Upcoming Events

AIS Friday Workshop - CIO Q&A

Workshop/Training | Focused Friday

Two CIOs walk into a Huntsman Classroom…. Open Q&A!
Come grill a CIO (or two). What have you always wanted to know but never dared ask?

Kick off the semester with us at the first AIS Friday Workshop! Eric Hawley and Stephen Fletcher will be joining us for an open Q&A session. Eric is the Chief Information Officer at Utah State University and Faculty in the Huntsman School of Business. Stephen was the CIO for the State of Utah from 2005-2012 and has since been working in consulting and in Washington DC leading the National Public Safety Broadband Network.

Come eat a donut, ask a question, and learn from these two seasoned veterans within the field of information systems!

Donuts will be provided.

Utah Women Making History exhibit

Exhibition | Year of the Woman

The Hyrum City Museum will feature the traveling exhibit "Utah Women Making History" in celebration of the three significant women's rights anniversaries in the year 2020. This exhibit includes illustrations of Utah women (and a few men) who worked throughout the 20th century to advocate for women and advance their communities, including USU alumna Mignon Barker Richmond. These 50 illustrations were commissioned by Better Days 2020, a nonprofit dedicated to popularizing Utah women’s history and spearheading Utah’s statewide celebrations of these significant anniversaries.
** Check the Hyrum City Museum website for offical times of business

Living a Life of Service With Latinos In Action's Burton Rojas

Cultural

Burton Rojas will join us once more at Utah State University to explore what it means to be involved in service leadership within the context of Latinos In Action and as how it applies to a meaningful and purposeful life.
FOOD AND DRINKS WILL BE PROVIDED!

MHR Internship Reports (Delta Air Lines & Resideo)

Panel Discussion/Presentation | Focused Friday

Second-year Master of Human Resource (MHR) students report on projects, work, and lessons learned from their summer internships. Presenters this week:

• Jason Jerman - Delta Air Lines
• Austin Rigby - Resideo

Applied Mathematics Seminar: Extreme First Passage Times of Diffusion

Conference/Seminar

Speaker: Sean D Lawley, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah

Abstract: Why do 300 million sperm cells search for the oocyte in human fertilization when only a single sperm cell is necessary? Why do 1000 calcium ions enter a dendritic spine when only two ions are necessary to activate the relevant receptors? The seeming redundancy in these and many other biological systems can be understood in terms of extreme first passage time (FPT) theory.

While FPT theory is often used to estimate timescales in biology, the overwhelming majority of studies focus on the time it takes a given single searcher to find a target. However, in many scenarios the more relevant timescale is the FPT of the first searcher to find a target from a large group of searchers. This fastest FPT depends on extremely rare events and it is often orders of magnitude faster than the FPT of a given single searcher. In this talk, we will explain recent results in extreme FPT theory and show how they modify traditional notions of diffusion timescales.

Paint Night | Arts & Culture | Year of the Woman

Special Event | Year of the Woman

Celebrate women of the Uintah Basin and their impacts of the arts in our community. Join us for dinner and a paint night provided by Studio Five's Melanie Cook. The cost of the tickets will go towards creating a kitchen for Uintah County Extension Office.

Individual - $10
Couples - $15

Bring donations to support Split Mountain Youth Center.

Chinese New Year Show

Fair/Festival

Chinese New Year Show & Chinese Food Tasting
All are welcome!

Spring Festival Gala (Chinese New Year)

Fair/Festival | Common Hour

The USU Chinese Student and Scholar Association will host the Spring Festival Gala on Friday, January 24th in TSC Ballroom from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM. Please join us and enjoy Chinese Kungfu, Piano, Traditional Instrument, Dance, Singing, Games, Prizes, Raffle, & Dinner. Everyone is welcomed to come celebrate with us!