Conferences

16        Innovation, Fabrication, Conservation: Responding to the Past(s) of East Asian Cultures; will bring graduate students working in East Asian studies at Penn and institutions around the world together to showcase their research, exchange ideas, and engage in stimulating debate; 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; room 208, Houston Hall; register: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/ealcgradcon/register/ (Wolf Humanities Center, East Asian Studies).

18        CRIM Day 2022; displays the current projects of criminology masters students and gives undergraduate class a chance to learn more about criminology's master’s program; also features a keynote speaker who will discuss a relevant topic in criminology; 1:45 p.m.; room B6, Stiteler Hall; register: breyanam@sas.upenn.edu (Criminology).

Exhibits

Penn Museum
Online and in-person events. Info: https://www.penn.museum/calendar.

15        Virtual Global Guide Tour: Middle East Galleries; 2:30 p.m.

16        Africa Galleries Tour; 11 a.m.

            Global Guide Tour: Mexico & Central America Gallery; 2:30 p.m.

Films

14        Loose Cannons; the story of Tommasso, an Italian pasta heir who struggles to reveal to his family that he is gay; 6 p.m.; LGBT Center (LGBT Center, Cinema Studies).

16        Behemoth; details the economic victories and ecological costs of mining in Asia, beginning with a mining explosion in Mongolia and ending in a ghost city west of Beijing; begins at noon, available all day; virtual screening; register: https://tinyurl.com/behemoth-apr-16 (Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication; Center on Digital Culture and Society). Through April 20.

Fitness & Learning

13        Women in Media and Communication Wikipedia Edit-a-thon; an afternoon of editing Wikipedia pages for women in communication and media, led by Katie Rawson and Isabelle Langrock; 1-3 p.m.; library, Annenberg School, and Zoom webinar; register: https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/8991586 (Penn Libraries, Annenberg School).

18        Earth Week Data Jam; week of sessions in which participants can create, analyze, visualize, and experiment with data related to environmental issues and the natural world; noon; hybrid events at various locations; full schedule: https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/earth-week-data-jam (Penn Libraries). Various times through April 22.

Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF)

Online events. Info: https://www.curf.upenn.edu/curf-events.

15        Fulbright Study/Research Brainstorming Workshop; 3 p.m.

19        Fulbright U.S. Student Program Information Session; 4 p.m.

Music

Penn Live Arts
In-person events. Info: https://pennlivearts.org/events/.

15        The Pennchants: The Handsome Menace; a cappella group the Pennchants’ annual spring show, featuring solos from all 15 of their talented young singers; 6:30 p.m.; Harold Prince Theater. Also April 16, 7:30 p.m.

On Stage

16        Penn Chinese Theater: Goodbye, Mr. Loser; popular Chinese comedy with elements of music and twists of today’s pop culture; 6 p.m.; Harold Prince Theater, Annenberg Center; tickets: https://pennlivearts.org/event/penn-chinese-theater (Penn Chinese Theater, Penn Live Arts).

Talks

13        The Declaration’s Journey: Thinking About the 250th Exhibition at the Museum of the American Revolution; Phillip Mead, Museum of the American Revolution; noon; Zoom webinar; register: https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/calendar/kislak/mead (Penn Libraries).

            The End of the Affair: Reflecting on the Ruins of Soviet-Third-World Networks; Rossen Djagalov, New York University; noon; room 330, Fisher-Bennett Hall (Cinema & Media Studies).

            First Results from the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab’s Muon Campus; Chris Polly, Fermilab; 3:30 p.m.; room A4, DRL, and Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/polly-talk-apr-13 (Physics & Astronomy).

14        Converging Across Oceans: Approaches to Logistics, Environment, and Power; panel of speakers; 9 a.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/cargc-talk-apri-14 (Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Center on Digital Culture and Society).

            Role of Solvation and Dynamics on Ion Transport in Polymer Electrolytes; Shrayesh Patel, University of Chicago; 10:30 a.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (Materials Science and Engineering).

            Exploiting Environmental Fields for Orienteering and Planning Problems; Ariella Mansfield, mechanical engineering & applied mechanics; 1:30 p.m.; Zoom webinar; info: peterlit@seas.upenn.edu (Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics).

            Deterritorializing the Flesh: HIV/AIDS and Black Queer Aesthetics; Jamal Batts, fine arts; 6 p.m.; Institute of Contemporary Art, and Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/batts-talk-apr-14 (Fine Arts, ICA).

19        The Vow from Hiroshima: Film, Advocacy, and Nuclear Disarmament; panel of speakers; 4 p.m.; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/pwh-talk-apr-19 (Perry World House).

60-Second Lectures
Sponsored by the School of Arts and Sciences. In-person events at Benjamin Franklin Statue, College Green.

19        The First 60 Seconds of the Universe; Jonathan Heckman, physics & astronomy; noon.

Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics (CCEB)
Zoom webinars. Info: https://www.cceb.med.upenn.edu/events.

19        A Flexible Approach for the Analysis of Repeated Attempt Designs; Michael Daniels, University of Florida; 3:30 p.m.

Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS)
Zoom webinars. Info: https://ceas.sas.upenn.edu/events.

12        Ed Reishauer's Area Studies and Japan-South Korea Normalization; Toyomi Asano, Waseda University; 5 p.m.; room 402, Cohen Hall.

Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies
Various locations. Info: https://gsws.sas.upenn.edu/events.

13        Queer and Trans of Color Activism in Philadelphia; Hanae Masonfrom, Black Lives Matter Philadelphia; Jorian Rivera-Veintidos, GALAEI: QTBIPOC Radical Social Justice; 4 p.m.; room 250, PCPSE, and Zoom webinar.

14        Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans; David Eng, English and Asian American studies; noon; Zoom webinar.

            The Queen's Two Bodies, or a Political Theology of Trans Femininity; 3:30 p.m.; room 401, Fisher-Bennett Hall, and Zoom webinar.

Center for the Study of Contemporary China (CSCC)
Unless noted, in-person events at room 418, PCPSE. Info: https://cscc.sas.upenn.edu/events.

14        The Cold War’s Long Shadow: Indian Foreign Policy and the Current State of Play of Indo-Pacific Geopolitics; Swagato Ganguly, The Times of India; noon; Zoom webinar.

Chemistry
Unless noted, in-person events at Carol Lynch Lecture Hall, Chemistry Complex.. Info: https://www.chem.upenn.edu/events.

14        Probing Ultrafast Electron Transfer in Solution With High Spatial and Temporal Resolution; Munria Khalil, University of Washington; 1 p.m.; Zoom webinar.

Classical Studies
Unless noted, in-person events at Widener Lecture Hall, Penn Museum. Info: https://www.classics.upenn.edu/events.

15        Being a “Whole Scholar”: Readiness for Life Inside and Outside Academia; Joy Connolly, American Council of Learned Societies; 3 p.m.; room 337, Cohen Hall.

18        Building the Future of the Humanities; Joy Connolly, American Council of Learned Societies; 5 p.m.; room 108, ARCH.

Penn Dental
Online webinars. Info: https://www.dental.upenn.edu/news-events/events/.

14        Smart Denture Conversions – A Novel Approach for Converting a Full-Arch Denture to a Fixed Interim, Screw-Retained Implant Prostheses; Brandon Kofford, Cary Prosthodontics; 6 p.m.

Economics
Unless noted, in-person events at room 101, PCPSE. Info: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events.

12        An Axiomatic Approach to the Law of Small Numbers; Jawwad Noor, Boston University; 4 p.m.

13        High-Cost Credit and Household Financial Distress; Jincheng (Eric) Huang, economics; noon; room 200, PCPSE.

            Suppliers and Demanders of Flexibility: The Demographics of Gig Work; Judy Chevalier, Yale University; 3:30 p.m.; room 1203, Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall.

14        Human Capital Investment in the Presence of Child Labor; Natalie Bau, University of California Los Angeles; 3:30 p.m.

18        Learning Across Bandits in High Dimension via Robust Statistics; Kan Xu, economics; noon.

GRASP Lab
Hybrid events at Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall, and Zoom webinars. Info: https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/month/2022-04/.

14        Swarms Across Length Scales with Local-to-Global Behaviors; Steven Ceron, Cornell University; 10:30 a.m.; room 337, Towne Building.

15        Self-Supervised Scene Representation Learning for Robotics; Vincent Sitzmann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 10:30 a.m.

Mathematics
Various locations. Info: https://www.math.upenn.edu/events.

12        Six-Vertex Model and the KPZ Universality Class; Amol Aggarwal, Columbia University; 3:30 p.m.; room 4C8, DRL.

            Modeling Microbial Biofilms in Their Environments; Isaac Klapper, Temple University; 4 p.m.; room A1, DRL, and Zoom webinar.

18        Kripke–Joyal Semantics for Type Theory; Steve Awodey, Carnegie Mellon University; 3:30 p.m.; online webinar.