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Past Events
03/17/2012
The California State MATHCOUNTS competition will be taking place at UCI on Saturday, March 17 between 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Orange County Regional winners along with other state-wide winners will compete for state titles. The top four participants who earn the honor of representing their state will progress to the national finals.
Event is...
03/15/2012 -
Gunther Uhlmann
Abstract: Can we make objects invisible? This has been a subject of human fascination for millennia in Greek mythology, movies, science fiction, etc. including the legend of Perseus versus Medusa and the more recent Star Trek and Harry Potter. In the last decade or so there have been several scientific proposals to achieve invisibility. We will...
03/10/2012
Come see Jupiter, Venus, Mars, the Orion Nebula and Eskimo Nebula, the Pleiades and other star clusters with our telescopes. Learn to locate your favorite constellation, tour the Observatory dome and see a slide show about the small bodies of our own Solar System.
Visitor Nights are open to the general public so please feel free to...
03/06/2012 -
James S. Bullock
The third lecture of the 14th Annual Discover the Physical Sciences Breakfast Lecture Series is approaching!
Professor James Bullock, from the department of Physics and Astronomy at UC Irvine will present: Biography of the Milky Way on March 6, 2012 at the Student Center, Doheny AB.
Parking for the series will be free in the Student Center Parking...
02/18/2012
The Orange County Regional MATHCOUNTS competition will be taking place at UCI on Saturday, February 18 between 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Our OC mathletes have been coaching for months to finally begin competing! A few of the participating Orange County schools are Rancho San Joaquin Middle School, South Lake Middle School, Lakeside Middle School,...
02/16/2012 -
Professor Karl Rubin
The Mathematics Department at UCI, with the support of NSF RTG grant DMS-1044150, is proud to present "Right Triangles and Elliptic Curves," by Professor Karl Rubin.
The event is part of a math seminar series for undergraduates and will take place on February 16th from 12 to 1 p.m. in Natural Sciences 2, Room 1201. The event is free and...
02/15/2012
The Physical Sciences Mentor Program Midpoint Mixer will take place on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at the University Club. The Mixer will feature a panel of alumni from various fields for our students to ask questions and learn about specific career paths.
The evening will begin at 6:00 p.m. with an introduction of the panel by Ken Janda, Dean of...
