Mon., Feb. 5, 8:30 a.m. "Scientific Methods:
Survival Skills for Young Investigators," an SoM
Professional Development Office seminar with Tung-Tien Sun,
NYU School of Medicine. Medical community only. W1214 SPH.
EB
Mon., Feb. 5, 11 a.m. "An American Option Pricing
Method on Markov Processes," an Applied Mathematics and
Statistics seminar with Suneal Chaudhary, University of
Utah; 304 Shaffer. HW
Mon., Feb. 5, noon. "Chemical Reactivity of
Environmental Nanoparticles," an Earth and Planetary
Sciences seminar with R. Lee Penn, University of Wisconsin;
Olin Auditorium. HW
Mon., Feb. 5, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "Multielectrode Arrays for Embodied
Cultured Networks" with Steve Potter, Georgia Institute of
Technology/Emory University. Sponsored by Krieger Mind/
Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW
Mon., Feb. 5, 4 p.m. "The Politics of Privacy:
Finding the Cold War Roots of New Right 'Family Values,'"a
History seminar with Michelle Nickerson, University of
Texas, Dallas; 315 Gilman. HW
Tues., Feb. 6, noon. "Communication for Social
Change — A Focus on Community Change Outcomes," a
Health, Behavior and Society and Urban Health Institute
(SPH) seminar with Maria Elena Figueroa, SPH; 208 Hampton
House. EB
Tues., Feb. 6, noon. "Poly (ADP-ribose), an
Essential Multifunctional Modification, Is Required for
Spindle Function," a Cell Biology seminar with Paul Chang,
Harvard Medical School; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB
Tues., Feb. 6, 12:15 p.m. "New Insights Into Arf
Targeting and Function at the Golgi Complex and Plasma
Membrane," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with
Julie Donaldson, NIH and NHLBI; 3520 San Martin Drive.
HW
Tues., Feb. 6, 12:15 p.m. "Achieving the MDGs
through the Millennium Villages," a Bill and Melinda Gates
Institute for Population and Reproductive Health special
seminar with Rehana Ahmed, United Nations Millennium
Development Goals Centre, Nairobi, Kenya; W3030 SPH. EB
Tues., Feb. 6, 12:15 p.m. "The Epidemiology of
Hepatitis E Virus Infections in Rural Bangladesh," an
Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Alain Labrique;
W2030 SPH. EB
Tues., Feb. 6, 3 p.m. "New Treatment and Risk
Assessment Technologies for Potable Wastewater Reuse," a
Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar with James
Englehardt, University of Miami; 234 Ames. HW
Wed., Feb. 7, 8:15 a.m. "Collaborations Between
Government and Industry for Treatment of Age-Related
Macular Degeneration and Other Retinal Diseases," a Center
for Clinical Trials seminar with Emily Chew, National Eye
Institute; W4030 SPH. EB
Wed., Feb. 7, 12:15 p.m. "X-Chromosome Inactivation:
Not Just for Women," a Carnegie Institution Embryology
seminar with Jeannie Lee, Massachusetts General Hospital;
3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Wed., Feb. 7, 2 p.m. "Combining High Through-Put
Genomic Data: Methods and Utility," a Biostatistics thesis
defense seminar with Robert Scharpf; E9519 SPH. EB
Wed., Feb. 7, 3:30 p.m. "Toward a Molecular
Understanding, and a Molecular Engineering, of HIV," a
Materials Science and Engineering seminar with David
Schaffer, University of California, Berkeley; 110 Maryland.
HW
Wed., Feb. 7, 4 p.m. "Dynamic Cortical
Rearrangements, Mechanosensing and Mechanical Feedback of
Living Cells," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
seminar with Douglas Robinson, SoM; West Lecture Hall
(ground floor), WBSB. EB
Thurs., Feb. 8, noon. "Co-Factors in the Development
of Cervical Cancer," an Environmental Health Sciences
seminar with Amy Berrington, SPH; W3030 SPH. EB
Thurs., Feb. 8, 12:15 p.m. "The Moral Lives of the
Mentally Ill," a Berman Institute of Bioethics seminar with
Anita Allen, University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Co-sponsored by Psychiatry, Mental Health and Health
Services. E9519 SPH. EB
Thurs., Feb. 8, 1 p.m. "Molecular Genetic Analyis of
Neural Circuits Underlying Innate Behavior in Drosophila,"
a Neuroscience research seminar with Greg Suh, Caltech;
West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB
Thurs., Feb. 8, 1 p.m. "Diffusion Kernels on
Graphs," an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with
Bruno Jedynak, WSE; 301 Shaffer. HW
Thurs., Feb. 8, 3 p.m. "Fins, Scales and Stripes:
Genetic Analysis of Adult Pattern in the Zebrafish," a Cell
Biology seminar with Christiane Nusslein-Volhard,
Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology; WBSB
Auditorium. EB
Thurs., Feb. 8, 4 p.m. "Calculus of Functors and
Model Categories," a Topology seminar with Georg
Biedermann, University of Western Ontario; 302 Krieger.
HW
Thurs., Feb. 8, 4 p.m. "Hedging Under L^2 Convex
Risk Measures," an Applied Mathematics and Statistics
seminar with Antoine Toussaint, Princeton University; 304
Whitehead. HW
Thurs., Feb. 8, 4 p.m. "Meeting Children's Needs
When Parents Work," an Institute for Policy Studies seminar
with Jane Waldfogel. Co-sponsored by Economics and Health
Policy and Management. Part of the Social Policy seminar
series. 526 Wyman Bldg. HW
Thurs., Feb. 8, 4 p.m. "Riboswitches as Genetic
Regulators and Antibacterial Drug Targets," a Biology
special seminar with Kenneth Blount, Yale University; 100
Mudd. HW
Fri., Feb. 9, noon. "The Legal and Moral
Justifications of Government-Mandated Privacy," a Berman
Institute of Bioethics seminar with Anita Allen, University
of Pennsylvania Law School. Co-sponsored by the Johns
Hopkins Information Security Institute and Georgetown
University/JHU's Center for Law and the Public's Health.
421 Wyman Bldg. HW
Fri., Feb. 9, 12:15 p.m. "Policy Challenges in
Global Health: What Will It Take to Succeed?" an
International Health special seminar with Ruth Levine,
Center for Global Development. Co-sponsored by the Global
Health Leaders Forum. W1214 SPH. EB
Mon., Feb. 12, 11 a.m. "Optimal Life Insurance
Purchase, Consumption and Portfolio Under an Uncertain
Life," an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with
Jinchun Ye, Base-2 Capital LLC; 304 Shaffer. HW
Mon., Feb. 12, noon. "Magmas, the Coinage Metals and
Granite-Related Ore Deposits," an Earth and Planetary
Sciences seminar with Philip Candela, University of
Maryland, College Park; Olin Auditorium. HW
Mon., Feb. 12, 12:15 p.m. "The Paleontology of the
North Pole," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with
Hope Jahren, KSAS; 3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Feb. 12, 3 p.m. "Clustering of Cesareans in
Developing Countries," a Population, Family and
Reproductive Health thesis defense seminar with Sara Holtz;
E4611 SPH. EB
Mon., Feb. 12, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "What Cerebellar Purkinje Cells Encode
About Arm Movements: Implications for Theories of
Cerebellar Function" with Timothy Ebner, University of
Minnesota. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute.
338 Krieger. HW