The Speaking of Science (SoS) program by LA EPSCoR provides students in every type of school—urban and rural, poor and rich, public and private—exposure to the best researchers in Louisiana. The purpose is to increase public awareness of exciting research and development in Louisiana, spark the interest of students in STEM professions and showcase the excellence of Louisiana’s leading faculty and professionals. Speakers are available free of charge to speak to students, educators, and parents throughout Louisiana on a variety of topics.
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AVAILABLE PRESENTATIONS
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K - 5th Grade (All Subjects)
Dr. Nathan Green “How Much is Prime Number Worth?” Mathematics K-5th Grade Dr. Anna Dugas “Who is a scientist?” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Callie Crawford “What Can You Do as a Marine Biologist?” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Candace Lawrence “Polymers and DNA: Discovering the World of Biomaterials” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Darryl Holliday “Food Science and Its Impact in Today’s World” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Diane Blake “Let’s make slime! Atoms, molecules and how they move” (New Orleans area only) Science K-5th Grade Dr. Don Liu “Mathematics Underlying Marvelous Engineering and Technologies” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Ebrahim Khosravi “The Chicxulub Impact: The Collision That Killed the Dinosaurs” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Ebrahim Khosravi “Think the Land is Flat Around Lafayette? Let’s Look with Lasers!” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Elizabeth Engler-Chiruazzi “Books and Brains” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Gabriele Morra “Can we predict earthquakes?” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Gabriele Morra “Is there life in the giant oceans in the Icy Satellites of the solar system?” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Gabriele Morra “The Strongest Material in the Universe” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Gary Stringer “Unique and Amazing Monumental Earthworks at Poverty Point World Heritage Site” (4th and up) Science K-5th Grade Dr. Gary Stringer “Amazing Rocks and Minerals” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Gary Stringer “Ancient Megatoothed Sharks from northeast Louisiana” (4th and up) Science K-5th Grade Dr. Gary Stringer “Fossils Whales of North Louisiana” (3rd and up) Science K-5th Grade Dr. Gary Stringer “T. rex: From Top to Bottom” (1st through 5th) Science K-5th Grade Dr. Jesse Allison “Making the Future of Making Music” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Jesse Allison “The Music of the Spheres: recent connections between Art and Science and Music” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Joan Lynam “Rice Hulls- How Can we Use them? Science K-5th Grade Dr. Jyotsna Sharma “Louisiana Energy Resources and Petroleum Exploration” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Natalia Sidorovskaia “Whale stories from the Gulf of Mexico” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Noshir Pesika “Sticky materials inspired by gecko lizards” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Peter Yaukey “Field Trips to Audubon Zoo or Jean Lafitte National Park in New Orleans” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Peter Yaukey “Hurricanes of Louisiana” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Peter Yaukey “Urban Birds of Louisiana” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Rakitha Beminiwattha “Minutes Physics Q & A: show a video and followed by Q & A” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Shawn Sun “The beauty of bridges” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Shizhong Yang “Room Temperature Ductile Refractory High Entropy Alloy Development” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “From Facebook to Cyber Warfare: The Triumph of Information and Data Mining” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “From Video gaming to Designing drugs: Pursuing a career in Computer Science and preparing for the next revolution” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “Have you Done your computing Today? The Triumph of Computing as a Skill” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “The Advent of Facebook: A Boon or a Threat?” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “The Pursuit of Scientific Research: The need and implications” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “A story of water on mars from maps of hydrogen and sulfur” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “Counting planetary sand grains with computer vision” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “Discoveries unimagined by 2001: A Space Odyssey” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “Discovering Mars” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “Living Science Fiction on Mars and beyond” Science K-5th Grade Dr. William A. Hollerman “Just exactly what does it mean to be a physicist?” Science K-5th Grade Dr. William A. Hollerman “Low and slow cooking: Understanding the physics of barbecue” Science K-5th Grade Dr. William A. Hollerman “Rockets and starships: An overview of astronomy and astrophysics in the early 21st century” Science K-5th Grade Dr. William A. Hollerman “Understanding wintergreen candy: A lifetime of making things glow in the dark” Science K-5th Grade Dr. William A. Hollerman “What is the role of physics in society?” Science K-5th Grade Dr. William Deese “The Properties of Matter” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Yuri Lvov “Rice Hulls – How Can We Use Them” Science K-5th Grade Dr. Jyotsna Sharma “Optical Fibers from High-Speed Communication to Sensors” Technology & Computers K-5th Grade Dr. Anna Dugas “The Science and Statistics About Tornadoes” Science 3rd-5th Grade Dr. Anna Dugas “My Experience with NASA Rocket and Balloon Payload Launches” Science 3rd-5th Grade -
6th - 8th Grade Engineering
Dr. Arden Moore “Making Phase Changes Work for Us!” Engineering 6th-8th Grade Dr. Brian Mitchell “From Silly Putty to Superconductors: Careers in Materials Science and Engineering” Engineering 6th-8th Grade Dr. Dentcho Genov “The Magic of Science or How to Make the Harry Potter Invisibility Cloak” Engineering 6th-8th Grade Dr. Galina Goloverda “Nanomaterials: Fun and Use?” Engineering 6th-8th Grade Dr. Ghanashyam Joshi “Fatigue of Aircraft Materials” Engineering 6th-8th Grade Dr. Heath Tims “A Vehicle to Drive the Next Generation” Engineering 6th-8th Grade Dr. Heath Tims “Cyber Discovery – a multidisciplinary approach to training cyber citizens” Engineering 6th-8th Grade Dr. Malay Ghose-Hajra “Historic Civil Engineering Structures in Louisiana” Engineering 6th-8th Grade Dr. Malay Ghose-Hajra “What Does a Civil Engineer Do?” Engineering 6th-8th Grade Dr. Noshir Pesika “Sticky materials inspired by gecko lizards” Engineering 6th-8th Grade Dr. Patrick Mensah “History of Selective Laser Sintering Process and Materials used in Additive Manufacturing” Engineering 6th-8th Grade Dr. Patrick Mensah “Increasing the Efficiency & Power Generating Capacity of Gas Turbines Using Ceramic Coatings” Engineering 6th-8th Grade Dr. Shawn Sun “The beauty of bridges” Engineering 6th-8th Grade Dr. Shizhong Yang “Room Temperature Ductile Refractory High Entropy Alloy Development” Engineering 6th-8th Grade -
6th - 8th Grade Mathematics
Dr. Brian Marx “A fun and light introduction to statistics with real world applications”* Mathematics 6th-8th Grade Dr. Brian Marx “A Gentle Introduction to Statistics” Mathematics 6th-8th Grade Dr. Don Liu “Mathematics Underlying Marvelous Engineering and Technologies” Mathematics 6th-8th Grade Dr. Don Liu “Mathematics, Computational Mathematics and Applications” Mathematics 6th-8th Grade Dr. Gabriele Morra “Can we predict earthquakes?” Mathematics 6th-8th Grade Dr. Gabriele Morra “Is there life in the giant oceans in the Icy Satellites of the solar system?” Mathematics 6th-8th Grade Dr. Gabriele Morra “The strongest material in the universe” Mathematics 6th-8th Grade Dr. Gary Birkenmeier “Careers in Mathematics and Mathematical Research” Mathematics 6th-8th Grade Dr. Jesse Allison “Making the Future of Making Music” Mathematics 6th-8th Grade Dr. Jesse Allison “The Music of the Spheres: recent connections between Arts and Science and Music” Mathematics 6th-8th Grade Dr. Nathan Green “How Much is Prime Number Worth?” Mathematics 6th-8th Grade Dr. Nathan Green “Coloring the Cube” Mathematics 6th-8th Grade Dr. Shizhong Yang “Room Temperature Ductile Refractory High Entropy Alloy Development” Mathematics 6th-8th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “From Video gaming to Designing drugs: Pursuing a career in Computer Science and preparing for the next revolution” Mathematics 6th-8th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “Have you Done your computing Today? The Triumph of Computing as a Skill” Mathematics 6th-8th Grade -
6th - 8th Grade Science
Dr. Brian Adams “Alchemy and the Birth of Modern Chemistry” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Brian Crother “Snakes in Film: Farces and Facts” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Brian Crother “What’s in a Name? The Topsy Turvy World of Scientific Names” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Brian Mitchell “From Silly Putty to Superconductors: Careers in Materials Science and Engineering” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Brooks Ellwood “A Global Perspective on Modern Developments in Stratigraphy: Redefining Geologic time” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Brooks Ellwood “Our Spectacular National Park Areas and their Geology” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Brooks Ellwood “The LSU Campus Mounds: some of the oldest manmade structures in the world” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Callie Crawford “What Can You Do as a Marine Biologist?” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Candace Lawrence “Polymers and DNA: Discovering the World of Biomaterials” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Carl Richter “4.6 billion years: a brief history of Earth” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Carl Richter “Exploring the Earth’s oceans with a drill ship” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Carl Richter “The Geology of Louisiana” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Carl Richter “What’s up with global warming?” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Dalton Gossett “Believe It or Not: Plants Also Suffer From Stress” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Daniel Kuroda “The Poor’s man battery, a penny’s worth hands-on experiment” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Daniel McCarthy “Fusion Energy: Creating a Star on Earth” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Dentcho Genov “The Magic of Science or How to Make the Harry Potter Invisibility Cloak” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Diane Blake “Let’s make slime! Atoms, molecules and how they move” (New Orleans area only) Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Ebrahim Khosravi “The Chicxulub Impact: The Collision That Killed the Dinosaurs” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Ebrahim Khosravi “Think the Land is Flat Around Lafayette? Let’s Look with Lasers!” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Elizabeth Engler-Chiruazzi “Books and Brains” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Elizabeth Fatila “The Glow-Up Luminescent Materials” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Gabriele Morra “Can we predict earthquakes?” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Gabriele Morra “Is there life in the giant oceans in the Icy Satellites of the solar system?” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Gabriele Morra “The strongest material in the universe.” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Gary Stringer “Fossils Whales of North Louisiana” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Gary Stringer “Amazing Rocks and Minerals” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Gary Stringer “Ancient Megatoothed Sharks from northeast Louisiana” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Gary Stringer “Unique and Amazing Monumental Earthworks at Poverty Point World Heritage Site” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Gary Stringer “What is a Fish Otolith and How is it Used in Science?” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Gergana Nestorova “The Science of Jurassic World or How to make a Dinosaur” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Ghanashyam Joshi “Fatigue of Aircraft Materials” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Jayalakshmi Sridhar “Chemists as investigators in industry and environmental organizations” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Jayalakshmi Sridhar “Protein, Cancer and Neurodegenerative disorders” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Jayalakshmi Sridhar “Role of Different Branches of Science in Development of New Medicines” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Joan Lynam “Rice Hulls- How Can we Use them? Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Jyotsna Sharma “Louisiana Energy Resources and Petroleum Exploration” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Malay Ghose-Hajra “Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle towards a Sustainable Future” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Malay Ghose-Hajra “Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle towards a Sustainable Future” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Malay Ghose-Hajra “Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle towards a Sustainable Future” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Mark Merchant “Color Change in Crocodile: Adaptation to environment” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Mark Merchant “The American Alligator: From Marsh to Medicine” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Natalia Sidorovskaia “Whale stories from the Gulf of Mexico” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Peter Yaukey “Field Trips to Audubon Zoo or Jean Lafitte National Park in New Orleans” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Peter Yaukey “Hurricanes of Louisiana” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Peter Yaukey “Urban Birds of Louisiana” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Rakitha Beminiwattha “Minutes Physics Q&A: show a video and followed by Q&A” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Shawn Sun “The beauty of bridges” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Steven Rick “Understanding Smart Polymers Using Computational Chemistry” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “From Video gaming to Designing drugs: Pursuing a career in Computer Science and preparing for the next revolution” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “Have you Done your computing Today? The Triumph of Computing as a Skill” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “The Art and Science of Data-driven Decision making: Using Hard Data to make Hard Choices” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “A story of water on Mars from maps of hydrogen and sulfur” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “Counting planetary sand grains with computer vision” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “Discoveries unimagined by 2001: A Space Odyssey” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “Discovering Mars” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “Living science fiction on Mars and beyond” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Thomas Bishop “The ABC’s of DNA” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Vladimir Kolesnichenko “Oxygen: the essential element” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. William A. Hollerman “A scientist’s view of developing patents and intellectual property” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. William A. Hollerman “Just exactly what does it mean to be physics major?” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. William A. Hollerman “Low and slow cooking: Understanding the physics of barbecue” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. William A. Hollerman “Rockets and starships: An overview of astronomy and astrophysics in the early 21st century” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. William A. Hollerman “Understanding wintergreen candy: A lifetime of making things glow in the dark” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. William A. Hollerman “What is the role of physics in society?” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. William Deese “The Properties of Matter” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. William Deese “The Scientific Method” Science 6th-8th Grade Dr. Yuri Lvov “Rice Hulls – How Can We Use Them?” Science 6th-8th Grade -
6th - 8th Grade Technology & Computing
Dr. Ann Clifton “Chickens, Big Data, and Coloring: Applications of Graph Theory” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade Dr. Gabriele Morra “Can we predict earthquakes?” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade Dr. Gabriele Morra “Is there life in the giant oceans in the Icy Satellites of the solar system?” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade Dr. Gabriele Morra “The strongest material in the universe” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade Dr. Heath Tims “A Vehicle to Drive the Next Generation” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade Dr. Heath Tims “Cyber Discovery – a multidisciplinary approach to training cyber citizens” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade Dr. Jesse Allison “Making the Future of Making Music” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade Dr. Jesse Allison “The Music of the Spheres: recent connections between Art and Science and Music” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade Dr. Jinyuan Chen “The Next Wave of Wireless Communications” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade Dr. Jyotsna Sharma “Optical Fibers from High-Speed Communication to Sensors” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade Dr. Malay Ghose-Hajra “Introduction to drone technology: flight and applications” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade Dr. Shizhong Yang “Room Temperature Ductile Refractory High Entropy Alloy Development” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “Data Mining for Cybersecurity Applications: Opportunities and Challenges” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “From Bio-informatics to Cyber-Informatics: The Tsunami of Data and the Discovery of Knowledge” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “From Facebook to Cyber Warfare: The Triumph of Information and Data Mining” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “From Video gaming to Designing drugs: Pursuing a career in Computer Science and preparing for the next revolution” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “Have you Done your computing Today? The Triumph of Computing as a Skill” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “Information Fusion and Data Mining Paradigms for the Cyber Domain: Computational Frameworks and Algorithmic Challenges” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “The Advent of Facebook: A Boon or a Threat?” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “The Art and Science of Data-driven Decision making: Using Hard Data to Make Hard Choices” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “The Pursuit of Scientific Research: The need and implications” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “What does your Genetic Profile and Facebook Profile have in common: Personalized Data Mining for Knowledge Discovery” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “Counting planetary sand grains with computer vision” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade Dr. Thomas Bishop “So Many Computers So Little Time: How to use 1,000’s of Computers at Once” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade Dr. Thomas Bishop “Supercomputing: Demonstrations with a portable parallel computer” Technology & Computers 6th-8th Grade -
9th - 12th Grade Engineering
Dr. Afef Fekih “Electrical Engineering: Past, present and future” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Afef Fekih “Fault tolerant control design: current advances, challenges and opportunities” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Afef Fekih “If you think graduate school is expensive think again: Graduate Fellowship Programs” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Arden Moore “Making Phase Changes Work for Us!” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Brian Mitchell “From Silly Putty to Superconductors: Careers in Materials Science and Engineering” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Candace Lawrence “Polymers and DNA: Discovering the World of Biomaterials” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Chester Wilson “Grand Challenge Scholar Program: Student nanotechnology research opportunities to get a great admission offer from Universities” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Darryl Holliday “3D Printing of Foods: Moving Beyond Plastics” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Darryl Holliday “Food Science and its Impact in Today’s World” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Dimitris Nikitopoulos “Small Things Make a Big Contributions to Medicine” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Galina Goloverda “Nanomaterials: Fun and Use” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Ghanashyam Joshi “Fatigue of Aircraft Materials” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Guoqiang Li “Biomimetic Self-Healing Composite Materials” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Heath Tims “A Vehicle to Drive the Next Generation” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Leland Weiss “New Technologies for 21st Century Engineering Challenges” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Malay Ghose-Hajra “Historic Civil Engineering Structures in Louisiana” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Malay Ghose-Hajra “What Does a Civil Engineer Do?” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Noshir Pesika “Sticky materials inspired by gecko lizards” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Patrick Mensah “History of Selective Laser Sintering Process and Materials used in Additive Manufacturing” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Patrick Mensah “Increasing the Efficiency & Power Generating Capacity of Gas Turbines Using Ceramic Coatings” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Shawn Sun “The beauty of bridges” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Shizhong Yang “Room Temperature Ductile Refractory High Entropy Alloy Development” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Vladimir Kolesnichenko “Nanotechnology: its origins and benefits for our life” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Wanjun Wang “Small Things Make Big Contributions to Medicine” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Wen Jin Meng “Making things small” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. William A. Hollerman “A scientist’s view of developing patents and intellectual property” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. William A. Hollerman “Just exactly what does it mean to be physics major?” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. William A. Hollerman “Low and slow cooking: Understanding the physics of barbecue” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. William A. Hollerman “Rockets and starships: An overview of astronomy and astrophysics in the early 21st century” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. William A. Hollerman “Understanding wintergreen candy: A lifetime of making things glow in the dark” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. William A. Hollerman “What is the role of physics in society?” Engineering 9th-12th Grade Dr. Yuri Lvov “Nanotechnology based on natural materials: from biomimetic for cyborg cells to fly ash concrete!” Engineering 9th-12th Grade -
9th -12th Grade Mathematics
Dr. Brian Marx “A fun and light introduction to statistics with real world applications” Mathematics 9th-12th Grade Dr. Brian Marx “A Gentle Introduction to Statistics” Mathematics 9th-12th Grade Dr. Don Liu “Mathematics Underlying Marvelous Engineering and Technologies” Mathematics 9th-12th Grade Dr. Don Liu “Mathematics, Computational Mathematics and Applications” Mathematics 9th-12th Grade Dr. Gabriele Morra “Can we predict earthquakes?” Mathematics 9th-12th Grade Dr. Gabriele Morra “Is there life in the giant oceans in the Icy Satellites of the solar system?” Mathematics 9th-12th Grade Dr. Gabriele Morra “The strongest material in the universe” Mathematics 9th-12th Grade Dr. Gary Birkenmeier “Applications of Abstract Algebra” Mathematics 9th-12th Grade Dr. Gary Birkenmeier “Careers in Mathematics and Mathematical Research” Mathematics 9th-12th Grade Dr. Jesse Allison “Making the Future of Music” Mathematics 9th-12th Grade Dr. Jesse Allison “The Music of the Spheres: recent connections between Art and Science and Music” Mathematics 9th-12th Grade Dr. Mohsen Amini Salehi “Big Data privacy in Cloud” Mathematics 9th-12th Grade Dr. Mohsen Amini Salehi “Cloud and Edge Computing in Smart Cities” Mathematics 9th-12th Grade Dr. Mohsen Amini Salehi “Cloud-based Video Streaming” Mathematics 9th-12th Grade Dr. Natalia Sidorovskaia “Exploring Oceans with Sound” Mathematics 9th-12th Grade Dr. Nathan Green “How Much is Prime Number Worth?” Mathematics 9th-12th Grade Dr. Nathan Green “Coloring the Cube” Mathematics 9th-12th Grade Dr. Quang Cao “Applying statistics to solve everyday problems” Mathematics 9th-12th Grade Dr. Quang Cao “Applying math in estimating tree height” Mathematics 9th-12th Grade Dr. Quang Cao “Can You Guess How Fast Trees Grow?” Mathematics 9th-12th Grade Dr. Quang Cao “Have fun with Math” Mathematics 9th-12th Grade Dr. Quang Cao “Let’s Measure Trees” Mathematics 9th-12th Grade Dr. Quang Cao “Tough equations? Solve them easily using numerical methods” Mathematics 9th-12th Grade Dr. Scott Beslin “Pi For Dessert: A Mathematics Sampler” Mathematics 9th-12th Grade -
9th -12th Grade Science
Dr. Afef Fekih “Electrical Engineering: Past, present, and future” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Afef Fekih “Fault tolerant control design: current advances, challenges and opportunities” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Afef Fekih “If you think graduate school is expensive think again: Graduate Fellowship Programs” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Alika Yu “Is a career in dentistry for me?” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Anna Paltseva “Soil Basics for Sustainable Communities” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. B. Ramu Ramachandran “Some Historical Anecdotes in the Development of Quantum Mechanics” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Brian Adams “Alchemy and the Birth of Modern Chemistry” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Brian Crother “Snakes in Film: Farces and Facts” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Brian Crother “What’s in a Name? The Topsy Turvy World of Scientific Names” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Brian Mitchell “From Silly Putty to Superconductors: Careers in Materials Science and Engineering” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Brooks Ellwood “A Global Perspective on Modern Developments in Stratigraphy: Redefining Geologic time” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Brooks Ellwood “Our Spectacular National Park Areas and their Geology” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Brooks Ellwood “The LSU Campus Mounds: some of the oldest manmade structures in the world” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Callie Crawford “What Can You Do as a Marine Biologist?” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Carl Richter “4.6 billion years: a brief history of Earth” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Carl Richter “Exploring the Earth’s oceans with a drill ship” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Carl Richter “The Geology of Louisiana” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Carl Richter “What’s up with global warming?” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Chester Wilson “Grand Challenge Scholar Program: Student nanotechnology research opportunities to get a great admission offer from Universities” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Clarence Ferguson “Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Farm Animals and Humans” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Clarence Ferguson “Biotechnology in Animal Production and Human Medicine” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Clarence Ferguson “Stress in Farm Animals” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Dalton Gossett “Believe It or Not: Plants Also Suffer From Stress” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Daniel Kuroda “The Poor’s man battery, a penny’s worth hands-on experiment” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Daniel McCarthy “Fusion Energy – Creating a Star on Earth” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Darryl Holliday “3D Printing of Foods: Moving Beyond Plastics” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Darryl Holliday “Food Science and its Impact in Today’s World”* Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Dentcho Genov “The Magic of Science or How to Make the Harry Potter Invisibility Cloak” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Ebrahim Khosravi “Autonomous Humanoid Robot for Security and Mapping” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Ebrahim Khosravi “Improving Agriculture with advance Technology” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Ebrahim Khosravi “The Chicxulub Impact: The Collision That Killed the Dinosaurs” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Ebrahim Khosravi “Think the Land is Flat Around Lafayette? Let’s Look with Lasers!” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Elizabeth Engler-Chiruazzi “Books and Brains” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Elizabeth Fatila “Luminescence in Your Life” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Gabriele Morra “Can we predict earthquakes?” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Gabriele Morra “Is there life in the giant oceans in the Icy Satellites of the solar system?” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Gabriele Morra “The strongest material in the universe” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Gary Stringer “Amazing Rocks and Minerals” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Gary Stringer “Ancient Megatoothed Sharks from northeast Louisiana” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Gary Stringer “Fossils Whales of North Louisiana” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Gary Stringer “Unique and Amazing Monumental Earthworks at Poverty Point World Heritage Site” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Gary Stringer “What is a Fish Otolith and How is it Used in Science?” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Gergana Nestorova “The Science of Jurassic World or How to make a Dinosaur” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Ghanashyam Joshi “Fatigue of Aircraft Materials” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Jayalakshmi Sridhar “Chemists as investigators in industry and environmental organizations” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Jayalakshmi Sridhar “Protein, Cancer and Neurodegenerative disorders” * (10-12 grades) Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Jayalakshmi Sridhar “Role of Different Branches of Science in Development of New Medicines” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Joan Lynam “Rice Hulls- How Can we Use them? Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. John Pojman “The Use of Polymers in Art throughout History” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Juana Moreno “Opportunities in computational Materials Science” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Jyotsna Sharma “Louisiana Energy Resources and Petroleum Exploration” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Lehman Ellis “Earth is a microbial world with a few contaminating organisms” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Lehman Ellis “Oysters: good news – bad news” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Leland Weiss “New Technologies for 21st Century Engineering Challenges” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Leszek Malkinski “Micro-origami and nano-origami” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Mark Merchant “Color Change in Crocodile: Adaptation to environment” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Mark Merchant “The American Alligator: From Marsh to Medicine” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Matt Tarr “How Sunlight Affects Oil Spills” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Naidu Seetala “Material Characterization Using Antimatter Positron Annihilation” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Natalia Sidorovskaia “Exploring Oceans with Sound” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Peter Yaukey “Field Trips to Audubon Zoo or Jean Lafitte National Park in New Orleans” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Peter Yaukey “Hurricanes of Louisiana” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Peter Yaukey “Urban Birds of Louisiana” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Quang Cao “Let’s Measure Trees “Can You Guess How Fast Trees Grow?” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Rajesh Komati “Development of New Drug Molecules” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Rakitha Beminiwattha “Minutes Physics Q&A: show a video and followed by Q&A” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Sarah Weaver “From Dinosaurs to Computer Cases: The carbon cycle and how chemistry creates the things we use every day” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Sarah Weaver “Why is Blue Paint Blue and why Does it Dry? The physics of color and the chemistry of paint” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Steven Rick “Understanding Smart Polymers Using Computational Chemistry” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “The Art and Science of Data-driven Decision making: Using hard Data to Make hard Choices” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “A story of water on Mars from maps of hydrogen and sulfur” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “Counting planetary sand grains with computer vision” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “Discoveries unimagined by 2001: A Space Odyssey” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “Discovering Mars” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “Living science fiction on Mars and beyond” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Thomas Bishop “The ABC’s of DNA” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Vince LiCata “Astrobiology at LSU: Extraterrestrial Life, Living in Space and NASA’s Vomit Comet ” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Vince LiCata “Entertaining Science: Using Humor and Performance to Communicate Science” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Vince LiCata “HIV/AIDS: Science and World Politics” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Vince LiCata “LSU in Antarctica: Science, Art, and Exploration” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Vince LiCata “Molecular Mechanisms for Surviving a Nuclear War: Radiation Resistant Organisms” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Vince LiCata “Science in Plays and Movies: Science Fact and Science Fiction” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Vladimir Kolesnichenko “Oxygen: the essential element” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. William A. Hollerman “A scientist’s view of developing patents and intellectual property” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. William A. Hollerman “Just exactly what does it mean to be physics major?” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. William A. Hollerman “Low and slow cooking: Understanding the physics of barbecue” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. William A. Hollerman “Rockets and starships: An overview of astronomy and astrophysics in the early 21st century” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. William A. Hollerman “Understanding wintergreen candy: A lifetime of making things glow in the dark”* Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. William A. Hollerman “What is the role of physics in society?” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. William Deese “The Properties of Matter” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. William Deese “The Dead Chemists Society” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. William Deese “The Scientific Method” Science 9th-12th Grade Dr. Yuri Lvov “Rice Hulls – How Can We Use Them?” Science 9th-12th Grade -
9th - 12th Grade Technology & Computing
Dr. Ann Clifton “Chickens, Big Data, and Coloring: Applications of Graph Theory” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. B. Ramu Ramachandran “Doing Chemistry with Supercomputers” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Ebrahim Khosravi “Autonomous Humanoid Robotic for Security and Mapping” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Ebrahim Khosravi “Improving Agriculture with Advance Technology” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Gabriele Morra “Can we predict earthquakes?” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Gabriele Morra “Is there life in the giant oceans in the Icy Satellites of the solar system?” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Gabriele Morra “The strongest material in the universe” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Heath Tims “A Vehicle to Drive the Next Generation” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Heath Tims “Cyber Discovery – a multidisciplinary approach to training cyber citizens” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Jeremy Mhire “Cyber-Space, Cyber-Technology and Cyber-Citizenship: Old Issues Meet New Technology in the 21st Century” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Jeremy Mhire “Do I Really Know What I Think I Know? Thinking Critically About Issues in Cyber-Space” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Jesse Allison “Making the Future of Making Music” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Jesse Allison “The Music of the Spheres: recent connections between Art and Science and Music” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Jinyuan Chen “The Next Wave of Wireless Communications” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Jyotsna Sharma “Optical Fibers from High-Speed Communication to Sensors” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Malay Ghose-Hajra “Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle towards a Sustainable Future” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Malay Ghose-Hajra “Restoring Coastal Louisiana – Benefits and Challenges” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Mohsen Amini Salehi “Big Data privacy in Cloud” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Mohsen Amini Salehi “Cloud and Edge Computing in Smart Cities” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Mohsen Amini Salehi “Cloud-based Video Streaming” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Pedro Derosa “Computer modeling and the scientific method, or advancing science and technology one byte at a time” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Shizhong Yang “Room Temperature Ductile Refractory High Entropy Alloy Development” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “Adventures in Computer Science: Above and Beyond Game Programming and App Development” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “From Biology to Bioinformatics: The story of how Computer Science is changing the face of Biological Discovery” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “From Video gaming to Designing drugs: Pursuing a career in Computer Science and preparing for the next revolution” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “Have you Done your Computing Today? The Triumph of Computing as a Skill” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “Student Interdisciplinary Computing Research: Motivation and Opportunities” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “Students who listen to hard rock and play soccer excel in Math but perform poorly in Chemistry: Discovering surprising Associative Rules and more using Data Mining” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “The Advent of Facebook: A Boon or a Threat?” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “The Art and Science of Data-driven Decision Making: Using Hard Data to Make Hard Choices” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “The Pursuit of Scientific Research: The need and implications” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Sumeet Dua “What more can your data do for you? Discovering Gold from your data using Data Mining” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “Counting planetary sand grains with computer vision” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Thomas Bishop “So Many Computers so Little Time: How to use 1,000’s of Computers at Once” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade Dr. Thomas Bishop “Supercomputing: Demonstrations with a portable parallel computer” Technology & Computers 9th-12th Grade -
Parents & Educators (All Subjects)
Dr. Jesse Allison ”Computation Arts: Integrating the Arts and STEM Creatively” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Rakitha Beminiwattha “How to Engage Students in STEM Activities: Practical Examples for parents and teachers of K-12 students” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Brian Crother “The Origin of Species: What did Charles Darwin Say?” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Moustapha Diack “Best Practices for online Course Design and Delivery” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Moustapha Diack “Current Practices and Strategies for Delivering Science Laboratories Online” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Moustapha Diack “Integrating Instructional Multimedia Repository for teaching 21st Century skills” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “Effective team covenants at the vanguard of planetary science” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “Mars research as a case study in communicating effectively across diverse audiences” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “Preserving productivity in a geographically and temporally distributed workplace” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “Replacing team hierarchy with vision, mission, and objectives” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Jeremy Mhire “Cyber-Space, Cyber-Technology and Cyber-Citizenship: Old Issues Meet New Technology in the 21st Century” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Jeremy Mhire “Do I Really Know What I Think I Know? Thinking Critically About Issues in Cyber-Space” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Desley Plaisance “Sweaty Palms and All – A Discussion of Mathematics Anxiety” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Natalia Sidorovskaia “Assessment of environmental impact of industrial operations in the Northern Gulf of Mexico by acoustic methods” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Jayalakshmi Sridhar “Protein, Cancer and Neurodegenerative disorders” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. William Deese “The Properties of Matter” Science Parents & Educators Dr. William Deese “The Dead Chemists Society” Science Parents & Educators Dr. William Deese “The Scientific Method” Science Parents & Educators Dr. Callie Crawford “What Can You Do as a Marine Biologist?” Science Parents & Educators Dr. Jyotsna Sharma “Louisiana Energy Resources and Petroleum Exploration” Science Parents & Educators Dr. Jyotsna Sharma “Optical Fibers from High-Speed Communication to Sensors” Technology & Computers Parents & Educators Dr. Rajesh Komati “Development of New Drug Molecules” Science Parents & Educators Dr. John Pojman “The Use of Polymers in Art throughout History” Science Parents & Educators Dr. Anna Paltseva “Soil Basics for Sustainable Communities” Science Parents & Educators Dr. Joan Lynam “Rice Hulls- How Can we Use them? Science Parents & Educators Dr. Peter Yaukey “Field Trips to Audubon Zoo or Jean Lafitte National Park in New Orleans” Science Parents & Educators Dr. Peter Yaukey “Hurricanes of Louisiana” Science Parents & Educators Dr. Peter Yaukey “Urban Birds of Louisiana” Science Parents & Educators -
Undergraduate & Faculty (All Subjects)
Dr. Jesse Allison ”Computation Arts: Integrating the Arts and STEM Creatively” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Rakitha Beminiwattha “How to Engage Students in STEM Activities: Practical Examples for parents and teachers of K-12 students” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Brian Crother “The Origin of Species: What did Charles Darwin Say?” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Moustapha Diack “Best Practices for online Course Design and Delivery” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Moustapha Diack “Current Practices and Strategies for Delivering Science Laboratories Online” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Moustapha Diack “Integrating Instructional Multimedia Repository for teaching 21st Century skills” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “Effective team covenants at the vanguard of planetary science” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “Mars research as a case study in communicating effectively across diverse audiences” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “Preserving productivity in a geographically and temporally distributed workplace” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Suniti Karunatillake “Replacing team hierarchy with vision, mission, and objectives” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Jeremy Mhire “Cyber-Space, Cyber-Technology and Cyber-Citizenship: Old Issues Meet New Technology in the 21st Century” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Jeremy Mhire “Do I Really Know What I Think I Know? Thinking Critically About Issues in Cyber-Space” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Desley Plaisance “Sweaty Palms and All – A Discussion of Mathematics Anxiety” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Natalia Sidorovskaia “Assessment of environmental impact of industrial operations in the Northern Gulf of Mexico by acoustic methods” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. Jayalakshmi Sridhar “Protein, Cancer and Neurodegenerative disorders” Parents & Educators Parents & Educators Dr. William Deese “The Properties of Matter” Science Parents & Educators Dr. William Deese “The Dead Chemists Society” Science Parents & Educators Dr. William Deese “The Scientific Method” Science Parents & Educators Dr. Callie Crawford “What Can You Do as a Marine Biologist?” Science Parents & Educators Dr. Jyotsna Sharma “Louisiana Energy Resources and Petroleum Exploration” Science Parents & Educators Dr. Jyotsna Sharma “Optical Fibers from High-Speed Communication to Sensors” Technology & Computers Parents & Educators Dr. Rajesh Komati “Development of New Drug Molecules” Science Parents & Educators Dr. John Pojman “The Use of Polymers in Art throughout History” Science Parents & Educators Dr. Anna Paltseva “Soil Basics for Sustainable Communities” Science Parents & Educators Dr. Joan Lynam “Rice Hulls- How Can we Use them? Science Parents & Educators Dr. Peter Yaukey “Field Trips to Audubon Zoo or Jean Lafitte National Park in New Orleans” Science Parents & Educators Dr. Peter Yaukey “Hurricanes of Louisiana” Science Parents & Educators Dr. Peter Yaukey “Urban Birds of Louisiana” Science Parents & Educators