Mon., May 2, 12:15 p.m. "Emerging Patterns of
Childlessness by Race and Education Among U.S. Women," a
Population and Family Health Sciences seminar with Steven
Martin, University of Maryland; W2030 SPH. EB
Mon., May 2, 12:15 p.m. "Genomic Analysis of Retinal
and Hypothalamic Development," a Carnegie Institution of
Washington Embryology seminar with Seth Blackshaw; Seminar
Room, 115 W. University Pkwy. HW
Mon., May 2, 4 p.m. "The POLQ Enzyme Family in
Mammalian Cells," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
seminar with Richard Wood, University of Pittsburgh Medical
School and the Hillman Cancer Center; W2030 SPH. EB
Mon., May 2, 4 p.m. "On the Interaction of
Internally Mixed Dust and Sea Salt Particles With Clouds
and Precipitation," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar
with Zev Levin, Tel Aviv University; Olin Auditorium.
HW
Tues., May 3, noon. "Methods and Applications of
Protein Structure Prediction," a Biological Chemistry
seminar with Roland Dunbrack Jr., Fox Chase Cancer
Center/Institute for Cancer Research; 612 Physiology.
EB
Tues., May 3, noon. "Syphilis," a JHU Center for STD
Research and Prevention seminar with Anne Rompalo; W2030
SPH. EB
Tues., May 3, 2 p.m. "Quantum Statistical Mechanics
of Q-Lattices," a Mathematics seminar with Matilde
Marcolli, Max-Planck Institute, Bonn; 302 Krieger. HW
Tues., May 3, 3 p.m. "The Great Land-Use Sediment
Experiment: Early American Alteration of the Conestoga
Watershed and Its Impact on Modern, High Sediment Yields to
the Chesapeake Bay," a Geography and Environmental
Engineering seminar with Dorothy Merritts and Robert
Walker, Franklin and Marshall College; 234 Ames. HW
Tues., May 3, 4 p.m. "Linear Circularity:
(A)Temporal Poetics in a Kabbalistic Key," a Humanities
Center seminar with Elliot Wolfson, New York University;
111 Gilman. HW
Tues., May 3, 4 p.m. "A Survey of the Farkas Lemma,"
an Applied Mathematics and Statistics student seminar with
Kevin Byrnes; 304 Whitehead. HW
Tues., May 3, 4:30 p.m. "Conversational Speech and
Language Technologies for Structured Document Generation,"
a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with
Juergen Fritsch, Multimodal Technologies; 100 Shaffer.
HW
Tues., May 3, 4:40 p.m. "Three-Fold Divisorial
Contractions I," an Algebraic and Complex Geometry seminar
with Masayuki Kawakita; 302 Krieger. HW
Wed., May 4, 12:15 p.m. "Advocacy for Public Health:
The Crucial Role of Communications," a Population and
Family Health Sciences seminar with Andy Burness, Burness
Communications; W2030 SPH. EB
Wed., May 4, 12:15 p.m. "Depression and Parkinson's
Disease: Functional Impact and Screening," a Mental Health
seminar with J.R. Williams; B14B Hampton House. EB
Wed., May 4, 4 p.m. "Keeping the Genome Together:
Repair of DNA Strand Breaks," a Pharmacology and Molecular
Sciences seminar with Alan Tomkinson, Greenbaum Cancer
Center; 303 WBSB. EB
Wed., May 4, 4:30 p.m. "Three-Fold Divisorial
Contractions II," an Algebraic and Complex Geometry seminar
with Masayuki Kawakita; 304 Krieger. HW
Thurs., May 5, 9:30 a.m. "The Role of Biobehavioral
and Psychosocial Development in Adolescent Injury and
Violence Prevention: Toward a Developmental Approach to
Intervention," a Health Policy and Management thesis
defense seminar with Sara Johnson; 461 Hampton House.
EB
Thurs., May 5, noon. "The Nuclear Envelope, Emerin
and Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy," a Cell Biology
seminar with Kathy Wilson; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB
Thurs., May 5, noon. "Evolution of Immunity of
Plasmodium falciparum Merozoite Surface Protein-1 in Human
Beings," a Molecular Microbiology/Immunology and Infectious
Diseases seminar with James Kazura, Case Western Reserve
University School of Medicine/Center for Global Health and
Diseases; W2030 SPH. EB
Thurs., May 5, 1 p.m. "Cellular and Molecular
Mechanisms Determining the Dendritic Shape of Pyramidal
Neurons in the Cortex," a Neuroscience research seminar
with Franck Polleux, University of North Carolina; West
Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB
Thurs., May 5, 2 p.m. "Renormalization and Motivic
Galois Theory," a Mathematics seminar with Matilde
Marcolli, Max-Planck Institute, Bonn; 308 Krieger. HW
Thurs., May 5, 3:30 p.m. "How Complex Innate
Behaviors Are Built Into the Nervous System: Emerging
Lessons From Courtship Behavior in Drosophila," a Molecular
Biology and Genetics seminar with Bruce Baker; 517 PCTB.
EB
Thurs., May 5, 4 p.m. "Depth Functions in
Multivariate Analysis and Computational Geometry," an
Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Robert
Serfling, University of Texas, Dallas/National Science
Foundation; 304 Whitehead. HW
Thurs., May 5, 4 p.m. "PAS Domains: A Versatile Way
to Build a Biological Switch," a Biology seminar with Kevin
Gardner, UT Southwestern Medical Center; 100 Mudd. HW
Fri., May 6, 10 a.m. "Determinants of Health Care
Spending Using a Co-Integration," a Health Policy and
Management thesis defense seminar with Varduhi Petrosyan;
339 Hampton House. EB
Fri., May 6, 3:30 p.m. "A Comparison of Unsteady
RANS Simulations with PIV Data in an Axial Turbomachine," a
Mechanical Engineering seminar with Oguz Uzol; 107 Latrobe.
HW
Mon., May 9, 10 a.m. "The Effect of L-Arginine on
Arterial Stiffness, Cardiac Diastolic Function and Exercise
Tolerance," a Clinical Investigation thesis defense seminar
with Susan Zieman; E6519 SPH. EB
Mon., May 9, 12:15 p.m. "BDNF Signaling in Neural
Plasticity and Age-Related Disease," a Carnegie Institution
of Washington Embryology seminar with Mark Mattson,
NIH/NIA; Seminar Room, 115 W. University Pkwy. HW
Mon., May 9, 12:15 p.m. "Environmental Risk
Assessment of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products,"
an Environmental Health Engineering seminar with Donald
Versteeg, Procter & Gamble; W2015 SPH. EB
Mon., May 9, 4 p.m. "Trans-Translation: A Tail of
Protein Demise, Ribosome Rescue and Nonstop mRNAs," a
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Wali
Karzai, SUNY, Stony Brook; W2030 SPH. EB
Mon., May 9, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "Seasonal Neuroplasticity in
Songbirds" with Gregory Ball. Sponsored by the Krieger
Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW
Mon., May 9, 4:30 p.m. "Toledo Invariants on
2-Orbifolds," an Algebraic Topology seminar with Michael
Krebs; 308 Krieger. HW