Events at Columbia — Feb

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SUBMISSION INFORMATION E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 212-678-4817 All submissions must be received in writing by the deadline. Events are listed in this order: date, time, title, name/affiliation of speaker(s) or performer(s), title of series (if any), sponsor(s), fee and registration information (if any), phone number of contact, and loca- tion. All phone numbers are area code (212) unless otherwise noted. For deadlines & information, call Michelle Oh, Calendar Edi- tor, 212-854-6546 or the RECORD, 212-854-3282. The Calendar is updated weekly on the Web at: ALENDAR http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/calendar/. CC ALENDAR Events are listed on a first-come, first-served basis free of charge. All events are subject to change; call sponsors to confirm.

EVENTS AT COLUMBIA — FEB. 20 - MAR. 11, 2004

7:00 P.M. Books, Etc. Suki Kim, 27TH, FRI. 4:00 P.M. “Polyelectrolytes on Sur- author of The Interpreter. 854-2037. MARCH TALKS 3:10 P.M. Plasma Physics Colloqui- faces: From Layer Dynamics to New Visit www.barnard.edu/writers for loca- um. Joseph Talmadge, U of Wisconsin. Technologies.” Maria Santore, U of tion updates. 3RD, WED. FEBURARY APAM. 854-4457. 214 Mudd. Massachusetts-Amherst.5 Seminar pre- ceded by refreshments at 3:30 P.M. 12:05 P.M. Concert. Interchurch 20TH, FRI. 29TH, SUN Chemical Engineering and City College Center Chorus sings music of 9:30 A.M. “Migration and Refuge in 4:00 P.M. Discussion of Nadine Gor- Chemical Engineering. 854-4415. 826 Mozart with string quartet. Inter- the Twenty-First Century: A Sympo- timer's “The Pick-up.” Donations of Mudd. church Center. 870-2231. Inter- sium in Memory of Arthur Helton.” $5 are appreciated. Columbia Literary church Center Chapel. 854-1571. Jerome Greene Hall, Rm. Society & GS Alumni Association. 4:00 P.M. “Sumo in Global Spaces: 106. 854-842-1610. Baer Room, 4th fl., The Politics of Representation.” 12:15 P.M. The Rabi-Warner Lewisohn Hall. Kenji Tierney, WEAI. DKCJC. 854- Concerts. Jachim Woitun, cellist; 3:10 P.M. “Characterization of Cur- 5036. 403 Kent. Erika Laslo, pianist performing rent Sheet Evolution in a Pulsed 8:00 P.M. “Black Heritage Month Rachmaninoff sonata. Faculty Electromagnetic Accelerator.” John Closing Reception.” BHM. 854-3611. House of Columbia U. 749-0800. Berkery, Princeton U. APAM. 854- Roone Arledge Auditorium. Faculty House, 117th St & Morn- 4457. 214 Mudd. ingside Dr. MARCH 8:00 P.M. “Roots and Culture, Def Suki Kim, author of ‘The Interpreter’ Poetry Jam.” BHM. 854-3611. 1ST, MON. 4TH, THUR. 12:00 P.M. “Human Rights and 6:30 P.M. Film Screening of Chasing C555 Lerner Hall. 8:00 P.M. “The Growth of Knowl- Social Justice in a Global Context.” Freedom. edge.” Philip Kitcher, Columbia U. A panel following the movie Alex Bouraine, president of The Tides 23RD, MON. Columbia Phi Beta Kappa. For more will discuss the political, legal, and Center/ International Center for Transi- 8:00 P.M. “Drop the Rock- Rocke- information, email social ramifications of the asylum tional Justice. 854-9029. C555, Lerner feller Drug Law Discussion.” BHM. [email protected]. Davis Audito- process. Co-sponosored by the Interna- Hall. 854-3611. C555 Lerner Hall. rium of CEPSR. tional Caucus at the School of Social ND TUE Work, the Society of Immigrant and 24TH, TUE. 2 , . 25TH, WED. 7:00 P.M. “Democratizing Beauty: 11TH, THUR. Refugee Rights at Columbia Law 12:15 P.M. “Freedom Fighters or 6:00 P.M. “Art and Technology Lec- The Politics of Swedish Design from 4:10 P.M. “Magnetic Resonance School, Columbia School of Human Terrorists, Oppressors or Protectors? ture.” Chris Csikszentmihalyi, New Ellen Key to IKEA.” Lucy Creagh, Imaging, Part III.” Marvin Friedman, Rights, and the Social Policy Forum at The Dilemmas of Military Occupa- media artist and MIT Media Lab pro- architect. Swedish Program and St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. APAM. the School of International and Public tion and Resistance Illustrated by the fessor. Digital Media Center and Com- Swedish Women's Educational Associa- 854-4458. 214 Mudd. Examples of World War II France, Affairs. For more information please puter Music Center. 854-2875. LeRoy tion, NY chapter. 854-4015. Deutsches Italy, and Czechoslovakia.” Istvan contact Sarah Terlouw or Becky Chan- Neiman Gallery, 310 Dodge Hall. Haus. 4:30 P.M. “Water at Hydrophobic Deak. HI. 854-5139. 1219 IAB. Surfaces.” Geraldine Richmond, U of dler at [email protected] or [email protected]. Jerome 6:00 P.M. Global Consequences of 8:00 P.M. “The Evolution of Values.” Oregon. Chemistry. 854-8435. 209 2:45 P.M. “Stationary Wave the Iraq War: “The Present and Philip Kitcher, Columbia U. Columbia Havemeyer. Green Hall, Rm. 104. Responses to Global Warming in Future of the World Order.” Phi Beta Kappa. For more information, Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Mod- TH SAT Richard Bulliet and Michael Doyle. email [email protected]. Davis 6 , . els.” Mingfang Ting, Columbia U. Moderated by Jean Cohen, Political Auditorium of CEPSR. 8:00 P.M. Bach Society Orches- APAM. 854-4457. 214 Mudd. ARTS Science. CFPC. Jerome Greene Hall. tra. Beethoven’s 12 Contradanses, 4TH, THUR. FEBRUARY Bruch’s Violin concerto in G minor, 4:00 P.M. “Molecular Genetics of 6:00 P.M. “Painful Remembering: 2:45 P.M. “Applied Mathematics featuring Jennifer Kim, violin, Con- Human Mitochondrial Disease.” The Case of Modern Germany Colloquium.” Yannis Kevrekidis, 25TH, WED. certo Competition winner, and Eric Schon, Columbia U. Seminar pre- Abstract.” A slide-lecture document- Princeton U. APAM. 854-4457. 214 12:15 P.M. The Rabi-Warner Con- Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony. For ceded by refreshments at 3:30 P.M. ing some major movements in Ger- Mudd. certs. Austin Reller, violinist perform- more information visit www.bach- Chemical Engineering. 854-4415. 826 many since 1960. Don Shriver, Union ing unaccompanied Bach works. Facul- society.com. Miller Theatre. 854- Mudd. Theological Seminary. CSSR. 851- 4:10 P.M. “Magnetic Resonance ty House of Columbia U. 749-0800. 7799. Miller Theatre. 1825. Davis Auditorium, Shapiro Imaging, Part II.” Marvin Friedman, ABBREVIATIONS USED IN CALENDAR Faculty House, 117th St & Morning- Bldg. St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital. APAM. 10TH, WED. Architec School of Architecture, side Dr. ture Planning & Preserva 854-4458. 214 Mudd. 12:05 P.M. Concert. La Brillante, tion APAM Applied Physics and 8:00 P.M. “B.O.S.S. Black Women in 8:00 P.M. Film: Die Artisten in der an early music ensemble. Inter- Applied Mathematics BB Black Building Politics Panel.” BHM. 854-3611. 4:30 P.M. “Topological Effects on Zirkuskppel: ratlos (1967). German church Center. 870-2231. Inter- BC Barnard College BHM Black Heritage Month Jed. D. Satow Room. Photoinduced Electron Transfer with English subtitles. Germanic Litera- church Center Chapel. CCYVP Columbia Center for Processes in Porphyrin-Fullerence Youth Violence Preven tures and Langugages. 854-1858. tion Hybrids: Dyads, Rotaxanes, Cate- 12:15 P.M. The Rabi-Warner CIPRHDA Center for Intervention 26TH, THUR. Deutsches Haus (420 W 116th St.) and Prevention Research 12:00 P.M. “Lessons for Central nanes and Pseudocatenanes.” David Concerts. Milton Farbstein, pianist, on HIV and Drug Abuse Schuster, NYU. Chemistry. 854-8435. CROW Barnard Center for Asian Intellectuals.” Edward All- performing works by Chopin, Research on Women 209 Havemeyer. 26TH, THUR. Prokofieff, and Bartok. Faculty CSER Center for the Study of worth, Columbia U. HI. 854-5139. Ethnicity & Race 1219 IAB. 7:00 P.M. Composer Portraits: Giac- House of Columbia U. 749-0800. CSSR Center for the Study of into Scelsi. Sequitur with Elizabeth Science & Religion 6:30 P.M. “Yankee Portables: Marcel Faculty House, 117th St & Morn- CU Columbia University Farnum, soprano; Curtis Macomber, CURP Center for Urban Research 4:10 P.M. “Magnetic Resonance Breuer and Vernacular Discourses ingside Dr. and Policy Imaging, Part I.” Marvin Friedman, from Budapest to Boston.” Barry violin; Michael Lowenstern, clarinet; DKCJC Donald Keene Ctr Japane se St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. APAM. Bergdoll, Columbia U. 854-8165. conducted by Paul Hostetter. Tickets: 8:00 P.M. Film: In Gefahr and ECEC Culture East Central European 854-4458. 214 Mudd. Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall. $7 Students, $12, Faculty/Staff. Miller grobter Not bringt der Mittelweg HHSC Center Hammer Health Sci Theatre. 854-7799. Miller Theatre. den Tod (1973). German with Eng- HI ences Building IAB Harriman Institute 4:30 P.M. “Ultrafast Electron Trans- 8:00 P.M. “The Communist Mani- lish subtitles. Germanic Literatures International Affairs fers on the Ground State Potential festo and World Literature.” and Langugages. 854-1858. IAASA Building Martin Italian Academy for Energy Surfaces of Inorganic Mixed Puchner, Columbia U. Germanic Liter- Deutsches Haus (420 W 116th St.) Advanced Studies in NAJP America Valence Complexes and the NMR- atures and Languages. 854-1858. National Arts Journalism like Coalesence of Vibrational Spec- NSEC Program Deutsche Haus (420 W 116th St). 8:00 P.M. “Solo at the Italian Nanoscale Science and tre.” Cliff Kubiak, U of California, San P& S Engineering Center Academy.” Marilyn Nonken, College of Physicians Diego. Chemistry. 854-8435. 209 9TH, TUE. pianist. Tickets $12 General Pub- RBML & Surgeons Havemeyer. Rare Book & Manuscript 2:45 P.M. “PDEs, Geometry, CFD lic, $5 Students and seniors. SIPA Library School of International and Image Processing.” Tony Chan, IAASA. 854-1623. Teatro of WEAI & Public Affairs 214 Weatherhead East Asian UCLA. APAM. 854-4457. IAASA. Institute Mudd. Curtis Macomber, solo violinist C olumbia U niversity RECORD February 20, 2004 11

11TH, THUR. MARCH 24TH, TUE. 4TH, THUR. FEB. 16TH - MAR. 10TH 7:00 P.M. Iannis Xenakis: Percus- 12:00 P.M. “Regulation of Cell 5:00 P.M. “Stories of Brain 9:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M., Mon.-Fri. sion Spectacular. So Percussion 3RD, WED. Growth by the TOR Pathway.” Aging: The Future of Wisdom “Turning Points.” Featuring performs Pleiades and Okho. 2:00 P.M. Edward W. Said David Sabatini, Whitehead Insti- and Quality of Life.” Peter White- works of seven Iranian Artists. For Memorial Service. A live broad- Tickets: $7 Students, $12 tute. ICG. 851-5276. Russ Berrie house, Case Western Reserve U. more information call 854-4065. cast of the service will be held at Faculty/Staff. Miller Theatre. 854- Lecture Rm. 1. Narrative Medicine and the editors LeRoy Neiman Art Gallery, 310 Roone Arledge Auditorium. The 7799. Miller Theatre. of Reflexions. www.narrativemedi- majority of chapel seats have been 26TH, THUR. reserved for family and close cine.org. 305-4975. P&S 9:30 A.M. “Understanding Sexu- ATHLETICS friends. Please RSVP at Amphitheatre, 1st fl. al Excitation and Inhibition: A [email protected] FEBRUARY SPECIAL St. Paul’s Chapel. Woman-Centered Approach.” 5:00 P.M. “Narrative Cynthia Graham, Indiana U. HIV Medicine/Clinical Reasoning: An FEBRUARY 20TH, FRI. Center for Clinical and Behavioral Approach to Education of Med- 1:00 P.M. Wrestling v. Duquesne 26TH, THUR. Studies 543-5969. Rm. 6602, New ical Residents Through the 10:00 A.M. - 7:00 P.M. CUMC Bldg. Columbia Cooperative Aging 7:00 P.M. M Basketball v. Harvard “Can the Subaltern Speak? Program.” Narrative Medicine 5:30 P.M. “E.B. Wilson at Reflections on the History FEBRUARY and the editors of Reflexions. Columbia and the Beginnings of of an Idea.” A one day sympo- www.narrativemedicine.org. 305- American Cell Biology.” Qais Al- sium in honor of the 20th 20TH, FRI. 4975. P&S Amphitheatre, 1st fl. Awqati, Columbia U. Refreshments anniversary of Gayatri Chakra- 1:00 P.M. “Sexual Risk, Roles, served at 5:00 P.M. GASA and vorty Spivak's writing of the land- and Relationships Among Rural CUMC. 305-8058. 401 HHSC. 5TH, FRI. mark essay. Featuring: South African Young Adults.” 1:00 P.M. “Health Services Abdul JanMohamed, Michele Bar- Lucia O’Sullivan, Columbia U. Research in Substance Abuse.” rett, Homi Bhabha, Ritu Birla, CIPRHDA. 870-3514. 815 4:00 P.M. “Structural Basis for Isaac Montoya, Affiliated Systems. Partha Chatterjee, Pheng Cheah, McVickar Hall, CUSSW. Specificity in Protein Kinase Sig- CIPRHDA. 870-3514. 815 Drucilla Cornell, Hamid naling Pathways.” Lewis Cantley, McVickar Hall, CUSSW. Dabashi, Jean Franco, Rajeswari 4:00 P.M. “Predicting the Struc- Harvard Medical School. 305- Dalen Cuff in game vs. Princeton Sunder Rajan, and Gayatri tures of Large Transmembrane 3885. 301 HHSC. 8TH, MON. Chakravorty Spivak. Casa Domains Based on Intermediate- 12:00 P.M. “TBA.” Stephani Italiana. Please call 854-3277 for Jones, Yale U. and Joshuwa Brown, 21ST, SAT. Resolution Cryo-EM.” Nir Ben TH FRI reservations. Casa Italiana. 27 , . NYU. CCYVP. 302-8213. Irving 7:00 P.M. M Basketball v. Dart- Tal, Tel Aviv U. Biochemistry and 1:00 P.M. “Urban Renewal Center for Clinical Research mouth 27TH, FRI. Molecular Biophyiscs. 305-3885. Means Negro Removal: The Conference Room. 8:30 A.M. - 5:30 P.M. 523 BB. Long-Term Consequences of a 27TH, FRI. “Public Policy and the Federal Program.” Mindy 7:00 P.M. W Basketball v. Prince- Academy: Exploring the 23RD, MON. Fullilove, Columbia U. CIPRHDA. ton Contributions of Academic 12:00 P.M. “Protecting Children 870-3514. 815 McVickar Hall, EXHIBITS Research to Public Policy.” is Everybody's Business: CUSSW. 28TH, SAT. Speakers include: Ester Fuchs, NOW THRU FEB. 27TH 7:00 P.M. W Basketball v. Penn Lisa Anderson, Sheila Accounting for Increases in MARCH 12:00 P.M. - 7:45 P.M. from Mon, Kamerman, Kenneth Prewitt, and Admissions to Care in Child Wel- 9:00 A.M.-4:45 P.M., Tue.-Fri. MARCH Elliot Sclar. To register email fare.” Alan Leschied, U of West- 1ST, MON. [email protected] by Feb. ern Ontario. CCYVP. 305-8213. “Columbia's Cornerstone: The 12:00 P.M. “Molecular Macha- 2ND, TUE. 20. Columbia University Public Irving Center for Clinical Core Curriculum.” Curated by nisms of Synaptic Differentiation 4:00 P.M. W Lacrosse v. Wagner Policy Consortium. 15th fl., Research Conference. Jennifer Lee. 854-4048. RBML. SIPA. in the CNS.” Peter R. Scheiffele, Columbia U. Pharmacology. 305- NOW THRU FEB. 29TH 15th 5TH, FRI. 8778. BB 724. Annual Harlem Horizon Art Stu- 7:00 P.M. M Basketball v. Brown dio Exhibition. “Art is Healing: 6TH, SAT. Twenty-Two Pieces on the Seven- 7:00 P.M. M Basketball v. Yale teenth Floor.” For more information call 939-4010. Low Rotunda. Ahead of Its Time: General Studies’ Vital Role Columbia Creates Student Advisory Committee as Part (Continued from Page 7) Of Campus Planning Process I have very warm and grateful memories about how I was wel- Twenty-three students will comed at GS and treated with BY ELIZABETH GOLDEN serve on this newly formed respect. Thanks to GS, I got a committee of undergraduate great education and found a pro- olumbia University has and graduate students. Seven fessional niche in university announced the forma- members are Columbia College development along the way.” Ction of its Student Advi- students and three are SEAS Nearly two decades after Fei- sory Committee for Campus students. gin began her GS courses, John Planning and set the commit- Each graduate school on the Lenzi, the man who would tee’s first meeting for the end Morningside Heights and become Columbia’s university of February. Provost Alan Washington Heights campuses registrar and executive director Brinkley will chair the commit- also has one student representa- of student information systems, tee, and other senior university tive on the committee. set foot on the campus as manag- officials will attend the meet- Students were nominated in a er of information technology, ings. variety of ways. Some deans simultaneously setting out to fin- The creation of the Student worked with their staff to select ish his degree through the School Advisory Committee is part of a student; others nominated the of General Studies. Columbia’s collaborative elected leader of the student After high school, the Spring process as the University council or similar entity. In Valley, Ill., native planned to moves forward with its pro- addition, students were nomi- become a film editor. He Registrar John Lenzi posed expansion. The Student nated by the Student Affairs enrolled in a technical film Advisory Committee will act Office for Columbia College, school in California. But he soon much like the Faculty Advisory the Fu Foundation School of switched gears and joined a com- high-pressure Wall Street job. work at Columbia behind him, Committee, by supplying input Engineering and Applied Sci- puter conversion company in At that point a friend suggest- Lenzi observed that more and and feedback as plans for ence and Chaplain Jewelnel 1977. ed the idea of working for a not- more students are following a expansion continue to develop. Davis, the director of Earl Hall. In 1979, he decided to move to for-profit. Lenzi found a posi- nontraditional path to higher This will be a consultative rela- Other committees that are New York. Within three weeks tion advertised in The New York education. tionship with senior adminis- contributing to the planning he had a job on Park Avenue. Times job section—an informa- “I think we are seeing an enor- trators to discuss issues and process are the Community And by the following year, he tion technology operations man- mous shift in the population,” ideas. Advisory Committee, which is was working for ADP’s broker- ager job at Columbia. During the said Lenzi, “and I think it’s “We think it’s extremely facilitating an ongoing dialogue age division on Wall Street, interview process for the job, he important that the Ivy League, important for our students to with the community about its where he stayed for seven years. decided he would go back to and a place like Columbia, is have the opportunity to present concerns and interests, and the “I was being groomed actually to school and finish his degree. represented in responding to that their views on this issue, which Faculty Advisory Committee, move up to the VP level,” said That was then. Now, as regis- changing population.” is important to the University,” which is addressing Columbia’s Lenzi. But soon, he began to trar, with a bachelor’s, master’s For more information, visit said Provost Brinkley. academic and research needs. experience burnout with the and all-but-dissertation Ph.D. http://www.gs.columbia.edu/