Calendar: Oct. 20 to 27

By Compiled by John Lichtefeld and James Lee · The Johns Hopkins News-Letter · October 20, 2005

Religious Services

Thursday, Oct. 20

12 p.m. Lutheran Discussion Group will meet in Levering. For more information call Rev. Don Burggraf at (410) 235-2356.

5 p.m. A Divine Liturgy and Dinner for Eastern Orthodox students will be held at the Interfaith Center.

7:30 p.m. Baptist Bible study will take place at the University Baptist Church.

9 p.m. Unitarian Universalist Services with Dr. Larry Egbert will be held at the Interfaith Center Library.

Friday, Oct. 21

1:15 p.m. Jumah prayers will be held at the Interfaith Center. Visit http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumso for more information.

8 p.m. Seventh Day Adventist services with Fredrick Russell will be held at the Interfaith Center.

Saturday, Oct. 22

Time TBA, Shabbat Dinner at the Interfaith center; for more information and updated times visit http://www.jhu.edu/~jsa.

Sunday, Oct. 23

11 a.m. Catholic Mass will be held at the Interfaith Center. Visit http://www.catholic.jhu.edu for more information.

11 a.m. Aarthi will be held at the Interfaith Center, lower level. For more information, e-mail HSC@jhu.edu.

2 p.m. Stepping Stones Ministry will hold services in Shaffer 3, followed by a fellowship meeting at 3:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m. Baptist service and contemporary worship will take place at the University Baptist Church.

Wednesday, Oct. 26

7 p.m. Buddhist meditation will be practiced at the Interfaith Center.

8 p.m. The Graduate Christian Fellowship will have its weekly meeting in the Marylander Apartments in the London Room. For more information about the meeting, e-mail Bmac@jhu.edu.

Performing Arts

Friday, Oct. 21

8 p.m. The Barnstormers Freshmen One Acts will take place in Arellano Place of Assembly in Levering. For more information contact Emily Ethridge at (704) 607-2194. See this week's featured events for more information.

Saturday, Oct. 22

Sunday, Oct. 23

Miscellaneous Events

Thursday, Oct. 20

6 p.m. There is a General SAC Meeting in Mattin 162. For more information contact Alice Li at sacexec@jhu.edu.

Friday, Oct. 21

4:30 p.m. The JHSPH Happy Hour will take place in the Bloomberg building in East Baltimore in the first floor student lounge. This free event is sponsored by The Insoluble Fraction and the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Social Group.

5 p.m. The National Aquarium in Baltimore offers a discounted admission of $5 every Friday after 5 p.m. The discounted admission is a great deal, so don't pass it up! Even if you have been to the aquarium before, head down to check out the new dolphin show. For more information, including hours of operation, group discounts and directions, call (410) 567-3845.

8 p.m. The Maryland Space Grant Observatory located in Bloomberg offers you a free chance to look at the solar system with its telescopes, weather permitting. Call (410) 516-6525 for weather updates and observing conditions before you hike up to Bloomberg.

10 p.m. Coffee Grounds takes place every Friday night in the Mattin Center Silk Road Cafe. Come out for the free Krispy Kreme doughnuts and coffee, and stay for the fun evening activity.

Monday, Oct. 24

7 p.m. There is an Interfraternity Council Meeting in the Shriver Board Room. For more information contact Robert Turning at (410) 516-2224 or greeklife@jhu.edu.

9 p.m. Monday Night Football will be shown at the Hop-Stop. This is a free event and will last until midnight.

Tuesday, Oct. 25

6:30 p.m. Free Massages will be given at the Hop-Stop. For more information call Savithri Raja at (410) 516-8209 or email her at savithri@jhu.edu.

7 p.m. The weekly Panhellenic Council Meeting will take place in Mattin 210, the conference room. For more information call Ali Rickards at (410) 516-2224 or email ajr484@aol.com.

7:30 p.m. Student Council General Meeting will take place in the Shriver Hall Board Room

Thursday, Oct. 27

5 p.m. The Diabetes Dinner sponsored by Lambda Upsilon Lambda will take place at Rocky Run. 10% of all purchases will go to support the American Diabetes Association. For more information email jrusso10@jhu.edu.

6 p.m. The SAC General Meeting will take place in Mattin 162. Email sacexec@jhu.edu for more information.

Lectures and Workshops

Thursday, Oct. 20

9:30 a.m. -- 5 p.m. Phillip Borgeaud of the University of Geneva, Maurizio Bettini of the University of Siena, and George Didi-Huberman of Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Paris will give lectures in Anthropology and Classics: An International Conference. This free event will take place in Shriver Hall in the Clip

10:45 a.m. Challenges in Programming Sensor Networks will be discussed by Feng Zhao of JHU. This free event will take place in Shaffer, room 3 and is sponsored by Computer Science.

11 a.m. Ryan Gill of the University of Colorado will give a lecture on Engineering and Re-Engineering Bacterial Tolerance. This free event wil take place in Maryland room 110 and is sponsored by Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

12 p.m. MMI/ID Seminar: Innate Recognition and Contorl of Virus Infection will be given by Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D. and assitant professor at Yale University School of Medicine. This free event wil take place in the Bloomberg building at 615 M. Wolfe St. and is sponsored by te Division of Infectious Disease and Departmetn of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at JHSPH. For more information call Wanda Fuller at (410) 955-3459 or e-mail her at wfuller@jhsph.edu.

12 p.m. Erin McDonald of JHSPH will give a lecture, Voice of Change: Development of a Communication Adovcaty Project Targeting Youth Empowerment, as part of the Thursday Lunch series. This free event will take place at the Hampton House at 624 N. Broadway in room 250 and is sponsored by the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at JHSPH. For more infomraiton e-mail Mary-Jo Ford Dale at mdale@jhsph.edu.

12:15 p.m. Medicaid: A System in Crisis will be given by John Hurson, a Democrat in the Maryland House of Delgates and Robert Neall, president pof Priority Pranters. This free Event will take place in Hampton House at 624 M/ Broadway in the Lecture Hall and is sponsored by Health Policy and Management.

1 p.m. Sally Temple of the Center for Neuropharmacology and Nueroscience at Albany Medical College will give a lecture on Making Nuerons from Neural Stem Cells. This free event will take place in the West Lecture Hall of the WBSB building on the East Baltimore campus and is sponsored by Neuroscience.

3 p.m. Single-Molecule Views of Nature's Nanomachines will be given by Prof. Taekjip Ha of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This free event will take place in Hodson Hall, room 210 and is sponsored by Mechanical Engineering at JHU. For more information call Deana Santoni-Long at (410) 516-6451.

3 p.m. The Path Not Taken: Henry A. Wallace and the Origins of American Science Policy After World War II will be discussed by Thomas Lassman of the U.S. Army Center of Military HIstory. This free event will take place at 3505 N. Charles St. and is sponsored by the History of Science, Medicine and Technology Department.

3:30 p.m. Fabio Plano of New York University will discuss Molecular Networks Underlying C. Elegans Early Embryogenesis. This free event will take place in the PCTB building, room 517 on the East Baltimore Campus and is sponsored by Molecular Biology and Genetics and the Howard Huges Medical Institute.

3:30 p.m. Joint Biophysics and Physics Colloquium will be held by David Botstein, Ph.D., of Princeton University. This free event will take place in the Schafler Auditorium of the Bloomberger buidling and is sponsored by Biophsyics and Physics.

4 p.m. Business History Seminar -- "The Chrysanthemum and the Crossbar: The Civil Communications Section and the Bell System's Foot Print in Japanese Telecommunications Revival, 1945-1952" will be discussed by Paul Miranti and Stephen Adams. This free event will take place in Gilman, room 315 and is sponsored by the History Department. For more information call (410) 516-7575.

FRIDAY, OCT. 21

9:30 a.m. Anthropology and Classics: An International Conference will continue in the Johns Hopkins Club, Eisenhower Room. George Nagy, Harvard University; Demitrios Yatromanolakis, Johns Hopkins University and Christain Jacob, CRNS, Paris will speak on the comparative analysis of the multiplicity of cultures and societies.

11 a.m. Elias Balaris, Ph.D. and assistant professor at the University of Maryland's engineering department will continue the CEAFM Seminar. This free seminar will take place in Maryland Hall, room 110, and is sponsored by JHU CEAFM.

2 p.m. Form. Genre. Media. -- A Colloquium in Honor of Bianca Theisen will be held at Gilman, room 223. Kelly Barry, Brigid Doherty, Jocelyn Holland, Wolf Kittler, Edgar Landgraf, Anita McChesney, Zachary Sng and John Zilcosky will be speaking. This free event is sponsored by the German Department For more information, call Rebecca Swisdak at (410) 516-7508.

SATURDAY, OCT 22.

10 a.m. Anthropology and Classics: An International Conference will conclude in Gilman Hall, room 110. Francois Julien, University of Paris VII and Charles Malamoud, Hautes Etudes en Sciences Religieuses, Paris will speak at this event.

9 a.m. Form. Genre. Media. -- a Colloquium in Honor of Bianca Theisen will be continue in Gilman, room 223. Kelly Barry, Brigid Doherty, Jocelyn Holland, Wolf Kittler, Edgar Landgraf, Anita McChesney, Zachary Sng and John Zilcosky will be speaking. This free event is sponsored by the German Department. For more information, call Rebecca Swisdak at (410) 516-7508.

-Monday, Oct. 24

12:15 p.m. Andrew Golden, NIH/NIDDK will speak on The Precocious Activation of Maturation Promoting Factor C. Elegans Disrupts Oocyte Maturation and Fertilization. This free event will take place at 3520 San Martin Drive and is sponsored by the Carnegie Institution.

4 p.m. Dante's Greeks is the title of a lecture given by Glenn Most of Scruoloa Normale Pisa; the Department of Classics and The Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago. This free lecture will be held at Gilman, room 111, is sponsored by the Humanities Center.

4 p.m. Jane Kamensky, Brandeis University, will give a seminar titled Building Babel: Money, Morals, and Mortar in Andrew Dexter's Boston. This free seminar will be given in Gilman, room 315 and is sponsored by the History Department.

4 p.m. Why Does the Brian Oscillate? Role of Theta/Gamma Coding is the title of a lecture given by John Lisman, Brandeis University. This free lecture will take place in Kreiger, room 338 and is sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain Insitute.

Tuesday, Oct. 25

12 p.m. A lecture titled The Taste of A Female: Pheromone Receptors Etc. in Male Courtship of Drosophila will be given by Hurbert Amrein, Ph.D., associate professor at Duke University. This free lecture sponsored by the Department of Biological Chemistry will be held in the Physiology Building, room 612, at the East Baltimore campus.

3 p.m. Dale Whittington of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill will speak on Rethinking the Costs and Benefits of Municipal Water and Sanitation Investments in Developing Countries in Ames, Room 234. This free lecture is sponsored by Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering.

Wednesday, Oct. 26

12 p.m. Nathan Widder, senior lecturer at the University of Exeter, will give a lecture titled Time and Discontinuity: Aristotle, Bergson, Deleuze. This free event will be held in Mergenthaler, room 338 and is sponsored by the Political Science Department.

4 p.m. Seminar in Political and Moral Thought -- "Adam Smith's Critique of International Trading Companies: Theorizing Globalization in the Age of Enlightenment" will be given by Sankar Muthus, Political Science Department of Princeton University.

Thursday, Oct. 27

3:30 Omar Knio, professor at the Mechanical Engineering department will speak on Development and Applications of Reactive Multilayers in Hodson, room 210. This is a free event sponsored by Mechanical Engineering Department.

4 p.m. Responsive Materials from De Novo Designed Peptides: Progress Towards Novel Tissue Engineering Scaffolds is the title of a lecture to be given by Joel P. Schneider, Ph.D., associate professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Delaware.

4 p.m. The Seventh Annual Alan J. Goldman Lecture: Scheduling an Air Taxi Service will be held at Maryland Hall, room 110. George Nemhauser, Ph.D., A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Institute Professor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology will speak at this free event.

6 p.m. Gulru Cakmak will lecture on Camille Pissaro and French Landscape Painting at the BMA garden room. This free event is sponsored by the Humanities Center.