Monday, April 20, 2009
KU alumnus to discuss global warming issues
Shane Haas, a KU alumnus who earned four degrees in six years, will give a talk titled, “Carbon and Calculus: Is it Getting Hot in Here?” at 4:30 in 120 Snow Hall. The talk will be free and open to the public.
The discussion is part of Mathematics Awareness Month’s colloquium for undergraduate students. Topics that Haas will discuss include: how the greenhouse effect works, how cold the Earth would be without an atmosphere and who or what is to blame for the warming of the Earth.
Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, who was Haas’s academic advisor and is chairperson of Mathematics Awareness Month, said he was a remarkable speaker with a keen understanding on a broad range of topics.
“He will show students how important math is,” Pasik-Duncan said. “He will motivate them to study science and math.”
Haas grew up in Wellsville and is currently a proprietary trader for Goldman Sachs.
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