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	4pm Michael Robinson: "Tribes of the Imagination: How Scientists Created a Prehistory of Whiteness" Michael Robinson: "Tribes of the Imagination: How Scientists Created a Prehistory of Whiteness" Monday, January 27th, 2020 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM Storrs Campus UCHI This lecture is the second talk of the Humanities and Science Series. Michael Robinson is a professor of history at Hillyer College, University of Hartford. He is the author of The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (University of Chicago Press), winner of the 2008 Book Award for the History of Science in America and The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory that Changed a Continent (Oxford University Press), winner of the History of Science Society’s Davis Prize and finalist for the 2017 Connecticut Book Award. He is the host of the history of science and exploration podcast, Time To Eat the Dogs. Contact Information: Helen Rozwadowski, helen.rozwadowski@uconn.edu More	9am Graduate Reading Group in Human Rights, 1/28 Graduate Reading Group in Human Rights, 1/28 Tuesday, January 28th, 2020 09:00 AM - 10:30 AM Storrs Campus Dodd 162 Please join the Graduate Reading Group in Human Rights for our first meeting of the spring semester on Tuesday, January 28th at 9 AM in Dodd 162. We will be meeting to discuss the prologue & introduction to Laurence Ralph's The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence, which you can view here: https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo26783305.html. We will also discuss possible programming or reading plans for the semester. If you're able to join us, please email Hayley Stefan at hayley.stefan@uconn.edu to receive a copy of the book excerpt. Contact Information: Hayley Stefan, hayley.stefan@uconn.edu More 2:15pm Faculty Candidate Seminar: Trandon Bender, University of California, Berkeley Faculty Candidate Seminar: Trandon Bender, University of California, Berkeley Tuesday, January 28th, 2020 02:15 PM - 03:30 PM Storrs Campus CHEM A-304 Chemistry Colloquium "From Catalyst Optimization to Encapsulation: Approaches for Selective Modification of Complex Molecules" Trandon Bender, University of California, Berkeley Host: Gaël Ung Refreshments will be served at 2:15pm. All are welcome. Contact Information: gael.ung@uconn.edu More 5pm Gilman Scholarship Information Session Gilman Scholarship Information Session Tuesday, January 28th, 2020 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM Storrs Campus Gentry 131 Students who are Pell grant recipients and have U.S. citizenship are eligible to apply for the Gilman Scholarship. This is a nationally competitive scholarship that awards up to $5000 for participation in an education abroad program, with additional funding possible for students studying a critical language. Interested eligible students should participate in an information session hosted by Education Abroad and the National Scholarships and Fellowships Office. Here is the Nexus registration link for the info session on Jan 28: https://nexus.uconn.edu/secure_per/events/event_registration.php?ser=2161&rc=2532214426 Please contact Valerie Jenkelunas Valerie.Jenkelunas@uconn.edu with questions or additional information. Contact Information: LuAnn Saunders-Kanabay More Marion Kaplan to Lecture on Jewish Refugees in Portugal (Stamford) Marion Kaplan to Lecture on Jewish Refugees in Portugal (Stamford) Tuesday, January 28th, 2020 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM Stamford Campus Main Auditorium (A1) Please join us for a talk with NYU historian Dr. Marion Kaplan who will present the UConn Center for Judaic Studies Maria and Ishier Jacobson Lecture on "Hitler's Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal." Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 Time: Reception 5:00 pm, Talk 6:00 pm At this lecture, clothing donations will be accepted for UConn Stamford's biannual Professional Clothing Drive, which benefits UConn students in need of attire for interviews, work, and internships. About the Talk: "Hitler's Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal" depicts the travails of refugees escaping Nazi Europe and awaiting their fate in Portugal. Drawing attention not only to the social and physical upheavals of refugee existence, it also highlights their feelings as they fled their homes and histories while begging strangers for kindness. Portugal’s dictator, António de Oliveira Salazar, admitted tens of thousands of Jews fleeing westward but set his secret police on those who did not move on quickly. Yet Portugal’s people left a lasting impression on refugees as caring and generous. An emotional history of fleeing, the book probes how specific locations touched refugees’ inner lives, including the borders they nervously crossed, the consulate lines they fretfully waited on, the smoky cafés they uneasily inhabited, or the overcrowded transatlantic ships that signaled their liberation. These sites induced feelings of frustration or relief – often both. Life in limbo has at its core anxiety and fear, but also courage and resilience. Most refugees in Portugal showed strength and stamina as they faced unimagined challenges. For them, Lisbon emerged as a site of temporality and transition, a “no-man’s-land” between a painful past and a hopeful future. Paying careful attention to the words of refugees in Portugal may help us to understand Jewish heartbreak and perseverance in the 1940s and also to listen compassionately to refugees’ stories in our own times. About the Speaker: Marion Kaplan is the Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at NYU. She is a three-time National Jewish Book Award winner for The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family and Identity in Imperial Germany (1991), Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (1998), and Gender and Jewish History (with Deborah Dash Moore, 2011) as well as a finalist for Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosua (2008). Her other publications include: The Jewish Feminist Movement in Germany, Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618-1945 (ed.), and Jüdische Welten: Juden in Deutschland vom 18. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart (with Beate Meyer, 2005). She has edited several other books on German-Jewish and women’s history and has taught courses on German-Jewish history, European women’s history, German and European history, as well as European Jewish history, and Jewish women’s history. Her newest book, Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety i Contact Information: If you require an accommodation to participate, please contact Stamford Coordinator for Judaic Studies Prof. Fred Roden at frederick.roden@uconn.edu or 203-251-8559. More	11am PNB Seminar Speaker PNB Seminar Speaker Wednesday, January 29th, 2020 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM Storrs Campus TLS, Room 111 Hugo J Bellen, DVM, PhD Professor, Departments of Molecular and Human Genetics and Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX Talk Title: "The fruit fly at the interface of diagnosis and pathogenic mechanisms of rare and common human diseases" Host: Dr. Karen Menuz Contact Information: PNB Department More 12pm Marine Sciences Brown Bag: Wendy Turdo Marine Sciences Brown Bag: Wendy Turdo Wednesday, January 29th, 2020 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Avery Point Campus Marine Sciences Building, Seminar Room 103 Presenting: Wendy Turdo, Center for Career Development Brown Bag Title: Navigating the job search outside of academia https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/seminar/brownbag1203/ Contact Information: Hannah Collins, hannah.i.collins@uconn.edu More 12:30pm Tertulia: Francisco Galarza Presents: "Interactions in a High Immigration Context" Tertulia: Francisco Galarza Presents: "Interactions in a High Immigration Context" Wednesday, January 29th, 2020 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Storrs Campus El Instituto Conference Room 240 Join us for El Instituto’s first Tertulia luncheon of the year: Professor Francisco Galarza, “Interactions in a High Immigration Context” Wednesday January 29, 2020 12:30-2:00PM, Ryan Building El Instituto Conference Room 240. Lunch will be served! Francisco Galarza is Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics at the Universidad del Pacífico, Peru, and holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include labor discrimination, informality and migration. He is a visiting scholar at the Department of Economics and will discuss about Venezuelan immigration to Peru. Contact Information: El Instituto, elinstituto@uconn.edu, 860-486-3997 More 1:30pm Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Kara McGillicuddy Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Kara McGillicuddy Wednesday, January 29th, 2020 01:30 PM - 03:30 PM Storrs Campus Arjona Building, Rm 225 Gaming for a Grade: How Goal Achievement and Causality Orientations Impact the Efficacy of Games for Classroom Engagement, Academic Achievement, and Learner Satisfaction Communication Contact Information: Rory McGloin, rory.mcgloin@uconn.edu More 1:45pm Marion Kaplan to Lecture on Jewish Refugees in Portugal (Storrs) Marion Kaplan to Lecture on Jewish Refugees in Portugal (Storrs) Wednesday, January 29th, 2020 01:45 PM - 03:00 PM Storrs Campus Class of '47 Room, Babbidge Library Please join us for a talk with NYU historian Dr. Marion Kaplan who will present the UConn Center for Judaic Studies Gene and Georgia Mittelman Lecture in Judaic Studies on "Hitler's Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal." Exhibition opening “Beyond Duty” and reception will follow the lecture at 3:00 pm in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center (across the courtyard from the Class of'47 Room, Babbidge Library). The exhibition, brought by the Consulate General of Israel to New England and timed for the United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, is co-sponsored by UConn Global Affairs and the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. About the Talk: Portugal’s dictator, António de Oliveira Salazar, admitted tens of thousands of Jews fleeing westward from Nazi Europe but set his secret police on those who did not move on quickly. Yet Portugal’s people left a lasting impression on refugees as caring and generous. Life in limbo has at its core anxiety and fear, but also courage and resilience. Most refugees in Portugal showed strength and stamina as they faced unimagined challenges. For them, Lisbon emerged as a site of temporality and transition, a "no-man’s-land" between a painful past and a hopeful future. Paying careful attention to the words of refugees in Portugal may help us to understand Jewish heartbreak and perseverance in the 1940s and also to listen compassionately to refugees’ stories in our own times. About the Speaker: Marion Kaplan is the Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at NYU. She is a three-time National Jewish Book Award winner as well as a finalist for Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosua (2008). Contact Information: The lecture is free and open to the public. If you require an accommodation to participate, please contact Pamela Weathers at pamela.weathers@uconn.edu or 860-486-2271. More 3pm "Beyond Duty" Exhibition Opening and Reception "Beyond Duty" Exhibition Opening and Reception Wednesday, January 29th, 2020 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM Storrs Campus Thomas J. Dodd Research Center In connection with the observance of United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan 27, the Consulate General of Israel to New England will display a series of posters produced by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs showcasing the history of diplomats from around the world who defied the direct orders of their governments during World War II to save the lives of countless Jews from the Nazis. The exhibit will open in the Dodd Center on January 29th at 3:00PM, with introductory remarks by Avinoam Patt, Doris & Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies and Director of the Center for Judaic Studies & Contemporary Jewish Life. Reception to follow. Contact Information: Matthew Larson, matthew.2.larson@uconn.edu, 860-486-4406 More 4pm Philosophy Job Talk Philosophy Job Talk Wednesday, January 29th, 2020 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM Storrs Campus Manchester Hall 002 Job Talk Contact Information: philosophy@uconn.edu More 5:45pm Math Club Combinatorial Triangles Tom Roby (UConn) Math Club Combinatorial Triangles Tom Roby (UConn) Wednesday, January 29th, 2020 05:45 PM - 06:35 PM Storrs Campus Monteith 314 Many interesting combinatorial numbers are not just linear sequences (like the Fibonacci numbers), but two-dimensional sequences (like binomial coefficients) that we often arrange in a triangular array. We will discuss intriguing examples that come up in various parts of combinatorics, associated with such names as Bernoulli, Entringer, Euler, Pascal, and Stirling, including the boustrophedon. Contact Information: Keith Conrad More	12:30pm InCHIP Lecture: Sheela Shenoi, MD, MPH InCHIP Lecture: Sheela Shenoi, MD, MPH Thursday, January 30th, 2020 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM Storrs Campus J. Ray Ryan Bldg, Room 204 Sheela Shenoi, MD, MPH, Yale University School of Medicine Thursday, January 30, 2020 J. Ray Ryan Building, Room 204 Sheela Shenoi is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the AIDS Program of the Section of Infectious Diseases at Yale University School of Medicine. She conducts clinical research on HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis with a focus on resource-limited settings. She evaluates strategies to improve diagnosis, linkage and retention in care, exploring the role of community-based services and community health workers to facilitate implementation. She prioritizes prevention strategies and integration of HIV and TB services. She serves as a member of Yale’s Global Health Program committee of the Department of Medicine. Receive important news and announcements via the InCHIP listerv: http://chip.uconn.edu/chip-business-office/listserv/. Visit the 2019-2020 Lecture Series lineup, access live web stream, archived lectures, and learn more about the lecture series: https://chip.uconn.edu/lecture-series/2019-2020-lecture-series/ Contact Information: lectureseries@chip.uconn.edu More 2:15pm Faculty Candidate Seminar: Marvin Parasram, Princeton University Faculty Candidate Seminar: Marvin Parasram, Princeton University Thursday, January 30th, 2020 02:15 PM - 03:30 PM Storrs Campus CHEM A-304 Chemistry Colloquium "Hybrid Catalysis for Cross-Coupling and C-H Functionalization Reactions" Marvin Parasram, Princeton University Host: Ashis Basu Refreshments will be served at 2:15pm. All are welcome. Contact Information: gael.ung@uconn.edu More 2:30pm US Army War College Discussion US Army War College Discussion Thursday, January 30th, 2020 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM Hartford Campus HTB 216 Please join us in welcoming UConn's 5 guests from the US Army War College for a discussion. This is a chance to have a more intimate discussion and ask questions of the delegation. Light snacks will be served. RSVP at https://uconn.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0ugvXVHe6m9bvH7 Contact Information: maura.maloney@uconn.edu More 3:30pm EEB Seminar: Cory Merow (UConn) EEB Seminar: Cory Merow (UConn) Thursday, January 30th, 2020 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Storrs Campus BPB 131 Attempts to forecast ecological responses to global change Contact Information: carl.schlichting@uconn.edu More MCB Seminar Series: MCB Faculty Search Seminar MCB Seminar Series: MCB Faculty Search Seminar Thursday, January 30th, 2020 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Storrs Campus GN 20 (formerly IMS 20) Department of Molecular and Cell Biology Faculty Search Seminar Hosted by Leighton Core GN 20, 3:15 Refreshments, 3:30 Seminar Contact Information: ciara.hanlon@uconn.edu More 4pm Eisenhower Series: US Army War College Panel Discussion Eisenhower Series: US Army War College Panel Discussion Thursday, January 30th, 2020 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM Hartford Campus HTB 145 The Eisenhower Series panelists travel across the country engaging students, faculty & staff in a candid exchange regarding a variety of issues related to national security, leadership & technology Contact Information: nikki.eberly@uconn.edu More 4:30pm Opening Reception Opening Reception Thursday, January 30th, 2020 04:30 PM - 07:00 PM Storrs Campus The William Benton Museum of Art Join us for an Opening Reception at The Benton Museum for "UConn Through the Viewfinder: Connecticut Daily Campus Photographs from the Howard Goldbaum Collection, 1967-70". RSVP appreciated to benton@uconn.edu or 860-486-4520. FREE. Open to everyone. Cash Bar; Light hors d'oeuvres Live music by Mark Davis (guitar) Remarks at 5:30 More information about the exhibition at https://benton.uconn.edu/uconn-through-the-viewfinder/ Contact Information: benton@uconn.edu 860-486-5084 More	11am Marine Sciences Seminar: Matthew Charette Marine Sciences Seminar: Matthew Charette Friday, January 31st, 2020 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Avery Point Campus Marine Sciences Building, Seminar Room 103 Presenting: Matt Charette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Seminar Title: The Transpolar Drift as a Source of Riverine and Shelf-Derived Trace Elements to the Central Arctic Ocean Host: Rob Mason Abstract: https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/seminar/seminar1203/ Contact Information: marinesciencesseminars@uconn.edu, 860-405-9152, 860-405-9087, or 860-405-9151 More 12:15pm Graduate Student Seminar Graduate Student Seminar Friday, January 31st, 2020 12:15 PM - 01:15 PM Storrs Campus GS-119 Prof. I. Sochnikov, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut Quantum sensing and imaging of materials I will describe our recent discoveries of fascinating emergent phenomena in several quantum materials, including high temperature and low temperature superconductors. I will provide details of our state-of-the-art experimental systems with a focus on quantum sensing and mesoscopic imaging. Additionally, I will present my view of what a successful doctorate in experimental physics includes, as well as, what you might expect from our Ph.D. program and how to be successful in it. Contact Information: Prof. V. Kharchenko More 12:20pm Geography Colloquium - Daniella Gandolfo Geography Colloquium - Daniella Gandolfo Friday, January 31st, 2020 12:20 PM - 01:15 PM Storrs Campus AUST 434 Architecture and Tellurian Power in Downtown Lima Abstract: In downtown Lima, two structures are in intimate proximity and worlds apart. One is the modernist tower of the Judiciary, erected in 1954. The other is the infamous, below-ground market of “El Hueco,” or “The Hole,” which sells contraband, brand-forged, and pirate goods under the auspices of its patron saint, the Lord of Miracles (also known as the lord of earthquakes), and in the Judiciary’s shadow. Existing against all odds, what explains El Hueco’s staying power? Archival and ethnographic research direct us to tellurian forces and their potential influence against state-driven architecture and urban planning as a means of social control. Dr. Gandolfo is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Wesleyan University Contact Information: Debanuj DasGupta [debanuj.dasgupta@uconn.edu] More I/O Brown Bag Speaker Series: Dr. Lucy Gilson I/O Brown Bag Speaker Series: Dr. Lucy Gilson Friday, January 31st, 2020 12:20 PM - 01:20 PM Storrs Campus BOUS A101A "[Professor Gilson] research focuses on creativity, virtual teams, and team effectiveness; in particular she is interested in examining teams in different organizational settings performing a diverse range of jobs. Specifically, she studies how creativity, employee empowerment, diversity, fairness issues, leadership, and virtual communication influence team effectiveness. Her research has been published in many of the top management and psychology journals; Academy on Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Group and Organization Management, Small Group Research. In addition, Professor Gilson has provided consulting expertise to many multinational companies, state and national agencies in the areas of leadership, virtual teams, managing change, and leading for creativity. She has given several invited keynote presentations on ‘Women and Leadership’ and ‘Leading for Creativity and Change.’ Professor Gilson teaches undergraduate, MBA, and executives level students in the areas of Leadership, Managerial and Interpersonal Behavior, and Leading for Innovation and Change. She was awarded the UConn School of Business 2012 MBA Professor of the year award – she has been recognized as the MBA Management Professor of the year on multiple occasions. Professor Gilson was elected to the Executive Committee of the Organization Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Management." (https://www.business.uconn.edu/person/lucy-gilson/) Contact Information: Samantha Lacey More 12:30pm Geosciences Seminar Series: Tim Herbert (Brown University) Geosciences Seminar Series: Tim Herbert (Brown University) Friday, January 31st, 2020 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM Storrs Campus Beach Hall 233 Geosciences Seminar Series Dr. Tim Herbert Brown University "The Miocene Journey to the Ice Ages" Beach Hall 233 12:30-1:30PM January 31, 2020 Contact Information: Christin Donnelly, christin.donnelly@uconn.edu More 4pm Philosophy Job Talk Philosophy Job Talk Friday, January 31st, 2020 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM Storrs Campus Manchester Hall 002 Job Talk Contact Information: philosophy@uconn.edu More
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	12:15pm Black Lives Matter and the Politics of Value Black Lives Matter and the Politics of Value Monday, February 3rd, 2020 12:15 PM - 01:30 PM Storrs Campus Oak 438 "Black Lives Matter and the Politics of Value" Alena Wolflink, Beloit College Monday, February 3 12:15pm in Oak 438 Sponsored by the Political Theory Workshop and UConn Humanities Institute Contact Information: Prof. Jane Gordon (jane.gordon@uconn.edu) More 3:30pm Philosophy Job Talk Philosophy Job Talk Monday, February 3rd, 2020 03:30 PM - 05:30 PM Storrs Campus Manchester Hall 002 Job Talk Contact Information: philosophy@uconn.edu More	3:30pm MCB Seminar Series: Dr. Clare M. Waterman MCB Seminar Series: Dr. Clare M. Waterman Tuesday, February 4th, 2020 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Storrs Campus BPB 131 MCB Tuesday Seminar Series: Dr. Clare M. Waterman, Director, Cell and Development Biology Center, National Institute of Health "Integrating actin and adhesion dynamics in cell migration and innate immunity" Dr. Waterman pioneered the invention and application of novel quantitative and super-resolution light microscopy methods. She utilized these tools to reveal the architectural blueprint and dynamics of protein-based nano-machines that selfassemble in cells to generate, organize, and transmit the forces that drive cell movement, and she defined molecular pathways governing the orchestration of these protein machines in space and time. To learn more about Dr. Waterman, visit https://irp.nih.gov/pi/clare-waterman Abstract: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19575647 Refreshments 3:15, Seminar 3:30 Contact Information: ciara.hanlon@uconn.edu More 5:30pm Black History 365 Opening Ceremony Black History 365 Opening Ceremony Tuesday, February 4th, 2020 05:30 PM - 07:15 PM Hartford Campus Spotlight Theaters This event is the Opening Ceremony for a series of events that will represent the programming for the first ever Black History 365 Campaign. Contact Information: sswgso-co-chairs@uconn.edu More	1pm Gilman Scholarship Advising Drop-In Gilman Scholarship Advising Drop-In Wednesday, February 5th, 2020 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM Storrs Campus Education Abroad Office Students who are Pell grant recipients and have U.S. citizenship are eligible to apply for the Gilman Scholarship. This is a nationally competitive scholarship that awards up to $5000 for participation in an education abroad program, with additional funding possible for students studying a critical language. Eligible students who are completing applications for cycle two of the Gilman Scholarship can drop-in for advising with representatives from both Education Abroad and the National Scholarships and Fellowships Office on Wednesday, February 5 from 1-4 p.m. in the Education Abroad Office. A drop-in appointment is a great time to have questions answered and application materials reviewed before the Tuesday, March 3rd application deadline! Contact Information: LuAnn Saunders-Kanabay More Women in Science: Prioritizing Mental Health Women in Science: Prioritizing Mental Health Wednesday, February 5th, 2020 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Storrs Campus BPB 201 Women in Science, an organization dedicated to discussion and support of issues relevant to graduate and postgraduate women in academic life sciences, is meeting on February 5 from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm in BPB 201. We will be discussing Prioritizing Mental Health and organizing for the rest of the semester! Everyone is welcome to attend and feel free to bring lunch! Contact Information: elizabeth.herder@uconn.edu More 2:15pm Chemistry Colloquium: Nan Jiang, University of Illinois at Chicago Chemistry Colloquium: Nan Jiang, University of Illinois at Chicago Wednesday, February 5th, 2020 02:15 PM - 03:30 PM Storrs Campus CHEM A-203 Chemistry Colloquium "Probing Chemistry of Surface-Supported Nanostructures at the Angstrom-Scale via Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy" Nan Jiang, University of Illinois at Chicago Host: Jing Zhao Refreshments will be served at 2:15pm. All are welcome. Contact Information: gael.ung@uconn.edu More 4pm Digital Humanities & Media Studies talk - Nancy Baym, "The Relational Affordances of Platforms" Digital Humanities & Media Studies talk - Nancy Baym, "The Relational Affordances of Platforms" Wednesday, February 5th, 2020 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM Storrs Campus UConn Humanities Institute Nancy Baym Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research New England; Research Affiliate, Comparative Media Studies/Writing, MIT The Relational Affordances of Platforms People have been socializing on the internet for nearly fifty years. In recent years, online social life has become increasingly concentrated in a relatively small number of commercial platforms. How can we make sense of the impacts they are having on our relational lives? How can we theorize platforms when they are constantly changing and used in so many different ways? In this talk, Nancy Baym draws on a range of her recent research on platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to articulate a model for understanding platforms as the dynamic, unstable entities they are, and to explore their roles in shaping, constraining and opening up new possibilities for relationships in contexts ranging from close romantic bonds to online communities and the ties that connect musicians to their audiences. The talk further considers how these platforms commodify the relational interactions that take place through them, and how their design choices have fostered environments in which relationships become tools for profit. Nancy Baym is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, where she conducts basic research into how people understand and act with new communication technologies in their relationships. A pioneer in the field of internet research, Baym wrote some of the first articles about online community in the early 1990s. With Jean Burgess, she is the author of Twitter: A Biography (forthcoming 2020, NYU). Other books include Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection (2018, NYU), Personal Connections in the Digital Age (2010, Second Edition 2014, Polity), Internet Inquiry: Conversations About Method (co-edited with Annette Markham, 2010, Sage), and Tune In, Log On: Soaps, Fandom and Online Community (2000, Sage). She was a co-founder of the Association of Internet Researchers and served as its second president. She has been recognized with the Frederick Williams Prize for Contributions to the Study of Communication and Technology awarded by the International Communication Association, the naming of the Nancy Baym Book Award by the Association of Internet Researchers, and an Honorary Doctorate from the Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Gothenburg. Most of her papers and more information are available at http://nancybaym.com This event is sponsored by UCHI Digital Humanities & Media Studies, the Department of Communication, and the UCHI Future of Truth Initiative Contact Information: Yohei Igarashi (https://dhmediastudies.uconn.edu) More Provost's Distinguished Speaker Series - Dr. Michael Lynch Provost's Distinguished Speaker Series - Dr. Michael Lynch Wednesday, February 5th, 2020 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM Storrs Campus Konover Auditorium The Provost’s Distinguished Speaker Series fosters intellectual, professional, and personal growth and collegiality among the University of Connecticut community. This series provides an opportunity for our most recently-inducted Board of Trustees Distinguished Professors and Endowed Chairs to share advances in their expertise and engage thought-provoking discussions. Dr. Lynch's work concerns truth, democracy, public discourse and the ethics of technology. The recipient of the Medal for Research Excellence from the University of Connecticut’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and grants from the Bogliasco Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, he is currently the PI of Humility & Conviction in Public Life, a $7 million project aimed at understanding and encouraging meaningful public discourse funded by the John Templeton Foundation and UConn. Please access the below link to access the live stream: http://www.kaltura.com/tiny/uyrei The link to the recording will be posted on the Provost's website following the event: https://provost.uconn.edu/events-and-recognition/distinguished-speaker-series/ This is an Honors Event. Categories: Academic & Interdisciplinary Engagement OR Social Change, Service, & Sustainability #UHLevent471 Contact Information: Rachel Wice, rachel.wice@uconn.edu More 5:45pm Math Club How to Win at Hat Guessing Nate Eldredge (Univ. Northern Colorado/UConn) Math Club How to Win at Hat Guessing Nate Eldredge (Univ. Northern Colorado/UConn) Wednesday, February 5th, 2020 05:45 PM - 06:35 PM Storrs Campus Monteith 314 Hat guessing games go like this: A number of players are put in a room, and each one gets a hat placed on their head, which is either red or blue. The players can all see each others' hats, but not their own, and they are not allowed to communicate in any way. Then each player must try to guess the color of their own hat. Although no individual player can do better than random chance, interesting and counterintuitive things can happen when the players cooperate and strategize together. We'll look at several variants of this basic game, and see how ideas from different areas of mathematics can help the players win games that seem unwinnable. Contact Information: Keith Conrad More	5pm CWP Leadership Council CWP Leadership Council Thursday, February 6th, 2020 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM Storrs Campus Austin, Stern Lounge CWP Leadership Council meets to discuss upcoming events and address housekeeping concerns Contact Information: cwp@uconn.edu More	10:30am CBC Data Therapy CBC Data Therapy Friday, February 7th, 2020 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Storrs Campus ESB 304 Xanadu Cluster Introduction. Contact Information: neranjan.perera@uconn.edu More 11am Marine Sciences Seminar: Andrew J. Davies Marine Sciences Seminar: Andrew J. Davies Friday, February 7th, 2020 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Avery Point Campus Marine Sciences Building, Seminar Room 103 Presenting: Andrew J. Davies, University of Rhode Island, Department of Biological Sciences Seminar Title: Mapping and characterizing enigmatic habitats in the last great wilderness on earth Host: Heidi Dierssen Abstract: https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/seminar/seminar1203/ Contact Information: marinesciencesseminars@uconn.edu, 860-405-9152, 860-405-9087, or 860-405-9151 More 2pm IONM Infosession IONM Infosession Friday, February 7th, 2020 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Storrs Campus Beach Hall Room 343, Storrs Campus Join us for an informational session to learn more about our Graduate Certificate and Masters program. Dr. Radmila Filipovic and Dr. Payam Andalib will be providing potential students with an overview of the program along with a discussion about working in the field of Neuromonitoring. Attendees will also have a chance to ask specific questions. Register here: https://connect.grad.uconn.edu/register/?id=8c43764d-d52b-45af-bb95-14770cbf7a13 Contact Information: Amber LaFontaine - amber.lafontaine@uconn.edu More Logic Colloquium: Eileen Nutting (Kansas) Logic Colloquium: Eileen Nutting (Kansas) Friday, February 7th, 2020 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM Storrs Campus Oak 110 Join us in the Logic Colloquium for a talk by Eileen Nutting (University of Kansas). All welcome. https://logic.uconn.edu/calendar/ Contact Information: https://logic.uconn.edu/about/ More 3pm Cluster Algeba Seminar Speaker: Emily Gunawan Title: An introduction to cluster algebras Cluster Algeba Seminar Speaker: Emily Gunawan Title: An introduction to cluster algebras Friday, February 7th, 2020 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM Storrs Campus Mont 313 . Contact Information: Ralf Schiffler, schiffler@math.uconn.edu More 3:30pm Physics Colloquium (Prof. Reynold Silber) Physics Colloquium (Prof. Reynold Silber) Friday, February 7th, 2020 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Storrs Campus BPB-131 Prof. Reynold E. Silber, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University Transport properties of liquid transition metals at extreme conditions: a lesson from metallic glasses with the forbidden symmetry The Earth’s core is a giant heat engine that supports the existence of life on our planet by providing heat to drive mantle convection, plate tectonics and volcanism. The convection of a liquid iron (Fe) alloy in the outer core generates the Earth’s magnetic field. However, transport properties of liquid Fe-alloys (e.g., electrical, thermal and viscous transport properties) at extreme core conditions are some of the least constrained parameters. The high pressure experimental measurements of the transport properties are extremely challenging and a general theoretical understanding of the structures of liquid transition metals is still incomplete. Recent successful electrical resistivity measurements of liquid Fe, Ni and Fe-Si alloy at pressures up to 24 GPa show the invariant electrical resistivity along the melting boundaries. It was demonstrated that the Icosahedral Short Range Order (ISRO) structures in liquid transition metals and alloys strongly modulate transport properties at extreme conditions. Supporting evidence for the presence of the ISRO in the Earth’s and other terrestrial outer cores comes from the recently discovered quasi-crystalline phases in natural metallic glasses with the forbidden symmetry, previously considered impossible to exist in nature. However, the existence of forbidden fivefold symmetry is not possible without super-cooling of metallic glass forming liquids that contain ISRO structures. Thus, metallic glasses represent one of the convergence points between planetary science and materials science. Here, I first discuss a new paradigm imposed by the ISRO structures on the transport properties of the outer cores of terrestrial planetary bodies. The discussion is then extended toward the important role ISROs play in formation of metallic glasses with exotic properties. Furthermore, I examine the potential application of high pressures toward manufacturing of metallic glasses with customizable concentration of structures with ISRO or any other forbidden symmetry. Considering the important role of metallic glasses in the high tech industry, this research has significant cross-disciplinary implications. Contact Information: Prof. Vernon Cormier More
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	2pm Particle, Astrophysics, and Nuclear Physics Seminar Particle, Astrophysics, and Nuclear Physics Seminar Monday, February 10th, 2020 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Storrs Campus GS-413E Prof. Lorenzo Sorbo, Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst Particle production during inflation: a case study In this talk I will quickly review primordial inflation. After arguing that axion-like inflatons are especially well motivated, I will discuss how a derivative coupling of a pseudoscalar inflaton to vector and to fermions fields can amplify significantly the mode functions of those degrees of freedom which, in their turn, can lead to a very rich phenomenology. Contact Information: Prof. L. Jin More 6:30pm Free Hebrew Conversation Crash-Course Free Hebrew Conversation Crash-Course Monday, February 10th, 2020 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM Stamford Campus Room 313, the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life Do you want to speak with people in Hebrew? After this six-session crash course in Hebrew conversation, you’ll be able to make small talk, ask directions, order things in a restaurant, go shopping, and even talk a little about current events—all in Hebrew. The course focuses on functional spoken Hebrew you can use right away in daily interactions. There will be a few short easy readings, role play, listening practice, and in-class conversations. If you want to practice and learn some spoken Hebrew, join us on six Monday evenings this spring. Lehitraot—see you soon!! This spring, at UConn Stamford, Dr. Liora Brosh will teach a "crash course" in conversational Modern Hebrew. Professor Brosh, a native speaker, holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Hebrew University, Israel. This free, non-credit course is open to all faculty, staff, students, and members of the external community. Please share this information with anyone you think might wish to join us. There is no need to register in advance and no texts are required for purchase. No prior knowledge of the language is expected. Besides the inherent value of learning foreign languages in our global world, Modern Hebrew is of interest beyond Judaica. It is relevant for those studying the Middle East as well as individuals working in business and STEM, given Israeli prominence in those fields. All sessions will be held in Room 313, the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life. We will meet on Mondays from 6:30-8:00 p.m.: February 10, February 24, March 9, March 23, April 6, April 20. In the case of weather cancellations, we will reschedule any missed class(es). Join us! Contact Information: If you require an accommodation to participate, please contact Stamford Coordinator for Judaic Studies Prof. Fred Roden at frederick.roden@uconn.edu or 203-251-8559. More	5:30pm Education Abroad - Florence & Perugia, Italy Information Session Education Abroad - Florence & Perugia, Italy Information Session Tuesday, February 11th, 2020 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM Storrs Campus McHugh Hall 307 Learn more about our summer and semester Education Abroad options in Italy! Contact Information: Education Abroad, abroad@uconn.edu More	12pm Marine Sciences Brown Bag: Amin Ilia Marine Sciences Brown Bag: Amin Ilia Wednesday, February 12th, 2020 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Avery Point Campus Marine Sciences Building, Seminar Room 103 Presenting: Amin Ilia Brown Bag Title: The Effect of Surface Gravity Waves on Mixing in Western Long Island Sound https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/seminar/brownbag1203/ Contact Information: Hannah Collins, hannah.i.collins@uconn.edu More 5:45pm Math Club Stirling's Formula Matt Lamoureux (The Hartford) Math Club Stirling's Formula Matt Lamoureux (The Hartford) Wednesday, February 12th, 2020 05:45 PM - 06:35 PM Storrs Campus Monteith 234 The factorials $$n! = 1 \cdot 2 \cdot 3 \cdots n$$, which count how many ways $$n$$ objects can be arranged, show up anywhere that rearrangements have to be counted, such as combinatorics, probability, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and quantum mechanics. The numbers $$n!$$ grow very rapidly, e.g., 100! has 158 digits. For applications in chemistry, $$n!$$ may occur for $$n$$ on the order of Avogadro's number (about $$6.02 \times 10^{23}$$), for which an exact calculation is out of the question. When exact values are computationally inaccessible, it's natural to seek approximations to the values. Stirling's formula is the standard way to estimate $$n!$$ when $$n$$ is large. In this talk we will see what Stirling's formula is and how to derive it using tools from calculus. Contact Information: Keith Conrad More	12:30pm InCHIP Lecture: John M. Jakicic, PhD InCHIP Lecture: John M. Jakicic, PhD Thursday, February 13th, 2020 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM Storrs Campus J. Ray Ryan Bldg, Room 204 John M. Jakicic, PhD, University of Pittsburgh Thursday, February 13, 2020 J. Ray Ryan Building, Room 204 John M. Jakicic, PhD is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Health and Physical Activity, and is also the Director of the Healthy Lifestyle Institute. In these roles he has been instrumental in transformative initiatives at the regional, national, and international levels to emphasis the important of physical activity as a key lifestyle behavior for enhancing health. Dr. Jakicic has a national and international reputation as a leading scholar in this area, which has resulted in Dr. Jakicic securing over $40 million (direct costs) in extramural funding to support these research efforts. This also resulted in Dr. Jakicic authoring or co-authoring over 220 research manuscripts and book chapters during his career. These efforts include Dr. Jakicic serving as the Principal Investigator at the Pittsburgh Clinical Center for the multi-center MoTrPAC Study, which is the largest investment by the National Institutes of Health to study pathways by which exercise enhances health. Dr. Jakicic’s research also focuses on the interaction between energy expenditure and energy intake, the influence of these factors on body weight regulation, and the biological and behavioral pathways by which physical activity impacts health-related outcomes. Dr. Jakicic has served on various national and international committees to develop physical activity guidelines for the prevention and treatment of obesity and other chronic conditions, and was a member of the 2018 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans Advisory Committee. Thus, he has been influential in the heightened awareness of physical activity and sedentary behavior as a key lifestyle factors related to health. Receive important news and announcements via the InCHIP listerv: http://chip.uconn.edu/chip-business-office/listserv/. Visit the 2019-2020 Lecture Series lineup, access live web stream, archived lectures, and learn more about the lecture series: https://chip.uconn.edu/lecture-series/2019-2020-lecture-series/ Contact Information: lectureseries@chip.uconn.edu More Repression Before and After the Arab Spring Repression Before and After the Arab Spring Thursday, February 13th, 2020 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM Storrs Campus Oak Hall 438 Prof. Elizabeth Nugent (Yale). Repression Before and After the Arab Spring. Contact Information: Prof. Matthew Singer (matthew.m.singer@uconn.edu) More 3:30pm EEB Seminar: Robert Thorson (UConn) EEB Seminar: Robert Thorson (UConn) Thursday, February 13th, 2020 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Storrs Campus BPB 131 Substrates beneath ecosystems: a primer on New England's glacial landscape Contact Information: bernard.goffinet@uconn.edu More	11am Marine Sciences Seminar: Sean Colin Marine Sciences Seminar: Sean Colin Friday, February 14th, 2020 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Avery Point Campus Marine Sciences Building, Seminar Room 103 Presenting: Sean Colin, Roger Williams University Seminar Title: Stealth and resilience: Predatory strategies that enable the small, delicate ctenophore, Mnemiopsis leidyi, to dominate the plankton Host: Hans Dam Abstract: https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/seminar/seminar1203/ Contact Information: marinesciencesseminars@uconn.edu, 860-405-9152, 860-405-9087, or 860-405-9151 More 12:15pm Graduate Student Seminar Graduate Student Seminar Friday, February 14th, 2020 12:15 PM - 01:15 PM Storrs Campus GS-119 Prof. G. Dunne, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut Scientific Communication: Preparing a Talk, a Proposal, or a Paper An important part of the work of a scientist is to communicate clearly the results of their work, in a way that can be understood by the appropriate audience: scientific, political or general. In this talk I discuss some tips for preparing a paper, a seminar or a proposal, and encourage you to think carefully about this aspect of your work. The good news is that with a little dedicated effort it is a sure way to stand out from the pack and have your work recognized. Contact Information: Prof. V. Kharchenko More 12:30pm POLS and Education Abroad Information Session POLS and Education Abroad Information Session Friday, February 14th, 2020 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM Storrs Campus Gentry 144 Come learn more about the abroad programs available to POLS and ECON majors. Contact Information: suzanne.waterman@uconn.edu More 3pm Cluster Algeba Seminar Speaker:Ralf Schiffler Title: Cluster algebras and Representation Theory Cluster Algeba Seminar Speaker:Ralf Schiffler Title: Cluster algebras and Representation Theory Friday, February 14th, 2020 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM Storrs Campus Mont 313 . Contact Information: Ralf Schiffler, schiffler@math.uconn.edu More	2:30pm Antifascism is as American as Apple Pie Antifascism is as American as Apple Pie Saturday, February 15th, 2020 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM Hartford Campus Bookstore A celebration of Prof. Chris Vials's new book "The US Antifascism Reader" Contact Information: Prof. Jane Gordon More Chris Vials Book Signing Chris Vials Book Signing Saturday, February 15th, 2020 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM Hartford Campus Bookstore Join us for a talk by and discussion with Chris Vials, Director of UConn's American Studies Program and co-editor of the book The U.S. Anti-fascism Reader. Contact Information: Laurie Bompart More
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	11am Actuarial Science Seminar Small Time Approximation of Transition Density Tai-Ho Wang (City University of New York) Actuarial Science Seminar Small Time Approximation of Transition Density Tai-Ho Wang (City University of New York) Monday, February 17th, 2020 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Storrs Campus MONT 214 In this talk we present a bridge representation for the transition density of stochastic processes driven by either standard Brownian motions or mixed Brownian and fractional Brownian motions. A small time approximation of the transition density is readily obtained by approximate the bridge representation by a single deterministic path, which in the classical case recovers the heat kernel expansion for diffusion processes. Examples illustrating the methodology include heat kernel in hyperbolic space and mixed fractional Brownian motions with drift. Speaker's bio: https://mfe.baruch.cuny.edu/tai-ho-wang/ Contact Information: BIN ZOU, bin.zou@uconn.edu More 2pm Particle, Astrophysics, and Nuclear Physics Seminar Particle, Astrophysics, and Nuclear Physics Seminar Monday, February 17th, 2020 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Storrs Campus GS-413E Dr. Andrey Sadofyev, Los Alamos National Laboratory Spin polarization of gauge bosons in rotating plasma I will show that the chiral vortical effect (CVE) known to take place for massless fermions in a rotating system can be, in fact, generalized to particles of arbitrary spin. These effects are particularly interesting since they describe the polarization of quarks, gluons, and photons in rotating QGP produced in heavy-ion collisions. For gauge bosons the local polarization current is not gauge invariant making it harder to use this object on practice. This issue can be resolved if one focuses on a class of gauge-invariant but non-canonical polarization currents of gauge bosons known as zilches. I will further show that CVE for gauge bosons has a counterpart in the general zilch current - zilch vortical effect (ZVE) and discuss how ZVE arises in a simple theoretical setup. Contact Information: Prof. L. Jin More 4:45pm Connecticut Logic Seminar The Bipartite Diameter 3 Metrically Homogeneous Graphs of Generic Type: Their Ages and Their Almost Sure Theories Rebecca Coulson (West Point) Connecticut Logic Seminar The Bipartite Diameter 3 Metrically Homogeneous Graphs of Generic Type: Their Ages and Their Almost Sure Theories Rebecca Coulson (West Point) Monday, February 17th, 2020 04:45 PM - 06:00 PM Other Exley 618, Wesleyan University The class of random graphs famously satisfies a zero-one law: every first-order sentence in the language of graphs is such that the proportion of finite graphs on n vertices which satisfy this sentence goes either to zero or to one as n goes to infinity. The "almost-sure" theory of the class of finite graphs matches the generic theory of its Fraisse limit - the Rado graph. Interestingly, the almost-sure theory of the class of finite triangle-free graphs does not match the theory of the generic triangle free graph. In this talk, we will discuss another class of graphs which are Fraisse limits defined by forbidden configurations, and we examine two such graphs in particular. We show that for one of the them, its generic theory does match the corresponding almost-sure theory, and that for the other, the generic theory does not match the corresponding almost-sure theory. Contact Information: Reed Solomon, solomon@math.uconn.edu More	12pm CLAS Book Celebration CLAS Book Celebration Tuesday, February 18th, 2020 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM Storrs Campus Wilbur Cross North Reading Room CLAS faculty published more than 70 books in 2019. Come learn about these acclaimed works and the talented scholars who published them. Light refreshments will be served. If you require an accommodation to participate, please contact Mackenzie Murphy at mackenzie.murphy@uconn.edu or (860) 486-2713 by February 11. Contact Information: mackenzie.murphy@uconn.edu More 2pm Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Tuesday, February 18th, 2020 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Storrs Campus GS 119 Dr. I. Zaliznyak, Brookhaven National Laboratory Entropic elasticity and negative thermal expansion in crystalline solids While most solids expand when heated, some materials show the opposite behavior: negative thermal expansion (NTE). NTE is common in polymers and biomolecules, where it stems from the entropic elasticity of an ideal, freely-jointed chain. The origin of NTE in solids had been widely believed to be different, with phonon anharmonicity and specific lattice vibrations that preserve geometry of the coordination polyhedra – rigid unit motions (RUMs) – as leading contenders for explaining NTE. Our neutron scattering study of a simple cubic NTE material, ScF3, overturns this consensus [1]. We observe that the correlation in the positions of the neighboring fluorine atoms rapidly fades on warming, indicating an uncorrelated thermal motion, which is only constrained by the rigid Sc-F bonds. These experimental findings lead us to a quantitative, quasi-harmonic theory of NTE in terms of entropic elasticity of a Coulomb floppy network crystal, which is applicable to a broad range of open framework solids featuring floppy network architecture [2]. Our theory is in remarkable agreement with experimental results in ScF3, accurately describing NTE, phonon frequencies, entropic compressibility, and structural phase transition governed by entropic stabilization of criticality. We thus find that NTE in a family of insulating ceramics stems from the same simple and intuitive physics of entropic elasticity of an under-constrained floppy network that has long been appreciated in soft matter and polymer science, but broadly missed by the “hard” condensed matter community. Our results reveal the formidable universality of the NTE phenomenon across soft and hard matter [1,2]. [1] D. Wendt, et al., Sci. Adv. 5: eaay2748. (2019). [2] A. V. Tkachenko, I. A. Zaliznyak. arXiv:1908.11643 (2019). Contact Information: Prof. I. Sochnikov More 3:30pm Special Colloquium Special Colloquium Tuesday, February 18th, 2020 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Storrs Campus MONT 214 TBA Contact Information: Kyu-Hwan Lee More 4:30pm Talk by Israeli Author Ayelet Tsabari Talk by Israeli Author Ayelet Tsabari Tuesday, February 18th, 2020 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM Other Trinity College, Mather Hall, Wean Terrace Rooms ABC, 300 Summit Street, Hartford Award-winning Israeli author Ayelet Tsabari will present "Language, Longing, and Belonging," a discussion of her new, critically acclaimed memoir "The Art of Leaving." The event is free and open to the public. The talk is sponsored by the Distinguished Scholar lecture by the Department of Language and Culture Studies at Trinity College, ALEPH: The Institute of Jewish Ideas, and the UConn Center for Judaic Studies. About the Book In The Art of Leaving, Tsabari tells her story, from her early love of writing and words, to her rebellion during her mandatory service in the Israeli army. She travels from Israel to New York, Canada, Thailand, and India, falling in and out of love with countries, men and women, drugs and alcohol, running away from responsibilities and refusing to settle in one place. She recounts her first marriage, her struggle to define herself as a writer in a new language, her decision to become a mother, and finally her rediscovery and embrace of her family history--a history marked by generations of headstrong women who struggled to choose between their hearts and their homes. Eventually, she realizes that she must reconcile the memories of her father and the sadness of her past if she is ever going to come to terms with herself. About the Author Ayelet Tsabari was born in Israel to a large family of Yemeni descent. She is the author of the memoir in essays The Art of Leaving, finalist for the Writer’s Trust Hilary Weston Prize, winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for memoir, and an Apple Books and Kirkus Review Best Book of 2019. Her first book, The Best Place on Earth, won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, and was long listed to the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. The book was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a Kirkus Review Best Book of 2016, and has been published internationally. Contact Information: Lidija Petrus at 860-297-5121 or lidija.petrus@trincoll.edu. More	12pm Marine Sciences Brown Bag: Brittany Sprecher Marine Sciences Brown Bag: Brittany Sprecher Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Avery Point Campus Marine Sciences Building, Seminar Room 103 Presenting: Brittany Sprecher Brown Bag Title: Adapting CRISPR-cas9 technology for dinoflagellates https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/seminar/brownbag1203/ Contact Information: Hannah Collins, hannah.i.collins@uconn.edu More 12:15pm Tethered Fates: Companies, Communities, and Rights at Stake Tethered Fates: Companies, Communities, and Rights at Stake Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 12:15 PM - 01:30 PM Storrs Campus Oak 438 Book talk with Prof. Shareen Hertel about her new book "Tethered Fates Companies, Communities, and Rights at Stake" Contact Information: Prof. Matthew Singer (matthew.m.singer@uconn.edu) More 12:30pm MPA/MPP Fast Track Information Session MPA/MPP Fast Track Information Session Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM Storrs Campus Oak 438 Come learn more about the MPA/MPP Fast Track program and how it fits with the POLS major! Contact Information: suzanne.waterman@uconn.edu More 2pm Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Storrs Campus GS 119 Dr. Evan Philip, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Stony Brook University Chiral Photocurrents and Terahertz Emission in Dirac/Weyl Semimetals I will start with an introduction to Dirac/Weyl semimetals and chiral anomaly. We will then look at a new mechanism for photocurrents in Dirac/Weyl semimetals that relies on the chiral anomaly. I will also discuss terahertz emission from the Weyl semimetal TaAs induced by a near-infrared laser, where Weyl fermions play a central role. We will conclude with remarks on some potential applications of these works. Contact Information: Prof. A. Balatsky More 2:15pm Chemistry Colloquium:Jerome Robinson, Brown University Chemistry Colloquium:Jerome Robinson, Brown University Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 02:15 PM - 03:30 PM Storrs Campus CHEM A-203 Chemistry Colloquium "RE-Thinking Catalyst Design — New Strategies for Controlling Oxygenated Polymer Synthesis" Jerome Robinson, Brown University Host: Gaël Ung Refreshments will be served at 2:15pm. All are welcome. Contact Information: gael.ung@uconn.edu More 4pm PNB Seminar Series : Dr. Gary Sieck PNB Seminar Series : Dr. Gary Sieck Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM Storrs Campus TLS Room 111 Gary C. Sieck, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physiology & Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN Talk Title: "Promoting Recovery from Cervical Spinal Cord Injury" Host: Dr. Daniel Mulkey Contact Information: Physiology ad Neurobiology More 5:45pm Math Club Volume of Balls: from $$R^n$$ to Infinite Dimensions Marco Carfagnini (UConn) Math Club Volume of Balls: from $$R^n$$ to Infinite Dimensions Marco Carfagnini (UConn) Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 05:45 PM - 06:35 PM Storrs Campus Monteith 314 How do we find the volume of a ball in an $$n$$-dimensional space? We will see how techniques from multivariable calculus can be generalized to answer this question. Surprisingly, as the dimension gets higher, the volume gets smaller and smaller! By briefly discussing infinite-dimensional spaces and some functional analysis, we will see why that is not surprising at all! The talk will make use of integration over plane and solid regions as a starting point, so some familiarity with double and triple integrals as in multivariable calculus is a useful prerequisite. Contact Information: Keith Conrad More	12pm White Fragility - Book Discussion Series White Fragility - Book Discussion Series Thursday, February 20th, 2020 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM Storrs Campus Women's Center, SU 421 4 Part Book Discussion Series The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. Participants will discuss the ideas presented in the book, reflect on how white people can build capacity on race, and begin to develop skills engage more constructively in the on-going work towards racial justice. Free copies of the book will be available for the first 20 registrants for this 4 part series. Registration can be found at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WhiteFragilitySeries Feel free to bring your lunch! Contact Information: Kathy Fischer at kathy.fischer@uconn.edu More 12:30pm Anthropology Sociocultural Seminar Series: Dr. Sarah Pinto Anthropology Sociocultural Seminar Series: Dr. Sarah Pinto Thursday, February 20th, 2020 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Storrs Campus Beach Hall Rm 404 "The Doctor and Mrs. A: Gender and Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis" given by Dr. Sarah Pinto, Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University. Contact Information: Andrea Booth, andrea.booth@uconn.edu More 1:30pm Talk: Vicki Carstens Talk: Vicki Carstens Thursday, February 20th, 2020 01:30 PM - 03:30 PM Storrs Campus HBL Class of 1947 Conference Room Invited talk. Title T.B.A. Contact Information: Željko Bošković, zeljko.boskovic@uconn.edu More 3:30pm EEB Seminar: Dov Lank (Simon Fraser) EEB Seminar: Dov Lank (Simon Fraser) Thursday, February 20th, 2020 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Storrs Campus BPB 131 What maintains the balanced polymorphism among three male morphs of ruffs? Contact Information: margaret.rubega@uconn.edu More 7pm Walt Whitman and Lively Materiality with Jane Bennett Walt Whitman and Lively Materiality with Jane Bennett Thursday, February 20th, 2020 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM Storrs Campus Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, 1 Royce Circle, Downtown Storrs For its first installment of the 2020 Spring Puppet Forum Series the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut will host Walt Whitman and Lively Materiality with Professor Jane Bennett on Thursday, Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. at the Ballard Institute Theater, located at 1 Royce Circle in Downtown Storrs. Dr. Bennett, of Johns Hopkins University, is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary political theorist and philosopher best known in the puppetry world for her work on "the material world in performance," especially her influential bestseller Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Drawing from her forthcoming book Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman, Professor Bennett will speak at the Thursday Puppet Forum about Whitman's sense of "lively materiality" and the implications such ideas for puppetry studies and other subjects. Co-sponsored by UConn’s departments of Philosophy, Political Science, and English, the UConn Humanities Institute, and UConn’s American Studies program. Jane Bennett is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Her recent essays have appeared in Grain/Vapor/Ray (on Kafka's Odradek), Evental Aesthetics (special issue on Vital Materialism), and MLN (on mimesis). She is the author of Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (2010); The Enchantment of Modern Life (2001); Thoreau's Nature (1994), and Unthinking Faith and Enlightenment, (1987). Her forthcoming book this spring is called Influx & Efflux: Writing up with Walt Whitman. Admission to this event is free (donations greatly appreciated!), and refreshments will be served. Come early, and experience our puppet exhibitions, as well as the video resources in our library nook. Forums will be broadcast via Facebook Live. For more information or if you require an accommodation to attend a forum, please contact Ballard Institute staff at 860.486.8580 or bimp@uconn.edu. Contact Information: Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, (860) 486-8580 More	9am Colloquium With Jane Bennett Colloquium With Jane Bennett Friday, February 21st, 2020 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM Storrs Campus UConn Humanities Institute Homer Babbidge Library, 4th Floor 369 Fairfield Way Storrs, CT, 06269 The UConn Puppet Arts Program and the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut present a Colloquium with Jane Bennett on Friday, Feb. 21, from 9 a.m. to noon at the UConn Humanities Institute on the 4th floor of UConn’s Homer Babbidge Library. The colloquium will include research presentations by UConn scholars including Associate Professor of English Kathleen Tonry, who will consider connections between Jane Bennett’s work and the 15th-century history of the book; Professor of Art History Elizabeth Athens, who will consider 18th-century naturalist William Bartram’s representations of nature; and Ballard Institute Director John Bell, who will examine Jane Bennett’s influence on contemporary puppetry studies. The presentations will also include short puppet responses to Walt Whitman poems by students in Dr. Matthew Cohen’s Hand Puppetry class. The colloquium offers an opportunity to engage in conversation about Walt Whitman and American poetry, political theory, puppetry studies, object-oriented ontology, and philosophy with Dr. Bennett. This event is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by UConn’s departments of Philosophy, Political Science, and English, the UConn Humanities Institute, and UConn’s American Studies program. Jane Bennett is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Her recent essays have appeared in Grain/Vapor/Ray (on Kafka's Odradek), Evental Aesthetics (special issue on Vital Materialism), and MLN (on mimesis). She is the author of Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (2010); The Enchantment of Modern Life (2001); Thoreau's Nature (1994), and Unthinking Faith and Enlightenment (1987). Her forthcoming book this spring is called Influx & Efflux: Writing up with Walt Whitman. This event is free and open to the public. For more information or if you require an accommodation to attend the colloquium, please contact Dr. Matthew Cohen at matthew.i.cohen@uconn.edu. Contact Information: Dr. Matthew Cohen, matthew.i.cohen@uconn.edu More 12:20pm Geography Colloquium - Zhuojie Huang Geography Colloquium - Zhuojie Huang Friday, February 21st, 2020 12:20 PM - 01:15 PM Storrs Campus AUST 434 Optimizing cross-border logistics for ecommerce. ABSTRACT: Cross-border ecommerce has expanded at an exceptional rate. It is projected that global shipping volume will reach 100 billion by 2020. Nowadays, millions of customized, small, individual packed parcels flow through a complicated logistic supply chain involving local, ground and air carriers from their original countries to the consumers in another destination country. Accomplished by the physical flow, billions of data points for these parcels move across countries digitally. This research review the end to end physical and digital cross-border logistics supply chain, and identify several data science use cases for parcel flow prediction, demand forecasting, network optimization and simulation. It also discussed the next generation of spatial data science tech stack and platform for global logistics supply chain optimization. BIO: Dr. Zhuojie Huang is a distinguished engineer of data science in Pitney Bowes. He is an accomplished geospatial data science leader with 7 years of experience in data science and advanced analytics with great business acumen. He built 2 analytic-driven products from scratch with both reaching $100M annual revenue in 2019. He grew and coached a data science team focus on supply chain with expertise in machine learning, deep learning, optimization and simulation. He led capstone projects in machine learning and optimization in collaboration with Cornell University and Worcester Polytechnic University. He is a subject matter expert in supply chain optimization, geospatial data science and demographic analysis. He published 25 academic papers in the discipline of geography, network science, epidemiology, public health, remote sensing, computer science and database. Contact Information: Debanuj DasGupta [debanuj.dasgupta@uconn.edu] More 2pm Logic Colloquium: Eno Agolli Logic Colloquium: Eno Agolli Friday, February 21st, 2020 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM Storrs Campus Oak 110 Join us for a talk by Éno Agolli (UConn) in the Logic Colloquium! Éno Agolli (UConn) Logical Nihilism Logical nihilism is the view that there is no logic, or more precisely that no single, universal consequence relation governs natural language reasoning. Here, I present three different arguments for logical nihilism from philosophically palatable premises. The first argument comes from a combination of pluralism with the desideratum that logical consequence should be universal, properly understood. The second argument is a slippery slope argument against monists who support weak logical systems on account of their power to characterize a vast range of true theories. The third argument is a general strategy of generating counterexamples to any inference rule, including purportedly fundamental ones such as disjunction introduction. I close by discussing why a truth-conditional approach to the meaning of the logical connectives not only does not force us to reject such counterexamples but also reveals that right truth-conditions are far more general than the classical ones, at the price of nihilism. All welcome! https://logic.uconn.edu/calendar/ Contact Information: https://logic.uconn.edu/about More 3:30pm Charles Reynolds Distinguished Lecture (Prof. Peter Abbamonte, U. of Illinois) Charles Reynolds Distinguished Lecture (Prof. Peter Abbamonte, U. of Illinois) Friday, February 21st, 2020 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Storrs Campus BPB-131 Charles Reynolds Distinguished Lecture “Bose Condensation of Excitons in a Transition Metal Dichalcogenide” Professor Peter Abbamonte University of Illinois Urbana, IL Bose condensation has shaped our understanding of macroscopic quantum phenomena, having been realized in superconductors, atomic gases, and liquid helium. Excitons are bosons that have been predicted to condense into either a superfluid or an insulating electronic crystal. But definitive evidence for a thermodynamically stable exciton condensate has never been achieved. In this talk I will describe our use of momentum-resolved electron energy-loss spectroscopy (M-EELS) to demonstrate the existence of an exciton condensate in the transition metal dichalcogenide semimetal, 1T‐TiSe2. This phase of matter was predicted in the 1960’s and nicknamed “excitonium” by Halperin and Rice, but not realized for certain until now. I will discuss the experimental signature of exciton condensation, a plasmon that disperses to zero energy at the transition temperature, and latest results on its stability against carrier doping and hydrostatic pressure. Contact Information: Prof. Jason Hancock More	10am Encounters: The Census Encounters: The Census Saturday, February 22nd, 2020 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Other Hartford History Center at the Hartford Public Library The 2020 Census is upon us! But what is the Census? When did it begin and what role does it play in our democracy and our communities? Why is it seen as so important to some people, and so controversial to others? Please join us for a discussion about the history, purpose, and importance of the U.S. Census and conversations around the challenges in counting and including all residents. Small group discussions will be followed by a Q&A session with Census professionals and experts. Please read selections found on https://democracyanddialogues.thedoddcenter.uconn.edu/encounters-series/ Lunch will be provided, free, upon registration. Please RSVP to jeagosto@hplct.org Contact Information: jeagosto@hplct.org More Teacher-as-Writer Workshop Teacher-as-Writer Workshop Saturday, February 22nd, 2020 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Storrs Campus Austin, Stern Lounge Teacher-as-Writer Workshops are monthly gatherings for Teacher Consultants and other Connecticut teachers who wish to share and receive feedback on their writing. We also hold writing retreats in the fall and the spring. Contact Information: dpieratti@swindsor.k12.ct.us More 1:30pm Encounters: Moderator/Facilitator Training Encounters: Moderator/Facilitator Training Saturday, February 22nd, 2020 01:30 PM - 03:30 PM Other Hartford History Center at Hartford Public Library After a morning Encounters program & lunch discussing The Census (10 am-12 pm, with lunch provided 12-1 pm), join us for a free training on how to moderate and facilitate an Encounters program. Encounters is a structured model that allows participants to come face-to-face and converse about the issues that matter in their community. Encounters dives deeply into these subjects through facilitated, small-group dialogues followed by a 'question and answer'-style conversation with content-area specialists. Readings are provided beforehand to better encourage informed and informal dialogue. RSVP to jeagosto@hplct.org Contact Information: jeagosto@hplct.org More
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	4pm Talk: Roumyana Pancheva Talk: Roumyana Pancheva Monday, February 24th, 2020 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM Storrs Campus AUST 163 Invited Talk. Title T.B.A. Contact Information: Željko Bošković, zeljko.boskovic@uconn.edu More 4:45pm Connecticut Logic Seminar On $$\Sigma$$--preorderings in $$\text{HF}(\mathbb{R})$$ Andrey Morozov (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics and Novosibirsk State University) Connecticut Logic Seminar On $$\Sigma$$--preorderings in $$\text{HF}(\mathbb{R})$$ Andrey Morozov (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics and Novosibirsk State University) Monday, February 24th, 2020 04:45 PM - 06:00 PM Other Exley 618, Wesleyan University We prove that $$\omega_1$$ cannot be embedded into any preordering $$\Sigma$$-definable with parameters in the hereditarily finite superstructure over the ordered field of real numbers, HF($$\mathbb{R}$$). As corollaries, we obtain characterizations of $$\Sigma$$-presentable ordinals and Godel constructive sets of kind $$L_\alpha$$. It also follows that there are no $$\Sigma$$-presentations for structures of $$T$$-, $$m$$-, $$1$$-, and $$tt$$-degrees over HF($$\mathbb{R}$$). Contact Information: Reed Solomon, solomon@math.uconn.edu More 6:30pm Free Hebrew Conversation Crash-Course Free Hebrew Conversation Crash-Course Monday, February 24th, 2020 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM Stamford Campus Room 313, the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life Do you want to speak with people in Hebrew? After this six-session crash course in Hebrew conversation, you’ll be able to make small talk, ask directions, order things in a restaurant, go shopping, and even talk a little about current events—all in Hebrew. The course focuses on functional spoken Hebrew you can use right away in daily interactions. There will be a few short easy readings, role play, listening practice, and in-class conversations. If you want to practice and learn some spoken Hebrew, join us on six Monday evenings this spring. Lehitraot—see you soon!! This spring, at UConn Stamford, Dr. Liora Brosh will teach a "crash course" in conversational Modern Hebrew. Professor Brosh, a native speaker, holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Hebrew University, Israel. This free, non-credit course is open to all faculty, staff, students, and members of the external community. Please share this information with anyone you think might wish to join us. There is no need to register in advance and no texts are required for purchase. No prior knowledge of the language is expected. Besides the inherent value of learning foreign languages in our global world, Modern Hebrew is of interest beyond Judaica. It is relevant for those studying the Middle East as well as individuals working in business and STEM, given Israeli prominence in those fields. All sessions will be held in Room 313, the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life. We will meet on Mondays from 6:30-8:00 p.m.: February 10, February 24, March 9, March 23, April 6, April 20. In the case of weather cancellations, we will reschedule any missed class(es). Join us! Contact Information: If you require an accommodation to participate, please contact Stamford Coordinator for Judaic Studies Prof. Fred Roden at frederick.roden@uconn.edu or 203-251-8559. More	12:30pm Anthropology Sociocultural Seminar Series: Jen Sandler, Ph.D. Anthropology Sociocultural Seminar Series: Jen Sandler, Ph.D. Tuesday, February 25th, 2020 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Storrs Campus Beach Hall Rm 404 "Beyond the streets, behind the screens: tracing relationality in the current 'movement moment' of the United States" given by Dr. Jen Sandler, Director, UMass Alliance for Community Transformation (UACT) and senior lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Snow Day: March 3rd Contact Information: Andrea Booth, andrea.booth@uconn.edu More 3pm The State and the Market in Indian Education The State and the Market in Indian Education Tuesday, February 25th, 2020 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM Storrs Campus Class of 1947 Room, Library The State & the Market in Indian Education: Evidence & Policy Implications Karthik Muralidharan Tata Chancellor’s Professor of Economics University of California, San Diego Professor Muralidharan is actively involved in advising and capacity building in India at both the central and state government levels. He is co-chair of the education research program of the Poverty Action Lab at MIT and a Research Associate of the National Bureau for Economic Research. His research spans development, as well as public, and labor economics with a focus on improving public spending in the social sector. In this lecture Professor Muralidharan will discuss the deep structural challenges of the Indian education system and will suggest reforms based on his extensive research. Sponsored by AAASI India Studies Program Contact Information: Prof. Betty Hanson (betty.hanson@uconn.edu) More 4pm Jenny Spinner: "It's a Woman Speaking" Jenny Spinner: "It's a Woman Speaking" Tuesday, February 25th, 2020 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM Storrs Campus Austin 217 ‘It’s a Woman Speaking’: Revising the Essay Canon Please join us on Tuesday, February 25, at 4pm in Austin 217 for a talk by Jenny Spinner, Associate Professor of English, St. Joseph’s University (and UConn English PhD, 2004). Spinner will be joined by Lynn Bloom, UConn Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Emerita, who will serve as respondent. Spinner will discuss her decade-long feminist recovery project, designed to re-write the history of the essay to include the women who have been erased and omitted. That project, which began years ago in a classroom in the Arjona Building on UConn’s campus, resulted in the 2018 publication of Of Women and the Essay: An Anthology from 1655 to 2000. https://ugapress.org/book/9780820354248/of-women-and-the-essay/ Like their contemporary counterparts, women essayists in earlier centuries were prolific and successful contributors to the genre. This talk will explore some of the reasons for the long neglect of women, and women of color in particular, from the essay’s history and discuss some of the women essayists from earlier centuries who belong in that history (and on readings lists, conference panels, journal articles, dissertations, and syllabi). This event is sponsored by the English Department and the Humanities Institute. Contact Information: tom.deans@uconn.edu; 860-486-9728 More 7:30pm Coastal Perspectives Lecture Series - Visualizing Plastic: Integrating Science and Art to Inspire Change Coastal Perspectives Lecture Series - Visualizing Plastic: Integrating Science and Art to Inspire Change Tuesday, February 25th, 2020 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM Avery Point Campus Auditorium J. Evan Ward, Ph.D.; Department of Marine Sciences, UConn & Elizabeth Ellenwood, Master of Fine Arts Candidate, UConn Visualizing Plastic: Integrating Science and Art to Inspire Change Contact Information: Jamie Vaudrey jamie.vaudrey@uconn.edu More	11:30am Yiddish Tish Discussions Yiddish Tish Discussions Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Storrs Campus Dodd Research Center in Conference Room 162 The Yiddish Tish luncheon discussion group is a small, intimate gathering of members from the community and campus who meet monthly to read and speak Yiddish, discuss new topics, and spend time with one another. Sponsored by the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life and led by founding Director Arnold Dashefsky, the Yiddish Tish was launched in 1982 and is now in its 76th semester. We continue to attract new colleagues interested in attending and welcome you to join us to sustain our enthusiasm. These sessions are open to any and all faculty, staff, students, and members of the community. All reading and speaking levels are welcome! Please bring a bag lunch, and we will provide dessert and drinks. The Spring 2020 sessions will be held in the Dodd Research Center in Conference Room 162 on the following Wednesdays from 11:30 am - 12:30 pm: • February 26 • March 25 • April 29 Join the Yiddish Tish mailing list: https://uconn.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9ccdba8841d299262e8722727&id=5d0f7f90ba Contact Information: If you require an accommodation to participate, please contact Pamela Weathers at pamela.weathers@uconn.edu or 860-486-2271. More 12pm Marine Sciences Brown Bag: Michael Mathuri Marine Sciences Brown Bag: Michael Mathuri Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Avery Point Campus Marine Sciences Building, Seminar Room 103 Presenting: Michael Mathuri Brown Bag Title: Concentration dependence of nitrogen isotope fractionation during ammonium assimilation by marine phytoplankton https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/seminar/brownbag1203/ Contact Information: Hannah Collins, hannah.i.collins@uconn.edu More Penelope Pelizzon: "Animals and Instruments" Penelope Pelizzon: "Animals and Instruments" Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM Storrs Campus Austin 217 (Stern) Wed., Feb. 26, 12-1:30pm Austin 217 (Stern) Please join Penelope Pelizzon for a poetry reading of "Animals and Instruments." Contact Information: wayne.franklin@uconn.edu More 12:15pm Colloquium: Justin Gross (UMass) Colloquium: Justin Gross (UMass) Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 12:15 PM - 01:30 PM Storrs Campus Oak Hall 438 Colloquium: Justin Gross (UMass) Contact Information: Prof. Matthew Singer (matthew.m.singer@uconn.edu) More Wednesday Workshop: "Connecticut's Tobacco Valley: Imperialism, Migration, and Internal Colonization" Wednesday Workshop: "Connecticut's Tobacco Valley: Imperialism, Migration, and Internal Colonization" Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 12:15 PM - 01:15 PM Storrs Campus Wood Hall Basement Lounge The first History Department Wednesday Workshop of 2020 will feature Professor Jason Chang, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute. Professor Chang will present on new research in a lecture titled "Connecticut's Tobacco Valley: Imperialism, Migration, and Internal Colonization". Contact Information: Victor Zatsepine, victor.zatsepine@uconn.edu More 2:15pm Chemistry Colloquium: Steve Boxer, Stanford University Chemistry Colloquium: Steve Boxer, Stanford University Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 02:15 PM - 03:30 PM Storrs Campus CHEM A-203 Chemistry Colloquium "Electric Fields and Enzyme Catalysis" Steve Boxer, Stanford University Host: Tomo Mani Refreshments will be served at 2:15pm. All are welcome. Contact Information: gael.ung@uconn.edu More 4pm PNB Seminar Series : Dr. Andrew Holmes PNB Seminar Series : Dr. Andrew Holmes Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM Storrs Campus TLS Room 111 Andrew Holmes, PhD Chief, Laboratory of Behavioral and Genomic Neuroscience, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Rockville, MD Talk title: "Neural circuits mediating socially-learned fear." Host: Dr. Linnaea Ostroff Contact Information: Physiology and Neurobiology Department More Provost's Distinguished Speaker Series - Dr. Avinoam Patt Provost's Distinguished Speaker Series - Dr. Avinoam Patt Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM Storrs Campus Konover Auditorium Dr. Patt previously served as the Philip D. Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish History at the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford, where he was also director of the Museum of Jewish Civilization, and he worked as the Miles Lerman Applied Research Scholar for Jewish Life and Culture at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). His scholarship adds broadly to the field of Jewish Studies, with contributions in Holocaust studies, Modern European and American Jewish history, Israel studies, Jewish literature, and Jewish humor. This is an Honors event. Categories: Academic & Interdisciplinary Engagement OR Multiculturalism & Global Citizenship #UHLevent472 Contact Information: Rachel Wice, rachel.wice@uconn.edu More 5:45pm Math Club On Convergence of Random Series Iddo Ben-Ari (UConn) Math Club On Convergence of Random Series Iddo Ben-Ari (UConn) Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 05:45 PM - 06:35 PM Storrs Campus Monteith 314 The harmonic series, $$1 + \frac 12 + \frac 13 + \frac 14 + \cdots$$, diverges. Its alternating-sign version, $$1 - \frac 12 + \frac 13 - \frac 14 + \cdots$$, converges. What if a series is obtained by assigning signs at random, say by coin flips? In this talk we will discuss the topic of random series, present some classical results, including Kolmogorov's Three Series theorem, and will see more examples, applications and problems. Contact Information: Keith Conrad More	9am Frontiers in HIstorical GIS, the Geohumanities, and Narrative Visualization Frontiers in HIstorical GIS, the Geohumanities, and Narrative Visualization Thursday, February 27th, 2020 09:00 AM - 04:30 PM Storrs Campus Student Union and Babbidge Library Frontiers in Historical GIS, the Geohumanities, and Narrative Visualization An Interdisciplinary Connections Symposium sponsored by the UConn College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in collaboration with Urban and Community Studies, History, Geography, and American Studies Thursday, 27 February 2020 Location: Student Union Building 304B, Storrs 9:00am - Welcome and Introductions 9:30am-11:30am - Presentations and roundtable discussion Anne Kelly Knowles, Professor of History, University of Maine, Historical GIS & Beyond: GeoVisualiation for the Humanities Spatial storytelling and deep mapping are generating much interest in the Humanities as scholars and students discover new methods for representing people in place. At the same time, humanists’ critiques of the limitations of Cartesian cartography demand solutions. This lecture will argue that points, lines, and polygons (aptly called “cartographic primitives”) are immensely useful for certain kinds of spatial analysis, but that they are also deeply problematic for analyzing and representing human experience. The extreme experiences of Holocaust victims challenged my research team to find new ways to visualize people and places, mobility and awareness, as phenomena in their own right and in relation to Nazi policies and actions. I will particularly focus on two of our ongoing experiments: inductive visualization and topological mapping. LaDale Winling, Professor of History, Virginia Tech, Finding the Humanity in the Digital Humanities. As digital technologies and data resources become increasingly sophisticated, digital humanities and historical GIS scholars hold both the promise and the peril of demonstrating the humanity in their projects. Winling will discuss his work on redlining and political elections in Mapping Inequality, Electing the House of Representatives, and the Chicago Elections Project and the challenges of incorporating and enabling narrative, of making argument, and of finding and representing individuals in a sea of data. 11:45sm to 12:45pm - Lunchtime roundtable discussion. All welcome to participate. Lunch provided. Please RSVP (https://urban.uconn.edu/2020/01/29/gis-symposium-rsvp/) by February 19th or contact maria.winnick@uconn.edu. 1:00pm to 2:30pm - Race, Ethnicity and Community Succession in Post-War Hartford: Using Historical GIS to Explore the Racial Dynamics of Neighborhood Change Professor Fiona Vernal, UConn History Department, Homer Babbidge Library, Visualization Studio, Room 1101 2:30pm - Coffee and Snack Break. All welcome. 3:00pm to 4:30pm - Frontiers in Historical GIS, the Geohumanities, and Narrative Visualization A panel discussion with Anne Kelly Knowles, LaDale Winling, Fiona Vernal, Ken Foote (UConn Geography and Urban and Community Studies), Mark Healey (UConn History and el Instituto), Peter Chen (UConn Geography) and Chris Vials (UConn English and American Studies) Contact Information: Maria.Winnick@uconn.edu More 12:30pm InCHIP Lecture: Anna Maria Siega-Riz, PhD InCHIP Lecture: Anna Maria Siega-Riz, PhD Thursday, February 27th, 2020 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM Storrs Campus J. Ray Ryan Bldg, Room 204 Anna Maria Siega-Riz, PhD, School of Public Health and Health Sciences at UMass Amherst Thursday, February 27, 2020 J. Ray Ryan Bldg, Room 204 Dr. Siega-Riz’s research focuses on the first 1000 days of life by understanding the influence of maternal weight status and dietary patterns/behaviors in the etiology of adverse pregnancy outcomes, including but not limited to, gestational diabetes, pregnancy induced hypertension, pre-eclampsia, preterm birth and inadequate or excessive gestational weight gain. She is also exploring food reward and sensitivity among pregnant women and early determinants of childhood obesity in the Pregnancy Eating Attributes (PEAS) study funded by NICHD with colleagues at the University of North Carolina https://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/org/diphr/officebranch/sbsb/pregnancy_eating and the association of maternal preconceptional health with childhood eating and weight status among Hispanics in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL https://www2.cscc.unc.edu/hchs/) funded by NIDDK. Other research interests include examining the determinants and consequences of food insecurity and the implications of food policy on health outcomes. Receive important news and announcements via the InCHIP listerv: http://chip.uconn.edu/chip-business-office/listserv/. Visit the 2019-2020 Lecture Series lineup, access live web stream, archived lectures, and learn more about the lecture series: https://chip.uconn.edu/lecture-series/2019-2020-lecture-series/ Contact Information: lectureseries@chip.uconn.edu More Lecture: “Flesh Into Blossom”: The Queer Poetics of Radical Pleasure Lecture: “Flesh Into Blossom”: The Queer Poetics of Radical Pleasure Thursday, February 27th, 2020 12:30 PM - 01:45 PM Storrs Campus Rainbow Center; Student Union 403 The Out to Lunch Gender, Sexuality, and Community is a weekly academic lecture and discussion series with guest scholars and community activists from various disciplines examining a variety of topics related to gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality. Each semester offers a broad sampling of the areas. The Spring 2020 semester is co-sponsored by the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department (http://wgss.uconn.edu). Today's lecture is entitled, "'Flesh Into Blossom': The Queer Poetics of Radical Pleasure" and will be presented by Mick Powell (she/her/hers). Synopsis: Over 40 years out from Audre Lorde’s formative essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” queer feminist poets of color continue to consider how we create new work about the erotic, the intimate, and the sensual; work that illuminates the beauties and complexities of loving others and ourselves in the bodies we inhabit. In this lecture, we’ll explore how contemporary queer and trans poets of color decenter white, patriarchal, heteronormative, and cisnormative narratives around the body and intimacy through gurlesque, afrofuturistic, and liberatory aesthetics. Mick will read from her chapbook chronicle the body (2019) and highlight other poets narrating from new spaces of sensuality and pleasure. Biography: Mick Powell (she/her/hers) is a queer black fat femme feminist poet based in Connecticut. She is an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Connecticut. Mick earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Southern Connecticut State University in 2018 and her Bachelor’s in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies from UConn in 2015. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Frontier Poetry, Tinderbox Poetry, Columbia Journal, Apogee Journal, Winter Tangerine, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, chronicle the body, won Yemassee Journal‘s 2nd Annual Chapbook Contest and was published in March 2019. You can find her at http://www.mickpowellpoet.com. The lectures are open to all to attend. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own lunches. Contact Information: rainbowcenter@uconn.edu More 1:30pm Black, Queer, & Proud! Black, Queer, & Proud! Thursday, February 27th, 2020 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM Hartford Campus HSSW LL Community Room RSVP at http://uconnblackhistory365.eventbrite.com Facilitated by former UConn School of Social Work professor and Queer Black Activist, Regina Dyton. Regina is a member of Journey Writers Inc., an organization where poets, performers, writers, and educators dedicate their time to creating work around activism for social justice. LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED Contact Information: sswgso-co-chairs@uconn.edu More 2pm ISSS Coffee Hour ISSS Coffee Hour Thursday, February 27th, 2020 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM Storrs Campus The William Benton Museum of Art Let's travel to Poland! Stop by for an interactive presentation about the Polish culture and to see the museum's temporary exhibition on DEMOKRACJA GRAFIKA: The Democracy of Print. The museum's exhibition celebrates UConn Professor Emeritus of Printmaking Gus Mazzocca’s gift to the Benton of more than 150 prints by Polish artists. The prints came to Mazzocca through the exchange program that he established in 1984 with the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland ISSS Coffee Hour is sponsored by the International Student and Scholar Services and hosted by the William Benton Museum of Art. Contact Information: Karen Sommer 6-5084 More 3:30pm EEB Seminar: Marjorie Webber (Michigan State) EEB Seminar: Marjorie Webber (Michigan State) Thursday, February 27th, 2020 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Storrs Campus BPB 131 Linking macroevolution and ecology using plant-arthropod mutualisms Contact Information: kent.holsinger@uconn.edu More Mathematics Colloquium Random interlacing arrays Leonid Petrov (University of Virginia) Mathematics Colloquium Random interlacing arrays Leonid Petrov (University of Virginia) Thursday, February 27th, 2020 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Storrs Campus MONT 214 I will describe two main types of objects in Integrable Probability - measures on interlacing integer arrays (whose probability weights are given in terms of symmetric functions), and exactly solvable stochastic interacting particle systems like TASEP. Various connections between the two allow to extract fine asymptotic information for particle systems essentially by algebraic manipulations. I will describe recent advances of the theory based on symmetric functions outside the classical Macdonald hierarchy. Contact Information: Kyu-Hwan Lee More Women in Economics Symposium Women in Economics Symposium Thursday, February 27th, 2020 03:30 PM - 08:00 PM Stamford Campus DWTN 2.15 Women in Economics Symposium held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland -- live-stream of this symposium, which aims to encourage women to pursue a career in economics by discussing the successful career paths of diverse economics professionals and raising awareness of diversity and inclusion in the profession. All students are welcome at this event; the content is relevant across disciplines and identities. This is an Honors Event. Categories: Career, Professional, & Personal Development OR Academic & Interdisciplinary Engagement. #UHLevent631 Contact Information: Natalia Smirnova, natalia.smirnova@uconn.edu More 4:30pm Exhibit Reception - Babbidge Library Exhibit Reception - Babbidge Library Thursday, February 27th, 2020 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM Storrs Campus Babbidge Library, Plaza and Level B Join the Library for the opening reception of two new exhibits in Homer Babbidge. Steven G. Smith Under the Dark Sky, Life in Thames River Basin Gallery on the Plaza, Homer Babbidge Library In 1994, the U.S. Congress designated parts of the Thames River basin as a Natural Heritage Corridor because it is one of the last remaining stretches of green in the area and boasts some of the most extensive unbroken forests in southern New England. The river and its watershed help define the borders of a valley that is unique among its East Coast neighbors, considered to be the last place where the dark night sky can be viewed between Washington, D.C., and the Boston metro area. Locals like to call the area the “Quiet Corner” or the “Last Green Valley.” This documentary photo essay visually explores the region. Amanda Chianelli Mother: Process & Processing Norman Stevens Gallery, Homer Babbidge Library With a blurred line between life and art, my work explores the complicated nature of the female body as giver of life, the humbling and complex relationship of mother and child, as well as the housing of the unstable and erratic emotional landscape of mother/artist. In the battle between time and attention, between mothering and creating, I follow in the footsteps of those who have manifested joys, sorrows, and anxieties into their work, allowing the rocky landscape of motherhood into the studio. Contact Information: Jean Nelson More 6pm Writers Who Edit, Editors Who Write Series Writers Who Edit, Editors Who Write Series Thursday, February 27th, 2020 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM Storrs Campus UConn Bookstore Writers Who Edit, Editors Who Write Series with Jennifer N. Baker. February 27th at the UConn Bookstore in Storrs Center. 6:00 pm reading. Readings are free and open to the public. Jennifer N. Baker is a long-time publishing professional, creator and host of the Minorities in Publishing podcast, and contributing editor to Electric Literature. In 2017, she received a NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship and a Queens Council on the Arts New Work Grant for Nonfiction Literature. Her essay “What We Aren’t (or the Ongoing Divide)” was listed as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2018. She is also the editor of the BIPoC short story anthology Everyday People: The Color of Life (2018). Her fiction, nonfiction, interviews and criticism have appeared in various print and online publications. Contact Information: sean.forbes@uconn.edu More	8:30am Connecticut Environmental Action Day Connecticut Environmental Action Day Friday, February 28th, 2020 08:30 AM - 01:30 PM Storrs Campus Student Union Theater Connecticut Environmental Action Day (CEAD) brings middle school age youth from throughout Connecticut to the UConn Storrs campus where they will work with UConn faculty, staff, and students to learn about environmental issues. The theme this year is climate change. UConn students will also be encouraged to take the #ClimateChangeChallenge with us. At the conclusion of the day, each middle school participant will share the actions they are taking home from the event to implement in their community. For more information visit the website at https://environmentalaction.extension.uconn.edu/ Contact Information: stacey.stearns@uconn.edu More 11am Marine Sciences Seminar: Sarah Donelan Marine Sciences Seminar: Sarah Donelan Friday, February 28th, 2020 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Avery Point Campus Marine Sciences Building, Seminar Room 103 Presenting: Sarah Donelan, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Seminar Title: The legacy of stress: behavioral and ecological impacts of transgenerational and carryover effects in marine systems Host: Catherine Matassa Abstract: https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/seminar/seminar1203/ Contact Information: marinesciencesseminars@uconn.edu, 860-405-9152, 860-405-9087, or 860-405-9151 More 12:30pm Elect Her: UConn Women Win Training Elect Her: UConn Women Win Training Friday, February 28th, 2020 12:30 PM - 04:30 PM Storrs Campus Women's Center, SU 421 Have you ever thought about running for office, now or in the future? Register now for this FREE Student Leadership Training Program. The Elect Her: UConn Women Win Training will be held from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, February 28th, 2020, at the Women’s Center. This training will demystify the campaign process and teach you how to develop and communicate an effective message, how to reach out to your constituency, and how to win a campaign. Our aim is to increase women's representation in political leadership. This event is being sponsored nationally by Running Start, and on-campus sponsored by the Women’s Center and the Undergraduate Student Government. There is a limited amount of spaces available on a first come, first served basis. Students interested in participating must register at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/UConnElectHer2020 The registration deadline is 2/24/20. Contact Information: Kathy Fischer at kathy.fischer@uconn.edu More Geosciences Seminar Series: Jason Smerdon (Columbia University) Geosciences Seminar Series: Jason Smerdon (Columbia University) Friday, February 28th, 2020 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM Storrs Campus Beach Hall 233 Geosciences Seminar Series Dr. Jason Smerdon Columbia University Models, Matrices, and Megadroughts: A paleoclimatic perspective for a hotter planet Beach Hall 233 12:30-1:30PM February 28, 2020 Contact Information: Christin Donnelly, christin.donnelly@uconn.edu More 2pm IONM Virtual Infosession IONM Virtual Infosession Friday, February 28th, 2020 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Storrs Campus Virtual Join us for a virtual informational session to learn more about our Graduate Certificate in Intraoperative Neuromonitoring and Surgical Neurophysiology Masters program. Dr. Radmila Filipovic and Dr. Payam Andalib will be providing potential students with an overview of the programs along with a discussion about working in the field of Neuromonitoring. Attendees will also have a chance to ask specific questions via a chat function. Register here: https://connect.grad.uconn.edu/register/?id=91cb5e43-615c-486a-aa4e-f6c662c726fa Contact Information: Amber LaFontaine - amber.lafontaine@uconn.edu More 3pm Cluster Algeba Seminar Speaker: Title Cluster Algeba Seminar Speaker: Title Friday, February 28th, 2020 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM Storrs Campus Mont 313 . Contact Information: Ralf Schiffler, schiffler@math.uconn.edu More

2/3Black Lives Matter and the Politics of Value

Black Lives Matter and the Politics of Value
Monday, February 3rd, 2020
12:15 PM - 01:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Oak 438

"Black Lives Matter and the Politics of Value"
Alena Wolflink, Beloit College

Monday, February 3
12:15pm in Oak 438

Sponsored by the Political Theory Workshop and UConn Humanities Institute

Contact Information: Prof. Jane Gordon (jane.gordon@uconn.edu) More

2/3Philosophy Job Talk

Philosophy Job Talk
Monday, February 3rd, 2020
03:30 PM - 05:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Manchester Hall 002

Job Talk

Contact Information: philosophy@uconn.edu More

2/4MCB Seminar Series: Dr. Clare M. Waterman

MCB Seminar Series: Dr. Clare M. Waterman
Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

Storrs Campus
BPB 131

MCB Tuesday Seminar Series:
Dr. Clare M. Waterman, Director, Cell and Development Biology Center, National Institute of Health

"Integrating actin and adhesion dynamics in cell migration and innate immunity"

Dr. Waterman pioneered the invention and application of novel quantitative and super-resolution light microscopy methods. She utilized these tools to reveal the
architectural blueprint and dynamics of protein-based nano-machines that selfassemble
in cells to generate, organize, and transmit the forces that drive cell movement, and she defined molecular pathways governing the orchestration of
these protein machines in space and time.

To learn more about Dr. Waterman, visit https://irp.nih.gov/pi/clare-waterman

Abstract: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19575647

Refreshments 3:15, Seminar 3:30

Contact Information: ciara.hanlon@uconn.edu More

2/4Black History 365 Opening Ceremony

Black History 365 Opening Ceremony
Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
05:30 PM - 07:15 PM

Hartford Campus
Spotlight Theaters

This event is the Opening Ceremony for a series of events that will represent the programming for the first ever Black History 365 Campaign.

Contact Information: sswgso-co-chairs@uconn.edu More

2/5Gilman Scholarship Advising Drop-In

Gilman Scholarship Advising Drop-In
Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
01:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Education Abroad Office

Students who are Pell grant recipients and have U.S. citizenship are eligible to apply for the Gilman Scholarship. This is a nationally competitive scholarship that awards up to $5000 for participation in an education abroad program, with additional funding possible for students studying a critical language.
Eligible students who are completing applications for cycle two of the Gilman Scholarship can drop-in for advising with representatives from both Education Abroad and the National Scholarships and Fellowships Office on Wednesday, February 5 from 1-4 p.m. in the Education Abroad Office. A drop-in appointment is a great time to have questions answered and application materials reviewed before the Tuesday, March 3rd application deadline!

Contact Information: LuAnn Saunders-Kanabay More

2/5Women in Science: Prioritizing Mental Health

Women in Science: Prioritizing Mental Health
Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM

Storrs Campus
BPB 201

Women in Science, an organization dedicated to discussion and support of issues relevant to graduate and postgraduate women in academic life sciences, is meeting on February 5 from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm in BPB 201. We will be discussing Prioritizing Mental Health and organizing for the rest of the semester! Everyone is welcome to attend and feel free to bring lunch!

Contact Information: elizabeth.herder@uconn.edu More

2/5Chemistry Colloquium: Nan Jiang, University of Illinois at Chicago

Chemistry Colloquium: Nan Jiang, University of Illinois at Chicago
Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
02:15 PM - 03:30 PM

Storrs Campus
CHEM A-203

Chemistry Colloquium "Probing Chemistry of Surface-Supported Nanostructures at the Angstrom-Scale via Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy"

Nan Jiang, University of Illinois at Chicago
Host: Jing Zhao

Refreshments will be served at 2:15pm. All are welcome.

Contact Information: gael.ung@uconn.edu More

2/5Digital Humanities & Media Studies talk - Nancy Baym, "The Relational Affordances of Platforms"

Digital Humanities & Media Studies talk - Nancy Baym, "The Relational Affordances of Platforms"
Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM

Storrs Campus
UConn Humanities Institute

Nancy Baym

Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research New England; Research Affiliate, Comparative Media Studies/Writing, MIT

The Relational Affordances of Platforms

People have been socializing on the internet for nearly fifty years. In recent years, online social life has become increasingly concentrated in a relatively small number of commercial platforms. How can we make sense of the impacts they are having on our relational lives? How can we theorize platforms when they are constantly changing and used in so many different ways? In this talk, Nancy Baym draws on a range of her recent research on platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to articulate a model for understanding platforms as the dynamic, unstable entities they are, and to explore their roles in shaping, constraining and opening up new possibilities for relationships in contexts ranging from close romantic bonds to online communities and the ties that connect musicians to their audiences. The talk further considers how these platforms commodify the relational interactions that take place through them, and how their design choices have fostered environments in which relationships become tools for profit.

Nancy Baym is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, where she conducts basic research into how people understand and act with new communication technologies in their relationships. A pioneer in the field of internet research, Baym wrote some of the first articles about online community in the early 1990s. With Jean Burgess, she is the author of Twitter: A Biography (forthcoming 2020, NYU). Other books include Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection (2018, NYU), Personal Connections in the Digital Age (2010, Second Edition 2014, Polity), Internet Inquiry: Conversations About Method (co-edited with Annette Markham, 2010, Sage), and Tune In, Log On: Soaps, Fandom and Online Community (2000, Sage). She was a co-founder of the Association of Internet Researchers and served as its second president. She has been recognized with the Frederick Williams Prize for Contributions to the Study of Communication and Technology awarded by the International Communication Association, the naming of the Nancy Baym Book Award by the Association of Internet Researchers, and an Honorary Doctorate from the Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Gothenburg. Most of her papers and more information are available at http://nancybaym.com

This event is sponsored by UCHI Digital Humanities & Media Studies, the Department of Communication, and the UCHI Future of Truth Initiative

Contact Information: Yohei Igarashi (https://dhmediastudies.uconn.edu) More

2/5Provost's Distinguished Speaker Series - Dr. Michael Lynch

Provost's Distinguished Speaker Series - Dr. Michael Lynch
Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Konover Auditorium

The Provost’s Distinguished Speaker Series fosters intellectual, professional, and personal growth and collegiality among the University of Connecticut community. This series provides an opportunity for our most recently-inducted Board of Trustees Distinguished Professors and Endowed Chairs to share advances in their expertise and engage thought-provoking discussions.

Dr. Lynch's work concerns truth, democracy, public discourse and the ethics of technology. The recipient of the Medal for Research Excellence from the University of Connecticut’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and grants from the Bogliasco Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, he is currently the PI of Humility & Conviction in Public Life, a $7 million project aimed at understanding and encouraging meaningful public discourse funded by the John Templeton Foundation and UConn.

Please access the below link to access the live stream:
http://www.kaltura.com/tiny/uyrei

The link to the recording will be posted on the Provost's website following the event:
https://provost.uconn.edu/events-and-recognition/distinguished-speaker-series/

This is an Honors Event. Categories: Academic & Interdisciplinary Engagement OR Social Change, Service, & Sustainability

#UHLevent471

Contact Information: Rachel Wice, rachel.wice@uconn.edu More

2/5Math Club
How to Win at Hat Guessing
Nate Eldredge (Univ. Northern Colorado/UConn)

Math Club
How to Win at Hat Guessing
Nate Eldredge (Univ. Northern Colorado/UConn)
Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
05:45 PM - 06:35 PM

Storrs Campus
Monteith 314

Hat guessing games go like this: A number of players are put in a room, and each one gets a hat placed on their head, which is either red or blue. The players can all see each others' hats, but not their own, and they are not allowed to communicate in any way. Then each player must try to guess the color of their own hat. Although no individual player can do better than random chance, interesting and counterintuitive things can happen when the players cooperate and strategize together. We'll look at several variants of this basic game, and see how ideas from different areas of mathematics can help the players win games that seem unwinnable.

Contact Information: Keith Conrad More

2/6CWP Leadership Council

CWP Leadership Council
Thursday, February 6th, 2020
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Austin, Stern Lounge

CWP Leadership Council meets to discuss upcoming events and address housekeeping concerns

Contact Information: cwp@uconn.edu More

2/7CBC Data Therapy

CBC Data Therapy
Friday, February 7th, 2020
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Storrs Campus
ESB 304

Xanadu Cluster Introduction.

Contact Information: neranjan.perera@uconn.edu More

2/7Marine Sciences Seminar: Andrew J. Davies

Marine Sciences Seminar: Andrew J. Davies
Friday, February 7th, 2020
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Avery Point Campus
Marine Sciences Building, Seminar Room 103

Presenting: Andrew J. Davies, University of Rhode Island, Department of Biological Sciences

Seminar Title: Mapping and characterizing enigmatic habitats in the last great wilderness on earth

Host: Heidi Dierssen

Abstract: https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/seminar/seminar1203/

Contact Information: marinesciencesseminars@uconn.edu, 860-405-9152, 860-405-9087, or 860-405-9151 More

2/7IONM Infosession

IONM Infosession
Friday, February 7th, 2020
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Beach Hall Room 343, Storrs Campus

Join us for an informational session to learn more about our Graduate Certificate and Masters program. Dr. Radmila Filipovic and Dr. Payam Andalib will be providing potential students with an overview of the program along with a discussion about working in the field of Neuromonitoring. Attendees will also have a chance to ask specific questions.

Register here: https://connect.grad.uconn.edu/register/?id=8c43764d-d52b-45af-bb95-14770cbf7a13

Contact Information: Amber LaFontaine - amber.lafontaine@uconn.edu More

2/7Logic Colloquium: Eileen Nutting (Kansas)

Logic Colloquium: Eileen Nutting (Kansas)
Friday, February 7th, 2020
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Oak 110

Join us in the Logic Colloquium for a talk by Eileen Nutting (University of Kansas).

All welcome.

https://logic.uconn.edu/calendar/

Contact Information: https://logic.uconn.edu/about/ More

2/7Cluster Algeba Seminar
Speaker: Emily Gunawan
Title: An introduction to cluster algebras

Cluster Algeba Seminar
Speaker: Emily Gunawan
Title: An introduction to cluster algebras
Friday, February 7th, 2020
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Mont 313

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Contact Information: Ralf Schiffler, schiffler@math.uconn.edu More

2/7Physics Colloquium (Prof. Reynold Silber)

Physics Colloquium (Prof. Reynold Silber)
Friday, February 7th, 2020
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

Storrs Campus
BPB-131

Prof. Reynold E. Silber, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University

Transport properties of liquid transition metals at extreme conditions: a lesson from metallic glasses with the forbidden symmetry

The Earth’s core is a giant heat engine that supports the existence of life on our planet by providing heat to drive mantle convection, plate tectonics and volcanism. The convection of a liquid iron (Fe) alloy in the outer core generates the Earth’s magnetic field. However, transport properties of liquid Fe-alloys (e.g., electrical, thermal and viscous transport properties) at extreme core conditions are some of the least constrained parameters. The high pressure experimental measurements of the transport properties are extremely challenging and a general theoretical understanding of the structures of liquid transition metals is still incomplete. Recent successful electrical resistivity measurements of liquid Fe, Ni and Fe-Si alloy at pressures up to 24 GPa show the invariant electrical resistivity along the melting boundaries. It was demonstrated that the Icosahedral Short Range Order (ISRO) structures in liquid transition metals and alloys strongly modulate transport properties at extreme conditions. Supporting evidence for the presence of the ISRO in the Earth’s and other terrestrial outer cores comes from the recently discovered quasi-crystalline phases in natural metallic glasses with the forbidden symmetry, previously considered impossible to exist in nature. However, the existence of forbidden fivefold symmetry is not possible without super-cooling of metallic glass forming liquids that contain ISRO structures. Thus, metallic glasses represent one of the convergence points between planetary science and materials science. Here, I first discuss a new paradigm imposed by the ISRO structures on the transport properties of the outer cores of terrestrial planetary bodies. The discussion is then extended toward the important role ISROs play in formation of metallic glasses with exotic properties. Furthermore, I examine the potential application of high pressures toward manufacturing of metallic glasses with customizable concentration of structures with ISRO or any other forbidden symmetry. Considering the important role of metallic glasses in the high tech industry, this research has significant cross-disciplinary implications.

Contact Information: Prof. Vernon Cormier More

2/10Particle, Astrophysics, and Nuclear Physics Seminar

Particle, Astrophysics, and Nuclear Physics Seminar
Monday, February 10th, 2020
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Storrs Campus
GS-413E

Prof. Lorenzo Sorbo, Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Particle production during inflation: a case study

In this talk I will quickly review primordial inflation. After arguing that axion-like inflatons are especially well motivated, I will discuss how a derivative coupling of a pseudoscalar inflaton to vector and to fermions fields can amplify significantly the mode functions of those degrees of freedom which, in their turn, can lead to a very rich phenomenology.

Contact Information: Prof. L. Jin More

2/10Free Hebrew Conversation Crash-Course

Free Hebrew Conversation Crash-Course
Monday, February 10th, 2020
06:30 PM - 08:00 PM

Stamford Campus
Room 313, the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life

Do you want to speak with people in Hebrew? After this six-session crash course in Hebrew conversation, you’ll be able to make small talk, ask directions, order things in a restaurant, go shopping, and even talk a little about current events—all in Hebrew. The course focuses on functional spoken Hebrew you can use right away in daily interactions. There will be a few short easy readings, role play, listening practice, and in-class conversations. If you want to practice and learn some spoken Hebrew, join us on six Monday evenings this spring. Lehitraot—see you soon!!

This spring, at UConn Stamford, Dr. Liora Brosh will teach a "crash course" in conversational Modern Hebrew. Professor Brosh, a native speaker, holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Hebrew University, Israel.

This free, non-credit course is open to all faculty, staff, students, and members of the external community. Please share this information with anyone you think might wish to join us. There is no need to register in advance and no texts are required for purchase. No prior knowledge of the language is expected.

Besides the inherent value of learning foreign languages in our global world, Modern Hebrew is of interest beyond Judaica. It is relevant for those studying the Middle East as well as individuals working in business and STEM, given Israeli prominence in those fields.

All sessions will be held in Room 313, the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life. We will meet on Mondays from 6:30-8:00 p.m.: February 10, February 24, March 9, March 23, April 6, April 20. In the case of weather cancellations, we will reschedule any missed class(es).

Join us!

Contact Information: If you require an accommodation to participate, please contact Stamford Coordinator for Judaic Studies Prof. Fred Roden at frederick.roden@uconn.edu or 203-251-8559. More

2/11Education Abroad - Florence & Perugia, Italy Information Session

Education Abroad - Florence & Perugia, Italy Information Session
Tuesday, February 11th, 2020
05:30 PM - 06:30 PM

Storrs Campus
McHugh Hall 307

Learn more about our summer and semester Education Abroad options in Italy!

Contact Information: Education Abroad, abroad@uconn.edu More

2/12Marine Sciences Brown Bag: Amin Ilia

Marine Sciences Brown Bag: Amin Ilia
Wednesday, February 12th, 2020
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Avery Point Campus
Marine Sciences Building, Seminar Room 103

Presenting: Amin Ilia

Brown Bag Title: The Effect of Surface Gravity Waves on Mixing in Western Long Island Sound

https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/seminar/brownbag1203/

Contact Information: Hannah Collins, hannah.i.collins@uconn.edu More

2/12Math Club
Stirling's Formula
Matt Lamoureux (The Hartford)

Math Club
Stirling's Formula
Matt Lamoureux (The Hartford)
Wednesday, February 12th, 2020
05:45 PM - 06:35 PM

Storrs Campus
Monteith 234

The factorials $$n! = 1 \cdot 2 \cdot 3 \cdots n$$, which count how many ways $$n$$ objects can be arranged, show up anywhere that rearrangements have to be counted, such as combinatorics, probability, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and quantum mechanics. The numbers $$n!$$ grow very rapidly, e.g., 100! has 158 digits. For applications in chemistry, $$n!$$ may occur for $$n$$ on the order of Avogadro's number (about $$6.02 \times 10^{23}$$), for which an exact calculation is out of the question. When exact values are computationally inaccessible, it's natural to seek approximations to the values.

Stirling's formula is the standard way to estimate $$n!$$ when $$n$$ is large. In this talk we will see what Stirling's formula is and how to derive it using tools from calculus.

Contact Information: Keith Conrad More

2/13InCHIP Lecture: John M. Jakicic, PhD

InCHIP Lecture: John M. Jakicic, PhD
Thursday, February 13th, 2020
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM

Storrs Campus
J. Ray Ryan Bldg, Room 204

John M. Jakicic, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Thursday, February 13, 2020

J. Ray Ryan Building, Room 204

John M. Jakicic, PhD is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Health and Physical Activity, and is also the Director of the Healthy Lifestyle Institute. In these roles he has been instrumental in transformative initiatives at the regional, national, and international levels to emphasis the important of physical activity as a key lifestyle behavior for enhancing health. Dr. Jakicic has a national and international reputation as a leading scholar in this area, which has resulted in Dr. Jakicic securing over $40 million (direct costs) in extramural funding to support these research efforts. This also resulted in Dr. Jakicic authoring or co-authoring over 220 research manuscripts and book chapters during his career. These efforts include Dr. Jakicic serving as the Principal Investigator at the Pittsburgh Clinical Center for the multi-center MoTrPAC Study, which is the largest investment by the National Institutes of Health to study pathways by which exercise enhances health. Dr. Jakicic’s research also focuses on the interaction between energy expenditure and energy intake, the influence of these factors on body weight regulation, and the biological and behavioral pathways by which physical activity impacts health-related outcomes. Dr. Jakicic has served on various national and international committees to develop physical activity guidelines for the prevention and treatment of obesity and other chronic conditions, and was a member of the 2018 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans Advisory Committee. Thus, he has been influential in the heightened awareness of physical activity and sedentary behavior as a key lifestyle factors related to health.

Receive important news and announcements via the InCHIP listerv: http://chip.uconn.edu/chip-business-office/listserv/.

Visit the 2019-2020 Lecture Series lineup, access live web stream, archived lectures, and learn more about the lecture series: https://chip.uconn.edu/lecture-series/2019-2020-lecture-series/

Contact Information: lectureseries@chip.uconn.edu More

2/13Repression Before and After the Arab Spring

Repression Before and After the Arab Spring
Thursday, February 13th, 2020
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Oak Hall 438

Prof. Elizabeth Nugent (Yale). Repression Before and After the Arab Spring.

Contact Information: Prof. Matthew Singer (matthew.m.singer@uconn.edu) More

2/13EEB Seminar: Robert Thorson (UConn)

EEB Seminar: Robert Thorson (UConn)
Thursday, February 13th, 2020
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

Storrs Campus
BPB 131

Substrates beneath ecosystems: a primer on New England's glacial landscape

Contact Information: bernard.goffinet@uconn.edu More

2/14Marine Sciences Seminar: Sean Colin

Marine Sciences Seminar: Sean Colin
Friday, February 14th, 2020
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Avery Point Campus
Marine Sciences Building, Seminar Room 103

Presenting: Sean Colin, Roger Williams University

Seminar Title: Stealth and resilience: Predatory strategies that enable the small, delicate ctenophore, Mnemiopsis leidyi, to dominate the plankton

Host: Hans Dam

Abstract: https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/seminar/seminar1203/

Contact Information: marinesciencesseminars@uconn.edu, 860-405-9152, 860-405-9087, or 860-405-9151 More

2/14Graduate Student Seminar

Graduate Student Seminar
Friday, February 14th, 2020
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM

Storrs Campus
GS-119

Prof. G. Dunne, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut

Scientific Communication: Preparing a Talk, a Proposal, or a Paper

An important part of the work of a scientist is to communicate clearly the results of their work, in a way that can be understood by the appropriate audience: scientific, political or general. In this talk I discuss some tips for preparing a paper, a seminar or a proposal, and encourage you to think carefully about this aspect of your work. The good news is that with a little dedicated effort it is a sure way to stand out from the pack and have your work recognized.

Contact Information: Prof. V. Kharchenko More

2/14POLS and Education Abroad Information Session

POLS and Education Abroad Information Session
Friday, February 14th, 2020
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Gentry 144

Come learn more about the abroad programs available to POLS and ECON majors.

Contact Information: suzanne.waterman@uconn.edu More

2/14Cluster Algeba Seminar
Speaker:Ralf Schiffler
Title: Cluster algebras and Representation Theory

Cluster Algeba Seminar
Speaker:Ralf Schiffler
Title: Cluster algebras and Representation Theory
Friday, February 14th, 2020
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Mont 313

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Contact Information: Ralf Schiffler, schiffler@math.uconn.edu More

2/15Antifascism is as American as Apple Pie

Antifascism is as American as Apple Pie
Saturday, February 15th, 2020
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM

Hartford Campus
Bookstore

A celebration of Prof. Chris Vials's new book "The US Antifascism Reader"

Contact Information: Prof. Jane Gordon More

2/15Chris Vials Book Signing

Chris Vials Book Signing
Saturday, February 15th, 2020
02:30 PM - 03:30 PM

Hartford Campus
Bookstore

Join us for a talk by and discussion with Chris Vials, Director of UConn's American Studies Program and co-editor of the book The U.S. Anti-fascism Reader.

Contact Information: Laurie Bompart More

2/17Actuarial Science Seminar
Small Time Approximation of Transition Density
Tai-Ho Wang (City University of New York)

Actuarial Science Seminar
Small Time Approximation of Transition Density
Tai-Ho Wang (City University of New York)
Monday, February 17th, 2020
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Storrs Campus
MONT 214

In this talk we present a bridge representation for the transition density of stochastic processes driven by either standard Brownian motions or mixed Brownian and fractional Brownian motions. A small time approximation of the transition density is readily obtained by approximate the bridge representation by a single deterministic path, which in the classical case recovers the heat kernel expansion for diffusion processes. Examples illustrating the methodology include heat kernel in hyperbolic space and mixed fractional Brownian motions with drift.

Speaker's bio: https://mfe.baruch.cuny.edu/tai-ho-wang/

Contact Information: BIN ZOU, bin.zou@uconn.edu More

2/17Particle, Astrophysics, and Nuclear Physics Seminar

Particle, Astrophysics, and Nuclear Physics Seminar
Monday, February 17th, 2020
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Storrs Campus
GS-413E

Dr. Andrey Sadofyev, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Spin polarization of gauge bosons in rotating plasma

I will show that the chiral vortical effect (CVE) known to take place for massless fermions in a rotating system can be, in fact, generalized to particles of arbitrary spin. These effects are particularly interesting since they describe the polarization of quarks, gluons, and photons in rotating QGP produced in heavy-ion collisions. For gauge bosons the local polarization current is not gauge invariant making it harder to use this object on practice. This issue can be resolved if one focuses on a class of gauge-invariant but non-canonical polarization currents of gauge bosons known as zilches. I will further show that CVE for gauge bosons has a counterpart in the general zilch current - zilch vortical effect (ZVE) and discuss how ZVE arises in a simple theoretical setup.

Contact Information: Prof. L. Jin More

2/17Connecticut Logic Seminar
The Bipartite Diameter 3 Metrically Homogeneous Graphs of Generic Type: Their Ages and Their Almost Sure Theories
Rebecca Coulson (West Point)

Connecticut Logic Seminar
The Bipartite Diameter 3 Metrically Homogeneous Graphs of Generic Type: Their Ages and Their Almost Sure Theories
Rebecca Coulson (West Point)
Monday, February 17th, 2020
04:45 PM - 06:00 PM

Other
Exley 618, Wesleyan University

The class of random graphs famously satisfies a zero-one law: every first-order sentence in the language of graphs is such that the proportion of finite graphs on n vertices which satisfy this sentence goes either to zero or to one as n goes to infinity. The "almost-sure" theory of the class of finite graphs matches the generic theory of its Fraisse limit - the Rado graph. Interestingly, the almost-sure theory of the class of finite triangle-free graphs does not match the theory of the generic triangle free graph. In this talk, we will discuss another class of graphs which are Fraisse limits defined by forbidden configurations, and we examine two such graphs in particular. We show that for one of the them, its generic theory does match the corresponding almost-sure theory, and that for the other, the generic theory does not match the corresponding almost-sure theory.

Contact Information: Reed Solomon, solomon@math.uconn.edu More

2/18CLAS Book Celebration

CLAS Book Celebration
Tuesday, February 18th, 2020
12:00 PM - 01:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Wilbur Cross North Reading Room

CLAS faculty published more than 70 books in 2019. Come learn about these acclaimed works and the talented scholars who published them.

Light refreshments will be served.

If you require an accommodation to participate, please contact Mackenzie Murphy at mackenzie.murphy@uconn.edu or (860) 486-2713 by February 11.

Contact Information: mackenzie.murphy@uconn.edu More

2/18Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Tuesday, February 18th, 2020
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Storrs Campus
GS 119

Dr. I. Zaliznyak, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Entropic elasticity and negative thermal expansion in crystalline solids

While most solids expand when heated, some materials show the opposite behavior: negative thermal expansion (NTE). NTE is common in polymers and biomolecules, where it stems from the entropic elasticity of an ideal, freely-jointed chain. The origin of NTE in solids had been widely believed to be different, with phonon anharmonicity and specific lattice vibrations that preserve geometry of the coordination polyhedra – rigid unit motions (RUMs) – as leading contenders for explaining NTE. Our neutron scattering study of a simple cubic NTE material, ScF3, overturns this consensus [1]. We observe that the correlation in the positions of the neighboring fluorine atoms rapidly fades on warming, indicating an uncorrelated thermal motion, which is only constrained by the rigid Sc-F bonds. These experimental findings lead us to a quantitative, quasi-harmonic theory of NTE in terms of entropic elasticity of a Coulomb floppy network crystal, which is applicable to a broad range of open framework solids featuring floppy network architecture [2]. Our theory is in remarkable agreement with experimental results in ScF3, accurately describing NTE, phonon frequencies, entropic compressibility, and structural phase transition governed by entropic stabilization of criticality. We thus find that NTE in a family of insulating ceramics stems from the same simple and intuitive physics of entropic elasticity of an under-constrained floppy network that has long been appreciated in soft matter and polymer science, but broadly missed by the “hard” condensed matter community.

Our results reveal the formidable universality of the NTE phenomenon across soft and hard matter [1,2].

[1] D. Wendt, et al., Sci. Adv. 5: eaay2748. (2019).

[2] A. V. Tkachenko, I. A. Zaliznyak. arXiv:1908.11643 (2019).

Contact Information: Prof. I. Sochnikov More

2/18Special Colloquium

Special Colloquium
Tuesday, February 18th, 2020
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

Storrs Campus
MONT 214

TBA

Contact Information: Kyu-Hwan Lee More

2/18Talk by Israeli Author Ayelet Tsabari

Talk by Israeli Author Ayelet Tsabari
Tuesday, February 18th, 2020
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM

Other
Trinity College, Mather Hall, Wean Terrace Rooms ABC, 300 Summit Street, Hartford

Award-winning Israeli author Ayelet Tsabari will present "Language, Longing, and Belonging," a discussion of her new, critically acclaimed memoir "The Art of Leaving."

The event is free and open to the public. The talk is sponsored by the Distinguished Scholar lecture by the Department of Language and Culture Studies at Trinity College, ALEPH: The Institute of Jewish Ideas, and the UConn Center for Judaic Studies.

About the Book
In The Art of Leaving, Tsabari tells her story, from her early love of writing and words, to her rebellion during her mandatory service in the Israeli army. She travels from Israel to New York, Canada, Thailand, and India, falling in and out of love with countries, men and women, drugs and alcohol, running away from responsibilities and refusing to settle in one place. She recounts her first marriage, her struggle to define herself as a writer in a new language, her decision to become a mother, and finally her rediscovery and embrace of her family history--a history marked by generations of headstrong women who struggled to choose between their hearts and their homes. Eventually, she realizes that she must reconcile the memories of her father and the sadness of her past if she is ever going to come to terms with herself.

About the Author
Ayelet Tsabari was born in Israel to a large family of Yemeni descent. She is the author of the memoir in essays The Art of Leaving, finalist for the Writer’s Trust Hilary Weston Prize, winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for memoir, and an Apple Books and Kirkus Review Best Book of 2019. Her first book, The Best Place on Earth, won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, and was long listed to the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. The book was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a Kirkus Review Best Book of 2016, and has been published internationally.

Contact Information: Lidija Petrus at 860-297-5121 or lidija.petrus@trincoll.edu. More

2/19Marine Sciences Brown Bag: Brittany Sprecher

Marine Sciences Brown Bag: Brittany Sprecher
Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Avery Point Campus
Marine Sciences Building, Seminar Room 103

Presenting: Brittany Sprecher

Brown Bag Title: Adapting CRISPR-cas9 technology for dinoflagellates

https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/seminar/brownbag1203/

Contact Information: Hannah Collins, hannah.i.collins@uconn.edu More

2/19Tethered Fates: Companies, Communities, and Rights at Stake

Tethered Fates: Companies, Communities, and Rights at Stake
Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
12:15 PM - 01:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Oak 438

Book talk with Prof. Shareen Hertel about her new book "Tethered Fates
Companies, Communities, and Rights at Stake"

Contact Information: Prof. Matthew Singer (matthew.m.singer@uconn.edu) More

2/19MPA/MPP Fast Track Information Session

MPA/MPP Fast Track Information Session
Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Oak 438

Come learn more about the MPA/MPP Fast Track program and how it fits with the POLS major!

Contact Information: suzanne.waterman@uconn.edu More

2/19Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Storrs Campus
GS 119

Dr. Evan Philip, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Stony Brook University

Chiral Photocurrents and Terahertz Emission in Dirac/Weyl Semimetals

I will start with an introduction to Dirac/Weyl semimetals and chiral anomaly. We will then look at a new mechanism for photocurrents in Dirac/Weyl semimetals that relies on the chiral anomaly. I will also discuss terahertz emission from the Weyl semimetal TaAs induced by a near-infrared laser, where Weyl fermions play a central role. We will conclude with remarks on some potential applications of these works.

Contact Information: Prof. A. Balatsky More

2/19Chemistry Colloquium:Jerome Robinson, Brown University

Chemistry Colloquium:Jerome Robinson, Brown University
Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
02:15 PM - 03:30 PM

Storrs Campus
CHEM A-203

Chemistry Colloquium "RE-Thinking Catalyst Design — New Strategies for Controlling Oxygenated Polymer Synthesis"

Jerome Robinson, Brown University
Host: Gaël Ung

Refreshments will be served at 2:15pm. All are welcome.

Contact Information: gael.ung@uconn.edu More

2/19PNB Seminar Series : Dr. Gary Sieck

PNB Seminar Series : Dr. Gary Sieck
Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

Storrs Campus
TLS Room 111

Gary C. Sieck, Ph.D.,
Professor,
Department of Physiology & Biomedical Engineering,
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine,
Rochester, MN

Talk Title:
"Promoting Recovery from Cervical Spinal Cord Injury"

Host: Dr. Daniel Mulkey

Contact Information: Physiology ad Neurobiology More

2/19Math Club
Volume of Balls: from $$R^n$$ to Infinite Dimensions
Marco Carfagnini (UConn)

Math Club
Volume of Balls: from $$R^n$$ to Infinite Dimensions
Marco Carfagnini (UConn)
Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
05:45 PM - 06:35 PM

Storrs Campus
Monteith 314

How do we find the volume of a ball in an $$n$$-dimensional space? We will see how techniques from multivariable calculus can be generalized to answer this question. Surprisingly, as the dimension gets higher, the volume gets smaller and smaller!
By briefly discussing infinite-dimensional spaces and some functional analysis, we will see why that is not surprising at all!
The talk will make use of integration over plane and solid regions as a starting point, so some familiarity with double and triple integrals as in multivariable calculus is a useful prerequisite.

Contact Information: Keith Conrad More

2/20White Fragility - Book Discussion Series

White Fragility - Book Discussion Series
Thursday, February 20th, 2020
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Women's Center, SU 421

4 Part Book Discussion Series

The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. Participants will discuss the ideas presented in the book, reflect on how white people can build capacity on race, and begin to develop skills engage more constructively in the on-going work towards racial justice.

Free copies of the book will be available for the first 20 registrants for this 4 part series.

Registration can be found at:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WhiteFragilitySeries

Feel free to bring your lunch!

Contact Information: Kathy Fischer at kathy.fischer@uconn.edu More

2/20Anthropology Sociocultural Seminar Series: Dr. Sarah Pinto

Anthropology Sociocultural Seminar Series: Dr. Sarah Pinto
Thursday, February 20th, 2020
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Beach Hall Rm 404

"The Doctor and Mrs. A: Gender and Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis" given by Dr. Sarah Pinto, Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University.

Contact Information: Andrea Booth, andrea.booth@uconn.edu More

2/20Talk: Vicki Carstens

Talk: Vicki Carstens
Thursday, February 20th, 2020
01:30 PM - 03:30 PM

Storrs Campus
HBL Class of 1947 Conference Room

Invited talk. Title T.B.A.

Contact Information: Željko Bošković, zeljko.boskovic@uconn.edu More

2/20EEB Seminar: Dov Lank (Simon Fraser)

EEB Seminar: Dov Lank (Simon Fraser)
Thursday, February 20th, 2020
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

Storrs Campus
BPB 131

What maintains the balanced polymorphism among three male morphs of ruffs?

Contact Information: margaret.rubega@uconn.edu More

2/20Walt Whitman and Lively Materiality with Jane Bennett

Walt Whitman and Lively Materiality with Jane Bennett
Thursday, February 20th, 2020
07:00 PM - 08:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, 1 Royce Circle, Downtown Storrs

For its first installment of the 2020 Spring Puppet Forum Series the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut will host Walt Whitman and Lively Materiality with Professor Jane Bennett on Thursday, Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. at the Ballard Institute Theater, located at 1 Royce Circle in Downtown Storrs.

Dr. Bennett, of Johns Hopkins University, is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary political theorist and philosopher best known in the puppetry world for her work on "the material world in performance," especially her influential bestseller Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Drawing from her forthcoming book Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman, Professor Bennett will speak at the Thursday Puppet Forum about Whitman's sense of "lively materiality" and the implications such ideas for puppetry studies and other subjects. Co-sponsored by UConn’s departments of Philosophy, Political Science, and English, the UConn Humanities Institute, and UConn’s American Studies program.

Jane Bennett is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Her recent essays have appeared in Grain/Vapor/Ray (on Kafka's Odradek), Evental Aesthetics (special issue on Vital Materialism), and MLN (on mimesis). She is the author of Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (2010); The Enchantment of Modern Life (2001); Thoreau's Nature (1994), and Unthinking Faith and Enlightenment, (1987). Her forthcoming book this spring is called Influx & Efflux: Writing up with Walt Whitman.

Admission to this event is free (donations greatly appreciated!), and refreshments will be served. Come early, and experience our puppet exhibitions, as well as the video resources in our library nook. Forums will be broadcast via Facebook Live. For more information or if you require an accommodation to attend a forum, please contact Ballard Institute staff at 860.486.8580 or bimp@uconn.edu.

Contact Information: Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, (860) 486-8580 More

2/21Colloquium With Jane Bennett

Colloquium With Jane Bennett
Friday, February 21st, 2020
09:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Storrs Campus
UConn Humanities Institute Homer Babbidge Library, 4th Floor 369 Fairfield Way Storrs, CT, 06269

The UConn Puppet Arts Program and the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut present a Colloquium with Jane Bennett on Friday, Feb. 21, from 9 a.m. to noon at the UConn Humanities Institute on the 4th floor of UConn’s Homer Babbidge Library.

The colloquium will include research presentations by UConn scholars including Associate Professor of English Kathleen Tonry, who will consider connections between Jane Bennett’s work and the 15th-century history of the book; Professor of Art History Elizabeth Athens, who will consider 18th-century naturalist William Bartram’s representations of nature; and Ballard Institute Director John Bell, who will examine Jane Bennett’s influence on contemporary puppetry studies. The presentations will also include short puppet responses to Walt Whitman poems by students in Dr. Matthew Cohen’s Hand Puppetry class. The colloquium offers an opportunity to engage in conversation about Walt Whitman and American poetry, political theory, puppetry studies, object-oriented ontology, and philosophy with Dr. Bennett. This event is free and open to the public.

Co-sponsored by UConn’s departments of Philosophy, Political Science, and English, the UConn Humanities Institute, and UConn’s American Studies program.

Jane Bennett is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Her recent essays have appeared in Grain/Vapor/Ray (on Kafka's Odradek), Evental Aesthetics (special issue on Vital Materialism), and MLN (on mimesis). She is the author of Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (2010); The Enchantment of Modern Life (2001); Thoreau's Nature (1994), and Unthinking Faith and Enlightenment (1987). Her forthcoming book this spring is called Influx & Efflux: Writing up with Walt Whitman.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information or if you require an accommodation to attend the colloquium, please contact Dr. Matthew Cohen at matthew.i.cohen@uconn.edu.

Contact Information: Dr. Matthew Cohen, matthew.i.cohen@uconn.edu More

2/21Geography Colloquium - Zhuojie Huang

Geography Colloquium - Zhuojie Huang
Friday, February 21st, 2020
12:20 PM - 01:15 PM

Storrs Campus
AUST 434

Optimizing cross-border logistics for ecommerce.

ABSTRACT: Cross-border ecommerce has expanded at an exceptional rate. It is projected that global shipping volume will reach 100 billion by 2020. Nowadays, millions of customized, small, individual packed parcels flow through a complicated logistic supply chain involving local, ground and air carriers from their original countries to the consumers in another destination country. Accomplished by the physical flow, billions of data points for these parcels move across countries digitally. This research review the end to end physical and digital cross-border logistics supply chain, and identify several data science use cases for parcel flow prediction, demand forecasting, network optimization and simulation. It also discussed the next generation of spatial data science tech stack and platform for global logistics supply chain optimization.

BIO: Dr. Zhuojie Huang is a distinguished engineer of data science in Pitney Bowes. He is an accomplished geospatial data science leader with 7 years of experience in data science and advanced analytics with great business acumen. He built 2 analytic-driven products from scratch with both reaching $100M annual revenue in 2019. He grew and coached a data science team focus on supply chain with expertise in machine learning, deep learning, optimization and simulation. He led capstone projects in machine learning and optimization in collaboration with Cornell University and Worcester Polytechnic University. He is a subject matter expert in supply chain optimization, geospatial data science and demographic analysis. He published 25 academic papers in the discipline of geography, network science, epidemiology, public health, remote sensing, computer science and database.

Contact Information: Debanuj DasGupta [debanuj.dasgupta@uconn.edu] More

2/21Logic Colloquium: Eno Agolli

Logic Colloquium: Eno Agolli
Friday, February 21st, 2020
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Oak 110

Join us for a talk by Éno Agolli (UConn) in the Logic Colloquium!

Éno Agolli (UConn)

Logical Nihilism

Logical nihilism is the view that there is no logic, or more precisely that no single, universal consequence relation governs natural language reasoning. Here, I present three different arguments for logical nihilism from philosophically palatable premises. The first argument comes from a combination of pluralism with the desideratum that logical consequence should be universal, properly understood. The second argument is a slippery slope argument against monists who support weak logical systems on account of their power to characterize a vast range of true theories. The third argument is a general strategy of generating counterexamples to any inference rule, including purportedly fundamental ones such as disjunction introduction. I close by discussing why a truth-conditional approach to the meaning of the logical connectives not only does not force us to reject such counterexamples but also reveals that right truth-conditions are far more general than the classical ones, at the price of nihilism.

All welcome!

https://logic.uconn.edu/calendar/

Contact Information: https://logic.uconn.edu/about More

2/21Charles Reynolds Distinguished Lecture (Prof. Peter Abbamonte, U. of Illinois)

Charles Reynolds Distinguished Lecture (Prof. Peter Abbamonte, U. of Illinois)
Friday, February 21st, 2020
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

Storrs Campus
BPB-131

Charles Reynolds Distinguished Lecture

“Bose Condensation of Excitons in a Transition Metal Dichalcogenide”

Professor Peter Abbamonte
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL

Bose condensation has shaped our understanding of macroscopic quantum phenomena, having been realized in superconductors, atomic gases, and liquid helium. Excitons are bosons that have been predicted to condense into either a superfluid or an insulating electronic crystal. But definitive evidence for a thermodynamically stable exciton condensate has never been achieved. In this talk I will describe our use of momentum-resolved electron energy-loss spectroscopy (M-EELS) to demonstrate the existence of an exciton condensate in the transition metal dichalcogenide semimetal, 1T‐TiSe2. This phase of matter was predicted in the 1960’s and nicknamed “excitonium” by Halperin and Rice, but not realized for certain until now. I will discuss the experimental signature of exciton condensation, a plasmon that disperses to zero energy at the transition temperature, and latest results on its stability against carrier doping and hydrostatic pressure.

Contact Information: Prof. Jason Hancock More

2/22Encounters: The Census

Encounters: The Census
Saturday, February 22nd, 2020
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Other
Hartford History Center at the Hartford Public Library

The 2020 Census is upon us! But what is the Census? When did it begin and what role does it play in our democracy and our communities? Why is it seen as so important to some people, and so controversial to others? Please join us for a discussion about the history, purpose, and importance of the U.S. Census and conversations around the challenges in counting and including all residents. Small group discussions will be followed by a Q&A session with Census professionals and experts.

** Please read selections found on https://democracyanddialogues.thedoddcenter.uconn.edu/encounters-series/ **

Lunch will be provided, free, upon registration. Please RSVP to jeagosto@hplct.org

Contact Information: jeagosto@hplct.org More

2/22Teacher-as-Writer Workshop

Teacher-as-Writer Workshop
Saturday, February 22nd, 2020
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Austin, Stern Lounge

Teacher-as-Writer Workshops are monthly gatherings for Teacher Consultants and other Connecticut teachers who wish to share and receive feedback on their writing. We also hold writing retreats in the fall and the spring.

Contact Information: dpieratti@swindsor.k12.ct.us More

2/22Encounters: Moderator/Facilitator Training

Encounters: Moderator/Facilitator Training
Saturday, February 22nd, 2020
01:30 PM - 03:30 PM

Other
Hartford History Center at Hartford Public Library

After a morning Encounters program & lunch discussing The Census (10 am-12 pm, with lunch provided 12-1 pm), join us for a free training on how to moderate and facilitate an Encounters program.

Encounters is a structured model that allows participants to come face-to-face and converse about the issues that matter in their community. Encounters dives deeply into these subjects through facilitated, small-group dialogues followed by a 'question and answer'-style conversation with content-area specialists. Readings are provided beforehand to better encourage informed and informal dialogue.

RSVP to jeagosto@hplct.org

Contact Information: jeagosto@hplct.org More

2/24Talk: Roumyana Pancheva

Talk: Roumyana Pancheva
Monday, February 24th, 2020
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Storrs Campus
AUST 163

Invited Talk. Title T.B.A.

Contact Information: Željko Bošković, zeljko.boskovic@uconn.edu More

2/24Connecticut Logic Seminar
On $$\Sigma$$--preorderings in $$\text{HF}(\mathbb{R})$$
Andrey Morozov (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics and Novosibirsk State University)

Connecticut Logic Seminar
On $$\Sigma$$--preorderings in $$\text{HF}(\mathbb{R})$$
Andrey Morozov (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics and Novosibirsk State University)
Monday, February 24th, 2020
04:45 PM - 06:00 PM

Other
Exley 618, Wesleyan University

We prove that $$\omega_1$$ cannot be embedded into any preordering $$\Sigma$$-definable with parameters in the hereditarily finite superstructure over the ordered field of real numbers, HF($$\mathbb{R}$$). As corollaries, we obtain characterizations of $$\Sigma$$-presentable ordinals and Godel constructive sets of kind $$L_\alpha$$. It also follows that there are no $$\Sigma$$-presentations for structures of $$T$$-, $$m$$-, $$1$$-, and $$tt$$-degrees over HF($$\mathbb{R}$$).

Contact Information: Reed Solomon, solomon@math.uconn.edu More

2/24Free Hebrew Conversation Crash-Course

Free Hebrew Conversation Crash-Course
Monday, February 24th, 2020
06:30 PM - 08:00 PM

Stamford Campus
Room 313, the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life

Do you want to speak with people in Hebrew? After this six-session crash course in Hebrew conversation, you’ll be able to make small talk, ask directions, order things in a restaurant, go shopping, and even talk a little about current events—all in Hebrew. The course focuses on functional spoken Hebrew you can use right away in daily interactions. There will be a few short easy readings, role play, listening practice, and in-class conversations. If you want to practice and learn some spoken Hebrew, join us on six Monday evenings this spring. Lehitraot—see you soon!!

This spring, at UConn Stamford, Dr. Liora Brosh will teach a "crash course" in conversational Modern Hebrew. Professor Brosh, a native speaker, holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Hebrew University, Israel.

This free, non-credit course is open to all faculty, staff, students, and members of the external community. Please share this information with anyone you think might wish to join us. There is no need to register in advance and no texts are required for purchase. No prior knowledge of the language is expected.

Besides the inherent value of learning foreign languages in our global world, Modern Hebrew is of interest beyond Judaica. It is relevant for those studying the Middle East as well as individuals working in business and STEM, given Israeli prominence in those fields.

All sessions will be held in Room 313, the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life. We will meet on Mondays from 6:30-8:00 p.m.: February 10, February 24, March 9, March 23, April 6, April 20. In the case of weather cancellations, we will reschedule any missed class(es).

Join us!

Contact Information: If you require an accommodation to participate, please contact Stamford Coordinator for Judaic Studies Prof. Fred Roden at frederick.roden@uconn.edu or 203-251-8559. More

2/25Anthropology Sociocultural Seminar Series: Jen Sandler, Ph.D.

Anthropology Sociocultural Seminar Series: Jen Sandler, Ph.D.
Tuesday, February 25th, 2020
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Beach Hall Rm 404

"Beyond the streets, behind the screens: tracing relationality in the current 'movement moment' of the United States" given by Dr. Jen Sandler, Director, UMass Alliance for Community Transformation (UACT) and senior lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Snow Day: March 3rd

Contact Information: Andrea Booth, andrea.booth@uconn.edu More

2/25The State and the Market in Indian Education

The State and the Market in Indian Education
Tuesday, February 25th, 2020
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Class of 1947 Room, Library

The State & the Market in Indian Education:
Evidence & Policy Implications

Karthik Muralidharan

Tata Chancellor’s Professor of Economics
University of California, San Diego

Professor Muralidharan is actively involved in advising and capacity building in India at both the central and state government levels. He is co-chair of the education research program of the Poverty Action Lab at MIT and a Research Associate of the National Bureau for Economic Research. His research spans development, as well as public, and labor economics with a focus on improving public spending in the social sector.

In this lecture Professor Muralidharan will discuss the deep structural challenges of the Indian education system and will suggest reforms based on his extensive research.

Sponsored by AAASI India Studies Program

Contact Information: Prof. Betty Hanson (betty.hanson@uconn.edu) More

2/25Jenny Spinner: "It's a Woman Speaking"

Jenny Spinner: "It's a Woman Speaking"
Tuesday, February 25th, 2020
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Austin 217

‘It’s a Woman Speaking’: Revising the Essay Canon

Please join us on Tuesday, February 25, at 4pm in Austin 217 for a talk by Jenny Spinner, Associate Professor of English, St. Joseph’s University (and UConn English PhD, 2004). Spinner will be joined by Lynn Bloom, UConn Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Emerita, who will serve as respondent.

Spinner will discuss her decade-long feminist recovery project, designed to re-write the history of the essay to include the women who have been erased and omitted. That project, which began years ago in a classroom in the Arjona Building on UConn’s campus, resulted in the 2018 publication of Of Women and the Essay: An Anthology from 1655 to 2000. https://ugapress.org/book/9780820354248/of-women-and-the-essay/

Like their contemporary counterparts, women essayists in earlier centuries were prolific and successful contributors to the genre. This talk will explore some of the reasons for the long neglect of women, and women of color in particular, from the essay’s history and discuss some of the women essayists from earlier centuries who belong in that history (and on readings lists, conference panels, journal articles, dissertations, and syllabi).

This event is sponsored by the English Department and the Humanities Institute.

Contact Information: tom.deans@uconn.edu; 860-486-9728 More

2/25Coastal Perspectives Lecture Series - Visualizing Plastic: Integrating Science and Art to Inspire Change

Coastal Perspectives Lecture Series - Visualizing Plastic: Integrating Science and Art to Inspire Change
Tuesday, February 25th, 2020
07:30 PM - 09:00 PM

Avery Point Campus
Auditorium

J. Evan Ward, Ph.D.; Department of Marine Sciences, UConn &
Elizabeth Ellenwood, Master of Fine Arts Candidate, UConn
Visualizing Plastic: Integrating Science and Art to Inspire Change

Contact Information: Jamie Vaudrey jamie.vaudrey@uconn.edu More

2/26Yiddish Tish Discussions

Yiddish Tish Discussions
Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Dodd Research Center in Conference Room 162

The Yiddish Tish luncheon discussion group is a small, intimate gathering of members from the community and campus who meet monthly to read and speak Yiddish, discuss new topics, and spend time with one another. Sponsored by the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life and led by founding Director Arnold Dashefsky, the Yiddish Tish was launched in 1982 and is now in its 76th semester.

We continue to attract new colleagues interested in attending and welcome you to join us to sustain our enthusiasm. These sessions are open to any and all faculty, staff, students, and members of the community. All reading and speaking levels are welcome!

Please bring a bag lunch, and we will provide dessert and drinks.

The Spring 2020 sessions will be held in the Dodd Research Center in Conference Room 162 on the following Wednesdays from 11:30 am - 12:30 pm:

• February 26
• March 25
• April 29

Join the Yiddish Tish mailing list: https://uconn.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9ccdba8841d299262e8722727&id=5d0f7f90ba

Contact Information: If you require an accommodation to participate, please contact Pamela Weathers at pamela.weathers@uconn.edu or 860-486-2271. More

2/26Marine Sciences Brown Bag: Michael Mathuri

Marine Sciences Brown Bag: Michael Mathuri
Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Avery Point Campus
Marine Sciences Building, Seminar Room 103

Presenting: Michael Mathuri

Brown Bag Title: Concentration dependence of nitrogen isotope fractionation during ammonium assimilation by marine phytoplankton

https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/seminar/brownbag1203/

Contact Information: Hannah Collins, hannah.i.collins@uconn.edu More

2/26Penelope Pelizzon: "Animals and Instruments"

Penelope Pelizzon: "Animals and Instruments"
Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
12:00 PM - 01:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Austin 217 (Stern)

Wed., Feb. 26, 12-1:30pm
Austin 217 (Stern)

Please join Penelope Pelizzon for a poetry reading of "Animals and Instruments."

Contact Information: wayne.franklin@uconn.edu More

2/26Colloquium: Justin Gross (UMass)

Colloquium: Justin Gross (UMass)
Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
12:15 PM - 01:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Oak Hall 438

Colloquium: Justin Gross (UMass)

Contact Information: Prof. Matthew Singer (matthew.m.singer@uconn.edu) More

2/26Wednesday Workshop: "Connecticut's Tobacco Valley: Imperialism, Migration, and Internal Colonization"

Wednesday Workshop: "Connecticut's Tobacco Valley: Imperialism, Migration, and Internal Colonization"
Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM

Storrs Campus
Wood Hall Basement Lounge

The first History Department Wednesday Workshop of 2020 will feature Professor Jason Chang, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute.

Professor Chang will present on new research in a lecture titled "Connecticut's Tobacco Valley: Imperialism, Migration, and Internal Colonization".

Contact Information: Victor Zatsepine, victor.zatsepine@uconn.edu More

2/26Chemistry Colloquium: Steve Boxer, Stanford University

Chemistry Colloquium: Steve Boxer, Stanford University
Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
02:15 PM - 03:30 PM

Storrs Campus
CHEM A-203

Chemistry Colloquium "Electric Fields and Enzyme Catalysis"

Steve Boxer, Stanford University
Host: Tomo Mani

Refreshments will be served at 2:15pm. All are welcome.

Contact Information: gael.ung@uconn.edu More

2/26PNB Seminar Series : Dr. Andrew Holmes

PNB Seminar Series : Dr. Andrew Holmes
Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

Storrs Campus
TLS Room 111

Andrew Holmes, PhD
Chief,
Laboratory of Behavioral and Genomic Neuroscience,
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism,
Rockville, MD

Talk title:

"Neural circuits mediating socially-learned fear."

Host: Dr. Linnaea Ostroff

Contact Information: Physiology and Neurobiology Department More

2/26Provost's Distinguished Speaker Series - Dr. Avinoam Patt

Provost's Distinguished Speaker Series - Dr. Avinoam Patt
Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Konover Auditorium

Dr. Patt previously served as the Philip D. Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish History at the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford, where he was also director of the Museum of Jewish Civilization, and he worked as the Miles Lerman Applied Research Scholar for Jewish Life and Culture at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). His scholarship adds broadly to the field of Jewish Studies, with contributions in Holocaust studies, Modern European and American Jewish history, Israel studies, Jewish literature, and Jewish humor.

This is an Honors event. Categories: Academic & Interdisciplinary Engagement OR Multiculturalism & Global Citizenship

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Contact Information: Rachel Wice, rachel.wice@uconn.edu More

2/26Math Club
On Convergence of Random Series
Iddo Ben-Ari (UConn)

Math Club
On Convergence of Random Series
Iddo Ben-Ari (UConn)
Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
05:45 PM - 06:35 PM

Storrs Campus
Monteith 314

The harmonic series, $$1 + \frac 12 + \frac 13 + \frac 14 + \cdots$$, diverges. Its alternating-sign version, $$1 - \frac 12 + \frac 13 - \frac 14 + \cdots$$, converges. What if a series is obtained by assigning signs at random, say by coin flips? In this talk we will discuss the topic of random series, present some classical results, including Kolmogorov's Three Series theorem, and will see more examples, applications and problems.

Contact Information: Keith Conrad More

2/27Frontiers in HIstorical GIS, the Geohumanities, and Narrative Visualization

Frontiers in HIstorical GIS, the Geohumanities, and Narrative Visualization
Thursday, February 27th, 2020
09:00 AM - 04:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Student Union and Babbidge Library

Frontiers in Historical GIS, the Geohumanities, and Narrative Visualization

An Interdisciplinary Connections Symposium sponsored by the UConn College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in collaboration with Urban and Community Studies, History, Geography, and American Studies

Thursday, 27 February 2020
Location: Student Union Building 304B, Storrs
9:00am - Welcome and Introductions

9:30am-11:30am - Presentations and roundtable discussion

Anne Kelly Knowles, Professor of History, University of Maine, Historical GIS & Beyond: GeoVisualiation for the Humanities
Spatial storytelling and deep mapping are generating much interest in the Humanities as scholars and students discover new methods for representing people in place. At the same time, humanists’ critiques of the limitations of Cartesian cartography demand solutions. This lecture will argue that points, lines, and polygons (aptly called “cartographic primitives”) are immensely useful for certain kinds of spatial analysis, but that they are also deeply problematic for analyzing and representing human experience. The extreme experiences of Holocaust victims challenged my research team to find new ways to visualize people and places, mobility and awareness, as phenomena in their own right and in relation to Nazi policies and actions. I will particularly focus on two of our ongoing experiments: inductive visualization and topological mapping.

LaDale Winling, Professor of History, Virginia Tech, Finding the Humanity in the Digital Humanities.

As digital technologies and data resources become increasingly sophisticated, digital humanities and historical GIS scholars hold both the promise and the peril of demonstrating the humanity in their projects. Winling will discuss his work on redlining and political elections in Mapping Inequality, Electing the House of Representatives, and the Chicago Elections Project and the challenges of incorporating and enabling narrative, of making argument, and of finding and representing individuals in a sea of data.

11:45sm to 12:45pm - Lunchtime roundtable discussion.

All welcome to participate. Lunch provided. Please RSVP (https://urban.uconn.edu/2020/01/29/gis-symposium-rsvp/) by February 19th or contact maria.winnick@uconn.edu.

1:00pm to 2:30pm - Race, Ethnicity and Community Succession in Post-War Hartford: Using Historical GIS to Explore the Racial Dynamics of Neighborhood Change

Professor Fiona Vernal, UConn History Department, Homer Babbidge Library, Visualization Studio, Room 1101

2:30pm - Coffee and Snack Break. All welcome.

3:00pm to 4:30pm - Frontiers in Historical GIS, the Geohumanities, and Narrative Visualization
A panel discussion with Anne Kelly Knowles, LaDale Winling, Fiona Vernal, Ken Foote (UConn Geography and Urban and Community Studies), Mark Healey (UConn History and el Instituto), Peter Chen (UConn Geography) and Chris Vials (UConn English and American Studies)

Contact Information: Maria.Winnick@uconn.edu More

2/27InCHIP Lecture: Anna Maria Siega-Riz, PhD

InCHIP Lecture: Anna Maria Siega-Riz, PhD
Thursday, February 27th, 2020
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM

Storrs Campus
J. Ray Ryan Bldg, Room 204

Anna Maria Siega-Riz, PhD, School of Public Health and Health Sciences at UMass Amherst

Thursday, February 27, 2020

J. Ray Ryan Bldg, Room 204

Dr. Siega-Riz’s research focuses on the first 1000 days of life by understanding the influence of maternal weight status and dietary patterns/behaviors in the etiology of adverse pregnancy outcomes, including but not limited to, gestational diabetes, pregnancy induced hypertension, pre-eclampsia, preterm birth and inadequate or excessive gestational weight gain. She is also exploring food reward and sensitivity among pregnant women and early determinants of childhood obesity in the Pregnancy Eating Attributes (PEAS) study funded by NICHD with colleagues at the University of North Carolina https://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/org/diphr/officebranch/sbsb/pregnancy_eating and the association of maternal preconceptional health with childhood eating and weight status among Hispanics in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL https://www2.cscc.unc.edu/hchs/) funded by NIDDK. Other research interests include examining the determinants and consequences of food insecurity and the implications of food policy on health outcomes.

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Visit the 2019-2020 Lecture Series lineup, access live web stream, archived lectures, and learn more about the lecture series: https://chip.uconn.edu/lecture-series/2019-2020-lecture-series/

Contact Information: lectureseries@chip.uconn.edu More

2/27Lecture: “Flesh Into Blossom”: The Queer Poetics of Radical Pleasure

Lecture: “Flesh Into Blossom”: The Queer Poetics of Radical Pleasure
Thursday, February 27th, 2020
12:30 PM - 01:45 PM

Storrs Campus
Rainbow Center; Student Union 403

The Out to Lunch Gender, Sexuality, and Community is a weekly academic lecture and discussion series with guest scholars and community activists from various disciplines examining a variety of topics related to gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality. Each semester offers a broad sampling of the areas.

The Spring 2020 semester is co-sponsored by the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department (http://wgss.uconn.edu).

Today's lecture is entitled, "'Flesh Into Blossom': The Queer Poetics of Radical Pleasure" and will be presented by Mick Powell (she/her/hers).

Synopsis: Over 40 years out from Audre Lorde’s formative essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” queer feminist poets of color continue to consider how we create new work about the erotic, the intimate, and the sensual; work that illuminates the beauties and complexities of loving others and ourselves in the bodies we inhabit. In this lecture, we’ll explore how contemporary queer and trans poets of color decenter white, patriarchal, heteronormative, and cisnormative narratives around the body and intimacy through gurlesque, afrofuturistic, and liberatory aesthetics. Mick will read from her chapbook chronicle the body (2019) and highlight other poets narrating from new spaces of sensuality and pleasure.

Biography: Mick Powell (she/her/hers) is a queer black fat femme feminist poet based in Connecticut. She is an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Connecticut. Mick earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Southern Connecticut State University in 2018 and her Bachelor’s in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies from UConn in 2015. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Frontier Poetry, Tinderbox Poetry, Columbia Journal, Apogee Journal, Winter Tangerine, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, chronicle the body, won Yemassee Journal‘s 2nd Annual Chapbook Contest and was published in March 2019. You can find her at http://www.mickpowellpoet.com.

The lectures are open to all to attend. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own lunches.

Contact Information: rainbowcenter@uconn.edu More

2/27Black, Queer, & Proud!

Black, Queer, & Proud!
Thursday, February 27th, 2020
01:30 PM - 03:00 PM

Hartford Campus
HSSW LL Community Room

RSVP at http://uconnblackhistory365.eventbrite.com

Facilitated by former UConn School of Social Work professor and Queer Black Activist, Regina Dyton. Regina is a member of Journey Writers Inc., an organization where poets, performers, writers, and educators dedicate their time to creating work around activism for social justice.
*LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED*

Contact Information: sswgso-co-chairs@uconn.edu More

2/27ISSS Coffee Hour

ISSS Coffee Hour
Thursday, February 27th, 2020
02:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Storrs Campus
The William Benton Museum of Art

Let's travel to Poland!

Stop by for an interactive presentation about the Polish culture and to see the museum's temporary exhibition on DEMOKRACJA GRAFIKA: The Democracy of Print. The museum's exhibition celebrates UConn Professor Emeritus of Printmaking Gus Mazzocca’s gift to the Benton of more than 150 prints by Polish artists. The prints came to Mazzocca through the exchange program that he established in 1984 with the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland

ISSS Coffee Hour is sponsored by the International Student and Scholar Services and hosted by the William Benton Museum of Art.

Contact Information: Karen Sommer 6-5084 More

2/27EEB Seminar: Marjorie Webber (Michigan State)

EEB Seminar: Marjorie Webber (Michigan State)
Thursday, February 27th, 2020
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

Storrs Campus
BPB 131

Linking macroevolution and ecology using plant-arthropod mutualisms

Contact Information: kent.holsinger@uconn.edu More

2/27Mathematics Colloquium
Random interlacing arrays
Leonid Petrov (University of Virginia)

Mathematics Colloquium
Random interlacing arrays
Leonid Petrov (University of Virginia)
Thursday, February 27th, 2020
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

Storrs Campus
MONT 214

I will describe two main types of objects in Integrable Probability - measures on interlacing integer arrays (whose probability weights are given in terms of symmetric functions), and exactly solvable stochastic interacting particle systems like TASEP. Various connections between the two allow to extract fine asymptotic information for particle systems essentially by algebraic manipulations. I will describe recent advances of the theory based on symmetric functions outside the classical Macdonald hierarchy.

Contact Information: Kyu-Hwan Lee More

2/27Women in Economics Symposium

Women in Economics Symposium
Thursday, February 27th, 2020
03:30 PM - 08:00 PM

Stamford Campus
DWTN 2.15

Women in Economics Symposium held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland -- live-stream of this symposium, which aims to encourage women to pursue a career in economics by discussing the successful career paths of diverse economics professionals and raising awareness of diversity and inclusion in the profession. All students are welcome at this event; the content is relevant across disciplines and identities.

This is an Honors Event. Categories: Career, Professional, & Personal Development OR Academic & Interdisciplinary Engagement.

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Contact Information: Natalia Smirnova, natalia.smirnova@uconn.edu More

2/27Exhibit Reception - Babbidge Library

Exhibit Reception - Babbidge Library
Thursday, February 27th, 2020
04:30 PM - 06:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Babbidge Library, Plaza and Level B

Join the Library for the opening reception of two new exhibits in Homer Babbidge.

Steven G. Smith
Under the Dark Sky, Life in Thames River Basin
Gallery on the Plaza, Homer Babbidge Library
In 1994, the U.S. Congress designated parts of the Thames River basin as a Natural Heritage Corridor because it is one of the last remaining stretches of green in the area and boasts some of the most extensive unbroken forests in southern New England. The river and its watershed help define the borders of a valley that is unique among its East Coast neighbors, considered to be the last place where the dark night sky can be viewed between Washington, D.C., and the Boston metro area. Locals like to call the area the “Quiet Corner” or the “Last Green Valley.” This documentary photo essay visually explores the region.

Amanda Chianelli
Mother: Process & Processing
Norman Stevens Gallery, Homer Babbidge Library
With a blurred line between life and art, my work explores the complicated nature of the female body as giver of life, the humbling and complex relationship of mother and child, as well as the housing of the unstable and erratic emotional landscape of mother/artist. In the battle between time and attention, between mothering and creating, I follow in the footsteps of those who have manifested joys, sorrows, and anxieties into their work, allowing the rocky landscape of motherhood into the studio.

Contact Information: Jean Nelson More

2/27Writers Who Edit, Editors Who Write Series

Writers Who Edit, Editors Who Write Series
Thursday, February 27th, 2020
06:00 PM - 07:00 PM

Storrs Campus
UConn Bookstore

Writers Who Edit, Editors Who Write Series with Jennifer N. Baker. February 27th at the UConn Bookstore in Storrs Center. 6:00 pm reading. Readings are free and open to the public.

Jennifer N. Baker is a long-time publishing professional, creator and host of the Minorities in Publishing podcast, and contributing editor to Electric Literature. In 2017, she received a NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship and a Queens Council on the Arts New Work Grant for Nonfiction Literature. Her essay “What We Aren’t (or the Ongoing Divide)” was listed as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2018. She is also the editor of the BIPoC short story anthology Everyday People: The Color of Life (2018). Her fiction, nonfiction, interviews and criticism have appeared in various print and online publications.

Contact Information: sean.forbes@uconn.edu More

2/28Connecticut Environmental Action Day

Connecticut Environmental Action Day
Friday, February 28th, 2020
08:30 AM - 01:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Student Union Theater

Connecticut Environmental Action Day (CEAD) brings middle school age youth from throughout Connecticut to the UConn Storrs campus where they will work with UConn faculty, staff, and students to learn about environmental issues.

The theme this year is climate change. UConn students will also be encouraged to take the #ClimateChangeChallenge with us.

At the conclusion of the day, each middle school participant will share the actions they are taking home from the event to implement in their community.

For more information visit the website at https://environmentalaction.extension.uconn.edu/

Contact Information: stacey.stearns@uconn.edu More

2/28Marine Sciences Seminar: Sarah Donelan

Marine Sciences Seminar: Sarah Donelan
Friday, February 28th, 2020
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Avery Point Campus
Marine Sciences Building, Seminar Room 103

Presenting: Sarah Donelan, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Seminar Title: The legacy of stress: behavioral and ecological impacts of transgenerational and carryover effects in marine systems

Host: Catherine Matassa

Abstract: https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/seminar/seminar1203/

Contact Information: marinesciencesseminars@uconn.edu, 860-405-9152, 860-405-9087, or 860-405-9151 More

2/28Elect Her: UConn Women Win Training

Elect Her: UConn Women Win Training
Friday, February 28th, 2020
12:30 PM - 04:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Women's Center, SU 421

Have you ever thought about running for office, now or in the future? Register now for this FREE Student Leadership Training Program.

The Elect Her: UConn Women Win Training will be held from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, February 28th, 2020, at the Women’s Center. This training will demystify the campaign process and teach you how to develop and communicate an effective message, how to reach out to your constituency, and how to win a campaign. Our aim is to increase women's representation in political leadership.

This event is being sponsored nationally by Running Start, and on-campus sponsored by the Women’s Center and the Undergraduate Student Government.

There is a limited amount of spaces available on a first come, first served basis.
Students interested in participating must register at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/UConnElectHer2020

The registration deadline is 2/24/20.

Contact Information: Kathy Fischer at kathy.fischer@uconn.edu More

2/28Geosciences Seminar Series: Jason Smerdon (Columbia University)

Geosciences Seminar Series: Jason Smerdon (Columbia University)
Friday, February 28th, 2020
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Beach Hall 233

Geosciences Seminar Series
Dr. Jason Smerdon
Columbia University
Models, Matrices, and Megadroughts: A paleoclimatic perspective for a hotter planet

Beach Hall 233
12:30-1:30PM
February 28, 2020

Contact Information: Christin Donnelly, christin.donnelly@uconn.edu More

2/28IONM Virtual Infosession

IONM Virtual Infosession
Friday, February 28th, 2020
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Virtual

Join us for a virtual informational session to learn more about our Graduate Certificate in Intraoperative Neuromonitoring and Surgical Neurophysiology Masters program. Dr. Radmila Filipovic and Dr. Payam Andalib will be providing potential students with an overview of the programs along with a discussion about working in the field of Neuromonitoring. Attendees will also have a chance to ask specific questions via a chat function.

Register here: https://connect.grad.uconn.edu/register/?id=91cb5e43-615c-486a-aa4e-f6c662c726fa

Contact Information: Amber LaFontaine - amber.lafontaine@uconn.edu More

2/28Cluster Algeba Seminar
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Cluster Algeba Seminar
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Friday, February 28th, 2020
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Mont 313

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Contact Information: Ralf Schiffler, schiffler@math.uconn.edu More

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