"Gadgets and the Curves They Throw You" will be Dr. Michael Edmiston's topic for a Bluffton University Colloquium at 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27, in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Bluffton's Centennial Hall. The talk is free and open to the public.

Edmiston is a professor of chemistry and physics at the university and chair of its natural and applied sciences division.