Films

6          Life of Abundance: A Film about Grief; a short film depicting the Black experience surrounding grief, loss, and community healing in Harlem; features Q&A with the director, producer, and executive producer; 4 p.m.; room 109, Annenberg School (Annenberg School for Communication).

7          Restitution Cinema: Interiors; a film program that considers the impossibility of repair, and the traction in reaching for it anyway; 6 p.m.; Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum (Cinema & Media Studies).

Fitness & Learning

Penn Libraries

Workshops open to the Penn community. Various locations. Info and to register: https://www.library.upenn.edu/events.

5          March Madness Tournament: Mario Kart; for March Madness, the Leon Levy Dental Medicine Library will host a Mario Kart Tournament featuring up to 4 players per round; 11 a.m-1:30 p.m.; room LL02A, Levy Dental Medicine Library.

On Stage

6          Coming Out! A Documentary Play About Gay and Lesbian Life and Liberation; collective table reading of a work by Jonathan Katz, history of art; 4 p.m.; the Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street (The Rotunda, Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies).

8          Penn Thillana Presents "A Bridgerton Story"; step back into the Regency era as Penn’s premier Indian classical dance team presents an evening of wonder and intrigue of the Bridgerton world; 7 p.m.; Iron Gate Theater; tickets: $10-$12 (Platt Performing Arts House).

Readings & Signings

Kelly Writers House

In-person events at Arts Café, Kelly Writers House. Info: https://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/0325.php.

4          Heled Travel Grant Presentations; Armie Chardiet, C’25; Daniel Gurevitch, C’24; noon.

Talks

4          Robust Integration of External Data in Randomized Trials; Guanbo Wang, Harvard University; 3:30 p.m.; room 701, Blockley Hall, and Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/wang-talk-mar-4 (Biostatistics).

            Decoding the Coughing Horse; Daniela Luethy, Penn Vet; 6:30 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/luethy-talk-mar-4 (Penn Vet).

5          Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India; Hemangini Gupta, University of Edinburgh; noon; room 330, Fisher-Bennett Hall (Cinema & Media Studies).

            From Data to Insights: Trustworthy Solutions for Imaging Problems; Jeremias Sulam, Johns Hopkins University; noon; room 414, Amy Gutmann Hall, and Zoom webinar; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/93115449335 (SEAS ASSET Center).

            Understanding the Recent Wave of Military Coups in West Africa; Marc Papé, Lauder Institute; noon; room 328A, 3401 Walnut Street (Africana Studies).

            The Magic of Lasers in Entertainment – Behind the Technology; John Suehle, Image Engineering; 3 p.m.; room 307, Levine Hall, and Zoom webinar; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/98540261772 (GRASP Lab).

            Discoveries with the JWST, and What Comes Next; John C. Mather, NASA; 3:30 p.m.; room A8, DRL (Physics & Astronomy).

            AIIMS New Delhi and the Tumultuous Beginnings of Indian Biomedicine; Kiran Kumbhar, Center for the Advanced Study of India; 4:30 p.m.; room 230, PCPSE (Penn Center for Global Health).

6          Flexible Causal Inference in the “Big Data” Era: Efficiency, Robustness, and Partial Identification; Alexander Levis, Carnegie Mellon University; 11:30 a.m.; room 701, Blockley Hall, and Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/levis-talk-mar-6 (Biostatistics).

            Change Over Time Dialogues: Civil Rights Work as a Global Strategy of Resistance and Resilience; panel of speakers; noon; Kleinman Forum, Fisher Fine Arts Library (Historic Preservation).

            Tracheobronchitis in Chronic Critical Illness; Anna Zemke, pulmonary, allergy & critical care medicine; noon; room 213, Stemmler Hall (Penn-CHOP Lung Biology Institute).

            Pareto-Efficient AI Systems: Expanding the Quality and Efficiency Frontier of AI; Simran Arora, Stanford University; 3:30 p.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall, and Zoom webinar; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/93050333779 (Computer & Information Science).

            Seneca’s First Intervention; James Ker, classical studies; 4:45 p.m.; room 402, Cohen Hall (Classical Studies).

            Bench to Conference Rooms: The Role of Sex and Gender in Research and Workforce; Effie Ioannidou, University of California, San Francisco; 5:15 p.m.; Corby Auditorium, Penn Dental Medicine; register: https://tinyurl.com/ioannidou-talk-mar-6 (Penn Dental Medicine).

7          Aesth-ethics of Resistance: Grammars of Listening and Radical Testimony; María del Rosario Acosta López, University of California, Riverside; 1 p.m.; room 473, McNeil Building (Center for Latin American & Latinx Studies).

Economics

In-person events. Info: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events.

4          Grade Inflation and Predoc as Signaling in PhD Admission Market; Siqi Li, economics; noon; room B13, Meyerson Hall.

5          Scale-Dependent Returns or Dynamics of the Interest Rate? Mojtaba Hayati, University of Zurich; noon; room 100, PCPSE.

            Managed Competition vs. Public Procurement in Individual Health Insurance; Pietro Tebaldi, Columbia University; 3:30 p.m.; room 100, PCPSE.

Mathematics

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

4          Decategorifying the Singular Support of Coherent Sheaves; Kendric Schefers, SUNY Stony Brook; 3:30 p.m.; room 4C4, DRL.

Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics

Info: https://events.seas.upenn.edu/calendar/tag/meam/list/.

6          Exploring Structure, Mechanics, and Function in Soft Biological Systems Across Scales; Jing Xia, Princeton University; 10:15 a.m.; room 225, Towne Building.

11        Three-Dimensional Biointerfaces: Soft Bioelectronics for Complex Biological Geometries; Naijia Liu, Northwestern University; 10:15 a.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall.

This is an update to the March AT PENN calendar. To contribute events to upcoming Almanac monthly AT PENN calendars and weekly updates, email almanac@upenn.edu.