Weekly Calendar

Colloquia | Discussion/Talks | Lectures | Music | Seminars | Special Events | Sports | Symposia |

 

Colloquia

Mukhtar Mai fought all the way to Pakistan's highest court — and won — after she was gang-raped in 2002 on the order of village elders. Today, she is a leading voice for women's rights. Her talk wraps the 2007 Foreign Affairs Symposium. See Symposia.

Tues., May 1, 4:15 p.m. "Initiation and Reactivity of Energetic Materials at Extreme Conditions," a Chemistry colloquium with M. Riad Manaa, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; 233 Remsen. HW

Wed., May 2, 3:30 p.m. "Gas in Galaxies: Puzzles and Prospects," an STScI colloquium with Leo Blitz, University of California, Berkeley; STScI Auditorium. HW

Wed., May 2, 3:30 p.m. "The Goedel Theorem and Human Nature," a Cognitive Science colloquium with Hilary Putnam, Harvard University; 134 Krieger. HW

Wed., May 2, 4 p.m. "Original Sin in the Eternal City: Cosmology and Social Experience in Modern Rome," an Anthropology colloquium with Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University; 400 Macaulay. HW

Wed., May 2, 4:30 p.m. "The Inhibition of Protein/Protein Interactions by Small Molecules," a Biology colloquium with Ernesto Freire, KSAS; Mudd Auditorium. HW

Fri., May 4, 2 p.m. "Origin of the Moon," an APL colloquium with S. Fred Singer, Science and Environmental Policy Project; Parsons Auditorium. APL

 

Discussion/Talks

Mon., April 30, noon. "The Virginia Tech Shootings: Where Do We Go From Here?" a town hall discussion with Stephen Teret, SPH, and Jon Vernick, SPH. Sponsored by the JB Grant Society. W1214 SPH. EB

Mon., April 30, 6 p.m. Pre-Health discussion about the Washington University School of Medicine, with associate dean of admissions W. Edwin Dodson. Sponsored by Preprofessional Programs and Advising. 162 Mattin Center. HW

Thurs., May 3, 5 p.m. Africana Studies Critical Thought Collective Meeting, discussion of the text Demonic Grounds: Black Women and Cartographies of Struggle by Katherine McKittrick. 113 Greenhouse. HW

Mon., May 7, 7 p.m. Pre-Health discussion about the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. Sponsored by Preprofessional Programs and Advising. Sherwood Room, Levering. HW

 

Lectures

Mon., April 30, 4 p.m. The Dean's Lecture IV — "Pathway to Totipotency: Lessons From Germ Cells" by Geraldine Seydoux, SoM. Sponsored by the Dean's Office, SoM. Hurd Hall. EB

Wed., May 2, 4 p.m. The Philip Bard Lecture in Medical Physiology — "Signaling to Transcripton: The Calcium/Calcineurin/NFAT Signaling Pathway" by Anjana Rao, Harvard Medical School; WBSB Auditorium. EB

Thurs., May 3, 5 p.m. "Giorgione's Man in Armor in Vienna: Its Sources and Meaning," a History of Art lecture by David Allen Brown, National Gallery of Art; Smokler Center. HW

Mon., May 7, 4 p.m. The 2007 Carlson Lecture — "A Structural Perspective on Ligand Stimulation of Membrane Receptors" by Wayne Hendrickson, Columbia University. Sponsored by Biophysics. Mudd Auditorium. HW

 

Music

Fri., May 4, 5:45 p.m. Peabody at Homewood presents virtuoso violinist Sonya Chung in the final concert of the season, performing works by Bach, Ysaye, Bartok and Shulamit Ran. $20 general admission, $15 for Homewood Museum members and JHU affiliates. Seating is limited and reservations are required; 410-516-5589. Reception Hall, Homewood Museum. HW

Sun., May 6, 3 p.m. "National Treasures: Songs of the USA and Canada," the Peabody Children's Chorus performs American and Canadian folk songs as well as pieces by Bernstein, Barber, Ives and Thompson; featuring all the chorus singers, ages 6 to 18, in three levels of ensemble. Free, but advance tickets are required. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

 

Seminars

Mon., April 30, 9 a.m. "Bankbook, Mapbook or Textbook: Migration, Local Age Structure and Funding of Public Primary and Secondary Schools in the United States," a Population, Family and Reproductive Health thesis defense seminar with Daniel Mercer; E4611 SPH. EB

Mon., April 30, noon. "Three Rocks, Three Planets, a Common Theme and a Big Puzzle," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Glenn MacPherson, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution; Olin Auditorium. HW

Mon., April 30, 12:15 p.m. "A Protein-Lipid Complex Transduces Touch in C. elegans," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Martin Chalfie, Columbia University; Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., April 30, 12:15 p.m. "Long-Term Care Policy: The Politics of Neglect," a Health Policy and Management/Population, Family and Reproductive Health joint seminar with William Weissert, Florida State University; W1030 SPH. EB

Mon., April 30, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in Neuroscience — "Activity in Gap-Junctionally Coupled Networks Depends on Dendrite Diameter," with Jorge Golowasch, New Jersey Institute of Technology. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

Mon., April 30, 4 p.m. "An Extreme Case of Regionalism: The Dilemma of the Psychological Sciences in the American South During the Era of Segregation," a History seminar with Anne Rose, Pennsylvania State University; 315 Gilman. HW

Mon., April 30, 4 p.m. "Bost-Connes-Marcolli Systems for Shimura Varieties," a Working Group in Noncommutative and Arithmetic Geometry seminars with Frederic Paugam, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VII. 302 Krieger. HW

Tues., May 1, noon. "Regulation of NF-kB by T-Cell Receptor Signaling," a Biological Chemistry seminar with Joel Pomerantz, SoM; 612 Physiology Bldg. EB

Tues., May 1, noon. "Why Community Engagement Is an Ethical Responsibility," a Community-Based Participatory Research seminar with Nancy Kass, SPH. Co-sponsored by Health, Behavior and Society and the Urban Health Institute (SPH). 208 Hampton House. EB

Tues., May 1, 3 and 4:30 p.m. "Motives of Rigid Analytic Varieties and Nearby Motives," an Algebraic and Complex Geometry seminar with Joseph Ayoub, Institute for Advanced Study. 302 Krieger. HW

Tues., May 1, 4:30 p.m. "Factoring Speech Into Linguistic Features," an Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar with Karen Livescu, MIT; 3 Shaffer. HW

Wed., May 2, 8:15 a.m. "The Precursors Study: 50 Years of Follow-Up," a JHMI Center for Clinical Trials seminar with Michael Klag, dean, Bloomberg School; W4030 SPH. EB

Wed., May 2, 9 a.m. "Predictors and Consequences of Substance Abuse Among Adults with Severe Mental Illness," a Mental Health thesis defense seminar with Krista Dowling; 845 Hampton House. EB

Wed., May 2, 10:30 a.m. "Novel Approaches to Assessing the Anterior Chamber Angle to Determine Risk Factors for Angle Closure Glaucoma: An Epidemiologic Approach," an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with David Friedman; W2008 SPH. EB

Wed., May 2, 11 a.m. "Association Between Maternal Depression and Socioeconomic Factors and Use of Preventive Health Services for Young Children," a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Lisa Lyman; E4611 SPH. EB

Wed., May 2, 12:15 p.m. "Alcohol Abuse and Dependence Among College Students in Lebanon: Exploring the Role of Religiosity in Different Religious Faiths," a Mental Health thesis defense seminar with Lilan Ghandour; B14B Hampton House. EB

Wed., May 2, 12:15 p.m. "Carnegie Observatories: Past, Present and Future," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Wendy Freedman, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington; Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Wed., May 2, 3 p.m. "Adaptive Modifications in the Pattern of Gastrulation in Different Frog Species," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Eugenia del Pino Veintimilla, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador; Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Wed., May 2, 5 p.m. "Papillomaviruses and Human Cancers: What Is Next?" an Environmental Health Sciences seminar with Keerti Shah, SPH, and T.C. Wu, SoM; W1030 SPH. EB

Thurs., May 3, noon. "Phosphoinositide Remodeling and Signal Transduction During Phago-cytosis," a Cell Biology seminar with Sergio Grinstein, University of Toronto; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

Thurs., May 3, 12:15 p.m. "Community Integration for Adults With Developmental Disabilities," a Health Policy and Management/Population, Family and Reproductive Health joint seminar with Charlie Lakin, University of Minnesota; W1020 SPH. EB

Thurs., May 3, 4 p.m. "How the Endoplasmic Reticulum Gets Into Shape," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Tom Rapoport, Harvard Medical School; W1020 SPH. EB

Thurs., May 3, 4 p.m. "Should Airplanes Flap Wings?" an Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar with Hynek Hermansky, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne; 117 Barton. HW

Thurs., May 3, 4 p.m. "The Fragmented Franks: Discordant Romanticization of Late Antiquity in Restoration France, 1814-48," a European History first-year presentation with Khalid Kurji; 315 Gilman. HW

Thurs., May 3, 4 p.m. "Photoreception Beyond Rods and Cones: An Increasing Repertoire of Amplification Mechanisms," a Biology seminar with Richard Payne, University of Maryland, College Park; 100 Mudd. HW

Fri., May 4, 11 a.m. "Modeling and Analyzing Process Variation-Caused Performance Uncertainty for Deep Submicron Circuit Design," an Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar with Janet Meiling Wang, University of Arizona, Tucson; 117 Barton. HW

Fri., May 4, 12:15 p.m. "Vitamin D and Cancer: Research Directions and Public Health Implications," an Epidemiology seminar with Marji McCullough, American Cancer Society; W4030, SPH. EB

Sat., May 5, noon. "The Sweet Nature of the Cellular Stress Response," a Biological Chemistry seminar with Natasha Zachara, SoM; 612 Physiology. EB

Mon., May 7, 4 p.m. "Genasense — Preclinical and Clinical Results in Melanoma," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Cy Stein, Albert Einstein Montefiore Cancer Center; W2030 SPH. EB

Mon., May 7, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in Neuroscience — "Determinants of Impulsivity: Evidence From Animal Studies" with John Evenden, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP; 338 Krieger. HW

 

Special Events

Wed., May 2, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. BME Design Day, with oral presentations and poster sessions highlighting the research and course work of Biomedical Engineering students. Hodson Hall. HW

Fri., May 4, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. JHU Press Annual Book Sale. Books are $3 per pound. Proceeds go to the JHU Press Staff Development Fund. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW

Fri., May 4, 3 to 6 p.m. Mattin Arts Center pARTy, featuring musical and theatrical performances, and exhibits of visual and digital arts. Sponsored by Homewood Arts Programs, the Digital Media Center and Homewood Art Workshops. Mattin Center. HW

 

Sports

Sat., May 5, 1 p.m. Men's Lacrosse, Blue Jays vs. Loyola. $12 premium seating, $10 reserved, $7 general admission and $5 for groups or children. Homewood Field. HW

 

Symposia

Mon., April 30, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. The 2007 Technology Fellowship Symposium, featuring instructional resources developed this year. Sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources. M Level, MSE Library. HW

Mon., April 30, 6 p.m. The 2007 Foreign Affairs Symposium — "From Victim to Activist: The Changing Face of Women's Rights in Pakistan," with Pakistani activist Mukhtar Mai. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW

Tues., May 1, 3 p.m. Masters' Poster Symposium, with presentations and discussion of posters by 23 graduating master of health science and master of science students, followed by a wine and cheese reception. Sponsored by Epidemiology. E2030 SPH. EB

Wed., May 2, 8:15 a.m. The Center for Cell Dynamics Inaugural Symposium — Molecules in Motion: The Art and Science of Cell Dynamics with Ronald Germain, NIH; Doug Lauffenburger, MIT; Jeff Lichtman, Harvard University School of Medicine; Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, NIH; Ted Salmon, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Sanford Simon, Rockefeller University; James Spudich, Stanford University School of Medicine; Karel Svoboda, HHMI; and Roger Tsien, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. (See story, "Center for Cell Dynamics to hold inaugural symposium," in this issue.) Sponsored by the Center for Cell Dynamics. Mountcastle Auditorium. EB

Fri., May 4, 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The 2007 Burgers Research Symposium on Environmental and Applied Fluid Dynamics, with various speakers. Sponsored by CEAFM. 110 Maryland. HW

 

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