Mon., March 27, 10 a.m. "The Relationship of
Parental Psychopathology to Child Medical Management and
Avoidable Emergency Pediatric Services," a Health Policy
and Management thesis defense seminar with Joseph Edward
Logan; 461 Hampton House. EB
Mon., March 27, noon. "Securing Dignity: The Role of
Leadership and Public Health in Conflict Situations —
An Insider's Perspective on Kashmir, Sudan and Rwanda," an
External Affairs seminar with Farooq Kathwari, Refugees
International, EO and president of Ethan Allen Interiors.
W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB
Mon., March 27, 12:15 p.m. "A Tale of Two Tails
— How Basic Research on the Chlamydomonas flagellum
Is Leading to New Insights Into Human Disease," a Carnegie
Institution Embryology seminar with George Witman,
University of Massachusetts Medical School; 3520 San Martin
Drive. HW
Mon., March 27, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "New Principles in an Old Brain:
Cortical Dynamics and Novel Feature Maps in Rodent Barrel
Cortex" with Christopher Moore, MIT McGovern Institute for
Brain Research. Sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain Institute.
338 Krieger. HW
Mon., March 27, 4 p.m. "How Good Is the Current
Estimation of Anthropogenic Carbon Inventory in the Ocean?"
an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Katsumi
Matsumoto, University of Minnesota; Olin Auditorium. HW
Mon., March 27, 4 p.m. "Considering U.S. Slave
Emancipation in Comparative Perspective," a History seminar
with Peter Kolchin, University of Delaware; 315 Gilman.
HW
Mon., March 27, 4 p.m. "From Yeast Cell Biology to
Human Progeria: Can an Anti-Cancer Drug (FTI) Be Used to
Treat Children With a Premature Aging Disorder (HGPS)?" a
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Susan
Michaelis, SoM; W2030 SPH. EB
Mon., March 27, 5 p.m. "The Cyclic Bar Construction
on A-infinity Objects and THH," a Topology seminar with
Vigleik Angeltveit; 308 Krieger. HW
Mon., March 27, 5:15 p.m. "Petrarch's Conception of
History," a Romance Languages and Literatures seminar with
Andreas Kablitz, University of Cologne; 223 Gilman. HW
Tues., March 28, noon. "How African American Is the
Net Black Advantage? Differences in College Attendance
Between Whites, Immigrants and Native Blacks," a Social
Policy seminar with Pamela Bennett, KSAS. Co-sponsored by
Institute for Policy Studies, Economics and Health Policy
and Management. 536 Wyman Park Bldg. HW
Tues., March 28, noon. "SIR2 Calorie Restriction and
Aging," a Biological Chemistry seminar with Leonard
Guarente, MIT; Mountcastle Auditorium, PCTB. EB
Tues., March 28, 4 p.m. "Questions to the
Profession: The Making of a Latin American Studies
Companion," a Program in Latin American Studies/Romance
Languages and Literatures seminar with Sara Castro-Klaren;
003 Greenhouse (basement level). HW
Tues., March 28, 4 p.m. "Pathology of the Norm:
Same-Sex Families and the Voices of Children," a Women,
Gender and Sexuality seminar with Aaron Goodfellow, KSAS;
113 Greenhouse. HW
Tues., March 28, 4 p.m. "Solving Airlines'
Pilot-Copilot Rostering Problem by Successive Bipartite
Weighted Matching," an Applied Mathematics and Statistics
student seminar with Xugang Ye; 304 Whitehead. HW
Tues., March 28, 4:30 p.m. "CUR Matrix
Decompositions for Improved Data Analysis," a Center for
Language and Speech Processing seminar with Michael
Mahoney, Yahoo Research; 3 Shaffer. HW
Wed., March 29, noon. "The Politics of Human Rights:
The Case of Sri Lanka," a Political Science seminar wiith
Alan Keenan, University of Pennsylvania; 370 Mergenthaler.
HW
Wed., March 29, noon. "Institutional Approaches to
Development: What Next After Acemoglu and Sen?" a Sociology
seminar with Peter Evans, University of California,
Berkeley; 526 Mergenthaler. HW
Wed., March 29, 12:15 p.m. "Introduction to PHIRST:
Public Health Institutional Review Submission and
Tracking," an Office for Research Subjects seminar with
Stephanie Gaudreau, ORS; W3008 SPH. EB
Wed., March 29, 1:30 p.m. "Dynamics of Translation:
Rapid Kinetics Studies of Ribosome Mechanisms," a
Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar with Marina
Rodnina, University of Witten/Herdecke; 517 PCTB. EB
Wed., March 29, 3:30 p.m. "Synthesis and
Self-Assembly of Nanomaterials Using Genetically Engineered
Viruses for Medical and Semiconductor Applications," a
Materials Science and Engineering seminar with Seung-Wuk
Lee, University of California, Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley
National Lab; 110 Maryland. HW
Wed., March 29, 4 p.m. "Kindling Backfires —
The Seventy and the Tactics of Evangelical Persuasion in
the Antebellum North, 1836-37," an American History seminar
with John Matsui, KSAS; 315 Gilman. HW
Wed., March 29, 4:30 p.m. "Galois Theory and Zeta
Functions of Riemannian Manifolds," a Number Theory seminar
with Ted Chinburg, University of Pennsylvania; 304 Krieger.
HW
Thurs., March 30, 11 a.m. "DNA and Microfluidics," a
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering seminar with Ron
Larson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; 110 Maryland.
HW
Thurs., March 30, noon. "Cytokinesis Is Driven by
Molecularly Controlled Active and Passive Processes and
Regulated by Mechanical Feedback," a Cell Biology seminar
with Douglas Robinson, SoM; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB
Thurs., March 30, noon. "Hu-man Dignity and the Law:
Fighting Against Crime and for Human Rights," with Patricia
Gatling, NYC Commissioner of Human Rights. Sponsored by the
Anna Baetjer Society. Reception follows. W1214 SPH (Sheldon
Hall). EB
Thurs., March 30, noon. "Phenotyping," an Animal
Care and Use Committee seminar with Cory Brayton and Julie
Watson, SoM; 403 Ross. EB
Thurs., March 30, 1 p.m. "Re-wiring the CNS After
Injury: Novel Growth Factors, Signaling Pathways and
Combinatorial Therapies," a Neuroscience research seminar
with Larry Benowitz, Harvard University; West Lecture Hall
(ground floor), WBSB. EB
Thurs., March 30, 3 p.m. "Explanation of the
Behavior of Slightly Light Droplets in Isotropic
Turbulence," a Mechanical Engineering seminar with Murray
Snyder, WSE; 107 Latrobe. HW
Thurs., March 30, 3 p.m. "Water and Heat Transport
in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells," a Mechanical
Engineering seminar with Chao-Yang Wang, Pennsylvania State
University; 210 Hodson. HW
Thurs., March 30, 4 p.m. "Retinoid Mediated
Mechanisms for Motor Neuron Differentiation," a Biology
seminar with Shanthini Sockanathan, SoM; 100 Mudd. HW
Thurs., March 30, 4 p.m. "Designing a Predictable
Backbone Network," an Electrical and Computer Engineering
seminar with Rui Zhang-Shen, Stanford University; 117
Barton. HW
Fri., March 31, 10 a.m. "Assessment of Norovirus and
Related Viral Surrogate Survival in Surface Water and
Subsurface Water," an Environmental Health Sciences thesis
defense seminar with Jinhee Bae; W6519 SPH. EB
Fri., March 31, 11 a.m. "Problems in Convexity," an
Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Lawrence
Shepp, Rutgers University; 304 Whitehead. HW
Fri., March 31, 1:30 p.m. "Characteristics of
Institutional Review Boards and Their Impact on Multicenter
Clinical Trials," an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar
with Ann-Margret Ervin; W2030 SPH. EB
Mon., April 3, noon. "Early Holocene (9,000 years
B.P.) Archaeology, Geoarchaeology and Paleoecology at the
Clary Ranch Site, Nebraska," an Earth and Planetary
Sciences seminar with Matthew Hill, Iowa State University;
Olin Auditorium. HW
Mon., April 3, 12:30 p.m. "Soy Improves Lipoprotein
Particle Number in Postmenopausal Women," a Center for
Collaborative Intervention Research seminar with Jerilyn
Allen, SoN; 9 Anne M. Pinkard Bldg. EB
Mon., April 3, 4 p.m. "Light Reception for Non-Image
Detection: Role of Rods, Cones and the New Photoreceptors
(Melanopsin-containing Retinal Ganglion Cells)," a
Molecular Biology and Immunology research presentation with
Samer Hattar. Sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain Institute.
338 Krieger. HW
Mon., April 3, 4 p.m. "Regulatory Networks Mediated
by RNA Silencing," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
seminar with David Baulcombe, the Sainsbury Laboratory,
John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK; W2030 SPH. EB
Mon., April 3, 4 p.m. "Looking Good, Feeling Good
From Head to Toe," a Bayview Medical Center seminar with
Nirutisai "Nancy" Graff, Jennifer Heller and Bruce
Lebowitz; Pavilion Conference Center. Bayview
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