Upcoming Events

The Aetna Celebration of Student Writing (ACSW) is an annual UConn event held by the Aetna Chair of Writing to showcase student writing work and writing-related research. Students present their writing work completed in writing-intensive UConn courses (First-Year Writing, “W” courses) and/or research on the subject of writing, rhetoric, or a related topic. Individual and group projects are accepted.

The submission deadline to present at the ACSW Poster Fair is April 1, 2020. Visit http://bit.ly/submit2acsw or http://writing.uconn.edu for more details.

The Aetna Celebration of Student Writing (ACSW) is an annual UConn event held by the Aetna Chair of Writing to showcase student writing work and writing-related research. Students present their writing work completed in writing-intensive UConn courses (First-Year Writing, “W” courses) and/or research on the subject of writing, rhetoric, or a related topic. Individual and group projects are accepted.

The submission deadline to present at the ACSW Poster Fair is April 1, 2020. Visit http://bit.ly/submit2acsw or http://writing.uconn.edu for more details.

Inner Speech and Self-Knowledge

Nathan Spreng, PhD, McGill University
Explorations into the default network of the human brain
VIRTUAL ONLY TALK
REGISTRATION REQUIRED:
https://birc.uconn.edu/2020/04/20/virtual-talk-nathan-spreng-mcgill-university/

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Attitudinal Treatment Engagement among Adolescents and Young Adults


Clinical Psychology

MCB Seminar Series

Dr. Harry Higgs, Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Dartmouth

“Multiple modes of interaction between mitochondria and the actin cytoskeleton”
Summary: Mitochondria are dynamic organelles, dividing and re-fusing as part of homeostatic mechanisms such as mitophagy to maintain a healthy mitochondrial pool. We find that actin polymerization plays at least two distinct roles in mitochondrial dynamics, one in response to elevated cytosolic calcium, and the other in response to mitochondrial depolarization.
View abstract at https://mcb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2341/2020/02/2019-JCS-TS-depol-actin-clouds.pdf
Dr. Higgs website at http://dms.dartmouth.edu/higgs/

The UConn Asian and Asian American Studies Institute, Puppet Arts Program, and Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry Present a Talkback about Nicotiana: A Shadow Puppet Play with Crankies by Rumput, featuring Balinese puppeteer I Gusti Putu Sudarta Wednesday, April 29 at 8 p.m. Through Facebook Live

The UConn Asian and Asian American Studies Institute, UConn Puppet Arts Program, and Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry present a talkback about Nicotiana: A Shadow Puppet Play with Crankies by Rumput, featuring Balinese puppeteer I Gusti Putu Sudarta. The talkback will take place on Facebook Live (http://facebook.com/BallardInstitute/) on April 29 at 8 p.m. EST. The talkback will also take place in Indonesian on April 29 at 9 a.m. EST (9 p.m. Central Indonesia Time, 8 p.m. Western Indonesia Time) on Facebook Live. Both versions of the talkback will be available afterwards on Facebook and the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry YouTube Channel (http://youtube.com/channel/UC3VSthEDnYS6ZjOwzT1DnTg). Viewers are invited to watch in advance the recording of Nicotiana (http://youtube.com/watch?v=5HB4wes_8lo).

This talkback, moderated by Professor Matthew Isaac Cohen (University of Connecticut), is a discussion of the creative process of the co-creators of the music-theater production Nicotiana: Dr. Andy McGraw (University of Richmond) and Dr. I Gusti Putu Sudarta (Indonesian Institute for the Arts in Denpasar). This intercultural collaboration between shadow master Gusti Sudarta from Bali, Indonesia and the string-band group Rumput from Richmond, Virginia involves traditional arts from Indonesia—specifically wayang kulit (shadow puppet theater) and keroncong music—mixed with crankies, or moving panoramas, and old-time string band music. This production focuses on the history of the global tobacco industry, with an emphasis on Virginia and western Indonesia. While the east coast U.S. tour of Nicotiana was cancelled due to COVID-19, the ensemble recorded the work before it disbanded and self-quarantined. The talkback will address the collaborative process, the work’s main messages regarding tobacco, and future bi-national collaborative projects. Viewers are invited to watch in advance the recording of Nicotiana (http://youtube.com/watch?v=5HB4wes_8lo).

The music ensemble Rumput plays keroncong (a string-band tradition from Indonesia) and explores parallel threads with other traditions, especially old-time string-band music of the United States and British Isles, and Indonesian gamelan. The company produces multimedia performances involving traditional and original music paired with shadow theater comprising elements of American and Indonesian traditions: crankies (scrolling panoramas) and wayang (shadow puppets). Rumput has performed internationally, including tours and residencies in Java in 2017 and 2018, performing with local artists at each stop, and collaborating with Indonesian master artists including Danis Sugiyanto, Peni Can.

Meeting number (access code): 622 686 312
Meeting password: 5NmN3hDZ6fD (56663439 from phones and video systems)

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELED.

Chemistry Colloquium "Lanthanide Complexes with Dual Activity and Unusual Coordination Chemistry"

Ana de Bettencourt-Dias, University of Nevada-Reno
Host: Gaël Ung

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

The UConn Asian and Asian American Studies Institute, Puppet Arts Program, and Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry Present a
Talkback about Nicotiana: A Shadow Puppet Play with Crankies by Rumput, featuring Balinese puppeteer I Gusti Putu Sudarta
Wednesday, April 29 at 8 p.m.
Through Facebook Live

The UConn Asian and Asian American Studies Institute, UConn Puppet Arts Program, and Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry present a talkback about Nicotiana: A Shadow Puppet Play with Crankies by Rumput, featuring Balinese puppeteer I Gusti Putu Sudarta. The talkback will take place on Facebook Live (http://facebook.com/BallardInstitute/) on April 29 at 8 p.m. EST. The talkback will also take place in Indonesian on April 29 at 9 a.m. EST (9 p.m. Central Indonesia Time, 8 p.m. Western Indonesia Time) on Facebook Live. Both versions of the talkback will be available afterwards on Facebook and the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry YouTube Channel (http://youtube.com/channel/UC3VSthEDnYS6ZjOwzT1DnTg). Viewers are invited to watch in advance the recording of Nicotiana (http://youtube.com/watch?v=5HB4wes_8lo).

This talkback, moderated by Professor Matthew Isaac Cohen (University of Connecticut), is a discussion of the creative process of the co-creators of the music-theater production Nicotiana: Dr. Andy McGraw (University of Richmond) and Dr. I Gusti Putu Sudarta (Indonesian Institute for the Arts in Denpasar). This intercultural collaboration between shadow master Gusti Sudarta from Bali, Indonesia and the string-band group Rumput from Richmond, Virginia involves traditional arts from Indonesia—specifically wayang kulit (shadow puppet theater) and keroncong music—mixed with crankies, or moving panoramas, and old-time string band music. This production focuses on the history of the global tobacco industry, with an emphasis on Virginia and western Indonesia. While the east coast U.S. tour of Nicotiana was cancelled due to COVID-19, the ensemble recorded the work before it disbanded and self-quarantined. The talkback will address the collaborative process, the work’s main messages regarding tobacco, and future bi-national collaborative projects. Viewers are invited to watch in advance the recording of Nicotiana (http://youtube.com/watch?v=5HB4wes_8lo).

The music ensemble Rumput plays keroncong (a string-band tradition from Indonesia) and explores parallel threads with other traditions, especially old-time string-band music of the United States and British Isles, and Indonesian gamelan. The company produces multimedia performances involving traditional and original music paired with shadow theater comprising elements of American and Indonesian traditions: crankies (scrolling panoramas) and wayang (shadow puppets). Rumput has performed internationally, including tours and residencies in Java in 2017 and 2018, performing with local artists at each stop, and collaborating with Indonesian master artists including Danis Sugiyanto, Peni Can

** POSTPONED (COVID-19) **


Truth Pluralism workshop with Crispin Wright (NYU/Stirling), Douglas Edwards (Utica)), Nikolaj JLL Pedersen (Yonsei), Michael Lynch (UConn), and others.

Details t.b.a.

Info session on the UConn Department of Public Policy's Nonprofit Management degree,

RSVP before 4/30 at https://connect.grad.uconn.edu/register/?id=0ad39116-3e4d-47d5-87c8-4ec56b30d105

Graduate Student Matthew Phelps, Department of Physics,
University of Connecticut

Cosmological Fluctuations in Standard and Conformal Gravity

In the theory of cosmological perturbations, extensive methods of simplifying the equations of motion and eliminating non-physical gauge modes are required in order to construct the perturbative solutions. One approach, standard within modern cosmology, is to decompose the metric perturbation into a basis of scalars, vectors, and tensors defined according to their transformation behavior under three-dimensional rotations (the S.V.T. decomposition). By constructing a projector formalism to define the basis components, we show that such a decomposition is intrinsically non-local and necessarily incorporates spatially asymptotic boundary conditions. We continue application of the S.V.T. decomposition and solve the fluctuation equations exactly within standard cosmologies as applied to both Einstein gravity and conformal gravity, finding that in general the various S.V.T. gauge-invariant combinations only decouple at a higher-derivative level. To match the underlying transformation group of General Relativity and thus provide a manifestly covariant formalism, we introduce an alternate scalar, vector, tensor basis with components defined according to general four-dimensional coordinate transformations. In this basis, the fluctuation equations greatly simplify, where one can again decouple them into separate gauge-invariant sectors at the higher-derivative level. In the context of conformal gravity, we use similar constructions to solve the fluctuation equations exactly within any geometry that is conformal to flat and show that in a radiation era Robertson-Walker cosmology, fluctuations grow as \(t^4\).

Video Meeting URL: https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/meet/map14010

On Being Woke and Knowing Injustice: Scale Development and Psychological and Political Implications

Department of Psychological Sciences

Full Schedule & Updates & WebEx links found here:

https://statds.org/events/webinar_dsa2020/schedule.html

Friday, 05/08/2020, 11 am EDT, Dr. Jing Qin (Use PASSWORD "2020" at Webex Link):
Estimation of incubation period distribution of COVID-19 using disease onset forward time: A novel cross-sectional and forward follow-up study

Friday, 05/15/2020, 11 am EDT, Dr. David Corliss (Use PASSWORD "2020" at Webex Link):
COVID-19: Analytic studies and opportunities for outside of epidemiology

Friday, 05/22/2020, 11 am EDT, Drs. Debashree Ray, Johns Hopkins University; Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Michigan; Maxwell Salvatore, University of Michigan; and Rupam Bhattacharyya, University of Michigan from the COV-IND-19 Study Group (Use PASSWORD "2020" at Webex Link)
Details TBA.

Friday, 05/29/2020, 11 am EDT, Dr. Bin Yu, University of California Berkeley
Details TBA.

Friday, 06/05/2020, 11 am EDT Dr. Usha Govindarajulu, Department of Population Health Science and Policy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Details TBA.

Friday, 06/12/2020, 11 am EDT Dr. Dean Follmann National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.
Details TBA.

Friday, 06/26/2020, 11 am EDT, Dr. Kimia Ghobadi, CSSE of Johns Hopkins University
Details TBA.
More webinars TBA (suggestions are welcome; contact any organizing committee member)

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.