“End Corporate Rule”, a lecture by David Cobb

Central KY Move to Amend presents



WHO:     David Cobb (Lawyer, Democracy Activist)

WHAT:    talk & discussion, “End Corporate Rule”

WHEN:    7:00 p.m. Thurs., Aug. 30, 2012

WHERE:   Old Student Center Theater, University of Kentucky



Event is co-sponsored by UK American Studies and UK Political Science.



FOR MORE ON DAVID COBB & HIS NATIONAL TOUR go to http://movetoamend.org/events/lexington-ky-move-amend-barnstorming-tour-david-cobb



ABOUT MOVE TO AMEND:  Central KY Move to Amend (CKYMTA) is one of more than 130 affiliates of the national Move to Amend organization working to build grassroots support for a Constitutional amendment saying:

  • CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE!
  • MONEY IS NOT SPEECH!

CKYMTA works to educate citizens about the undue influence of wealth and corporations—through activities, public events, and seeking resolutions supporting an amendment from local governments. We are preparing to petition the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Govt to pass such a resolution.



CKYMTA CONTACT: Joy Arnold (859-846-5085 CONTACT: Joy Arnold (859-846-5085

http://movetoamend.org/ky-lexington http://movetoamend.org/ky-lexington

Date:
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Location:
Center Theater, Student Center

Welcome to your new home!

 

The start of the new academic year has arrived.  I am pleased to welcome our returning students back to UK’s College of Arts & Sciences.

And I am thrilled to have so many new students joining us.

The College of Arts and Sciences is the home of knowledge.  It is the home of Aristotle and Plato.  It is the home of Einstein and Galileo.  It is the home of DuBois and Skinner.  It is the home of Darwin and Goodall.   It is the foundation of all professions, it is home to the scholarship, written communication, and quantitative reasoning of all major discoveries.

And now it is also your home.  For the next four years, you have been granted the time and space to learn to live a life driven by the mind.  Spend the time wisely.  It is the biggest investment you will ever make.  Use it to explore some of the most pressing questions of our time, challenge major assumptions, adopt new opinions, investigate long-standing theories, discover new worlds, dream big dreams, and sharpen your critical thinking skill sets.  Use it to be tested and tasked, to define yourself for yourself and to begin your professional and personal life.

Preparation, Characterization, and Applications of Functionalized Carbon Nano-onions

Mahendra Sreeramoju of the UK Chemistry Department will be presenting a seminar entitled Preparation, Characterization, and Applications of Functionalized Carbon Nano-onions.

Faculty Advisor: Dr. John Selegue

Date:
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Location:
CP-137

Colloquium: Pinning down the Smallest Kind of Neutrino Oscillation

Dr. Kam-Biu Luk

University of California, Berkeley

Pinning down the Smallest Kind of Neutrino Oscillation

Neutrinos are supposed to be massless in the Standard Model of particle physics for several decades. However, a series of experiments has recently provided compelling evidences for a new phenomenon, neutrino oscillation, that implies the three types of neutrinos observed in laboratories do have mass after all. Neutrino oscillation can be described with a set of three neutrino-mixing angles, of which the smallest one called 13 was unknown until recently. One approach for determining 13is to utilize a running nuclear reactor which is a copious source of low-energy electron antineutrinos. In this talk, the recent discovery of a new kind of neutrino oscillation due to a non-zero value of13observed in reactor-based experiments will be presented. The implications of this surprising observation will also be highlighted.



 

Refreshments will be served in CP 179 at 3:15 PM

Date:
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Location:
Chem-Phys 155

Colloquium: Time Crystals

Dr. Al Shapere

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Kentucky

Normally, the minimum energy solution of a classical system is time-independent, since the kinetic energy is minimized when all velocities are zero. However, by considering kinetic energies that depend in a nonstandard way on the velocities, it is possible to construct dynamical systems that display motion in their lowest energy state, forming a time analogue of crystalline spatial order. In these systems and their generalizations, time translation invariance is spontaneously broken. I will discuss several examples of such systems, and possible real-world applications to cosmology and Bose-Einstein condensation.



 

Refreshments will be served in CP 177 at 3:15 PM

Date:
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Location:
Chem-Phys 155
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