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| Saturday, November 07, 2009 |
| Ballroom Dancing - Smooth & Latin-American - Fall Session II - 8-week Mini Class
All Day
Peabody Preparatory Adult & Continuing Education offers 8-week mini-session on Mondays from 7:30-8:30 pm from 11/9/09 - 01/11/10. Designed for beginners based on ISTD (International) ballroom dancing technique, offering basic instruction in waltz, foxtrot, quickstep, samba, rumba, cha-cha-cha, and jive. Individuals and partners welcome. Minimum 10 students. Tuition remission for JHU University employees and families. Check http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/prep for registration details! |
| World Music Survey - Falll Session II - 8-week Mini Class
All Day
Peabody Preparatory Adult & Continuing offers 8-week mini-session on Saturdays from 2-3 pm from 11/7/09 - 01/16/10. Class designed to provide intro to music of non-Western cultures: India, Indonesia, Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, and Latin America. Each unique music-culture explored in 2-3 week sessions thru film, demonstration, participation, listening and lecture/discussion. No prior technical knowledge of music required. Minimum 10 students. Class taught by guest faculty Lori Kesner. Tuition remission for JHU University employees and families. Check http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/prep for registration details! |
 | Dreams: Theater of the Soul
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Dreams are our return to the core conversation of our lives. Every night we experience a dialogue between our conscious (self) and our unconscious (SELF). When seen symbolically, dreams are nature’s way of making us whole by rounding out our one-sided point of view. If we learn to listen and pay attention, theseconversations lead to an expansion of consciousness, compassion and relationship to the world. This two-day workshop is designed to introduce students to the deeper world beneath conscious awareness, providing the tools and techniques to connect to this powerful source and begin the process of listening to your dreams. |
 | Historic Homewood ArtWalk
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
The Historic Homewood ArtWalk covers over 200 years of history in less than a quarter mile. This fun, informative, and free 45-minute guided walking tour covers historic and artistic sites between the two significant collections of American historic interiors and decorative arts at Homewood Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Offered in October as part of the citywide Free Fall Baltimore program. |
| | Historic Homewood ArtWalk
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Historic Homewood ArtWalk covers over 200 years of history in less than a quarter mile. This fun, informative, and free 45-minute guided walking tour covers historic and artistic sites between the two significant collections of American historic interiors and decorative arts at Homewood Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Offered in October as part of the citywide Free Fall Baltimore program. |
 | Music at Evergreen: Robert Belinic, guitar
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bakst Theatre
Acclaimed as “a genius, a poet, a super-sensitive musician” (SanDiego.com), young Croatian guitarist Robert Belinic will perform music spanning five centuries, including J.S. Bach's Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-Flat Major, BWV 998; François de Fossa's Premiere Fantaisie, Op.5; Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Sonata “Omaggio a Boccherini;” and works by John Dowland and the brothers Regino and Eduardo Sainz de la Maza. A reception with the artist follows the performance. The Music at Evergreen concert series continues on March 6, 2010 with the string quartet Brooklyn Rider, and April 17, 2010 with “Ritmo, Color y Pasión: Flamenco in Concert,” by the ensemble SEGUE.
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| Sunday, November 08, 2009 |
| Ballroom Dancing - Smooth & Latin-American - Fall Session II - 8-week Mini Class
All Day
Peabody Preparatory Adult & Continuing Education offers 8-week mini-session on Mondays from 7:30-8:30 pm from 11/9/09 - 01/11/10. Designed for beginners based on ISTD (International) ballroom dancing technique, offering basic instruction in waltz, foxtrot, quickstep, samba, rumba, cha-cha-cha, and jive. Individuals and partners welcome. Minimum 10 students. Tuition remission for JHU University employees and families. Check http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/prep for registration details! |
| Philosophy-Johns Hopkins-UPENN Early Modern Philosophy Forum
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Levering - (Sherwood Room)
"Ethics 1P16 and Felicity" - John Carriero, University of California-Los Angeles, Philosophy
"Descarte on Teleology and the Life Sciences" - Karen Detlefsen, University of Pennsylvania, Philosophy |
 | Preparatory Faculty Recital
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Hilda and Douglas Goodwin Recital Hall
Yoon Young Bae, Violin
Jill Collier, Violoncello
Jennifer Herrera, Violin
Wonhee Kim, Violoncello
Bomi Lim, Piano
1 East Guitar Quartet
Zoë Johnstone
J. Scott Matejicka
Kevin Shannon, Guest Artist
Stephen Tunstall, Guest Artist
Ronald Pearl: C
Bryan Johanson: No Yoicking, Gabbling, Quothing
Christopher Gainey: Flowing Through: Rhapsody on a Theme of Egberto Gismonti
Phillip Houghton: Opals
Nicolas Vallet: Suite for Four Lutes
Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor
Johan Halvorsen: Passacaglia with Variations for Violin and Viola in G minor (after Handel) |
| Monday, November 09, 2009 |
| Ballroom Dancing - Smooth & Latin-American - Fall Session II - 8-week Mini Class
All Day
Peabody Preparatory Adult & Continuing Education offers 8-week mini-session on Mondays from 7:30-8:30 pm from 11/9/09 - 01/11/10. Designed for beginners based on ISTD (International) ballroom dancing technique, offering basic instruction in waltz, foxtrot, quickstep, samba, rumba, cha-cha-cha, and jive. Individuals and partners welcome. Minimum 10 students. Tuition remission for JHU University employees and families. Check http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/prep for registration details! |
| Marginal Cost Estimation Techniques for Energy Projects
10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
The Bernstein-Offit Building - (Room 714)
Steve Gaske, senior vice president of Concentric Energy Advisors, will discuss this topic. This event is open to SAIS students and alumni only. For more information and to RSVP, go to SAISWorks. Alumni can RSVP by contacting mleinz@jhu.edu. |
| Bioethics lunch seminar, "Strategies for Linking Policy to Evidence Generation: The UK Experience"
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
615 N. Wolfe St. - (W3008)
Berman Institute of Bioethics lunchtime seminar series: "Strategies for Linking Policy to Evidence Generation: The UK Experience". Presenter Kalipso Chalkidou, MD, PhD; International Program Director, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. Co-sponsored by the US Cochrane Center and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Department of Health Policy and Management. Monday, November 9th, 12:15 PM Wolfe W3008 |
| The SAIS Berlin Wall Project: Walls Still to Fall
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
NOTE: This event will take place in the Nitze Building Courtyard.
Zoltán Gábor, deputy chief of mission of the Embassy of Hungary, and Peter Burian, Slovakia’s ambassador to the United States, will speak during the final day of a week-long “open mic” discussion on “walls still to fall” around the world. This project commemorates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall A model of the Berlin Wall will be torn down in the Nitze Building Courtyard. For more information on the project, click here. |
| United Way Campaign
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Come support the United Way Campaign at
www.jhsph.edu/unitedway.
School give aways at the Monument St. entrance for United Way supporters! |
| Department of Epidemiology Seminar Series
12:15 PM - 1:20 PM
615 N. Wolfe St. - (W3030)
Department of Epidemiology
Seminar Series
Monday, November 9, 2009
W3030
12:15pm – 1:20pm
Guest Speaker
Addressing poverty and gender inequalities in the fight against AIDS – lessons from the IMAGE Study in rural South Africa
Dr. Paul Pronyk, FRCP
Center for Global Health and Economic Development
The Earth Institute,
Columbia University
Dr. Pronyk is an infectious disease and public health physician who has recently joined Columbia University's Earth Institute. Over the past 10 years, he was the director of the Rural AIDS and Development Action Research Programme in South Africa, a partnership between the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (U.K.) and University of the Witwatersrand (S.A.). Pronyk is a graduate of the University of Manitoba in Canada (M.D.), Tufts University (internal medicine), and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he trained in tropical infectious disease, public health and received his Ph.D. His work in rural South Africa has focused on both the clinical consequences and social determinants of the HIV epidemic, with an emphasis on the links between poverty, gender-based violence and HIV.
For disability access information or assisted listening devices, please contact the School of Public Health Office of Support Services at 410 955-1197. |
| The ‘Peaceful Revolution’ of 1989: Its Significance Then and Today
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
The Nitze Building (main building) - (Room 507)
Sebastian Gräfe, executive director of Heinrich Böll Stiftung North America will discuss this topic. NOTE: The speaker’s comments will be delivered in German. This event is open to the SAIS community only. For more information, contact afuehri1@jhu.edu. |
| Why Freedom Still Matters
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
The Nitze Building (main building) - (Kenney Auditorium)
John McCain (R-Ariz.), a member of the U.S. Senate, will discuss this topic. For more information and to RSVP, contact 202.663.5880 or transatlanticrsvp@jhu.edu. Members of the media who plan to cover the event should contact 202.663.7738 or gjbarrus@jhu.edu. |
| "The Cajal Body and snRNP Biogenesis
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
615 N. Wolfe St. - (W2030 U.N. Room)
Joseph Gall, PhD.
The Johns Hopkins University
Division Carnegie Institution of Washington
Department Embryology at Carnegie |
 | Biophysics Seminar
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Mergenthaler - (111)
Kossiakoff Lecture
Jim Wells
University of California, San Francisco
"Engineering Cell Death"
Host: Prof. George Rose |
| Dmitry Jakobson" Estimates from below: spectral function, remainder in Weyl's law and resonances."
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Krieger - (304)
Speaker: Dmitry Jakobson, McGill University
Abstract
This is joint work with I. Polterovich, J. Toth and F. Naud.
We obtain asymptotic lower bounds for the spectral function of the Laplacian on compact manifolds. In the negatively curved case, thermodynamic formalism for hyperbolic flows is applied to improve the estimates.
Our results can be considered pointwise versions (on a general manifold) of lower bounds (due to Hardy and Landau) for the error term in the Gauss circle problem. We next discuss lower bounds for the remainder in Weyl¹s law on negatively-curved surfaces. Our approach works in variable negative curvature, and is based on wave trace asymptotics for long times, thermodynamic formalism for hyperbolic flows, and small-scale microlocalization.
At the end, we shall discuss how to obtain logarithmic lower bound for the local density of resonances for infinite area, geometrically finite surfaces, and how to improve them to polynomial lower bound for infinite index subgroups of arithmetic groups. |
| The Seminar - History Department
4:00 PM
TBA |
| Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Employer Presentation
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
The Nitze Building (main building) - (Room 417)
A representative from OECD will discuss employment opportunities with the organization. This event is open to SAIS students only. For more information and to RSVP, go to SAISWorks. |
| Romie Banerjee "Real-Oriented Cohomology."
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Krieger - (308)
Speaker: Romie Banerjee,JHU
Abstract: We will construct a moduli stack of real formal groups and relate it to real-oriented cohomology theories developed by Hu and Kriz. |
| When Field Work Gets Toxic: The Lives of Migrant Farm Workers in Mexico
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
The Bernstein-Offit Building - (Room 736)
The SAIS Amnesty International Club and SAIS Socially Responsible Business Club will host a film screening of “Paying the Price,” a documentary on the lives of Mexican field workers. Melody Gonzales, national coordinator for Fair Food Across Borders, will lead a discussion after the screening. Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact mstoyad1@jhu.edu. |
| U.S. Department of State Qualifications Evaluation Panel (QEP) Review
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
The Nitze Building (main building) - (Career Services Conference Room)
The session will review the essay format of the QEP. This session is for SAIS students and alumni who have passed the QEP review only. For more information and to RSVP, go to SAISWorks. |
 | How to Survive in the New Economy
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
President Barack Obama has said to expect the economy to get worse before it gets better. How much worse, and in what areas? Whether you are anticipating a job change, buying or selling a home, or planning for your golden years, this course will guide you through the tumultuous events of the next twelve months. |
| Tuesday, November 10, 2009 |
| Investing in Peace: Public-Private Partnership for the Mission-Driven
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
The Nitze Building (main building) - (Kenney Auditorium)
Judith Gillespie, director of strategic philanthropy at Search for Common Ground; Lisa Coll, director of programs at the Eurasia Foundation; Cate Johnson, deputy director of the Office of Democracy and Governance at USAID; Raymond Shonholtz, president of Partners for Democratic Change; and Dušan Ondrušek, director of Partners for Democratic Change-Slovakia, will discuss this topic. For more information and to RSVP, contact cprfnewsletter@sfcg.org. |
| RefWorks Workshop
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
MSE Library - (Electronic Resource Center, M-Level)
One class can help trim hours off your time spent researching and writing. Come learn the secrets of easy, quick bibliographies and more features to help you organize and share your research. |
| Core Store Supplier Exhibit
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Turner Concourse
Life science suppliers will be present to exhibit the latest promotions and products available through the JHU Core Store. |
| The Financial Determinants of the Demand for International Reserves in Emerging Markets
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
The Nitze Building (main building) - (Room 507)
Lauren S. McIntyre, a SAIS Ph.D. candidate, will discuss her dissertation prospectus, “The Financial Determinants of the Demand for International Reserves in Emerging Markets.” For more information and to RSVP, contact jzurek@jhu.edu. |
| Department of Environmental Health Sciences Seminar
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Development and Use of Alternative Methods at BASF
Dr. Bennard van Ravenzwaay, Senior Vice President for Experimental Toxicology & Ecology
BASF-The Chemical Company |
| Morgan Stanley Employer Presentation
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
The Nitze Building (main building) - (Room 417)
A representative from Morgan Stanley will discuss employment opportunities with students. This event is open to SAIS students only. For more information and to RSVP, go to SAISWorks. |
| The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces Both Russia and the West
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
The Bernstein-Offit Building - (Room 500)
Edward Lucas, Central and Eastern Europe correspondent for The Economist, and Donald Jensen (moderator), resident fellow at CTR, will discuss this topic. Note: The speakers' comments are not for attribution. For more information and to RSVP, contact 202.663.5880 or transatlanticrsvp@jhu.edu. |
| The Role of Community Radio in Post-Conflict West Africa: Sierra Leone and Liberia
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
The Bernstein-Offit Building - (Room 736)
Andrew Kromah, journalist at the Independent Radio Network in Sierra Leone, will discuss this topic. For more information and to RSVP, contact 202.663.5676 or itolber1@jhu.edu. |
| Anthropology Colloquium Presents Rebecca Brown, Political Science & History of Art, JHU
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Macaulay - (# 400)
Anthropology Colloquium Presents Rebecca Brown, Political Science & History of Art Department, Johns Hopkins University |
| The Ephraim and Wilma Shaw Roseman Colloquium Series
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Remsen - (233)
"Exploring β-Sheet Structure and Interactions with Chemical Model Systems"
Professor James S. Nowick
University of California, Irvine
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| The Slide to Protectionism in the Great Depression: Who Succumbed and Why?
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
The Bernstein-Offit Building - (Room 500)
Douglas Irwin, Robert E. Maxwell ’23 Professor of Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth College, will discuss this topic. For more information and to RSVP, contact 202.663.7787 or aetra1@jhu.edu. |
| The U.S.-U.K. Special Relationship: The End of the Affair?
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The Nitze Building (main building) - (Kenney Auditorium)
Eric Edelman, former under secretary of Defense for policy, a fellow at the Merrill Center for Strategic Studies and distinguished fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Analysis, will discuss this topic. For more information and to RSVP, contact ckunkel@jhu.edu. |
 | Peabody Chamber Players
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Washington Performing Arts Society Presents:
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and the Peabody Chamber Players
Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Two Violins, Strings & Continuo in D minor, BWV 1043
This concert, a presentation of the Washington Performing Arts Society, will take place at the Baird Auditorium, Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History. General Admission $30; WPAS and Smithsonian members $25. Tickets can be purchased at WPAS.org or by phone at 202-785-9727. |
| Peabody Chamber Players
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Washington Performing Arts Society Presents:
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and the Peabody Chamber Players
Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Two Violins, Strings & Continuo in D minor, BWV 1043
This concert, a presentation of the Washington Performing Arts Society, will take place at the Baird Auditorium, Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History. General Admission $30; WPAS and Smithsonian members $25. Tickets can be purchased at WPAS.org or by phone at 202-785-9727. |
| Wednesday, November 11, 2009 |
| CAAT Chemical-Information Day
The focus of the meeting is chemical issues, including REACH and TSCA reauthorization.There are enormous information deficits with regard to implications of the European Union legislation for US companies and the emerging respective US equivalent. This meeting is an opportunity to discuss the current situation and interact with European and US colleagues. |
| Physiology Wednesday Seminar Series
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
School of Medicine
"Genetic and biochemical studies of the role of epigenetic factors in astrocytoma and NF1"
Karlyne M. Reilly, Ph.D.
Head, Genetic Modifiers of Tumorigenesis Section
Investigator
National Cancer Institute
Center for Cancer Research |
| The Electricity Storm: How Energy Policy Affects Our Future
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
The Nitze Building (main building) - (Kenney Auditorium)
Mayo A. Shattuck III, president and chief executive officer of Constellation Energy, will deliver the W.P. Carey Global Leader Lecture on this topic. The lecture will begin at 12:30 p.m. and a reception will precede the event at noon. For more information and to RSVP, contact 202.663.5636 or saisevents@jhu.edu. |
| Wednesday Noon Seminar Series
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
COL Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH
Director, Behavioral Health Proponency
Office of Army The Surgeon General, US Armed Forces
“From the Battlefront to the Homefront and Back Again; Psychological Challenges for Soldiers and Veterans Today” |
| Global Health Leaders Forum - Redefining Impact: PLoS Medicine at 5 Years
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Sheldon Hall
Can
the choice to publish in journals that use open licenses vs.
proprietary copyrights affect global health and clinical practice? Dr.
Peiperl will offer an editor’s perspective on recent successes and
current challenges to open-access publishing in medical research.
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| Flawed Vision: Nigerian Development Policy in the Indonesian Mirror
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
The Rome Building - (Room 806)
David Henley, senior researcher at KITLV, Leiden, will discuss this topic. This event is open to the SAIS community only. For more information, contact 202.663.5676 or itolber1@jhu.edu. |
| Think Impact: Summer Internship Opportunities
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
The Bernstein-Offit Building - (Room 736)
Saul Garlick, executive director of Think Impact and a SAIS graduate, will discuss opportunities with the organization during a brown bag forum. This event is open to the SAIS community only. For more information, contact 202.663.5943. |
| Dynamics of Private Equity Funds in Latin America: Future Prospects and the Potential Downside
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
The Nitze Building (main building) - (Room 517)
Julio F. Lastres, senior managing director for Darby Overseas Investments, Ltd., will discuss this topic. For more information and to RSVP, contact 202.663.5734 or jzurek@jhu.edu. |
| Bo Guan "TBA"
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Krieger - (308)
Speaker: Bo Guan,(OSU) |
| Biostatistics Seminar
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
615 N. Wolfe St. - (W2030 U.N. Room)
Biostatistics Seminar
"Bayesian Nonparmetric Estimation of Monotone Functions"
Professor Dr. Katja Ickstadt
Lehrstuhl für Mathematische Statistik und Biometrische Anwendungen
Fakultät Statistik Technische Universität Dortmund
D-44221 Dortmund |
| Plas Colloquium Presents Bela Henriquez
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Plas Colloquium Presents Bela Henriquez Victims' Rights: An Afro-Colombian Perspective on the Human Rights Crisis in Colombia |
| WGS Talk
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Lee Edelman, Tufts University
"Against Survival: Queerness in a Time That's Out of Joint" |
| RefWorks Workshop
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
MSE Library - (Electronic Resource Center, M-Level)
One class can help trim hours off your time spent researching and writing. Come learn the secrets of easy, quick bibliographies and more features to help you organize and share your research. |
| WGS Colloquium Presents a lecture by Lee Edelman, English Department, Tufts University
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
WGS announces a lecture by: Lee Edelman English Department, Tufts University "Against Survival: Queerness in a Time That's Out of Joint" Co-sponsored with Department of English |
| James Magruder
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Barnes & Noble JHU Book Store
Local author James Magruder will be discussing and signing copies of his debut novel, "Sugarless." |
 | Michael Formanek and Tim Murphy
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Leith Symington Griswold Hall
Michael Formanek, Contrabass
Tim Murphy, Piano
Michael Formanek: Duologue for Double Bass and Piano (World premiere)
Works by Wayne Shorter, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, and James P. Johnson, and original compositions by Michael Formanek and Tim Murphy
Tickets
$15 Adults
$10 Seniors
$5 Students with ID
Call 410-234-4800 (Mon-Fri 10:00 am - 4:00 pm)
Reserve Tickets Online |
| The Sixteenth Annual Sidney W. Mintz Lecture
8:00 PM
Mason Hall - (Auditorium)
Johns Hopkins University Department of Anthropology Announces The Sixteenth Annual Sidney W. Mintz Lecture in Anthropology "On Noticing" Virginia Dominguez, Gutgsell Professor of Anthropology, The University of Illinois |
| Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
| Carbon Emissions and the Biofuels Debate: Challenges and Opportunities for Agribusiness
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
The Rome Building - (Room 812)
Bill Reinsch, president of the National Foreign Trade Council and a SAIS graduate; David Woodruff, senior director of international relations at Archer Daniels Midland; Richard Gilmore, president and CEO of GIC Group and a SAIS graduate; and Lloyd Day, head of federal relations at Syngenta, will discuss this topic. Breakfast will be provided. This event is open to the SAIS community only. For more information and to RSVP, contact 202.663.5641 or saisevents@jhu.edu. |
| Liechtenstein: National Challenges and International Opportunities
8:15 AM - 9:30 AM
The Rome Building - (Room 806)
Aurelia Frick, foreign minister of Liechtenstein, will discuss this topic. For more information and to RSVP, click here. |
| Earth & Planetary Sciences - Bromery Seminar
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Olin
Dr. Steven B. Shirey - Carnegie Institution of Washington
"The Start fo Subduction and Plate Tectonics on Earth: Evidence from Isotopes and Trace Elements"
12:00 Noon
305 Olin Hall Auditorium
Homewood Campus |
| MMI/ID Research Seminar Series
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
615 N. Wolfe St. - (E2014 Sommer Hall)
Estrogen receptor signaling promotes dendritic cell differentiation during inflammation
Susan Kovats, Ph.D.
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Arthritis and Immunology Research Program Oklahoma City, OK |
| Lunch Bunch with the Injury Center
12:10 PM - 1:30 PM
Hampton House - (744)
Please join the Injury Center for a Lunchtime Lecture. The topic will be "Designing & Evaluating Multimedia Child Injury Prevention Programs" presented by Lynne Swartz, MPH, CHES and Susan Schroeder, MPH, CHES, PMP from the Oregon Center for Applied Science.
Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to Karen Jonsberg at 443-287-7706 or kjonsber@jhsph.edu by Tuesday November 10. |
| HBS Thursday Seminar Series
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
October 1, 2009
Speaker: Susan Krenn, Director,
Center for Communication Programs
Department of Health, Behavior and Society
Where: Hampton House Basement Room 14B
October 8, 2009
Speaker: Elaine Doherty, PhD, MA, Research Associate
Department of Health, Behavior and Society
Where: Hampton House Basement Room 14B
October 15, 2009
Speaker: Elizabeth Kromm, PhD, MSc Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Health, Behavior and Society
Bureau of Health Community Development
Howard County Health Department
Where: Hampton House Room 208
October 22, 2009
Speaker: Danielle German, PhD Assistant Scientist
Department of Health, Behavior and Society
Where: Hampton House Room 250
November 5, 2009
Speaker: Donna Vallone, PhD, MPH, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Health, Behavior and Society
Sr. Vice President, Research & Evaluation American Legacy Foundation
Where: Hampton House 250
November 12, 2009
Speaker: Jessica Burke, PhD, MHS, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Health, Behavior and Society
Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral & Community Health Sciences
University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
Where: Hampton House Basement Room 14B
November 19, 2009
Speaker: Pamela Surkan, Joint Appointment
Department of Health, Behavior and Society Assistant
Professor, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Department of International Health
Where: Hampton House Room 250
December 3, 2009
Speaker: David Holtgrave, PhD, Professor
Chair Department of Health, Behavior and Society
Where: Hampton House Basement 14B
December 10, 2009
Speaker: Steve Tamplin, MSE, Associate Scientist
Department of Health, Behavior and Society
Institute for Global Tobacco Control
Where: Hampton House RNovember 5, 2009
Speaker: Donna Vallone, PhD, MPH, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Health, Behavior and Society
Sr. Vice President, Research & Evaluation American Legacy Foundation
Where: Hampton House 250
November 12, 2009
Speaker: Jessica Burke, PhD, MHS, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Health, Behavior and Society
Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral & Community Health Sciences
University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
Where: Hampton House Basement Room 14B
November 19, 2009
Speaker: Pamela Surkan, Joint Appointment
Department of Health, Behavior and Society Assistant
Professor, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Department of International Health
Where: Hampton House Room 250
December 3, 2009
Speaker: David Holtgrave, PhD, Professor
Chair Department of Health, Behavior and Society
Where: Hampton House Basement 14B
December 10, 2009
Speaker: Steve Tamplin, MSE, Associate Scientist
Department of Health, Behavior and Society
Institute for Global Tobacco Control
Where: Hampton House Room 250 oom 250 |
| Advances in Malaria Research: In the Lab and the Field
12:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Sheldon Hall
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute (JHMRI) are on the cutting edge of world-class basic science and clinical research to treat and control malaria, develop a vaccine, and find new drug targets to prevent and cure this deadly disease.
During an interactive web summit, participants will hear the latest findings in the fight against malaria from top researchers at JHMRI and have the opportunity to ask questions in real time. In addition, participants will be able to visit remotely the JHMRI insectary where mosquitoes are bred, raised and studied at the heart of the Institute’s scientific operations in Baltimore, MD. Participants will virtually meet researchers who use NASA data to map the movement of deadly malaria carrying mosquitoes. They’ll also hear from researchers based at the Macha study field site in Zambia, a living laboratory for mosquito and human behavior in malaria-stricken areas. |
| Introduction to Google Sketchup
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
MSE Library - (Garrett Room/CER Conference Room)
Have you ever wanted to visualize something in 3D? Whether you want to model a mechanical structure, a chemical compound, or your house, Sketchup can make it happen. Free and easy to learn, Sketchup is a tool that allows you to quickly render 3D models, apply textures, label elements, and more. Use it for teaching, for projects, or for fun. Have your students complete assignments with visual punch! |
| Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
3505 N. Charles
Sara Pritchard - Cornell University |
| "Mechanism of miRNA action"
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Mudd - (100)
Nahum Sonenberg, Ph.D.
McGill University
Department of Biochemistry |
| Humanities Center: Breyten Breytenbach lecture
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Lecture |
| Is Japan Turning European? Inertia and Change in Japan's Climate Change Politics
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
The Rome Building - (Room 806)
Yves Tiberghien, associate professor of political science and faculty associate of the Center for Japanese Research at the University of British Columbia, will discuss this topic. NOTE: The speaker’s comments are not for attribution. This event is open to the SAIS community only. For more information and to RSVP, contact reischauer@jhu.edu. |
| U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Oral Assessment Preparation Session
5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
The Nitze Building (main building) - (Kenney Auditorium)
This session will cover preparation for the U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Oral Assessment. To register, contact bcummings@howard.edu. |
 | Lighter Than Air: A History of Balloons and Airships
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
From Archimedes' discovery of the principle of buoyancy to the golden age of the great passenger airships to the latest in sport balloons and plans for future airships, this richly illustrated lecture chronicles lighter-than-air flight. Journey with Tom Crouch as he brings to life the color and excitement of buoyant flight as he explores the wonders of flight and the beauty of sailing the winds.
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 | Hubble’s Expanding Universe
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
The more astronomers learn about the universe, the more it feels like Alice’s wonderland where the laws of physics, logic and causality get “curiouser and curiouser.” Join Hubble Space Telescope scientists for seven sessions to explore the latest frontiers in astronomy and their outlook for even more remarkable discoveries in the future. |
| Friday, November 13, 2009 |
| Rolando and Miguel’s Retirement Party
11:30 AM - 3:00 PM
The Bernstein-Offit Building - (Room 500)
The SAIS community will celebrate the retirement of Rolando Perez and Miguel Flores and their many years of service to SAIS. |
| Ending the ‘Scold Wars’: How Congress Constrains U.S. Human Rights Policy
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
The Rome Building - (Room 812)
Margaret E. McGuinness, associate professor of law at the University of Missouri’s School of Law, will discuss this topic. NOTE: The speaker’s comments will be off the record. For more information and to RSVP, contact 202.663.5982 or tbascia1@jhu.edu. |
| International Finance Corporation (IFC) Employer Presentation
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
The Nitze Building (main building) - (Room 417)
SAIS alumni will discuss their transitions into the international organizational workplace after graduation. This event is open to SAIS students only. For more information and to RSVP, go to SAISWorks. |
| International Wildlife Conservation in the 21st Century
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
The Bernstein-Offit Building - (Room 736)
NOTE: This event is rescheduled from November 9.
Heather Eves, director and adviser of Bushmeat Crisis Task Force, will discuss this topic. For more information and to RSVP, contact 202.663.5786 or geei@jhu.edu. |
| Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and Your Professional Development
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Rome Building - (Room 103)
SAIS students will have an opportunity to take an MBTI assessment and get a personalized report. For more information and to RSVP, go to SAISWorks. |
| APL COLLOQUIUM
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Parsons Auditorium
Missile Defense and the Cold War, Delta 180, and APL's Role
Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson, USAF (ret)
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| Private Equity in Africa: Telecom and the Technology Revolution
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Rome Building - (Rome Building Auditorium)
Jennifer Choi, director of research at the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association; Bryce Fort, managing director and founding partner of Emerging Capital Partners; John Simon, visiting scholar at the Center for Global Development and founder of Total Impact Advisors; Aniko Szigetvari, principal investment officer at the International Finance Corporation; and Mwangi Kimenyi (moderator), senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Africa Growth Initiative, will discuss this topic. For more information and to RSVP, contact africa.sais@gmail.com. |
| Philosophy- Brian Skyms, University of California-Irvine
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
"Evolution of Signaling Systems with Multiple Senders and Receivers" |
| The Kenneth O. Johnson Memorial Lecture
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Mason Hall - (Auditorium)
The Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute & Biomedical Engineering present The Kenneth O. Johnson Memorial Lecture:
"Neural Codes, Perception, Memory and Decision-Making"
ranulfo Romo, MD, PhD
National Autonomous University of Mexico-UNAM, Mexico City
Recent studies have provided new insights into how cortical areas integrate efforts to solve a vibrotactile discrimination task. In particular, these studies have addressed how neural codes are related to perception, working memory and decision-making in this model. In this lecture Dr. Romo will describe how the primary somatosensory cortex drives higher cortical areas where past and current sensory information are combined, such that a comparison of the two evolves into a behavioral decision. |
| CARE (USA) Employer Presentation
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
The Nitze Building (main building) - (Room 507)
Three SAIS alumni will discuss employment opportunities with the organization. This event is open to SAIS students only. For more information and to RSVP, go to SAISWorks. |
| Dance Lessons -- Ballroom
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
ROTC
ROTC Building, 7:30 p.m.
Waltz, rumba and tango lessons for beginners and advanced
dancers are taught by instructors Dave and Anne Greene. Participants may bring
snacks to share. Free. 410-599-3725. |
| Sirens Fall Concert
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Friday, November 13th
Bloomberg Auditorium
8:00 pm |
| TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Merrick Barn
Johns Hopkins University Theatre presents Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a new full-length play by prize-winning student playwright E. Kalman Levitz. Levitz won first prize in 2008 for the best ten-minute student-written play in the nation among U.S. Colleges and Universities at the American College Theatre Festival. This faculty-produced play is about the romantic troubles of an existential playwright, and bends space and time on a journey through the creative process. Directed by John Astin, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow features guest artist Mackenzie Astin. The cost is $5 for student’s w/ID, $13 for faculty, staff and seniors, and $15 for the general public. The venue is the historic Merrick Barn Theatre located on the Hopkins Homewood campus. For further information and/or reservation: JHUT@jhu.edu or 410-516-5153.
Friday & Saturday, November 13,14 at 8pm
Sunday, November 15 at 2pm
Friday & Saturday, November 20, 21 at 8pm
Sunday, November 22 at 2pm |
