
Wege Auditorium
Wege Auditorium is located in TCL, room 123,
Past Events
November 2018

Biology Department Colloquium with Dr. Daniel Bolnick '96
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- Lectures, Films, Readings, Panels
Dr. Daniel Bolnick '96 from the University of Connecticut will present his talk titled "Why genetic variation persists within populations, and why we should care" today at 1:10pm in Wege. All are welcome!!
Find out more »February 2019

Biology Colloquium with Dr. Sara Wasserman of Wellsley College
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Dr. Sara Wasserman, Wellesley College, will be giving her talk titled "State-dependent decision making in flying fruit flies," at 1:10pm today in Wege. All are welcome.
Find out more »March 2019

Computer Science Colloquium - "On the Complexity of the Resilience Problem"
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Friday, March 1st @ 2:35pm in Wege Auditorium (TCL 123)
Computer Science presents Cibele Freire giving a talk titled, "On the Complexity of the Resilience Problem."

Environmental and Genetic Vulnerabilities to Alcohol: Fighting, Feeling Good, and the Fetus
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Please join Eric Fish '96 as he presents his research regarding alcohol exposure on mice and recent studies on how specific genes can influence both the morphological and long-term behavioral consequences of fetal alcohol exposure.
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Computer Science Class of '60s Speaker - James Mickens, Harvard
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Computer Science Class of '60s Speaker - James Mickens, Harvard
Thursday, March 07 @ 8:00pm in Wege Auditorium (TCL 123)
"Blockchains Are A Bad Idea (More Specifically, Blockchains Are A Very Bad Idea) "
Reception to follow.

Aerosols and Ancient History in Greenland Ice
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Dr. Joseph McConnell, Desert Research Inst., will give a lecture on "Aerosols and Ancient History in Greenland Ice." Sponsored by the Science Center, Geosciences Dept., and Center for Environmental Studies.
Find out more »April 2019

The Williams Sigma Xi Spring Lecture featuring Phoebe Cohen, associate professor of geosciences
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- Lectures, Films, Readings, Panels
Phoebe Cohen, Associate Professor of Geosciences, will present, “Answering Burning Questions by Burning Tiny Fossils: Reconstructing Ancient Ecosystems via Single-Microfossil Carbon Isotopes" for the college's spring Sigma Xi lecture.
Find out more »July 2019

Williams College Astronomy Dept to mark Apollo 11 anniversary
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Williams College ‘s Astronomy Dept will host a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moonlanding of July 20, 1969, with a talk and a movie is Wege Auditorium in the Chemistry building in the Williams College Science quad.
Find out more »October 2019

You Don't Have Free Will, Jerry Coyne, University of Chicago
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- Lectures, Films, Readings, Panels
A public lecture by biologist Jerry Coyne on the (non)-existence of free will and the important implications that a purely naturalistic view of human behavior has for reforming society and our own behavior.
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Manuel Morales, Professor of Biology, to give 2019 Sigma Xi Talk on Mutualism
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Manuel Morales, Williams professor of biology, will present “Mutualism: When is Good-Good Too Much of a Good Thing?” for the autumn Sigma Xi lecture on Friday, Oct. 25, at 4:15 PM in Wege. A reception will follow in the Science Atrium.
Find out more »January 2020

Reel Rock Film Festival FRIDAY!
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- Lectures, Films, Readings, Panels
Reel Rock Film Festival TONIGHT in Wege! Climbing films that weave bold action, humor, heart, and soul into larger-than-life human stories. FREE Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wcc-woc-reel-rock-showing-tickets-86220892009
Find out more »February 2020

Running to School: Kenyan Athletics in the Era of Olympic Boycotts
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- Lectures, Films, Readings, Panels
Jessica Chapman, Associate Professor of History, will present the first of six talks in the 2020 Faculty Lecture Series.
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From Muslim to Christian: How Coffee Went Global
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- Lectures, Films, Readings, Panels
Ashok Rai, an economist, will present the second of six talks in the Faculty Lecture Series.
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Creating Music as an Out of the Box Composer
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- Lectures, Films, Readings, Panels
Ileana Perez Velázquez, Professor of Music, will present the third of six talks in the 2020 Faculty Lecture Series. The aim of the Faculty Lecture Series is to present big ideas beyond disciplinary boundaries. All lectures are free.
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Diseases, invasive species, and other ecological systems: insights from mathematical models
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- Lectures, Films, Readings, Panels
Julie Blackwood, Associate Professor of Mathematics, will present the fourth of six talks in the 2020 Faculty Lecture Series. The aim of the Faculty Lecture Series is to present big ideas beyond disciplinary boundaries. Lectures are free.
Find out more »November 2021

Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Medicine by Collin M. Stultz MD+PhD, MIT+PBK Visiting Scholar
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Dr. Collin M. Stultz from MIT will discuss what makes a good machine learning model for clinical applications. Note that this talk is open to the general public and attendance will be limited and require proof of vaccination.
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Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Medicine: What makes a good machine learning model
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Please join Collin Stultz of MIT on Monday, November 1, 2021 at 7:30PM in Wege during his Phi Beta Kappa public lecture.
Find out more »February 2025

“How To Love a Forest” with Ethan Tapper, Forester & Bestselling Author
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- On and Around Campus
Vermont forester and author of the bestselling book, How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World, will give a public talk at the Hoosic River Watershed Association's Annual Meeting. All are welcome!
Find out more »April 2025

Class of 1960 Scholars Lecture by Professor Eric Steig, University of Washington
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The Antarctic ice sheet is melting -- but how (and why now)? The polar ice sheets and glaciers worldwide are losing mass and contributing to sea level rise. In Greenland the reason for this is relatively straightforward: the air is getting warmer, melting the ice from above. The same is true for glaciers in alpine regions. In Antarctica, the situation…
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