The East Johnson Research Center

Established 2023

Current scientists

Carsen Grote (Fluid Mechanics) Owen Eskandari (Quantum Computing) Dmitry Zverevich (Condensed Matter Physics)
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We're back!

Fall 2025 seminar schedule

Date Speaker Title Host
9/11 Owen Eskandari How We Perceive Color Carsen
9/18 Connor Page How to create a religion without even trying (but actually trying a little too hard) Owen
9/25 Tommy Chang Street Dance Owen
10/2
10/9 Sam Ricord Railroad Scandals that Define American Capitalism and Corporatism Carsen
10/16
10/23 TBA Carsen
10/30
11/6 Cate Sturner and Emily Joseph Formula One Scandals Owen
11/13
11/20
11/27

Thursdays, 7:30 pm, 927 (you know what street)

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Here's what we were up to on summer break!

Spring seminar schedule

Date Speaker Title Host
1/16 Sam Ricord Equity Implications of Data Driven Decision Making Owen
1/23 Ella Rumsey Analysis of the Iliad Owen
1/30 Carsen Grote How to walk down the street to the bar Owen
2/6 Panagiotis Drosos How to get succulent, striated and dense Carsen
2/13 Zach Babat Emo: A Constellography Carsen
2/20 ... Let's take a week off maybe
2/27 Carsen Grote We're gonna live forever: Oasis Owen
3/6 Antonia Winkler This algorithm is a better driver than dmitry: welcome to vehicle automation Carsen
3/13 Zach Babat's band at the Rigby Carsen
3/20 March Meeting Owen and Dmitry are gone on business
3/27 Spring Break? Carsen is looking for beer
4/3 Pano, Joe, Mitya The Beef Council Carsen
4/10 Owen fell asleep
4/17 Owen Eskandari Rare weather phenomena: a multi-sensory experience Carsen
4/24 Ella Rumsey Things you didn't know about yourself Owen
5/1 Sam Kramer Da Pope Carsen

Summer seminar schedule

*Carsen away on sabbatical

Date Speaker Title Host
5/8 Emily Joseph the chemistry of baking Owen
5/15 Joseph Flahavan PEARapsychology Owen
5/22 Dmitry Zverevich Tales from Dolgoprudnyi: how best Russian tech school works Owen
5/29 Andrew Gross Life and Death of the Great American Mall: A Contrived Retrospective in Four Parts Owen
6/5 Will Martin How to fix your things: a how-to guide Dmitry
6/12 Sam Ricord American urbanism in the latter half of the 20th century through the film 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' Dmitry

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Founding members (Owen, Dmitry, and Carsen)


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Preparing for the seminar series...