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Physics colloquium-“Mines Physics and the Solar Decathlon”

Tim Ohno Colorado School of Mines, Department of Physics Abstract:  A year ago, the Mines Physics Department led a student team to compete in Morocco in the inaugural Solar Decathlon Africa.  The engineering and science that lead to the victory in this project will be discussed, along with the tale of the international adventure that […]

Payne Institute Webinar: The Possible Role of Natural Gas in Various Energy Transition Pathways

Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Dr. Tim Boersma, Non-Resident Fellow at the Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy, Director, Sustainability & Strategy Advisory, ABN AMRO, presenting The Possible Role of Natural Gas in Various Energy Transition Pathways on Wednesday, September 30, 2020 from 10:00am […]

Payne Institute Webinar: The Coming Energy Transformation: Drivers, Consequences, and Implications for Geopolitics

Please join the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and the Payne Institute Director Morgan Bazilian for a presentation titled The Coming Energy Transformation: Drivers, Consequences, and Implications for Geopolitics on Wednesday, September 30, 2020 from 11:15am  – 12:00pm MDT. Morgan Bazilian will challenge you to consider our role as scientists and global citizens on the road […]

Virtual Concert in the Library: Joe Bourgeois

Arthur Lakes Library 1410 Illinois St., Golden, CO, United States

Please join us for singer-guitarist and Mining Engineering graduate student Joe Bourgeois at the first-ever virtual Concerts at the Library event. A fan favorite at the Concert Series, Joe’s alternative sound is a combination of musicianship, meaningful lyrics and served up with a side of wry humor. Per Joe, “I have played a number of […]

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Reinventing Our Domestic Mineral Supply Chain in a Post-Pandemic World Webinar

Please join the RealClear Politics and the Payne Institute Director Morgan Bazilian on Thursday, October 1, 2020 from 8:30am – 9:30am MT for a webinar titled Reinventing Our Domestic Minerals Supply Chain in a Post-Pandemic World.  The webinar will be an in-depth conversation on the challenges facing the U.S.’ overreliance on mineral imports and domestic mineral production. […]

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 Medford is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Graduate Seminar Series Time: This is a recurring meeting Meet anytime Join from PC, Mac, […]

Minimizing Microaggressions

Through interactive skill-building group work, this professional development opportunity discusses how to challenge microaggressions (unintentional slights or invalidations often directed toward members of underrepresented communities) when they arise and how to become agents of change. Workshop facilitated by Dena Samuels from Dena Samuels Consulting. Intended audience: Mines faculty, staff and students Register using the link […]

Professional Development Workshops, Week 3

Fall Career Day is now three days: Sept. 15, 16 & Oct. 14 Prepare for Fall Career Day by attending one of the Career Center's workshops or resume reviews with the expert team from the Career Center. These workshops are available to all students virtually and will be both livestreamed and recorded. Please visit DiggerNet […]

Mindful Monday – Virtual

Welcome! Mindful Mondays will continue for Fall 2020 as a drop-in guided mindfulness meditation for all Mines students, faculty, and staff. No experience necessary, all are welcome, come as you are! Our Kick-Off Meeting will be held via ZOOM, join us virtually here as we take care of ourselves as Orediggers. Held every Monday from […]

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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 […]

Payne Institute Webinar: Transforming Oil/Gas Companies to Energy Companies: The New Narrative?

Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Advisory Board Member Dr. Atul Arya, Chief Energy Strategist at IHS Markit, presenting Transforming Oil/Gas Companies to Energy Companies: The New Narrative? on Tuesday, October 6, 2020 from 10:00am – 11:00am MT. TOPIC: TRANSFORMING OIL/GAS COMPANIES TO ENERGY COMPANIES: […]

Physics Colloquium: “Understanding the Brain with Adaptive Optics”

Emily Gibson University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus Abstract: Understanding how the brain’s complex neural networks perform critical functions and govern behavior, cognition and intuition is a key goal of neuroscience and can lead to improved treatment for various neurological disorders. The development of new tools for studying the brain is critical in this effort. […]

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 […]

Payne Institute Webinar: Scaling Up the Hydrogen Economy: Assessing Challenges and Opportunities for Hydrogen Production and Applications

Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Randolph Bell, Director, Global Energy Center; Richard Morningstar Chair for Global Energy Security Atlantic Council, presenting a webinar titled Scaling Up the Hydrogen Economy: Assessing Challenges and Opportunities for Hydrogen Production and Applications on Thursday, October 8, 2020 […]

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, 2020 from 10:00am – 11:00am MT. TOPIC: INFRASTRUCTURE PART 1: CONTENTION IN THE ENERGY SECTOR HOSTED BY: COLORADO ENERGY RESEARCH COLLABORATORY TIME: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2020 – 10:00AM […]

Critical Materials for Clean Technologies: Canada’s Competitive Edge? Webinar

Please join Payne Institute Senior Research Associate Sara Hastings-Simon, David Keith, and Ed Whittingham, on the Energy vs. Climate series for a webinar titled Critical Minerals for Clean Technologies: Canada’s Competitive Edge? on Thursday, October 8, 2020 from 12:00pm-1:00pm MT. TOPIC: CRITICAL MINERALS FOR CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES: CANADA’S COMPETITIVE EDGE? HOSTED BY: ENERGY VS. CLIMATE, A PAYNE INSTITUTE PARTNER TIME: THURSDAY, OCTOBER […]

Mines@Catalyst conversation with Veloce Digital – SmartTab

Join us for the conversation with Veloce Digital - SmartTab , a digital medicine company to know about their smart injectables and how they transform into ingestibles for oral biologics and the progress as a startup in the future of digital medicine on Thursday, October 8th, 2020 at 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Join Zoom […]

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 Bit More Abstract: According to NASA, only between 5 to 15 percent of the seafloor has been surveyed by traditional sonar techniques. In contrast, Mars […]

Mindful Monday – Virtual

Welcome! Mindful Mondays will continue for Fall 2020 as a drop-in guided mindfulness meditation for all Mines students, faculty, and staff. No experience necessary, all are welcome, come as you are! Our Kick-Off Meeting will be held via ZOOM, join us virtually here as we take care of ourselves as Orediggers. Held every Monday from […]

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Payne Institute Webinar: National Oil Companies: Roles, Governance and Risks in a Changing Future

Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Patrick Heller, Advisor, Natural Resource Governance Institute, Senior Visiting Fellow, Center for Law, Energy & Environment, U.C. Berkeley Law School, presenting National Oil Companies: Roles, Governance and Risks in a Changing Future, Tuesday, October 13, 2020 from 11:00am-12:00pm(MT). […]

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 the volume with good resolution across a large volume.  Our system uses simple hardware and scalable software for easy reproducibility and adoption. The inverse algorithm […]

Fall 2020 Career Day

Fall Career Day goes virtual, with even more opportunities to interact with recruiters—Mark your calendar for the Fall 2020 Career Fair, to be held virtually over THREE days on Tuesday, September 15; Wednesday, September 16; and Wednesday, October 14. Hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day, with an additional hour from 9 a.m. […]

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 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm (MT). TOPIC: COUNTDOWN TO CLIMATE CHANGE SPEAKER: DR. SARA HASTINGS-SIMON, PAYNE INSTITUTE SENIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE HOSTED BY: COUNTDOWN TEDX CALGARY WEBINAR SERIES TIME: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER […]

Payne Institute Webinar: The Energy Transition: Political, Social and Economic Implications

Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Payne Fellow Dr. Griff Thompson, Director, Office of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, U.S. State Department, presenting The Energy Transition: Political, Social and Economic Implications on Thursday, October 15, 2020 from 1:00pm – 2:00pm MT. TOPIC: THE ENERGY TRANSITION: POLITICAL, SOCIAL […]

Mindful Monday – Virtual

Welcome! Mindful Mondays will continue for Fall 2020 as a drop-in guided mindfulness meditation for all Mines students, faculty, and staff. No experience necessary, all are welcome, come as you are! Our Kick-Off Meeting will be held via ZOOM, join us virtually here as we take care of ourselves as Orediggers. Held every Monday from […]

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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 […]

Implicit Bias & Microaggressions Bystander Learning Community

Virtual Event CO, United States

Mines DI&A committed to extending additional opportunities for all of campus to practice what was learned in either the exploring implicit (unconscious) bias and/or minimizing microaggressions workshops this fall. You […]

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: […]