DIV III TUESDAY TALKS
Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, organizes our Smith DIV III Tuesday talks offering a time to meet and catch up with colleagues across the division. Talks are open to all faculty, staff and students. Talks are held on Tuesdays 12:20-1:00 pm in McConnell 103. A complimentary lunch is offered in McConnell foyer around 12:10 to the first 30 attendees (first come, first serve)
| Spring 2026, Schedule
DIV3 Tuesday Talks dates are shown below. |
| 1/27 First week of classes -No Talk 2/3 DIV3 Committee Representatives “DIV3 Listening Session” 2/10 Jesse Millican (EGR) “De-Noising the Future: A Technical Guide to LLMs and Generative AI for Non-Technical People” 2/17 Tanya Lama (BIO) “Like Darwin’s finches, but weirder: Insights from bat genomes” 2/24 James Lowenthal (AST) “Campus SHINE Smith College: Saving the Night for Humans and ALL Other Creatures” 3/3 Lisa Mangiamele (BIO/NSC) “What do you mean frogs can dance? Androgens and the evolution of a novel behavior” 3/10 Peyton Higgins (CHM) “Common Themes in Different Fields: What do protein engineering & plant breeding have in common?” 3/17 No Talk Spring Break! 3/24 Blair Bentley (BIO) “Life in the Slow Lane: Genomic Insights from Some of the Ocean’s Slowest Animals” 3/31 Madison Knapp (BCH) “Mining for Siderophores: Decoding Catalysis Through Structural Biology” 4/7 Karenna Kung/Alicia Grubb (CSC) “When will ‘eventually’ happen? Explaining Logic Through LLM Prompting” 4/14 Michael Carrick (PHI) “Could you ever be as happy as your dog? Thinking about interspecies welfare comparisons” 4/21 Niveen Ismail (EGR) “Tiny Grazers, Powerful Effects: Zooplankton Control of Sunlight-Mediated Viral Inactivation” 4/28 Community Forum. Last week of classes! |
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