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May 10, 2024
#FOIAFriday public webinar sessions (every Friday, virtual)
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May 10, 2024
This week's topic is "enterprise data inventories," the lovely place where agencies index all the databases they maintain. These are sometimes called database indexes, systems of record or just data inventories.
If you have any tales from your own requests, language that was especially helpful or examples of how you used data inventories in your reporting — send 'em my way! I'd love to highlight your work on the call.
And if you'd like to join and learn about getting data about data, you can register for the call and join on Friday, at 1 pm ET.
UO Graduate Research Forum
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May 10, 2024
The Division of Graduate Studies invites you to a one-day conference showcasing the research, scholarship, and creative expressions of UO graduate students. The forum regularly showcases the work of more than 100 students representing more than 35 disciplines. Join us for the popular poster session and the panel presentations!
UO Public Lecture - Toy Models: Small Mathematics in a Big World
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May 10, 2024
University of Oregon, Fenton Hall room 110
All are welcome at this public lecture by mathematician Tadashi Tokieda. Tadashi Tokieda is a professor of mathematics at Stanford. He grew up as a painter in Japan, became a classical philologist (not to be confused with philosopher) in France and, after a PhD in pure mathematics at Princeton, has been an applied mathematician in England and America. He is also active in outreach, especially via the Atrican Institute for Mathematical Sciences and the youtube channel Numberphile.
About the talk:
Would you like to come see some toys?
'Toys' here have a special sense: objects of daily life which you can find or make in minutes, yet which, it played with imaginatively, reveal surprises that keep scientists puzzling for a while. We will see table-top demos of many such toys and visit some of the unusual physics and mathematics that they open up. The theme that emerges is singularity.
UO Public Lecture - Toy Models: Small Mathematics in a Big World
Please note: NSWA provides these event details as a courtesy to science-related organizations throughout the Pacific Northwest. Please confirm event details with the sponsoring organization before attending.