Princeton - Weekly Bulletin 2005/11/14

Calendar of events

November 14–20, 2005

[F] Admission charged, [G] Not open to general public.
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Monday, November 14

Arts

4:30 p.m. Visual arts illustrated lecture. Patti Chang, performance/video artist, talking about her work. 219, 185 Nassau St.

Lectures

Noon. Pace Center/career services/Alumni Council Careers Committee discussion. “Making a Living and Making a Difference in Politics.” Susan Suh, U.S. Department of State. 243 Frist.

4 p.m. Chemistry seminar. “The Catalytic Cycle of Discovery in Total Synthesis.” Phil Baran, Scripps Research Institute. DuPont Seminar Room, 324 Frick.

4 p.m. Electrical engineering seminar on electronic materials and devices. “Soft Semiconductor Devices.” Marc Baldo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. B205 Engineering Quadrangle.

4 p.m. Geosciences lecture. “Heinrich Events Recorded in O-18 of Atmospheric Oxygen: Strong Perturbations to Terrestrial Photosynthesis?” Jeff Severinghaus, University of California-San Diego. 220 Guyot.

4 p.m. Lewis-Sigler Institute seminar series on “Quantitative and Computational Biology.” “Prediction and Design of Macromolecular Structures and Interactions.” David Baker, University of Washington. 101 Icahn Lab.

4:15 p.m. Industrial relations/labor economics seminar. “What Do Parents Value in Education? An Empirical Investigation of Parents’ Revealed Preferences in Teachers.” Brian Jacobs, Harvard University. 200 Fisher.

4:30 p.m. Fields Center/International Center/Women’s Center lecture. “Coping With Settlers and the Soldiers Who Guard Them.” Zleikha Muhtaseb, interviewer and translator. 243 Frist.

4:30 p.m. Graduate School/Latin American Forum/Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures lecture. “Art and Politics: A Retrospective. Latin-American Artists Dealing with the Mainstream.” Luis Camnitzer, State University of New York-Old Westbury. 105 Chancellor Green.

4:30 p.m. Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination/Near Eastern studies lecture. “U.S.-Syria Relations.” Margaret Scobey, U.S. ambassador to Syria. 1 Robertson.

4:30 p.m. Woodrow Wilson School/law and public affairs/humanities lecture. “American Media: Still the Fourth Estate?” Bill Keller, New York Times. Dodds Auditorium, Robertson.

6 p.m. School of Architecture lecture. “Unbreathed Air, 1956: Alison and Peter Smithson’s House of the Future.” Beatriz Colomia. Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture.

Notices

4:30 p.m. Council of the Princeton University Community meeting. 101 Friend.

7 p.m. University Store book reading and signing. Nell Painter, author of “Creating Black Americans.” University Store.

Sports

[F] 7:30 p.m. Men’s basketball vs. Drexel University. Jadwin Gym.

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Tuesday, November 15

Arts

4:30 p.m. Visual arts/Slash Arts lecture. Martin Arnold, filmmaker, talking about his work. Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.

[F] 8 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Hilary Hahn, violin, and Natalie Zhu, piano. Matthews Theatre.

Lectures

Noon. International Center/East Asian studies lecture. “Local Non-Governmental Organizations in Myanmar.” Dorothy Guyot, Diplomatic School Yangon. 243 Frist.

Noon. Population research/Center for Health and Well-Being demography seminar. “The Health Effects of Work/Family Conflict: From Observation to Policy.” Lisa Berkman, Harvard University. 300 Wallace.

12:15 p.m. Latin American studies lecture. “Culture and Development in Latin America: New Trends in Cultural Policy.” George Yúdice, New York University. 107, 58 Prospect Ave.

12:30 p.m. Princeton Environmental Institute seminar. “Sensing Hormone-Like Compounds Using Engineering Microbes.” David Wood. 10 Guyot.

4 p.m. Chemistry seminar. “Catalytic, Stereoselective Fragment Coupling Reactions in Total Synthesis.” Timothy Jamison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. DuPont Seminar Room, 324 Frick.

4:30 p.m. Center for Human Values/STEP Forum on Environmental and Ethical Issues in Agriculture lecture. “Ethics, Food and Whole Foods Market.” John Mackey, Whole Foods Market. 101 McCormick.

4:30 p.m. Davis Center lecture. “Work in Progress: W. Arthur Lewis, the Princeton Years.” Robert Tignor. 211 Dickinson.

4:30 p.m. Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia lecture. “Instructive Ritual: The Arab Student Union and the ‘Communitas’ of the Palestinian Israeli Educated.” Lauren Erdreich. 1 Robertson.

4:30 p.m. Mathematics algebraic geometry seminar. “Quasi-Reductive Group Schemes.” Gopal Prasad, Institute for Advanced Study. 322 Fine.

4:30 p.m. Tang Center for East Asian Art/art and archaeology lecture. “Affective Realism: Saimitsu Byosha and Its Chinese Song-Dynasty Sources in Taisho, Japan.” Aida Wong, Brandeis University. 106 McCormick.

4:30 p.m. Woodrow Wilson School/Center for Research on Child Well-Being lecture. “Will Gay Marriage Help or Hurt America’s Children?” Jonathan Rauch, Brookings Institution. Dodds Auditorium, Robertson.

7:30 p.m. University Public Lecture Series/East Asian studies/Wendt lecture. “Is Democracy a Universal Value?” Ian Buruma, Bard College. Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50.

8 p.m. Princeton Environmental Institute/Taplin lecture. “Cities in the Wilderness.” Bruce Babbitt, former U.S. secretary of the interior. 104 Computer Science Building.

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Wednesday, November 16

Arts

12:30 p.m. Chapel music organ concert. Daniel Kirk-Foster, piano, St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church, Bronx, N.Y; and Eric Plutz. Chapel.

4:30 p.m. Art Museum/Center for Human Values lecture. “History, Identity, Image or None of the Above: Recent Acquisitions in African-American Art at the Princeton University Art Museum.” Rachael DeLue. 101 McCormick.

4:30 p.m. Creative writing/Althea Ward Clark reading series. Judy Budnitz and Salvadore Plascencia, fiction writers, reading their work. Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.

7 p.m. German film series on “Fritz Lang — The Weimar Films.” “Spione.” 10 East Pyne.

[F] 8 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Savion Glover. “Classical Savion.” Matthews Theatre.

9 p.m. Latin American Forum/Latin American studies film. Marisa Sistach: “Nadie te Oye: Perfume de Violetas.” 215 East Pyne.

Lectures

Noon. Information technology seminar. “Teaching in Bytes: Using Technology in the Classroom.” Janet Temos. Multipurpose Room B, Frist.

Noon. Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials graduate seminar. “Growth and Assembly of ZnO Nanostructures From Solution.” Julia Hsu, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M. Auditorium, Bowen.

Noon. Molecular biology lecture. “Nuclear Pore Complexes: The Hole Picture?” Michael Rout, Rockefeller University. 3 Thomas Lab.

Noon. Pace Center/career services/Alumni Council Careers Committee discussion. “Making a Living and Making a Difference in Religion.” Ryan and Charity Bonfiglio, Athletes in Action. Room E, Prospect House.

Noon. Pace Center/career services/Alumni Council Careers Committee discussion. “Making a Living and Making a Difference in Athletics.” Eric Kutner, ICS Consulting, and Dominic Michel, Prep for Prep. Room G, Prospect House.

12:30 p.m. Mathematics graduate student seminar. “Szemeredi’s Regularity Lemma.” Po-Shen Loh. 224 Fine.

2 p.m. Policy Research Institute for the Region/science, technology and environmental policy lecture. “New Jersey Warming: Global Environmental Changes Affecting New Jersey.” Michael Oppenheimer. Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50.

2:50 p.m. Bendheim Center for Finance/Civitas Foundation lecture. “Limit-Order Markets and Uniform-Price Auctions: An Irrelevance Proposition.” Shmuel Baruch, University of Utah. 103 Bendheim Center. Registration required, visit neukirch@princeton.edu.

[G] 3:30 p.m. McGraw Center lecture. “Making the Transition to Writing in Graduate School.” Amanda Wilkins. 328 Frist.

4 p.m. Chemical engineering seminar. “Nanofluids: Solvent Free Colloids.” Emmanuel Giannelis, Cornell University. A224 Engineering Quadrangle. Social gathering at 3:30 p.m., A214 Engineering Quadrangle.

4 p.m. Chemistry seminar. “Coarse-Grained Models for the Elasticity of Proteins.” Cristian Micheletti, International School for Advanced Study, Trieste, Italy. DuPont Seminar Room, 324 Frick.

4:30 p.m. East Asian studies/Wendt lecture. “A Poisoned Legacy: Nationalism in China, Korea and Japan.” Ian Buruma, Bard College. 202 Jones.

4:30 p.m. Mathematics colloquium. “Higher Teichmuller Theory.” Alexander Goncharov, Brown University. 314 Fine.

6 p.m. School of Architecture lecture. “Binocular House: Ghent, N.Y.” Michael Bell, Columbia University. Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture.

7:30 p.m. American studies/art and archaeology/history illustrated lecture. “Benjamin Franklin.” Muffie Meyer and Ronald Blumer, Middlemarch Films. 101 McCormick.

7:30 p.m. Center for Jewish Life/ Hillel/Judaic studies/Bowen lecture. “The Great Jewish Experiment: Did the Diaspora Save or Doom the Jews?” Ruth Wisse, Harvard University. Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50.

7:30 p.m. Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures/Latin American studies lecture. “Cela en Sudamérica: Mayo-Noviembre de 1953, Cronica de un Viaje.” Gustavo Guerrero, Gallimard, Paris. 105 Chancellor Green.

8 p.m. Athletics/Princeton Varsity Club lecture. Erik Weihenmayer, blind mountain climber. Richardson Auditorium, Alexander.

Notices

7 p.m. University Store book reading and signing. Jerome Karabel, author of “The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale and Princeton.” University Store.

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Thursday, November 17

Arts

8 p.m. Music/performance student recital. Daniela Smolov, piano. Music by Bach, Debussy, Ligeti and Schumann.

[F] 8 p.m. Religious life concert. Salman Ahmad, rock musician from Pakistan and India, and his band, Junoon. Chapel.

[F] 8 p.m. Theater and dance play. Ntozake Shange: “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.” Matthews Acting Studio, 185 Nassau St.

[F] 8 p.m. Theater and dance play. Noah Haidle: “A Long History of Neglect.” Berlind Theatre.

Lectures

[G] Noon and 3 p.m. Information technology/Firestone Library/Academic Productivity 501 Learning Series. “Academic Word I: The Top 10 Things Every Academic Should Know How to Do in Microsoft Word.” Multipurpose Room A, Frist.

Noon. Pace Center/career services/Alumni Council Careers Committee discussion. “Making a Living and Making a Difference in Education.” Eric Westendorf, National Teaching Academy. West Room, Murray-Dodge.

Noon. Pace Center/career services/Alumni Council Careers Committee discussion. “Making a Living and Making a Difference in Law.” Andrew Hoffman, Children and Family Law Program. East Room, Murray-Dodge.

[G] 3:30 p.m. McGraw Center workshop. “Designing a Course.” 328 Frist.

4 p.m. Chemistry seminar. “Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of Nitrophorins.” Roman Czernuszewicz, University of Houston. DuPont Seminar Room, 324 Frick.

4:15 p.m. International economics lecture. “Contracts and Division of Labor.” Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University. 200 Fisher.

4:15 p.m. Princeton plasma physics colloquium. “Is the Universe Out of Tune?” Glenn Starkman, Case Western Reserve University. Gottlieb Auditorium, PPPL, Forrestal.

4:30 p.m. Classics lecture. “The Recovery of Lost Books From Aristotle to Eco: A New Greek Ass-Novel.” Dirk Obbink, University of Oxford. 105 Chancellor Green.

4:30 p.m. Davis Center for Historical Studies lecture. “Western Civ and the Idea of Paleolithic Dystopia.” Daniel Small, Fordham University. 211 Dickinson.

4:30 p.m. Mathematics topology seminar. “Knot Floer Homology and Doubling.” Matthew Hedden. 314 Fine.

4:30 p.m. Music colloquium. Composer Steven Stucky discussing his work. Woolworth.

4:30 p.m. Religious life/Woodrow Wilson School film and discussion. “When Art and Religion Collide.” Salman Ahmad, rock musician from Pakistan and India, and Stanley Katz. 101 McCormick.

4:30 p.m. Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures lecture. “Cutting Don Quijote: Jess Franco, Orson Welles and the Rise of Participatory Culture in Spain.” Michael Solomon, University of Pennsylvania. 10 East Pyne.

4:30 p.m. Woodrow Wilson School/Woodrow Wilson Political Network lecture. “Recapping Election 2005 and Strategizing Election 2006.” Josh Earnest, Democratic National Committee press secretary, and Tracey Schmitt, Republican National Committee press secretary. 16 Robertson.

4:40 p.m. Physics colloquium. “Quantum Physics at Your Pencil Tips: Dirac Fermion in Graphite.” Philip Kim, Columbia University. A10 Jadwin.

5:30 p.m. Sigma Xi lecture. “Prospect 11: Princeton Entry in the 2005 DARPA Challenge for Driverless Vehicles.” Alain Kornhauser. 10 Guyot.

7:30 p.m. Center for the Study of Religion/humanities/anthropology lecture. “The Ignorance of Chicken, or, Who Believes What Today.” Slavoj Zizek, University of Ljubljana, and Cornel West. Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50.

Notices

[FG] 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Prospect Thanksgiving buffet. Prospect House.

3 p.m. University League membership meeting. 171 Broadmead.

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Friday, November 18

Arts

12:30 p.m. Art Museum gallery talk. “John Singer Sargent: His Princeton Connection.” Grace Mele, docent. Art Museum.

[F] 8 p.m. Theater and dance play. Ntozake Shange: “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.” Matthews Acting Studio, 185 Nassau St.

[F] 8 p.m. Theater and dance play. Noah Haidle: “A Long History of Neglect.” Berlind Theatre.

Lectures

10:30 a.m. Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures/Latin American studies/music colloquium. “Popular Music and Politics in Latin America (1959-1973).” Juan Flores, City University of New York; Charles Perrone, University of Florida; and Sergio Pujol, Universidad de la Plata, Argentina. 10 East Pyne.

Noon. Pace Center/Career Services/Alumni Council Careers committee discussion. “Making a Living and Making a Difference in Policy Research.” Kathy Miller, Medical and Health Research Association, and Kamilah Briscoe, Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy. 243 Frist.

1 p.m. Ancient world lecture. “Imagining Roman Family Trees.” Corey Brennan, Rutgers University. 209 Scheide Caldwell House.

2 p.m. Classics/classical philosophy colloquium. “Philodemus.” Dirk Obbink, University of Oxford; David Sider, New York University; and David Blank, University of Southern California. 106 McCormick.

2:30 p.m. Mechanical and aerospace engineering seminar. “Low-Temperature Combustion Process in Diesel Engines (Laser Diagnostic).” Chia-fon Lee, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign. 222 Bowen. Social gathering follows, J223 Engineering Quadrangle.

4 p.m. Ethics and public affairs/philosophy lecture. “The Structure of Objects.” Kathrin Koslicki, Tufts University. 2 Robertson.

Notices

9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. European politics and society/Institute for International and Regional Studies/Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions conference, first of two days. “Anti-Americanism in Europe.” 1 Robertson.

Sports

5 p.m. Men’s swimming vs. University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University. DeNunzio Pool.

7 p.m. Women’s ice hockey vs. Clarkson University. Baker Rink.

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Saturday, November 19

Arts

10 a.m. Art Museum talk for children. “Let’s Go to the Ballgame.” Madhvi Subrahamanian, docent. Art Museum.

[F] 8 p.m. Chapel music organ concert. Eric Plutz. Chapel.

[F] 8 p.m. Theater and dance play. Ntozake Shange: “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.” Matthews Acting Studio, 185 Nassau St.

[F] 8 p.m. Theater and dance play. Noah Haidle: “A Long History of Neglect.” Berlind Theatre.

Lectures

1:30 p.m. Music/Friends of Music symposium. “Bach and Mendel: A Special Symposium in Celebration of the Centenary of Professor Arthur Mendel and the 60th anniversary of His ‘Bach Reader.’” Taplin Auditorium, Fine.

Notices

9 a.m. to noon. European politics and society/Institute for International and Regional Studies/Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions conference, last of two days. “Anti-Americanism in Europe.” 1 Robertson.

Sports

4 p.m. Women’s ice hockey vs. St. Lawrence University. Baker Rink.

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Sunday, November 20

Arts

3 p.m. Art Museum gallery talk. “John Singer Sargent: His Princeton Connection.” Grace Mele, docent. Art Museum.

3 to 6 p.m. Fields Center exhibit of new works by Rhinold Ponder. Fields Center.

4 p.m. University Chamber Choir, Richard Tang Yuk, conductor. Music by Vivaldi, Nanino, Victoria and Gibbons. Richardson Auditorium, Alexander.

7:15 p.m. Near Eastern studies Israeli film series. Nissim Mossek: “Shalom Abu Bassem.” 10 East Pyne.

Notices

11 a.m. Chapel service. Thomas Breidenthal. Chapel.

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Weekly

Alcoholics Anonymous

12:15 p.m. Mondays. East Room, Murray-Dodge.

9:30 a.m. Sundays, basement, Murray-Dodge. 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.

“Between Image and Concept: Recent Acquisitions in African-American Art.” Nov. 19 through Feb. 26.

“Chantal Akerman: ‘25ème ècran (25th Screen)’” Nov. 19 through Feb. 26.

“The Legacy of Homer: Four Centuries of Art From the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris.” Through Jan. 15.

Firestone Library

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. Milberg Gallery: “Wonderful Stories for Pictures: Hans Christian Andersen and His Illustrators.” Through March 26.Main Gallery: “The Lure of the Library: The Friends at 75.” Through April 16.

International Center

Chancellor Green, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Frist Campus Center.

“The Time of Mikhail Gorbachev.” Photo exhibit by Rebecca Matlock. Through Nov. 18.

Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library

Olden St. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

“1945: A World United and Divided.” Through Jan. 31.

Visual Arts Program

Lucas Gallery, 185 Nassau St. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed weekends.

Work from visual arts painting classes. Nov. 15 to through Dec. 1. Opening reception, Nov. 15, 6 to 8 p.m.

Women and Gender Studies

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

“Clouds and Spirits.” Art by Ruane Miller. Through Dec. 22.