Update: October AT PENN
Exhibits
Penn Museum
Online and in-person events. Info: https://www.penn.museum/calendar.
15 Virtual Global Guide Tour: Asia Galleries; 2:30 p.m.
16 Asia Galleries Tour; 11 a.m.
Global Guide Tour: Africa Galleries; 2:30 p.m. Also October 17, 2:30 p.m.
17 Middle East Galleries Tour; 11 a.m.
Films
15 76 Days; Hao Wu’s latest documentary film about the COVID-19 lockdown in Wuhan, China; 7 p.m.; online screening; info: https://tinyurl.com/lgbt-center-calendar (LGBT Center).
Fitness & Learning
13 Advanced Esthetics Week 2021; 3-day program with lectures by renowned speakers on ceramics, soft tissue integration, chairside CAD/CAM dentistry workflows, and other issues in esthetic treatment planning; 1-7:30 p.m.; online event; info: https://tinyurl.com/dental-esthetics-week-2021 (Penn Dental). Also October 14 and 15, 1-7 p.m.
Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships (CURF)
Online events. Info: https://www.curf.upenn.edu/curf-events.
12 Grant Writing Workshop; 6 p.m.
15 President's Engagement and Innovation Prizes Joint Info Session; 3 p.m.
Graduate School of Education (GSE)
Online events. Info: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/events-calendar?date=2021-10.
15 Friday Virtual Chats With Admissions; 9 a.m.
IES Production Seminar; Jennifer Steele, American University; 12:30 p.m.
19 Health Professions Education Certificate Program Info Session; 8 p.m.
LGBT Center
In-person and online events. Info: https://tinyurl.com/lgbt-center-calendar.
19 Cooking Demo with Chef Liz Alpern; noon; LGBT Center.
Talks
12 David vs. Goliath: The Art of Leaderboarding in the Era of Extreme-Scale Neural Models; Yejin Choi, University of Washington; 3:30 p.m.; Zoom meeting; join: https://tinyurl.com/choi-talk-oct-12 (Computer and Information Science).
Data and Technology Ecosystems for Social Good; Aaron Bean, Asemio; 8 p.m.; online event; register: https://tinyurl.com/bean-talk-oct-12 (Penn IUR).
13 Enhanced Matrix Stress Relaxation Promotes Cell Migration; Kolade Abebowale, Harvard; 11 a.m.; Zoom meeting; info: annjeong@seas.upenn.edu (PSOM).
The Refinery of Today, Tomorrow and the Future: A Separations Perspective; Ryan Lively; Georgia Tech; 3:30 p.m.; Wu and Chen Auditorium (room 101), Levine Hall (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering).
14 The Second Amendment in the Supreme Court; Clark Neily, Cato Institute; noon; room 100, Golkin Hall (Penn Law).
Paul Robeson: A West Philadelphia Legend; Janice Sykes-Ross, West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance; 5:30 p.m.; Facebook livestream; info: https://www.penn.museum/calendar/965/living-room-lecture (Penn Museum).
15 Amazonian Communities: Shaping the Ethics of Cosmocentrism; Stefano Varese, UC Davis; 6 p.m.; Zoom meeting; info: mervic@sas.upenn.edu, jpcvw@sas.upenn.edu (Hispanic & Portuguese Studies).
18 The “Discovery” of Salvia Divinorum: Narrative Hangovers and Psychedelic Fetishism (Or, This is Your Mind On Pollan); Paja Faudree, Brown; noon; room 345, Penn Museum (Anthropology).
The NIH Approach to Inclusive Excellence; Marie Bernard, NIH; 2 p.m.; online event; register: https://www.med.upenn.edu/aging/eventreg.html (Institute on Aging).
Beyond the Tool: Integrating Social Work Thinking, Qualitative Methods, and Artificial Intelligence for Gun Violence Prevention; Desmond Upton Patton, Columbia; 3 p.m.; Zoom meeting; register: https://tinyurl.com/patton-talk-oct-18 (Annenberg School).
Russia’s Mediterranean Moment, 1770-1829; Julia Leikin, Higher School of Economics; 6 p.m.; room 209, College Hall (History).
19 Computational Mechanics for Landing on Mars; Charbel Farhat, Stanford; 10 a.m.; Zoom meeting; info: peterlit@seas.upenn.edu (Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics).
Climate Change Consequences for Plants, Whose Lives Depend on the Sun; Brenda Casper, biology and Earth & environmental science; Brent Helliker, biology; noon; Zoom meeting; register: https://tinyurl.com/casper-helliker-oct-19 (Penn Science Café).
Masculinity Redefinition Among Pharmacists as “Men of Science” in Eurasia, Europe, and East Asia; Elizabeth Frierson, University of Cincinnati; noon; room 209, College Hall and Zoom; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/99541882317 (History).
PennSIVE Virtual Seminar Series; Yi Zhao, Indiana University; 12:30 p.m.; Zoom meeting; join: https://tinyurl.com/zhao-talk-oct-19 (CCEB).
Sound Art Revisited; Alan Licht, Bard College; Julie Beth Napolin, The New School Lang; 12:30 p.m.; ICA and Zoom; register: https://tinyurl.com/licht-napolin-oct-19 (ICA).
The Many Facets of Moral Distress Across Healthcare Settings; Nancy Berlinger, Hastings Center; Christine Grady, NIH; Margit Krellwitz, Greenhurst Nursing Center; 1 p.m.; Zoom meeting; register: https://tinyurl.com/moral-distress-oct-19 (Nursing).
Causal Inference for Time-Varying Treatments and Binary Outcomes, with Application to Mobile Health; Tianchen Qian, UC Irvine; 3:30 p.m.; BlueJeans meeting; join; https://bluejeans.com/812676289/1348 (CCEB).
From Foundations to Frontiers–A Look at Contributions of Chinese Americans Over 175 Years; Zhengyu Huang, Committee of 100; James Gee, PSOM; Andrea Liu, biology; Shu Yang, materials science & engineering; 4 p.m.; Zoom meeting; join: https://tinyurl.com/committee-100-oct-19 (Center for East Asian Studies).
Blood and Chocolate: Cacao and Human Sacrifice in Pacific Guatemala; Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, Yale; 6 p.m.; online event; tickets: $5; register: https://tinyurl.com/mazariegos-talk-oct-19 (Penn Museum).
Penn Dental
In-person and online events. Info: https://www.dental.upenn.edu/news-events/events/.
12 Smile Design The Next Generation – Limitations of the Past, Technological Solutions for the Future; Ralph Georg, SmileFy; 6 p.m.; online.
14 Bioinstructive Materials Regulate Cell Behavior in Inflammation and Regeneration; Kyle Holmberg Vining, Harvard; noon; room B-13, Levy Building.
Economics
In-person events. Info: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events.
12 Physician Spatial Allocation and Moving Costs; Kathleen Hui, economics; noon; room 101, PCPSE.
13 Primary Dealers and the Demand for Government Debt; Jakub Kastl, Princeton; 3:30 p.m.; room F45, Huntsman Hall.
Optimal Progressive Income Taxation and Endogenous Marriage and Divorce; Akihisa Kato, economics; 4 p.m.; room 100, PCPSE.
14 American Dream Delayed: Shifting Determinants of Homeownership; Bob Miller, Carnegie-Mellon; 4 p.m.; room 250, PCPSE.
18 On the Aggregation of Probability Assessments: Regularized Mixtures of Predictive Densities; Frank Diebold, economics; noon; room 101, PCPSE.
Macroeconomic Forecasting and Variable Ordering in Multivariate Stochastic Volatility Models; Minchul Shin, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia; 4:30 p.m.; room 100, PCPSE.
19 Recall Over the Life Cycle; Justin Franco Lam, economics; 12:30 p.m.; room 101, PCPSE.
Mathematics
In-person and online events. Info: https://www.math.upenn.edu/events.
12 The Local Limit Theorem on Nilpotent Groups; Robert Hough, Stony Brook University; 3:30 p.m.; room A1, DRL.
19 Moduli of Sheaves via Affine Grassmannians; Andres Fernandez Herrero, Cornell; 3:30 p.m.; room 4C4, DRL.
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October AT PENN Calendar
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