September 28, 2009

Calendar — Sept. 28, 2009

COLLOQUIA

Tues., Sept. 29, 4 p.m. “Living a Lifetime Sentence as a Wife to a Palestinian Political Prisoner,” an Anthropology colloquium with visiting scholar Lotte Buch. 400 Macaulay.  HW
Tues., Sept. 29, 4:15 p.m. “Catalysis, Chirality and Rotation Studied at the Single-Molecule Limit,” a Chemistry colloquium with Charles Sykes, Tufts University. 233 Remsen.  HW
Wed., Sept. 30, 4 p.m. “The Consolidation of Health Care Privatization in Colombia: Consequences and Restrictions,” a Program in Latin American Studies colloquium with Cesar Abadia-Barrero, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. 113 Greenhouse.  HW
Thurs., Oct. 1, 3 p.m. “Bionic Hearing: The Science and the Experience,” a Physics and Astronomy colloquium with Ian Shipsey, Purdue University. Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Center.  HW
Thurs., Oct. 1, 3 p.m. “Imagining a Molecular World: Chemistry, Distant Interference and the Scientific Imagination,” a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Alan Rocke, Case Western Reserve University. Room 102, 3505 N. Charles St.  HW
Thurs., Oct. 1, 3:45 p.m. “Using Pattern-based fMRI to Relate the Structure of People’s Neural Representations to Their Behavioral Performance,” a Cognitive Science colloquium with Rajeev Raizada, Dartmouth College. 134A Krieger.  HW
Thurs., Oct. 1, 4 p.m. “God, Mind and Body: The Order of Knowledge in Descartes,” a Philosophy colloquium with Alan Nelson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Co-sponsored by Evolution, Cognition and Culture. 102A Dell House.  HW

DISCUSSION/TALKS

Mon., Sept. 28, 12:30 p.m. “Foreign Investment in India,” an International Law and Organizations Program discussion with Marcia Wiss, Hogan & Hartson and SAIS. For more information and to RSVP, phone 202-663-5982 or e-mail tbascia1@jhu.edu. 533 Rome Building.  SAIS
Tues., Sept. 29, 5 p.m. “The Status of Migrants in Today’s Europe,” a European Studies Progam discussion with Kathleen Newland, Migration Policy Institute. For more information and to RSVP, phone 202-663-5796 or e-mail ntobin@jhu.edu. Rome Building Auditorium.  SAIS
Wed., Sept. 30, 12:30 p.m. “Resetting U.S.–Russian Relations: Dim Prospects for Success?” a Russian and Eurasian Studies Program discussion with David Kramer, German Marshall Fund. For more information and to RSVP, phone 202-663-5795 or e-mail egerasimov@jhu.edu. 812 Rome Building. 

Wed., Sept. 30, 4:15 p.m. “Making Business Work Better for the Poor,” an International Development Program discussion with Harold Rosen, Grassroots Business Fund. For more information and to RSVP, phone 202-663-5943 or e-mail nsander4@jhu .edu. 736 Bernstein-Offit Building.  SAIS

Wed., Sept. 30, 5:30 p.m. “Pacific Alliance: Reviving U.S.– Japan Relations,” an American Foreign Policy Program panel discussion of Kent Calder’s book of the same name, with Calder, SAIS; Michael Mandelbaum, SAIS; Kenji Shinoda, deputy chief of mission, Embassy of Japan; and Terrence Hopman, SAIS. For more information and to RSVP, phone 202-663-5790 or e-mail kkornell@jhu.edu. Rome Building Auditorium.  SAIS

Wed., Sept. 30, 6 p.m. “Breaking the Silence,” a panel discussion with authors Azar Nafisi, Soheir Khashoggi, Zainab Salbi  and Margaret Warner (moderator), senior correspondent on The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer. Part of SAIS’ Cultural Conversations series. For more information and to RSVP, phone 202-663-5635 or e-mail laustin@jhu.edu. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building.  SAIS
Fri., Oct. 2, 10 a.m. “U.S.– German Relations in a New Era,” a SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations discussion with various experts. Co-sponsored by American Bundestag Intern Network and Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst. Reception will follow. For more information and to RSVP, phone 202-663-7730 or e-mail gdemian1@jhu.edu. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building.  SAIS
Fri., Oct. 2, 12:30 p.m. “Political and Technological Actions to Improve Food Security,” a SAIS  International Development Program discussion with Joachim von Braun, director general, International Food Policy Research Institute. For information and to RSVP, phone 202-663-5943 or e-mail developmentroundtable@jhu.edu. 200 Rome Building.  SAIS
Fri., Oct. 2, 12:30 p.m. “Opportunities and Challenges in the Inter-American System,” a SAIS  International Law and Organizations Program discussion with Dinah Shelton, George Washington University Law School. For information and to RSVP, phone 202-663-5982 or e-mail tbascia1@jhu.edu. 812 Rome Building.  SAIS
Mon., Oct. 5, 5:30 p.m. “Access to Experts,” a Center for Global Health career panel discussion with Jason Farley, SoN; Brenda Rakama, Jhpiego; and Heather Sanders, JHCCP. Other panelists TBA. Co-sponsored by the Office of Career Services. W1030 SPH (Anna Baetjer Room).  EB

GRAND ROUNDS

Fri., Oct. 2, 12:15 p.m. “A Common IT Infrastructure Serving Both Research and Health Care,” Health Sciences Informatics grand rounds with Amnon Shabo, IBM Research Laboratory, Haifa, Israel. Sponsored by Health Policy and Management. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall).  EB

LECTURES

Mon., Sept. 28, 5:15 p.m. “La critique litteraire a ‘distance de loge’: La methode Starobinski,” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture in French by Daniele Cohn, ENS in Paris. Co-sponsored by the Centre Louis Marin. 101A Dell House.  HW
Wed., Sept. 30, 5:15 p.m. “Realismus und Verklarung: der Fall Fontane,” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture in German by Daniele Cohn, ENS in Paris. Co-sponsored by the Centre Louis Marin. 101A Dell House.  HW
Thurs., Oct. 1, 5:15 p.m. “Is Beauty Obsolete?” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture in English by Daniele Cohn, ENS in Paris. Co-sponsored by the Centre Louis Marin. 101A Dell House.  HW

MUSIC

Tues., Sept. 29, 8 p.m. Artists from Yong Siew Toh Conservatory play music by Janacek, Franck, Poulenc and de Falla. (See photo, this page.) $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall.  Peabody
Fri., Oct. 2, 8 p.m. The Peabody Concert Orchestra performs music by Barber, Mozart and Dvorak, with guests Keng-Tuen Tseng, violin; and Victoria Chiang, viola. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall.  Peabody
Sat., Oct. 3, 7:30 p.m. The Peabody Camerata performs music by Hoffmann, Maw and Schoenberg. Griswold Hall.  Peabody
Sat., Oct. 3, 8 p.m. A cappella concert by the Mental Notes and guests. 101 Mattin Center (SDS Room).  HW

SEMINARS

Mon., Sept. 28, 12:15 p.m. “Flagella Assembly Studies in Chlamydomonas Lead to Insights Into Polycystic Kidney Disease and Other Cilia-Dependent Diseases,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Joel Rosenbaum, Yale University. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive.  HW
Mon., Sept. 28, 4 p.m. “Targeting Aberrant Gene Silencing With Polyamine Analogues as a Strategy for Cancer Therapy,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Robert Casero, SoM. W2030 SPH.  EB
Mon., Sept. 28, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar—“The Contribution of Short-Term Depression and Subthreshold Membrane Conductances to Directional Selectivity in Midbrain Neurons” with Maurice Chacron, McGill University. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger.  HW
Mon., Sept. 28, 4:30 p.m. “Covering Homology and Witt Constructions,” a Topology seminar with Bjorn Ian Dundas, University of Bergen, Norway. 308 Krieger.  HW
Tues., Sept. 29, noon. “Tobacco Product Regulation and Harm Reduction: Undoing the Damage From an Unregulated Marketplace,” a FAMRI Center of Excellence at Johns Hopkins seminar with Mitch Zeller, Pinney Associates. W2030 SPH.  EB
Tues., Sept. 29, noon. “Group Choreography: Mechanisms Orchestrating Collective Movement of the Border Cells,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with Denise Montell, SoM. 612 Physiology.  EB
Tues., Sept. 29, 3 p.m. “Translating in vitro Toxicity Data to in vivo Risk: Application to Early Drug Discovery,” an Environmental Health Sciences seminar with James McKimm, CeeTox Inc. Co-sponsored by the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing. W7023 SPH.  EB
Tues., Sept. 29, 3 p.m. “Nanomaterials as Environmental Pollutants: Can We Predict Fate, Transport and Biological Response?” a Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar with Joseph Hughes, Georgia Tech. 234 Ames.  HW
Tues., Sept. 29, 4:30 p.m. “Semi-Supervised Learning for Speech and Language Processing,” a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Katrin Kirchhoff, University of Washington. B17 CSEB.  HW
Wed., Sept. 30, noon. “The Use of Propensity Scores in Mental Health Research,” a Mental Health seminar with Elizabeth Stuart, SPH. B14B Hampton House.  EB
Wed., Sept. 30, noon. “Membrane Traffic and Membrane Fusion in Endosomes and Lysosomes,” a Physiology seminar with Alexey Merz, University of Washington. 203 Physiology Research Conference Room.  EB
Wed., Sept. 30, 1 p.m. “Profits and Public Health: A Study of Corporations, the Laws That Govern Them and Strategies Designed to Influence Corporations’ Effects on the Public’s Health,” a Health Policy and Management thesis defense seminar with Helaine Rutkow. W1030 SPH (Anna Baetjer Room).  EB
Wed., Sept. 30, 3 p.m. “The Bergman-Szego Kernel on Complex Manifolds II,” a Complex Geometry seminar with Bernard Shiffman, KSAS. Sponsored by Mathematics. 308 Krieger.  HW
Wed., Sept. 30, 3 p.m. “Shaping Nano-scale Crystals: From Shells to Technological Materials,” a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with Christine Orme, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 110 Maryland.  HW
Thurs., Oct. 1, 10 a.m. “Determinants of Condom Use With Female Sex Workers Among Male Clients in Sichuan Province, China,” a Health, Behavior and Society thesis defense seminar with Cui Yang. W2029 SPH.  EB
Thurs., Oct. 1, noon. “Interactions of Viruses With Polarized Hepatocytes,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases seminar with David Anderson, Burnet Institute/Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct, Melbourne, Australia. W1020 SPH.  EB
Thurs., Oct. 1, noon. Randolph Bromery Seminar—“Stratospheric Ozone and Its Coupling With Climate Change” with Richard Stolarski, NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center. 304 Olin.  HW
Thurs., Oct. 1, noon. “Vesicular Trafficking of Ion Channels in Neuronal Dendrites,” a Cell Biology seminar with Hiroaki Misono, University of Maryland, Baltimore. Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg.  EB
Thurs., Oct. 1, 4 p.m. “Spatio-temporal Models for EEG/MEG Source Estimation,” an Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar with Wanmei Ou, MIT. 110 Maryland.  HW
Thurs., Oct. 1, 4 p.m. “Frizzled Receptors in Development and Disease,” a Biology seminar with Jeremy Nathans, SoM. 100 Mudd.  HW
Thurs., Oct. 1, 4 p.m. “Scaling Great Ideas That Work: The Social Innovation Fund,” a Social Policy seminar with Robert Grimm. (See “In Brief,” p. 2.) Co-sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies, Economics, and Health Policy and Management. 526 Wyman Park Bldg.  HW
Thurs., Oct. 1, 4 p.m. “Optimizing Group Sequential Designs That Allow Changes to the Population Sampled Based on Interim Data,” an Applied Mathematics and Statistics/Biostatistics joint seminar with Michael Rosenblum, SPH. 304 Whitehead.  HW
Fri., Oct. 2, 10 a.m. “Health-related Quality of Life, Visual Functioning and Depression in a Type 1 Diabetes Population: Wisconsin Epidemiologic Study of Diabetic Retinopathy,” an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Flavio Hirai. W2030 SPH.  EB
Fri., Oct. 2, 11 a.m. “Nearshore Tsunami Dynamics,” a CEAFM seminar with Patrick Lynett, Texas A&M. 110 Maryland.  HW
Fri., Oct. 2, noon. “Series Vaccination-induced Protection Against TB,” a special Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases seminar with Willem Hanekom, Burnet Institute/University of Cape Town, South Africa/South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, Cape Town. W1020 SPH.  EB
Mon., Oct. 5, 12:15 p.m. “Ovarian Histogenesis, Sex Determination and Regulation of Menopause,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with David Schlessinger, National Institute on Aging, IRP. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive.  HW

SPECIAL EVENTS

Mon., Sept. 28, 11 a.m. “Crisis: Shaping the Future,” an address on the impact of the global economic crisis by Robert Zoellick, president, World Bank. (See “In Brief,” in this issue.) The speech will be live-streamed on www.sais-jhu .edu/news-and-events/zoellick. For more information or to RSVP, phone 202-663-5644 or e-mail saispubaffairs@jhu .edu. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building.  SAIS
Wed., Sept. 30, 6 p.m. “Fitzgerald’s Smart Set Fiction: The Stories FSF wrote for The New Yorker of His Day,” a talk and reception with Sharon Hamilton, in conjunction with the exhibition A View of the Parade: H.L. Mencken and American Magazines. Also, a display and sale of JHU Press books by and about Mencken and Baltimore literary and cultural history. (See story, “Great Scott: Fitzgerald’s Baltimore,” in this issue.) Sponsored by the JHU Press, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and the Friends of the JHU Libraries. George Peabody Library.  Peabody
Thurs., Oct. 1, 4 to 8 p.m.; Fri., Oct. 2, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sat., Oct. 3, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sun., Oct. 4, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Johns Hopkins Best Dressed Sale and Boutique, fundraiser for the Women’s Board of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. (See “In Brief,” in this issue.) Admission for the Oct. 1 pre-sale shopping, fashion consultations and light refreshments is $40 in advance, $45 at the door; admission is free for Oct. 2 through Oct. 4. On Oct. 4, most items are half price. Carriage House, Evergreen Museum & Library.
Sat., Oct. 3, 7 p.m. The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration Performance featuring dancing, singing, talk show, drama, piano, ballet, violin and erhu. Sponsored by the Chinese Students and Scholars Association and GRO. Shriver Hall.  HW

THEATER

Fri., Oct. 2, and Sat., Oct. 3, 8 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 4, 3 p.m. Witness Theatre presents Johns Hopkins student-written one-act plays. Swirnow Theater, Mattin Center.  HW

WORKSHOPS

Thurs., Oct. 1, 1 p.m. “J-Share: Keep Your Files Online, Share If You Like,” a Bits & Bytes workshop intended for Homewood faculty, lecturers and TAs (staff are also welcome to attend). Sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources. Garrett Room, MSE Library.  HW