Our current understanding of how galaxies evolve over cosmic time is highly incomplete without understanding what is now known as the major baryonic component: the Circumgalactic medium (CGM). The CGM contains both the fuel for and the end products of star-formation in galaxies, but these regions are relatively hard to explore owing to their extremely low gas densities. The installation of the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has allowed us to make major advances in our ability to systematically map and study these diffuse regions of gaseous galaxy halos. I will present the latest results form two large HST/COS surveys which systematically characterize the CGM in HI and metal lines over more than three decades of galactic stellar mass. The CGM as seen by these programs is nearly ubiquitous in HI, patchy in most metals, and generally cool and bound. I will describe the implications of these results for galactic fueling and quenching, and speculate on where we might go from here.

RICARDO PAUL-LLOSA: A BILINGUAL RECITAL

Translations into Cuban by Enrico Mario Santí



Wednesday, November 4

4-6 p.m.

Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library

Ricardo Pau-Llosa is, far and away, the most prestigious Cuban-American poet writing in English today. With seven books to his credit, he has established himself as well as a prominent and sought-after art critic: http://www.pau-llosa.com/

Pau-Llosa, a Professor of English at Miami Dade College, and I have been collaborating on a bilingual anthology of poems translated, not exactly into Spanish, but into… Cuban. Part of the excitement of this event is that it will be the first public together reading of our experimental work.

“Pau-Llosa is a superb poet of memory…. He displays a consummate ability not simply to evoke, but to recreate the lost city of remembrance and to do so with a tragic depth rare in contemporary American poetry.” Eric Ormsby

Reception to follow

THE PUBLIC IS INVITED

A  film screening of the documentary "Let the Fire Burn" and a poster session analyzing the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement. The film will be screened at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16, at Young Library. The poster session will be held in the adjacent Alumni Gallery and will feature poster presentations of research on recent killings of unarmed black people in the United States by students currently enrolled in Stein’s "GWS 595 - Crime & Punishment: Race & Ferguson in Historical Context."

Sponsored by:  The Department of Gender & Women's Studies, African American & Africana Studies Program, and the MLK Center. 

Title: Repairing tropical curves by means of tropical modifications



Abstract:

Tropical geometry is a piecewise-linear shadow of algebraic geometry that preserves important geometric invariants. Often, we can derive classical statements from these (easier) combinatorial objects. One general difficulty in this approach is that tropicalization strongly depends on the embedding of the algebraic variety. Thus, the task of finding a suitable embedding or of repairing a given "bad" embedding to obtain a nicer tropicalization that better reflects the geometry of the input object becomes essential for many applications. In this talk, I will show how to use linear tropical modifications and Berkovich skeleta to achieve such goal in the curve case. Our motivating examples will be plane elliptic cubics and genus two hyperelliptic curves. Based on joint work with Hannah Markwig (arXiv:1409.7430) and ongoing work in progress with Hannah Markwig and Ralph Morrison.

This Sunday, October 16, the Late Night Film Series in conjunction with the LACLS program will be showing the documentary Ayotzinapa: Crónica de un crimen de Estado. Memorial Hall, 6:00 pm.

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Looking for a fun way to celebrate Mole Day? This year the University of Kentucky’s Chemistry Graduate Student Association will be celebrating Mole Day with a colorful lesson in chemistry.

“Chemistry Colors our World” is the theme selected by the American Chemical Society (ACS) for this year’s annual demonstration show. This year’s show will be presented by the UK Department of Chemistry’s graduate students at 7 p.m. Friday, October 23^, in Room 139 of the Chemistry/Physics Building. This event is sure to capture the attention of little minds as they watch live demonstrations that are presented in fun and educational ways. The demonstration is a celebration of National Chemistry Week, Oct 19-25.

This is a child friendly event and is open to all, families are particularly encouraged to attend.

For visitor parking information, click here. (Please note that the Funkhouser Drive lot remains accessible from Rose Street at this time.)

For further information, please contact Rosemary Easterday at rosemary.easterday@uky.edu

The Lyric Theatre & Cultural Arts Center, in conjunction with Breeders' Cup Festival Week 2015 and MT Brilliant Farm, is very excited to be hosting the play 'I Dedicate this Ride: The Making of Isaac Burns Murphy'.

Written by Kentucky Poet Laureate Frank X Walker and produced by Message Theater Acting Troupe, 'I Dedicate this Ride' celebrates the life of one horse racing's most notable jockeys, Isaac Murphy. These performances coincide with the historic Breeders' Cup and the activities of Breeders' Cup Festival Week 2015. 

In this powerful production, Message Theater presents a richly imagined play written by Frank X Walker which brings to life the mind and heart of thoroughbred racing legend, jockey Isaac Burns Murphy (1861-1896). Born into slavery, Murphy rose to prominence in a brilliant career that brought him wealth, honor and international fame. Follow Murphy's dramatic journey in the post -Civil War South to become America's most celebrated black jockey. 

The Lyric Theatre & Cultural Arts Center, in conjunction with Breeders' Cup Festival Week 2015 and MT Brilliant Farm, is very excited to be hosting the play 'I Dedicate this Ride: The Making of Isaac Burns Murphy'.

Written by Kentucky Poet Laureate Frank X Walker and produced by Message Theater Acting Troupe, 'I Dedicate this Ride' celebrates the life of one horse racing's most notable jockeys, Isaac Murphy. These performances coincide with the historic Breeders' Cup and the activities of Breeders' Cup Festival Week 2015. 

In this powerful production, Message Theater presents a richly imagined play written by Frank X Walker which brings to life the mind and heart of thoroughbred racing legend, jockey Isaac Burns Murphy (1861-1896). Born into slavery, Murphy rose to prominence in a brilliant career that brought him wealth, honor and international fame. Follow Murphy's dramatic journey in the post -Civil War South to become America's most celebrated black jockey.