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Using Deep Learning and XAI to Understand Global Conflict Through the Lens of Satellite Imagery
One Tribe One Day
Join the academic advising team from the OUAA to discuss how and when to declare your major, tips for choosing a major advisor, and stigmas and misconceptions surrounding the process.
Join WMFIRE and W&M History Department immigration expert, Professor Nofil, discussing historical immigration narratives, stereotypes, and perspectives within the US.
An Evening of Dance is an annual concert in which students explore and develop original choreography performed by their peers in the Orchesis Modern Dance Company, under the mentorship of the Dance faculty.
The Department of Art & Art History presents the Non-Majors show
keynote address is from 5-6:30pm on April 3, followed by a performance by the Middle East Music Ensemble. The three panels on April 4 are scheduled from 9:30am to 6:30pm. The final panel is in honor of our late colleague, Abdul-Karim Rafeq.
“Studying Pleasure Spaces for Multiply Marginalized People” This talk will provide an initial overview of Dr. Schalk’s newest research project on the practice of pleasure activism.
The competition will feature Barr Fellows, outstanding Arts & Sciences Honors seniors, who will have just five minutes to effectively explain their research and its importance to a general audience.
Four steps are required at least two weeks before you defend. April 4 is the last day by which you may meet this requirement if you intend to graduate in May 2025.
Application and Characterization of Didymosphenia geminata Based Materials
Noah Donald, "Physics beyond the standard model and Nature’s smallest length scales"
The Spring Honors Research Symposium will feature the research of undergraduate W&M seniors from any Arts & Sciences major completing Departmental Honors in a variety of presentation formats.
Grab free swag and enjoy free food as we celebrate your declaration journey.
Jeffrey Gu ,a senior majoring in Neuroscience, explores the relationship between two key brain sites: the amygdala, responsible for emotional processing and behaviors, and the preBötzinger Complex, the site for respiratory rhythm generation.
Tour the business school and learn about the Undergraduate Business Programs and application process.
Marco Stettler is a fourth-year undergraduate student researching the neurobiology of breathing.
Learning to Optimize in Networks
Dr. Marianna Safronova, University of Delaware & University of Maryland, Title: Quantum Technologies for New-physics Searches in the Laboratory and in Space
Enjoy a night of music performed by the Suspicious Cheese Lords on April 4th, 2025 at 7:30 pm.
To reserve your seat please follow this ticket link:http://wm.universitytickets.com/w/
Title: Software Engineering for Big Data and Heterogeneous Computing
This talk will present automated software engineering techniques (debugging, testing, and refactoring) designed in the domain of data-intensive, scalable, and heterogeneous computing.
Hayes Writers Series - Sara Daniele Rivera
Jay Jolles, American Studies: “Contemporary Fiction and the Millennial Novel”
Offered in partnership between the Graduate Center and the Williamsburg Regional Library.
Join us for a reception for the 2025 ARII winners!
La pecera is the first Puerto Rican movie nominated for the Premios Goya, the most important awards for Spanish speaking films
Delve into the critical aspects of financial wellness with Katherine Guthrie, Dungan Term Associate Professor of Business and finance department chair at W&M’s Raymond A. Mason School of Business.
Join us in discussing how to strike the right balance between AI’s transformative potential and human ingenuity, ensuring that we surf the AI wave rather than being swept away or left behind.
Tickets are FREE for students. Reserve your ticket at https://wm.universitytickets.com.
William & Mary Theatre and Performance Second Season Presents... The Skriker. Written by Caryl Churchill and directed by Anya Ruzicka '25.
Yiqi Yang, "Exploring Electron Correlation Effects in Two-dimensional Models and Materials: A Quantum Monte Carlo Study"
Guatemalan photographer Daniel Hernández-Salazar will be the keynote and final speaker of the Spring 2025 Scholarly Perspectives Series on Arts & Democracy.
Public screening of "Choeurs Atlantiques/ Tales from the Atlantic Beyond," a documentary by Prof. Babana-Hampton (Michigan State U) on the legacies of the slave trade and slavery in the French Caribbean, mainland France, and Francophone West Africa.
The CGA is hosting its last speaker series event of the semester on April 11th. We will have three guest speakers of the LGBTQ+ community to talk about their experience in the field of GIS as LGBTQ+ individuals.
College Student Mental Health and Resilience: Applying Economic Tools to Traditionally Non-Economic Topics
Counting Fearlessly and Meticulously: Weight Distribution of Cyclic Codes with Generalized Niho-type Nonzeros
Join the Schroeder Center for Health Policy and VCU's Dr. Gabriela León-Pérez for a conversation about an academic-community partnership focused on the mental health of newcomer Latino youth in the greater Richmond area.
Prof. Babana-Hampton (Michigan State U) will be giving this year's Fauvel Lecture on "The Historical Memory of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Emancipatory Projects by Black French Caribbean Artists Today."
Dr. Rachel Hyneman, University of Arizona, Title: Probing Higgs Boson Self-Interactions at the ATLAS Experiment
Students, join your philosophy professors for our Spring picnic and volleyball match! Food and soft drinks provided. Philosophy students and friends invited!
This event invites Dr. Liu Yang, the Chair of Asian Art and Curator of Chinese Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, to give a public talk on the role of immersive curation, followed by a panel discussion with W&M colleagues, on April 11 (4–6 pm).
Join the Barksdale Treble Chorus for their last concert of the semester! Tickets are FREE for students and can be reserved at https://wm.universitytickets.com.
The Class of 1939 Artist in Residence Xandra Nur Clark and the students of CRWR 476 invite you to two afternoons of documentary and investigative one-act play readings.
Bridging the Gap seeks to educate designers and creatives working in the industry on the struggles Black Indigenous Performers of Color (BIPOC) face. This workshop includes a presentation, Q&A session, and hands-on component led by Jerrilyn Duckworth.
Enjoy a night of music performed by Marcolivia on April 12th, 2025 at 7:30 pm.
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No tickets required.
Join the Botetourt Chamber Singers for a great afternoon of choir music! Tickets can be reserved at https://wm.universitytickets.com.
David Nader, Computer Science - Dissertation Defense
Title: Towards a Science of Causal Interpretability in Deep Learning for Software Engineering
Advisor: Professor Denys Poshyvanyk, PhD
Virtual: Zoom at [Link]
Justice Beyond Borders: The Marc Fogel Case and U.S. Advocacy for Wrongfully Detained Americans in Russia
Join the Judaic Studies Program for a lecture on the parallels between Jewish-Czech author Franz Kafka’s fiction and diaries with the work of acclaimed American-Canadian videogame creator Davey Wreden!
SALIM VALLY will present "South Africa, Palestine and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle". Distinguished South African scholar and activist, Vally discusses the history of the Palestine solidarity in South Africa and the anti-Apartheid struggle.
Space limited
Reid Whitten is the Managing Partner of Sheppard Mullin's London office. He specializes in international trade regulations and investigations.
The Global Research Institute presents the Research in Progress: Pandey & Breydo.
Kelly O'Shaughnessy, the Director of Career Readiness Pathways, from the Office of Career Development & Professional Engagement, will discuss setting goals related to career readiness for summer experiences (internships, research, summer jobs, etc.).
This talk explores the political power of love through Arendt's Amor Mundi & Weil's "madness of love." It examines how love, starting in personal relationships, extends to public and political spheres, offering transformative potential in times of crisis.
Yichen Luo, Computer Science - Thesis Defense
Advisor: Dr. Sidi Lu
Virtual (Zoom)
Queerness in the Digicidal Interval: Desire, Pleasure, and Ethics in Queer Men’s Digital-Sexual Subjectivity by Prof. Joseph Lawless
Brown bag with Talia Schaffer 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Tucker 123
The Character of Care or, whom does Grace Poole really serve?
Dr. J.T. Roane will present his work on Black ecologies in the Tidewater Region.
All W&M faculty and students are invited to attend.
Join the Brass Ensemble for their final concert of the semester! Tickets can be reserved at https://wm.universitytickets.com.
Your defense must be scheduled and completed by this deadline.
Shaochang Liu, Computer Science - Thesis Defense
Title: Understanding the Multi-Generational LRU in Linux’s Page Reclaim Mechanism
Advisor: Dr. Jie Ren
Virtual: Zoom
Join the IIC for our annual Earth Week Launch Party with Student Research Presentations
Uniqueness of Positive Solutions for a Class of Nonlinear Elliptic Equations with Robin Boundary Conditions
Dr. Ruixing Zhang, University of Tennessee, Title: Majorana Quasiparticles in Superconducting Vortices
Join the Middle Eastern Music Ensemble for their special 30th Anniversary performance “Music for a Better World” featuring Insia Malik and Gabriel Lavin. Tickets can be reserved at https://wm.universitytickets.com.
Celebrate the annual German House Spring BBQ with us on Saturday, April 19 at 1:00 PM at the Randolph Complex!
Join Jaden Shahin & Sarha for a free Jazz show on April 19th at the Williamsburg Regional Library Theater at 3pm (doors open at 2:30pm). This is Jaden Shahin's senior project in Jazz drumming/composition.
Featuring: Victor Haskins - Cornet/EWI, Jason Arce - Saxophone, Jeff Smith - Saxophone, and Chris Brydge - Bass
Celia Pearce will share thoughts from her most recent book, Playframes: How Do We Know We are Playing?.
GRI Presents East Asia's Geopolitical Shifts: How Three Years of War in Ukraine Have Transformed China-Russia-North Korea Relations. The Hive Event Space (ground floor of Swem, G31). 12:00-1:00 pm. Lunch will be provided. Co-sponsored by Government
The Schroeder Center for Health Policy invites you to join us on Tuesday April 22nd for our Spring Symposium showcasing Student Research on health & health policy topics from across campus!
Join the Institute for Integrative Conservation, the Muscarelle Museum of Art, and Vital Impacts for a celebration of the W&M Year of the Environment as we welcome underwater photographer, whale whisperer, and National Geographic fellow Brian Skerry.
The Equality Lab presents a day-long series of online talks and discussions with thinkers from around the world considering the challenges and opportunities that AI offers.
To reserve your seat please follow this ticket link:http://wm.universitytickets.com/w/
Reserve your tickets at https://wm.universitytickets.com.
How are cities made? Block by block, brick by brick.
Sarah Revillar, Computer Science - Thesis Defense
Title: Incremental Algorithms and System Design for Streaming Graphs
Advisor: Dr. Pradeep Kumar
Location: TBD
Paul & Daisy Soros information session for graduate funding for New Americans!
Spring 2025 W&M Student Literary Awards
Final submission deadline for A&S graduate students to satisfy degree requirements for graduation in May 2025
McKenzie Wark will share thoughts from her book, Raving.
Dr. Antonino Di Piazza, University of Rochester, Title: Modern Tests of Quantum Electrodynamics in the Strong-field Regime
Tickets are FREE for students and $10 for the general public. Reserve your tickets at https://wm.universitytickets.com.
The Poetry Society of Virginia Festival this year will be held in Tucker Hall and Tucker Hall Theater
Reserve tickets at https://wm.universitytickets.com.
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Ongoing Events
With workshops and engagement opportunities throughout the week and a culminating event Friday with a celebratory pop-up, swag and free food, this event celebrates every step of the student journey to declaring their major!
Arts & Democracy Theatre Workshops with Iman Zaki.
Prospective students are welcome to contact our Program Director, Prof. Pacini (gxpaci@wm.edu), for information about French & Francophone Studies at W&M.
At the Writing and Communication Center, trained peer consultants offer individual assistance with writing, presentation, and other communication assignments across disciplines and at any stage, from generating ideas to polishing a final product.
POSTPONED: Due to Inclement weather, the artist talk and reception will take place on Friday (2/21) from 4-7pm. The Lecture will begin at 5pm at the Muscarelle Museum of Art conference hall next door.
