March 2nd, Friday

• J. Walls, University of Miami: Relaxation and Pathway Selective Pulses in NMR
  

  2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
  
  
  

• Philosophy Colloquium "The Open-Ended Normativity of the Ethical: A Critique of Kitcher's The Ethical Project" by Dr. Allen Buchanan

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  
  

• Applied Math Seminar: Optimal Prepayment of Mortgages

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • John Chadam of University of Pittsburgh
  
  

• Combinatorics Seminar: Promotion and Rowmotion

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Nathan Williams of University of Minnesota
  
  

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March 4th, Sunday

• Architecture of the Art Schools: Time and Passion Panel

  4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Part of the University of Miami's Cuban Culture on the Edge Series and Miami Dade College's Miami International Film Festival.
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March 5th, Monday

• Department of Biology Seminar: Dr. Isaac Skromne (12:20-1:20PM)

  12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
  
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• “The euro and the dollar:
  a special global dimension of
  EU-United States relations”
  
  

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Presentation by
    
    María Lorca-Susino
    
    Lecturer, University of Miami Depts. of
    International Studies and Economics
    
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• Guest Lecture: Dr. César A. Salgado

  5:00 PM to 7:30 PM
  
  • "Lezama Lima and Haiti: Locating the Caribbean in La expresión americana."
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• The European Union’s relations with the United States:
  Trends, cooperation and conflicts
  

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Presentation by:
    
    
    Maxime Larivé
    
    Jean Monnet Fellow (2011-12), EU Center and
    Instructor at the Department of International Studies
    Un...
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• THE UM FORUM ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE
  HOW RELIGION BOTH DIVIDES AND UNITES AMERICANS:
  RELIGION AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT IN AMERICA

  7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
  
  • The Forum is sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies and the Office of Civic and Community Engagement and the Department of Religion at FIU.
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March 6th, Tuesday

• The Evolution of US Foreign Policy in Latin America

  11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
  
  • Panelists will assess the change in U.S.- Latin American relations since 9/11
    
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• American Studies Program/ Spring Speaker Series

  4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Wai Chee Dimock Presents
    "Gilgamesh on Three Continents"
    
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• Mathematics Colloquium: Probabilistic and Combinatorial Aspects of the Card-Cyclic to Random Insertion Shuffle (CANCELLED)

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Professor Ross Pinsky
    Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
  
  

• Combinatorics Seminar: A Conjectured Combinatorial Interpretation for Induced Sign Characters of the Hecke Algebra

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Mark Skandera of Lehigh University
  
  

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March 7th, Wednesday

• Sociology Brown Bag - Spring 2012

  1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
  
  • Presenter: Robert J. Sampson, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.
    Title: "Inequality and the American City: Implications of the Neighbor...
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• Department of Computer Science Pizza Seminar

  5:00 PM
  
  • Shirley Cunningham,Carlos Gandarillas,& Darren North,FPL Energy Services
    NextEra Energy, Inc will present Careersat NextEra Energy/FPL
    
  
  

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March 8th, Thursday

• Avances legislativos en Colombia para la equidad de genero

  7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
  
  • A speech by Colombian Senator Alexandra Moreno Piraquive as part of the Miami Consortium's Distinguished Speaker Series 2011-12
    
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• USpeak Open Verse and Short Story Performance Series Features Patricia Engel

  8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
  
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March 9th, Friday

• L. Johnson, Steacie Inst. for Molecular Sciences, N.R.C. of Canada, Ottawa: Multimodal Approaches for Nanoscale Imaging of Membrane Organization

  2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
  
  
  

• Philosophy Colloquium "Permissions To Do Less Than The Best: A Moving Band" by Thomas Hurka & "Sociality & Solitude" by J. David Velleman

  3:30 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  
  

• Mathematics Colloquium: Computations of Heegaard Floer Homologies

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Dr. Andras Stipsicz
    Renyi Institute of Mathematics (Budapest)
    Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton)
  
  

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March 10th, Saturday

• 4th Annual Vernacular Photography Exhibition

  2:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  
  

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March 12th, Monday

• Mathematics Colloquium: Hidden Symmetries and Conserved Charges

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Professor Lars Andersson
    Albert Einstein Institute
    Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
  
  

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March 13th, Tuesday

• Kher Albaz
  on
  The Bedouin of the Negev
  

  8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
  
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March 16th, Friday

• N.Chaniotakis, University of Crete: Nanomaterial-Based Sensors for Direct Analysis in Remote and Martian Environments: Possibilities and Challenges

  2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
  
  
  

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March 19th, Monday

• Department of Biology Seminar: Dr. Michael Boyle, Smithsonian Marine Station (12:20-1:20PM)

  12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
  
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March 20th, Tuesday

• Philosophy Colloquium "Liability & Assignability" by Jules Coleman, Yale University

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  
  

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March 21st, Wednesday

• Department Chairs' Meeting at Physics Conference Room

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Department Chairs' Meeting at Physics Conference Room
  
  

• Geometry and Physics Seminar

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Dr. Wilderich Tuschmann of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  
  

• Cineforum: Italian Film Series of UM - “Il divo”

  7:30 PM to 10:00 PM
  
  • FILM TITLE: “Il divo” (“The Deity”) dir. Sorrentino, 2008
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March 22nd, Thursday

• Unity and Diversity Marking the 50th Anniversary of Desegregation
  

  12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
  
  • Desegregation, Student Activism, and Black Power at UM" Featuring Chanelle Rose,Ph.D.
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• Philosophy Colloquium "Indexicals & Barriers to Implication" by Gillian Russell,Washington University, Saint Louis

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  
  

• Rabbi Uri Regev on Can Israel be both Jewish and Democratic?: Israel's Identity Crisis

  4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
  
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• Unity and Diversity Marking the 50th Anniversary of Desegregation
  Student and Faculty Forum on Diversity

  4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
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• Guest Lecture: Dr. Carrie Noland

  5:00 PM to 7:30 PM
  
  • "Inheriting the Avant-Garde"
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• Unity and Diversity Marking the 50th Anniversary of Desegregation
  2012 Black Student Scholarship Reception

  6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
  
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• Brazilian Movie Series: Eu, tu, eles (I, You, Them; 2000)

  7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
  
  • Part of the Miami Consortium's Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum Lecture Series
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March 23rd, Friday

• Department of Biology Seminar: Dr. Maureen A. Donnelly, Florida International University

  11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
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• A conversation with His Excellency, Sr. Hélio Vitor Ramos Filho, Consul Geral do Brasil (Consulate General of Brazil)

  1:30 PM to 2:30 PM
  
  • Presented in part by the Miami Consortium’s Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum Lecture Series
    
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• M.l Klein, Temple University, Philadelphia:
  Computation and the Nano-Bio-Med Frontier
  

  2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
  
  
  

• Philosophy Colloquium "Epistemology of Logic, Made Easy" by Gillian Russell, Washington University, Saint Louis.

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  
  

• "My Love Affair with Art" Lecture by Dr. Johnnetta Cole, Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art

  4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  • Lecture given by Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, who was appointed the Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art (NMAfA) in March, 2009.
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March 26th, Monday

• College Council Meeting in Physics Conference Room (CANCELLED)

  12:30 PM to 2:30 PM
  
  • College Council meeting in Physics Conference Room (CANCELLED)
  
  

• Prof. David Nirenberg on
  Medieval History Meets Geopolitics:
  Judaism, Christianity, Islam
  

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
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• "Medieval History Meets Geopolitics: Judaism, Christianity, Islam"
  

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Department of History Speakers Series Lecture by David Nirenberg, Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor of Medieval History and Social Thought, The University of Chicago
  
  

• Designing For Diversity: Affordable Housing for America's Changing Demographic

  6:00 PM
  
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March 27th, Tuesday

• Philosophy Colloquium "Staying Regular" by Alan Hajek, Australian National University

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  
  

• Dr. AMANULLAH DE SONDY - "Constructions of Islamic Masculinity: from Hedonist to Chaste Representations"

  5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
  
  • "Constructions of Islamic Masculinity: from Hedonist to Chaste Representations"
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March 28th, Wednesday

• Reading Beyond the Notes: Politics, Ideology, and Music in Twentieth-Century Argentina

  2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
  
  • How does music convey political ideas and actions? What mechanisms does it use to persuade citizens to act in politically engaged ways?
    
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• Legal Scholars: Palace Warriors or Global Actors?

  4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  • This is the fourth and final lecture in the Latin American Law Visiting Professor Lecture Series.
    
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• Geometry and Physics Seminar: Essential Surfaces and Dehn Filling

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Professor Ryan Derby-Talbot of Quest University
  
  

• "At the Crossroads of Art & Science: The Physicist as Novelist" by Stanford Distinguished Professor Alan Lightman

  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  • Stanford Distinguished Professor Alan Lightman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Writing and Humanistic Studies), At the Crossroads of Art & Science: The Physicist as Nove...
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March 29th, Thursday

• The College of Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Studies Program Reception

  12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
  
  • You are invited to a lunchtime reception, hosted by the
    interdisciplinary programs of the College of Arts and Sciences
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• Philosophy Colloquium "The Science of Philosophy" by Colin McGinn"

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  
  

• "Of Anagrammatology: Decoding the Renaissance Text" by William Sherman from University of York, UK

  4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  
  

• Mathematics Colloquium: Are Complicated 3-manifolds Complicated?

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Dr. Ryan Derby-Talbot of Quest University
  
  

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March 30th, Friday

• R. Breslow, Columbia University, New York:The invention of an approved anticancer compound with a novel mode of action
  

  2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
  
  
  

• Philosophy Colloquium "The Fundamental Disagreement Between Luck Egalitarians & Relational Egalitarians" by Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  
  

• Mathematics Colloquium:
  Should I Stay or Should I Go?
  An SDE Perspective on the Ecology and Evolution of Movement

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Dr. Sebastian Schreiber of University of California, Davis
  
  

• Appignani Foundation Lecture "Democracy, Public Policy & Lay Assessments of Scientific Testimony" by Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan

  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  
  

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