STEMulating Conversations (formerly First Fridays) are casual but totally nerdy conversations with several STEM faculty in a semi-public forum with students and anyone else who wants to join in. Themes include current science related topics that are relevant to what's happening in the world now!
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Information and recordings from past sessions:
2025-2026
- 10/17/2025 - "MiraCosta's Natural Disasters" with Rica French, Eric Snortum, Marina Argueta, Sasha Carter and David Palomino
- 11/7/2025 - "Waves Edition" with Rica French, Eric Snortum, Marina Argueta and Shawn Firouzian
- 2/27/2026 - Coming Soon
- 3/27/2026 - Coming Soon
- 4/24/2026 - Coming Soon
2022-2023
- October 7 - Whaaat?! (Exclamation made by astronomers all summer long) with Jeff Ihara and Rica French: and
2021-2022
- 5/6/2022: "Bolides and Isotopes and Superplumes (oh my?)" and
- 4/1/2022: "Lubb, Dubb, Oink?" and
- 2/4/2022: "Tachyons & Wormholes are Real?!" and
- 12/3/2021: "Extinction and milder catastrophes" and
- 11/5/2021: "Language runs hot and cold, up, down, and sideways." and
- 10/20/2021 - ACP Vaccination Panel - and
- 10/1/2021 - "Darwin vs. Turing - Natural Selection meets Machine Learning" and
- 9/3/2021 - "What do the Mars Perseverance Rover and the Coronavirus Delta variant have in common" and
2018-2019
- 5/3/2019 - "Navigating the Maize of Quantum Computing"
- Faculty: Professors: Jeff Ihara, Joe Salamon
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- 4/5/2019 - "Sci-Fi or Sci-Lie?" Evaluating the Science in Popular Movies
- Faculty: Professors: Jeff Ihara, Joe Salamon, Kaitlin Fisher, and Tina Johnson
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- 2/1/2019 - "What's New in Science Update"
- Faculty: Professor Jeff Ihara, Professor Joe Salamon and Professor Rica French
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- 12/7/2018 - "Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land"
- Faculty: Professor Rachid Atmai, Professor Jeff Ihara, Professor Joe Salamon and Professor Jonathan Cole
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- 11/2/2018 - "Four Scientists Walk into a Bar" - Questions from the Audience
- Faculty: Professor Ihara (Biology), Professor Salamon (Physics), Professor Cole (Physics) and Professor French (Astronomy).
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- 10/5/2018 - "Not Just a Bleeping Message: Why RNA is H.O.T."
- Faculty: Professor Jeff Ihara, Professor Joe Salamon, Professor Pedro Morgado, Professor Barbara Juncosa
- 9/7/2018 - "The Mysteries and Wonder of the Electron: a Physicist, a Chemist, a Biologist,
and a Poet Take On Everybody's Favorite Lepton."
- Faculty: Professor Joe Salamon, Professor Jeff Ihara, Professor Kaitlin Fisher and Professor Pedro Morgado
2017-2018
- 5/4/2018 - 鈥淏lack Holes & Spaghettification: A Noodle-y Tour of Spacetime鈥�
- Faculty: Professor Jeff Ihara and Professor Joe Salamon
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- 4/6/2018 - "Have You Considered a Trans-poo-sion and Other Microbiome-related Questions?"
- Faculty: Professor Himgauri Kulkarni and Professor Joe Salamon
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- 3/2/2018 - "HACKING THE PLANETS"
- Faculty: Professor Jonathan Cole, Professor Jeff Ihara, and Professor Joe Salamon
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