Join us this Thursday, March 9, 2023 for a Ken Kennedy Institute Distinguished Lecture with V. Balaji, Distinguished Fellow at Schmidt Futures and Make Our Planet Great Again Fellow at Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, Paris.

In his talk, V. Balaji discusses the argument around traditional general circulation models, or GCMs, and presents potential approaches founded on a renewed emphasis to mathematical methods of calibration and dimensionality reduction, using the GCM's structure to connect twins to emulators to long-running models of the Earth's past and future.

• Date: Thursday, March 9, 2023 at 4:00 PM CST
• New Location: McMurtry Auditorium in Duncan Hall at Rice University
• Talk: From Simulation to Emulation: Climate Modeling at the Crossroads

Please RSVP to stay updated on event details. Registration details and the full talk abstract can be found at the link below.

Register for the upcoming Ken Kennedy Institute Distinguished Lecture with Dr. Adam Phillippy, Senior Investigator at National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Phillippy's lab develops computational methods for the analysis of DNA sequences, including genome sequencing, comparative genomics, forensics, and metagenomics. He has developed foundational methods for mapping and comparing whole genomes and pioneered the use of single-molecule sequencing for the reconstruction of complete genomes. He is a co-founder of the Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium and led the team that finished the last remaining regions of the human genome. For this work, he was named by TIME magazine as one of 2022’s most influential people.

• Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 4:00 PM CST | Reception to Follow
• Location: BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC) Auditorium at Rice University
• Talk: What’s New in the First Truly Complete Sequence of a Human Genome?

RSVP and view the talk abstract at the link below.