Update: March AT PENN
Children’s Activities
Penn Museum
Online events. Info and to register: https://www.penn.museum/calendar/.
24 Virtual Archaeological Adventures: See More of South Asia; 10 a.m.
Conferences
24 The Sky is the Limit…Unless There is a Ceiling in the Way: Journal of Law & Public Affairs’ Annual Symposium; explores current topics in employment discrimination law; all day; Zoom meeting; register; https://tinyurl.com/law-symposium-mar-24 (Penn Law).
Third Annual DBEI & CCEB Research Day; trainee flash talks, high-impact faculty research, and keynote by Sue Curry, University of Iowa; 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; online event; register: https://tinyurl.com/cceb-research-day (CCEB).
25 America Invents Act: Mission Accomplished or Promise Unfulfilled?; will feature discussions between experts on patents and innovation, including keynote from Andrei Iancu, former USPTO Director; 3-5:40 p.m.; Zoom meeting; register: https://tinyurl.com/law-symposium-mar-25 (Penn Law).
26 Undergraduate Humanities Forum Research Conference: Choice Making; twelve undergraduate research fellows present their research on the topic of Choice; 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; online events; register: https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/choice-making (Wolf Humanities Center). Also March 27, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Exhibits
26 Welcome to the Shiva House – A Virtual Performance; interactive performance of a work written by Logan Gabrielle Schulman and Benjamin Behrend, wherein a community explores grieving through tears, laughter, and good memories; noon; Zoom meeting; register: https://tinyurl.com/shiva-house-mar-26 (Arthur Ross Gallery).
Virtual Global Guide Tour: Middle East Galleries; a thought-provoking tour of the Middle East Galleries led by a guide who grew up in the region; 2:30 p.m.; online event; register: https://tinyurl.com/global-guide-mar-26 (Penn Museum).
Fitness and Learning
25 PAACH Restorative Practice Circle for Penn Graduate & Professional Students; 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.; Zoom meeting; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96561474476 (ODEI, PAACH).
Stammtisch 2021; speak German with friends around a virtual table; 4 p.m.; Zoom meeting; info: cefrei@sas.upenn.edu (Germanic Languages & Literatures).
29 Diversity and Teaching When Disciplines Burn; 3:30 p.m.; online event; info: https://hss.sas.upenn.edu/events/ (HSS).
30 PAACH Restorative Practice Circle for Penn Undergraduate Students; 7:30 p.m.; Zoom meeting; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96719299272 (ODEI, SEAS).
Graduate School of Education
Online events. Info and to register: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/events-calendar.
24 IES Predoctoral Program Application Office Hours; 4 p.m.
25 Literary Lunch with Juliana; for staff and faculty; noon.
Readings & Signings
25 A Good Provider is One Who Leaves: Global Migration and Nursing; Jason DeParle; noon; BlueJeans meeting; register: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/register/bebyaqrw (Nursing).
31 Extraterritorial; Matt Hart; includes publishing Q&A; 5 p.m.; Zoom meeting; info: https://www.english.upenn.edu/events/ (English).
Talks
23 Five Degrees of Separation: A Dialogue on Middle East Cinema; panel of filmmakers; noon; Zoom meeting; register: https://tinyurl.com/middle-east-cinema-mar-23 (Middle East Center).
Spinning Helices, Heaving Panels, and Waving Tails: The Role of Flexibility in Propulsion; Lisa Fauci, Tulane University; 4 p.m.; Zoom meeting; join: https://tinyurl.com/hinow-talk-feb-9 (Mathematics).
24 It's Been A Year: Are Our Pets Really at Risk of Getting COVID-19?; Shelley Rankin, microbiology; Elizabeth Lennon, internal medicine; Deborah Mandell, clinical emergency and critical care; 4 p.m.; online event; register: https://tinyurl.com/rankin-lennon-mandell-mar-24 (Penn Vet).
Augmenting Memory: Justice and Monuments in New Media; panel of speakers; 5 p.m.; Zoom meeting; register: https://tinyurl.com/weitzman-talk-mar-24 (Weitzman School).
Queering Latinx: Imagining Inclusive Urban Spaces; Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Yale; Kristal Sotomayor, ¡Presente! Media; 6 p.m.; Zoom meeting; register: https://tinyurl.com/villavicencio-sotomayor-mar-24 (Weitzman School).
What Remains: Colonial Racial Capitalism, Videogames, and an Empire in Play; Jodi Byrd, University of Illinois; 6 p.m.; Zoom meeting; info: plaue@sas.upenn.edu or aqjames@sas.upenn.edu (English).
25 The HIV Care Continuum: A Case-Study of Biases in a Single Sample Problem and Learning; Catherine Lesko, Johns Hopkins; 9 a.m.; BlueJeans meeting; join: https://bluejeans.com/368827150 (CCEB).
Future Directions in Self-Assembly for Nanopatterning; Ricardo Ruiz, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; 10:45 a.m.; Zoom meeting; info: info-mse@seas.upenn.edu (MSE).
ASEF-PSOM Luncheon Lecture - Happy Birthday HIPAA: Should Patients Celebrate?; Anita Allen, Penn Law; noon; online event; register: https://events.med.upenn.edu/view/event/event_id/723589 (PSOM).
The Stephen A. Levin Family Dean’s Forum: Range vs. Grit; David Epstein and Angela Duckworth, authors; 2 p.m.; BlueJeans meeting; register: https://tinyurl.com/levin-forum-mar-25 (Levin Family Dean’s Forum).
Two Dimensional Parsing and the Iambic-Trochaic Law; Michael Wagner, McGill University; 3 p.m.; Zoom meeting; info: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/events/ (Linguistics).
IPF and HPS: Different Origins, Similar Paths; Ross Summer, Thomas Jefferson University; 4 p.m.; BlueJeans meeting; join: https://bluejeans.com/497920610 (Penn-CHOP Lung Biology Institute).
Single-Cell Biology in a Software 2.0 World; David Van Valen, Caltech; 4 p.m.; Zoom meeting; join: https://tinyurl.com/van-valen-talk-mar-25 (Biology).
Power and Precarity: Murdering Royal Women in the Hellenistic Age; Sheila Ager, University of Waterloo; 4:30 p.m.; Zoom meeting; info: https://www.classics.upenn.edu/events/ (Classical Studies).
Living Room Lecture: Sattriya Dance: An Agent of Social Change from Assam, India; Madhusmita Bora, Sattriya Dance Company; 5:30 p.m.; Facebook livestream; info: https://www.penn.museum/calendar/699/living-room-lecture (Penn Museum).
Fels Racial Equity and Social Justice Conversation Series; Regina Hairston, African American Chamber of Commerce of PA, NJ and DE; 6 p.m.; online event; register: https://www.fels.upenn.edu/events/regina-hairston (Fels Institute).
26 Towards Safe and Efficient Learning and Control for Physical Human Robot Interaction; Nadia Figueroa, MIT; 11 a.m.; Zoom meeting; info: peterlit@seas.upenn.edu (MEAM).
29 Portraits of Our Land: African American Farms and Gardens; Syd Carpenter, Swarthmore; noon; online event; register: https://tinyurl.com/carpenter-talk-mar-29 (Weitzman School).
30 Robust Functional Principal Components Analysis with Application to Accelerometry Data; Chongzhi Di, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; 3:30 p.m.; BlueJeans meeting; join: https://bluejeans.com/553472553 (CCEB).
Florxal Review & Tropical Sacrifice; Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves and Lucas de Lima, authors; 4 p.m.; online event; register: https://tinyurl.com/grives-lima-mar-30 (GSWS).
31 Feeling Media: Potentiality and the Afterlife of Art; Miryam Sas, UC Berkeley; noon; Zoom meeting; noon; register: https://tinyurl.com/sas-talk-mar-31 (Cinema Studies).
Do Well by Doing Good; Bill Novelli, Georgetown; 4 p.m.; online event; register: https://tinyurl.com/novelli-talk-mar-31 (Nursing).
Computer and Information Science (CIS)
Info and to register: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/events/
25 Graph Representation Learning for Drug Discovery; Wengong Jin, MIT; 3 p.m.
30 Wireless Systems that See the Invisible with Machine Learning: Through-Wall Vision, Emotion Recognition, and Health Monitoring; Mingmin Zhao, MIT; 3 p.m.
31 Communication Complexity, Quantum Computing and Optimization: New Connections and Insights; Makrand Sinha, National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science Amsterdam; 3 p.m.
Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE)
Info and to register: https://events.seas.upenn.edu/calendar/tag/ese/list/
25 Engineering Quantum Processors in Silicon; Anthony Sigillito, Princeton; 11 a.m.
30 Integrated Nonlinear and Quantum Photonic Devices; Mengjie Yu, Harvard; 11 a.m.
Penn Dental
Info and to register: https://www.dental.upenn.edu/news-events/events/
23 The Use of Preparation Guides in Porcelain Veneers; Fadi Yassmin, King’s College; 6 p.m.
25 Ocular and Orbital Trauma; Jacqueline Carrasco, Jefferson University Hospitals; 5:30 p.m.
Dynamic Navigation in Implant Dentistry; Isaac Tawil, Advanced Implant Educators; 6 p.m.
Economics
Info and to register: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events
23 A Model of Justification; Sarah Ridout, Harvard; 4 p.m.
24 The Constraint on Public Debt When r>g but g
29 Causal Gradient Boosting: Boosted Instrumental Variable Regression; Edvard Bakhitov, economics; 1:30 p.m.
30 Sequential Sampling and Equilibrium; Duarte Goncalves, Columbia; 4 p.m.
31 Algorithmic Pricing and Competition: Empirical Evidence from the German Retail Gasoline Market; Robert Clark, Queen’s University; 3:30 p.m.
Sociology
Online events. Info and to register: https://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/events
24 The Two Trillion Dollar Medical Software Industry: The Road from Panacea to False Assurances to Peril; Ross Koppel, sociology; noon.
26 Inherently Traumatic, Invariably Victimizing: The Legal Construction of Subject Positions for Survivors of Sexual Violence; Tuğçe Ellialtı-Köse, Trent University; noon.
30 Racial Differences in Wealth Trajectories During Early Adulthood; Alexander Adames and Ellen Bryer, sociology; 9 a.m.