Update: September AT PENN
Children’s Activities
15 At-Home Anthro Live: Senet: Make and Play an Ancient Egyptian Board Game; students will learn about its history and how the game became an important symbol for ancient Egyptian beliefs on the afterlife; they will then make their own senet boards and learn how to play; 1 p.m.; online event; register: https://www.penn.museum/calendar/61/at-home-anthro-live (Penn Museum).
Conferences
16 Radiology Imaging Case Competition: Focus Africa and the Middle East; designed for medical trainees in low- and middle-income countries to present cases unique to their region; features keynote speech by Amal Saleh Nour, Addis Ababa University; 9 a.m.-noon; register: https://tinyurl.com/global-health-conf-sep-16 (Global Health).
Fitness & Learning
13 Soros Fellowship for "New Americans" Event with 2022 Penn Soros Fellow; Nikka Landau from the Soros Foundation will visit Penn to discuss the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans; 5 p.m.; room 242, Van Pelt Library; register: https://tinyurl.com/curf-workshop-sep-13 (Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships).
14 Introduction to the Truman Scholarship; learn about the Truman Scholarship and how you can prepare yourself to apply during the 2023-24 or 2024-25 application cycle; 4 p.m.; room 242, Van Pelt Library; register: https://forms.gle/2Mg84Dmj9hq622gs5 (Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships).
Graduate School of Education
Zoom webinars. Info and to register: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/events-calendar.
12 Restorative Practices at Penn 101 Workshop; for Penn faculty and staff; 1:30 p.m.
14 Global Higher Education Management Virtual Information Session; 8 a.m.
19 Executive Doctorate in Higher Education Management Virtual Information Session; noon.
School of Social Policy & Practice
Zoom webinars. Info and to register: https://sp2.upenn.edu/sp2-events/.
13 Doctorate in Clinical Social Work Information Session; 7 p.m.
14 Master’s Online Information Session; 10 a.m.
19 PhD Online Information Session; 2 p.m.
Readings & Signings
19 Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray Zone; Ryo Morimoto, Princeton University; 5:15 p.m.; room 200, PCPSE; register: https://tinyurl.com/morimoto-talk-sep-19 (Center for East Asian Studies).
Talks
12 Viscoelastic Biopolymer Networks Model Fibrotic Niches; Kyle Vining, materials science & engineering; 10 a.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (Materials Science & Engineering).
Josephson Parametric Amplifiers for Rapid, High-Fidelity Measurement of Solid-State Qubits; Shyam Shankar, University of Texas at Austin; 11 a.m.; Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology (Electrical & Systems Engineering).
Solutions-Driven Climate Storytelling; Michael Mann, Earth & environmental science, and Bethany Wiggin, German; 5 p.m.; Zellerbach Theater, Annenberg Center; register: https://tinyurl.com/ppeh-talk-sep-12 (Penn Program in Environmental Humanities).
13 60-Second Lectures: Microhistory: From Toenails to Teacups; Heather Sharkey, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; 11:50 a.m.; Benjamin Franklin Statue, College Hall (School of Arts & Sciences).
On Mergers and Workers: Labor Market Aspects of the Proposed U.S. Merger Guidelines; Gus Hurwitz, Carey Law School; Ioana Marinescu, SP2; Aviv Nevo, Federal Trade Commission; Sanjukta Paul, University of Michigan; noon; Zoom webinar; register: (Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition).
Improving the Sustainability of Solvent-Borne Paints and Coatings Through Fundamental Studies of Polymerization Reactions; Masoud Soroush, Drexel University; 3:30 p.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering).
Generalist Agents in Open-Ended Worlds; Jim Fan, NVIDIA AI; 3 p.m.; room 307, Levine Hall (GRASP Lab).
Seeing India Through My Lens: East, West, and Coming Full Circle; Mira Nair, film director; 4:30 p.m.; Penn Museum; register: https://tinyurl.com/nair-talk-sep-13 (Center for the Advanced Study of India).
What the Thunder Said; Eric Owen Moss, architect; 6:30 p.m.; Plaza Gallery, Meyerson Hall (Architecture).
14 The Indictments of Former President Trump and Their Implications for American Society; Bill Otis, Georgetown University; Paul Heaton, Penn Carey Law School; noon; room 145, Tanenbaum Hall; RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/federalist-talk-sep-14 (Federalist Society).
Addressing Recruitment Bias in Cluster Randomized Trials; Georgia Papadogeorgou, University of Florida; 1 p.m.; room 1311, Blockley Hall, and Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/papadogeorgou-talk-sep-14 (Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics).
The Lost Green Games: The Environmental Legacy of a Radically Reimagined Tokyo 2020 Olympics; Robin Kietlinski, LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York; 5:15 p.m.; room 200, PCPSE; register: https://tinyurl.com/ketlinski-talk-sep-14 (Center for East Asian Studies, Climate Week at Penn).
15 The Virtual Pregnancy: Using Computational Models to Probe Human Reproduction; Michelle Oyen, Washington University in St. Louis; 2 p.m.; room 534, 5th floor, 3401 Walnut Street (Penn Institute for Computational Science).
Opportunities for Improving the Sustainability of Critical Metals Chemical Processing in Support of Global Electrification; Eric Schelter, chemistry; 3 p.m.; room 358, Hayden Hall (Earth & Environmental Science).
18 60-Second Lectures: Is the Constitution Too Old? Sarah Barringer Gordon, history; 11:50 a.m.; Benjamin Franklin Statue, College Hall (School of Arts & Sciences).
Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective; Marcel Danesi, University of Toronto; noon; room 345, Penn Museum (Anthropology).
Cell-Cell Signaling in Archaea: How Haloferax volcanii Talk to Each Other; Priyanka Chatterjee, cell & molecular biology; 4 p.m.; room 209, Johnson Pavilion (Microbiology).
The Architecture of Sustainability; Karen Goldberg, Vagelos Institute of Energy Science and Technology; Mark Kocent, University Architect; 5:30 p.m.; Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology; register: https://tinyurl.com/science-cafe-sep-18 (Penn Science Café).
The Baltic Gothic and the Russian Imperial Imagination; Valeria Sobol, University of Illinois; 5:30 p.m.; room 209, College Hall (Russian & East European Studies).
19 Insect Respiratory Biomechanics and Insect-Inspired Microfluidics; Anne Staples, Virginia Institute of Technology; 10 a.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (Materials Science & Engineering).
Angular Momentum Conservation in Molecular Born-Oppenheimer Theory; Robert Littlejohn, University of California, Berkeley; noon; Carolyn Hoff Lynch Lecture Hall, Chemistry Complex (Chemistry).
An Introduction to the Federal Appellate Courts; Stephanos Bibas, 3rd Circuit Judge; noon; room 213, Gittis Hall; RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/bibas-talk-sep-19 (Federalist Society).
The World Today: The Crisis of Climate-Driven Extinction; Erol Akçay, biology; Michael Mann, Earth & environmental science; Zinta Zommers, United Nations; 4 p.m.; World Forum, Perry World House; register: https://tinyurl.com/pwh-talk-sep-19 (Perry World House).
Economics
In-person events. Info: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events.
12 Market Power and Merger Efficiencies in the U.S. Hospital Industry; Jonathan Arnold, economics; noon; room 100, PCPSE.
18 Heterogeneity in Portfolio Construction: An Asset Demand Approach; Aaron Mora Melendez, economics; noon; room 202, PCPSE.
19 Protection or Segregation? Indigenous Education in Mexico; Ornella Darova, economics; noon; room 100, PCPSE.
Mathematics
In-person events. Info: https://www.math.upenn.edu/events.
14 Einstein Hypersurfaces in Irreducible Symmetric Spaces; Yuri Nikolayevsky, La Trobe University, Australia; 3:30 p.m.; room 4C8, DRL.
19 Random Walks in (Dirichlet) Random Environments with Jumps on Z; Daniel Slonim, University of Virginia; 3:30 p.m.; room 4C8, DRL.
This is an update to the September AT PENN calendar, which is online now. To submit an event for a future AT PENN calendar or weekly update, email the salient details to almanac@upenn.edu.