Mon., Nov. 8, 4 p.m. "No Child Left Behind: An Un-
(or Under-) Funded Federal Mandate? Evidence from Texas,
Lessons for Maryland," an Institute for Policy Studies
Social Policy seminar with Andrew Reschovsky, University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Co-sponsored by Health Policy and
Management and Economics. 210 Hodson. HW
Mon., Nov. 8, 4 p.m. "Epigenetic Regulation of
Testis-Specific Transcription," a Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology seminar with John McCarrey, University of
Texas, San Antonio; W2030 SPH. EB
Mon., Nov. 8, 4 p.m. "Rebel Passions, Liberal
Dissents: Peace, Poverty and the Quest for Ethical
Citizenship in Early-20th-Century Britain," a History
seminar with Seth Koven, Villa Nova University; 315 Gilman.
HW
Mon., Nov. 8, 4:30 p.m. "Function Spaces From
Surfaces and Stable Decompositions," an Algebraic Topology
seminar with Craig Westerland, Institute for Advanced
Study; 302 Krieger. HW
Tues., Nov. 9, noon. "Mitochondria: ATP Synthasome
Structure, Function and Anti-Cancer Drug Target," a
Biological Chemistry seminar with Peter Pedersen; 612
Physiology. EB
Tues., Nov. 9, 1 p.m. "The Cocktail Party Problem
and Holographic Signal Processing," an Electrical and
Computer Engineering seminar with Dana Anderson, University
of Colorado, Boulder; 311 Hodson. HW
Tues., Nov. 9, 3 p.m. "Managing Water Supply Risk
Through Regionalization and Market-based Transfers," a
Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar with Greg
Characklis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; 234
Ames. HW
Tues., Nov. 9, 4 p.m. "The Role of Research and
Advanced Technical Analysis in Transportation Accident
Investigations," a Civil Engineering seminar with Alan
Kushner, NTSB; 110 Maryland. HW
Tues., Nov. 9, 4 p.m. "The 'Cohesion of Life':
Philosophy, the Ordinary and the Fictive Experience of
Time," a Women, Gender and Sexuality seminar with Hent de
Vries; 400 Macaulay. HW
Tues., Nov. 9, 4:30 p.m. "Discriminative Learning of
Generative Models," a Center for Language and Speech
Processing seminar with Tony Jebara, Columbia University; 3
Shaffer. HW
Wed., Nov. 10, 12:15 p.m. "What Every Student Needs
to Know About Submitting to the ORS," an Office for
Research Subjects seminar with Nate Pierce; W3030 SPH.
EB
Wed., Nov. 10, 1:30 p.m. "Crystal Structure of an
RNA Splicing Intermediate," a Biophysics and Biophysical
Chemistry seminar with Scott Strobel, Yale University; 517
PCTB. EB
Wed., Nov. 10, 2:30 p.m. "Normalizing and Background
Correcting Affymetrix Arrays, Normalizing and Background
Correcting cDNA Arrays," a JHMI Microarray Core Facility
seminar with Rafael Irizarry. Co-sponsored by Biostatistics
and the Hopkins Expressionists working group. W2008 SPH.
EB
Wed., Nov. 10, 3:30 p.m. "Simultaneous Effects on
Topography, Composition and Texture in Ion Assisted
Deposition of Thin Films," a Materials Science and
Engineering seminar with James Harper, University of New
Hampshire; 110 Maryland. HW
Wed., Nov. 10, 4 p.m. "CD25 Phosphatose: Enzymology
With a Protein Substrate," a Pharmacology and Molecular
Sciences seminar with Johannes Rudolph, Duke University;
303 WBSB. EB
Wed., Nov. 10, 4:30 p.m. "Prime Numbers and Divisor
Functions," a Number Theory seminar with John Friedlander,
University of Toronto; 302 Krieger. HW
Thurs., Nov. 11, noon. "Nitric Oxide Regulation of
Exocytosis," a Cell Biology seminar with Charles
Lowenstein; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB
Thurs., Nov. 11, noon. "Tracing Evolutionary
Patterns in Parasite Genomes," a Molecular Microbiology and
Immunology and Infectious Diseases seminar with Neil Hall,
The Institute for Genomic Research; W2030 SPH. EB
Thurs., Nov. 11, 12:15 p.m. "Medical Malpractice," a
tort reform panel with Diane Hoffman and Roger Wolf,
University of Maryland School of Law; Michael Preston,
State Medical Society; Paul Bekman, trial attorney; and
Dave Murray, Medical Mutual Insurance Co. Sponsored by
Health Policy and Management. Hampton House Lecture Hall
(basement). EB
Thurs., Nov. 11, 12:15 p.m. "How to Submit an
Application and What to Include in a Research Plan," an
Office for Research Subjects seminar with Jon Links; W3030
SPH. EB
Thurs., Nov. 11, 1 p.m. "Functional Genomics and the
Mouse Circadian Clock," a Neuroscience research seminar
with John Hogenesch, Genomics Institute of the Novartis
Research Foundation; West Lecture Hall (ground floor),
WBSB. EB
Thurs., Nov. 11, 3 p.m. "Creating Provably Stable
Biped Robot Walking and Running: Theory and Experiment," a
Mechanical Engineering seminar with Eric Westervelt, Ohio
State University; 210 Hodson. HW
Thurs., Nov. 11, 4 p.m. "The Latency Associated
Transcript Gene of HSV: What Does It Do and How Does It Do
It?" a Biology seminar with Nigel Fraser, University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine; 100 Mudd. HW
Thurs., Nov. 11, 4 p.m. "Aristotle's Ethics as
Political Science," a Political and Moral Thought seminar
with Gisela Striker, Harvard University. Sponsored by
History. 348 Gilman. HW
Fri., Nov. 12, 1:30 p.m. "The Quality Control of
Glycoprotein Folding: From Glyco- to Structural Biology," a
Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar with Armando
Parodi, Institute Leloir, Buenos Aires. Co-sponsored by
Biological Chemistry. 612 Physiology. EB
Fri., Nov. 12, 3 p.m. "Ideology and the End of the
Enlightenment: Myths, Epistemology and the Geneaological
Order," a Romance Languages and Literatures seminar with
Daniel Edelstein, Stanfod University; 336 Gilman. HW
Fri., Nov. 12, 4 p.m. "New Methods for Imaging Brain
Development and Function," a Biology seminar with Jiangyang
Zhang; 100 Mudd. HW
Mon., Nov. 15, 4 p.m. "Org Syn III — Structure
and Process in the 20th and 21st Centuries," a History
seminar with Lou Galambos; 315 Gilman. HW
Mon., Nov. 15, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "Haptic Perception of Shape: Using
Real and Illusory Objects to Uncover the Role of Force and
Geometry" with Gabriel Robles De la Torre, Queen's
University. Sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338
Krieger. HW
Mon., Nov. 15, 4 p.m. "In vitro and in vivo Studies
on Oxidized Abasic Sites: Are Abasic Sites
Non-Instructional," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
seminar with Marc Greenberg; W2030 SPH. EB
Mon., Nov. 15, 4 p.m. "The Terrestrial Impact Crater
Record (with special reference to the Chesapeake Bay Impact
Structure)," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with
Jeffrey Plescia; Olin Hall Auditorium. HW