The Center for Science in Society
Events Calendar
Spring 2003
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| January
22, Wednesday 1-3pm, Park Science 11 |
Language Working Group Meeting | Details: Eric Raimy |
| January
22, Wednesday 7:45 am, Park Science 230 |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion "What Is Emergence? What Is Emergent?" |
Details: Ted Wong |
| January
29, Wednesday 7:45 am, Park Science 230 |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Ted Wong "Using NetLogo to Implement Cellular Automata" |
Details: Ted Wong |
| January
30, Thursday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road (Pennsby) |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series: Al Albano, Department of Physics Sharon Burgmayer, Department of Chemistry Peggy Hollyday, Department of Biology "Diamond-Cutters, Net-Casters and Day-Dreamers: Differences Among the Sciences" |
Details:
Elizabeth McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| February
4, Tuesday Dorothy Vernon Room, Haffner Hall 7 PM Refreshments served. |
A Matter of Time
New Discussion Series Cheryl Chen, Mellon Fellow, Dept. of Philosophy "The Philosophy of Time" |
Details: Al Albano |
| February
5, Wednesday 7:45 am, Park Science 230 |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Ted Wong "Generalizing Cellular Automaton Behavior" |
Details: Ted Wong |
| February
5, Wednesday The Garden Room, English House 1-3pm |
Language
Working Group Meeting |
Details: Eric Raimy |
| February
6, Thursday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road (Pennsby) |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series: Karen Tidmarsh Dean of the Undergraduate College "A Dean's Perspective: Effects of the Culture of Science on Students" |
Details:
Elizabeth McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| February 12,
Wednesday 7:45 am, Park Science 230 |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Kris Tapp "Universal CAs" |
Details: Ted Wong |
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February 13, Thursday |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series: Professor Katherine Park
Historian of Science, Harvard University "Was There a Rennaisance Body" |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| February
13, Thursday 7:30pm Ely Room, Wyndham |
Special
Lecture: Professor Katherine Park Historian of Science, Harvard University "Visible Women: Women's Secrets and the Origins of Human Dissection" |
With support
from the Mellon Foundation Details: Tomomi Kinukawa |
| February 18,
Tuesday 7:30 p.m. Thomas Great Hall |
MUSIC
EAST AND WEST Peabody Percussion Group Robert van Sice, Director Works inspired by music of India, Pakistan and Japan Conservatory Symphony Orchestra Michael Krausz, Conductor Works by Beethoven |
Sponsored by the Centers for 21st Century Inquiry |
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February 19, Wednesday
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Emergent
Systems: A Discussion CANCELLED Rescheduled for 3/26 |
Details: Ted Wong |
| February 19,
Wednesday The Garden Room, English House 1-3pm |
Language
Working Group Meeting |
Details: Eric Raimy |
| February 19,
Wednesday Dorothy Vernon Room, Haffner Hall 7 PM Refreshments served. |
A
Matter of Time New Discussion Series Tony Rothman, Physicist Author of Doubt and Certainty and A Physicist on Madison Avenue, etc. "Seven Arrows of Time" |
Details: Al Albano |
| February 20,
Thursday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road (Pennsby) |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series: Mark Lord Department of Theater "Tomomi's Dream: Embodying Our Disciplines" |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| February 26,
Wednesday 7:45 am, Park Science 230 |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Doug Blank "Introduction to the Genetic Algorithm, in Python" See Pyro Module Evolutionary Algorithms |
Details: Ted Wong |
| February 27,
Thursday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road (Pennsby) |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series: Doug Blank, Department of Computer Science "Teaching Across Genders" |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
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March 4, Tuesday Dorothy Vernon Room, Haffner Hall 7 PM Refreshments served. |
A
Matter of Time New Discussion Series Peter Brodfuehrer, Department of Biology "Circadian Rhythms: The Clocks That Time Us" |
Details: Al Albano |
| March 5,
Wednesday 7:45 am, Park Science 230 |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion " Evolution as an Emergent Phenomena" Continuation from Feb. 26, plus videos. See Pyro Module Evolutionary Algorithms |
Details: Ted Wong |
| March 5, Wednesday
The Garden Room, English House 1:30-3pm |
Language
Working Group Meeting |
Details: Eric Raimy |
| March 6, Thursday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road (Pennsby) |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series: Joseph Disponzio Growth and Structure of Cities "Changing Paradigms: Eighteenth-Century Natural Science and the Rise of Landscape Architecture" |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| March 13, Thursday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road (Pennsby) |
Spring Break | |
| March 18, Tuesday Dorothy Vernon Room, Haffner Hall 7 PM Refreshments served. |
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Matter of Time New Discussion Series Paul Grobstein, Department of Biology "The Brain and the Sense/Meaning of Time" |
Details: Al Albano |
| March 19, Wednesday 7:45 am, Park Science 230 |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Mark Kuperberg "Successful Examples of Emergence in the Social Sciences: A Partial View" |
Details: Ted Wong |
| March 19, Wednesday
The Garden Room, English House 1:30-3pm |
Language
Working Group Meeting |
Details: Eric Raimy |
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March 20, Thursday |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series: Dan
Sarewitz Managing Director & Senior Research Scholar Center for Science, Policy and Outcome Columbia University, Washington DC "Does Science Make You Happy?" |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| March 20, Thursday,
4:00pm, Park 243 |
Special
Lecture : Dan
Sarewitz |
Details: Don Barber |
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March 24, Monday |
Mellon History of Science
Fellowship Candidate Shelley Costa, PhD Department of History, Xavier University "Mathematics and Masculine Culture in Mid-18th Century England" |
Details: George Weaver |
| March 26, Wednesday 7:45 am, Park Science 230 |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Rob Wozniak "A Developmental Psychologist Among the Emergenauts; Or, a Few Preliminary Reflections Made upon Observations Recorded during the Course of a Six-Month Voyage of Discovery Aboard the H.M.S. Emergence" |
Details: Ted Wong |
| March 27, Thursday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road (Pennsby) |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series: Xenia Morin Keck Fellow in Chemistry "Scientific Cultures at my House: Academic vs. Industrial Life Sciences" |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
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March 27, Thursday |
Mellon History of Science
Fellowship Candidate Paula Viterbo, PhD George Washington University Center for History of Recent Science ""I Got Rhythm: The Discovery of Time of Ovulation in Women and the Establishment of Natural Birth Control in America"" |
Details: George Weaver |
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March 31, Monday |
Mellon History of Science
Fellowship Candidate Avner Ben-Zaken, PhD Department of History, UCLA "Hebraist Motives, Pythagorean Itineraries and the Galilean Agendas of Naples: On the Margins of Text and Context " |
Details: George Weaver |
| April
1, Tuesday Dorothy Vernon Room, Haffner Hall 7 PM Refreshments served. |
A
Matter of Time New Discussion Series Michael Noel, Department of Physics "Measuring Time with Atoms: A 3587.39167492578 Second Discussion" |
Details: Al Albano |
| April 2, Wednesday 7:45 am, Park Science 230 |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Rob Wozniak "A Developmental Psychologist Among the Emergenauts; Or, A Few Preliminary Reflections Made Upon Observations Recorded During the Course of a Six Month Voyage of Discovery Aboard the H.M.S. Emergence" (Continuation of March 26th meeting) |
Details: Ted Wong |
| April 2, Wednesday
Wyndham 1-3pm |
Language Working Group Meeting Rescheduled to Wyndham for the remainder
of the semester |
Details: Eric Raimy |
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April 2, Wednesday |
Mellon History of Science
Fellowship Candidate Ruth Simpson, PhD Department of Sociology, Rutgers "Substance & Vision: Theories of Epidemics as Latent Social Theories" |
Details: George Weaver |
| April 3, Thursday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road (Pennsby) |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series:
Linda Caruso-Haviland and Yutian Wong Department of Dance "Dancing Bodies, Pedagogy and Technology" |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| April 3, Thursday 4:00pm, Park 338 Tea,3:30pm, Park 338 |
Special
Lecture: George Dyson Institute for Advanced Study, 2002-2003 "Von Neumann’s Universe: Digital Computing at the IAS, 1945-1958" |
Details: Deepak Kumar |
| April 9, Wednesday 7:45 am, Park Science 230 |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Tim Burke TBA |
Details: Ted Wong |
| April 10, Thursday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road (Pennsby) |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series: Catherine Conybeare Classical Studies "Scientia" and "Cultura":The Origins and Development of these Words |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
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April 10, Thursday |
Special
Film Screening: "To Dream Tomorrow: A Portrait of Ada Lovelace" Produced and Directed by John Fuegi and Jo Francis |
Details: Deepak Kumar |
| April 16, Wednesday 7:45 am, Park Science 230 |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Ted Wong TBA |
Details: Ted Wong |
| April 17, Thursday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road (Pennsby) |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series: Melissa Pashigian, Department of Anthropology "Imparting the Social in Science" |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| April 17, Thursday 4:15 pm Carpenter Library 21 |
Special Lecture:
Shigehisa Kuriyama International Research Center for Japanese Studies "The Metaphysical Logic of Muscular Exercise" |
Details: Tomomi Kinukawa |
| April 17, Thursday Screening, 7:30-9pm, Park 338 Tea, 7:00pm, Park 338 |
Special
Film Screening: "Alan Turing: Breaking the Code" Starring Derek Jacoby; Directed by Herbert Wise |
Details: Deepak Kumar |
| April 23, Wednesday 7:45 am, Park Science 230 |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Paul Grobstein "What Is Information?" |
Details: Ted Wong |
| April 23, Wednesday
Wyndham 1-3pm |
Language
Working Group Meeting
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Details: Eric Raimy |
| April 23, Wednesday Thomas Library 224 7:30 pm Refreshments served. |
Special Lecture: Mark Notturno,
Washington, D.C.
"The Choice Between Popper and Kuhn: Criticism, and the Legacy of Logical Positivism" |
Sponsored by the Dept of
Philosophy Details: Michael Krausz |
| April 24, Thursday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road (Pennsby) |
Brown
Bag Lunch Series: Michael Krausz Deartment of Philosophy "Interpretation and its Objects: Science and Non-Science" |
Details: Elizabeth
McCormack and Anne Dalke |
| April 24, Thursday Screening, 7:30-9pm, Park 338 Tea, 7:00pm, Park 338 |
Special
Film Screening: "Pirates of Silicon Valley" Starring Noah Wyle and Anthony Michael Hall |
Details: Deepak Kumar |
| April 30, Wednesday 7:45 am, Park Science 230 |
Emergent
Systems: A Discussion Karen Greif " Genes, Proteomics and Genetic Determinism: Can We Model a Cell?" |
Details: Ted Wong |
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