Please join Our Energy Policy and the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Morgan D. Bazilian, Director Payne Institute, presenting a virtual seminar titled Critical Minerals: America’s Achilles’ Heel? on Wednesday, January 12, 2022 from 10:00am – 11:00am (MT). TOPIC: CRITICAL MINERALS: AMERICA’S ACHILLES’ HEEL? SPEAKER: MORGAN D. BAZILIAN, DIRECTOR, PAYNE […]
Join award-winning poet and translator Wayne Miller for an evening of poetry and an investigation of translation as art form Please join the Hennebach Program as we launch our Spring 2022 season of events with award-winning poet and translator Wayne Miller as he reads from his new poetry collection, We the Jury, and talks about […]
On January 14th, 2022, Yamil Colon from the University of Notre Dame will give a talk entitled "Navigating the Landscape of Advanced Materials."
Speaker and topic to be announced Unless otherwise specified, all colloquium will be held in CoorsTek 140/150.
On January 21st, 2022, Danielle Tullman-Ercek from Northwestern University will give a talk entitled "Designing with nanoscale building blocks: engineering self -assembling protein superstructures for applications in vaccines, drug delivery and Biomanufacturing."
Speaker and topic to be announced Unless otherwise specified, all colloquium will be held in CoorsTek 140/150.
Dr. Sean Gulick, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin Thursday, January 27, 2022 in BE 241/ Zoom, 4-5PM Life and Death by Impact: Drilling for Clues Abstract: The most recent of Earth’s five largest mass extinction events occurred 66 Ma, coeval with the impact of a ~12 km asteroid, striking at ~60 […]
On January 28th, 2022, Will Medlin from the University of Colorado Boulder will give a talk entitled "Functionalizing catalytic metal-metal oxide interfaces for selective upgrading of CO2 and biomass derivatives."
Micrometer, Chalk, Chainsaw: Real World Petroleum Engineering Applications Not all of us will land engineering roles in an R&D department, in fact most will land roles where we must find a balance between engineering precision, real world application, and capital discipline. Knowing when and how to utilize and apply precise engineering, in light of the […]
Micrometer, Chalk, Chainsaw: Real World Petroleum Engineering Applications Not all of us will land engineering roles in an R&D department, in fact most will land roles where we must find a balance between engineering precision, real world application, and capital discipline. Knowing when and how to utilize and apply precise engineering, in light of the […]
Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Deb Chattopadhyay, Leader, Power System Planning Group, World Bank, presenting a virtual seminar titled Regional Integration of Power Systems: Issues and Case Studies on Economic Benefits of Interconnection on Tuesday, February 1, 2022 from 9:30am – 10:30am (MT). […]
On February 4th, 2022, Christopher Jones from the Georgia Institute of Technology will give a talk entitled "Development and Deployment of Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs): Humanity’s Moonshot for the 21st Century."
Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Colorado Senator Chris Hansen, Senate District 31, presenting a virtual seminar titled Colorado Energy Policy: Trends and Options for the Future on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 from 9:30am – 10:45am (MT). TOPIC: COLORADO ENERGY POLICY: TRENDS AND OPTIONS FOR […]
Deborah Good University of Connecticut, Department of Physics Abstract: LIGO's direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015 inaugurated an exciting new era in astronomy, one where we observe the universe with gravitational radiation as well as electromagnetic radiation. Now, pulsar timing arrays are poised to open a new segment of the gravitational spectrum by searching […]
On February 11th, 2022, Suljo Linic from the University of Michigan will give a talk entitled "Fuel Cells Reactions on Pt electrodes: from kinetics and spectroscopy to new materials."
Please join us for the inaugural Mines Methane Symposium – Issues and Opportunities held virtually on February 17, 2022, bringing together thought leaders from industry, academia, think tanks, and U.S. state and federal government, as well as foreign government leaders on the economic, policy and technology issues and opportunities related to addressing methane emissions. TOPIC: […]
On February 18th, 2022, Abigail Koppes from Northeastern University will give a talk entitled "Engineered Models of the Enteric-Gut-Axis."
Join us in welcoming Dr. Heidi Hausermann, an Associate Professor of Geography at Colorado State University. Her expertise is in landscape change, disease dynamics, politics of extraction and mixed methods. Artisanal and small-scale gold mining activities hugely expanded in the wake of the 2008 economic recession and, most recently, the global pandemic. Based on […]
Presentation from 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Group Discussion from 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Oil and Gas industry is going through an enormous transition after the recent collapse of the commodity prices due to COVID 19. Massive consolidation in the industry will inevitably lead to cost control but the industry still needs new capital […]
Presentation from 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Group Discussion from 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Oil and Gas industry is going through an enormous transition after the recent collapse of the commodity prices due to COVID 19. Massive consolidation in the industry will inevitably lead to cost control but the industry still needs new capital […]
Russell Stutz Honeywell/Quantinuum Abstract: Decades of progress in trapped ion quantum computing across academia, government labs, and industry enabled some of the world’s highest performing systems, improving our understanding of how to move forward in this emerging technology. Quantinuum is pursuing the quantum charge-coupled device (QCCD) architecture of trapped ion quantum computing and recently developed […]
GGE Department: Student Research Fair with Geophysics Sponsored by ConocoPhillips What: A presentation/ competition celebrating student research in Geology & Geological Engineering and Geophysics When: Thursday, March 3, 2022, 2-4pm in the Ben H. Parker Student Center Grand Ballroom Why: Share your research and engage in scholarly discussion with your colleagues, faculty, and guests from […]
On Feb. 24th, Russia launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine. Why did this happen? Where do we go from here? International Relations scholars Drs. Davis and Hancock and Historian Dr. Osgood will share their expertise on these issues and then open the floor to Q&A. International Relations scholar Dr. Hudson will moderate. Join in-person […]
On March 4th, 2022, a Scientific Writing Workshop will be held by Mines Writing Center.
The Future of Drilling: Advancing Drilling Automation, Data Analytics, Machine Learning and AI This seminar will now be on zoom. It is an exciting time in the Drilling discipline. Novel advancements in systems automation are making well construction not only more reliable and efficient, but also safer. At the same time, activity is exploding in […]
Qin Zhu Mines, Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Department Abstract: Perspectives on responsible research in STEM fields in the United States have been based almost exclusively on micro-level, individualistic, and US-centric biomedical frameworks. This talk will expand dominant approaches to research ethics education in science and engineering by incorporating some missing dimensions: (1) the global […]
On March 11th, 2022, Anne “Liz” Ware from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will give a talk entitled "Analytical Approaches for Characterization of Lignocellulosic Biomass Cell Walls to Develop Optimized Feedstocks for the Bioderived Value Chain."
There has been a large gap in the modeling and understanding of reservoir fluids; this deficiency has led to major inefficiencies in field development planning. Petroleum system modeling provides the timing, type and volume of fluids entering the reservoir (among other things). However, reservoir fluid compositional redistributions and phase changes during and post charge to […]
Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Randy Bell, Senior Director and Richard Morningstar Chair for Global Energy Security, Atlantic Council, presenting a virtual seminar titled Energy Politics on Tuesday, March 15, 2022 from 9:30am – 10:45am (MT). TOPIC: ENERGY POLITICS SPEAKER: RANDY BELL, SENIOR DIRECTOR AND RICHARD MORNINGSTAR […]
Professor Sacks will discuss the artistic and social roles of the poet and poetry, the development of American ecopoetics, integrative and other poetic approaches that have influenced his writing, and will present some of the poems he has written over the past 60 years. Doctor Arthur Sacks is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies, Film Studies, […]
Please join the Mines Natural Resources and Energy Policy and the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Will Toor, Executive Director, Colorado Energy Office, presenting a seminar live in CoorsTek, Studio 140, or virtual titled Achieving Climate Goals: Colorado’s GHG Roadmap on Thursday, March 17, 2022 from 12:30pm – 1:45pm (MT). […]
On March 18th, 2022, Phaneendra Kondapi from the University of Houston will give a talk entitled "Digital Approach in the Process Industry: Current and Future State of Transformation."
This presentation covers the essential elements of limited entry treatment design and reviews a case study of plug-and-perf horizontal well treatments in an unconventional shale play. In the case study, various diagnostic methods were used to better understand and quantify the factors determining limited entry effectiveness. Three diagnostic methods were implemented: 1.) injection step-down tests […]
Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Todd Chapman, Former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil and Ecuador, presenting a virtual seminar titled Critical Minerals and Mining in South America on Tuesday, March 29, 2022 from 9:30am – 10:45am (MT). TOPIC: CRITICAL MINERALS AND MINING IN SOUTH AMERICA […]
Benjamin Bloom Atom Computing Abstract: Neutral atoms trapped in optical tweezers are a promising platform for implementing scalable quantum computers. Here I introduce a system with the ability to individually manipulate a two-dimensional array of nuclear spin qubits. Each qubit is encoded in the ground state manifold of 87Sr and is individually addressable by site-selective […]