Johns Hopkins Gazette | October 31, 2005
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The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University October 31, 2005 | Vol. 35 No. 9
 

Weekly Calendar

Colloquia | Community Health | Conferences | Discussion/Talks | Film/Video | Grand Rounds | Lectures | Music | Open House | Reading | Seminars | Special Events | Theater | Workshops

 

Colloquia

Tues., Nov. 1, 4:15 p.m. "Photochemical Generation of Compound I and Its Relations," a Chemistry colloquium with Martin Newcomb, University of Illinois; 233 Remsen. HW

Wed., Nov. 2, 2:30 p.m. "War-fighting in the 21st Century," an APL colloquium with Thomas Barnett; Parsons Auditorium. APL

Wed., Nov. 2, 5 p.m. "Did Someone Say Censorship?" a Peabody Musicology colloquium with Richard Taruskin, University of California, Berkeley; Cohen-Davison Theater. Peabody

Thurs., Nov. 3, 3:30 p.m. "Planet Formation," a Physics and Astronomy colloquium with Peter Goldreich, California Institute of Technology and the Institute for Advanced Study; Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Center. HW

 

Community Health

Flu vaccines for faculty and staff; after Nov. 3, vaccines will be given in the Office of Occupational Health Services, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2 to 4 p.m.

Tues., Nov. 1, 9 to 11 a.m. Conference Room B, Levering. HW

Tues., Nov. 1, 10 a.m. to noon. Room 102, Downtown Center.

Wed., Nov. 2, 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. and 1 to 3:30 p.m. Great Hall, Levering. HW

Thurs., Nov. 3, 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3:30 p.m. Conference Room A, Levering. HW

 

Conference

Tues., Nov. 1, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Diversity Leadership Council Diversity Conference, featuring a keynote address by Valerie Petit-Wilson, the Leadership Alliance; Provost Steven Knapp will give a lunchtime speech. The conference is designed for faculty, staff and administrators institutions-wide. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW

 

Discussion/Talks

Thurs., Nov. 3, 6 p.m. Jr./Sr. Medical School Application Meeting, required for students considering applying for the 2006-2007 application cycle. Sponsored by Preprofessional Programs. 110 Hodson. HW

Fri., Nov. 4, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. East Coast Iron Club, annual informal meeting for investigators to discuss current issues in iron metabolism research; with various speakers. Sponsored by Environmental Health Sciences. E2030 SPH. EB

 

Film/Video

Tues., Nov. 1, 8 p.m. Screening of Michael Snow's La Region Centrale (1971). Sponsored by the Humanities Center. The Charles Theater. Off campus

 

Grand Rounds

Wed., Nov. 2, 4 to 6 p.m. Preventive Medicine/Public Health grand rounds with Carl Latkin, SPH. Sponsored by the Office of the Dean, SPH. Sheldon Hall, SPH. EB

 

Lectures

Mon., Oct. 31, 4 p.m. The 2005 George S. Benton Lecture — "Air Pollution, Greenhouse Gases and Global Warming: Scientific and Societal Dilemmas" by V. Ramanathan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/University of California, San Diego. Sponsored by Earth and Planetary Sciences. Olin Auditorium. HW

Mon., Oct. 31, 5:15 p.m. "Nietzsche's Curses," a German lecture by Manfred Schneider, University of Virginia; 238 Gilman. HW

Mon., Oct. 31, 5:30 p.m. The 2005 Iwry Lecture — "Biblical Narrative Between Ugaritic and Akkadian Literatures and the Hidden Religion of Israel" by Mark Smith, New York University. Sponsored by Near Eastern Studies. 205 Krieger. HW

Tues., Nov. 1, 4 p.m. The George Kempf Lecture — "Geometry Over Finite Fields" by Yuri Tschinkel, Mathematisches Institut Gottingen, Germany and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Sponsored by Mathematics. 308 Krieger. HW

Tues., Nov. 1, 4 p.m. The 2005 George S. Benton Lecture — "Global Dimming: A New Estimate" by V. Ramanathan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/University of California, San Diego. Sponsored by Earth and Planetary Sciences. Olin Auditorium. HW

Tues., Nov. 1, 5:15 p.m. "Eid und Fluch (Herodot, Hebel, Wagner, Nietzsche, Grotius, Kant)," a German lecture by Manfred Schneider, University of Virginia; 238 Gilman. HW

Tues., Nov. 1, 8 p.m. "The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved," a Space Telescope Science Institute lecture by Mario Livio, STSci; STSci Auditorium. HW

Thurs., Nov. 3, 7 a.m. The Alfred Blalock Lecture — "Evidence-Based Surgery: The Case for Coronary Artery Bypass" by Robert Guyton, Emory University School of Medicine; Tilghman Room, Turner Bldg. EB

Thurs., Nov. 3, 3 p.m. The 11th J.F. Bell Lecture — "Review of Experimental Techniques for High Rate Deformation and Shock Studies" by John Field, University of Cambridge. Sponsored by Mechanical Engineering. 210 Hodson. HW

Fri., Nov. 4, 2 p.m. "The Power of Procrastination," a lecture by comic strip writer Jorge Cham, California Institute of Technology. Sponsored by the Alumni Association Student Assembly. Sheldon Hall, SPH. EB

Mon., Nov. 7, 4 p.m. Dean's Lecture I — "Hedgehog Signaling in Development and Disease" by Philip Beachy, SoM/HHMI. Sponsored by SoM. Hurd Hall. EB

 

Music

Mon., Oct. 31, 7:30 p.m. "An Evening of Spooks and Goblins" with the Peabody Singers. $18, $10 for senior citizens, $8 for students with ID. Griswold Hall. Peabody

Tues., Nov. 1, 8 p.m. The Peabody Trio performs, with faculty guest artist William Sharp, baritone. $18, $10 senior citizens, $8 students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

Thurs., Nov. 3, 7:30 p.m. Organ and harpsichord concert, with Jory Vinikour. $18, $10 senior citizens, $8 students with ID. Griswold Hall. Peabody

Fri., Nov. 4, 8 p.m. Evergreen Concert Series presents the Wister Quartet. $15. Evergreen Carriage House.

Fri., Nov. 4, 8 p.m. Peabody Concert Orchestra performs the world premiere of George Lam's Homecoming and music by Beethoven and Prokofiev. $18, $10 senior citizens, $8 students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

Sun., Nov. 6, 3 p.m. Preparatory Faculty Recital with the Kegelstatt Trio, with Christian Tremblay, violin; Zane Forshee, guitar; Brian Hanly, violin; Elysabeth Muscat-Catbas, soprano; and Hyun-Sook Park, piano. Cohen-Davison Theater. Peabody

Sun., Nov. 6, 5:30 p.m. Shriver Hall Concert Series presents baritone Jonathan Lemalu and pianist Malcolm Martineau. $33 general admission, $17 for students; $8 student rush tickets. Shriver Hall Auditorium. HW

 

Open House

Wed., Nov. 2, 4 to 7 p.m. Open House for the master of liberal arts program; an opportunity to talk to the associate program chair, submit an application, register for courses or ask questions. Sponsored by Advanced Academic Programs. Room G1, Wyman Park Bldg. HW

 

Reading

Mon., Oct. 31, 5 p.m. Poetry reading by Breyten Breytenbach. Sponsored by the Humanities Center. 110 Gilman. HW

 

Seminars

Mon., Oct. 31, noon. "Polio Eradication: Completing the Job, Guaranteeing the Investment," an International Health/Disease Prevention and Control seminar with David Heymann, World Health Organization; W1214 SPH. EB

Mon., Oct. 31, 12:15 p.m. "The Department of Defense Serum Repository: Opportunities for Seroepidemiologic Research Utilizing the World's Largest Serum Repository," an Epidemiology seminar with Remington Nevin, U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine; W4030 SPH. EB

Mon., Oct. 31, 12:15 p.m. "Genes, Proteins and Parkinson's Disease," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Ted Dawson, JHMI; 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., Oct. 31, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in Neuroscience — "Is the Cortex a Digital Computer?" with Dana Ballard, University of California. Sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

Mon., Oct. 31, 4 p.m. "Diffusion and Mixing in Fluid Flow," an Analysis seminar with Andrej Zlatos, University of Wisconsin; 308 Krieger. HW

Tues., Nov. 1, noon. "Challenges for Funding Community Health Research Projects: A Reviewer's Perspective," a Health, Behavior and Society seminar with Janice Bowie, JHSPH; 208 Hampton House. EB

Tues., Nov. 1, noon. "The Global HIV Pandemic: Can We Learn From Our Successes and Failures?" a Center for STD Research and Prevention seminar with Thomas Quinn, JHMI; W2030 SPH. EB

Tues., Nov. 1, 3:30 p.m. "Cytomechanical Systems Integration in Directed Cell Migration," a Biological Chemistry seminar with Clare Waterman-Storer, Scripps Research Institute; 612 Physiology. EB

Tues., Nov. 1, 4 p.m. "New Tools in Cryptography," a Computer Science seminar with Dan Boneh, Stanford University; 202 Shaffer. HW

Tues., Nov. 1, 4:30 p.m. "Quest for the Essence of Language," a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Steven Greenberg, Silicon Speech/Technical University of Denmark; 3 Shaffer. HW

Tues., Nov. 1, 5:15 p.m. "Only in the Contemplation of Beauty Is Human Life Worth Living (Plato, Symposium 211D)," a Romance Languages and Literatures seminar with Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University. Co-sponsored by the Philological Society, the Humanities Center and Philosophy. 110 Gilman. HW

Wed., Nov. 2, 8:15 a.m. "The Effectiveness of T-PA in Treating Acute Ischemic Stroke: Clinical, Statistical and Policy Issues," a Center for Clinical Trials seminar with Thomas Louis, SPH; W2030 SPH. EB

Wed., Nov. 2, 12:15 p.m. "Measuring Cognitive and Cortical Plasticity with Age," a Mental Health seminar with Michelle Carlson, SPH; B14B Hampton House. EB

Wed., Nov. 2, 4 p.m. "Probing Macromolecular Properties in Solution With Mass Spectrometry: Intrinsic and Transient Disorder as Facilitators of Protein Binding," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Igor Kaltashov, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Wed., Nov. 2, 5:15 p.m. "Il Cappello di Don Rodrigo: Maschere e Identita Nei Promessi Sposi," a Romance Languages and Literatures seminar with Fabio Finotti, University of Trieste; 223 Gilman. HW

Thurs., Nov. 3, noon. "Tracking Down Stemness," a Cell Biology seminar with Peter Donovan, SoM; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

Frank Newport discusses 'Polling and Politics' at the Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium. See Special Events.
PHOTO BY STEVEN WASKOW

Thurs., Nov. 3, 2 p.m. "Arithmetic Over Function Fields"," an Algebraic and Complex Geometry seminar with Yuri Tschinke, Mathematisches Institut Gottingen, Germany and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Co-sponsored by Number Theory. 302 Krieger. HW

Thurs., Nov. 3, 3:30 p.m. "Reconstructing Past Worlds: 100-Million-Year-Old Carbon," a Molecular Biology and Genetics seminar with Hope Jahren, KSAS. Co-sponsored by HHMI. 517 PCTB. EB

Thurs., Nov. 3, 4 p.m. "African-American Musicians as Artists, Critics and Activists," a Center for Africana Studies seminar with Eric Porter, University of California, Santa Cruz; Sherwood Room, Levering. HW

Thurs., Nov. 3, 4 p.m. "Intimate Apartheid Among African-American, Latino and White Heroin Injectors and Crack Smokers in San Francisco," an Anthropology seminar with Philippe Bourgois, University of California, San Francisco; 400 Macaulay. HW

Thurs., Nov. 3, 4 p.m. "An Artificial Vision System: The Discovery of Structure," an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Laurent Younes, WSE; 304 Whitehead. HW

Thurs., Nov. 3, 4 p.m. "Computationally Scalable Algorithms for Spatial Resizing of Compressed Images and Video," an Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar with Carlos Salazar; 117 Barton. HW

Mon., Nov. 7, 12:15 p.m. "Mechanisms of Cell Cycle Regulated Histone mRNA Biosynthesis During Drosophila Development," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Robert Duronio, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., Nov. 7, 3:30 p.m. "Applications of Smart Polymers as Bioconjugates," a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with Allan Hoffman, University of Washington; Laverty Lounge, Maryland Hall. HW

Mon., Nov. 7, 4 p.m. "Scalar and Vector Muckenhoupt Weights (and Space-Filling Curves)," an Analysis seminar with Michael Lauzon, Swarthmore College; 308 Krieger. HW

Mon., Nov. 7, 4 p.m. "Exploring Saturn in the Thermal Infrared: The Cassini/CIRS Investigation," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Michael Flasar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Olin Auditorium. HW

 

Special Events

Wed., Nov. 2, 8 p.m. The 2005 MSE Symposium, American Mass Media: Redefining the Democratic Landscape, presents Frank Newport, editor in chief of the Gallup Poll and vice president of the Gallup Organization, on "Polling and Politics." Shriver Hall Auditorium. Reception will follow the lecture in the Clipper Room. HW

Thurs., Nov. 3, noon. "Making the Most of Your Travel Photographs," a Mattin Art Munch talk with Jay Van Rensselaer, director, Homewood Photographic Services. Co-sponsored by the Homewood Arts Programs, Homewood Art Workshops and the JHU Digital Media Center. 162 Mattin Center. HW

Sat., Nov. 5, noon. "Dormers, Fanlights and Columns," a walking tour of the Homewood campus focusing on its Federal-style buildings and architectural details, preceded by a tour of the Homewood House Museum exhibition Portico, Passage, to Privy: HABS Records Homewood. Advance registration required; 410-516-5589. $6, $5 for students and senior citizens, $3 for children and free for JHU students, faculty and staff. Homewood House Museum. HW

Sat., Nov. 5, 1 p.m. "Homewood Upstairs and Downstairs," specialized tours of Homewood allow visitors to enjoy access to places and architectural details not usually seen by the public. Advance registration required; 410-516-5589. $6, $5 for students and senior citizens, $3 for children; free for JHU students, faculty and staff. Homewood House Museum. HW

Sat., Nov. 5, 8:30 p.m. "Diwali Dhamaka," Masti, Hopkins' co-ed fusion dance group performs its Fall Dance. Sponsored by the Hindu Student Council. O'Connor Recreation Center. HW

 

Theater

Fri., Nov. 4, Sat., Nov. 5, 8 p.m., and Sun., Nov. 6, 2 p.m. The Barnstormers present Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine. $7 general admission, $5 for students. Swirnow Theater, Mattin Center. HW

Fri., Nov. 4, Sat., Nov. 5, 8 p.m., and Sun., Nov. 6, 3 p.m. Johns Hopkins University Theatre presents Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart. $8 general admission, $4 for students. Merrick Barn. HW

Sun., Nov. 6, 1 p.m. Rosalie Calvert, the Mistress of Riversdale, Theatre Hopkins' Cherie Weinert performs. Co-sponsored by Theatre Hopkins and the Maryland Historical Society. $12 admission, $10 for Historical Society members; reservations recommended. 410-516-7159 or 410-685-3750, ext. 321. Maryland Historical Society, 201 W. Monument St. Off campus

 

Workshops

Thurs., Nov. 3, 1 to 2:30 p.m. WebCT faculty users group meeting with Pam Stefanuca. Sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources. 161 Mattin Center. HW

 
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