Exhibits

Penn Museum

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

28        Virtual Global Guide Tour: Asia Galleries; 2:30 p.m.

Fitness & Learning

Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships

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

26        Info Session: Summer Humanities Internship Program; 7 p.m.

28        PURM Info Session; 3 p.m.

Graduate School of Education (GSE)

Unless noted, online events. Info: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/events-calendar.

27        Time and Energy Management Workshop; for staff; 10 a.m.

28        Friday Virtual Chats with Admissions; 9 a.m.

            Yoga at the Palestra; noon; meet at the Palestra.

29        School Leadership Program Information Session; 10 a.m.-noon.

Talks

25        Asian America Across the Disciplines: Race and Academic Approaches; Mike O’Bryan, Drexel; noon; room 473, McNeil Building and Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/o-bryan-talk-jan-25 (Asian American Studies).

26        Salmonella Persisters During Infection; Sophie Helaine, Harvard; noon; BlueJeans webinar; join: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/xqbzwhrb (Microbiology).

            Social Policy, the Workforce, & the COVID Economy; Katherina Rosqueta, Center for High Impact Philanthropy; Ioana Marinescu, National Bureau of Economic Research; noon; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/rosqueta-marinescu-jan-26 (SP2).

            Learning in Factor Graphs for Tactile Perception; Paloma Sodhi, Carnegie Mellon University; 3 p.m.; room 307, Levine Hall and Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/sodhi-talk-jan-26 (GRASP Lab).

            Revealing the Unknown Dynamics of High-Energy-Density Lithium-Metal Batteries; Fang Liu, Stanford; 3:30 p.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall, and Zoom webinar; register:  https://tinyurl.com/liu-talk-jan-26 (Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering).

27        Dissecting Causes of Variation in Immune Defenses: The Case of the Swarming T-Helper Cells; Andrea Graham, Princeton; 4 p.m.; Zoom webinar; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/97464347521 (Biology).

            Before and After: Cycles of Destruction and Renewal in Martial’s Rome; Virginia Closs, University of Massachusetts Amherst; 4:45 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/classical-studies-spring-2022

            Masters in Miniature: Future Horizons for Italian Manuscript Studies; Bryan Keene, Riverside City College; 5:15 p.m.; Kislak Center, Van Pelt Library; register: https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/8592688 (Italian Studies).

28        Making It: How to Navigate the Fine Arts as an Asian American; Piyali Bhattacharya, creative writing; noon; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/bhattacharya-talk-jan-28 (Asian American Studies).

            What Can a Taxidermied Horse Teach Us About the Politics of Race and Memory? Nicole Maurantonio, University of Richmond; noon; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/maurantonio-talk-jan-28 (Annenberg School).

            Prospering through Prospera: Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Impacts on Educational Attainment and Achievement in Mexico; Jere Behrman, economics; 12:30 p.m.; Zoom webinar; info: mbahti@upenn.edu (Graduate School of Education).

            Taking a Layman’s Perspective to Turbulence Modeling; Xiang Yang, Penn State; 2 p.m.; room 534, 3401 Walnut Street (Penn Institute for Computational Science).

            Massey Products for Curves; Frauke Bleher, University of Iowa; 3:30 p.m.; Zoom webinar; info: https://www.math.upenn.edu/events/massey-products-curves (Mathematics).

            Reckoning with Racism in Nursing: Acknowledgment, Recognition, and Admission; Roberta Waite, Dean of Georgetown School of Nursing; 4 p.m.; BlueJeans webinar; register: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/register/cfygqjff (Nursing).

31        Toric Topology of Simple Polytopes with Small Chromatic Number; Djordje Baralic, Serbian Academy of Sciences; 2 p.m.; Zoom webinar; info: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96850916585 (Mathematics).

            The Behavioral Code: The Hidden Ways the Law Makes Us Better… Or Worse; Benjamin van Rooij, UCI Law; Adam Fine, Arizona State; 4:30 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/van-rooji-fine-jan-31 (Carey Law School).

Penn Dental

Unless noted, online webinars. Info: https://www.dental.upenn.edu/news-events/events/.

27        Artificial Intelligence for the Detection of Periapical Lesions; Frank Setzer, endodontics; noon.

Economics

Online webinars. Info: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events.

26        The Global Race for Talent: Brain Drain, Knowledge Transfer and Growth; Marta Prato, University of Chicago; noon.

27        Quality Disclosure and Regulation: Scoring Design in Medicare Advantage; Benjamin Vatter, Northwestern University; noon.

28        Bidding for Talent: Equilibrium Wage Dispersion on a High-Wage Online Job Board; Benjamin Scuderi, UC Berkeley; noon.

31        Identifying Prediction Mistakes in Observational Data; Ashesh Rambachan, Harvard; noon.

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