A guide to events on our campuses.
Assembly Series
A tradition of convening thought leaders since 1953
McKelvey School of Engineering
Events
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Oct
Chakaia Booker is renowned for her artistic practice that pushes the limits of abstraction through the use of her signature material—discarded rubber tires...
21
Oct
The John B. Ervin Scholars Program honors the memory of a nationally renowned educator and community leader who believed in giving students a first-rate...
21
Oct
Inspired by the fairytales of the Brothers Grimm, composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim and book writer James Lapine upend the "Happily Ever After" trope to...
21
Oct
Leaving China is an exhibition of work by accomplished artist James McMullan that focuses on watercolor paintings about his childhood during World War II....
21
Oct
On view October 20–November 6 in Ann and Andrew Tisch Park of Washington University, this exhibition by German-Italian photographer and filmmaker Luigi...
21
Oct
The Waste Land by St. Louis native TS Eliot was published in 1922 and forever changed literature. The Life in St. Louis 1888-1905: T.S. Eliot’s First Waste...
21
Oct
The Miniature Museum is a new series of exhibitions in which books are displayed as sculptural objects in a custom-built dollhouse museum. The first...
21
Oct
The "Stories From World War II" exhibition brings together stories from the Second World War told through special collections. A variety of personal accounts...
21
Oct
Novelist William Gaddis famously shunned the spotlight and dismissed attempts to tie his private life to his creative work. However, Gaddis also kept an...
21
Oct
Join us for a conference on novelist William Gaddis (1922-1998) on October 20–22, in celebration of his centenary year. Gaddis’ legacy and influence will be...
21
Oct
Tim Huskey has been collecting Cardinals baseball memorabilia since he was five years old, when he stood in line to get an autograph from his favorite...
21
Oct
The invention of the microscope revealed the invisible and enabled new fields of biomedical research. Explore a small history of microscopy, from Robert...
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Oct
The Office for Religious, Spiritual, and Ethical Life will be holding space in Graham Chapel. The Chapel will be open for reflection, prayer or a moment of...
21
Oct
Data can be messy. Researchers commonly lament the amount of time spent preparing data before any analysis can take place. Potential steps for preparing or...
21
Oct
What kind of functions do neural networks learn? Why can neural networks perform well in high-dimensional settings? This talk will answer these questions and...
21
Oct
This installation prompts the question of how the visual culture of marketing and markets influences our lives. Bringing together modern and contemporary...
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Oct
James M. Carothers Dan Evans Career Development Professor Associate Chair for Research and Infrastructure Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering Adjunct...
21
Oct
Katharina Grosse is internationally celebrated for her large-scale, on-site works that she paints across built and natural environments. To date, less focus...
21
Oct
The renowned contemporary artist Katharina Grosse, whose exhibition Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revisions, Inventions is on view...
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Oct
Benjamin Moseley Carnegie Bosch Associate Professor of OR and of Machine Learning (by courtesy) OR PhD Program Head Tepper School of Business Carnegie...
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Oct
Join BearFIT Instructor Meghann in The Dark Room for this 30 min cycle class! We will get a quick sweat on and feel like we packed in 50 mins of work! ...
21
Oct
WU Rocketry will host a virtual question-and-answer session with Col. Robert “Bob” Behnken, WashU alum and NASA astronaut, at 1 p.m. on Friday, Oct....
21
Oct
Join us for the Inaugural SPECTRA Student-Led Conference! We SPECTRA are excited to announce our 1st student-led conference that will focus on providing a...
21
Oct
WU Rocketry will host a virtual question-and-answer session with Col. Robert “Bob” Behnken, WashU alum and NASA astronaut, at 1 p.m. on Friday, Oct....
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Oct
The last few years have been about adapting to change. We’ve learned how to be resilient and nimble in our personal and professional lives, and how to take a...
21
Oct
Explicit solutions are very rare in optimal control theory. In this context, one typically applies the necessary optimality conditions of the Pontryagin...
21
Oct
Frances S. Hasso is Professor in the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She holds secondary appointments in the Department...
21
Oct
Did you know that there are more than three million open positions in cybersecurity today? There is a huge demand for cybersecurity professionals today, and...
21
Oct
Religion and Gender Politics in the Chinese Communist Revolution Xiaofei Kang, associate professor of religion, The George Washington University This talk...
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Oct
Fifth Annual Robert Morrell Memorial Lecture in Asian Religions This talk discusses how Maoist propaganda utilized religion to develop a standard narrative...
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Oct