2025 Schedule

Institutional Data Users Group (IDUG)

Thursday, May 8, 2025 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Virtual
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Mathematics Faculty Colloquium - Yangbo Ye

Thursday, May 8, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall
Title: Number theory and cryptography   Abstract:  In this presentation Professor Ye will survey his work and progress in number theory since his last colloquium talk in the department. Topics include the Riemann zeta function, automorphic L-functions, their functoriality, upper bounds, and zero statistics, computational number theory, and its applications to cyberspace security or insecurity.   Short Bio: Professor Yangbo Ye is a professor of Mathematics with expertise in number theory and...

Online MSW Info Session

Thursday, May 8, 2025 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual
Please join us via Zoom for an info session to learn more about the Online MSW program. We offer Advanced Standing and Regular Standing with specializations in Clinical Practice and Leadership Practice. Click here to join: https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/94610615429
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Success, Not Excess

Thursday, May 8, 2025 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
Supporting Students Desiring a Change Success, Not Excess provides a small, safe and supportive space for UI students wanting to make or considering changes in their alcohol or other drug use. The group emphasizes success in academics, relationships, mental and physical health, and other goals through reducing alcohol and other drug use. Meetings are provided by the UI Collegiate Recovery Program. For more information, please visit our website. This is not a treatment group and will not...
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Wide Lens: LISTENING

Thursday, May 8, 2025 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building
In a world full of noise, we often try listening to something: conversations with colleagues and family, music in our headphones, videos blasting from our smartphones. We hear all these things daily, but what does it mean to truly listen? In what sense do devices also listen to us? What is the role of silence in listening? How has listening changed over time? Can political tensions be solved through “listening”? How is listening both an art and a science? This Wide Lens event brings together...

Chamber Music Residency Program Recital I

Thursday, May 8, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Chamber Music Residency Program Recital I The students of the Chamber Music Residency Programs will give their final recitals. This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.

Iowa New Play Festival

Thursday, May 8, 2025 8:00pm
Theatre Building
Iowa New Play Festival We are thrilled to present our annual Iowa New Play Festival in the Theatre Building featuring full productions and daily readings. Funding for the Iowa New Play Festival is provided by The David and Jean Schaal Fund for Theatre Arts.
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Dance BFA Concert

Thursday, May 8, 2025 8:00pm
Space Place Theater
BFA Concert All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
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Exhibition - A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive

Friday, May 9 to Friday, June 27, 2025 (all day)
University of Iowa Main Library
In 1897, French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé revolutionized the world of graphic design with a single poem that forever changed the way we look at words. His work illustrated how text conveys meaning not only through words, but also as visual symbols that contain a deeper meaning. For over 125 years, artists and writers have continued to explore the mystery of Mallarmé’s poem “Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard” [A throw of the dice will never abolish chance]. This exhibition...

27th Annual Optometric Conference

Friday, May 9, 2025 8:00am to 4:00pm
Levitt Center for University Advancement
Each Spring faculty at the University of Iowa Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences present a full-day conference for optometric practitioners. This conference will provide the optometric practitioner with information that will assist him/her with diagnostic dilemmas and patient questions that are encountered daily. This activity will also provide information about current and expected diagnostic and treatment options for a variety of eye diseases. Finally, this activity will provide...

Tow Lecture in Finance: Benjamin Golez

Friday, May 9, 2025 10:30am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building
Benjamin Golez is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Notre Dame and a Faculty Fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Global Investing.

Hawk-IDDRC Seminar Series: Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, MD, PhD; Rush University Medical Center

Friday, May 9, 2025 12:00pm
Virtual
Please join us for the Hawk-IDDRC Seminar Series Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, MD, PhD; Rush University Medical Center Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Neurological Sciences, Anatomy and Cell Biology Director, RUSH Pediatric Neurosciences F.A.S.T. Center for Translational Research Friday, May 9, 2025, noon CST in the Pediatric Conference Center JCP2415 More information to come!  

EES Seminar Series: Dr. Carlton E. Brett (University of Cincinnati) - "TBD"

Friday, May 9, 2025 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Trowbridge Hall

UI REACH Convocation Ceremony

Friday, May 9, 2025 4:30pm
Pappajohn Business Building
Doors will open 30 minutes prior to ceremony start. No tickets required. Times, days, and locations are subject to change. The ceremony will be livestreamed. 

Voxman Chorale and Kantorei Concert

Friday, May 9, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Voxman Chorale and Kantorei Concert Andrew Robinson (VC) and Jesse Reed (CS), graduate conductors This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
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Riverdance

Friday, May 9, 2025 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
Since Riverdance first emerged onto the world stage, its fusion of Irish and international dance and music has captured the hearts of millions worldwide.

Chamber Music Residency Program Recital II

Friday, May 9, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Chamber Music Residency Program Recital II The students of the Chamber Music Residency Programs will give their final recitals. This concert is free and open to the public.

Clarinet Studio Recital

Friday, May 9, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Clarinet Studio Recital This concert is free and open to the public.

Iowa New Play Festival

Friday, May 9, 2025 8:00pm
Theatre Building
Iowa New Play Festival We are thrilled to present our annual Iowa New Play Festival in the Theatre Building featuring full productions and daily readings. Funding for the Iowa New Play Festival is provided by The David and Jean Schaal Fund for Theatre Arts.
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Dance BFA Concert

Friday, May 9, 2025 8:00pm
Space Place Theater
BFA Concert All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
Exhibition - A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive promotional image

Exhibition - A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive

Saturday, May 10 to Friday, June 27, 2025 (all day)
University of Iowa Main Library
In 1897, French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé revolutionized the world of graphic design with a single poem that forever changed the way we look at words. His work illustrated how text conveys meaning not only through words, but also as visual symbols that contain a deeper meaning. For over 125 years, artists and writers have continued to explore the mystery of Mallarmé’s poem “Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard” [A throw of the dice will never abolish chance]. This exhibition...

DMA III Recital: Canlin Qiu, piano

Saturday, May 10, 2025 1:30pm
Voxman Music Building
DMA III Recital: Canlin Qiu, piano Canlin Qiu, piano Mariya Akhadjanova, orchestra piano This concert is free and open to the public.
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Riverdance

Saturday, May 10, 2025 2:00pm
Hancher Auditorium
Since Riverdance first emerged onto the world stage, its fusion of Irish and international dance and music has captured the hearts of millions worldwide.
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NEA Big Read | Discussion of "Beloved" with DK Nnuro

Saturday, May 10, 2025 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art
Join us for four discussions of Toni Morrison's Beloved and the exhibition it's a fine thing, led by the Stanley’s curator of special projects and author of What Napoleon Could Not Do, Derek (DK) Nnuro. Register for each session by clicking the dates below, capped at 30 participants:  Feb. 15 (Pages 1 - 59) March 8 (Pages 60 - 195) April 5 (Pages 199 - 277) May 10 (Pages 281 - 324) Iowa City is one of 62 communities nationwide participating in the 2023-2024 NEA Big Read. From February...

Senior Recital: Derek Thorn, voice

Saturday, May 10, 2025 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Senior Recital: Derek Thorn, voice Yimu Wang, Piano This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.