climate Change – Webinar

Virtual Event CO, United States

Please join the Countdown TEDx Calgary Webinar Series as they welcome Payne Institute Senior Research Associate Dr. Sara Hastings-Simon on a TEDx Calgary presentation titled Countdown to Climate Change on Wednesday, October 14, 2020 […]

Oil Demand Metamorphosis from COVID-19

Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy on Wednesday, October 21, 2020 from 9:00am – 10:00am. MT as we welcome Jamie Webster, Senior Director, BCG Center for Energy Impact, for a […]

Graduate Seminar Series

Berthoud Hall 1516 Illinois St., Golden, CO, United States

The Graduate Student Skills Seminar is Scheduled in a Virtual Format Topic: Time Management: Insights from Current and Past Graduate Students (Establishing Successful Routines) Virtual Meeting Information: Cheryl Ann Medford […]

Are ‘Nature-Based Solutions’ a Natural Policy Choice? – Webinar

Virtual Event CO, United States

Please join Payne Institute Senior Research Associate Sara Hastings-Simon, David Keith, and Ed Whittingham, with special guest Mark Tercek, former president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy and co-author of “Nature’s Fortune: […]