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Racket Sports Festival, December 9-13

Racket Sports Festival It’s time to get out your rackets! The Sports Center will be holding its fall “Sports as a Way of Life” Racket Sports Festival next week. The festival will take place on Main Campus – at the Dormitories Sports Hall, Main Sports Hall and indoor tennis courts […]

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Talk: “‘Ho hum, I’m Being Attacked by a Bear’: How Judgement is Tied to Concern and Motivation,” Jeremy Koons (Georgetown University, Qatar), H-232, 3:40-5:15PM December 7 (EN)

“‘Ho hum, I’m being attacked by a bear’: How judgement is tied to concern and motivation” By Jeremy Koons (Georgetown University in Qatar, Philosophy) Date: Thursday 7th December, 2017 Time: 1540-1715 Place: H-232 Abstract: A persistent problem in metaethics is the question of how to reconcile the cognitive and motivational […]

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Nanocolloquium: “Multimode Resonant Sensing: From Inertial Imaging with NEMS to Microdroplet and Cell Characterization with Microwave Sensors,” Dr. M. Selim Hanay, UNAM Conference Hall, 3:40PM December 8 (EN)

Asst. Prof. M. Selim Hanay Title: Multimode Resonant Sensing: From Inertial Imaging with NEMS to Microdroplet and Cell Characterization with Microwave Sensors Date: December 08, 2017 (Friday) Time: 15:40 Place: UNAM Conference Hall ABSTRACT – Nanomechanical resonant devices can be used as exquisite sensors for mass, force and charge detection. […]

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Seminar: “The Physics and Mechanics of Dynamic Shear Localization,” Prof. Daniel Rittel (Israel Institute of Technology,
 Haifa), Mithat Çoruh Auditorium, 1:40PM December 1 (EN)

THE PHYSICS AND MECHANICS OF DYNAMIC SHEAR LOCALIZATION D. Rittel The Zandman Chair in Experimental Mechanics
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
 Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
 Haifa, 32000 Israel merittel@technion.ac.il
 http://www.technion.ac.il/~merittel Dynamic shear localization, also known as adiabatic shear banding (ASB), is a frequently observed failure mechanism in dynamically loaded solids […]

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Seminar: “An Alternative Formulation and an Optimization Based Heuristic for the Reviewer Assignment Problem,” Prof. Dr. Emre Alper Yıldırım (Koç University), EA-409, 1:40PM December 1 (EN)

Seminar: “An Alternative Formulation and an Optimization Based Heuristic for the Reviewer Assignment Problem” Prof. Dr. Emre Alper Yıldırım Industrial Engineering, Koç University Dec 1, Friday 13:40 EA-409 Abstract Peer review systems are based on evaluating a scholarly work, referred to as a proposal, by experts in that field. In […]

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Lecture: “Sound Fields in ‘Acoustically’ Coupled Spaces: Case Studies of Monumental Historical versus Contemporary in Architecture,” Dr. Zühre Sü Gül, FFB-05, 12:30PM November 30 (EN)

Architecture Deparment Lecture: “SOUND FIELDS IN ‘ACOUSTICALLY’ COUPLED SPACES: case studies of monumental historical versus contemporary in architecture” Speaker: Dr. Zühre SÜ GÜL 30 November 2017 Thursday 12:30 FFB-05 ABSTRACT ‘Coupled volume/spaces’ is one of the outstanding and ongoing research topics in architectural acoustics. In this presentation, the objective and […]

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Colloquium Talk: “Script Charisma in Hebrew and Turkish: a Comparative Framework for Explaining the Success and Failure of Romanization,” Dr. İlker Aytürk, Library Art Gallery, 12:40-1:20PM November 30 (EN)

Dear colleagues and students, The Program in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas cordially invites you to the next talk in its colloquium series, in which Associate Professor Dr. İlker Aytürk of the Bilkent Political Science Department presents “Script Charisma in Hebrew and Turkish: a Comparative Framework for Explaining the Success and […]

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