Calendar of events

October 9–15, 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, October 9

Arts

7:30 p.m. Human values/dean of the faculty/School of Architecture film forum on “Ideas of Freedom.” Fatih Akin: “Head-On.” Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture.

Lectures

12:30 p.m. Integrative information, computer and application sciences seminar. “Quantitative Clinical Pharmacology: New Horizons in Integrating Exposure/Response in Clinical Development.” Rajesh Krishna, Merck. 302 Computer Science.

4 p.m. Applied and computational mathematics lecture. “Vincent Van Gogh and Imitators in Grayscale: An Experiment in Cross-Disciplinary Stimulation.” C. Richard Johnson, Cornell University. 214 Fine.

4 p.m. Electrical engineering seminar on electronic materials and devices. “Poly-Si TFT Technology: Advances in Material, Process and Device Technology.” Apostolos Voutsas, Sharp Laboratories, Camas, Wash. B205 Engineering Quadrangle.

4 p.m. Geosciences lecture. “Glacial Variability Over the Last 2Ma: A Depth-Derived Agemodel, Continuous Obliquity Pacing and the Pleistocene Progression.” Peter Huybers, Harvard University. 220 Guyot.

4 p.m. Mathematics analysis seminar. “Blow Up of the Critical Norm for Some L^2 Super Critical Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations.” Pierre Raphael. 110 Fine.

4:30 p.m. Woodrow Wilson School/Princeton Outreach Program in Engineering, Economics, Education and Public Affairs/Bendheim Center for Finance lecture. “The East-West Pendulum.” Robert Lloyd George, Lloyd George Management. 16 Robertson.

Tuesday, October 10

Arts

4:30 p.m. Visual arts illustrated lecture. Phoebe Washburn, sculptor and installation artist, talking about her work. Room 219, 185 Nassau St.

[F] 7:30 p.m. International Center/Association of Chinese Students and Scholars Chinese moon festival. Wenqin Art Troupe, Zhejiang University, China. Richardson Auditorium, Alexander.

[F] 7:30 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Brian Friel: “Translations.” Matthews Theatre.

[F] 7:30 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Harold Pinter: “The Birthday Party.” Berlind Theatre.

Lectures

12:15 p.m. Latin American studies lecture. “Internal Migration and Working-Class Experiences in São Paulo During the 1950s.” Paulo Fontes. 216 Burr. Buffet lunch served at noon.

[G] 3:30 p.m. McGraw Center lecture. “Preparing a Teaching Portfolio.” Kate Stanton. 328 Frist.

4:30 p.m. Mathematics mathematical physics seminar. “Self-Avoiding Loop Correlations and Loop Erasure.” David Brydges, University of British Columbia and Institute for Advanced Study. 343 Jadwin.

4:30 p.m. Operations research and financial engineering seminar. “Tikhonov Regularization for Functional Minimum Distance Estimators.” Olivier Scaillet, University of Geneva. E219 Engineering Quadrangle.

4:30 p.m. Woodrow Wilson School/law and public affairs/Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination lecture. “The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End.” Peter Galbraith, Center for Arms Control and Nuclear Nonproliferation. 16 Robertson.

5:30 p.m. Classics lecture. “Centers of Power: Hierakonpolis and State Formation in Ancient Egypt.” Thomas Hikade, University of British Columbia. 10 East Pyne.

8 p.m. University Public Lecture Series. “Matchsticks, Scramjets and Black Holes: Numerical Simulation Faces Reality.” Elaine Oran, U.S. Naval Research Lab. Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50.

8 p.m. Woodrow Wilson School/Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions lecture series on “Presidential Leadership in Times of Crisis.” “Franklin D. Roosevelt: Lion, Fox or Muddler?” Alonzo Hamby, Ohio University. Dodds Auditorium, Robertson.

Notices

[G] 1 p.m. University League tour of the campus. Jim Consolloy. Front of parking garage next to Baker Rink.

7 p.m. University Store book reading and signing. Daniel Mendelsohn, author of “The Lost: The Search for Six in Six Million.” University Store.

Wednesday, October 11

Arts

12:30 p.m. Chapel music organ concert. Timothy Spelbring, Eastman School of Music. Chapel.

4:30 p.m. Creative writing/Althea Ward Clark reading series. David Treuer and Luci Tapahonso, reading their work. Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.

[F] 7:30 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Brian Friel: “Translations.” Matthews Theatre.

[F] 7:30 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Harold Pinter: “The Birthday Party.” Berlind Theatre.

7:30 p.m. Near Eastern studies film. Mohsen Makhmalbaf: “Safar-e Ghandehar.” 100 Jones.

Lectures

Noon. French and Italian lecture. “Corneille sur les Scènes Francaises: Du Canon à la Métathéâtralité.” Christian Biet, Paris-X Nanterre and New York University. 305 East Pyne.

Noon. Information technology seminar. “High Performance Computing: The Princeton Experience.” Curt Hillegas. Multipurpose Room B, Frist.

Noon. Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials seminar. “Fracture Toughness Measurements of Nanoscale Metal Films on Elastomer Substrates.” Hilary Bart-Smith, University of Virginia. 222 Bowen.

Noon. Population research/Center for Health and Wellbeing/Notestein lecture. “Stature and Status: Height, Ability and Labor Market Outcomes.” Anne Case and Chris Paxson. 300 Wallace.

[G] 12:15 p.m. McGraw Center lecture. “The Scholar as Teacher.” Marguerite Browning. 328 Frist.

12:30 p.m. Integrative information, computer and application sciences seminar. “Modeling Science: Topic Models of Scientific Journals and Other Large Text Databases.” David Blei. 302 Computer Science.

2:15 p.m. Mathematics discrete mathematics seminar. “The Rank of Random Graphs.” Kevin Costello, Rutgers University. 224 Fine.

3 p.m. Mathematics geometry, representation theory and moduli seminar. I. Smith, Cambridge University. 214 Fine.

4 p.m. Chemical engineering seminar. “Protein Refolding Under Pressure.” Theodore Randolph, University of Colorado-Boulder. A224 Engineering Quadrangle. Social gathering at 3:30 p.m., A214 Engineering Quadrangle.

4 p.m. Molecular biology lecture. “Maintaining the Ends: Regulation of Telomerase in Yeast.” Virginia Zakian. 3 Thomas Lab.

4:15 p.m. Industrial relations/labor economics seminar. “Here Comes the Rain Again: Weather and the Intertemporal Substitution of Leisure.” Marie Connolly. 200 Fisher.

4:15 p.m. International economics lecture. “Protection for Sale or Surge Protection.” Susumu Imai, Queen’s University, Canada. 103 Bendheim Center, 26 Prospect.

4:15 p.m. Princeton plasma physics colloquium. “The Global Consciousness Project: Meaningful Patterns in Random Data.” Roger Nelson, Global Consciousness Project. Gottlieb Auditorium, PPPL, Forrestal.

4:30 p.m. East Asian studies lecture. “Signs, Ciphers and Seals: Popular Literacy in Early Modern Japan.” Richard Rubinger, Indiana University. 202 Jones.

4:30 p.m. Mathematics colloquium. Klaus Schmidt, University of Vienna. 314 Fine.

4:30 p.m. Woodrow Wilson School/Center for Research on Child Wellbeing “Researcher Meets Policy-Maker” lecture series. “Getting Dads to Pay and Work: A New Father’s Agenda.” Robert Doar, New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance; and Lawrence Mead, New York University. 16 Robertson.

6 p.m. School of Architecture lecture. “1234.” Louisa Hutton, Sauerbruch Hutton Architects, London. Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture.

7:30 p.m. Women’s Center/Frist Campus Center/Graduate School lecture and book signing. “Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide.” Sara Laschever. Theater, Frist.

Notices

4 to 5 p.m. University League Nursery School open house. 171 Broadmead.

7 p.m. University Store book reading and signing. Esther Schor, author of “Emma Lazarus.” University Store.

Sports

7 p.m. Women’s soccer vs. Bucknell University. Lourie-Love Field.

Thursday, October 12

Arts

[F] 7:30 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Brian Friel: “Translations.” Matthews Theatre.

[F] 7:30 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Harold Pinter: “The Birthday Party.” Berlind Theatre.

[F] 8 p.m. University concerts. Edmund Battersby, piano. Music by Chopin. Richardson Auditorium, Alexander.

Lectures

10:30 a.m. Geophysical fluid dynamics seminar. “Toward the Understanding of Pacific Decadal Variability.” Zhengyu Liu, University of Wisconsin. 209 GFDL, Forrestal.

12:30 p.m. Ecology and evolutionary biology lecture. “Indirect Interactions, Food Webs and the Structure of Insect Communities.” Charles Godfray, NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College, London. 209 Eno.

2 p.m. Geophysical fluid dynamics seminar. “Mechanisms of AMOC Response to Changes in Surface Buoyancy Forcing Under Global Warming in the IPSL-CM4 Model.” Didier Swingedouw, Le Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, France. 209 GFDL, Forrestal.

[G] 3:30 p.m. McGraw Center lecture. “Educating Citizens, Not Consumers.” Christopher Eisgruber. 328 Frist.

4:30 p.m. Classics lecture. “‘Sexing the World’: Roman Poets and Scholars on Grammatical Gender.” Anthony Corbeill, University of Kansas. 10 East Pyne.

4:30 p.m. Davis Center lecture. “Atoms for Peace and the Visual Rhetoric of Modernity.” John Krige, Georgia Institute for Technology. 211 Dickinson.

4:30 p.m. Latin American studies lecture. “Itinerant Citizenship: Defending Dignity in the World Made by Slavery.” Rebecca Scott, University of Michigan. 219 Burr.

4:30 p.m. Physics colloquium. “The Mechanics of DNA at High Curvature.” Philip Nelson, University of Pennsylvania. A10 Jadwin.

Notices

[F] Noon. Athletics/Princeton Varsity Club luncheon with the coaches. Class of 1956 Lounge, Princeton Stadium.

[F] 7 p.m. University League/International Center potluck. 171 Broadmead.

7 p.m. University Store book reading and signing. Fritz Stern, author of “The Five Germanys I Have Known.” University Store.

Friday, October 13

Arts

[F] 8 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Brian Friel: “Translations.” Matthews Theatre.

[F] 8 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Harold Pinter: “The Birthday Party.” Berlind Theatre.

[F] 8 p.m. Tigressions “A Cappella Jam.” Richardson Auditorium, Alexander.

[F] 9 p.m. Chapel music film. “Phantom of the Opera”; organ accompaniment by Michael Britt. Chapel.

Lectures

[G] Noon. Judaic studies works-in-progress seminar. “Law and Narrative in a Millennium of Epic Literature in Ancient Israel and Jewish Antiquity.” Simi Chavel. 203 Scheide Caldwell House.

12:30 p.m. Science and global security seminar on biodefense. “Assessing the Biological Weapons and Bioterrorism Threat.” Milton Leitenberg, University of Maryland. 280 Icahn.

3 p.m. Mathematics differential geometry and geometric analysis seminar. Andrea Malchiodi, SISSA, Trieste, Italy. 314 Fine.

3:30 p.m. Mechanical and aerospace engineering seminar. “Energy Technology for Living in a Greenhouse.” Robert Socolow. Social gathering follows, J223 Engineering Quadrangle.

4:30 p.m. School of Architecture lecture. “40 Years: Hillier and Practice — Then and Now.” Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture.

Notices

All day. Freshman Parents Weekend. See www.princeton.edu/pr/event/fpw.

4:30 to 8 p.m. Theater and dance/library/Irish studies “Players & Painted Stage” symposium. 185 Nassau St. and Firestone Library. For more information, visit weblamp.princeton.edu/~milberg.

[FG] 5:30 to 9 p.m. Prospect wine dinner. Prospect House.

7 p.m. University Store book reading and signing. Richard Weeder, author of “The Key to Cancer.” University Store.

Sports

[F] 7 p.m. Football vs. Brown University. Princeton Stadium.

7 p.m. Women’s volleyball vs. Cornell University. Dillon Gym.

Saturday, October 14

Arts

[F] 3 and 8 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Brian Friel: “Translations.” Matthews Theatre.

[F] 3 and 8 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Harold Pinter: “The Birthday Party.” Berlind Theatre.

[F] 8 p.m. Chapel music concert. “Lift Every Voice: Music From the African American Worship Tradition.” William Heard, soloist; and Michael Gittens, piano and organ. Chapel.

[F] 8 p.m. University Concert Jazz Ensembles concert. Anthony D.J. Branker, director. “Basie, Straight Ahead: The Music of the Count Basie Orchestra.” Richardson Auditorium, Alexander.

Notices

All day. Freshman Parents Weekend. See www.princeton.edu/pr/event/fpw.

9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Art and archaeology graduate student symposium. “The Making of Artists.” Howard Singerman, University of Virginia. 106 McCormick.

10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Theater and dance/library/Irish studies “Players & Painted Stage” symposium. Berlind Theater and 185 Nassau St. For more information, visit weblamp.princeton.edu/~milberg.

Sports

Noon. Field hockey vs. Brown University. 1952 Stadium.

4 p.m. Women’s volleyball vs. Columbia University. Dillon Gym.

Sunday, October 15

Arts

[F] 2 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Brian Friel: “Translations.” Matthews Theatre. “Players and Painted Stage” symposium lecture follows.

[F] 2 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Harold Pinter: “The Birthday Party.” Berlind Theatre.

[F] 3 p.m. University concerts. Richardson Chamber Players. Music by Rebecca Clarke, Ernest Block and Charles Loeffler. Richardson Auditorium, Alexander.

7:15 p.m. Near Eastern studies film. Shmuel and Amir Hasfarei: “The Schwartz Dynasty.” 10 East Pyne.

Notices

All day. Freshman Parents Weekend. See www.princeton.edu/pr/event/fpw.

10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Art Museum symposium. “Virgin Saints, Martyrdom and the Early Christian Revival.” 106 McCormick. Registration required, call 258-1741; or e-mail <astearly@princeton.edu.

11 a.m. Chapel service. Deborah Blanks. Chapel.

Sports

1 p.m. Field hockey vs. Hofstra University. 1952 Stadium.

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.

“A Painting in Context: Pietro da Cortona’s ‘St. Martina Refuses to Adore the Idols.’” Oct. 14 through Jan. 21

“Fin de Siècle.” Through Jan. 14.

“Japanese Views of East and West: Imprinting the Other in Meiji Eves.” Through Jan 7.

“Front and Center: Figure Drawings by Pietro da Cortona and His Contemporaries.” Oct. 14 through Jan 21.

“Modernist Art: Prints, Drawings and Photographs.” Through Jan 14.

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. 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.

Visual Arts Program

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

Exhibition of student work. Through Oct. 13.

Women and Gender Studies

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

Exhibit of artworks by Lucy Graves McVicker. Through Oct. 31.

Et cetera

Art Museum

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

Athletic Ticket Office

Tickets and information: 258-3538.

Employment Opportunities

jobs.princeton.edu.

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 upcoming athletic events: 258-3545.