Please, join us on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 for a very special event!  As a part of the Arts & Sciences Passport to the World, Year of Europe, the UK Appalachian Center welcomes Alessandro Portelli for a talk entitled Roma Forestiera: Migrant Music in Rome.  The talk will be held in the UKAA Auditorium in W. T. Young Library from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.  This will be followed by a reception with light refreshments from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Alumni Gallery.  A screening of the film Matewan will be offered in the Auditorium from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. with an introduction by Professor Portelli.  This event is free for UK Students, Faculty, and Staff.

   Mihai Stoiciu will talk about the mathematics of the Rubik's cube, as well as, mathematics in general.  Lunch will be provided.  If you are planning on attending please sign up at

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Join us for the Distinguished Lecture and Reception honoring Dr. Charley Carlson, Department of Psychology and Senior Vice Provost for Academic Excellence.

In this informal talk, I present a mathematical model which was developed for the 2015 Mathematical Contest in Modeling. The model aims to help in planning an efficient search for a lost plane that may have crashed in open waters. This talk will be of particular interest to undergrads who hope to enter this year's contest, or are interested in mathematical modeling.

For more information on the film series "Europe Through the Lens: a Festival of Contemporary European Films" visithttp://libguides.uky.edu/eurofilm. 

Measurement of the primordial abundances of the lightest elements is one of the three decisive tests of Big Bang cosmology minutes after the Big Bang, and how their abundances vary with cosmological parameters. The predicted range in the He/H abundance ratio is not large, so it must be measured with a precision approaching 1% if a definitive cosmological test is to be made. The abundance ratio is measured in low-metallicity H II regions by using H I and He I recombination lines. Both H I and He I radiative recombination effective rate coefficients must be known to at least this 1% precision. Between the various uncertainties of the theoretical data, rate coefficients for collisions are the most uncertain. One of the most prominent uncertainties is on l-changing slow heavy impact collisions. Different l-changing data differ about a dex. We have use Cloudy to simulate He I and H I emissivities using the different data and found differences up to 10% in emission line intensities. Solid arguments take us to recommend one set of data over the others.