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Events Calendar Spring-Summer 2005

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January 19, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Alan Baker Emergence Concepts in the Philosophical Literature	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
January 21, Friday 10am-1pm, Campus Center Room 200 NOTE ROOM CHANGE Meeting from 10-12, followed by an informal pizza lunch from 12-1	Explorations of Teaching Group: Facilitated by Jody Cohen (Education) Reading: Williams, Patricia. Alchemy of Race and Rights	Details: Corey Shdaimah or Cheryl Selah
January 26, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Paul Grobstein Idealism, Pragmatism, and the Bipartite Brain: Having One's Cake and Eating it Too	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
January 28, Friday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road	Diversity Conversations: Kim Cassidy How Women Fight: Making Nice at a Women's College	Details: Anne Dalke Free and open to the public.
January 28, Friday 2:15-3:30pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road	Brown Bag Lunch Series: Paul Grobstein (Biology) Audience participation: science of and for all Paper for reading prior to discussion	Details: Sharon Burgmayer, Paula Viterbo, or Wil Franklin
February 2, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Paul Grobstein Idealism, Pragmatism, and the Bipartite Brain: Having One's Cake and Eating it Too (continued)	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
February 4, Friday 2:15-3:30pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road	Brown Bag Lunch Series: Susan White (Chemistry) Why teach molecular biology in Africa?	Details: Sharon Burgmayer, Paula Viterbo, or Wil Franklin
February 9, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Rob Wozniak Experience and the bipartite brain: the magical number 2 plus or minus 3	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
February 11, Friday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road	Diversity Conversations: Paul Somerville and Arthur Taylor (Dining Services), Debbie Rubin and Ellie Esmond (Community Service Office) Campus Diversity from the Perspectives of Some Members of the Staff	Details: Anne Dalke Free and open to the public.
February 11, Friday 2:15-3:30pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road	Brown Bag Lunch Series: Ted Wong (Biology) The long journey of a simple biological model	Details: Sharon Burgmayer, Paula Viterbo, or Wil Franklin
February 16, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Rob Wozniak Consciousness and Experience	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
February 18, Friday 9:00-11:00am, Park Sciences Building, Rm. 264	Graduate Idea Forum Readings: Schram, 2004. "Return to Politics" Weber, 1918. "Science as Vocation" Shdaimah, Stahl, 2004. "Reflections on Doing Phronetic Social Science. A Case Study." [All articles available on Blackboard]	Details: Roland Stahl
February 18, Friday 2:15-3:30pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road	Brown Bag Lunch Series: Hiroshi Iwasaki (Theater Program) Who's watching? – imaginary dialogues	Details: Sharon Burgmayer, Paula Viterbo, or Wil Franklin
February 18, Friday 3:30-5pm, Multicultural Center Conference Room (upstairs) NOTE ROOM CHANGE	Bryn Mawr as a Learning/Teaching Environment: A Conversation: Teaching and learning at Bryn Mawr	Details: Corey Shdaimah or Cheryl Selah
February 23, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Lisa Meeden and Doug Blank Memory in artificial neural networks	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
February 25, Friday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road	Diversity Conversations: Anne Dalke (Feminist and Gender Studies, English), Michelle Mueller (05), Jessie Payson (06) and Gilda Rodriguez (07) "Ain't I a Woman?": Re-defining Feminism	Details: Anne Dalke Free and open to the public.
February 25, Friday 2:15-3:30pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road	Brown Bag Lunch Series: Tom Deans (Haverford, Director of College Writing) Writing across contexts	Details: Sharon Burgmayer, Paula Viterbo, or Wil Franklin
March 2, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Lisa Meeden and Doug Blank Memory in artificial neural networks, Part II	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
March 4, Friday 2:15-3:30pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road	Brown Bag Lunch Series: Al Dorof (Public Affairs), Dorothy Wright (Science & Technology Newsletter), Ruth Guyer (Haverford, General Studies) Bridging the two cultures: communicating science to the media	Details: Sharon Burgmayer, Paula Viterbo, or Wil Franklin
March 16, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Lisa Meeden and Doug Blank Memory, representation, and abstraction in artificial neural network-controlled mobile robots	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
March 18, Friday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road	Diversity Conversations: Yinnette Sano and Chris MacDonald-Dennis "One People, Many Stories": Latina Identities	Details: Anne Dalke Free and open to the public.
March 18, Friday 2:15-3:30pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road	Brown Bag Lunch Series: Lab visits (details to follow)	Details: Sharon Burgmayer, Paula Viterbo, or Wil Franklin
March 18, Monday 3:30-5pm, Multicultural Center Conference Room (upstairs)	Bryn Mawr as a Learning/Teaching Environment: A Conversation: What do we want to change about Bryn Mawr as a teaching and learning environment?	Details: Corey Shdaimah or Cheryl Selah
March 23, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Paul Grobstein The relationship between science and academia, including an introduction to the Journal of Research Practice, a new journal affiliated with the Center for Science in Society	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
March 25, Friday 2:15-3:30pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road	Brown Bag Lunch Series: Reports and discussion of lab visits	Details: Sharon Burgmayer, Paula Viterbo, or Wil Franklin
March 30, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Lisa Meeden and Doug Blank Memory, representation, and abstraction in artificial neural network-controlled mobile robots, Part II	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
April 1, Friday 9:00-11:00am, GSSWSR	Graduate Idea Forum Reading: Bellah et al. 1996. Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (University of California Press).	Details: Roland Stahl
April 1, Friday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road	Diversity Conversations: Sandy Schram "Red, Blue, Purple": Political Diversity	Details: Anne Dalke Free and open to the public.
April 1, Friday 2:15-3:30pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road	Brown Bag Lunch Series: Paul Grobstein (Biology), Elliott Shore (CIO, History), Paula Viterbo (History of Science) Memory, history, and the brain II. Whence nostalgia and the constraints on stories?	Details: Sharon Burgmayer, Paula Viterbo, or Wil Franklin
April 6, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Rich Wicentowski	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
April 8, Friday 2:15-3:30pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road	Brown Bag Lunch Series: Scott Gilbert (Swarthmore, Biology) The human embryo and its popular audience: fictions and fetuses	Details: Sharon Burgmayer, Paula Viterbo, or Wil Franklin
April 13, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Deepak Kumar (Computer Science) The logics of artificial intelligence	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
April 15, Friday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road	Diversity Conversations: Paul Grobstein and Maria Scott-Wittenborn "Breaking the Silence:" Mental Health Issues at Bryn Mawr College	Details: Anne Dalke Free and open to the public.
April 15, Friday 2:15-3:30pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road	Brown Bag Lunch Series: Laura Blankenship (Information Services) Blogging Science: How Science gets Spun in the Blogosphere	Details: Sharon Burgmayer, Paula Viterbo, or Wil Franklin
April 15, Friday 3:30-5pm, Multicultural Center Conference Room (upstairs)	Bryn Mawr as a Learning/Teaching Environment: A Conversation: How we can increase multicultural education at Bryn Mawr--and to what ends?	Details: Corey Shdaimah or Cheryl Selah
April 20, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Jeff Elman (virtual)	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
April 22, Friday 1-3pm, GSSWSR	Explorations of Teaching Group Topic and readings TBD.	Details: Corey Shdaimah or Cheryl Selah
April 22, Friday 2:15-3:30pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road	Brown Bag Lunch Series: Karen Greif (Biology) Science and civic policy	Details: Sharon Burgmayer, Paula Viterbo, or Wil Franklin
April 27, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Wil Franklin (Biology) & Anne Dalke (English & FemGen) An Emergent Response to Benedict XVI's Assault on Relativism	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
April 29, Friday 9:00-11:00am, GSSWSR	Graduate Idea Forum Reading: Nisbett Richard, 2004. "Geography of Thought." (Free Press)	Details: Roland Stahl
April 29, Friday Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road	Diversity Conversations: Allie Petonic, Christina Gubitosa and Paula Arboleda Interactions Between Race and Class on Campus	Details: Anne Dalke Free and open to the public.
April 29, Friday 2:15-3:30pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road	Brown Bag Lunch Series: Anne Dalke (English and Feminist Studies), Al Albano (Physics), Amy Bug (Swarthmore, Physics) What’s new in gender and science?	Details: Sharon Burgmayer, Paula Viterbo, or Wil Franklin
May 4, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Jan Trembley (Alumnae Bulletin) An Introduction to Emergence	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
May 11, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Jan Trembley (Alumnae Bulletin) Defining Emergence (continuation of May 4th discussion)	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
May 24, Tuesday 9:00-11:00am, GSSWSR	Graduate Idea Forum Reading: Barber, 1996. "Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World" (Ballantine Books)	Details: Roland Stahl
May 25, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Anne Dalke (English, FemGen) "Where Words Come From-and Where They Go: Emergent Literature, Emergent Meaning"	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
May 25, Wednesday 2:30pm Park Sciences Building., Rm. 232	Xinformatics Working Group: Dianna Xu (Computer Science) Presentation on work done on constructing 3D models from stereo images of an archaeological site	Details: Don Barber, Doug Blank, or Dianna Xu
June 1, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: David Kenosian (German) "Ask not what I can do for Emergence, but What can Emergence do for me?"	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
June 8, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Jason Coleman "Emergence in Video Games"	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
June 9, Thursday 2:30pm Park Sciences Building., Rm. 232	Xinformatics Working Group: Drew Mirante (Geology)	Details: Don Barber, Doug Blank, or Dianna Xu
June 14, Tuesday 9:00-11:00am, GSSWSR	Graduate Idea Forum Reading: Sigmund Freud, "Civilization and Its Discontents"	Details: Roland Stahl
June 15, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Jason Coleman "Emergence in Video Games" (continuation of June 8th discussion)	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
June 22, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Paul Grobstein and Rebekah Baglini "Stories, Authors, and Purpose: Langton's Ant Revisited"	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
June 29, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Mark Kuperberg Return of the Reductionist: Thinking about "Thinking About 'Purpose'"	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
July 6, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Karen Greif "Can we model a cell?"	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
July 7, Thursday 2:30pm Park Sciences Building., Rm. 232	Xinformatics Working Group: Don Barber (Geology) Recent fieldwork using GPS for barrier island mapping, and GPR for mapping sediment thickness and geometry of the strata	Details: Don Barber, Doug Blank, or Dianna Xu
July 13, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Mark Kuperberg Return of the Reductionist: Thinking about "Thinking About 'Purpose'" (continued)	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
July 14, Thursday 4:00-6:00pm, GSSWSR	Graduate Idea Forum Reading: Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (continued)	Details: Roland Stahl
August 17, Wednesday 9:30-11:30am, GSSWSR	Graduate Idea Forum Reading: TBD	Details: Roland Stahl
August 24, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Topic TBD	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
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Fridays, 1:15-2:15pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road	Brown Bag Lunch Series	Details: Sharon Burgmayer, Paula Viterbo, or Wil Franklin
Thursdays, 8:00am SHARP Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230	Emergent Systems: A Discussion	Details: Ted Wong , Doug Blank, or Paul Grobstein
	Graduate Idea Forum	Details: Roland Stahl
Fridays, Noon-1pm, Multicultural Center 229 Roberts Road	Diversity Conversations	Details: Anne Dalke Free and open to the public.
	Language Working Group Meeting	Details: Eric Raimy, Paul Grobstein , or Anne Dalke
	Changing Pedagogies in Math and Science Education	Details: Victor Donnay
	Explorations of Teaching Group	Details: Corey Shdaimah or Cheryl Selah
Park Sciences Building., Rm. 232, 2:30pm	Xinformatics Working Group	Details: Don Barber, Doug Blank, or Dianna Xu

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