Upcoming Events

Neftali Villanueva Fernadez (Granada)

The series will be hosting an online event titled "Cosmopolitismos. Transficción." with Osdany Morales. This event will be in Spanish.

Faces, Masks, Bodies: Contemporary Cuban Writing, Art, and Performance.
Online event with Osdany Morales. Register at http://s.uconn.edu/osdanymorales

For more information, visit https://elin.uconn.edu/2022/09/20/faces-masks-bodies-contemporary-cuban-writing-art-and-performance/

Dr. Takashi Akera

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)/NIH

Host: Barbara Mellone

Join us at 3:15 in the BPB lobby for refreshments, Seminar begins at 3:30

"The impact of genetic cheating on reproduction and speciation"

Summary: Dr. Akera will talk about two unpublished stories that reveal both the cell biological basis and evolutionary consequences of meiotic drive, where selfish DNA violate Mendel’s Law of Segregation to increase their own rate of transmission.

Bio: Dr. Takashi Akera graduated from the University of Tokyo with a Ph.D. in Biophysics and Biochemistry in 2014 and conducted postdoc research at the University of Pennsylvania in the laboratory of Dr. Michael Lampson from 2015 to 2019. He received both Holtzer Award for outstanding postdoctoral research in Cell and Developmental Biology and Kaushal Award for excellence in postdoctoral research in Genetics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018. He was also a finalist for the ASCB Porter Prize for Research Excellence Award in 2018. Dr. Akera joined the NHLBI in 2019 as an Earl Stadtman tenure-track Investigator.

To learn more about Dr. Akera, view his publication at: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29097549/ and his website at: https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/science/chromosome-dynamics-and-evolution

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Let X be a nonsingular complex projective surface. The Weyl
and Zariski chambers give two interesting decompositions of the big cone of X. In this talk, first I will explain the big cone and its chamber
decompositions. Then I will briefly describe when a Weyl chamber is contained in the interior of a Zariski chamber and vice versa. Moreover
at the end, we will see when a Weyl chamber can intersect non-trivially with a Zariski chamber.

Did you know many women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ artists are MIA from Wikipedia? Join the Benton in a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon to add the forgotten artists, authors, and editors of science fiction pulps. Bring your laptops and learn how to research and edit Wikipedia to make it more inclusive.

Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon is an annual, global collaborative effort to redress the under representation of women, gender fluid, and BIPOC women weditors and artists to the global online encyclopedia. http://artandfeminism.org offers online training for instructors/editors, provides grant monies for pizza and childcare, and backup when the inevitable “old guard” male Wiki editor resistance to an addition kicks in.

For more information see: https://artfeminismwikiedit.uconn.edu

In conjunction with the exhibition, "Ray Guns, Dames, and the Guilty Gaze: Feminism and the Golden Age of Science Fiction Pulps", the Benton is hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon to add the forgotten artists, authors, and editors of science fiction pulps.

The exhibition and related public programs are supported by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, the School of Fine Arts, and the Office of the Vice President for Research.

Andrew Gibbs, UConn

Model Comparison of the Circumgalactic Medium

Prof. J. Nathan Hohman,
Institute of Materials Science,
University of Connecticut


Serial Femtosecond Crystallography of Continuously Variable Synthetic Materials


The ready availability of single crystal x-ray diffraction has led to a wealth of new materials characterized each year. However, known material structures are biased towards those that are easily crystallized. Hybrid materials in particular trend towards crystals too small or otherwise pathological to be used for traditional characterization techniques. Here, we used a new technique of serial femtosecond chemical crystallography (SFCX) that uses the high brightness of an X-ray free-electron laser to acquire diffraction from crystals in the 1-5 micron range. Graph theory is used to index those snapshots, enabling determination of crystal structure. We used this technique to explore the ligand environment with variables of steric hinderance, functional group, and intermolecular forces, each addressed by selecting different ligand shapes and configurations. We find dramatic differences in the connectivity, topology, and dimensionality of the resulting silver organothiolates. Of note is the nature of the Ag-Ag interactions, which appear to be an important component of the fine structure of the silver systems. The Ag-Ag networks are found to rearrange as a function of the supramolecular ordering of each example system.

London Willson, UConn

Categorizing Rare Super-Chandrasekhar Type Ia Supernovae

Dr. Toni Schmader from the University of British Columbia will be presenting their work.

Prof. Lucy Gao
University of British Columbia

STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM
Virtual talk

Lucy Gao
Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics
University of British Columbia

Valid inference after clustering, with application to single-cell
RNA-sequencing data

Abstract
Testing for a difference in means between two groups is fundamental to answering research questions across virtually every scientific area. Standard hypothesis tests (e.g. the t-test) control the type I error rate when the groups to be tested are defined before looking at the data. However, if the groups are instead defined by applying a clustering algorithm to the data, then applying a standard test for a difference in group means to that same data yields an extremely inflated selective type I error rate. This two-step "double-dipping" procedure is common in the analysis of single-cell RNA-sequencing data.

In my talk, I will apply ideas from selective inference to enable valid inference after hierarchical clustering. If time permits, I will also introduce count splitting: a flexible framework that enables valid inference after latent variable estimation in count-valued data, for virtually any latent variable estimation technique and inference approach.

This talk is based on joint work with Jacob Bien (University of Southern California), Daniela Witten and Anna Neufeld (University of Washington), as well as Alexis Battle and Joshua Popp (Johns Hopkins University).

Bio: Lucy is an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of British Columbia. Prior to UBC, she was an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo. .


Wednesday, November 2, 2022
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“Transcribathon” describes the full range of the Early Modern Studies Working Group’s efforts to teach and develop the skills of paleography. UConn’s Transcribathon convenes bi-weekly and aims to make the experience fun and rewarding by providing participants an opportunity both to collaborate on a community project, and to receive useful research training for projects that require paleography.

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Sponsored by the Kim Family Fund

"“Understanding functional transformations carried out by the olfactory bulb.”

Presenter: Douglas Storace, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Florida State University

Host: Srdjan D. Antic, MD

Daniel Almirall, Ph.D., University of Michigan

"Multi-level Adaptive Implementation Strategies (MAISYs):
Design Principles, Optimization Questions and Choosing the Right Experimental Design"

November 3, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:30 PM

Dr. Almirall's current methodological research interests lie in the broad area of causal inference. He is particularly interested in methods for causal inference using longitudinal data sets in which treatments, covariates, and outcomes are all time-varying. He is also interested in developing statistical methods that can be used to form adaptive interventions, sometimes known as dynamic treatment regimes.

View the upcoming series, access RSVP's, and watch archived lectures: https://chip.uconn.edu/lecture-series-2/

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Adrian KC Lee, PhD
University of Washington
Instilling cultural changes in an institution is an uphill battle. Some take up leadership positions at an institution in the hope of making lasting changes. Crafting a vision of change is obviously important, but often the execution of changes is stalled because the road ahead is too daunting. While change management is a well-studied discipline in the business world, we barely leverage this in academia. In this talk, we will introduce one specific change management model and discuss how well-defined steps could help us lead effective change in the academic enterprise, using a change in DEI culture as an example.

Join us for our first Work-in-Progress featuring Dr. Brendan Kane's work. Email us for more details at uconnearlymodern@gmail.com.

Chemistry Colloquium
Dugan Hayes
University of Rhode Island
Host: Alfredo Angeles-Boza

Title: "Designing Effective Environmental and Conservation Policies: The Role of Collective Approaches"

Macdonald polynomials are symmetric functions depending on a set of variables X and two parameters q,t. They appear in a growing number of formulas for the characters of bigraded modules of the symmetric group. After giving a combinatorial description of the Macdonald polynomial I will highlight some of the fascinating open problems associated with them and the associated character formulas.

This event is a public roundtable on South Korea’s place in the Pacific.

Keynote speaker:
Admiral Scott Swift, Commander Pacific Fleet

Round Table Panelists will address security and logistics challenges to South Korea.

This event is free and open to the public, with reception to follow.

The Center for the Study of Popular Music and American Studies presents "BBQ, Music, and the Beat of America" on Thursday November 3rd, 2022 at 4 pm in the Class of 1947 room at the Homer Babbidge Library.

J. D. Bowers is the Dean of the Honors College and a Professor of the Practice in Africana Studies and History at Rutgers University. His academic and resarch foxus is in the areas of human rights and civil rights as expressed through cultural constructions and civil and political institutions, and how societies navigate their pathways in post-atrocity settings.

In 2016, he created an interdisciplinary course on barbeque at the University of Missouri, expanded it to include soul food, and has turned his passion for food into a deeper socio-cultural investigation into its meanings, purposes, and expressions.

Open to all!

A lecture from a distinguished National Phi Beta Kappa Scholar sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa:
"The Location of China: Spanish Encounters with the Middle Kingdom, 1521–1621"

Spain’s colonization of the Philippine Islands led to an encounter with Ming China that was somewhat different from those experienced by the Portuguese and the Jesuits, one that generated questions about the location of China both in the geography of the globe and in the emerging hierarchy of the world’s cultures, as imagined from Europe. Were the Chinese as civilized as they seemed to be? Or were they just another version of the “barbarian” countries that the Spanish had already conquered in Mexico and Peru? What did it mean to be civilized anyway, and how could one tell? In this lecture, I introduce this little-known episode in the history of early modern European, arguing that it was the nature of Chinese government, not religion, that proved to be crucial.

**This event is a benefit for the Covenant Soup Kitchen in Willimantic. Audience members are invited to make a donation after the reading.**

Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program.

Julie Choffel was born and raised in Austin, Texas. She studied geography at Texas State University, and graduated from the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Her first collection of poems The Hello Delay (2012) was selected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge for the 2011 Poets Out Loud Prize. Her first chapbook Figures in a Surplus was published in 2011, and her most recent chapbook The Inevitable Return of What We Do Not Love is forthcoming in November 2022. Her poems have been published in Denver Quarterly, Fairy Tale Review, Make/shift, American Letters & Commentary, and elsewhere. In 2017, she was appointed as the poet laureate of West Hartford, Connecticut. She teaches creative writing at UConn-Storrs, and lives in Connecticut with her husband and their three children.

Thomas Lawrence Long, professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut, is the author of books and articles on medical humanities and health studies. Newly retired, he is undertaking a deep dive into Middle English lyrics, a project he suspended 45 years ago.

Although Maurice Sendak was not a puppeteer, he understood the nature of puppetry's never-ending fascination with objects, images, movement, music, and text, and how the creation of those combinations with a collaborative team of artists can make puppets come alive. This forum, moderated by Ballard Institute Interim Co-Director Matt Sorensen, will feature Jonathan Weinberg, Lynn Caponera, and Tyler Fallas of The Maurice Sendak Foundation, as well as Nick Kraczyna, husband of the exhibition’s prominently featured artist, the late Amy Luckenbach, to look at the various ways Sendak designed, collected, and collaborated with puppets and puppet productions. This forum is co-sponsored by The Maurice Sendak Foundation.

This forum will take place on Zoom (registration required) and Facebook Live and will be available afterwards on the Ballard Institute’s Facebook page and YouTube Channel.

For more information about this forum and the speakers, visit http://bimp.uconn.edu/2022/10/25/sendak-forum.

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Approximately 1,100 Americans traveled to Palestine, and later Israel, between 1948 and 1949 to volunteer in the nascent Israel Defense Forces. The Nationality Act of 1940, however, had previously declared that Americans could lose their citizenship if they participated in a foreign military without the permission of the United States government. Given the illegality of joining Machal (the Hebrew acronym for the military unit comprised of “volunteers from abroad”), American Jews and a handful of non-Jews devised various clandestine methods to travel to Israel. An analysis of the legal and extra-legal frameworks used by American machalnikim to enter and exit Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War reveals the significance that travel played in these volunteers’ wartime experiences. It also reflects the tenuousness of the early US-Israel alliance, as the US government opposed participation in an overseas war, but the lack of overall prosecution for those that traveled to Israel suggested a more friendly and diplomatic response.

Amy Weiss, PhD, joined The Greenberg Center in January 2021, after completing a Thomas and Elissa Ellant Katz Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania’s Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, where she began working on a book on American Jewish-evangelical relations. Her research and publications focus on the intersections of American Jewish history, Israel Studies, and Jewish-Christian relations, including her current book manuscript on American Jewish-evangelical interfaith relations and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Most recently, Amy’s articles have been published in the journals American Jewish History, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Israel Studies, and in the edited volumes Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and Minhagim: Custom and Practice in Jewish Life.

Today is the last day to apply for Spring 2023 admission to the 100% Online Research Methods, Measurement, & Evaluation Master's degree program and the 100% Online Graduate Certificate in Program Evaluation program. For more information, visit: https://rmme.education.uconn.edu/

A talk hosted by UVA’s Institute of the Humanities & Global Cultures:
"The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West"

The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West (Chicago 2020) examines the place of Pacific and Asia in the Spanish concept of “the Indies.” Padrón’s research for this book has taken him to China, Japan, and the Philippines, and has been sponsored by U.Va.’s Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation, Arts & Sciences at U.Va., and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Presenting: Bärbel Hönisch

Seminar Title: Paleo-CO2 Reconstructions and Cenozoic climate change

Host: David Lund

Abstract: https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/seminar/seminar1228/

Earth Sciences Seminar Series
Friday November 4, 2022
12:30PM
Storrs Hall WW16
Dr. Stephen Monna

Kit Fine (NYU)

"Is Self Reference Possible?"

Yes, but under a certain natural conception of what expressions are, far harder to achieve than one might have thought. I will argue that self reference cannot plausibly be taken to be possible without making substantive - and somewhat controversial - assumptions concerning the role of quotation, the nature of definition, and the general form of meaning and semantic explanation.

Eric Alterman, CUNY Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College, will give a talk titled "America's Fight over Israel"

All UCONN faculty/ staff/ students welcome

Women’s Center 50th Anniversary Celebration with Melissa Harris Perry

Professor Melissa Harris-Perry is the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University where she teaches courses on American politics and elections at the intersections of race, place, and gender. She is the founder and President of the Anna Julia Cooper Center, an independent organization with a mission to advance justice and alleviate harm for women and girls of color in American higher education. Along with Dorian Warren, she is co-host of the podcast System Check, with The Nation.

For nearly two decades, Harris-Perry has contributed to American public life through her distinct combination of scholarly analysis and grounded wisdom applied to analysis of race, gender, politics, and power. She hosted the award winning television show “Melissa Harris-Perry” from 2012-2016 on weekend mornings on MSNBC and in 2016, won the Hillman Prize for broadcast journalism.

Co-sponsored by African American Cultural Center, Asian American Cultural Center, Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center, Rainbow Center, Native American Cultural Programs, Middle Eastern Cultural Programs, Office for Diversity and Inclusion, Office of the Vice President for Research, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, School of Fine Arts, School of Social Work, Neag School of Education, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources, Law School's Constance Belton Green Diversity Fund, School of Pharmacy, Homer Babbidge Library, Office of the Provost, the Human Rights Institute, and the UConn Foundation.

Friday, 7pm, Jorgensen Center for the Performing arts. Reception immediately following at the Alumni Center.

RSVP is required for both events and can be found at https://bit.ly/3F2oYtC.

ANNOUNCING REGISTRATION FOR THE CWP-STORRS 2021 FALL TEACHER-WRITER RETREAT AT TRINITY RETREAT CENTER in West Cornwall, CT

ABOUT: The Connecticut Writing Project-Storrs has been successfully providing writers retreats for teacher-writers since 1990. Our writing retreats offer educators the opportunity to devote time to their writing, share feedback, network, and learn from other teacher-writers.

DATES: Friday, November 5th to Sunday, November 7th

Please see the attached flyer and registration form for more details. Registration due by Friday, October 22nd. Contact Danielle Pieratti with questions or for more information.

We hope you'll join us!

Join us to meet some of our original organizers, connect with Women’s Center Alumni/ae, share stories and make new connections!

ANNOUNCING REGISTRATION FOR THE CWP-STORRS 2021 FALL TEACHER-WRITER RETREAT AT TRINITY RETREAT CENTER in West Cornwall, CT

ABOUT: The Connecticut Writing Project-Storrs has been successfully providing writers retreats for teacher-writers since 1990. Our writing retreats offer educators the opportunity to devote time to their writing, share feedback, network, and learn from other teacher-writers.

DATES: Friday, November 5th to Sunday, November 7th

Please see the attached flyer and registration form for more details. Registration due by Friday, October 22nd. Contact Danielle Pieratti with questions or for more information.

We hope you'll join us!

Looking to be more competitive on the job market? Graduating and don't know what to do next? Want skills you can use at school, at work, AND in your everyday life? Check out UConn's Research Methods, Measurement, & Evaluation (RMME) Programs! Now accepting applications to the 100% Online RMME Master's degree program and the 100% Online Graduate Certificate in Program Evaluation program! The application deadline for Summer 2023 enrollment is March 24th. For more information, visit: https://rmme.education.uconn.edu/

ANNOUNCING REGISTRATION FOR THE CWP-STORRS 2021 FALL TEACHER-WRITER RETREAT AT TRINITY RETREAT CENTER in West Cornwall, CT

ABOUT: The Connecticut Writing Project-Storrs has been successfully providing writers retreats for teacher-writers since 1990. Our writing retreats offer educators the opportunity to devote time to their writing, share feedback, network, and learn from other teacher-writers.

DATES: Friday, November 5th to Sunday, November 7th

Please see the attached flyer and registration form for more details. Registration due by Friday, October 22nd. Contact Danielle Pieratti with questions or for more information.

We hope you'll join us!

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Abstract: This project proposes longitudinal mixture models that include non-parametric terms in the linear predictor of the location parameter using generalised additive models for location, scale and shape (GAMLSS) theory. This semi-parametric longitudinal modelling is illustrated using a data set from a major Canadian insurance company and the results are compared with parametric and cross-sectional models. An analysis is then conducted on the improvement of predictive power that the use of historical data and non-parametric terms in the modelling allows. Considering that the cross-sectional counterparts have been successfully applied in actuarial work and the importance of longitudinal models, an introduction is given to the key elements that are needed to fit a semi-parametric longitudinal model.

Speaker's short bio: Roxane is currently a PhD candidate in actuarial science at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).

Haitian Migration & the History of the Nativist State in the United States & Bahamas By Llana Barber.

SUNY Old Westbury
Liana Barber is a scholar of immigration and Latinx history with a focus on the Caribbean diaspora. She is currently researching the history of the Haitian diaspora from the 1970s to 1990s, focusing on U.S., Dominican, and Bahamian efforts to exclude Haitian asylum seekers in this era.


Pre-circulated paper discussion.


Contact Fiona.vernal@uconn.edu for a copy



Co-sponsored by Africana Studies Institute, History Department, and El Instituto.

Dr. Esteban Goetz, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut


Towards Quantum Control of Interferometric High-order Harmonic Spectroscopy


The non-linear interaction of atoms, molecules, and solids with intense, low-frequency infrared (IR) laser fields results in the generation of electromagnetic radiation comprising high-order frequencies integer multiples of the driving IR field. This process, referred to as high-order harmonic generation (HHG) [1], is nowadays at the heart of tabletop tunable, coherent, and ultrashort extreme ultraviolet (XUV) and soft X-ray radiation sources. In addition to providing a unique path towards resolving the electron and nuclear dynamics at their natural time scales, the interaction of ultrashort, coherent HHG radiation with matter is key ingredient for coherent control of chemical reactions and quantum technology. In this talk, I will discuss recent efforts toward quantum control of HHG conversion by influencing the IR-driven HHG generation dynamics in the presence of a weakly ionizing XUV field. I will also present preliminary results on few-cycle IR radiation and electron wave-packet phase reconstruction based on two-pathway interferometric transient absorption spectroscopy [2].



[1] A. L'Huillier et al., Phys. Rev. A 48, R3433 (1993)

[2] J. Tross, G. Kolliopoulos, and C. A. Trallero-Herrero, " Opt. Express 27, 22960-22969 (2019)

Dr. Leila Farsakh (UMass-Boston)

Monday, November 7, 2022, from 4-5:15 pm



The talk discusses the historical and political rationale behind the one state idea as well as unpacks the challenges that need to be addressed in order to turn it into a viable political project.



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Haitian Migration & the History of the Nativist State in the United States & Bahamas By Llana Barber.

SUNY Old Westbury
Liana Barber is a scholar of immigration and Latinx history with a focus on the Caribbean diaspora. She is currently researching the history of the Haitian diaspora from the 1970s to 1990s, focusing on U.S., Dominican, and Bahamian efforts to exclude Haitian asylum seekers in this era.



Co-sponsored by Africana Studies Institute, History Department, and El Instituto.

Attention Sophomores and Juniors! Look at occupations that will be open to you after completing an MA in Sociology. The 4+1 program in Sociology is open to all UConn undergraduate majors and will enable you to complete both your BA and a Masters in Sociology in 5 years.

Job Opportunities
Non-profit organizations
Research and policy centers
Government (local, state, federal and government agencies)
Public school district research departments
Consulting (e.g., professional firms, consulting collaboratives, independent consulting)
Market research
Human Resources
Media Planner
Policy Analyst
Public Relations
Social Media Analyst/Marketing
Social Justice organizations (Advocates; Coordinators; Advocacy Groups)
Criminal Justice agencies

For more information: https://accelerated.programs.uconn.edu/sociology-masters-program/

To RSVP: https://accelerated.programs.uconn.edu/sociology-masters-program/sociology-41-masters-degree-program-information-sessions/

Faces, Masks, Bodies: Contemporary Cuban Writing, Art, and Performance.

Open to UConn Community; Please RSVP at jacqueline.loss@uconn.edu

For more information, visit https://elin.uconn.edu/2022/09/20/faces-masks-bodies-contemporary-cuban-writing-art-and-performance/

The "Face, Masks, Bodies: Contemporary Cuban Writing, Art, and Performance" series is hosting an in-person writing workshop with Carlos Manuel Álvarez.

The event is open to the UConn community. It will be in Spanish with English interpretation. Please RSVP to jacqueline.loss@uconn.edu

Dr. Andy Moeller

Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University

Host: Sarah Hird

"Host-species specificity in the mammalian gut microbiota"

Dr. Moeller is an evolutionary biologist interested in symbiosis, particularly host-microbe relationships. All multicellular eukaryotes serve as habitats for microbial lineages, which in turn have opened up new adaptive trajectories for their hosts. Vertebrates, for example, harbor diverse communities of microorganisms that have become deeply integrated with their hosts’ metabolic, immune, and neuroendocrine systems. Despite the ubiquity and profound effects of these interactions, many fundamental questions remain unanswered. Which microorganisms coevolve with hosts? What are the genetic bases of the intimate partnerships between host and microbial lineages? How have microorganisms shaped host adaption and diversification? Moeller’s research is aimed at answering these and related questions through a combination of observational and experimental studies in the field and in the lab.

To learn more about Dr. Moeller, see his publication at https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aaf3951 and visit his website at https://www.moellerlab.com/


Join us at 3:15 in the BPB lobby for refreshments, Seminar begins at 3:30

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Faces, Masks, Bodies: Contemporary Cuban Writing, Art, and Performance.

Guest speaker: Carlos Manuel Álvarez, in conversation with Miguel Gomes, Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann, and Jacqueline Loss. In Spanish with English
interpretation.

For online attendance, register at http://s.uconn.edu/carlosmanuelalvarez

For more information, visit https://elin.uconn.edu/2022/09/20/faces-masks-bodies-contemporary-cuban-writing-art-and-performance/

Though science fiction and other forms of speculative storytelling in the U.S. were finding their genre conventions in the Golden Age (1938-1950), they have never stopped evolving. Less than a century later there have been tremendous changes in how storytellers imagine the world, who these storytellers are, and even what we imagine. What has prompted these changes, and what do they mean for us as humans, in an interconnected world, as we hurtle through space and time?

Held in conjunction with the exhibition "Ray Guns, Dames, and the Guilty Gaze: Feminism and the Golden Age of Science Fiction Pulps".

Pam Bedore is an Associate Professor on English on the Avery Point campus who specializes in science fiction, detective fiction, and feminist literary theory, among other areas. Her publications include Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature, produced for The Great Courses series.

Fred Lee is an Associate Professor in Political Science and Asian and Asian American Studies on the Storrs campus whose research focuses on racial politics. His current book project, East Asian Science Fiction as Global Political Theory, recontextualizes Asian science fiction as Asian/Asian American political theory.

Grégory Pierrot is an Associate Professor in English at the Stamford campus who specializes in American Literature, Haitian Revolutionary Studies, and the graphic novel, among other areas. He co-hosts the webinar series Decolonize That! with UConn colleague Bhakti Shringarpure.

Moderated by Dexter Gabriel, Assistant Professor of History on the Storrs campus. Dr. Gabriel’s areas of specialization include Abolition and Emancipation and Slavery in Popular Culture. As P. Djèlí Clark, he is the author of The Black God’s Drums, an Amazon Editor’s Pick, and several stories in the Dead Djinn Universe series.

Introduced by Dr. Barbara Gurr, Associate Professor in Residence in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. She teaches a course titled “Feminism and Science Fiction” and is co-curator of “Ray Guns, Dame, and the Guilty Gaze: Feminism and the Golden Age of Science Fiction Pulps” on exhibit at the Benton Museum of Art.

The exhibition and related public programs are supported by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, the School of Fine Arts, and the Office of the Vice President for Research.

Computationally hard problems on integer lattices, such as shortest vector problem (SVP), have become an important tool in designing modern cryptographic schemes, especially since these problems are considered post-quantum secure. Shor’s quantum polynomial-time algorithm for integer factorization has rendered the famous RSA cryptosystem insecure, assuming existence of quantum computers.

To make the lattice-based encryption schemes more efficient, there has been a significant push to use ideal lattices in ring of integers of number fields, and such a scheme has even been standardized by NIST recently. However, it is not clear if the additional algebraic structure of such ideal lattices can withstand quantum attacks. In this work we show that we can base similar cryptosystems on hardness of worst-case ideal lattices in non-maximal orders, which are well-known to be non Dedekind domains, and hence have less algebraic structure. The first half of the talk will focus on computational aspects of lattices and cryptosystems. This is joint work with Chengyu Lin.

On Wednesday, Nov 9 from 12-15 to 1:30 the Department of political Science will be hosting a book talk by Dr. Susan Herbst (UConn). The talk will be on Dr. Herbst’s book A Troubled Birth: The 1930s and American Public Opinion. Herbst contends that the notion of a recognizable public – whose opinions mattered – emerged during the Great Depression, with the diffusion of radio, the devastating impact of the economic collapse, and Franklin Roosevelt’s powerful rhetoric. It is only through studying the technological and cultural history of the 1930s that we can understand how contradictions and anxiety -- about race, institutions, and democracy itself -- warp our debates about American public opinion today. The talk is open to the public and will be held in Oak 408 and will be livestreamed at https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/meet/mas07010.

Prof. Vesna Mitrovic, Brown University

Multi-modal NMR spectroscopy of phase transitions in quantum materials

In traditional magnetic resonance, the information about the local spin environment is encoded in the spectrum of the nuclear spins but can potentially be obscured by multiple sources of spectral broadening, including highly non-trivial multipolar exchange interactions, and/or zero local values of susceptibility. This is particularly relevant for materials that exhibit an emergence of exotic quantum phases that possess unusual symmetries and orderings, such as Mott insulators with strong spin-orbit coupling, and whose order parameter has large variations and oftentimes zero mean [1]. In such cases, standard probes around a phase transition are insensitive to variations in the local bilinear terms, presenting a serious obstacle in determining the broken symmetry. Here, we de- scribe a novel NMR approach, inspired by quantum control techniques that fully leveraged multi-dimensional spectroscopy, which manipulates single spin systems in order to refocus Hamiltonian terms only of specific desired symmetries during spin time evolution, used to solve the phase-transition measurement problem by directly measuring the distribution of symmetry breaking terms and not just their mean value.

In contrast to conventional one-dimensional spectroscopy, which studies amplitudes as a function of an experiment time (t) and depends on the system’s energy levels, we directly extract an interaction parameter ω from the Hamiltonian through a variation of that interaction’s integration time (τ). When the ω values vary across a sample, the width of the distribution is easily recoverable from a decay timescale in the case of half-integer spins, even when the average value of ω is zero. This provides an ideal method for assessing the distribution of disorder above phase transition, specifically for “order from disorder” transitions which require large variations in an order parameter with zero mean. Examples of the application of this method to investigate the emergence of exotic quantum orders will be discussed.

[1] L. Lu et al., Nature communications, 8, 14407 EP (2017)

ECOM Spotlight Series will host Prof. Marie Coppola from the Departments of Psychology and Linguistics.

Please contact aliyar.ozercan@uconn.edu for the event link.

Join us for our women networking event where we will have women professionals and alumni on campus ready to build connections with our students. These professionals will be coming from various different industries. This is a great opportunity to meet new people, learn, and receive insightful advice as a woman in the workforce!

Chemistry Colloquium
Victor Ryzhov
Northern Illinois University
Host: Dan Fabris

How did the human right to adequate food figure in an intersection of U.S. foreign and domestic politics in the 1970s? This presentation will address the joint history of human rights principles and neoliberal economics in the response of state and non-state actors to global food insecurities. This subject poses questions about the principles and politics that formulated modern concepts of resource distribution and access to the most basic necessities of life.

Presenter: David L Evans is a doctoral candidate in U.S. foreign relations history at the University of Connecticut. His research focuses on the formulation and global politics of economic, social, and cultural human rights, and specifically the human right to adequate food. Prior to pursuing his Ph.D., David earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Before entering academia, he served eight years in the United States Marine Corps where he deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, Philippines, and Japan.

This event will take place in-person in the
Dodd Center for Human Rights, Room 162.

We kindly ask that you register to join us. For more info & to register: https:https://humanrights.uconn.edu/2022/10/01/from-crisis-to-activism-the-human-right-to-adequate-food-in-the-1970s/

Annual Neuroscience at Storrs

Wu-Min Deng, PhD,
Professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Gerald & Flora Jo Mansfield Piltz Endowed Professor in Cancer Research,
Tulane University

Host: Jianjun Sun

JOINT UCONN/UMASS STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM

Haben Michael
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Massachusetts Amherst

The Population and Personalized AUCs

ABSTRACT
We consider two generalizations of the area under the curve (AUC) to accommodate clustered data. We describe situations in which the two cluster AUCs diverge and other situations in which they coincide. We apply the results to data collected on urban policing behavior. Pre-print.


DATE: Wednesday, November 9, 2022

TIME: 4:00 p.m.

PLACE: Philip E. Austin Bldg (AUST) room 434

Coffee at 3:30, AUST 326
Pizza after colloquium, AUST 326 (rsvp tracy.burke@uconn.edu)

Come on down for our ever-popular reading series showcasing an open mic and feature readers! Bring a poem, short prose piece, or music to share at the open mic; enjoy coffee, tea, and snacks with other members of the UConn Creative Writing community. Everyone is welcome! This is an in-person event!

The Early Modern Reading Group brings together graduate students and faculty for lively, enriching conversations about texts with cross-disciplinary value. Participants benefit from encountering field-specific approaches and methodologies different from those they know, and from having to articulate their own field’s methodologies to others. In addition to discussing the content and arguments of each given monograph, we attempt to break down how individual texts are constructed so as to keep a running dialogue about conceptualizing, composing, and eventually publishing relevant and persuasive research in the field.

Sponsored by the Kim Family Fund

"Implantable Bioelectronics for Probing Brain Chemistry."

Presenter: Yi Zhang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering;
Institute of Materials Science

Host: Yulan Xiong, PhD

Information Session on School of Public Policy Master of Arts in Survey Research. Hosted by the Outreach Coordinator, our sessions are 30 minute overviews of our department, programs, and the student experience. We are also happy to meet with you individually after a session! Please check back regularly as more dates will be added. Please register at https://publicpolicy.uconn.edu/meet-with-us/

Presenter: Marie Shanahan, UConn Dept of Journalism

Details: Misinformation about health is driven by the ease of sharing in the digital age. In this webinar, UConn Journalism Department Head Prof. Marie K. Shanahan will present examples of how journalists and medical professionals have used social media to actively confront false health narratives and debunk them. She will also explain how news literacy — knowledge of the standards of high-quality, evidence-based journalism — can help people decide what online health information to trust, share and act upon.

For more information and to register: https://mhealth.inchip.uconn.edu/training-2/

Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, MD, PhD, MPH

"Extreme Risk Protection Orders to Prevent Firearm-Related Harm"

November 10, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:30 PM

Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, MD, MPH, PhD is the Bartley Dobb Professor for the Study and Prevention of Violence, Professor of Epidemiology, Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics, and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy & Governance at the University of Washington. He evaluates social programs and public policies for their impact on multiple forms of violence with a particular emphasis on preventing firearm-related harm. His research on violence prevention has been funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, Department of Justice, Arnold Ventures, National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research, Fund for a Safer Future, State of Washington, and City of Seattle. Rowhani-Rahbar serves as a member of the editorial board of Injury Prevention and as the editor of the Injury Epidemiology Section of Current Epidemiology Reports. His more than 200 peer-reviewed publications have informed public health programs and policies locally and nationally. He received his MD from Mashhad University of Medical Sciences in Iran, MPH from Yale University, and PhD from the University of Washington. He completed his postdoctoral training at Stanford University and research fellowship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

View the upcoming series, access RSVP's, and watch archived lectures: https://chip.uconn.edu/lecture-series-2/

Title: Phyllotaxis in Asteraceae: From experimental data to theorems about plants

Research interests from Dr. Prusinkiewicz's website:
One of the main goals of science is to find principles that unify apparently diverse phenomena. With this broad objective in mind, the Biological Modeling and Visualization group apply notions and methods of computer science to gain a better understanding of the emergence of forms and patterns in nature.

The focal point of our work is the modeling, simulation and visualization of the development of plants. This area is particularly interesting because of its interdisciplinary character. Ideas pertinent to plant modeling are related to computer science (computer graphics, formal language theory, programming language design, and simulation), as well as biology, artificial life, mathematics, and physics. The modeling of plants has also an artistic flavor, since the beauty of plants presents a constant challenge for creating visually appealing models.

Our group have developed and continue to improve a software environment for conducting simulated experiments, called a "Virtual Laboratory". It is a source of satisfaction for us that our software is used to support several research programs on plant development and in computer graphics worldwide.

Graduate Student Seminar
José Ortiz-Garcia
University of Connecticut
Host: Rebecca Quardokus

Stewards of the Land: Film screening & director talk back

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Stewards of the Land is a feature documentary about Stephanie, Ian, and Alfredo, three young landless ecological farmers in Puerto Rico striving to produce healthy food for local consumption. In this economically depressed US-territory, producing food locally is urgent. The archipelago sits on the path of powerful hurricanes, an increasing threat as the climate crisis worsens.
The Film Director, Juan Manuel Pagán Teitelbaum, will be present for a talk back after the screening.


Thursday November 10th:
5:00pm -7:30pm
Hartford Public Library - Downtown
Center for Contemporary Culture
500 Main Street, Hartford CT

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Serán las dueñas de la tierra:
Proyección de la película y conversación con el director

Serán las dueñas de la tierra es un documental sobre Stephanie, Ian y Alfredo, tres jóvenes agricultores orgánicos sin tierra en Puerto Rico que se esfuerzan por producir alimentos saludables para el consumo local. En este territorio estadounidense económicamente deprimido, la producción local de alimentos es urgente. El archipiélago está en el camino de poderosos huracanes, una amenaza creciente a medida que empeora la crisis climática. Juan Manuel Pagán Teitelbaum el director de la película estará allí para hablar después de la proyección.


Jueves 10 de noviembre:
5:00pm- 7:30pm
Biblioteca Pública de Hartford -
Center for Contemporary Culture
500 Main Street, Hartford CT

Co-Sponsored by Hartford Public Library - Downtown, LCL - Spanish Department; Schneider Fund, & El Instituto.

The Leadership Council meeting of the Connecticut Writing Project

2022 Uconn Judaic Studies Kristallnacht Lecture with Daniel Greene: "Americans and the Holocuast"

Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sdOyprz8vE9F8jWU2AzkF8nREQ4dyZE5B

Daniel Greene is President and Librarian at the Newberry Library in Chicago and Adjunct Professor of History at Northwestern University. Prior to arriving at the Newberry, Greene curated Americans and the Holocaust, an exhibition that opened in 2018 at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. His co-edited (with Edward Phillips) book, Americans and the Holocaust: A Reader, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2022. His first book The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism: The Menorah Association and American Diversity (Indiana University Press, 2011) won the American Jewish Historical Society's Saul Viener Prize in 2012.

The exhibit Americans and the Holocaust is the inspiration for the new Ken Burns PBS documentary, The US and the Holocaust.
https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/us-and-the-holocaust/

Speaker: Perla Sousi (University of Cambridge)

Picking a spanning tree at random

Spanning trees in a connected graph are basic objects of great interest to mathematicians and computer scientists. What does a typical spanning tree look like? How can we pick one uniformly, as usually they are too numerous to list? A connection of spanning trees to electrical networks was found by Kirchhoff in 1847, and elegant sampling algorithms using random walks were found in the 1990’s by Aldous, Broder and Wilson. These connections have yielded many insights on the geometry of uniform spanning trees. In my talk I will present some recent work with Tom Hutchcroft on the geometry of the uniform spanning tree in Z^4, which can be thought of as the "uniform measure" on trees of Z^4.

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The Department of Educational Psychology's Research Methods, Measurement, & Evaluation (RMME) program and the Department of Statistics present Dr. Dylan Small, University of Pennsylvanial 'Testing an Elaborate Theory of a Causal Hypothesis'
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Disaster Resilience and Inequality: Making Squishy Real

Dr. Susan Cutter, University of South Carolina, Director of the Hazards Vulnerability & Resilience Institute

This presentation examines the evidentiary basis for equitable risk reduction in an era of increasing risk inequality. Changes in the nature of hazards and their management have created a new normal of extreme events, increasingly complex and cascading hazards and fostered persistent disaster inequalities. Recognizing such inequalities is not the same as showing proof of them and integrating the empirically based evidence into practice and policy. Examples from South Carolina’s recent disasters experience illustrates how to translate and integrate research into disaster recovery and resilience practice at local, state, and federal levels.

Dr. Susan Cutter is a Carolina Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of South Carolina and director of the Hazards Vulnerability and Resilience Institute (HVRI). She has authored or edited 15 books, 150+ plus peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and mentored more than 60 masters and doctoral candidates. Her research focuses on disaster vulnerability and resilience science with specific reference to methods, models, and metrics. Her scientific contributions include the hazards of place model of vulnerability, the disaster resilience of place (DROP) model, as well as tools for assessing spatial and temporal variability in vulnerability (Social Vulnerability Index or SoVI) and resilience (Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities [CBRIC] Index). Her policy-relevant work focuses on the evidentiary basis for hazard mitigation and disaster recovery policy and practice at local, state, national, and international levels. In particular, she continues to lead investigations of the disproportionate spatial and temporal impacts of disasters on vulnerable populations and the places where they live. Dr. Cutter is an elected fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She received an honorary doctorate from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2015) and elected as a foreign member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. She was also the recipient of her discipline’s three highest awards: American Association of Geographers (AAG) Lifetime Achievement, Presidential Achievement, and the Wilbanks Award for Transformational Research.

Prof. Andrew Puckett, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut


Precision studies of proton and neutron structure via medium-energy electron scattering


Electron scattering has been one of the most important tools for precisely probing the femtoscopic structure of strongly interacting matter ever since Hofstadter’s pioneering measurements of electron-proton scattering and electron-nucleus scattering at Stanford in the 1950s revealed the non-point-like nature of the proton and provided a first measurement of the proton’s size, leading to the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1961. The Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at Jefferson Lab (JLab) in Newport News, Virginia, is the world’s premiere facility for the precision three-dimensional imaging of the nucleon’s quark-gluon structure in both coordinate and momentum space. CEBAF uses superconducting radio-frequency acceleration technology to deliver electron beams of unparalleled quality in terms of energy, intensity, duty-cycle, and polarization. Experimentalists use these high-quality electron beams together with state-of-the-art target and detector technologies and high-performance data acquisition and computing capabilities to map the internal structure of strongly interacting matter with unprecedented precision and kinematic reach. In this talk, I will give a brief overview of the physics of electron scattering and its usefulness as a precision probe of nuclear structure, followed by a detailed overview of UConn’s leading role and Ph.D. research opportunities in a currently running series of flagship experiments in JLab’s experimental Hall A known as the Super BigBite Spectrometer (SBS) program.

Prof. Kate Stanton (Pittsburgh, Philosophy) will give a talk titled "Conventional Reanalysis and Semantic Creativity" in FSB220. The event will be broadcasted via Zoom. You can reach aliyar.ozercan@uconn.edu for the Zoom link.

The Equity and Social Justice Reading Group is intended for English majors interested in situating literature at the center of discussions about equity and social justice.

The Health Research Program offers a pathway into undergraduate research for students with interests in health and the biomedical sciences. By facilitating connections between UConn Health researchers and UConn undergraduates, this program will involve more students in the cutting-edge research at the Farmington campus. The Health Research Program includes a combination of academic year and summer research opportunities, offering undergraduates and their faculty mentors a structure for sustained engagement in research projects, maximizing student learning and preparation for graduate study and/or careers in the health professions.

The applications for Summer 2023 Health Research Program opportunities will open in early January 2023. Applications must be submitted by January 30, 2023.

We expect that faculty will interview their leading candidates between February 3 and February 17, and offers will be made in late February 2023.

This information session offers students the opportunity to learn more about the program and get answers to questions that they might have.

Please visit https://ugradresearch.uconn.edu/hrp/ for details.

Dr. Florian Cougulic, University of Santiago de Campostela


Small-x evolution of flavor-singlet helicity distributions


One of the main goals of hadronic physics is to understand the spin of the proton. It is one of the topics that will be experimentally addressed at the EIC. Understanding how the proton spin is made up of its constituents, quark or gluon spin and orbital angular momentum, requires theoretical inputs at Bjorken-x values below experimentally achievable ones. In this presentation, I will introduce the small-x formalism used to describe unpolarized observables. Then I will describe our approach to
the polarized observables by focusing on flavor-singlet helicity distributions. I will finally underline how our recent work resolved a previous disagreement with pioneering works by Bartels and al. for the intercept of the flavor-singlet distributions small-x asymptotic, in the limit of a large number of colors.

Rodrigo Araiza Bravo, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University

Using Arrays of Cold Atoms for Analog Quantum Machine Learning

Quantum computing promises to enhance machine learning algorithms. However, noise in small-scale, digital quantum devices thwart the potential advantages of circuit-based quantum machine learning (QML) algorithms. Over the last five years, a new approach to QML addressing these current hardware challenges has emerged. This new approach is called Quantum Neuromorphic Computing (QNC). QNC uses current quantum devices to simulate the dynamics of mathematical models for neuronal computation, which tend to inherit the noise insensitivity of the brain. As a result, QNC promises to use tools from quantum simulation to create scalable and noise-insensitive algorithms. In this talk, I will present recent theoretical work on QNC. I will explain how to use arrays of cold atoms to implement a quantum version of basic models for neuronal circuits called recurrent neural networks (RNNs). I will then show that our quantum RNNs are universal quantum computers by analyzing the quantum RNNs’ building blocks, which we call quantum perceptrons. I will present several applications of both quantum RNNs and quantum perceptrons. Combining these results opens a broad range of research directions for exploring quantum machine learning algorithms in near-term devices.


Speaker's Bio:

Rodrigo completed his undergraduate education in 2018 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign majoring in applied math and engineering physics. While at UIUC, Rodrigo did experimental work in experimental quantum optics, quantum information, and quantum machine learning. In 2019, Rodrigo moved to Harvard University to pursue a Ph.D. in theoretical AMO physics in Prof. Susanne Yelin's group. He's been working on topics at the intersection of quantum simulation and quantum machine learning. He is also completing a secondary field concentration on Science, Technology, and Society studies at the Harvard Kennedy School where he is developing educational programs and theoretical work on the broader social aspects of quantum science and technology.

Becoming Official: A Test of the Model of Mediated Relationship Development

Communication

Report for America (RFA) is a movement to strengthen communities, and our democracy, through local journalism that is truthful, fair, fearless and smart.

RFA is growing its journalism team. Applications open in December for 100+ journalism jobs.

Join the Report for America info session November 15th at 9:30 am ET to learn about our organization and job opportunities.

Report for America helps local newsrooms report on under-covered issues and communities by helping them find great emerging or experienced journalists and paying half their salary. Corps members are talented, service-oriented journalists who provide residents with the information they need to improve their communities and hold powerful institutions accountable. We currently have 300 reporters and photographers in 200+ newsrooms serving communities across the U.S.

Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin (Century Foundation)

Tuesday, November 15, 2022, from 12:30-1:30

With no Israeli-Palestinian peace process on the horizon, Israel is fast advancing towards full de facto annexation of the West Bank, while severing Gaza from the Palestinian community. In the near future, the two sides have only two alternatives: One involves full and formal Israeli control over the entire region while Palestinians are ruled as stateless subjects of an undemocratic regime. The other path is a new approach to national self-determination for two peoples, while acknowledging that complete separation between them is neither possible nor desirable. A confederation recognizes the need for each side to fulfil its national identity through statehood, while cooperating in a small, shared space through open borders, joint institutions, freedom of movement and access by all people to all areas, with full political equality between the two states.

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://uconn-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElcO-qrDMvG90_XtFJyokXlK4mB5buhQ5E

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Information Session on School of Public Policy Master of Public Administration, Master of Public Policy, and Fast Track. Hosted by the Outreach Coordinator, our sessions are 30 minute overviews of our department, programs, and the student experience. We are also happy to meet with you individually after a session! Please check back regularly as more dates will be added. Please register at https://publicpolicy.uconn.edu/meet-with-us/

Learn more about minoring in Asian & Asian American Studies with research presentations from Faculty!

Featured Faculty:

Jason Chang - Make Us Visible: CT's K-12 AAPI Curriculum

Jungmin Song - Puppetry and Identity

Alexis Dudden - Fukushima Mon Amour

Dr. Anna Terakanova

Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering

University of Connecticut

Host: Eric May

“Molecular computation for bioengineering”

The rapid development of high-performance computing has enabled unprecedented advances in the mechanistic understanding of molecular biomaterials. We direct the power of our “computational microscope” to investigate complex biological molecular systems, to understand when and how these systems function in health and break down in disease. We also develop computational methods for the multiscale and data-driven characterization and design of novel functional biomaterials from the nanoscale, for medical and engineering applications, drawing inspiration from natural design principles. I will present recent work that combines multiscale modeling and big data frameworks to probe and predict behavior of complex biomolecular systems.

Bio: Dr. Anna Tarakanova is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on advancing molecular, multiscale and data-driven modeling methods to study the structure, function and mechanics of complex nanoscale biological materials. These tools provide the foundation to ask essential questions about the behavior of tissues such as arterial elastic tissue and bone, and to repurpose molecules for new functions like improved immunogenicity, thermal stability or resilience in aging. In particular, her work aims to characterize extracellular matrix proteins including elastin, collagen and fibrillin, and their role in the context of aging and human disease. She received her BS from Cornell University, and her MS and PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Tarakanova is a recipient of the NSF Career Award.

To learn more about Dr. Tarakanova, view publication at https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1801205115 and website at http://www.tarakanovagroup.org

Join us at 3:15 in the BPB lobby for refreshments, Seminar begins at 3:30

To livestream seminar: https://www.kaltura.com/index.php/extwidget/preview/partner_id/2090521/uiconf_id/38934061/entry_id/1_904uedgo/embed/dynamic?

Faces, Masks, Bodies: Contemporary Cuban Writing, Art, and Performance.

Hybrid event. For online attendance, register at http://s.uconn.edu/poetry

For more information, visit https://elin.uconn.edu/2022/09/20/faces-masks-bodies-contemporary-cuban-writing-art-and-performance/

Are you applying for opportunities that require letters of recommendation? Attend this session to learn more about who and how to ask for a recommendation, and pitfalls to avoid in the process.


The link to join the workshop is available at https://ugradresearch.uconn.edu/workshops/.

For more information, visit the Office of Undergraduate Research website: https://ugradresearch.uconn.edu/.

If you require an accommodation to participate in these events, please contact Melissa Berkey at Melissa.berkey@uconn.edu.

A faculty dialogue with Sarah S. Willen (Anthropology) and Alexis L. Boylan (Africana Studies/Art and Art History), co-curators of "Picturing the Pandemic: Images from the Pandemic Journaling Project" at Hartford Public Library Downtown. Held in conjunction with the upcoming exhibition, "Seeing Truth: Art, Science, Museums, and Making Knowledge"
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Zoom webinar registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5v2nhX1wSY2LquocxUukgQ

The exhibition "Picturing the Pandemic: Images from the Pandemic Journaling Project", features a selection of the images created as part of an innovative experiment with online journaling. Exhibition collaborators Sarah S. Willen, UConn Associate Professor of Anthropology and Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP) co-founder, and Alexis L. Boylan, Director of Academic Affairs at UConn Humanities Institute and Professor of Africana Studies and Art and Art History, discuss the power of journaling, what it was like to collaboratively curate a show, what truth we can find in images of the pandemic, and the importance of our communal participation in visual record and memory of the pandemic. Held in conjunction with the upcoming exhibition, "Seeing Truth: Art, Science, Museums, and Making Knowledge".

The Pandemic Journaling Project is a historical archive effort created in partnership between UConn and Brown University. It is a project dedicated to remembering the experiences and perspectives of a wide range of people living through the COVID-19 pandemic. The PJP recognizes that the narrative of history is usually dominated by the powerful, so the project aims to tell the stories of ordinary people when recounting this historical pandemic. Participants answer a set of survey questions and a few open-ended journaling questions; they are asked to follow up with answering a new set of questions every week until the pandemic is over. Participation is voluntary and anonymous. So far, the PJP has collected over 14,000 submissions from more than 45 countries. For more information, visit https://pandemic-journaling-project.chip.uconn.edu/

"Seeing Truth: Art, Science, Museums, and Making Knowledge" (January 17 to March 10, 2023 at the Benton Museum) seeks to challenge audiences to see art, science, and truth anew in this political moment. Through innovative curation, critical dialogue, a drive to engage new and diverse voices, and creative strategies for constructing a socially just and sustainable traveling exhibition, Seeing Truth will join with the public in wrestling with important questions concerning truth and knowledge-making.

The exhibition at the Benton puts instigator objects from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in dialogue with items from UConn collections, including the William Benton Museum of Art; Archives & Special Collections, UConn Library; and the Biodiversity Research Collections in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; in addition to works from area museums

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in three women and one in six men have experienced sexual violence. The National Sexual Violence Resource Center reports that almost half of all transgender people have been sexually assaulted at some point in their lives. Sexual violence is common, and happens at higher rates for some communities based on factors such as race, sexual orientation, gender identity, economic status, disability status, ad immigration status.

Join us for an engaging discussion on the root causes of sexual violence, an overview of UConn student, staff, and faculty anti-violence efforts that bring us to this contemporary moment of evolution, how to interrupt and prevent sexual violence on college campuses, and much more.

Register here:
https://www.events.foundation.uconn.edu/ereg/newreg.php?eventid=721829&language=eng

Smooth surfaces of general type with \(K^2=1\), \(pg=2\), and \(q=0\) constitute a fundamental example in the geography of algebraic surfaces. Its \(28\)-dimensional moduli space admits a modular compactification via the minimal model program. We will describe eight new irreducible boundary divisors in such compactification parametrizing reducible stable surfaces. These divisors arise from degenerations to surfaces with an unimodal hypersurface singularity. We also study the GIT compactification, and the Hodge theory of the degenerate surfaces that the eight divisors parametrize. This is joint work with Patricio Gallardo, Gregory Pearlstein, and Zheng Zhang.

Digital Humanities and Media Studies present a research talk by Rachael King and Seth Rudy.

"The Ends of Knowledge"


Register to attend virtually:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8ezliGRjQ-uhimfPTKkgQA

Dr. Priya Sharma, University of Connecticut

Impurity/Confinement Induced Anomalous Thermal Hall Effect in Chiral Phases of Superfluid ³He

Abstract :

I will discuss superfluid ³He as a quantum material that can be studied to deepen the broad understanding of quantum condensed matter. Starting with an introduction to this p-wave ordered spin-triplet system and its rich phase diagram, I will motivate the investigation of the superfluid phases under the influence of disorder and confinement. I will describe calculations of an anomalous thermal Hall effect (ATHE) induced by impurities and/or confinement in a chiral phase of superfluid ³He. The ATHE provides an important tool to identify signatures of broken time-reversal and mirror symmetries and topology in chiral superconductors/superfluids. I will conclude with a brief outlook and by connecting to recent work.

Chemistry Colloquium
Miles Johnson
University of Richmond
Host: Gaël Ung

Research talk by Joseph Darda with response by Sandy Grande.

"Owning Le'Veon Bell and Other White Fantasies"

Register to attend virtually:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IeTuZ0a4SBy5dXv-Jduwvw

“The Hippo Pathway: Signaling Cancer” Host: Dr. Jianzhong Yu

Learn more about program offerings, scholarship opportunities and the application process. This session is specifically designed for students within the Biological Sciences (EEB, MCB or PNB).

A liberal arts and sciences degree prepares students with the tools they need to excel across a wide range of careers. Given the number of options available to you, it can be overwhelming to narrow down career choices. Attending CLAS Career Night will provide you exposure to career opportunities for CLAS students. Each event in this series features a number of UConn CLAS alumni who were once in your shoes and have since led successful careers in a variety of industries. Attending CLAS Career Night will involve opportunities for you to engage with these alumni, learn in-depth about various occupations, and gain insight about how to best prepare for your future career. This semester's event will focus on careers in government, law, and policy.

A liberal arts and sciences degree prepares students with the tools they need to excel across a wide range of careers. Given the number of options available to you, it can be overwhelming to narrow down career choices. Each event in this series features a number of UConn CLAS alumni who were once in your shoes and have since led successful careers in a variety of industries. Attending CLAS Career Night will involve opportunities for you to engage with these alumni, learn in-depth about various occupations, and gain insight about how to best prepare for your future career. The focus of this semester’s CLAS Career Night will be on careers in government, law, and policy.

NCTE Annual Convention

Latino Youth Activism:
Reconceptualizing Risk in Social Movement Theory

Nabil Tueme
Department of Sociology
University of Connecticut
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense

Date: Thursday, November 17th, 9 AM EST
Location: Zoom (Details below)

Committee Members
Dr. Ruth Braunstein (Chair)
Dr. Mary Bernstein
Dr. Elizabeth Holzer
Dr. Nancy Naples

Abstract
Young people today are at the forefront of many protest movements such as those for immigrant
rights, Black Lives Matter, climate change, and LGBTQ+ rights, among others. In Western
democracies where social movements are common (Meyer and Tarrow 1998), young people
employ protest tactics (i.e., sharing political posts on social media) that are taken for granted as
low risk. Yet even relatively low-risk tactics can be dangerous for young Black, Indigenous, People
of Color (BIPOC) whose activism is repressed at higher rates than Whites. Hence, it is the social
location of participants, rather than any given tactic itself, that makes activism risky. In this
dissertation, I focus specifically on the activism of one group of young BIPOC: Latino youth.
Using interview and content analysis methods, I explore (1) how Latino youth interpret the risks
associated with activism; and (2) under what conditions Latino youth engage in activism they
perceive as high-risk. I focus on three factors that play a significant role in shaping how Latino
youth interpret and respond to risk: racial location, religious beliefs, and family fears. I argue that
activists’ risk assessments seldom reflect “objective” risks but rather are shaped by a broad range
of social influences. Risk, I argue, is therefore deeply subjective, relational, and socially structured.
Drawing from the sociology of risk and Latino sociology, this project contributes to the social
movements literature by extending the concept of risk in high-risk activism to consider the various
social processes that influence activists’ risk perceptions and sensemaking practices.

“Transcribathon” describes the full range of the Early Modern Studies Working Group’s efforts to teach and develop the skills of paleography. UConn’s Transcribathon convenes bi-weekly and aims to make the experience fun and rewarding by providing participants an opportunity both to collaborate on a community project, and to receive useful research training for projects that require paleography.

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Political Science Graduate Student Association (PSGSA) invites graduate students to our coffee hour!

M3EWB Talk @ InCHIP Lecture Series: Shannon Suldo, PhD

November 17, 2022 | 12:30-1:30 PM

"Monitoring and Increasing Middle School Students’ Subjective Well-Being"

Students with the best academic, social, and physical health outcomes have both low levels of psychopathology and elevated subjective of well-being. Comprehensive school mental health services should thus assess and foster all students' complete mental health, with extra supports for students with diminished well-being or elevated psychopathology. In comparison to the number of evidence-based methods advanced to measure and treat pathology at school, there are fewer examples of how to systematically monitor and intervene to promote subjective well-being for students whose levels are diminished. This talk will focus on practical methods of (a) screening student subjective well-being in a manner similar to how schools systematically monitor other health and academic outcomes deemed important, and (b) providing a promising targeted intervention for students identified as appropriate candidates for an extra support that evokes positive emotions about the past, present, and future; increases engagement through using signature strengths; and strengthens relationships.

Shannon Suldo, Ph.D., is a Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the School Psychology Program at the University of South Florida. She received her Ph.D. in School Psychology from the University of South Carolina in 2004. She is a Licensed Psychologist in the state of Florida, and provides and supervises school-based mental health services to youth in the Tampa area. Her research involves: establishing empirical links between student mental health and academic success; conceptualizing and measuring student mental health in a dual-factor model that considers psychopathology and well-being; evidence-based positive psychology interventions for promoting positive indicators of student well-being; and schoolwide strategies to identify youth with mental health problems. She is Principal Investigator of a large federal grant to evaluate a selective positive psychology intervention to increase middle school students’ subjective well-being. She is the author of Promoting Student Happiness: Positive Psychology Interventions in Schools (Guilford, 2016), as well as co-editor of Fostering the Emotional Well-Being of our Youth: A School-Based Approach (Oxford University Press, 2021), and Handbook of Positive Psychology in Schools: Supporting Process and Practice (3rd edition; Routledge, 2022).

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https://birc.uconn.edu/events/speaker-series-2/#collapsepanel-1912-0-0-21

Adrian KC Lee, PhD, University of Washington

Spatial cues play an important role in segregating auditory objects in a complex acoustical scene. Spatial attention is often considered to be supramodal, e.g., crossmodal spatial cues can enhance the perception of stimuli in another modality when presented in the same location. Therefore, it is not surprising to find similarities between auditory and visual spatial attentional networks. An outstanding question, however, is how the supramodal spatial attention network functions if the listener attends instead to non-spatial acoustic features, e.g., pitch? In vision, the coupling between oculomotor circuitry and the attentional network is well studied. Are there behavioral consequences related to this tight oculomotor coupling in the context of auditory spatial tasks? We addressed these questions using three approaches. First, in a series of neuroimaging experiments using combined magneto- and electro-encephalography constrained by anatomical MRI data, we explored how different cortical regions are recruited for auditory spatial and non-spatial attention both during maintenance of attention to a single auditory stream and switching of attention between streams. Second, based on our newly developed sparse-plus-low-rank graphical approach that enables modelling of structured relationships between time series in a big data setting, we are starting work inferring functional connectivity between cortical regions to tease apart how different cortical nodes are coordinated to perform different auditory attentional tasks. Finally, we used psychophysical methods to address whether there are behavioral consequences related to this tight coupling between the oculomotor and attentional networks in the context of auditory spatial tasks.

Title: "America’s Public Lands: A Political & Conservation Success Story"

Please join us for an in-person Teale lecture, on Thursday, October 13 at 4:00pm in the Konover Auditorium in the Dodd Center on the UConn Storrs campus.
In addition to being a Distinguished Professor in the Hastings School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, John Leshy is the former Solicitor General (general counsel) of the US Department of the Interior. His Teale lecture will cover various topics, which he has recently published in a book, described as follows:
The little-known story of how the U.S. government came to hold nearly one-third of the nation’s land and manage it primarily for recreation, education, and conservation. America’s public lands include more than 600 million acres of forests, plains, mountains, wetlands, deserts, and shorelines. In this book, John Leshy, a leading expert in public lands policy, discusses the key political decisions that led to this, beginning at the very founding of the nation. He traces the emergence of a bipartisan political consensus in favor of the national government holding these vast land areas primarily for recreation, education, and conservation of biodiversity and cultural resources. That consensus remains strong and continues to shape American identity. Such a success story of the political system is a bright spot in an era of cynicism about government. This book is essential reading for anyone who cares about public lands, and it is particularly timely as the world grapples with the challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss.
Although the talk will be in-person, it is also available to watch (live) on WebEX. The live stream link is on the Teale Series web page: https://cese.uconn.edu/the-edwin-way-teale-lecture-series/
This event is free and open to the public. If you need accommodation to access or participate, please contact CSMNHinfo@uconn.edu
For more information, contact: Dr. Erin Kuprewicz at CSMNHinfo@uconn.edu

The Health Research Program offers a pathway into undergraduate research for students with interests in health and the biomedical sciences. By facilitating connections between UConn Health researchers and UConn undergraduates, this program will involve more students in the cutting-edge research at the Farmington campus. The Health Research Program includes a combination of academic year and summer research opportunities, offering undergraduates and their faculty mentors a structure for sustained engagement in research projects, maximizing student learning and preparation for graduate study and/or careers in the health professions.

The applications for Summer 2023 Health Research Program opportunities will open in early January 2023. Applications must be submitted by January 30, 2023.

We expect that faculty will interview their leading candidates between February 3 and February 17, and offers will be made in late February 2023.

This information session offers students the opportunity to learn more about the program and get answers to questions that they might have.

Please visit https://ugradresearch.uconn.edu/hrp/ for details.

WebEx Information:
Health Research Program Information Session
Hosted by Rowena Grainger

https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=ma0646f0a964e00010786b100b05e46ff
Thursday, Nov 17, 2022 5:00 pm | 1 hour | (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Meeting number: 2622 043 3000
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Please join us for the first installment of the Students of Color Mentorship Program Professional Development Lecture Series! This series features various health care professionals sharing their career journey and practical tips to have a successful and meaningful career.

“Juggling Multiple Hats: Balancing Family Obligations and Professional Life”
Janan Sarwar, PharmD, CEO & Founder of Global Bookshelves International

Thursday, November 17th at 6pm (virtual)
Complete the form to register: https://forms.gle/No4sF6rPznuMaKex9

This event is sponsored by the School of Pharmacy Students of Color Mentorship Program

NCTE Annual Convention

Presented by FiveFrogs: Jason Fredlund, Racial Justice Educator, Cunsultant and LDR Facilitator, and Randi McCray, Founder RM Consulting Services and LDR Facilitator.
Our Introduction to Leadership Development Roundtable (LDR) is not a workshop, it is an experience. An experience designed to encourage you to reflect, refocus and refuel on your leadership journey. Many times, leaders find themselves operating on autopilot in their work towards equity.

This program is a condensed version of our 10-month program that will provide a meaningful opportunity to explore the breadth and depth potential of your impact. The day includes small group discussions, activities and exploration of leadership and equity concepts. Go to https://publicpolicy.uconn.edu/collaborative/ fpr more information and to register.

Graduate Student Jamie Shaw, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut


Prospects for Laser Cooling and Trapping Aluminum Monochloride


The advent of laser cooling has ushered in a platform for studying light-matter interactions with unprecedented control. Over the last 20 years, the techniques in laser cooling have become refined enough to enable specific diatomic and polyatomic molecules to be directly laser cooled into the ultracold regime. In this dissertation talk, I will introduce a diatomic species new to the field of laser cooling which promises many advantages over those used in current experiments. Using three novel, high power, UV laser systems developed for this purpose, I will provide initial probes of the molecular structure critical for laser cooling and demonstrate the first signs of optical forces through radiative deflection of a molecular beam.

Webex URL: https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/meet/dam17012

Hongtu Zhu
Professor, Department of Biostatistics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gillings School of Global Public Health

Statistical Learning Methods for Neuroimaging Data Analysis with Applications
Abstract
The aim of this talk is to provide a comprehensive review of statistical challenges in neuroimaging data analysis from neuroimaging techniques to large-scale neuroimaging studies to statistical learning methods. We briefly review eight popular neuroimaging techniques and their potential applications in neuroscience research and clinical translation. We delineate the four common themes of neuroimaging data and review major image processing analysis methods for processing neuroimaging data at the individual level. We briefly review four large-scale neuroimaging-related studies and a consortium on imaging genomics and discuss four common themes of neuroimaging data analysis at the population level. We review nine major population-based statistical analysis methods and their associated statistical challenges and present recent progress in statistical methodology to address these challenges.

Friday, November 18, 2022
AUST 344
10:00 am ET, 1-hour duration
Coffee @ 9:30 in AUST 326

Presenting: Jesse Farmer (Princeton, UMass Boston)

Seminar Title: The history of the Bering Strait as told by the Arctic Ocean nitrogen cycle

Host: Julie Granger

Abstract: https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/seminar/seminar1228/

Join us in the Logic Colloquium for a talk by

Lionel Shapiro (UConn)

“Neopragmatism About Logic”

I’ll propose an application to logic of the “neopragmatist” program. Neopragmatists argue that inquiry into the nature of what we think and talk about can be fruitfully replaced by inquiry into the functions of concepts and expressions. Logical vocabulary can serve as a particular target for neopragmatist theorizing, but it has also been taken to pose obstacles to neopragmatist accounts more generally. I’ll argue that a neopragmatist approach to logical relations (such as logical consequence), as well as to ascriptions of content, undermines two constraints on neopragmatist accounts of logical connectives (such as “and”, “or”, and “not”). Freed from these constraints, I’ll sketch a simple version of such an account, on which logical connectives express dialectical attitudes. The resulting approach is deflationary in two ways: it's based on deflationism about logical relations and it aims to deflate some of neopragmatists’ usual theoretical ambitions.


All welcome!


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

Geographers in the OSS (Geography in Defense of Democracy)

Michael DeMers, New Mexico State University

https://s.uconn.edu/geog-demers

By Presidential order, on June 13, 1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) which purpose was to collect and analyze strategic information required by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Research and Analysis branch of the OSS, the more academic portion of the organization, was responsible for the accumulation, evaluation, and analysis of political, psychological, sociological, economic topographic and military information required for operations or requested by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the armed forces, and other authorized government agencies. The branch prepared hundreds of thousands of studies, maps, charts, and illustrations relating to this material. Their purpose was to secure all possible elements of intelligence from all available sources, to evaluate and compare them, to assess them against standard bases of measurement and, by analysis, to digest them into essentially new products. Such function played into the strengths of the geographer which necessarily required translation; that is, creating a new product by bringing together heterogeneous sources, making them work together. At that time geographers’ primary functions revolved around the creation of cartographic documents and the qualitative analysis. Many cartographic innovations resulted, especially those related to developing 3-D models of terrain for battlefield logistics and mission planning. With time, the association of geographers with other social scientists, many of whom had begun to employ statistical analysis, resulted in their adoption of similar techniques. Eventually this culminated in a true quantitative revolution in geography. Moreover, the relevance of applied geography integrated well with the evolution of today’s intelligence agencies including the CIA, DIA, NSA, NGA, and the Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research. At a time when such skillsets are now at their most relevance to the defense of our nation, that geographers continue their efforts to promote and support the study of geography.

Dr. DeMers is a Professor Emeritus of Geography specializing in Geographic Information Science, Geographic Education, and Landscape Ecology. Dr. DeMers has garnered many awards, including presently being nominated for the lifetime achievement in GIS education by the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science. He has published over eighty research articles, and six GIS textbooks. Dr. DeMers’ applied research focused on Geographic Teaching Methods, GIS institutional design, GIS for water resources analysis, and species range expansion models. His theoretical research included history of GIS, geospatial thinking and expertise, geospatial information theory, heutagogy in GIS education, and serious geogames for learning.

Join us for a virtual info session to learn about our Graduate Certificate and Masters Program in Intraoperative Neuromonitoring (IONM), also called Surgical Neurophysiology. Drs Filipovic and Andalib will provide information to potential students about the field of IONM and the one-year Master in Surgical Neurophysiology, which starts in the summer of 2023.
register here: https://connect.grad.uconn.edu/register/?id=46cf9bf2-becd-42c0-9bb2-c6286e7b714a

The Rainbow Center, UConn WGSS, and the Connecticut TransAdvocacy Coalition are hosting a virtual panel discussion in honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance on WebEx on Friday, November 18 at 1:oo pm EST. The distinguished panelists are:

Sybastian K. Smith, Organizing Director, National Center for Transgender Equality & NCTE Action Fund

Shanna Kattari Ph.D., Associate Professor of Social Work and in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department (by courtesy), and Director of the [Sexuality|Relationships|Gender] Research Collective, University of Michigan

Christine Rodriguez, DNP, APRN, Senior Lecturer in Nursing, Interim Co-Chair, Graduate Entry Pre-specialty in Nursing (GEPN), Yale University

Rhea Debussy Ph.D., Director of External Affairs, Equitas Health (and WGSS alumna!)

Don’t miss out! Please sign up here to be emailed information on how to join this virtual event!
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Linguistics Colloquium

Dr. Sylvester James Gates, University of Maryland


Seeking Group Theory Mathematics For SUSY


Concepts in the mathematics of group theory (roots, weights, raising and lowering operators) lie at the foundation of the physics described in the Standard Model. A similar foundation for supersymmetry (SUSY) is currently lacking. Efforts to construct it are reviewed.


Speaker's bio: Prof. Gates received Bachelor of Science degrees in both physics and mathematics and a Ph.D. in physics from MIT. At the University of Maryland, he became the first African American to hold an endowed chair in physics at a major U.S. research university. Gates is the past president of the American Physical Society (APS), a role to which he was elected in 2019. He has received numerous awards and accolades, including the 2013 Mendel Medal and the 2013 National Medal of Science from former President Barack Obama. In 2013, he was also elected to the National Academy of Sciences, becoming its first African American theoretical physicist recognized in its 150 year-old history. He also served on former President Barack Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. In addition, Gates has just been named as the 2023 recipient of the prestigious Hans Christian Oersted Medal, presented by the AAPT in honor of his outstanding leadership and impact in physics education.


Flier for the presentation: https://physics.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2234/2022/11/gates_flyer_final.pdf

NCTE Annual Convention

Come share your work in an informal, welcoming and constructive gathering with fellow writers- all genres welcome!!

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.

The writing workshops are held by the Connecticut Writing Project on the UConn, Storrs campus from 10am to 12pm in the Stern Lounge on the second floor of the Austin Building.

NCTE Annual Convention

Looking to be more competitive on the job market? Graduating and don't know what to do next? Want skills you can use at school, at work, AND in your everyday life? Check out UConn's Research Methods, Measurement, & Evaluation (RMME) Programs! Now accepting applications to the 100% Online RMME Master's degree program and the 100% Online Graduate Certificate in Program Evaluation program! The application deadline for Summer 2023 enrollment is March 24th. For more information, visit: https://rmme.education.uconn.edu/

Come see the WGSS2250 class's student-made documentaries!