March 1st, Thursday

• “Un écrivain français venu d’ailleurs: Rachid O”

  5:00 PM
  
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March 2nd, Friday

• Miniconference on Homological Methods in Geometry: Geometric Quantization and Sympletic Algebraic Geometry

  10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
  
  • N. Turin of RAS
  
  

• "United States Public Health Agency Involvement in Youth-Focused Illicit Drug Policy, Planning, and Prevention"

  11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
  
  • The Department of Sociology presents Duane McBride, professor and chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan. The Event ta...
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• Miniconference on Homological Methods in Geometry: Riemman Roch Theorems for Real Algebraic Varieties

  11:15 AM to 12:15 PM
  
  • P. Bressler of IAS
  
  

• Miniconference on Homological Methods in Geometry: Motives and Derived Categories

  2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
  
  • D. Orlov of RAS
  
  

• Philosophy Colloquium " Wine, Aesthetics and Critical Communication" by Keith and Adrienne Lehrer

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
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• Miniconference on Homological Methods in Geometry: Quantum Integrable Systems over Finite and Local Fields

  4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  • Professor Maxim Kontsevich of Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientific, Recipient of a Fields Medal in 1998
  
  

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March 5th, Monday

• Lecture Series: Derived Non-commutative Algebraic Geometry

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Professor Maxim Kontsevich of Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientific, Recipient of a Fields Medal in 1998
  
  

• Dr. Michael Oren Lecture

  8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
  
  • The Fifteenth Annual Luria Family Lecture presents Dr. Michael Oren, NY Times best-selling author on his new book "Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to ...
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March 6th, Tuesday

• College Faculty Meeting

  3:30 PM
  
  
  

• Mathematics Colloquium: Langlands Duality for the Hitchin System

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Tony Pantev of University of Pennsylvania
  
  

• Migration, Labor and Social Movements in the Americas

  6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
  
  
  

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March 7th, Wednesday

• Why is Popular Democracy a Bad Thing for Latin America?

  12:30 PM to 2:30 PM
  
  
  

• Lecture Series: Derived Non-commutative Algebraic Geometry

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Professor Maxim Kontsevich of Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientific, Recipient of a Fields Medal in 1998
  
  

• Philosophy Colloquium "Empirical Success or Explanatory Success: What does Current Scientific Realism Need to Explain?" by Gerald Doppelt

  4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
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March 8th, Thursday

• “Images de soi et projets épistolaires: Les Liaisons Dangereuses”

  3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
  
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• English Faculty Colloquium: Ranen Omer-Sherman, Associate Professor of English and Gabelli Senior Scholar in the College of Arts and Sciences

  3:30 PM
  
  • "‘on the verge of a long-craved intimacy’: Orientalist Distance and Proximity Between Jews & Arabs in A.B. Yehoshua’s The Liberated Bride"
    
    
  
  

• Dr. Ruth Amossy Lecture

  5:00 PM
  
  • Dr. Ruth Amossy, Henri Glasberg Professor of French Modern and Contemporary Culture, Tel Aviv University will present a lecture on "The Correspondence of Alfred and Lucie Dreyfu...
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• “The Correspondence of Alred and Lucie Dreyfus: Epistolary Dialogue and Argumentation”

  5:00 PM
  
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March 9th, Friday

• Lecture Series: Derived Non-commutative Algebraic Geometry

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Professor Maxim Kontsevich of Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientific, Recipient of a Fields Medal in 1998
  
  

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March 14th, Wednesday

• Mathematics Colloquium: On Special Construction of Projective Surfaces with Infinite Fundamental Groups

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Professor Fedor Bogomolov of New York University
  
  

• Senior Showcase 2007

  7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
  
  • An evening of theatre and music by students from the Department of Theatre Arts & Frost School of Music Conservatory.
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March 19th, Monday

• "The Killing of Jose Domingo Gomez Rojas: Poetry, Politics, and Protest in Santiago, Chile, 1920"

  3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
  
  
  

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March 21st, Wednesday

• Chairs' Meeting

  3:30 PM
  
  
  

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March 22nd, Thursday

• Mexico: The Domestic and Foreign Policy Agendas of the Calderon Administration

  12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
  
  
  

• "Proust's Allegorical Body"

  3:30 PM
  
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• Philosophy Colloquium "Inference to the Best Explanation and Metaphysical Justification" by Scott Shalkowski

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
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• Mathematics Colloquium: The Poincare Conjecture and Classification of 3-manifolds

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Professor John Morgan of Columbia University
  
  

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March 23rd, Friday

• Philosophy Colloquium "Concepts of Mind and Spirit in African Thought" by Kwasi Wiredu

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  • Dr. Kwasi Wiredu is Distinguished University Professor at the University of South Florida. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Oxford. His publications ...
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• Mathematics Colloquium: Partition Congruences and Geographical Clusters of Cases of a Disease

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Professor Herb Wilf of University of Pennsylvania, Recipient of the 1998 Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research
  
  

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March 26th, Monday

• EU Model in the Americas, Asia and Africa

  9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
  
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• Reforming Latin America’s Economies: After Market Fundamentalism
  

  10:00 AM to 12:15 PM
  
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• College Council Meeting

  3:30 PM
  
  
  

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March 28th, Wednesday

• "The Gender Gap in Violent Victimization, 1973-2005"

  11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
  
  • A recent report on the topic of violence against women from the National Academy of Sciences issued as set of challenges for criminologist and social scientists.The research dis...
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March 29th, Thursday

• 5th Annual FIU/UM Graduate Student Conference

  9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
  
  
  

• "Race, Faith, and Sexuality"

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • "Race, Faith, and Sexuality" by Dwight A. McBride, Leon Forrest Professor of African American Studies and Professor of English and Communication Studies, Northwestern University
  
  

• Mathematics Colloquium: On Asymptotically Hyperbolic Manifolds

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Professor Jie Qing of University of California, Santa Cruz
  
  

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