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