C A L E N D A R O F E V E N T S

April 12-18, 2004

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Monday, April 12

Arts

7:30 p.m. Judaic studies Israeli film series. Tzahi Grad: "Jirafot." Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture.

Lectures

12:30 p.m. Integrative information, computer and application sciences seminar. "Computation and Data Analysis in Biology and Information Sciences." Dean Bottino, BioAnalytics Group. 302 Computer Science.

G 3:30 p.m. McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning lecture. "Grantsmanship: Tips From the Pros in the Sciences and Engineering." Mary Baum, Michelle Christy, Margaret Martonosi and Jeffrey Schwartz. Multipurpose Room A, Frist.

4 p.m. Complex materials seminar. "Actuating Surfaces: From Biology to Materials." Jean Prevost. A224 Engineering Quadrangle. Social gathering at 3:30 p.m.

4 p.m. Electrical engineering seminar on electronic materials and devices. "Luminescence of Nanostructured Materials." Vladimir Bulovic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. B205 Engineering Quadrangle.

4 p.m. Mathematics/Institute for Advanced Study number theory seminar. Zhengyu Mao, Rutgers University-Newark. 322 Fine.

4:30 p.m. Center for the Study of Religion/anthropology/Center for Health and Wellbeing lecture. "Genetics Knowledge Park: An Interdisciplinary Experiment." Marilyn Strathern, Cambridge University; Peter Singer, discussant. N101 School of Architecture.

4:30 p.m. Center for the Study of Religion/East Asian studies/Tang Center/Buddhist studies lecture. "Constructing the Pure Land: Architecture in Dunhuang Wall Paintings." Puay-Peng Ho, Chinese University-Hong Kong. 106 McCormick.

4:30 p.m. Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions lecture. "The Racial Gap in Academic Achievement." Abigail Thernstrom, Manhattan Institute. 104 Computer Science.

4:30 p.m. Woodrow Wilson School lecture. "Middle East Environmental Cooperation: Quiet Opportunities." Lee Pasarew, former director of the EPA's Middle East Program. 16 Robertson.

5 p.m. African American studies lecture. " Literacy and Liberation: African-American Writers and Classical Tradition." William Cook, Dartmouth College, and James Tatum. 211 Dickinson.

7 p.m. Princeton Peace Network panel. "Electronic Voting: Will Your Vote be Counted?" Edward Felten and Rush Holtand Michelle Mulder, U.S. Congress. Wood Auditorium, McCosh 10.

Sports

7:30 p.m. Women's water polo vs. U.S. National Team. DeNunzio Pool.

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Tuesday, April 13

Arts

F 7:30 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Moscow Festival Ballet in "Cinderella." McCarter Theatre.

8 p.m. Composers Ensemble at Princeton/music/Friends of Music concert. Music by Paul Botelho, Brooke Joyce, Alan Tormey, Paul Lansky, Dmitri Tymoczko and Barbara White. Taplin Auditorium, Fine.

Lectures

Noon. Population research/demography seminar. "Maternal Health Behaviors and the Childhood Health Gradient." Jennifer Dowd. 300 Wallace.

12:15 p.m. Latin American studies lecture. "Obeah: Healing and Protection in Afro-Caribbean Slave Life, Anthropological and Historical Perspectives." Jermone Handler, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. 107, 58 Prospect Ave. Lunch served at noon.

12:20 p.m. Princeton Environmental Institute seminar. "From Regional to Global: Using Science to Develop Sound Air Quality Policy." Denise Mauzerall. 145 Peyton.

4 p.m. Chemistry seminar. "From Protein Semisynthesis to Chemical Genetics: The Chemical Biology of Protein Splicing." Tom Muir, Rockefeller University. DuPont Seminar Room, 324 Frick.

4 p.m. Institute for Computational Science and Engineering lecture. "Overcoming the Time Scale Difficulty in Computational Modeling." Weinan E. 214 Fine.

4:15 p.m. Astrophysical sciences astronomy colloquium. "Time Variability in Gravitational Lenses." Christopher Kochanek, Ohio State University. Auditorium, Peyton. Social gathering at 5:15 p.m., main hallway.

4:30 p.m. European politics and society discussion. "Germany and the United States." Karsten Voigt, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Wolfgang Danspeckgruber, Harold James, Walter Hinderer, discussants; and Ezra Suleiman, moderator. 2 Robertson.

4:30 p.m. Film studies/English lecture. "Reflections on Writing Godard's Biography." Colin MacCabe, University of Pittsburgh. 26 McCosh.

4:30 p.m. Mathematics algebraic geometry seminar. "Vanishing of Chow (or Cohomology) Classes on the Moduli Space of Curves." Ravi Vakil, Stanford University. 322 Fine.

4:30 p.m. Mathematics mathematical physics seminar. "Approach and Return to Equilibrium in Quantum Statistical Mechanics." Vojkan Jaksic, McGill University. A06 Jadwin.

4:30 p.m. Society for Intercultural Comparison/East Asian studies/comparative literature lecture. "The Other of the Other: 'East Asia' as Comparative Literature." Christopher Bush. 60 McCosh.

4:30 p.m. Visual arts illustrated lecture. Rackstraw Downes, landscape painter, talking about his work. 219, 185 Nassau St.

4:30 p.m. Woodrow Wilson School/science and global security lecture. "The Future of Nonproliferation." George Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment for Peace. 16 Robertson.

5:30 p.m. Classics lecture. "Drawing in Ancient Egypt: The Foundation of the Arts." William Peck, Detroit Institute of Arts. 10 East Pyne.

Notices

7 p.m. University Store book reading and signing. Peter Singer, author of "The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush." University Store.

Sports

F 4 p.m. Men's lacrosse vs. University of Pennsylvania. 1952 Stadium.

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Wednesday, April 14

Arts

12:30 p.m. Chapel music afternoon concert. Chapel.

4:30 p.m. Creative writing/Althea Ward Clark reading. Anthony Doerr, novelist, and Sarah Manguso, poet, reading their work. Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.

F 7:30 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Thwak. McCarter Theatre.

Lectures

Noon. Molecular biology lecture. "Signalling by Rhomboids." Matthew Freeman. 3 Thomas Lab.

12:30 p.m. Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions lecture. "The Founders and the Debate Over Judicial Review." Joyce Malcolm, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. East Room, Bobst.

3 p.m. Mathematics discrete mathematics seminar. "Learning in Groups." Robert Calderbank. 224 Fine.

4:15 p.m. Industrial relations/labor economics section lecture. "Bidding for Industrial Plants: Does Winning a 'Million Dollar Plant' Increase Welfare?" Enrico Moretti, University of California-Los Angeles. 200 Fisher Hall.

4:30 p.m. East Asian studies lecture. "Melodrama and Realism in Late-Modern Japanese Theater." Cody Poulton, University of Victoria, B.C. 202 Jones.

4:30 p.m. English lecture and reading on "Ulysses Revisited." "Circe." 2 McCosh.

4:30 p.m. Judaic studies/history/Center for Human Values lecture. "Moral Judgment and Holocaust History: Jewish-Nazi Collaboration on Trial." David Engel, New York University. 2 Robertson.

4:30 p.m. Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination/Woodrow Wilson School lecture. "The Impending AIDS Crisis in Russia: The Shape of the Problem and Possible Solutions." Celeste Wallander, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C. 1 Robertson.

4:30 p.m. Woodrow Wilson School lecture. "Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy." Kevin Bales, Free the Slaves Inc. 16 Robertson.

G 6 p.m. International Center dinner and discussion. "Connecting and Strengthening Asian Communities at Princeton." Hue-Sun Ahn, Virginia Kwan, Todd Stevens and Samuel Wong. Whig.

6 p.m. School of Architecture lecture. "Interpreting Anthropogeomorphology: Programs and Projects of the Center for Land Use Interpretation." Matthew Coolidge, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Culver City, Calif. Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture.

8 p.m. Politics, Law and Public Affairs, Sociology, Frist Campus Center, and the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions lecture. "Freeing the Innocent: An Analysis of Failed Justice" George Castelle, Chief Public Defender, Charleston, West Virginia. Frist Multipurpose Room.
Castelle recieved the National Legal Aid and Defender Association's Reginald Heber Smith Award for exposing crime lab fraud and freeing innocent prisoners wrongfully convicted by false scientific data and erroneous eyewitness identification.

8 p.m. University Public Lectures. "George Herbert and God: Intimacy With the Better Self." Helen Vendler, Harvard University. Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50.

Sports

7 p.m. Women's lacrosse vs. University of Pennsylvania. 1952 Stadium.

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Thursday, April 15

Arts

7:30 p.m. Near Eastern studies Arabic film series. Simone Bitton: "Mahmoud Darwich: As the Land is the Language." 1 Robertson.

7:30 p.m. Visual arts "Black Maria Film Festival." Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.

8 p.m. Germanic languages and literatures film. Eric Rohmer: "Marquise von O." Theater, Rockefeller and Mathey College.

F 8 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Wynton Marsalis Quartet. McCarter Theatre.

F 8 p.m. Theatre Intime play. John Kander, Fred Ebb and Joe Masteroff: "Cabaret." Theater, Murray-Dodge.

Lectures

Noon. International Center lecture. "Are Environmental Disasters Effectively Handled?" East Room, Murray-Dodge.

2 p.m. Mathematics ergodic theory and statistical mechanics seminar. "Modulational Stability of Cellular Flows." Alexei Novikov, Pennsylvania State University. 322 Fine.

3 to 5:30 p.m. Mathematics Bill Browder birthday topology seminar. "Representations and K-Theory of the Braid Group," Alejandro Adem, University of Wisconsin; and "Enlargeability and Index Theory." Bernhard Hanke, Universitaet Muenchen. 314 Fine.

G 3:30 p.m. McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning lecture. "Preparing a Course Syllabus and Other Elements of Course Design." 328 Frist.

4 p.m. Chemistry seminar. "Quantum Interferometry With Electrons in Two Dimensions." Eric Heller, Harvard University. DuPont Seminar Room, 324 Frick.

4 p.m. Philosophy seminar. "Heidegger as Ontologist." Vera Koffman. 201 Marx.

4:30 p.m. East Asian studies lecture. "Gardens and Intellectual Culture in China." Peter Bol, Harvard University. 202 Jones.

4:30 p.m. International economics/economics/Graham memorial lecture. "The Next Generation of International Financial Crises." Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University. Dodds Auditorium, Robertson.

4:30 p.m. Mathematics ergodic theory and statistical mechanics seminar. "Linear and Sub-Linear Behavior of Random Walks in Random Environ-ments on a Strip." Ilya Goldshied, University of London. 601 Fine.

4:30 p.m. Physics colloquium. "Universal Scaling Laws in Biology From Genomes to Ecosystems: Toward a Quantitative Unifying Theory of Biological Structure and Organization." Geoffrey West, Los Alamos National Lab and Santa Fe Institute. A10 Jadwin.

4:30 p.m. Woodrow Wilson School/Center for the Study of Religion lecture. "Making It Right: American Evangelicals, Popular Culture and the Iraq War." Melani McAlister, George Washington University. 16 Robertson.

8 p.m. University Public Lectures. "Walt Whitman and the Reader in Futurity: Intimacy With the Longed-for Camerado." Helen Vendler, Harvard University. Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50.

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Friday, April 16

Arts

12:30 p.m. Art Museum gallery talk. "Charlotte Perriand and Modern Dwelling: French Design in the 1940s and 1950s." Jennifer King. Art Museum.

4:30 p.m. Canadian studies poetry reading. Lorna Crozier, University of Victoria. 209 Humanities Building.

8 p.m. Friends of Music concert. Lauren Carpenter, violin; with Daniela Smolov, piano; Meg Meyer, soprano; and Sean-Avram Carpenter and David Carpenter, violin. Music by Liszt, Beethoven, Bach, Prokofiev and Franck. Taplin Auditorium, Fine.

F 8 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Oliver Mtukudzi and The Black Spirits, with Vusi Mahlasela. McCarter Theatre.

F 8 p.m. Theater and dance senior thesis production. Khalil Sullivan: "Playing in the Dark." Berlind Theatre.

F 8 p.m. Theatre Intime play. John Kander, Fred Ebb and Joe Masteroff: "Cabaret." Theater, Murray-Dodge.

Lectures

8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Woodrow Wilson School/community and state affairs symposium. "Affordable Housing in New Jersey -- Deconstructing the Past and Building the Future." Dodds Auditorium, Robertson. Registration required, e-mail <hersh@princeton.edu>.

10:30 a.m. East Asian studies lecture. "An Introduction to the Geographic Information Systems and the Current and Future China Historical GIS Datasets." Peter Bol, Harvard University. 306 Frist.

4:30 p.m. Irish studies lecture. "Jewish Ireland 1870-1930: An Economic-Historical Perspective." Cormac O'Grada, University College-Dublin. Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.

4:30 p.m. University Public Lectures. "John Ashbery and the Artist of the Past: Intimacy With a Vanished Twin." Helen Vendler, Harvard University. Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50.

Sports

2 p.m. Women's tennis vs. Harvard University. Lenz Tennis Center.

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Saturday, April 17

Arts

10 a.m. and noon. Art Museum talk for children. "Traveling Scriptorium." Cotsen's Children Library, Firestone.

8 p.m. Chapel music concert. "Alexander Nevsky," by Sergei Prokofiev. Chapel Choir, Penna Rose, conductor. Chapel.

F 8 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Jane Monheit, with Gary Burton and Makoto Ozone. McCarter Theatre.

F 8 p.m. Music performance. "The Seasons: An Oratorio by Joseph Haydn." University Concert Choir, Richard Tang Yuk, conductor. Richardson Auditorium, Alexander.

8 p.m. Theater and dance performance and discussion. Bill Young and Dancers. Hagan Dance Studio, 185 Nassau St.

F 8 p.m. Theater and dance senior thesis production. Khalil Sullivan: "Playing in the Dark." Berlind Theatre.

F 8 p.m. Theatre Intime play. John Kander, Fred Ebb and Joe Masteroff: "Cabaret." Theater, Murray-Dodge.

Lectures

9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Princeton Justice Project conference. "Brown v. Board of Education: 50 Years Later, Why Are We Still Separate and Unequal?" Frist. 3 p.m. Keynote address: Linda Brown Thompson and Cheryl Brown Henderson. Multipurpose Room.

10 a.m. East Asian studies workshop. "East Asian Statecraft." Peter Bol, Harvard University; Kate Nakai, Sofia University, Tokyo; John Duncan, University of California-Los Angeles; Alex Woodside, University of British Columbia; and Ben Elman. 202 Jones.

7:30 p.m. Manna Christian Fellowship lecture. "Political Reconciliation: Putting Faith in Justice." Dan Philpott, University of Notre Dame. Senate Chamber, Whig.

Sports

Noon. Women's tennis vs. Dartmouth College. Lenz Tennis Center.

1 p.m. Softball vs. Brown University. 1895 Field.

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Sunday, April 18

Arts

F 2 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Ira Glass. McCarter Theatre.

3 p.m. Art Museum gallery talk. "Charlotte Perriand and Modern Dwelling: French Design in the 1940s and 1950s." Jennifer King. Art Museum.

Lectures

G 4 p.m. International Center/Middle East Society lecture. "The Wall and the Future of Israel/Palestine." Philip Wilcox, Foundation for Middle East Peace, Washington, D.C. 302 Frist.

Notices

11 a.m. Chapel service. Peggy Campolo, Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education, Philadelphia. Chapel.

6 p.m. University Store book reading and signing. Cokie Roberts, author of "Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation." University Store.

Sports

1 p.m. Softball vs. Yale University. 1895 Field.

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Weekly

Alcoholics Anonymous

12:15 p.m. Mondays, West Room, Murray-Dodge; and 9:30 a.m. Sundays, G2 Dickinson. Membership not required to attend.

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Exhibits

Art Museum

Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. Closed Mondays and major holidays. Public tours, Saturdays, 2 p.m.

•"The Art of the Print in the Western World." Through June 12.

•"The Book of Kings: Art, War and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible." Through June 6.

•"Imperial Portraits by van Meytens the Younger and Roslin." Through July 11.

•"Music From the Land of the Jaguar." April 17 through Sept. 5.

•"Robert Adams: From the Missouri West." Through June 6.

•"Songs, Psalms and Praises: An 18th-Century Ethiopian Manuscript." Through June 5.

•"Useful Forms: Furniture by Charlotte Perriand." Through July 11.

Firestone Library

Exhibition Gallery and Milberg Gallery for the Graphic Arts (second floor):

Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.

•"Of Maps and Men: In Pursuit of a Northwest Passage." Through Sept. 26.

•"The Life and Times of George F. Kennan: A Centennial Exhibition." Through April 18.

Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library

Wiess Lounge, Olden Street. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Closed weekends.

•"Princeton Reunions and the P-Rade: A Historical Retrospective." Through July 2.

Visual Arts Program

Lucas Gallery, 185 Nassau St. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed weekends.

•Exhibit by seniors Tiffany Dunbar, painting, and Benjamin Handzo, photography. Through April 16.

Women and Gender Studies

Lounge, 113 Dickinson. Monday-Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Closed weekends.

•"Versatility," mixed media by Kathleen Schulz.

Woodrow Wilson School

Bernstein Gallery, Robertson Hall. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

•Exhibit of paintings by Catherine Woo. Through April 29.

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Art Museum

Hours: 258-3788. <www.princetonartmuseum.org>.

Athletic Ticket Office

Tickets and information: 258-3538.

Dillon Gymnasium

Hours: 258-4466.

Employee Assistance Program

G07 McCosh Health Center. Information and appointments: 258-1875, Monday, Tuesday and Friday.

Employee Health

G6B McCosh Health Center. Appointments: 258-5035, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. After-hours emergencies: 258-3134.

Employment Opportunities

Employment Hotline: 258-6130. <jobs.princeton.edu/openjobs>.

Frist Campus Center

Welcome Desk: 258-1766. <fristqna@princeton.edu>.

Library

Hours: 258-3181. <libweb.princeton.edu>.

McCarter Theatre Box Office

Reservations: 258-2787, Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. <www.mccarter.org>.

Orange Key Guide Service

Frist Campus Center Welcome Desk. Tours Monday-Saturday at 10 and 11 a.m., 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.; Sunday at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. Information and tours: 258-1766.

Prospect Association

Reservations: 258-3686.

Richardson Auditorium

Reservations: 258-5000, Monday-Friday, noon to 6 p.m.; and two hours before events requiring tickets. <www.princeton.edu/richaud>.

Theater and Dance

Reservations: 258-3676. <www.princeton.edu/~visarts/the.html>.

Theatre Intime

Reservations: 258-4950. <www.theatre-intime.org>.

Tiger Sportsline

Current sports highlights and upcom-ing athletic events: 258-3545.

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April 12-18, 2004

Monday, April 12

Arts

Lectures

Sports

Tuesday, April 13

Arts

Lectures

Notices

Sports

Wednesday, April 14

Arts

Lectures

Sports

Thursday, April 15

Arts

Lectures

Friday, April 16

Arts

Lectures

Sports

Saturday, April 17

Arts

Lectures

Sports

Sunday, April 18

Arts

Lectures

Notices

Sports

Weekly

Alcoholics Anonymous

Exhibits

Art Museum

Firestone Library

Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library

Visual Arts Program

Women and Gender Studies

Woodrow Wilson School

Et cetera

Art Museum

Athletic Ticket Office

Dillon Gymnasium

Employee Assistance Program

Employee Health

Employment Opportunities

Frist Campus Center

Library

McCarter Theatre Box Office

Orange Key Guide Service

Prospect Association

Richardson Auditorium

Theater and Dance

Theatre Intime

Tiger Sportsline

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