Mon., Feb. 20, noon. "Why Volcanoes (Only Sometimes)
Erupt Explosively," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar
with Michael Manga, University of California, Berkeley;
Olin Auditorium. HW
Mon., Feb. 20, 12:15 p.m. "Modeling Cancer
Progression with Zebrafish," a Carnegie Institution
Embryology seminar with Michael Pack, University of
Pennsylvania Medical School; 3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Feb. 20, 2 p.m. "The Kernel of the Kirwan Map
for Non-Abelian Symplectic Quotients," a Topology seminar
with Megumi Harada, University of Toronto; 300 Krieger.
HW
Mon., Feb. 20, 4 p.m. "Health and Sex Education
Policy: What We Know and What We Need to Know to Design
Efficient Public Policies," an Institute for Policy Studies
seminar with Rebecca Maynard, University of Pennsylvania.
Co-sponsored by Economics and Health Policy and Management.
526 Wyman Bldg. HW
Mon., Feb. 20, 4 p.m. "'Perish the Colonies':
Saint-Domingue and French Revolutionary Politics," a
History seminar with Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky
and the Institute for Advanced Study; 312 Gilman. HW
Mon., Feb. 20, 4 p.m. "Functional Organization of
the Primate Visual System," a Molecular Biology and
Immunology research seminar with members of Hendry Lab.
Sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger.
HW
Mon., Feb. 20, 4 p.m. "Water on Mars," an Earth and
Planetary Sciences seminar with Michael Manga, University
of California, Berkeley; Olin Auditorium. HW
Tues., Feb. 21, noon. "Advances in Trypanosome RNA
Editing and Sequence-Specific Sub-Nuclear Domains for Gene
Expression," a Biological Chemistry seminar with Barbara
Sollner-Webb, SoM; 612 Physiology. EB
Tues., Feb. 21, noon. "Love Through the Eyes of
Baltimore Youth: A Photovoice Project," a CBPR seminar with
Roberta Downing. Sponsored by the Urban Health Institute
and Health, Behavior and Society. 250 Hampton House. EB
Tues., Feb. 21, 4:30 p.m. "Multilingual Dependency
Parsing with Spanning Tree Algorithms," a Center for
Language and Speech Processing seminar with Ryan McDonald,
University of Pennsylvania; 3 Shaffer. HW
Wed., Feb. 22, 12:15 p.m. "Heart, Sugar and ... Sad?
Depression — Who Me Blue? No! Just Feel Lousy, Doc,"
a Mental Health seminar with Joseph Gallo, University of
Pennsylvania; B14B Hampton House. EB
Wed., Feb. 22, 12:15 p.m. "How to Submit a CHR
Application and What to Include in a Research Plan," an
Office for Research Subjects brown bag seminar with Jon
Links, SPH; W3008 SPH. EB
Wed., Feb. 22, 1 p.m. "AAALAC Site Visit —
What You Need to Know," an Animal Care and Use Committee
seminar in preparation for the March 20-24 site visit, with
Nelson Garnett, director, ACUC; and Chris Newcomer,
associate provost for research animal resources. Tilghman
Auditorium, Turner Concourse. EB
Wed., Feb. 22, 1:30 p.m. "Inhibition and Molecular
Evolution of Lactamase," a Biophysics and Biophysical
Chemistry seminar with Brian Shoichet, University of
California, San Francisco; 517 PCTB. EB
Wed., Feb. 22, 2 p.m. "The Physiology of Hypoxic
Response in the Vasculature: A Genetic Analysis," an
Institute for Cell Engineering seminar with Randall
Johnson, University of California, San Diego; West Lecture
Hall, PCTB. EB
Wed., Feb. 22, 2 p.m. "The Role of Histone H3 K9
Methyltransferases in RNA-Directed DNA Methylation," a
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology thesis defense seminar
with Michelle Ebbs; W1020 SPH. EB
Wed., Feb. 22, 3:30 p.m. "Self-Assembly of
Nanostructures on Topographically Pattern Substances," a
Materials Science and Engineering seminar with Robert
Kukta, SUNY; 110 Maryland. HW
Wed., Feb. 22, 4 p.m. "American New Women in the
National Revolution in China, 1924-27," a History seminar
with Motoe Sasaki-Gayle; 312 Gilman. HW
Wed., Feb. 22, 5:15 p.m. "Du Romantisme au
Positivisme: Comment on Inventa l'Ancien Francais," a
Romance Languages and Literatures seminar with Bernard
Cerquiglini, Louisiana State University; 336 Gilman. HW
Thurs., Feb. 23, noon. "Computational Modeling of
Cytoskeleton Movement," a Cell Biology seminar with Sean
Sun, WSE; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB
Thurs., Feb. 23, 12:10 p.m. "High Blood Pressure
Control for Young Black Men, a Transdisciplinary Program
Integrating Research, Practice and Teaching," a Health,
Behavior and Society brown bag seminar with Martha Hill,
SoN; 250 Hampton House. EB
Thurs., Feb. 23, 1 p.m. "Cell Regulation and Wiring
the Fly Brain," a Neuroscience research seminar with Larry
Zipursky, David Geffen School of Medicine, HHMI and UCLA;
West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB
Thurs., Feb. 23, 4 p.m. Seminar in Political and
Moral Thought — "Kantian Virtue and Virtue Ethics,"
with Thomas Hill, University of North Carolina. Sponsored
by History. 312 Gilman. HW
Thurs., Feb. 23, 4 p.m. "Energy Wars: Using the Cell
Biology of Energy Balance to Treat Cancer, Obesity, Stroke
and Tuberculosis," a Biology seminar with Gabriele Ronnett,
SoM; 100 Mudd. HW
Thurs., Feb. 23, 4 p.m. "Hyperbolic Conservation
Laws: Theory and Numerical Analysis of Shock Reflection
Problems," an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar
with Katarina Jegdic, University of Houston; 304 Whitehead.
HW
Thurs., Feb. 23, 5:15 p.m. "At Home in World
Literature?" a Philological Society seminar with Peter
Hitchcock, Baruch College and the Graduate Center at CUNY.
Co-sponsored by Romance Languages and Literatures, the
Humanities Center and Philosophy. 223 Gilman. HW
Fri., Feb. 24, 2:30 p.m. "Clocking Out: Adolescent
Part-Time Work and Drug Involvement in an Urban
Environment," a Mental Health thesis defense seminar with
Rajeev Ramchand; 845 Hampton House. EB
Mon., Feb. 27, 12:15 p.m. "Annexin 2 and pll:
Coregulators in Vascular Homeostasis," a Carnegie
Institution Embryology seminar with Katherine Hajjar,
Cornell University and Weill Medical College; 3520 San
Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Feb. 27, 2:30 p.m. "Extending Mendelian Models
That Predict If One Has a Disease-Causing Mutation Based on
Family History of Disease," a Biostatistics seminar with
Hormuzd Katki; W4030 SPH. EB
Mon., Feb. 27, 4 p.m. "The Dirichlet Problem for the
Biharmonic Equation on Lipschitz and Convex Domains," an
Analysis seminar with Zhongwei Shen, University of
Kentucky; 308 Krieger. HW
Mon., Feb. 27, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in
Neuroscience — "On the Agnosticism of Spikes:
Attention, Intention and Salience in the Monkey Lateral
Intraparietal Area" with Michael Goldberg, Columbia
University College. Sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain
Institute. 338 Krieger. HW
Mon., Feb. 27, 4 p.m. "The DNA Replication Stress
Response," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar
with Matthew Michael, Harvard University; W2030 SPH. EB
Mon., Feb. 27, 4 p.m. "'Race'-Making in the Southern
Sahara, ca. 1650-ca. 1850," a History seminar with Bruce
Hall; 312 Gilman. HW
Mon., Feb. 27, 4 p.m. "Soil Microbial Diversity and
Global Change," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar
with Michel Cavigelli, USDA Beltsville Agricultural
Research Center; Olin Auditorium. HW
Mon., Feb. 27, 5 p.m. "Equivariant Operads and
String Homology," a Topology seminar with Craig Westerland;
308 Krieger. HW