Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

Celebrating Latinx Voices in STEM
2023-10-05 16:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | H.F. DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building (Also offered online)
A symposium celebrating Latinx perspectives and experiences in STEM. Join us on Thursday, October 5 from 4:00 – 7:00 (reception included) to hear new research from prominent Latinx researchers for scientific topics relating to climate change. Return or join us on Friday for morning for an immersive experience in exploring Latinx identity in STEM, through personal perspectives and experiences.
This hybrid event is free and open to the public. RSVP's are encouraged. The event will be broadcasted live on YouTube in the Solis-Lemus lab YouTube channel.
CONTACT: solislemus@wisc.edu
URL: https://solislemuslab.github.io/latinx-uwmadison/pages/schedule.html
ONLINE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcBcmxIYYGC6Z04p9SC7hwg/featured

Celebrating Latinx Voices in STEM
2023-10-06 08:00 - 11:00 | H.F. DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building (Also offered online)
A symposium celebrating Latinx perspectives and experiences in STEM. Join us on Thursday, October 5 from 4:00 – 7:00 (reception included) to hear new research from prominent Latinx researchers for scientific topics including climate change and tech. Return or join us on Friday for morning for an immersive experience in exploring Latinx identity in STEM, through personal perspectives and experiences.
This hybrid event is free and open to the public. RSVP’s are encouraged. The event will be broadcasted live on YouTube in the Solis-Lemus lab YouTube channel.
CONTACT: solislemus@wisc.edu
URL: https://solislemuslab.github.io/latinx-uwmadison/pages/schedule.html
ONLINE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcBcmxIYYGC6Z04p9SC7hwg/featured

Indigenous Language Table
2023-10-11 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-10-18 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-10-25 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-11-01 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-11-08 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-11-15 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-11-22 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-11-29 12:00 - 13:00 and 2 more dates | Room 1145, Discovery Building, 333 N. Randall Avenue, Madison, WI, 53715, United States

Wisconsin Science Festival
2023-10-16, 2023-10-22 | Throughout Wisconsin (Also offered online)
*Note: actual end time may vary.*
Curiosity Unleashed!. Held across campus and throughout Wisconsin, the weeklong festival is packed with activities for people of all ages. Events include hands-on science exhibitions, demonstrations, performances, tours, pub nights, workshops and more.
CONTACT: 316-4382, towncenter@warf.org
URL: http://WiSciFest.org
ONLINE: https://wiscifest.org

Wisconsin Science Festival
2023-10-17, 2023-10-18, 2023-10-19, 2023-10-20, 2023-10-21 | Throughout Wisconsin (Also offered online)
*Note: actual end time may vary.*
Curiosity Unleashed!. Held across campus and throughout Wisconsin, the weeklong festival is packed with activities for people of all ages. Events include hands-on science exhibitions, demonstrations, performances, tours, pub nights, workshops and more.
CONTACT: 316-4390, info@wiscifest.org
URL: http://WiSciFest.org
ONLINE: https://wiscifest.org

The End Is Nye – Midnight at Noon
2023-10-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Union South – Marquee Theater, 1308 W Dayton St #245, Madison, WI, 53715, United States

SoundWaves: Celebrations of Time, pt 1
2023-10-20 19:30 - 21:00 | DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building, 330 N. Orchard Street, Madison, United States
presented by Wisconsin Science Festival
This year, SoundWaves will be looking back to milestones from the past as a springboard to learn about our world today. At this opening event of the year, learn about beer and wine, about museums, about radio, about the flute, and more at our first Celebrations of Time event.
Victor Ujor, food science
Tom Dale, art history
Jim Reardon, physics
Conor Nelson, music
Daniel Grabois, SoundWaves Curator
Event is free of charge but registration is requested as space is limited.
Food and beverage available for purchase at Steenbock’s on Orchard until 7:30pm.
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Crossroads of Ideas – Comparing the Creative Process in Science and Art
2023-10-22 10:30 - 11:30 | Madison Central Library, Community Room 302, 201 W. Mifflin St., Madison, WI, 53703, United States
There is more overlap between scientific research and creative writing than you may think! Both involve a process of research, creative thought and storytelling, and in this panel we will discuss what these disciplines have in common and what each can take from the other. Acclaimed novelist Chloe Benjamin (THE IMMORTALISTS) uses science to inform her fiction, while data scientist and statistician Claudia Solis-Lemus writes fiction and memoir when she isn’t researching evolutionary biology and microbiome. Moderated by novelist and WID writer in residence Michelle Wildgen.

Chloe Benjamin is the author of The Immortalists, a New York Times bestseller, and The Anatomy of Dreams.
A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, LibraryReads favorite, and #1 Indie Next pick, The Immortalists was named a best book of 2018 by NPR, The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, and others.
The Anatomy of Dreams received the Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award and was long listed for the 2014 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.
Originally from San Francisco, CA, Chloe is a graduate of Vassar College and the M.F.A. in fiction at the University of Wisconsin. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. She lives with her husband and two Maine Coon cats in Madison, WI, where she is at work on a third novel.

Claudia Solís-Lemus is an assistant professor at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Originally from Mexico City, she did her Undergraduate degrees in Actuarial Sciences and Applied Mathematics at ITAM. She then earned an MA in Mathematics and a PhD in Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Michelle Wildgen is the author of four novels, most recently WINE PEOPLE, published in August. Her first novel, YOU’RE NOT YOU, was an NYT Editor’s Choice and was adapted into a film starring Hilary Swank and Emmy Rossum. She is currently a writer in residence at WID, and cofounded the Madison Writer’s Studio with novelist Susanna Daniel in 2013. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Modern Love column and Book Review, O Magazine, Best Food Writing, and elsewhere.

Instagram: mswildgen

Seating is limited. Get your tickets here.

Crossroads of Ideas
2023-11-15 19:00 - 21:00 | DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building, 330 N. Orchard Street, Madison, United States

Crossroads of Ideas
2023-12-07 19:00 - 21:00

Indigenous Language Table
2024-01-17 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-01-24 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-01-31 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-02-07 13:00 - 14:00 | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
Open Language Table for Indigenous Languages. Most Wednesdays on the first floor of the Discovery Building and hosted by the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery ID Hub in Room 1145. An Indigenous Language Table is designed to enable language learners to develop spoken language skills outside of the classroom setting, build community, strengthen language purpose, and normalize indigenous language with representation. All learners are welcome to attend!
CONTACT: lredeagle@wisc.edu
URL: https://illuminatingdiscovery.wisc.edu/indigenous-language-table/

EVIL Reading Group
2024-01-26 10:00 - 11:00 | (Online)
The Ethics, Values, Information, and Law (EVIL) reading group pursues scholarship in the intersections of ethics, law, and data and information technologies. The EVIL Reading group meets every three weeks (roughly), Fridays, online, and is hosted in collaboration with the iSchool and ML+X.
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://go.wisc.edu/7319a8
ONLINE: https://go.wisc.edu/7319a8

WID Seminar Series
2024-01-30 14:00 - 15:00 | Orchard View Room 3280, Discovery Building
Resilience, Robustness and Adaptability. Wisconsin Institute for Discovery's second year exploring resilience, robustness and adaptability in complex systems through faculty and guest seminars.
