Update: December AT PENN
Children’s Activities
Penn Museum
Online events. Info: https://www.penn.museum/calendar/.
30 At-Home Anthro Live: Roots of Tradition: Corn, Beans and Squash; 1 p.m.
Exhibits
Penn Museum
Online and in-person events. Info: https://www.penn.museum/calendar/.
26 Graduate Guide Highlights Tour; 11 a.m.
Virtual Global Guide Tour: Middle East Galleries; 2:30 p.m.
27 Africa Galleries Tour; 11 a.m.
Global Guide Tour: Africa Galleries; 2:30 p.m.
28 Native American Voices Tour; 11 a.m.
Global Guide Tour: Middle East Galleries; 2:30 p.m.
Films
26 Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché; the first woman of color in the U.K. to front a successful rock band examines her mother’s unopened artistic archive; 7 p.m.; online screening; tickets: https://pennlivearts.org/event/poly-styrene-i-am-a-cliche (Penn Live Arts).
Fitness & Learning
Graduate School of Education (GSE)
Online and in-person events. Info: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/events-calendar.
29 Implementing Education Reform: Why is Implementation Important? 9 a.m.; online event.
30 Penn GSE Teacher Programs Information Session; 5 p.m.; online event.
Talks
23 New Materials for Three Dimensional Ferroelectric Microelectronics; Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Penn State; 11 a.m.; Zoom meeting; https://tinyurl.com/trolier-mckinstry-nov-23 (Electrical & Systems Engineering).
Preservation in Practice; Christine Britton, JVA, Inc.; noon; online event; info: https://tinyurl.com/britton-talk-nov-23 (Historic Preservation).
29 Tissues Fluidification in Invasive Breast Cancer; Giorgio Scita, University of Milan; noon; room 225, Towne Building (Physical Sciences Oncology Center).
The Role of Membrane Fluidity in Intracellular Vesicle Transport; William Hancock, Penn State; 2 p.m.; Austrian Auditorium, CRB and BlueJeans meeting; join: https://tinyurl.com/hancock-talk-nov-29 (Pennsylvania Muscle Institute).
30 Revolutionizing Modern Medicine; panel of speakers; 3 p.m.; online event; register: https://tinyurl.com/vet-talk-nov-30 (Penn Vet).
Scalable Statistical Methods and Software for Single-Cell Data Science; Stephanie Hicks, Johns Hopkins; 3:30 p.m.; BlueJeans meeting; join: https://bluejeans.com/812676289/1348 (CCEB).
Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning; David Rolnick, McGill University; 3:30 p.m.; Zoom meeting; info: cherylh@cis.upenn.edu (Computer & Information Science).
Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies (CLALS)
Online and in-person events. Info: https://clals.sas.upenn.edu/events.
30 Devaluing Blackness: Unveiling Insidious Forms of Violence in Spanish America; Evelyne Laurent-Perrault, UC Santa Barbara; noon; room 473, McNeil Building and Zoom meeting.
Penn Dental
Online events. Info: https://www.dental.upenn.edu/news-events/events/.
29 Harnessing Citizen Values for Oral Health Systems Improvement; Stefan Listl, Radboud University; 5:30 p.m.
30 Indirect Composite Restorations. A Biomimetic Approach for the Structurally Compromised Tooth; Gustavo Passarelli Petris, Zerodonto Academy; 6 p.m.
Economics
Info: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events.
23 Technology Transition with Frictions: Evidence from the IP Address Market; Sarah George, economics; noon; room 101, PCPSE.
24 Fertility Planning and Child Investment; Agustin Diaz, economics; noon; room 100, PCPSE.
30 Selling to a Group; Elliot Lipnowski, Columbia; 4 p.m.; room 101, PCPSE.
Mathematics
Online and in-person events. Info: https://www.math.upenn.edu/events.
23 Exponential Growth: From Euler to 21st Century Biology; Ethan Levien, Dartmouth; 4 p.m.; Zoom meeting.
29 A Simple Permutoassociahedron; Jelena Ivanovic, University of Belgrade; 2 p.m.; Zoom meeting.
30 A Tale of Two W-Algebras (Part 3); Angela Gibney, mathematics; 3:30 p.m.; room 4C4, DRL.
Collective Motion in the Mitotic Spindle; Christopher Miles, UC Irvine; 4 p.m.; room 4C8, DRL and Zoom meeting.