Calendar of events
February 11-17, 2008
[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, February 11
Arts
6:30 p.m. Slavic languages and literatures film screening. Sergei Bodrov: “Sestry (Sisters).” 100 Jones.
Lectures
Noon. Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies/contemporary European politics and society lecture. “Integrating and Excluding Immigrants in France and in European Societies.” Guy Sorman, author and publisher. 216 Burr.
12:30 p.m. Integrative information, computer and application sciences lecture. “Visualization and Matching for Networks of People and Data.” Tony Jebara, Columbia University. 302 Computer Science.
4 p.m. Mathematics analysis seminar. “Non-Uniform Dependence for the Periodic CH Equation.” Alex Himonas, University of Notre Dame. 110 Fine.
4:30 p.m. Liechtenstein Institute/Near Eastern studies lecture. “EU Enlargement: After the Lisbon Treaty and the Question of Turkish Accession.” Ahmet Evin, Sabanci University, Istanbul. 1 Robertson.
4:30 p.m. Madison Program lecture. “Bioethics: What Would the Founders Say?” Diana Schaub, Loyola College. 219 Burr.
Notices
[G] 4:30 p.m. Council of the Princeton University Community meeting. Conversation with President Tilghman. Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture.
Tuesday, February 12
Arts
7:30 p.m. Center for Human Values/dean of the faculty/Rockefeller College film screening. Luis Bunuel: “Viridiana.” Discussion follows. Theater, Rockefeller.
[F] 7:30 p.m. McCarter Theatre play. Edward Albee: “Me, Myself and I.” Emily Mann, director. Berlind Theatre.
8 p.m. Composers’ Ensemble concert. Works of graduate student composers Seth Cluett, Chris Tignor, Scott Smallwood and Lainie Fefferman. Taplin Auditorium, Fine.
Lectures
Noon. Population research lecture. “Segregation in Social Networks Based on Acquaintanceship and Trust: Preliminary Results From the 2006 General Social Survey.” Thomas DiPrete, Columbia University. 300 Wallace.
12:15 p.m. Latin American studies lecture. “Democracy and Populism in Latin America.” Ignacio Walker. 216 Burr.
2:30 p.m. Mathematics special seminar. “Mapping Class Group Dynamics on Moduli Spaces.” Bill Goldman, University of Maryland. 314 Fine.
3:30 p.m. Princeton Canadian Club/Canadian studies/Princeton Environmental Institute discussion. David Suzuki, environmental activist and broadcaster, and Michael Oppenheimer. Multipurpose Room, Forbes.
4 p.m. Chemistry lecture. “Crystallographic Snapshots of Natural Product Biosynthesis.” Catherine Drennan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 324 Frick.
4:15 p.m. Astrophysical sciences astronomy colloquium. “Binary Black Hole Mergers.” Frans Pretorius. 145 Peyton.
4:30 p.m. Career services lecture. YoungSuk Chi, Elsevier publishing company. 2 Robertson.
4:30 p.m. Center for Innovation in Engineering Education/Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies lecture. “Gender, Technology and Development: The AIR Project.” Revi Sterling, University of Colorado-Boulder. 6 Friend.
4:30 p.m. East Asian studies/Princeton-Harvard China and the world lecture. “Worldview, National Image and Soft Power: Tianxia [All Under Heaven] and China’s Foreign Policy Discourse in the 21st Century.” William Callahan, University of Manchester, United Kingdom. 202 Jones.
4:30 p.m. Mathematics algebraic geometry seminar. “Reimagining Universal Covers and Fundamental Groups in Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry.” Ravi Vakil, Stanford University. 322 Fine.
4:30 p.m. Operations research and financial engineering lecture. “Prediction of Health Care Costs via Data-Mining and Algorithmic Discovery of Medical Know-ledge.” Dimitris Bertsimas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. E219 Engineering Quadrangle.
4:30 p.m. Princeton Environmental Institute/Near Eastern studies lecture. “Iran’s Nuclear Program and Arab Responses.” George Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 10 Guyot.
4:30 p.m. Woodrow Wilson School lecture. “The United Nations at a Time of Change.” Warren Hoge, The New York Times. 16 Robertson.
7 p.m. Chemistry lecture. “Direct Solar Electricity.” Allen Barnett and Christiana Honsberg, University of Delaware. 124 Frick.
8 p.m. Princeton Canadian Club/Canadian studies/Princeton Environmental Institute lecture. “Sustainability: The Real Challenge.” David Suzuki, environmental activist and broadcaster. McCosh 50.
Sports
7 p.m. Men’s volleyball vs. NYU. Dillon Gym.
Wednesday, February 13
Arts
12:30 p.m. Chapel music organ concert. Matthew Brown, New York. Chapel.
4:30 p.m. Creative writing/Clark Reading Series. Etgar Keret and Phillip Lopate, fiction writers. Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.
F 7:30 p.m. McCarter Theatre play. Edward Albee: “Me, Myself and I.” Emily Mann, director. Berlind Theatre.
F 8 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Pilobolus Dance Theatre. Matthews Theatre.
Lectures
Noon. Information technology lecture. “The Changing Face of Programming.” Brian Kernighan. Multipurpose Room B, Frist.
Noon. Molecular biology lecture. “Centrosomes, Cilia and the Cell Cycle.” Tim Stearns, Stanford University. 3 Thomas.
Noon. Princeton Institute for the Science of Technology of Materials lecture. “Achieving a Solar Cell Efficiency Greater Than 50 Percent: Physics, Technology, Implementation and Milestones.” Allen Barnett, University of Delaware. 222 Bowen.
12:15 p.m. McGraw Center lecture. “The Scholar as Teacher.” Lex Smits. 328 Frist.
12:30 p.m. Integrative information, computer and application sciences lecture. “Translational Research — From the Bench to the Bedside (and Back).” Guna Rajagopal, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey. 402 Computer Science.
4 p.m. Chemical engineering lecture. “The Challenge of Global Climate Change.” David Myers, Research Triangle Institute. A224 Engineering Quadrangle.
4:15 p.m. Industrial relations section/labor economics seminar. “Do Value-Added Models Add Value? Tracking, Fixed Effects and Causal Inference.” Jesse Rothstein. 103 Bendheim.
4:15 p.m. Princeton plasma physics lecture. “Achieving Selectivity in Plasma Material Processing: Addressing the Physics While Still Making a Profit.” Mark Kushner, Iowa State University. Gottlieb Auditorium, PPPL, Forrestal.
4:30 p.m. Art and archaeology lecture. “Event Place Performance: Approaching Springs, River Sources and Sacred Pools in Ancient Anatolian Landscapes.” Omur Harmansah, Brown University. 106 McCormick.
4:30 p.m. Mathematics colloquium. “Volume of Polytopes, Operator Analogues and Arthur’s Trace Formula.” Erez Lapid, Hebrew University, Israel. 314 Fine.
4:30 p.m. University Center for Human Values/Center for Health and Wellbeing/Moffet/DeCamp seminar. “Are Vaccine Mandates Ethical? The Case of HPV Vaccine.” Arthur Caplan, University of Pennsylvania, and Adel Mahmoud. 1 Robertson.
4:30 p.m. Woodrow Wilson School lecture. “The Rise and the Demise of the Palestinian Option.” Efraim Inbar, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. 16 Robertson.
5 p.m. Engineering and applied science lecture. “The Legacy of the Black Scientific Renaissance at Bell Laboratories in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s.” William Massey. Convocation Room, Friend.
6 p.m. Center for Innovation in Engineering Education lecture. “The Journey From Invention to Innovation.” Curtis Carlson, SRI International research institute. 101 Friend.
6 p.m. School of Architecture lecture. “Recent Projects.” Josep Lluis Mateo, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture.
7:30 p.m. National Black Law Students Association at Princeton/Rockefeller College/Thurgood Marshall lecture. “Criminal Justice Today: The Intersection Between Race and the American Criminal Justice System.” Ronald Sullivan, Harvard University. Dodds Auditorium, Robertson.
Thursday, February 14
Arts
[F] 7:30 p.m. McCarter Theatre play. Edward Albee: “Me, Myself and I.” Emily Mann, director. Berlind Theatre.
[F] 8 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Pilobolus Dance Theatre. Matthews Theatre.
[F] 8 p.m. Theater and dance senior thesis production. Henrik Ibsen: “Hedda Gabler.” Tim Vasen, director. Featuring Irene Lucio. Matthews Acting Studio, 185 Nassau St.
Lectures
[G] Noon. Information technology lecture. “Office Hours Made Easy.” Serge Goldstein. Multipurpose Room C, Frist.
2 p.m. Mathematics ergodic theory and statistical mechanics seminar. Mikko Stenlund, New York University. 401 Fine.
4 p.m. Chemistry lecture. “Making Molecules Visible to the Naked Eye.” Ralph Nuzzo, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign. 324 Frick.
4:30 p.m. Davis Center for Historical Studies lecture. “Fear in Three Keys: Revisiting China’s Boxer Crisis of 1899-1901.” Jeffrey Wasserstrom, University of California-Irvine. 211 Dickinson.
4:30 p.m. Judaic studies/Mytelka lecture. “The Problem of Evil in the Book of Job.” Ed Greenstein, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. 10 East Pyne.
4:30 p.m. Mathematics/Institute for Advanced Study joint number theory seminar. “Prime Chains and Pratt Trees.” Kevin Ford, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign. 214 Fine.
4:30 p.m. Physics lecture. “Visualizing Pair Formation and the Riddle of High-Temperature Superconductivity.” Ali Yazdani. A10 Jadwin.
4:30 p.m. Woodrow Wilson School/Near Eastern studies/Judaic studies lecture. David Menashri, Tel Aviv University. Liberation Hall, Fields Center.
Friday, February 15
Arts
[F] 7:30 p.m. McCarter Theatre concert. Brian Stokes Mitchell. Matthews Theatre.
[F] 8 p.m. McCarter Theatre play. Edward Albee: “Me, Myself and I.” Emily Mann, director. Berlind Theatre.
8 p.m. Music student recital. Michael McMillan, piano. Taplin Auditorium, Fine.
[F] 8 p.m. Theater and dance senior thesis production. Henrik Ibsen: “Hedda Gabler.” Tim Vasen, director. Featuring Irene Lucio. Matthews Acting Studio, 185 Nassau St.
[F] 8 p.m. University variety show. “This Is Princeton.” Featuring students, faculty and staff. Richardson Auditorium, Alexander.
Lectures
10 a.m. Gauss seminar. “Notations: Writing in the Arts.” Mario Carpo, Yale University; Thomas Schestag, Johns Hopkins University; and Andre Lepecki, New York University. 106 McCormick.
3 p.m. Mathematics differential geometry seminar. Luc Nguyen, Rutgers University. 314 Fine.
3:30 p.m. Mechanical and aerospace engineering lecture. “Quantum-Based Simulations of Stress-Corrosion Cracking.” Emily Carter. 222 Bowen.
4 p.m. Philosophy lecture. “Evidential Symmetry and Mushy Credence.” Roger White, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2 Robertson.
4:30 p.m. East Asian studies lecture. “Is Animation the Medium of the 21st Century?” Susan Napier, Tufts University. 302 Frist.
Sports
[F] 7 p.m. Women’s ice hockey vs. Harvard. Baker Rink.
7 p.m. Wrestling vs. Millersville. Dillon Gym.
[F] 7:30 p.m. Men’s basketball vs. Yale. Jadwin Gym.
Saturday, February 16
Arts
[F] 3 and 8 p.m. McCarter Theatre play. Edward Albee: “Me, Myself and I.” Emily Mann, director. Berlind Theatre.
[F] 7:30 p.m. McCarter Theatre concert. “From Bayou to Bourbon Street.” Marcia Ball and the Subdudes. Matthews Theatre.
8 p.m. Religious life/University Services concert. “Gospelfest 2008.” Richardson Auditorium, Alexander.
[F] 8 p.m. Theater and dance senior thesis production. Henrik Ibsen: “Hedda Gabler.” Tim Vasen, director. Featuring Irene Lucio. Matthews Acting Studio, 185 Nassau St.
Notices
8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tang Center conference. “The Art as Opposition: Graduate Student Symposium in East Asian Art.” 101 McCormick. For more information: tang.princeton.edu/aoo/index.html.
Sports
Noon. Women’s tennis vs. DePaul. Lenz Tennis Center.
1 p.m. Wrestling vs. Columbia. Dillon Gym.
4 p.m. Women’s ice hockey vs. Dartmouth. Baker Rink.
4:40 p.m. Women’s water polo vs. Siena. DeNunzio Pool.
5 p.m. Wrestling vs. Cornell. Dillon Gym.
F 7:30 p.m. Men’s basketball vs. Brown.
8:10 p.m. Women’s water polo vs. San Diego State. DeNunzio Pool.
Sunday, February 17
Arts
[F] 2 p.m. McCarter Theatre play. Edward Albee: “Me, Myself and I.” Emily Mann, director. Berlind Theatre.
[F] 3 p.m. Richardson Chamber Players concert. “Au Moulin Rouge.” Richardson Auditorium, Alexander.
Notices
11 a.m. Chapel service. William Gipson, University of Pennsylvania. Chapel.
Sports
10 a.m. Women’s tennis vs. Buffalo. Lenz Tennis Center.
12:40 p.m. Women’s water polo vs. Michigan. DeNunzio Pool.
4:10 p.m. Women’s water polo vs. Harvard. DeNunzio Pool.
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.
• “Invoking the Comic Muse: Toulouse-Lautrec’s Parody of ‘The Sacred Grove.’” Through June 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.
Main Gallery:
• “Numismatics in the Renaissance.” Through July 20. Tours at 3 p.m. March 16 and June 1.
Murray-Dodge
Lobby. 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
• “What Is Family? Princeton Views.” Through Dec. 1.
Visual Arts
Lucas Gallery, 185 Nassau St. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Closed weekends.
• Student work from fall visual arts classes. Through Feb. 15.
Women and Gender
Lounge, 113 Dickinson Hall. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Closed weekends.
• Drawings and paintings by Lucía Maya. Through March 7.
Woodrow Wilson School
Bernstein Gallery, Robertson. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• “Diminishing Returns.” Larry Fink, photographer. Through Feb. 15.
Et cetera
Art Museum
Hours: 258-3788. www.princetonartmuseum.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
Weekday tours leave from Undergraduate Admission Reception Area, Clio. Saturday and Sunday tours leave from Frist Campus Center Welcome Desk. Tours Monday-Saturday at 11:15 a.m., 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.; Sunday at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. Information and tours: 258-3060.
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.
University Ticketing
Ticket information: 258-9220. www.princeton.edu/utickets.
