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Princeton Weekly Bulletin September 18, 2006, Vol. 96, No. 2 prev next current
- Page One
- • Celebrating the start of a new academic year
- • Tilghman offers five-point plan for success at Princeton
- • Renovated club to become gathering place for students
- Inside
- • Sagnier introduces new language for learning
- • Team benefits from demands of interdisciplinary science
- • Planet Earth may have ‘tilted’ to keep its balance, say scientists
- • Parking changes intended to provide improved service
- • Chiller plant wins design award
- Almanac
- • Calendar of events
- • Nassau notes
- • By the numbers
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Calendar of events
September 18–24, 2006
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[F] Admission charged, [G] Not open to general public.
All other events are open to members of the University community
and the general public free of charge. Any speaker not otherwise identified is
a member of the faculty, staff or student body of Princeton University.
The calendar is posted at www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/.
Submissions for future calendars may be made electronically at the same
location or by entering information in the University-wide Web-based events
calendar at calendar.princeton.edu.
Monday, September 18
Arts
[F] 7:30 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Lyle Lovett. Matthews Theatre.
7:30 p.m. Human values/dean of the faculty/School of Architecture film forum on “Ideas of Freedom.” Luis Buñuel: “Phantom of Liberty.” Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture.
Lectures
3 p.m. Mathematics discrete mathematics seminar. “Universally Optimal Distribution of Points on Spheres.” Henry Cohn, Microsoft Research. 314 Fine.
8 p.m. Law and public affairs lecture. “Judicial Dialogue Among the European Supreme Courts: The European Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights and the EFTA Court.” Carl Baudenbacher, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and Court of Justice of the European Free Trade Association. Presidential Dining Room, Prospect House.
Notices
[G] 4:30 p.m. Faculty meeting. Faculty Room. Nassau.
Tuesday, September 19
Arts
[F] 7:30 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Harold Pinter: “The Birthday Party.” Berlind Theatre.
Lectures
Noon. Population research lecture. “The Aging Mind.” Denise Park, University of Illinois. 300 Wallace.
12:15 p.m. Latin American studies lecture. “The Arts in Latin America (1492-1820).” Sharon Lorenzo, University of Houston. 216 Burr. Buffet lunch served at noon.
4:30 p.m. Americans for Informed Democracy/Pace Center/Muslim Students Association lecture. “The Future of Muslim-U.S. World Relations.” Shamil Idriss, U.N. Alliance of Civilizations. 101 McCormick.
4:30 p.m. Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions/Mason lecture series on “Constitutional Law and Political Thought: The Quest for Freedom.” “The Constitution, Dead or Alive?” Walter Murphy. Dodds Auditorium, Robertson.
4:30 p.m. Mathematics mathematical physics seminar. “Conformal Invariance in the Ising Model.” Stanislav Smirnov, University of Geneva. 343 Jadwin.
4:30 p.m. Operations research and financial engineering seminar. “Maximum Drawdown, Directional Trading and Market Crashes.” Jan Vecer, Columbia University. E219 Engineering Quadrangle.
Wednesday, September 20
Arts
[F] 7:30 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Harold Pinter: “The Birthday Party.” Berlind Theatre.
Lectures
Noon. Information technology seminar. “Teaching With Blackboard: It Keeps Getting Better!” Dennis Hood. Multipurpose Room B, Frist.
Noon. Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials seminar. “Understanding Durability=Understanding Transport.” Leo Pel, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Auditorium, Bowen.
Noon. Molecular biology lecture. “Roads to Ruin: Apoptotic Pathways in the Nematode C. Elegans.” Michael Hengartner, University of Zurich. 3 Thomas Lab.
2:15 p.m. Mathematics discrete mathematics seminar. “Minimum Codegree Problems.” Peter Keevash, California Institute of Technology. 224 Fine.
3 p.m. Mathematics geometry, representation theory and moduli seminar. Dmitro Arinkin, California Institute of Technology. 214 Fine.
4 p.m. Chemical engineering seminar. “Tumor Targeting Theory and Experiment.” K. Dane Wittrup, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A224 Engineering Quadrangle. Social gathering at 3:30 p.m., A214 Engineering Quadrangle.
4:15 p.m. Princeton plasma physics colloquium. “The Universe’s Baby Picture.” David Spergel. Gottlieb Auditorium, PPPL, Forrestal.
4:30 p.m. East Asian studies lecture. “Organizing the Disorganized: The Politics of Mendicancy in Qing and Republican China.” Hanchao Lu, Georgia Institute of Technology. 202 Jones.
4:30 p.m. Woodrow Wilson School/European Union Program lecture. “Europe as Empire: The Nature of the New European Union.” Jan Zielonka, Oxford University. Robertson.
Notices
7 p.m. University Store book reading and signing. Daphne Oz, author of “The Dorm-Room Diet.” University Store.
Thursday, September 21
Arts
[F] 7:30 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Harold Pinter: “The Birthday Party.” Berlind Theatre.
[F] 8 p.m. University concerts. Muir String Quartet. Music by Haydn, Berg and Schumann. Richardson Auditorium, Alexander. Reception follows.
Lectures
4:30 p.m. Akwaaba/Institute for International and Regional Studies/African studies lecture. “Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development in Africa: The Rwandan Experience.” Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda. Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50.
4:30 p.m. Music composition colloquium. Composer Bun-Ching Lam. 102 Woolworth.
4:30 p.m. Physics colloquium. “Nucleation and Metastable Liquids.” Sebastien Balibar, Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l’ENS, Paris. A10 Jadwin.
4:30 p.m. Woodrow Wilson School lecture. “Arabs and Israelis: ‘The Summer Vacation War.’” Daniel Kurtzer. Dodds Auditorium, Robertson.
Notices
7 p.m. University Store book reading and signing. Timothy Williams, author of “Five Minutes and 42 Seconds.” University Store.
Friday, September 22
Arts
[F] 8 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Harold Pinter: “The Birthday Party.” Berlind Theatre.
Lectures
4 p.m. Philosophy seminar. “Conceptual Analysis Naturalized: A Metaphilosophical Case Study.” Christopher Hitchcock, California Institute of Technology. 1 Robertson.
Saturday, September 23
Arts
[F] 3 and 8 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Harold Pinter: “The Birthday Party.” Berlind Theatre.
Notices
3 p.m. University Store book reading and signing. James McGreevey, author of “The Confession.” University Store.
Sports
[F] 6 p.m. Football vs. Lafayette College. Princeton Stadium.
Sunday, September 24
Arts
[F] 2 and 7:30 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Harold Pinter: “The Birthday Party.” Berlind Theatre.
Notices
11 a.m. Chapel service. Thomas Breidenthal. Chapel.
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.
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.
“Fin de Siècle.” Through Jan. 14.
Japanese Views of East and West: Imprinting the Other in Meiji Eves.” Sept. 23 through Jan 7.
“Modernist Art: Prints, Drawings and Photographs.” Through Jan 14.
Friend Center
Atrium.
“Art of Science.” Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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. Main Gallery: “Framing the Frontier: Photographers and the American West, 1850-1920.” Through Sept. 24.
Milberg Gallery: “O, What a Place for a Lake! The Centennial of the Construction of Loch Carnegie.” Through Sept. 24.
Lobby: “Student, Scholar, President: Robert F. Goheen at Princeton, 1936-2006.” Through Dec. 31.
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library
Wiess Lounge, Olden Street. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., Wednesday until 7:45 p.m. Closed weekends.
“Going Back in Orange and Black.” Through Dec. 31.
Et cetera
Art Museum
Hours: 258-3788. www.princeton artmuseum.org.
Athletic Ticket Office
Tickets and information: 258-3538.
Employment Opportunities
Frist Campus Center
Welcome Desk: 258-1766. www.princeton.edu/frist.
Library
Hours: 258-3181. libweb.princeton.edu.
McCarter Theatre Box Office
Reservations: 258-2787 (for Matthews and Berlind Theatre events), 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.
(No tours held afternoons of football games.)
Prospect Association
Reservations: 258-3686. www.princeton.edu/prospecthouse.
Richardson Auditorium
Event information: 258-5000. www.princeton.edu/richaud.
Tiger Sportsline
Current sports highlights and upcom-ing athletic events: 258-3545.
Rosh HaShanah services
Orthodox. Center for Jewish Life. Sept. 22, 6:40 p.m.; Sept. 23, 8:45 a.m., 5:45 and 7:35 p.m.; and Sept. 24, 8:45 a.m., 6:45 and 7:30 p.m.
Conservative. Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall. Sept. 22, 7:30 p.m.; Sept. 23, 9 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.; and Sept. 24, 9 a.m.
Reform. Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau St. Sept. 22, 7:30 p.m.; and Sept. 23, 10 a.m.