Mon., Sept. 27, noon. "Adventures in Workforce
Investment: A Year of Performance Support Research on the
Local Public Workforce System in Baltimore," an Institute
for Policy Studies lunchtime seminar with Christopher
Thompson; 526 Wyman Bldg. HW
Mon., Sept. 27, 2:30 p.m. "Minimum Bayes-Risk
Techniques in Automatic Speech Recognition and Statistical
Machine Translation," an Electrical and Computer
Engineering dissertation defense seminar with Shankar
Kumar; 320 Barton. HW
Mon., Sept. 27, 4 p.m. "Imperial Citizenship: Unity,
Difference and Nationality in Post-War French Africa," a
History seminar with Fred Cooper; 315 Gilman. HW
Mon., Sept. 27, 4 p.m. "Melt Extraction From Lower
Continental Crust: Observations, Mechanisms, Feedbacks and
Consequences," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with
Mike Brown, University of Maryland; 305 Olin. HW
Mon., Sept. 27, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "Neuronal Mechanisms of Attention and
Working Memory in Area V4" with Jack Gallant, University of
California, Berkeley. Sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain
Institute. 338 Krieger. HW
Tues., Sept. 28, noon. "Novel Approaches to
Controlling HIV-related TB: The Consortium to Re-spond
Effectively to the AIDS/TB Epidemic (CREATE)," a Center for
TB Research seminar with Richard Chaisson; Sommer Hall,
SPH. EB
Tues., Sept. 28, 3 p.m. "Gone Fishin': Using
Magnetic Bead-based Technologies to Overcome Limitations in
Molecular Community Analysis Techniques," a Geography and
Environmental Engineering seminar with Laurel Crosby,
Stanford University; 234 Ames. HW
Tues., Sept. 28, 4 p.m. "Multi-Level Computational
Models for Multiple Scale Analysis of Composite Materials,"
a Civil Engineering seminar with Somnath Ghosh, Ohio State
University; 110 Maryland. HW
Tues., Sept. 28, 4:30 p.m. "Joint Discriminative
Language Modeling and Utterance Classification," a Center
for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Brian
Roark, Oregon Health and Science University; 3 Shaffer.
HW
Wed., Sept. 29, 12:15 p.m. "How to Submit a CHR
Application and What to Include in a Research Plan," an
Office for Research Subjects seminar with Jonathan Links;
W3030 SPH. EB
Wed., Sept. 29, 2 p.m. "VLSI Implementation of
Steerable Spatiotemporal Filters for Focal-Plane Adaptive
Image Processing," an Electrical and Computer Engineering
dissertation defense seminar with Viktor Gruev; 320 Barton.
HW
Wed., Sept. 29, 3:45 p.m. "Spatial Association
Between Speciated Fine Particles and Human Health Effects,"
a Biostatistics seminar with John Vandenberg and Montserrat
Fuentes, North Carolina State University; W2030 SPH. EB
Wed., Sept. 29, 4:30 p.m. "On Nonvanishing of the
Central Value of the Rankin-Selberg L-Functions," a Number
Theory seminar with Dihua Jiang, University of Minnesota;
308 Krieger. HW
Thurs., Sept. 30, 11 a.m. "Switching the Functional
Display of Adhesion Proteins by Mechanical Force," a
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering seminar with Viola
Vogel, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; 110 Maryland. HW
Thurs., Sept. 30, 12:15 p.m. "Goals and Priorities
of the Ehrlich Administration," a Health Policy and
Management policy seminar with Lt. Gov. Michael Steele;
B14B Hampton House (auditorium). EB
Thurs., Sept. 30, 1 p.m. "Regulation of Neural
Progenitor Fates in the Neonatal CNS," a Neuroscience
research seminar with Jim Goldman, Columbia University;
West Lecture Hall, WBSB. EB
Thurs., Sept. 30, 3 p.m. "Dynamic Self-Assembly of
Paramagnetic Beads at Micro and Nanoscales," a Mechanical
Engineering seminar with George Em Karniadakis, Brown
University; 210 Hodson. HW
Thurs., Sept. 30, 3:30 p.m. "RNA Silencing Complex
Assembly and Function," a Molecular Biology and Genetics
seminar with Erik Sontheimer, Northwestern University; 517
PCTB. EB
Thurs., Sept. 30, 4 p.m. "Assessing Parenting Across
Racial Groups: Implications for Child Maltreatment," an
Institute for Policy Studies seminar with Christina Paxson,
Princeton University. Part of the Social Policy seminar
series, co-sponsored by Economics and Health Policy and
Management. 526 Wyman Park Bldg. HW
Thurs., Sept. 30, 4 p.m. "Notch and FGF Signaling in
Mammalian Neural Stem Cells," a Cell Biology seminar with
Nicholas Gaiano; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB
Thurs., Sept. 30, 4 p.m. "Survivin Checkpoints," a
Biology seminar with Dario Altieri, University of
Massachusetts Memorial Cancer Center and University of
Massachusetts Medical School; 100 Mudd. HW
Thurs., Sept. 30, 4 p.m. "Black Personhood and the
Maw of Abstraction," an English seminar with Phil Harper,
New York University; 323 Gilman. HW
Thurs., Sept. 30, 4 p.m. "Scalable Solvers and
Software for PDE-based Applications," an Applied
Mathematics and Statistics seminar with David Keyes,
Columbia University; 304 Whitehead. HW
Fri., Oct. 1, 4 p.m. "Neuropsychology of
Goal-Directed Behavior," a Biology Frontiers of
Neuroscience seminar with Peter Holland; 100 Mudd. HW
Mon., Oct. 4, 4 p.m. "Foreshock Sequences and
Short-Term Earthquake Predictability on East Pacific Rise
Transform Faults," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar
with Jeff McGuire, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution;
305 Olin. HW
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