The Montana Tech Public Lecture Series
The Montana Tech Public Lecture Series brings speakers from a wide variety of disciplines to our campus. All lectures begin at 4 p.m. (unless listed otherwise) and are free and open to the public.
Spring 2018
January 11
Elliott Barnhart, USGS Bozeman,
Hyporheic Microbial Biofilms as Indicators of Heavy and Rare Earth Metals in the Clark Fork Basin, Montana, NRB-128
Wednesday, January 17
Jon Trapp, Red Lodge Fire Rescue,
Landscape-Level Effects of Wildfire Changing Fire Behavior in Relation to Climate Change, CBB 102
January 25
Dan Trudnowski, Montana Tech 2017 Lifetime Distinguished Researcher,
Electric Power Grid Reliability and Stability—Challenges and Solutions, ELC-202
February 1
Angela des Jardins, Montana,
Eclipse Across America: Greatest Public Engagement Effort in Modern History, ELC-202
February 8
Colleen Elliott, MBMG and 2017 Distinguished Researcher,
Tripping on the Geology Underfoot, NRB-128
February 15
Erick Greene, University of Montana-Missoula,
Osprey and the Clark Fork,
CBB-102
Friday, February 16
Fanbin Zeng, Fulbright Scholar from Jinan University, China,
The Relationship between Social Media Use and Citizen Participation, CBB-102 at 3 p.m.
February 22
Matt Donnelly, Montana Tech 2017 SME Distinguished Researcher,
Energy Storage and Its Impact on Power System Operations, ELC-202
March 1
Luke Buckley, MBMG,
Skiing Through Mountains of Data, NRB-128
March 8
Dava Newman, MIT,
The Mars Generation: Humanity Becoming Interplanetary from Spaceship Earth to Mars, CBB-101
March 22
Mark Jutila, Montana State University-Bozeman, Studies of Inflammatory and Infectious Diseases of the Gut and Lung, CBB-102
March 27
Richard Schwartz, Brown University, The Mathematics of Slicing and Reassembling, CBB-102
March 29
Brock Tessman, University of Montana-Missoula,
Innovation in Undergraduate Honors Education, ELC-202
April 5
Jeff Kovac, University of Tennessee
, What is an Ethical Scientist? ELC-202
April 12
Patricia Heiser, Carroll College,
Title TBD, NRB-128
April 19
Shelley Lusetti, Café Scientifique, New Mexico State University
, Germs or Gems? Understanding Cancer through Bacterial Models, Copper Lounge;
6pm Café 6:30 pm talk
Tuesday, April 24
Robert Megginson, University of Michigan,
Native American Mathematics, ELC 202
April 26
TechXpo @ HPER. Come see student projects on display
May 3
Devon Orme, MSU-Bozeman,
Forearc Basin Record of Continental Collision in Southern Tibet, NRB-128
