At the 2014 ORIAS summer teachers’ institute on Foodways in World History, Prof. Parama Roy (English Department, U. C. Davis) explores food as a lens for teaching about India during the British colonial period. Her presentation gives an overview of famine relief policy of the colonial state, the gendered dimensions of alimentary distress, and myths of famine in India with a focus on the famines in Bengal of 1770 and 1943-44.
Physics 111 Advanced Laboratory. Professor Jan Liphardt
This video accompanies the Brownian Motion in Cells Experiment, providing students with an introduction to the theory, apparatus, and procedures.
Perrin's experimental confirmation of Einstein's equation was an important piece of evidence to help settle a debate about the nature of matter that had begun nearly 2000 years earlier in the time of Democritus and Anaxagoras. Since then, a thorough understanding of Brownian motion has become essential for diverse fields that range from polymer physics to biophysics, aerodynamics to statistical mechanics, and even stock option pricing.
Part 1. You will replicate Perrin's work with modern equipment. Then track the motion of nanoparticles suspended in liquids of various viscosities with a CCD camera connected to a microscope and a computer. You will use Matlab program to estimate the positions of the particles and analyze the data to see if it conforms to Einstein's model.
Part 2. Using the same setup, you will track myosin-based transport of vesicles in a living onion cell. You will compare this motion to the Brownian motion you observed in the first part of the lab.
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OCIO Presents: Brad Wheeler, VP and CIO at Indiana University, on April 14th at Boalt Hall: Thriving in the Era of Rabid Collaboration
As the discovery phase of the Operational Excellence initiative comes to a close and we begin the solutions design process, it is clear that technology will play a critical role in the enablement of many of the solutions. A key question we need to consider is how cloud computing offerings and community-developed software solutions like Sakai and Kuali will factor into the campus future.
Dr. Brad Wheeler, a nationally respected higher education technology leader and an active pioneer of new models of collaboration that have changed the economics of information technology in higher education, will share his thoughts on this topic. Dr. Wheeler will speak about the opportunities and challenges that cloud computing and collaborative solutions development present for higher education, followed by a conversation between myself and Dr Wheeler on the potential impact related to some of the OE findings as well and an opportunity for audience Q & A.
Dr. Brad Wheeler, Indiana Universitys vice president for information technology and chief information officer, leads IT services for IUs eight campuses. These services include research, educational, administrative, networking, and other shared IT services. He has co-founded some of higher educations most transformative software and service collaborations including the Sakai Project for teaching and learning software, Kuali for financial and other administrative systems, and the HathiTrust for digital copies of scanned books as part of the Google Book Project. These projects are a blend of both open source and traditional development models that have grown to an ecosystem encompassing over $60M of pooled investments from 50 institutions and 22 commercial firms. He is a professor of information systems in IUs Kelley School of Business, and has taught executive programs for corporate and MBA audiences on six continents.