Mon., April 11, 12:15 p.m. "Can the Internet Be Used
to Facilitate Screening for Chlamydia trachomatis by
Reaching Non-Clinic Populations?" a Population and Family
Health Sciences seminar with Charlotte Gaydos; W2030 SPH.
EB
Mon., April 11, 12:15 p.m. "Basal Bodies and Human
Pleiotropic Disease," a Carnegie Institution of Washington
Embryology seminar with Nicholas Katsanis; Seminar Room,
115 W. University Pkwy. HW
Mon., April 11, 2:30 p.m. "Social Entrepreneurship
in Health Care: Bringing Venture Skills to Social Causes,"
with Dave Gershon, National Institute for
Pharmaco-Economics and Health Care Policy. A focus group
session follows the seminar; R.S.V.P. to jiyoung@jhu.edu with
name, status, affiliation and a brief personal description.
Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB
Mon., April 11, 4 p.m. "Sylvester Manor: A
Provisioning Plantation on Long Island, 1652-1752," a
History seminar with Mac Griswold, Sylvester Manor Project;
315 Gilman. HW
Mon., April 11, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "Common Patterns of Organization for
the Synaptic Inputs That Build Receptive Fields in the
Visual Thalamus and Cortex" with Judith Hirsch, University
of Southern California. Sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain
Institute. 338 Krieger. HW
Mon., April 11, 4 p.m. "Kulanaokuaiki-3 Tephra:
Something New (and Almost Unbelievable) at Kilauea Volcano,
Hawaii," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with
Richard Fiske, Smithsonian Institution; Olin Auditorium.
HW
Mon., April 11, 5:30 p.m. "A 'Royal' Cemetery From
Third Millennium B.C. Syria: The Hopkins/Amsterdam
Excavations at Tell Umm el-Marra 2002 and 2004," a Near
Eastern Studies seminar with Glenn Schwartz; 110 Gilman.
HW
Tues., April 12, noon. "The Fascinating Biology of
Phosphatidylinositol Transfer Proteins in Eukaryotes," a
Biological Chemistry seminar with Vytas Bankaitis,
University of Cell and Developmental Biology; 612
Physiology. EB
Tues., April 12, noon. "The NIMH Collaborative
HIV/STI Prevention Trial in Chennai, India," a Center for
STD Research and Prevention seminar with David Celentano;
W2030 SPH. EB
Tues., April 12, 12:15 p.m. "The Consequences of
Psychopathology for Chronic Physical Conditions of Late
Middle Age," a Social and Behavioral Sciences seminar with
Bill Eaton; Hampton House Auditorium. EB
Tues., April 12, 12:15 p.m. "Overcoming the Organ
Shortage: The Singapore Story," a Health Policy and
Management seminar with Jeremy Lim; 250 Hampton House.
EB
Tues., April 12, 1:15 p.m. "Field and Laboratory
Evaluation of a Refined Method for Assessing Small Airway
Function," an Environmental Health Sciences thesis defense
seminar with Laura LaRosa; W1505 SPH. EB
Tues., April 12, 4 p.m. "Black But Not African: The
Articulation of Francophone Black Diaspora in the Revue des
Colonies, 1834-1842," an African History seminar with Kelly
Duke-Bryant; 315 Gilman. HW
Tues., April 12, 4 p.m. "Introduction to Standard
Ensemble Filtering Methods," an Applied Mathematics and
Statistics seminar with Sangil Kim; 304 Whitehead. HW
Tues., April 12, 4 p.m. "Metrics on Teichmuller
Space and Geometry of Complex Ball Quotients," an Algebraic
and Complex Geometry seminar with Sai Kee Yeung, Purdue
University; 302 Krieger. HW
Wed., April 13, 8:15 a.m. "The Dying Child: Terrible
Questions, Few Answers: A Reporter's Perspective on the
Hardest Story," a Center for Clinical Trials seminar with
Diana Sugg, The Baltimore Sun; W4030 SPH. EB
Wed., April 13, 12:15 p.m. "From 'American Idol' to
'Queer Eye': Messages Conveyed Through Prime-Time Reality
Shows," a Population and Family Health Sciences seminar
with Dina Borzekowski, Lauren Frank, Maliha Ilias, Ann
Marconi, Jennifer Orkis, Katherine Vestal and Nina
Washington; W2030 SPH. EB
Wed., April 13, 12:15 p.m. Lifestyle and Behavioral
Factors for Traumatic Exposure Among Young Adults," a
Mental Health seminar with Cynthia Jones; B14B Hampton
House. EB
Wed., April 13, 3:30 p.m. "Chern Class and
Degeneracy Sets, II," an Algebraic and Complex Geometry
seminar with Qi Zhong; 302 Krieger. HW
Wed., April 13, 3:30 p.m. "Self-Assembly of
Macromolecular Systems Containing Coiled-Coil Domains," a
Materials Science and Engineering seminar with Jindrich
Kopecek, University of Utah; 110 Maryland. HW
Wed., April 13, 4 p.m. "How Is Translation
Catalyzed?" a Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar
with Anders Liljas, Lund University, Sweden; 517 PCTB.
EB
Wed., April 13, 4 p.m. "Genetic Control by
Riboswitches and Riboenzymes," a Pharmacology and Molecular
Sciences seminar with Ronald Breamer, Yale University; 303
WBSB. EB
Wed., April 13, 4 p.m. "Without Borrowing Our
Morality From Eastern Tales: Orientalist Literature and the
Gendered Reader in Early American Magazines" with Katherine
Jorgensen; and "Natural Description and the 'Patriotic
Ardour for Promoting Science ... and ... Natural History'
in Edward Long's History of Jamaica" with James Roberts.
Sponsored by History. 315 Gilman. HW
Wed., April 13, 4:30 p.m. "Nonvanishing of Central
Critical Values of Modular L-Functions Modulo P.," a Number
Theory seminar with Matthew Boylan, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign; 304 Krieger. HW
Thurs., April 14, noon. "Pre-Lamin A and Progeria,"
a Cell Biology seminar with Stephen Young, UCLA; Suite
2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB
Thurs., April 14, 12:15 p.m. "Why Invest in Behavior
Change Communication?" a Center for Communication Programs
seminar with Alice Payne Merritt, Health Communication
Partnership; Suite 310 (International Room), 111 Market
Place. EB
Thurs., April 14, 1 p.m. "Signaling Mechanisms
Regulating Neuronal Morphogenesis," a Neuroscience research
seminar with Azad Bonni, Harvard Medical School; West
Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB
Thurs., April 14, 3 p.m. "Ceramics Deformed Under
High Confining Stress," a Mechanical Engineering seminar
with Ru-qiang Feng, University of Nebraska; 210 Hodson.
HW
Thurs., April 14, 4 p.m. "Glass Worlds of the Great
Exhibition: Reading Glass," an English seminar with Isobel
Armstrong; 148 Gilman. HW
Thurs., April 14, 4 p.m. "Nonparametric Binary
Regression Using a Gaussian-Process Prior," an Applied
Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Anindya Roy, UMBC;
304 Whitehead. HW
Thurs., April 14, 4 p.m. "De-criminalizing
Napoleon's Diplomacy: New Understandings of French Foreign
Policy, 1797-1814," a History seminar with Edward Kolla;
315 Gilman. HW
Thurs., April 14, 4 p.m. "Madagascar's Buried
Treasure: Discoveries of Dinosaurs and Other Vertebrates
From the Land That Time Forgot," a Center for Functional
Anatomy and Evolution seminar with David Krause, Stony
Brook University; 107A WBSB. EB
Thurs., April 14, 5 p.m. "Esoteric Scribes and
Melancholy Antiquarians: Writing and Scholarship in Ancient
Mesopotamia," a Near Eastern Studies seminar with Gonzalo
Rubio, Pennsylvania State University; 123 Gilman. HW
Fri., April 15, 10:30 a.m. "Spatial Correlation of
Physical Aquifer Properties: Influence on DNAPL Entrapment
and Recovery," a Center for Environmental and Fluid
Mechanics seminar with Lawrence Lemke, Wayne State
University; 305 Olin. HW
Fri., April 15, noon. "Sliding Contact Between Rough
Surfaces" with Lin Pei; and "Finite Element Simulation of
Human Head Impact" with Haitao Zhang, a Mechanical
Engineering joint seminar. 106 Latrobe. HW
Mon., April 18, 12:15 p.m. "Genetic Screens,
Haploinsufficiency and Mating in the Human Fungal Pathogen
Candida albicans," a Carnegie Institution of Washington
Embryology seminar with Alexander Johnson, University of
California, San Francisco; Seminar Room, 115 W. University
Pkwy. HW
Mon., April 18, 12:15 p.m. "Incorporating Youth
Perspectives Into an Environmental Program to Improve Food
Stores in East and West Baltimore," a Population and Family
Health Sciences seminar with Joel Gittlesohn; W2030 SPH.
EB
Mon., April 18, 3:30 p.m. "Genomic Integrity in
Mammalian Cells and the Role of Double-Strand Break
Repair,'" a Molecular Biology and Genetics seminar with
Maria Jasin, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; 517
PCTB. EB
Mon., April 18, 4 p.m. "Hot Fluids, Sea Floor
Hydrogeology and Formation of the World's Largest Zinc
Deposit at Red Dog, Alaska" with Grant Garven; and
"Mineral-Solute Mass Balances in Crystalline Watersheds"
with Blair Jones, U.S. Geological Survey. Sponsored by
Earth and Planetary Sciences. Olin Hall Auditorium. HW
Mon., April 18, 4 p.m. "Curing Poetic Vocation: The
Example of Hart Crane's 'The Broken Tower,'" a Humanities
Center seminar with Alan Grossman; 111 Gilman. HW
Mon., April 18, 5 p.m. "Apolipoprotein L-I Lyses
Trypanosomes Through an Anionic Pore in Thelysosomal
Membrane," a Biological Chemistry special seminar with
David Perez-Morga, Free University of Brussels, Belgium;
612 Physiology. EB
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