Johns Hopkins Gazette | April 2, 2007


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The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University		April 2, 2007 \| Vol. 36 No. 28

Weekly Calendar

Colloquia

Interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco of Columbia University, whose resume includes performances, videos and writings in major art exhibitions and publications, visits the Homewood campus on Thursday. See Discussion/Talks.

Tues., April 3, 4 p.m. "Christ at Large: Monuments and Territory in Post-Conflict in Ambon (Indonesia)," an Anthropology colloquium with Patricia Spyer, New York University. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center. 400 Macaulay. HW

Tues., April 3, 4:15 p.m. "An NMR View of RNA Dynamics and Its Role in Adaptive Recognition," a Chemistry colloquium with Hashim Al-Hashimi, University of Michigan; 233 Remsen. HW

Wed., April 4, 2 p.m. "Special Operations and Disaster Medicine: Common Challenges! Common Solutions?" an APL colloquium with Col. Alan Moloff, U.S. Army (retired); Kossiakoff Center Auditorium. APL

Wed., April 4, 2:30 p.m. "The Neural Basis of Learning and Memory Mechanisms Underlying Drug Addiction and Their Potential As Treatment Targets," a Psychological and Brain Sciences colloquium with Barry Everitt, Cambridge University; 234 Ames. HW

Wed., April 4, 3:30 p.m. "A Spitzer View of Massive Star Formation and AGNs at High Redshift," an STScI colloquium with Emeric Le Floc'h, University of Hawaii; STScI Auditorium. HW

Wed., April 4, 4:30 p.m. "Getting a Sense of Smell: Mechanisms That Regulate the Sensitivity, Response Kinetics and Development of Olfactory Sensory Neurons," a Biology colloquium with Haiqing Zhao, KSAS; 100 Mudd. HW

Thurs., April 5, 3 p.m. "Estes Kefauver and the Politics of Prescription Drugs," a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with John Servos, Amherst College; 3505 N. Charles Street. HW

Thurs., April 5, 3:45 p.m. "Understanding Complex Sentences: Memory Constraints and Information Structure," a Cognitive Science colloquium with Peter Gordon, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; 134A Krieger. HW

Conference

Mon., April 2, 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. "The Dissemination of Student Research on Addiction, Infectious Disease and Public Health," a conference with Wilson Compton, NIDA; Linda Cottler, Washington University School of Medicine; David Vlahov, New York Academy of Medicine. Co-sponsored by the Dean's Office, Drug Dependence Epidemiology Training Program, Mental Health, and Population, Family and Reproductive Health. E2014 SPH (Sommer Hall). EB

Fri., April 6, 8:30 a.m. "The Heat Is Rising: What You Need to Know About Climate Change and Public Health," a Center for Public Health Preparedness conference with various speakers. Co-sponsored by the Center for a Livable Future and the NIEHS Center in Urban Environmental Health. Registration required. www.jhsph.edu/preparedness. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB

Discussion/Talks

The Bloomberg Leadership Series, sponsored by SPH. Registration required. commprojects.jhsph.edu/communications/
event_signup.cfm?event_id=104. E2014 SPH (Sommer Hall). EB

Mon., April 2, 4 p.m. Tom Peters, author of In Search for Excellence.
Wed., April 4, 3 p.m. Gen. Colin Powell. (This event is full.)

Wed., April 4, 4 p.m. "The Innerness of the Inner Voice," a talk by Denise Riley, University of East Anglia. Co-sponsored by English and the Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality. 113 Greenhouse. HW

Wed., April 4, 6 to 7 p.m. Pre-Health discussion about the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Sponsored by Preprofessional Advising. Sherwood Room, Levering. HW

Thurs., April 5, 4 p.m. Tudor and Stuart Club Talk — "Lost Words" by Diana Fuss, Princeton University. Sponsored by English. 323 Gilman. HW

Thurs., April 5, 5 p.m. "Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature," the Africana Studies Critical Thought Collective Meeting, discussing Gene Andrew Jarrett's book of the same name; 113 Greenhouse. HW

Thurs., April 5, 5:15 p.m. "Performing Cultural Translation: Female Military Interrogators and the War on Terror," a talk by artist and writer Coco Fusco. Co-sponsored by the Center for Africana Studies, Women, Gender and Sexuality, Latin American Studies, the Philological Society and German and Romance Languages and Literatures. 110 Gilman. HW

Film/Video

Thurs., April 5, 12:30 p.m. "The Lessons of Polio Eradication for the Vertical vs. Horizontal Debate, PEPFAR and the Global Fund," video simulcast of a talk at SAIS by Ciro de Quadros, CEO, Sabin Vaccine Institute, and Carl Taylor, SPH. Sponsored by the Center of Global Health. E2014 SPH (Sommer Hall). EB

Mon., April 9, 7 p.m. Screening of the documentary The Bridge, followed by discussion. Sponsored by A Place to Talk. Mudd Auditorium. HW

Lectures

Mon., April 2, 4 p.m. "Seized by the Spirit: The Mystical Foundation of Squatting Among Pente-costals in Caracas, Venezuela," a Humanities Center lecture by Rafael Sanchez, New York University. Co-sponsored by Anthropology. 111 Gilman. HW

The George Kempf Lectures, by Kazuhiro Fujiwara, Nagoya University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 302 Krieger. HW

Tues., April 3, 4 p.m. "Counting the Number of Solutions in Finite Fields."
Wed., April 4, 4 p.m. "Galois Representations and Arithmetic Geometry of Shimura Varieties."

Thurs., April 5, 3 p.m. The Don P. Giddens Inaugural Professorial Lecture Series — "Extreme Machines: Advances in Robotics for Extreme Environments" by Louis Whitcomb, WSE. Sponsored by the Dean's Office, WSE. Great Hall, Levering. HW

Thurs., April 5, 6 p.m. "The Difficult Task of Erasing Oneself: Non-Composition in 20th-Century Art," a History of Art lecture by Yve-Alain Bois, Institute for Advanced Study; Smokler Center. HW

Fri., April 6, 11 a.m. "Combustion Instability: Understanding the Interplay of Chemistry, Flow Patterns and Acoustics," a CEAFM lecture by Albert Ratner, University of Iowa; 110 Maryland. HW

Fri., April 6, noon. SoM Postdoctoral Association Lecture Series — "Systems Biology of a Cell's Response to Low Oxygen" by Amina Qutub; and "Aggregate Volumes of White Matter Hyperintensities: Cognitive Functioning in Community-Dwelling Adults" by Tracy Vannorsdall. West Lecture Hall. EB

Fri., April 6, 3 p.m. "X-35 Test Pilot," an AIAA Distinguished Lecture by Capt. Thomas Morgenfeld, U.S. Navy (retired). Co-sponsored by Mechanical Engineering and the JHU student branch of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. 311 Hodson. HW

Fri., April 6, 4 p.m. "The Secret of Culture," a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by David Johnson, University of Buffalo; 223 Gilman. HW

Music

Wed., April 4, 8 p.m. Peabody Jazz presents "The Music of Ornette Coleman," performances of the jazz legend's compositions, presented by Baltimore musicians. Cohen-Davison Family Theater. Peabody

Fri., April 6, 5:45 p.m. Peabody at Homewood presents L'Armonia de Cieli, an ensemble specializing in Renaissance and early Baroque music. Guests may meet the evening's artists at a wine and cheese reception following each performance. $20 general admission, $15 for Homewood members and JHU affiliates. For reservations, membership and parking information, call 410-516-5589 or go to www.jhu.edu/historichouses. Homewood Museum. HW

Reading

Thurs., April 5, 6 p.m. Writing Seminars faculty reading with John T. Irwin and Dave Smith; 01 Remsen. HW

Seminars

Mon., April 2, noon. "The Alkaline Solution to the Emergence of Life," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Michael Russell, Caltech; Olin Auditorium. HW

Mon., April 2, 12:15 p.m. "TACCling Novel Importin Beta Targets in Mitotic Spindle Assembly," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Christiane Wiese, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., April 2, 4 p.m. "Recent Developments on the Two-Weight Problem for the Fourier Transform," an Analysis seminar with Ryan Berndt, Kansas State University; 302 Krieger. HW

Mon., April 2, 4 p.m. "Coupling Lipid Flip to Clathrin-Coated Vesicle Budding From the Golgi," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Todd Graham, Vanderbilt University; W2030 SPH. EB

Mon., April 2, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in Neuroscience — "Four Conditions on Sufficient Experimental Evidence to Establish a Molecular Basis for a Cognitive Phenomenon" with John Bickle, University of Cincinnati. Sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

Mon., April 2, 4 p.m. "One of the Great Muslim Nations: The French Republic, 'Exceptional Promotion,' and the 'Integration' of Algerians (1955-1962)," a special meeting of the History seminar with Todd Shepard, Temple University. Sponsored by History. 315 Gilman. HW