The Center for Science in Society
Events Calendar
Fall 2002
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9 September, Monday 1-3pm, Room 264 Park Building |
Language Working Group Meeting | Details: Eric Raimy |
| 11 September,
Wednesday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road (Pennsby) |
Brown Bag Lunch:
Ralph Kuncl Provost, Bryn Mawr College "The Balkanization of Science" |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| 12 September,
Thursday 2-4pm, Campus Center |
Undergrad Research Symposium | Co-sponsored
with HHMI Program Details: Peter Brodfuehrer |
| 18 September,
Wednesday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road (Pennsby) |
Brown Bag Lunch:
Samantha Glazier Keck Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemistry "Isolation, Persuasion and Conviction: Sustaining the Culture of Science" |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
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20 September, Friday |
Special Lecture: Ralph Kuncl
"Pre-clinical Drug Development of Novel Motor Neuronotrophic Factors That Have Potential in Lou Gehrig's Disease" |
Details: Sharon
Burgmayer Co-sponsored with Chemistry |
| 23 September,
Monday 1-3pm, Room 264 Park Building |
Language Working Group Meeting | Details: Eric Raimy |
| 23 September,
Monday 6:30pm, Dorothy Vernon Room |
Special Seminar:
Zhenya Zastavker Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering "DNA is Not the Only Helix in Town or A Story of Crafty Microsprings" |
Department
of Physics Seminar Details: Peter Beckmann |
| 25 September,
Wednesday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road (Pennsby) |
Brown Bag Lunch:
Ted Wong Department of Biology "Metaphor, Metonymy and the Two Sciences" |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| 27 September,
Friday 2-5 pm Thomas Great Hall and Thomas 224 |
Graduate
Research Symposium Presentations by Bryn Mawr graduate students in science and mathematics. |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack Co-sponsored by GSAS |
| 27 September,
Friday Park 230 (Robotics/AI Lab) 8:00-9:00 am |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Group Doug Blank and Deepak Kumar Department of Computer Science "Emergence and Robotics" |
Details: Ted Wong |
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2 October, Wednesday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road (Pennsby) |
Brown Bag Lunch:
Rob Wozniack Department of Psychology "Psychology: The Imp ossible Science?" |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| 5 October, Saturday 3-4pm Room Park 25 |
Panel on Advancing Women in Science | Details: Judy Gould |
| 7 October, Monday 1-3pm, Room 264 Park Building |
Language Working Group Meeting | Details: Eric Raimy |
| 8 October,
Tuesday Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research 4:00-6:00 pm |
Graduate
Idea Forum Steven Johnson, "Emergence" |
Details: Judy McCoyd |
| 9 October,
Wednesday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road (Pennsby) |
Brown Bag Lunch:
Katherine Rowe Early Modern Studies "Science Culture and Time" |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| 11 October,
Friday Park 230 (Robotics/AI Lab) 8:00-9:00 am |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Group Jim Wright, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Architecture "Emergent Complexity in Bronze Age Greece: A Case Study of Settlement and Land-Use ca. 2000-1200 B.C.E." |
Details: Ted Wong |
| 16 October,
Wednesday |
Fall Break |
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| 23 October,
Wednesday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road (Pennsby) |
Brown Bag Lunch:
Tomomi Kinukawa Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in History of Science "The Scientist's Body" |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| 23 October, Wednesday 8pm, Thomas Great Hall Reception and book signing following lecture |
Special Lecture:
Scott
Ritter Former UN Weapons Inspector "The Coming War with Iraq: How Did We Get There?" |
Sponsored by the Center for International Studies, Co-sponsored by the Center for Science in Society and the Office of the President |
| 28 October, Monday 1-3pm, Room 264 Park Building |
Language Working Group Meeting | Details: Eric Raimy |
| 30 October,
Wednesday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road (Pennsby) |
Brown Bag Lunch:
Panama Geer Keck Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematics and Computer Science "Decentralization and Self-Organization: Not Just for Ants" |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
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November, Friday Park 230 (Robotics/AI Lab) 8:00-9:00 am |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Group Victor Donnay, Department of Mathematics "Ideas on Regular and Chaotic Dynamical Systems: A Mathematician's Perspective on Issues in Complex Systems" |
Details: Ted Wong |
| 4 November,
Monday 8:00 pm, Thomas Great Hall Reception and book signing following lecture. |
Co-sponsored
with Feminist and Gender Studies Details: Anne Dalke |
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| 4 November, Monday 1-3pm, Room 264 Park Building |
Language Working Group Meeting | Details: Eric Raimy |
| 6 November,
Wednesday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road (Pennsby) |
Brown Bag Lunch:
Michael Tratner "An Anatomy of Cultural Studies Methods" |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| 8 November,
Friday Park 230 (Robotics/AI Lab) 8:00-9:00 am |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Group |
Details: Ted Wong |
| 11 November,
Monday 4:30 pm, Park 229 4:00, Refreshments, Park 227 |
Special Lecture:
Daniel Charles
Contributing Science Correspondent, NPR News Section Contributor, Science Magazine "Lords of the Harvest: The Hidden History of Genetically Engineered Food" |
Co-sponsored with the Dept.
of Biology Details: Karen Greif |
| 12 November,
Tuesday 4 pm, The Ely Room, Wyndham |
The Rothenberg
Lecture: Shirley M. Tilghman President, Princeton University "Perspectives on the Stem Cell Debate" |
Co-sponsored with the Dept.
of Biology Details: Karen Greif |
| 13 November,
Wednesday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road (Pennsby) |
Brown Bag Lunch:
Chris Couples UNIX System Administrator for the Sciences "The Political Practice of the Sys-Admin" |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| 18 November, Monday 1-3pm, Room 264 Park Building |
Language Working Group Meeting | Details: Eric Raimy |
| 19 November,
Tuesday Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research 4:00-6:00 pm |
Graduate
Idea Forum Steven Pinker, "The Blank Slate" |
Details: Judy McCoyd |
| 20 November,
Wednesday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road (Pennsby) |
Brown Bag Lunch:
Kris Tapp Keck Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematics "Philosophies of Mathematics" |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| 22 November,
Friday Park 230 (Robotics/AI Lab) 8:00-9:00 am |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Group Panama Geer Keck Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematics and Computer Science Swarm Intelligence: Continued |
Details: Ted Wong |
| 2 December, Monday 1-3pm, Room 264 Park Building |
Language Working Group Meeting | Details: Eric Raimy |
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December, Thursday 4-6pm, Park Building, Room 338 3:30pm Refreshments, Park 338 |
Special Lecture:
Professor Judith Houck University of Wisconsin-Madison "The Social History of a Biological Process, Menopause, 1897-1980" |
Details: Tomomi Kinukawa |
| 6 December,
Friday Park 230 (Robotics/AI Lab) 8:00-9:00 am |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Group Paul Grobstein Discussion Topics: (1) Complex Systems: Continued (2) Ideas/Agenda for Next Semester & Beyond |
Details: Ted Wong |
| 6 December,
Friday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road (Pennsby) |
Brown Bag Lunch:
Professor Judith Houck University of Wisconsin-Madison "Why Scientists Should Care About History" |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| 8 December,Sunday Carpenter Library 21 7:00-8:00 pm |
Special Lecture:
George P. Lakoff University of California, Berkeley "The Brain, The Mind, and Language: Why They Matter in Personal Life, in Politics, and Throughout the Academic World" Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, and Cognitive Linguistics are presently esoteric disciplines that most people know little about. Yet they are utterly transforming our understanding of virtually every aspect of our lives - especially our personal and political lives. They also have transformative implications for virtually every academic discipline. This lecture will be an overview for a general audience. |
Details: Eric Raimy |
| 9 December, Monday 1-3pm, Room 264 Park Building |
Language Working Group Meeting | Details: Eric Raimy |
| 11 December,
Wednesday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road (Pennsby) |
Brown Bag Lunch:
Paul Grobstein Department of Biology "Philosophies of Science: A View From the Brain" |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| 18 December,
Wednesday 11:30am-12:30pm 230 Park Building |
Emergent Research Group
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Details: Douglas S. Blank |
