Weekly Calendar

Colloquia | Discussion/Talks | Lectures | Music | Seminars | Workshops

Cellist Lynn Harrell, above, will share the stage with pianist Victor Santiago Asuncion to bring works by Beethoven, Franck, Debussy and Chopin to the Homewood campus. See Music.

 

Colloquia

Wed., Jan. 24, 4 p.m. "Executive Control of Thought and Action: In Search of the Elusive Homunculus," a Psychological and Brain Sciences colloquium with Gordon Logan, Vanderbilt University; 234 Ames. HW

 

Discussion/Talks

Tues., Jan. 23, 7 to 9 p.m. "Why You Should Care About Research on Humans in Developing Countries," a discussion with Nancy Kass, SPH. Sponsored by the Berman Institute of Bioethics. Part of the "Grounds for Discussion" series of community conversations with some of the institute's leading bioethicists. Evergreen Coffee House, 501 W. Cold Spring Lane.

 

Lectures

Wed., Jan. 24, 12:30 p.m. "Help for the Home Researcher or How to Install VPN to Get to Welch Resources," a Welch Library lecture by Lavinia Wiggs, SoM; 140 Pinkard Bldg. EB

Thurs., Jan. 25, 2 p.m. The Alicia Showalter-Reynolds Memorial Lecture — "Cell Fate Determination in the Vertebrate Retina" by Connie Cepko, Harvard Medical School; Mountcastle Auditorium, PCTB. EB

Fri., Jan. 26, 11 a.m. "Diffusometry to Determine Viscosity, Temperature and Particle Size," a CEAFM lecture by Steve Wereley, Purdue University; 110 Maryland. HW

 

Music

Tues., Jan. 23, noon. The Art of Healing Concert Series presents the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's Jonathan Carney. Sponsored by the Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. Ceremonial lobby, Weinberg Bldg. EB

Sun., Jan. 28, 3 p.m. Peabody Preparatory Honors Recital; Griswold Hall. Peabody

Sun., Jan. 28, 5:30 p.m. The Shriver Hall Concert Series presents cellist Lynn Harrell and pianist Victor Santiago Asuncion. 4:30 p.m. Pre-concert lecture; Clipper Room. $33 general admission, $17 for students; free for all JHU students. Shriver Hall. HW

 

Seminars

Mon., Jan. 22, noon. "Subsurface Flow and Transport Processes: What We Think We Know and What We Really Know," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Christopher Neuzil, U.S. Geological Survey; Olin Auditorium. HW

Mon., Jan. 22, 12:15 p.m. "Metabolic Mayhem: The Role of AMP-Activated Protein Kinase and Energy Sensing in Cancer, Obesity and Stroke," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Gabriele Ronnett, SoM; 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., Jan. 22, 1 p.m. "Single-Cell Resolution Functional Mapping with Two-Photon Calcium Imaging in Vivo," a Neuroscience special seminar with Kenichi Ohki, Harvard Medical School; West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Mon., Jan. 22, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in Neuro-science — "An Iconoclast in the Motor Cortex: Changing the Circuits That Control the Fingers" with Marc Schieber, University of Rochester. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

Tues., Jan. 23, 12:15 p.m. "Lost in Transition: Reaping the Benefits of Non-Hypothesis Driven Genomics and Its Multi-Colored Low-Hanging Fruits," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Henry Krause, University of Toronto; 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Tues., Jan. 23, 4 p.m. "Computing Homotopy Groups of Spheres with Modular Forms," a Topology seminar with Mark Behrens; 302 Krieger. HW

Wed., Jan. 24, noon. "Aging, 'Stress,' Lead Exposure and Cognitive Outcomes in Adults," an Environmental Health Sciences seminar with Brian Schwartz, SPH; W7023 SPH. EB

Wed., Jan. 24, 2 p.m. "Clinical Implications of Redefining Human Endothelial Progenitor Cells," an Institute for Cell Engineering seminar with Mervin Yoder, Indiana University School of Medicine; West Lecture Hall, PCTB. EB

Wed., Jan. 24, 3:30 p.m. "Engineering the Nano-Bio Interface with 'Smart' Biopolymers," a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with Ashutosh Chilkoti, Duke University; 110 Maryland. HW

Wed., Jan. 24, 5 p.m. "Small Gaps Between Primes: The Ideas of Goldston-Pintz-Yildirim," a Number Theory seminar with Angel Kumchev, Towson University; 304 Krieger. HW

Thurs., Jan. 25, noon. "Lung Cancer in HIV Patients: Is This a Different Lung Cancer?" an Environmental Health Sciences seminar with Malcolm Brock, SoM; W3030 SPH. EB

Thurs., Jan. 25, noon. "Microvilli, Rhabdomeres and Outer Segment Discs: A Paradigm for the Study of Organelle Morphogenesis," a Cell Biology seminar with Andrew Zelhof, University of California, San Diego; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

Thurs., Jan. 25, 1 p.m. "Intra- and Extracellular Recordings From the Hippocampus and Cortex of Freely Moving Rats," a Neuroscience research seminar with Albert Lee, Humboldt University, Berlin; West Lecture Hall, WBSB. EB

Thurs., Jan. 25, 4 p.m. "Random Tomography in Structural Biology," a joint Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Biostatistics seminar with Victor Panaretos, University of California, Berkeley; W3008 SPH. EB

Fri., Jan. 26, 9 a.m. "Critical Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations," an Analysis seminar with Xiaoyi Zhang, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, China; 302 Krieger. HW

Fri., Jan. 26, noon. "Toward a Vaccine Against Oriental Schistosomiasis," an International Health seminar with Allen Ross, University of Saskatchewan, Canada; W2015 SPH. EB

Fri., Jan. 26, 4 p.m. "Intersection Homology Theory on Hilbert Modular Varieties," a Number Theory seminar with Jayce Getz; 302 Krieger. HW

Fri., Jan. 26, 5 p.m. "Finance, Technology and Associationalism: Automating Odd-Lot Trading at the New York Stock Exchange, 195-1976," a Business History seminar with Phillip Bradford, University of Alabama; and Paul Miranti, KSAS. Sponsored by History. 315 Gilman. HW

Mon., Jan. 29, noon. "Crater Relaxation in the Solar System," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Andrew Dombard, APL; Olin Auditorium. HW

Mon., Jan. 29, 12:15 p.m. "Adaptive Evolution and Speciation of African Cichlid Fishes," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Thomas Kocher, University of Maryland, College Park; 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., Jan. 29, 1 p.m. "Memory Formation in the Hippocampal Formation: A Multiregion Analysis," a Neuroscience special seminar with James Knierim, University of Texas Medical School at Houston; West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Mon., Jan. 29, 4 p.m. "Nonpositively Curved Surfaces in R3," an Analysis seminar with Hsungrow Chan, National Pingtung University of Education, Taiwan; 308 Krieger. HW

Mon., Jan. 29, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in Neuroscience — "Separate Image Durations Activate Distinct Neuronal Populations in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe" with Peter Steinmetz, Arizona State University. Sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

 

Workshops

WebCT training workshops with Amy Zimmerman, CER. Register at www.cer.jhu.edu/index.cfm?pageID=95. Sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

Mon., Jan. 22, 1 to 4 p.m. "Getting Started With WebCT."

Wed., Jan. 24, 1 to 4 p.m. "Assessing Student Knowledge and Managing Students and Grades."

Thurs., Jan. 25, 1 to 4 p.m. "Online Communication and Presenting Content to Students."

 
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