Upcoming Events

Exploring the Goal Bias in the Visual World Paradigm


Psychological Sciences

Join this panel discussion by Native scholars and artists on climate justice, part of the UConn Reads program. With Sandy Grande (moderator), Emily Johnson, Anne Spice, and Melanie Yazzie.

To register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uconn-reads-native-scholars-and-artists-on-climate-justice-tickets-141199251763

Please join us for the digital campus visit of University of Texas Professor Geraldine Heng. The focus of the talk will be her recent book.

Her book, The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, (Cambridge, 2018) argues that the medieval period was not a pre-political, pre-racial era. Religion then (and now) – as much as science, in later eras – was selectively deployed to identify differences among humans that were essentialized as absolute and fundamental, distributing positions and powers differentially to human groups in practices that we would today call acts of race. The book has won numerous prizes including the 2019 PROSE prize in Global History, the 2019 Robert W. Hamilton Grand Prize, the 2019 Academy of American Religion prize in Historical Studies, and the 2020 Otto Gründler Prize.

Geraldine Heng is Perceval Professor at the University of Texas in Austin, and Founder and Director of the Global Middle Ages Projects (G-MAP): http://www.globalmiddleages.org Heng co-edits the University of Pennsylvania Press’s new book series, RaceB4Race: Critical Studies of the Premodern, and Cambridge University Press’s 40-title Elements series on The Global Middle Ages. She is also the editor of a forthcoming volume in the Modern Language Association of America’s Options for Teaching series, entitled The Global Middle Ages. The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages (Cambridge, 2018) is Professor Heng’s second book. Her third book is England and the Jews: How Religion and Violence Created the First Racial State in the West (Cambridge, 2019). Her new title for Cambridge, The Global Middle Ages: An Introduction, will appear in 2021. Heng is currently researching and writing a fifth book, Early Globalities: The Interconnected World, 500-1500 CE.

Free copies of her book are available to UConn faculty, staff, and graduate students.

Contact Professor Fred Lee for book copies and/or WebEx links.

This event is sponsored by Indigeneity Race Ethnicity Politics/Political Science, Medieval Studies, and the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute.

What it means to be a science communicator: From part-time volunteering to a full-time career

Stochastic integrals are defined with respect to a collection $P$ of continuous semimartingales, imposing no assumptions on the index set and the subspace where $P$ takes values. The integrals are constructed though finite-dimensional approximation, identifying the appropriate local geometry that allows extension to infinite dimensions. For local martingale integrators, the resulting space of stochastic integrals has an operational characterisation via a corresponding set of integrands, constructed with only reference the covariation structure of $P$. This bijection between the previous spaces of integral and integrands extends to families of continuous semimartingale integrators for which the drift process of $P$ belongs in an appropriate stochastic reproducing kernel Hilbert space. In the context of infinite-asset models in Mathematical Finance, the latter structural condition is equivalent to a certain natural form of market viability. The enriched class of wealth processes via extended stochastic integrals leads to exact analogues of optional decomposition and hedging duality as the finite-asset case. A corresponding characterisation of market completeness in this setting is provided.

Come join the Women’s Center and the Rainbow Center to discuss unrealistic body image ideals and how to combat them through a series of icebreakers, discussions, and other activities. We will come together to redefine what we think body image ideals should be!

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Kuusisto, who has been blind since birth, is the author of Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening and the acclaimed memoir Planet of the Blind, a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year.” He has also published Only Bread, Only Light, a collection of poems from Copper Canyon Press. Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times praises Kuusisto as “a powerful writer with a musical ear for language and a gift for emotional candor. He has written a book that makes the reader understand the terrifying experience of blindness and that stands on its own as a lyrical memoir of a poet.”

Picture A Scientist chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. Biologist Nancy Hopkins, chemist Raychelle Burks, and geologist Jane Willenbring lead viewers on a journey deep into their own experiences in the sciences, ranging from brutal harassment to years of subtle slights. Along the way, from cramped laboratories to spectacular field stations, we encounter scientific luminaries - including social scientists, neuroscientists, and psychologists - who provide new perspectives on how to make science itself more diverse, equitable, and open to all.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with some of UConn's own scientists and members of the WiSTEM mentoring program.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83187522368?pwd=R0Izd3VBSzI3a3RHMUVXRXpkYUJCUT09&from=addon

Our topic is logical inference in natural language, as it is done by people and computers.
The first main topic will be monotonicity inference, arguably the best of the simple ideas
in the area. Monotonicity can be incorporated in running systems whereby one can take
parsed real-life sentences and see simple inferences in action. I will present some of the
theory, related to higher-order monotonicity and the syntax-semantics interface offered by
categorial grammar.

In a different direction, these days monotonicity inference can be done by machines as well
as humans. The talk also discusses this development along with some ongoing work on the
borderline of natural logic and machine learning.

The second direction in the talk will be an overview of the large number of logical systems for
various linguistic phenomena. This work begins as an updating of traditional syllogistic logic,
but with much greater expressive power.

Overall, the goal of the talk is to persuade you that the research program of "natural logic"
leads to a lively research area with connections to many areas both inside and outside of more
mainstream areas of logic.

Rethinking Resistance: Takeuchi Yoshimi, China, and Global Modernity

The Japanese public intellectual Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977) is particularly interesting to us today because through reading China, he constructs a critique of Eurocentrism that anticipates postcolonial discourse. However, he does so at a time when socialism continued to be a powerful ideal. For this reason, if we examine Takeuchi from our present historical conjuncture, we can grasp some of the tensions between postcolonialism and Marxism and, in particular, the tension between universalism and particularism. In this context, Takeuchi uses Lu Xun as a lens to understand political actors such as Sun Zhongshan and Mao Zedong. During transition from wartime to postwar Japan, Takeuchi constantly returns to Lu Xun and Mao Zedong to develop a vision of Asia as an alternative to a modern world dominated by abstraction and alienation. Themes of Takeuchi’s work live on in the work of the Japanese sinologist Mizoguchi Yūzō and the Chinese critical intellectual Wang Hui.

Viren Murthy teaches transnational Asian History and researches Chinese and Japanese intellectual history in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The Resistance of Consciousness (Brill, 2011) and co-editor with Joyce Liu of Marxisms in East Asia (Routledge, 2017), co-editor with Fabian Schäfer and Max Ward, of Confronting Capital and Empire: Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy (Brill, 2017) co-editor with Axel Schneider of The Challenge of Linear Time:Vi Nationhood and the Politics of History in East Asia (Brill, 2013), and co-editor with Prasenjit Duara and Andrew Sartori of A Companion to Global Historical Thought, (Blackwell, 2014). He has published articles in Jewish Social Studies, Critical Historical Studies, Modern Intellectual History, Modern China, Frontiers of History in China and Positions: Asia Critique and is currently working on a project tentatively entitled: Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution.

To register: https://tinyurl.com/vupk2s2a

Please join via Webex Meeting link:
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Abstract: There will be a presentation of the fundamental characteristics of telematic data collected in the field of car insurance. In the talk we will address (1) how pay as you drive systems are built and (2) new approaches that take into account near-misses, which are events that may be considered dangerous but do not lead to insurance claims. Several open questions will de discussed: data aggregation, near-miss definition and new ratemaking schemes.

Speaker's bio: Dr. Montserrat Guillen is Chair Professor in the Department of Econometrics at the University of Barcelona. She is currently Honorary Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Actuarial Science and Insurance at City University London. Her research focuses on actuarial statistics and quantitative risk management. She has published many scientific articles, contributions to book chapters and books on insurance and actuarial science. Please visit her website for more information: http://www.ub.edu/riskcenter/guillen/

Science in Stone: Epistemology, Authority, and Identity in New England’s Cultural Stone Features Debate

Kitty O’Riordan, PhD student, Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut

Unusual chambers, piles, standing stones, effigies, etc. are a ubiquitous feature of the New England landscape. Largely overlooked or assumed to be farming remnants by academia, a coalition of Tribes declared them Ceremonial Stone Landscapes (CSL) in 2007. Scientific dating is difficult or impossible in this context and the sites’ visibility and mysterious appeal has caused a proliferation of epistemic claims. Those weighing in take part in a perennial reimagining of the ethnic and cultural character of early America, reflecting centuries-old ideas of Euro- and white supremacy or longings for a proto-spiritual utopian past. The problem provides a rare window into the process of knowledge formation outside the “citadel” (Martin 1998) of sanctioned scientific research.

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Topic TBD

PETER CONSTANTINE is Professor of Translation Studies, Director of the Program in Literary Translation and publisher of World Poetry Books at the University of Connecticut. His recent translations include works by Augustine, Machiavelli, Gogol and Tolstoy. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and was awarded the PEN Translation Prize for Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann, and the National Translation Award for The Undiscovered Chekhov. As a terminal speaker of Corinthian Arvanitika, he is currently involved in the documentation and conservation of this severely endangered language of Greece.

MICHELANGELO LA LUNA (Harvard University and University of Calabria, http://Ph.Ds.) is Professor of Italian Language and Literature at the University of Rhode Island. His research activity focuses on Girolamo De Rada (1814-1903), the major Italian-Albanian poet of the Romantic period. Moreover, he wrote articles and books about Carmine Abate, Luigi Capuana, Dante Alighieri, Dacia Maraini, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. He belongs to the Arbëresh minority and writes poems in the Arbërisht dialect of Southern Italy.

Mimouna is a North African Jewish celebration that marks the end of Passover. This year, in light of the historic peace agreement between Israel and Morocco, it is also a celebration of the cultural bridges between the two nations and the artistic collaborations between their people.

For the first time, the Consulate General of Israel to New England and the Honorary Consulate of Morocco in New England join forces in a multicultural Mimouna celebration with the next generation of talents.

Dedicated in memory of Zohra El Fassia, an Israeli-Moroccan singer and poet who was the first woman recording artist in Morocco and one of the pioneers of modern Arabic music, this one-hour program will include:
• Opening greetings from Ambassador Meron Reuben, Consul General of Israel to New England; and Carol Kopelman, Honorary Consul of Morocco to New England.
• A specially curated photo presentation by ANU - Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, and a video tribute to Zohra El Fassia from the Museum’s collection, featuring the Israeli musician Neta Elkayam.
• A musical performance by the Grammy nominated Samir LanGus (Morocco), and Itamar Borochov (Israel), as part of their collaboration on the Jewish Gnawa Project.
• A unique session recorded in Agadir, Morocco, with singer Lala Tamar (Israel), and musician Mehdi Nassouli (Morocco).
• A tribute to Jewish-Moroccan dances by Jackie Barzvi (U.S.), a Middle Eastern dancer and the creator of the Mizrachi Dance Archive.
This event is co-sponsored by CJP - Combined Jewish Philanthropies, AJC New England, הבית הישראלי - The Israeli House, ANU - Museum of the Jewish People, Jimena, IAC Boston, Jewish Arts Collaborative, Mizrachi Dance Archive, Beth Abraham Sephardic Congregation of New England, Northeastern University Hillel, and the Consulate General of Israel to the Southeast. For more information, click here: https://global.uconn.edu/2021/03/23/mimouna-the-next-generation-celebrating-the-israeli-moroccan-cultural-alliance/

Burnout has been a defining element of the global pandemic, as parents and in particular working mothers have faced impossible choices. Betrayed by society and expected to “self-care” their way through this challenging time, women have attempted to engineer their own supports.

Join us for this two-part event, featuring a thoughtful panel of women discussing the experiences of working mothers followed by an engaging opportunity to connect with other UConn moms and allies!

Details and registration: s.uconn/momburnout

Sponsored by:
UConn College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
UConn Neag School of Education
UConn School of Law
UConn School of Social Work
UConn Foundation Women and Philanthropy Network

ELIN's MA Thesis Defense by Genesis Carela

Title of thesis paper:
Takeover: The story of Providence Public School District.

Meeting information: https://zoom.us/j/9486958100?pwd=MFpydk5xd0dRQmcyYXB6YWt1bkVXZz09

Meeting ID: 948 695 8100
Passcode: 251041

Dr. David S. Gilmour,
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Pennsylvania State University

Host: Dr. Leighton Core

"RNA polymerase II dynamics and its enigmatic carboxy-terminal domain"

Summary: The carboxyl-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II is a nexus for controlling gene expression by associating with proteins involved in transcription, RNA processing and chromatin structure. I will present our work with Drosophila to investigate its function and results that lead us to propose that the CTD functions as a signal sequence to direct RNA polymerase II to transcription compartments.

Dr. Gilmour received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Cornell University under the direction of Dr. John T. Lis. He then did postdoctoral work at Washington University with Dr. Sarah Elgin. He joined the faculty at Penn State in 1989.

To learn more about Dr Gilmour's work view his publication at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6440539/ and visit his website at https://science.psu.edu/bmb/people/dsg11
Seminar Link: https://uconnvtc.webex.com/webappng/sites/uconnvtc/meeting/download/73b0482edc2d4296b538911b3923d6f4?siteurl=uconnvtc&MTID=mf888e1957a812a5c6b3968a2580b5f42

Tap your powers of observation and investigate a single work of art through close looking and discussion with Martina Rosenberg, Director of Teaching & Learning Assessment, UConn Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and Amanda Douberley, Assistant Curator/Academic Liaison.

This month we are featuring works of art in the exhibition, Käthe Kollwitz: Activism Through Art.

This week’s subject is "Hunger, from the series Proletariat" (1925) by Käthe Kollwitz.

Offered via Zoom Meetings – registration is required and space is limited.

Registration Link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtdu2orzkqG9Tmqe1loa3lFHnyEEQCnn4j

Your registration will be approved if space is available. You will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting or put on a wait list.

The United States is having a long-overdue national reckoning with racism. From criminal justice to pro sports to pop culture, Americans increasingly are recognizing how racist ideas have influenced virtually every sphere of life in this country. This includes the environmental movement. Correcting this legacy can happen only by radically transforming its exclusionary approach. Check the website for the most up-to-date information and instructions on how to join the online lectures: https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/lectures/

Dr. Brittany Miles, UC Santa Cruz


Atmospheric Mixing in Cool Exoplanet Analogs


Cold brown dwarfs are excellent analogs of widely separated, gas giant exoplanets, and provide insight into the potential atmospheric chemistry and physics we may encounter in objects to be discovered by future direct imaging surveys. Disequilibrium chemistry driven by atmospheric mixing is common among brown dwarfs, and by extension we expect to see a similar or increased effect on gas giant exoplanets. I will provide background on disequilibrium chemistry and previous efforts to characterize it in warmer (>1000 K) brown dwarfs and Solar System gas giants. I’ll then present the results from Miles+2020, a low-resolution, R ∼ 300, M-band spectroscopic sequence of seven brown dwarfs with effective temperatures between 750 K and 250 K along with Jupiter. These spectra reveal disequilibrium abundances of carbon monoxide (CO) produced by atmospheric mixing. The eddy diffusion coefficient (Kzz) is used to estimate the strength of vertical atmospheric mixing in each object. The Kzz values of cooler gaseous objects are close to their theoretical maximum, and warmer objects show weaker mixing, likely due to less efficient convective mixing in primarily radiative layers.

The minimal exponent, defined by Morihiko Saito, is an invariant of hypersurface singularities which is a refinement of the log canonical threshold. One expects singularities to worsen when intersecting with a smooth hypersurface, and Teissier conjectured in the 80's an inequality describing how much the minimal exponent should decrease in this process. I will begin by defining the invariants of singularities which arise in the statement of the conjecture, and then describe joint work with Mircea Mustaţă (building on work he has done with Eva Elduque) in which we prove it.

Please contact the organizer for the WebEx link.

Please join us for the latest installment of UConn History's Wednesday Workshop. Associate Professor Daniel Hershenzon (from UConn's
Department of Literatures, Cultures & Languages) will discuss, "Islamic Institutions and Slaves’ Collective Action in 18th Century Spain.”

The talk, on Zoom, is from 12:15-1:15 PM EST. All are welcome!

Here is the Zoom link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85124238323?pwd=WTByM2haK1l0eGdKYjBqN2xrWnM2QT09

This week: Elena Comay del Junco, "Aristotle and his Others"

A series of informal talks by philosophy faculty and graduate students. For a description and how to sign up, see http://philosophy.uconn.edu/brown-bags/.

Chemistry Colloquium
"New single-molecule tools for nanoscale biophysics and biochemistry"
Quan Wang
Princeton, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Host: Jing Zhao

Join via Webex:
https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=m5f23018eae7434761f3046aaf484f3f4

Harvey J Grill, Professor
Behavioral Neuroscience,
Director of the Obesity Unit, Institute of Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism,
University of Pennsylvania

Talk Title:
"Roles for GLP1 and GDF15 in treating obesity: Evaluating neurobehavioral mechanisms mediating their food intake and body weight suppressive effects"

Host:
Dr. Natale Sciolino

Fellow's Talk by Scott Wallace. Response by Erica Holberg.


In what could prove to be a paradigmatic case, Brazilian human rights lawyers and indigenous federations are urging the International Criminal Court in The Hague to bring charges against President Jair Bolsonaro for genocide and incitement to crimes against humanity, as well as possible charges of ecocide for willful destruction of the Amazon rainforest. UCHI Fellow and UConn Associate Professor of Journalism Scott Wallace will discuss the implications of the case and provide a firsthand look from the frontlines of the fight to save the Amazon today.

Scott Wallace is an award-winning writer and photojournalist who covers the environment and endangered cultures. He is an Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Connecticut since 2017 and an Affiliate Faculty member at El Instituto. Wallace is a frequent contributor to National Geographic. His work has also appeared in Harper’s, Grand Street, Smithsonian Journeys Quarterly and many others. Notable Publications: The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes (Crown, 2011); “Threatened by the Outside World,” National Geographic, November 2018; “The last stand of the Amazon’s Arrow People,” The New York Times, September 27, 2017.

Erica A. Holberg is a virtue ethicist who uses the historical, ethical theories of Aristotle and Kant to examine our own virtues, vices, conception of pleasure, and account of how pleasure matters for good living. Her research sets aside the question of what pleasure is to focus instead on how pleasure functions in our lives, for better or for worse. She is the 2016 recipient of the North American Kant Society’s Wilfrid Sellars Essay Prize for the best paper on Kant by an untenured scholar, and her work has appeared in The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Kantian Review, and Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought. Her UCHI Fellowship project is a book about the pleasures of anger, and how the phenomenology and practical considerations differ for anger done as an individual or anger done as a group.


Registration for event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fellows-talk-scott-wallace-tickets-128520501279

Since the publication of the original white paper in 2008, Bitcoin and other blockchain-based currencies have soared in popularity and value --- as of this writing, one Bitcoin is worth 56,000 USD. But what exactly is a Bitcoin, and how can users make trustworthy transactions without a central banking authority? We will answer these questions and explore the cryptographic methods and data structures underlying blockchains. I'll also discuss some active areas of related research.



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A Conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Right after the election of 2016,
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
grabbed a Sharpie and wrote her
immigration lawyer’s phone number
on her hand. Then she embarked
on a trip across the country,
looking for true stories of her
fellow undocumented immigrants
in the United States. Her book,
The Undocumented Americans,
published in 2020, was the culmination of her journey.

Join Karla and Fany Hannon, Director of the Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural
Center at UConn, as they explore this powerful and
personal narrative about the lives of those deemed
“strays”, “unwelcome” and “expendable” in our nation.


When: Wednesday April 7, 2021 7PM

Where: Online

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Co-sponsored by El Instituto and the Connecticut Democracy Center, Old State House

Reading, Writing, Restorying with Ebony Thomas.
Register here: https://ece.english.uconn.edu/ece-english-conference/

Questions from quarantine and lessons in lockdown: Examining the COVID-19 pandemic from a communication perspective| For more information on the talk and the WebEx link, please visit: https://comm.uconn.edu/speaker-series/

Faculty and graduate students in the Dept. of Communication, with their colleagues, will present findings from their COVID-19 projects, funded by InCHIP last spring.

Biosystematics of Noctuidae (Lepidoptera): a new phylogeny incorporating molecular, adult and larval morpholoty, and hostplant association data

Do you ever find yourself thinking you don't deserve the place that you've earned? Or that someone has made a mistake in allowing you to be where you are? This workshop will take a broad view of Imposter Syndrome, with a mix of information, practical tips and tricks, and a safe space for swapping stories (anonymously if you choose!).

https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=m53e09d1dc6f6c85b3e20a46c82f6c60d

The classical Sobolev spaces involve L^p norms of the gradient of a function u. We present an original point of view where derivatives are replaced by appropriate finite differences and the Lebesgue space L^p is replaced by the slightly larger Marcinkiewicz space M^p (aka weak L^p space) --- a popular tool in Harmonic Analysis. Surprisingly, these spaces coincide with the standard Sobolev spaces, a fact which sheds a new light onto these classical objects and should have numerous applications. It allows e.g., to rectify some well-known “irregularities” occurring in the theory of fractional Sobolev spaces. In particular, we may derive alternative estimates in some exceptional cases (involving W^{1,1}) where the anticipated fractional Sobolev and Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequalities fail.
Part of the central argument relies on an innocuous looking new calculus inequality which might be useful in other situations. The current proof of this inequality is more complicated than expected and it would be desirable to find a simpler one.
The lecture is based on a recent joint work with Jean Van Schaftingen and Po-Lam Yung (PNAS Feb 2021).

Speaker: Yihong Wu (Yale University)

Title: Recent results in planted assignment problems

Abstract: Motivated by applications such as particle tracking, network de-anonymization, and computer vision, a recent thread of research is devoted to statistical models of assignment problems, in which the data are random weight graphs correlated with the latent permutation. In contrast to problems such as planted clique or stochastic block model, the major difference here is the lack of low-rank structures, which brings forth new challenges in both statistical analysis and algorithm design.

In the first half of the talk, we discuss the linear assignment problem, where the goal is to reconstruct a perfect matching planted in a randomly weighted bipartite graph, whose planted and unplanted edge weights are independently drawn from two different distributions. We determine the sharp threshold at which the optimal reconstruction error (fraction of misclassified edges) exhibits a phase transition from imperfect to perfect. Furthermore, this phase transition is shown to be of infinite-order in the special case of exponential weight distributions, confirming the conjecture in [Semerjian et al. 2020]. The negative result is shown by proving that, below the threshold, the posterior distribution is concentrated away from the hidden matching by constructing exponentially many long augmenting cycles.

In the second half of the talk, we discuss the quadratic assignment problem (random graph matching), where the goal is to recover the hidden vertex correspondence between two edge-correlated Erdos-Renyi graphs. We prove that there exists a sharp threshold, above which one can correctly match all but a vanishing fraction of the vertices and below which matching any positive fraction is impossible, a phenomenon known as the "all-or-nothing" phase transition. The proof builds upon a tight characterization of the mutual information via the truncated second-moment method and an appropriate "area theorem".

This talk is based on joint work with Jian Ding, Jiaming Xu, Dana Yang and Sophie Yu. Preprints available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09383, https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.10097, https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00082.

Adapt or bust? Predicting adaptive dynamics under new challenges.

Join Malcolm Sen (UMass Amherst) and Jamie Johnson (Photographer), with moderator Mary Burke (UConn English) for a presentation on:

"Irish Travellers: The Nation State, a Marginalized Minority, and Climate Crisis".

Part of the UConn Reads series, centering this year around The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh.

To register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uconn-reads-irish-travellers-tickets-138854061235

LC meeting.

A performative live-streaming event featuring Nicaraguan artists Alejandro De La Guerra and Elyla (Artist protection Fund Fellows). Join us to reflect on the act of creating political art at the intersection and beyond bipartidism power structures, FSLN dictatorial regime and the traditional "opposition" in Nicaragua.
Join the artists to reflect upon what it means to create political art at the intersection and beyond these power structures.

Moderator:
Robin Greeley
Professor of Art History, UConn

Registration link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_74WBdGvVTx-D1_xgYLdb5w

Sponsored by IIE Artist Protection Fund, El Instituto, and the Human Rights Institute

https://www.hillstead.org/sunken-garden-poetry-festival/fresh-voices-poetry-competition/

One of the major challenges involved in developing semantic theories is that many constructions in natural language given rise to alternatives. Different sources of alternatives have been identified---e.g., questions, indeterminacy, focus, scalarity---and have been investigated in quite some depth. Less attention, however, has been given so far to the question how these different kinds of alternatives interact. I will focus in this talk one one such interaction, namely between referential indeterminacy and questions. Several formal semantic frameworks have been developed to capture referential indeterminacy (dynamic semantics, alternative semantics) and the content of questions (e.g., alternative semantics, structured meanings, partition semantics, inquisitive semantics). I will report on ongoing work with Jakub Dotlacil, which aims to merge dynamic and inquisitive semantics in a principled way. I will present a basic system and suggest some potential applications and extensions.

Instructor: Kenya Rutland, Principal, KJR Consulting.
Microaggressions are verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities that communicate derogatory or negative prejudices towards a specific group. These instances can be intentional or unintentional based on our own biases. In this course, participants will decode unconscious biases, define microaggressions and how they show up around us, and discuss strategies for navigating incidents of exclusion. Participants will engage in group discussions to respond to case studies and conclude with defining what it means to be an ally.
Register at: https://secure.touchnet.com/C21646_ustores/web/store_main.jsp?STOREID=60

Presenting: Alan Decho, University of South Carolina

Seminar Title: Quorum Sensing in Natural Environments: Not as Simple as it Looks

Host: Pieter Visscher

Abstract: https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/seminar/seminar1213/

Forum for History Department faculty, to discuss the progression from Tenure to Promotion to Full Professor

Prof. Matthew Wright, Department of Physics,
Adelphi University


Career Paths of Physics Degree Holders


My presentation would cover statistics on physics degrees and jobs, provide information on APS career resources, and give guidance on steps students can take to find their career fit. I will also talk about my own career path. I have a background in physics, have experience outside academia (management consultant), and currently work at Adelphi University as a physics department chair. The content would be useful for students, postdocs, as well as faculty, since mentors in physics departments often lack career development resources, specifically for careers outside of academia.

Improving marine recreational fisheries management: shaping population and regulatory dynamics

Evaluating Sources of Arsenic, Nitrate, And Road Salt in Domestic Wells Using Bacteria Community and Spatial Analyses

Geosciences

Sociological Conversations: Race, Power, and Systemic Racism

Dr. Sanyu A. Mojola, Princeton University

Race, Power, and Systemic Racism through the Lens of the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic

Register Here: https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/onstage/g.php?MTID=e5aad65a00623813981f70a88690d64d8

Sociological Conversations: Race, Power, and Systemic Racism

Dr. Sanyu A. Mojola, Princeton University

Race, Power, and Systemic Racism through the Lens of the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic

Register Here: https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/onstage/g.php?MTID=e5aad65a00623813981f70a88690d64d8

Join the graduating University of Connecticut Masters of Fine Arts in Digital Media & Design for a reception celebrating their online and in-person exhibition Turning Point on Friday April 9, 2021 from 5:00pm-6:30pm EDT.

The live virtual event will begin at 5pm EDT with a screening of each artist’s work followed by open discussion with the artists. The event is free and open to the public, and will be hosted through the platform GatherTown. Registration is required. A link and further instructions for joining the event will be sent to registered guests.

To register visit:
http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=srxo4soab&oeidk=a07ehr1s6rp21fd32be

Encore is a program with more than a decade of proven success, Encore!Connecticut is a professional development experience that helps seasoned corporate professionals transition their skill-sets and experience into successful opportunities (paid and/or volunteer) in Connecticut nonprofits.

The Virtual International Consortium for Truth Research (VICTR) presents: a talk by Romy Jaster (Humboldt-University, Berlin), on April 12, 10:00am EDT / 16:00 CEST / 14:00 UTC

Further details for the event will be available soon. Please check VICTR's calendar for updates: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=h9gf3505q784cati3dkip27b60%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FNew_York

You can register for this event at the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIocu-prj4iGdY0NwHUWjPYWLvywnGfLeku

VICTR is sponsored by the Future of Truth Project at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, the University of Alabama, and the University of Waikato

Physiological mechanisms and biotic interactions structuring range limits along an elevational gradient

Black-backed woodpecker resource selection and demographic responses to variation in fire characteristics

Graduate Student Seminar
"Circularly Polarized Luminescence Generated by Organometallic Complexes"
Min (Neal) Deng
Ung Research Group, UConn.

Join via Webex:
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Rebecca M. Shansky, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor,
Laboratory of Neuroanatomy and Behavior,
Department of Psychology,
Northeastern University,
Boston, MA

Talk Title:
“A neural basis for sex differences in conditioned fear expression.”

Host: Dr. Linnaea Ostroff

The Northeast CCCC Summer Conference originally scheduled to take place at Boston University during the summer of 2020 has been moved online and will be held virtually over Zoom from July 6–7, 2021. The conference theme—Critical Literacies in the 21st Century Classroom—remains the same. The conference organizers are re-opening the call for proposals specifically to invite “P.S. (Postscript) Proposals” that reflect the changes we have experienced as a country and community of educators since the initial call for proposals went out. Proposals are due April 15, 2021. For more information and to submit a proposal please see the website: https://necccc.org/

Submit your fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The book will be published for the 2021 Festival. Published and emerging writers (of all ages) are encouraged to apply. Simultaneous submissions accepted, with immediate notification if accepted elsewhere.

Talk 3 of an ECE, CWP and Dodd Center sponsored Speaker Series on Human Rights.

https://eosmith-org.zoom.us/j/92776362355

Professor D’Aquino is the UConn Logic Groups 2020/2021 Scholar of Consequence, and will deliver the Annual Logic Lecture.

Abstract: I will concentrate on the ideal theory of models of Peano Arithmetic and some of its weak fragments. I will present a model theoretic analysis of the residue rings of these structures.

With Kenya Rutland, KJR Consulting.
Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study, we will dive into how your existing team has navigated the pandemic, what qualities and resources you need to develop within your team to be successful in the future, and how to hold yourself and your team accountable on the way.

This program will focus on assessing the qualities of yourself and your staff in order to develop into a resilient team capable of adapting to change and succeeding in crisis.

For more info:
https://dpp.uconn.edu/collaborative/

Presenting: Peter Traykovski, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Seminar Title: DIY Drones: Using unmanned aerial and surface vehicles for nearshore oceanography

Host: Frank Bohlen

Abstract: https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/seminar/seminar1213/

Please join us for the third, and final, UConn History Department Foreign Policy Seminar of the Spring 2021 semester. Our latest meeting will be Friday, April 16. The speaker that evening will be sociologist Christy Thornton.

Thornton is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and a core faculty member for the Latin America in a Globalizing World Initiative at Johns Hopkins University. She also is the author of the new book, "Revolution in Development:
Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy." Professor Thornton's talk will discuss her book.

The seminar will start at 5 PM EST. A Q&A will immediately follow. It will be held on Zoom and here is the registration link:

https://tinyurl.com/FPS-Thornton

All are invited to attend the Master's Thesis Defense:


Investigating Responses to Hypothetical Vignettes and Actual Responses to Bullying by Gender Among Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Middle School Youth

Presented by Michelle Miller


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Advising Team:
Major Advisor- Linda Halgunseth, Ph.D.; Associate Advisor- Alaina Brenick, Ph.D.; Associate Advisor- Annamaria Csizmadia, Ph.D.

Dr. Vladimir Tishchenko, Brookhaven National Laboratory


First result of the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab


The Brookhaven muon g-2 experiment E821 measured the muon magnetic anomaly to a
precision of 540 ppb (parts per billion). The difference between the Standard Model theory value and the E821 experimental value ultimately became 3.7 standard deviations.
Is it a sign of new physics or a fluctuation? To answer this, a new experiment has been developed at Fermilab which uses the Brookhaven storage ring with the new muon beam and detectors. The Fermilab experiment has announced its much anticipated first results based on Run-1 data collected in 2018. In my talk, I will give a brief overview of the
g-2 experiment and talk about the Run-1 measurements with highlights in beam and spin dynamics effects.


Webex meeting URL: https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/meet/tcb04001/

The MCB Undergraduate Research Symposium is an opportunity to showcase the research accomplishments of the department’s undergraduate students. The three best presentations will be invited to participate in the All Biology Symposium on Monday 26th April.

Presenters will be:
2:30 pm Kerry Morgan, MCB and Allied Health Sciences Major
Advisor: Dr. James Li
Title: The Effects of MAPK Signaling on the Development of Cerebellar Granule Cells

2:50 pm Emily Kilian, MCB Major
Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Kline and Dr. Sharon Smith
Title: Language Acculturation Traits and BMI in Hispanic-American Children

3:10 pm Julia Horan, Biological Sciences Major
Advisor: Dr. David Knecht
Title: Chemokinesis of soil amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

3:30 pm Eman Ahmed, Physiology and Neurobiology Major
Advisor: Dr. Leighton Core
Title: Analysis of Timing of Transcriptional Readthrough Events in Mitosis

Symposium Link:

https://uconnvtc.webex.com/uconnvtc/j.php?MTID=mb04044f14c530234c447c5ffd6adfaa5

Let \(f:\mathbb P^1_K\to\mathbb P^1_K\) be a rational map defined over a number field \(K\). The Galois theory of the iterates \(f^n=f\circ\ldots\circ f\) has applications both in number theory and in arithmetic dynamics. In this talk, we will discuss the various Galois groups attached to the iterates of \(f\), namely arithmetic and geometric monodromy groups and Arboreal Galois representations. While providing a survey of recent results on the subject, we will also talk about joint work with I. Bouw and V. Karemaker on Dynamical Belyi maps.

Please contant the organizer for the WebEx link.

regular department meeting

This week: Tracy Llanera, "Misogyny, Feminism, and the Alt-Right"

A series of informal talks by philosophy faculty and graduate students. For a description and how to sign up, see http://philosophy.uconn.edu/brown-bags/.

NIH NRSA Pre-doctoral Fellowship Information Session
Get a head-start on your NRSA fellowship by learning the necessities before you start writing and the aspects of a winning application. This session will be facilitated by Professor Seth Kalichman, Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP), who is the instructor of Current topics in Psychology “Grant writing for Health) which will be offered this fall.


Overview
The overall goal of the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) program is to help ensure that a diverse pool of highly trained scientists is available in appropriate scientific disciplines to address the Nation’s biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs. More information about NRSA programs may be found at the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) website (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-13-127.html). The primary purpose of the NRSA is to ensure the TRAINING of independent research scientists.

Eligibility

Eligibility Criteria
o To be eligible for a Kirschstein-NRSA Individual Fellowship (F30, F31, F32), the fellowship applicant must be a U.S. citizen, a non-citizen national, or have been lawfully admitted to the U.S. for permanent residence before the award is issued. U.S. non-citizen nationals are persons born in lands that are not States but are under U.S. sovereignty, jurisdiction, or administration, e.g., American Samoa. Individuals on temporary student visas are not eligible for NRSA support. More for information, visit page I-97 of the Individual Fellowship Application Guide for NIH and AHRQ.


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Dr. Sapna Cheryan from Psychology Department of University of Washington will be presenting her work.

James Noonan, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor,
Genetics, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
and Neuroscience,
Yale University,
New Haven, CT

Talk Title:

“Genomic approaches for studying human development and its disorders.”

Host:
Dr. Rahul Kanadia

Simon Burrows (Western Sydney) will present on "Enlightenment in Ledgers: Digitally Mapping the French Book Trade".

Registration for this event is online, via eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/133021299287

This event is sponsored by the Digital Humanities and Media Studies initiatuve at the UConn Humanities Institute

Join us for the release of the '19-'20 and'20-'21 Poetic Journeys public art project, featuring collaborations between UConn poets and fine arts students.

The University of Connecticut proudly invites you to join UConn Reads for its capstone event, an interdisciplinary forum with author Amitav Ghosh as well as with a multidisciplinary panel comprising esteemed faculty members and students from across the University. The forum will feature a presentation by Dr. Ghosh, followed by a thoughtful panel discussion with the author initiated by themes in Dr. Ghosh's book, The Great Derangement. A Question and Answer Session with the audience will conclude the programming.

Program is co-sponsored by the Teale Nature and the Environment Lecture Series.

Visit https://www.events.foundation.uconn.edu/website/21244/ for more information and to register.

We consider dynamic decision making under uncertainty within the specific context of insurance and financial decisions of an individual. We provide a general introduction to the area. Classical problems of decision making in finance are generalized to also include decision making in insurance. We consider specifically the distinction between time-additive and time-non-additive utility and introduce in that connection the notion of time-consistency. Time-consistency in dynamic decision making has gained increasing attention during the last decade and we discuss the concept and some key idea and results. For all problems studied, the focus is on understanding the structure of the problem and the structure of its solution. All theoretical aspects are related to concrete issues in daily life about insurance choice, pension saving and consumption patterns over the life cycle.

The Department of Political Science presents The 2021 Gerson Foreign Policy Lecture made possible by the Louis L. Gerson Fund.

Tamara Cofman Wittes,
Brookings Institution Senior Fellow and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, will present a talk entitled "Solidarity: How to Support Democracy Abroad When it is Challenged at Home" on Tuesday, April 22 from 4 to 5:15 PM.

WebEx URL: https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/onstage/g.php?MTID=ed3a10bdf528e48864c4c72e4da174b66
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Tamara Cofman Wittes is a senior fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings, where she focuses on U.S. policy in the Middle East. She served as deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs from November of 2009 to January 2012, coordinating U.S. policy on democracy and human rights in the Middle East during the Arab uprisings.

Wittes co-hosts the podcast Rational Security, and is currently writing a book, Our SOBs, on the tangled history of America’s ties to autocratic allies. Prior to joining Brookings, she served at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Middle East Institute in Washington, taught at Georgetown University and was one of the first recipients of the Rabin-Peres Peace Award, established by President Bill Clinton in 1997.

Her books include "Freedom’s Unsteady March: America’s Role in Building Arab Democracy" (Brookings Institution Press, 2008) and editor of "How Israelis and Palestinians Negotiate: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Oslo Peace Process" (USIP, 2005). She holds a bachelor's in Judaic and Near Eastern studies from Oberlin College, and a master's and doctorate in government from Georgetown University. She is a founder of the Leadership Council for Women in National Security, and serves on the board of the National Democratic Institute. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Women in International Security.

Please join the Center for the Study of Culture, Health, & Human Development for the launch of its new video “Making Voices Heard: Diversity, Disadvantage, and Discrimination in Educational Settings,” funded by an award from the President’s Commitment to Community Initiative.

Following introductory remarks by Dr. Franklin Tuitt, Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer at UConn, the video will feature diverse UConn undergraduates, graduate students, and young professionals in conversations about experiences of racism and how we can respond positively to current challenges. Faculty members Alaina Brenick (HDFS) and Clewiston Challenger (Educational Psychology) will discuss research and ways forward.

Wrapping up the event, individuals featured in the video will be with us to respond to questions and comments from the audience.


Registration is required.

Please register at https://tinyurl.com/2wynpcrk and you will receive the link to join the event.

For more information or accommodation requests, please contact Caroline Mavridis at: caroline.mavridis@uconn.edu


Following the launch event, the video will be made available for teaching and training purposes through the CHHD website (http://CHHD.uconn.edu).

Join us for this book release featuring an anthology by Gina Barreca!

Bilateralist Truth-Maker Semantics for ST, TS, LP, K3, ...

Ulf Hlobil, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Abstract:
The talk advocates a marriage of inferentialist bilateralism and truth-maker bilateralism. Inferentialist bilateralists like Restall and Ripley say that a collection of sentences, Y, follows from a collection of sentences, X, iff it is incoherent (or out-of-bounds) to assert all the sentences in X and, at the same time, deny all the sentences in Y. In Fine’s truth-maker theory, we have a partially ordered set of states that exactly verify and falsify sentences, and some of these states are impossible. We can think of making-true as the worldly analogue of asserting, of making-false as the worldly analogue of denying, and of impossibility as the worldly analogue of incoherence. This suggests that we may say that, in truth-maker theory, a collection of sentences, Y, follows (logically) from a collection of sentences, X, iff (in all models) any fusion of exact verifiers of the members of X and exact falsifiers of the member of Y is impossible. Under routine assumptions about truth-making, this yields classical logic. Relaxing one such assumption yields the non-transitive logic ST. Relaxing another assumption yields the non-reflexive logic TS. We can use known facts about the relation between ST, LP, and K3, to provide an interpretation of LP as the logic of falsifiers and K3 as the logic of verifiers. The resulting semantics for ST is more flexible than its usual three-valued semantics because it allows us, e.g., to reject monotonicity. We can also recover fine-grained logics, like Correia’s logic of factual equivalence.

All welcome!

Please contact us for the Zoom log-in information.

Presenting: Jessica Fitzsimmons, Texas A & M University

Seminar Title: Iron supply from deep-sea hydrothermal plumes: New insights from the Southern East Pacific Rise case study

Host: Robert Mason

Abstract: https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/seminar/seminar1213/

We are pleased to announce that the last talk in the speaker series of the Expression, Communication, and Origins of Meaning Research Group for this academic year will be given by Emeritus Prof. Peter Gärdenfors from Lund University (co-hosted with the Dartmouth PhilLab).

The title of his talk is “Theory of Mind and the Evolution of Cognition”.

For event link please register here: https://ecomresearchgroup.com/prof-peter-gardenfors-talk/

Waverly Duck is an urban sociologist and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. His wide-ranging ethnographic work focuses on poverty, racism, urban development, food apartheid, and police/neighborhood interactions and criminalization. He is the author of No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing (University of Chicago Press, 2015), which was a finalist for C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. His new book on unconscious racism, Tacit Racism, was published in 2020

Please join us for an exciting UConn History Department event, “Hispanic/Latinx Antifascism and the Spanish Republican Cause in the United States, 1936-1977.”

The panel will meet on Friday, April 23rd from 12:00-1:15 PM EST. This talk will be on Zoom and will include panelists Dr. Ariel Mae Lambe (Assistant Professor of History at the University of Connecticut), Dr. Cristina Pérez Jiménez (Assistant Professor of English at Manhattan College), and Dr. Montse Feu (Associate Professor of Spanish at Sam Houston State University).

Dr. Chris Vials, Professor of English and Director of American Studies at the University of Connecticut, will serve as moderator and commentator. All are welcome.

For more information about the talk, contact the event's organizer, Dr. Ariel Mae Lambe (ariel.lambe@uconn.edu).

Please register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Here is the link for registration:

https://tinyurl.com/LatinxAntifascism

Tap your powers of observation and investigate a single work of art through close looking and discussion with Amanda Douberley, Assistant Curator/Academic Liaison.

This month we are featuring works of art in the exhibition, Käthe Kollwitz: Activism Through Art.
This week’s subject is "In Memoriam Karl Liebknecht" (1920) by Käthe Kollwitz.

Offered via Zoom Meetings – registration is required and space is limited.

Registration Link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kd-ypqjsuHtXMCRxCNg3TtPMp5Za-DgT-

Your registration will be approved if space is available. You will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting or put on a wait list.

The study group Subversiones Filosóficas, housed at the department of Literatures, Cultures and Languages in UCONN, sponsored by El Instituto: Institute for Latina/o, Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the UCONN Humanities Institute, invites you to:

A virtual talk and Q&A with Gareth Williams on Friday, April 23rd at 12:30 pm: "Él no es: Infrapolitics and the Experience of Tragedy".
Williams is a professor of Latin American Studies and Critical Theory at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is also the author of numerous books that explore Latin America in the context of unfettered neoliberalism and globalization, with particular interest in the history of political thought and the genealogies of continental philosophy, Marxism, post-Marxism, and psychoanalysis. His latest book, Infrapolitical Passages: Global Turmoil, Narco-Accumulation and the Post Sovereign State (Fordham UP, 2021), explores the exhaustion of current political determinations and proposes the Infrapolitical as an alternative to thinking biopolitical productions of subjectivity and life.

Zoom Link:
Topic: Talk and Q&A with Gareth Williams

Time: Apr 23, 2021 12:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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In this talk, we will focus on Rees and multi-Rees algebras of strongly stable ideals. In particular, we will discuss the Koszulness of these algebras through a systematic study of these objects via three parameters: the number of ideals, the number of Borel generators of each ideal, and the degrees of Borel generators. In addition, we utilize combinatorial objects such as fiber graphs to detect Gröbner bases and Koszulness of these algebras.

Please contant the organizer for the WebEx link.

The Transdisciplinary Italian Seminar (Italian Studies - LCL Department), with the Department of Marine Sciences (UConn, Avery Point), and UConn Reads, Office of the Provost


are pleased to invite you to

"Swimming in Microplastics? Pictures from the Adriatic Sea"

a talk by

Martina Capriotti, Ph.D.
(UConn, Avery Point)

PLASTIC POLLUTION in the ocean is becoming a real threat for marine life. The microscopic form of plastic is also of high interest, as it has been found everywhere, impacting living beings at different levels. In this talk, Dr. Capriotti will explain how plastic and microplastic pollution is affecting the sea, and particularly the Italian waters where she was born and that she studied, the Adriatic Sea.

MARTINA CAPRIOTTI is an Italian marine biologist, from San Benedetto del Tronto, an Adriatic seaside town. She used to study microplastic and chemical pollution in Adriatic Sea, back in Italy. She is a 2018 National Geographic explorer and a 2018 SKY Ocean Rescue Scholar. Martina is currently a postdoc researcher at the Dept. of Marine Sciences – UConn, where she studies the feeding physiology of marine suspension feeders, like bivalves and ascidians.

The event is cosponsored by the UConn Reads Mini Grant program. Twenty undergraduate students attending the talk will receive a free e-copy of Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016). Contact andrea.celli@uconn.edu for a copy.

MEETING INFORMATION

Meeting link: https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=m9f5adf88b6230d1690e12c3e179e5787

Meeting number: 120 205 5189

Password: ILCS

The Transdisciplinary Italian Seminar (Italian Studies - LCL Department)

with the Department of Marine Sciences (UConn, Avery Point),

and UConn Reads, Office of the Provost

in the context of 2020-2021 thematic focus on

Environmental Justice and Human Rights

are pleased to invite you to

"Swimming in Microplastics? Pictures from the Adriatic Sea"

a talk by

Martina Capriotti, Ph.D. (UConn, Avery Point)

PLASTIC POLLUTION in the ocean is becoming a real threat for marine life and for the Anthropocene itself. The microscopic form of plastic has been found everywhere, impacting living beings at different levels. This is an issue that should concern the humanities, as it is a product of human civilization and is a threat to its well-being and future. In this talk, Dr. Capriotti will explain how plastic and microplastic pollution are affecting the sea, and particularly the Italian waters where she was born and that she studied, the Adriatic Sea.

MARTINA CAPRIOTTI is an Italian marine biologist, from San Benedetto del Tronto, an Adriatic seaside town. She used to study microplastic and chemical pollution in Adriatic Sea, back in Italy. She is a 2018 National Geographic explorer and a 2018 SKY Ocean Rescue Scholar. Martina is currently a postdoc researcher at the Dept. of Marine Sciences – UConn, where she studies the feeding physiology of marine suspension feeders, like bivalves and ascidians.

The event is cosponsored by the UConn Reads Mini Grant program. Twenty undergraduate students attending the talk will receive a free e-copy of Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016). Contact andrea.celli@uconn.edu for a copy.

MEETING INFORMATION

Meeting link: https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=m9f5adf88b6230d1690e12c3e179e5787

Meeting number: 120 205 5189

Password: ILCS

Contact:

andrea.celli@uconn.edu

A ceremony to recognize the students honored by the Letters About Literature program, sponsored by the Connecticut Writing Project and the Neag School of Education.

Prof. Phiala Shanahan, MIT

Physics Department Colloquium

Title and abstract: TBD

All are invited to attend the Master's Presentation:

Falls Prevention & Post Fall Strategies in a Skilled Nursing Facility: A Case Study

Presented by Debra Tomasino


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Meeting link: https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/meet/dft15101
Access code: 614 547 066


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Advising Team:
Major Advisor- Laura Donorfio, Ph.D.; Associate Advisor- Brian Chapman, Ed.D.; Associate Advisor- Kevin Manning, Ph.D.; Associate Advisor: Ryan Watson, Ph.D.

Shade Research Collective Symposium: Power, Migration, and Culture in and out of the Tobacco Valley

Panel 1 - Shaded Archives
9-10:30AM

“Imperial Frames and Colonial Politics in the Making of the Tobacco Valley”
Jason Oliver Chang
Associate Professor of History and Asian and Asian American Studies
University of Connecticut

“The Long Shadow and Legacies of WWII Labor Programs”
Fiona Vernal
Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies
University of Connecticut

“Puerto Rican Tobacco Worker Migration to Connecticut”
Elena Rosario
PhD Candidate in History
University of Michigan


Panel 2 - Shades of Tobacco Life
11AM-12:30PM

“Manifest Disablemment”
Sony Coráñez Bolton
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latinx and Latin American Studies
Amherst College

“Beyond the Fields: Gender, Labor, and the Public Legacies of Puerto Rican Farm Workers and Needleworkers”
Aimee Loiselle
Postdoctoral Fellow
Smith College

“Cultivating Dignity”
Alycia Bright Holland
Associate Professor of Theatre
Kristen Morgan
Associate Professor of Theatre and New Media Studies
Eastern Connecticut State University

Come write and workshop your writing with other teachers!

The Virtual International Consortium for Truth Research (VICTR) will have a talk by Eduardo Barrio (University of Buenos Aires), on “Anti-exceptionalism, Truth, and the BA-Plan” on April 26, 10:00am EDT / 14:00 UTC.

Abstract: Anti-exceptionalism about logic states that logical theories have no special epistemological status. Such theories are continuous with scientific theories. Contemporary anti-exceptionalists include data about semantic paradoxes as a part of the logical evidence. Exploring the Buenos Aires Plan, the recent development of the metainferential hierarchy of ST-logics shows that there are multiple options to deal with such paradoxes. There is a whole ST-based hierarchy, of which LP and ST themselves are only the first steps. The logics in this hierarchy are also options to analyze the inferential patterns allowed in a language that contains its own truth predicate. This talk explores these responses analyzing some reasons to go beyond the first steps. I will show that LP, ST, and the logics of the ST-hierarchy offer different diagnoses for the same evidence: the inferences and metainferences the agents endorse in the presence of the truth-predicate. But even if the data are not enough to adopt one of these logics, there are other elements to evaluate the revision of classical logic. How close should we be to classical logic? Which logic should be used during the revision? Should a logic be closed under its own rules? How could a logic obey the validities it contains? And mainly, which is the best explanation for the logical principles to deal with semantic paradoxes? I will argue that, if the answers to these questions are provided from an anti-exceptionalist perspective, ST-metainferential logics in general are the best available options.

You can register for this event at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIocu-prj4iGdY0NwHUWjPYWLvywnGfLeku

VICTR is sponsored by the Future of Truth Project at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, the University of Alabama, and the University of Waikato

Webex Meeting link:
https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=medc5f99d9c3e32000d1cc3384928ade2

Meeting number: 120 538 8998
Password: UConn

Abstract: This study investigates the asset–liability management (ALM) of life insurers in the markets with negative interest rates. Using a sample of Japanese life insurers between 1999 and 2018, we provide initial evidence that the negative interest rate environment produces a much more serious consequence on insurers than the positive interest rate environment. Given that duration and convexity are two common measures widely used by insurers to manage their assets and liabilities, we highlight that the assumption of flat yield curve underlying the traditional measures (e.g. the Macaulay and modified durations and convexities) is problematic when interest rates turn negative. To address this issue, we propose an ALM framework using the duration and convexity based on the Vasicek stochastic model. Our results show that the strategy based on the Vasicek model outperforms the strategy using the modified duration and convexity in the negative interest rate environment.

Speaker's bio: Dr. Lin is V.J. Skutt Distinguished Professor and Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Please visit her website for more information: http://business.unl.edu/people/ylin

Are you a history major unsure of what you'd like to do with your degree after graduation? This presentation is for you! History majors graduate with a wide variety of transferrable skills that prepare them for successful careers in many industries. This presentation will review some common career paths of history alumni as well as some job, internship, and graduate school search strategies.

If you require accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for Career Development at career@uconn.edu.

Event link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85910690527?pwd=STFMMWZTNkdhV1BReERpZDhuL0lsZz09

2021 Biology Undergraduate Research Symposium

Program Link: https://uconnvtc.webex.com/uconnvtc/j.php?MTID=m20a837556c1272f1b65062a5ada199bb

Zach Harris, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut

Resurgence and the Euler-Heisenberg Effective Action


Perturbation theory is one of the most accessible tools we have for studying quantum
systems and quantum field theories. For most interesting problems, these expansions in the relevant small parameter are formally divergent. However, resummation techniques have been developed to make sense of such expansions, and provide access to a rich substructure relating perturbative physics to non-perturbative physics which was obscured by the divergence. This unification of perturbative and non-perturbative physics is a manifestation of resurgence — a mathematical phenomenon which we use to study perturbative expansions in QED. We present a modified Padé-Borel analysis of the one-loop and two-loop Euler-Heisenberg QED effective action, and demonstrate with remarkable precision our ability to re-sum weak magnetic field expansions to learn about the strong magnetic field and electric field regimes. At two-loop order, we successfully decode novel, non-perturbative structure in the Schwinger pair-production rate — the rate at which a constant electric field will polarize the vacuum.

Are you an English major unsure of what you'd like to do with your degree after graduation? This presentation is for you! English majors graduate with a wide variety of transferrable skills that prepare them for successful careers in many industries. This presentation will review some common career paths of English alumni as well as some job, internship, and graduate school search strategies.

If you require accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for Career Development at career@uconn.edu.

Event link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82699659823?pwd=U3d6ZnlyK3hDQmttNER6czJ0OUo2Zz09

Dr. Leah Rosin (PhD '16)
Postdoctoral Fellow NIH/NIDDK

Host: Dr. Barbara Mellone

"Connecting 3D genome structure and function using Oligopaint FISH"

Summary: Using microscopy-based approaches and the Drosophila model systems, we interrogate how the interphase genome is organized, what factors contribute to large scale genome organization, and what happens when genome organization is disrupted.

Dr. Rosin received her PhD in Genetics and Genomics from UCONN in 2016. From there, she did a short postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania with Eric Joyce. Dr. Rosin is currently a senior postdoc at the NIH with Elissa Lei studying nuclear organization in insects.

View publication at: https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1007393

Seminar Link: https://uconnvtc.webex.com/webappng/sites/uconnvtc/meeting/download/73b0482edc2d4296b538911b3923d6f4?siteurl=uconnvtc&MTID=mf888e1957a812a5c6b3968a2580b5f42

UConn's Algebra Seminar WebEx series

This week: Kristin Culbertson, "Buddhism and Moral Anger"
A series of informal talks by philosophy faculty and graduate students. For a description and how to sign up, see http://philosophy.uconn.edu/brown-bags/.

Dr. Brandy Simula from Georgia Institute of Technology will be holding a workshop on flourishing during job searches. The event is open to all graduate psychology students.

*Dr. Brandy Simula is invited by Science of Learning & Art of Communication (SLAC).

Eric Schnell, M.D., Ph.D.,
Associate Professor,
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine,
Oregon Health & Science University,
Portland Oregon

Talk Title:
“Functional Hippocampal Circuit Rearrangements in Epilepsy”

Host:
Dr. Anastasios Tzingounis

Help us celebrate the publication of the 2021 issue of UConn’s award-winning literary and arts journal!

The Department of Mathematics' Annual Awards Day Ceremony to celebrate our student's achievements.

Talk 4 of an ECE, CWP and Dodd Center sponsored Speaker Series on Human Rights.

https://eosmith-org.zoom.us/j/92776362355