The world around us

SPRING SEMESTER 2005: Mondays at 4:10-5:00, 232 COATS HALL

 

JAN 17  Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday

JAN 24  Jimmie D. Lawson: Introduction

JAN 31  Harry Roberts: A Potential New Source of Energy from our Continental Margins and from beneath the Artic Permafrost

FEB 7   Mardi Gras Holiday

FEB 14  Robert F. O’Connell: TBA

FEB 21  Thomas R. Klei: Parasitic Diseases in the Modern World

FEB 28   James Coleman: Louisiana Coastal Land Loss

MAR 7   Robert  A. Godke: Cloning and Mankind

MAR 14  Jimmie D. Lawson: The Mathematics across the Ages

MAR 21 Spring Break

MAR 28 TBA

APR 4   TBA

APR 11  Isaiah Warner: Chiral Molecules: The Difficulty of Distinguishing between these Jekyll-Hyde Twins

APR 18  TBA

APR 25  C. Dinos Constantinides: New Music at LSU

MAY 2   George Z. Voyiadjis: Damage Characterization for Materials

MAY 9   Finals week: No class

• Course requirements include student attendance at the weekly lectures and lecture reports of length 300 words (1 page) or more. Each report should be indepently written, include a clear and consise summary or overview of the main ideas of the lecture, and may include additionally student  evaluations of and responses to the lecture.  Acceptable  reports (based on quality of writing, not length) will be given 10 points credit; others will be given partial credit or handed back for rewriting. As should be obvious, reports will not be accepted for lectures not attended.

• Attendance at a minimum of 10 of the 12 lectures is required.  A seminar participation score of 10 points will be awarded for each lecture attended. A final grade of A will be assigned for those who attain a total of at least 180 points for participation and reports combined. So, for example, attendance at 10 lectures and 8 acceptable reports or attendance at 12 lectures and 6 acceptable reports will meet the requirements for an A.

• Approximately half of the reports should be turned in at mid-semester, and the rest at the end of the semester.