10 C o l u m b i a U n i v e r s i t y RECORD April 16th, 2004

TALKS16TH, FRI.3:10 P.M. “TBA.” Plasma PhysicsColloquium. Ellen Zweibel, U ofWisconsin. 214 Mudd.

4:00 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. “Nuns, CourtLadies, and Shotoku Worship inKamakura Period, Japan.” LoriMeeks, University of Puget Sound,Stanford University. 403 Kent.

4:30 P.M. “Strange Isotope Effectsin Ozone Formation in theStratosphere, with Possible Impli-cations for the Earliest Solids inthe Solar System.” Rudolph Mar-cus, California Institute of Technolo-gy. Chemistry Colloquium. 854-8435. 209 Havemeyer.

19TH, MON.12:00 P.M. “Perspectives onReforms in Putin’s Second Term.”Mikhail Margelov, chairman, ForeignAffairs Committee, Council of Fed-eration. Sponsored by The HarrimanInstitute. 1219 IAB.

7:00 P.M. “The United StatesConstitution: A Seminar in FiveParts; Part 4.” John O. McGinnis,Northwestern University School ofLaw. Presented by the Intercolle-giate Studies Institute. constitution-seminaratcolumbia@yahoo.com. 101Jerome Greene Hall.

20TH, TUE.12:00 P.M. “Dostoevsky Didn’tReally Believe Anything (But HeHad Plenty To Teach Us AboutBelief Itself).” Steve Cassedy, pro-fessor of Slavic and ComparativeLiterature, University of California,San Diego. Sponsored by The Harri-man Institute and the Columbia Slav-ic Department. 1219 IAB.

12:00 P.M. “Roundtable Discus-sion on the Korean Elections.”Charles K. Armstrong, associate pro-fessor of History and acting directorof WEAI; Samuel Kim, seniorresearch scholar, WEAI, Jeong-HoRoh, director, Center for KoreanLegal Studies and associate researchscholar, School of Law, Columbia U.Presented by WEAI. 918 IAB.

2:45 P.M. “On Highly OscillatoryPDE’s.” Applied Mathmatics Collo-quium. Peter Markowich, Universityof Vienna. 214 Mudd.

4:00 P.M. “Watching MoleculesDiffuse at Soft and Hard Sur-faces.” Steve Granick, University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign. Spe-cial IGERT Seminar, sponsored joint-ly with City College Chemical Engi-neering. 854-4415. 826 Mudd.

7:00 P.M. “The United StatesConstitution: A Seminar in FiveParts; Part 5.” John O. McGinnis,Northwestern University School ofLaw. Presented by the IntercollegiateStudies Institute. constitutionsemi-naratcolumbia@yahoo.com 101Jerome Greene Hall.

21ST, WED.12:00 P.M. “TBA.” AzyumardiAzra, president and professor, SyarifHidayatullah State Islamic Universi-ty, Jakarta, Indonesia, and Depart-ment of History, Columbia Uni-veristy. Presented by WEAI. 918IAB.

22ND, THUR.12:00 P.M. “Inside the Mind ofSlobodan Milosevic.”

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Slobodan Milosevic

Adam LeBor, Central European cor-respondent: Times of London, andauthor of: Milosevic, A Biography.Sponsored by The Harriman Insti-tute. 1219 IAB.

11:45 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. “A MoistAtmospheric Model of the HadleyCirculation with Wind-DependentSurface Fluxes.” IGERT Colloqui-um. Samuel Burns, Columbia Uni-versity. 214 Mudd.

4:10 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. “OpticalBreast Imaging.” Medical PhysicsColloquium. Angelo Secci, VP, Clin-ical Research, DOBI Medical Inter-national, Inc. 214 Mudd.

4:30 P.M. “The Elusive Path toQuantum Computation.” Chem-istry Colloquium. Rudolph Marcus,California Institute of Technology.209 Havemeyer.

23RD, FRI.12:00 P.M. “Challenges of Region-al Ethnic Tolerance: The Case ofUkrainian Bukovina.” AnatoliyKruglashov, head of the Departmentof Political Science and Sociology,Chernivtsi National University. Pre-sented by the Ukrainian StudiesSeries. Sponsored by The HarrimanInstitute. 1219 IAB.

3:10 P.M. - 4:00 P.M. “TBA.”Plasma Physics Colloquium. DonaldBatchelor, Oak Ridge National Lab.214 Mudd.

26TH, MON.12:00 P.M. “Television and MassMedia in Today’s China.” CuiWen, vice director of Shanghai TV,current institute associate at WEAI;Qu Xiaoping, China Central Televi-sion correspondent, United NationsBureau, current visiting scholar atWEAI. Presented by WEAI. 918IAB.

7:00 P.M. “Culture or Multicul-turalism?” Roger Kimball, manag-ing editor of The New Criterion.Sponsored by the IntercollegiateStudies Institute. For more informa-tion: isiatcolumbia@hotmail.com.101 Jerome Greene Hall (Amster-dam and 116th).

27TH, TUE.12:00 P.M. “Four Weddings andTwo Funerals: The Serb-CroatRelations in Interwar Yugoslavia.”Dejan Djokic, HI post-doctoral fel-low. Sponsored by The HarrimanInstitute. 1219 IAB.

12:00 P.M. “Modernity and theHistorical Legacy of Georgian Cul-ture in its European Context.”Maka Dvalishvili, president, Geor-gian Arts and Culture Center, Tbilisi,Georgia. Sponsored by The Harri-man Institute’s Georgian Rose Revo-lution Lecture Series. 1219 IAB.

2:45 P.M. “TBA.” Applied Math-matics Colloquium. ChristosFloudas, Princeton University. 214Mudd.

4:00 P.M. “Ultra-Thin AmorphousFilm Growth: Properties andApplications in Microelectronics.”John Ekerdt, University of Texas atAustin. Chemical Engineering.854-4415. 826 Mudd.

28TH, WED.12:00 P.M. “The Critical Game:Economics and Investment- Geor-gia’s Lifeline to the Future.” DavidOnoprishvili, SIPA alumnus, formerMinister of Finance in Georgia, pro-fessor at Vanderbilt University. Partof The Harriman Institute’s “Geor-gian Rose Revolution” LectureSeries. 1219 IAB.

12:00 P.M. “Thinking Outside theIron Cage: Re-ConceptualizingInstitutions and Governance inChina.” Michael Dowdle, associateprofessor of Public Law, Departmentof Government and Public Adminis-tration, Chinese University of HongKong. Presented by WEAI. 918IAB.

6:00 P.M. “The Perils and Joys ofPioneering the Arts of Japan inNew York.” Soshitsu Sen XV Dis-tinguished Lecture on Japanese Cul-ture. Speaker: Beate Sirota Gordon.RSVP required: e-mail donald-keene-center@columbia.edu or call854-5036 by April 19. Low Rotun-da, Low Memorial Library.

29TH, THUR.1:45 A.M. “Shocking Snowflakesand Strings: The Geometry ofCrystal Growth and OtherThings.” IGERT Colloquium. J.S.Wettlaufer, Yale University. 214Mudd.

12:00 P.M. “China’s EconomicFuture.” Joydeep Mukherji,Soverign Ratings Group, Standardand Poor. Presented by WEAI. 918IAB.

2:30 P.M. - 3:30 P.M. “TBA.”Applied Mathematics Colloquium.Stanley Osher, UCLA. 214 Mudd.

4:10 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. “TBA.”Richard Moran, Harvard University.Sponsored by the Department of Phi-losophy. For more information, 854-3196 or www.columbia.edu/cu /phi-losophy. 716 Philosophy Hall.

4:10 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. “UltrasonicImaging: Latest Trends.” MedicalPhysics Colloquium. VishruteDumane, Brachytherapy Physics,Memorial Sloan Kettering CancerCenter. 214 Mudd.

4:30 P.M. “Non-heme BioinspiredOxidants: From Epoxidation to C-H Activation.” Dan Stack, StanfordUniversity. Chemistry Colloquium.854-8435. 209 Havemeyer.

8:00 P.M. “‘Forma di Vita’: On aConcept in Giorgio Agamben.”Eva Gulen, University of Bonn.Sponsored by the Department ofGermanic Literatures and Lan-guages. Deutsches Haus, 420 W.116th Street.

ARTS16TH, FRI.8:00 P.M. “The Harlem Renais-sance Orchestra.” Sponsored by theCenter for Jazz Studies. FacultyHouse, 117th St & Morningside Dr

8:00 P.M. “Trio Kavkasia.” NaxosWorld recording artists, singing tradi-tional vocal music of the Republic ofGeorgia. 854-7185. 301 Philoso-phy.

20TH, TUE.6:00 P.M. “Chamber Music fromJuilliard.” St. Paul’s Chapel.

21ST, WED.12:15 P.M. “The Rabi-WarnerConcerts.” Carole Kaimowitz,soprano; Frank Daykin, pianist:works by Haydn, Brahms and Barber.749-0800. Faculty House, 117th St& Morningside Dr.

8:00 P.M. Film: “Der Angriff derGegenwart auf die ubrige Zeit”(1985). German with English subti-tles. 854-1858. Deutsches Haus(420 W. 116th St.)

22ND, THUR.7:30 P.M. Film: “The Werckmeis-ter Harmonies.” Introduced byKirsten Lodge Borovik. 1219 IAB.

23RD, FRI.8:00 P.M. “Columbia-JuilliardJoint Recital.” 854-7799. MillerTheatre.

26TH, MON.8:00 P.M. “Composer Portraits:Music of Milton Babbit.” Ensem-ble 21, conducted by JeffreyMilarsky with pianist MarilynNonken, soprano Judith Bettina, andsaxophonist Taimur Sullivan. Stu-dents: $7, Faculty/Staff $12. 854-7799. Miller Theatre.

Milton Babbit

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Events are listed in this order: date, time, title, name/affiliation ofspeaker(s) or performer(s), title of series (if any), sponsor(s), fee andregistration information (if any), phone number of contact, and loca-tion. All phone numbers are area code (212) unless otherwise noted.

For deadlines & information, call Nicole Callahan, CalendarEditor, 212-854-6546 or the RECORD, 212-854-3282.

The Calendar is updated weekly on the Web at:http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/calendar/.

Events are listed on a first-come, first-served basis free ofcharge. All events are subject to change; call sponsors to confirm.

EVENTS AT COLUMBIA — APR. 16 - APR. 29, 2004

CC A L E N D A RA L E N D A R

School of Architecture,Planning & Preservation

Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics

Black BuildingBarnard CollegeBlack Heritage MonthColumbia Center for

Youth Violence Preven tion

Center for Intervention and Prevention Research on HIV and Drug Abuse

Barnard Center for Research on Women

Center for the Study of Ethnicity & Race

Center for the Study ofScience & Religion

Columbia UniversityCenter for Urban Research

and Policy Donald Keene Ctr Japan-

ese Culture

East Central European CenterHammer Health Sci

ences BuildingHarriman InstituteInternational Affairs

BuildingItalian Academy for

Advanced Studies in America

National Arts JournalismProgram

Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center

College of Physicians & Surgeons

Rare Book & Manuscript Library

School of International & Public Affairs

Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Architecture

APAM

BBBCBHMCCYVP

CIPRHDA

CROW

CSER

CSSR

CUCURP

DKCJC

ECEC

HHSC

HIIAB

IAASA

NAJP

NSEC

P & S

RBML

SIPA

WEAI

ABBREVIATIONS USED IN CALENDAR

Earth’s Future: Taming the ClimateThur., 22nd, and Fri., 23rd9:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M., Thur., and 9:00 A.M. -3:00 P.M. Fri. “Earth’s Future: Taming theClimate.” Some of the world’s leading scholarsand decision makers, including Klaus Lackner,Ewing Worzel Professor of Geophysics, ColumbiaUniversity; Geoffrey Heal, Paul Garret Professorof Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility,Columbia Business School; and Roberto Lenton,executive director, Secretariat for International Affairs and Development,International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia University,working together to develop recommendations for international action.www.c250.columbia.edu. Roone Arledge Auditorium, Alfred LernerHall.

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27TH, TUE.8:00 P.M. “BeBop is a Dance: TheSir Charles Thompson Trio.” Fea-turing Eddie Locke, Earl May, andtap legend Jimmy Slyde. Sponsoredby the Center for Jazz Studies. Tick-ets, 854-7799. Miller Theatre.

Tap Legend Jimmy Slyde

28TH, WED.12:15 P.M. “The Rabi-WarnerConcerts.” Suzanne Fremon,pianist: works by Beethoven, Chopinand Prokofieff. Faculty House ofColumbia U. 749-0800. FacultyHouse, 117th St. & MorningsideDr.

SPECIALFRI., 9TH- TUE., 20TH“Spring 2004 Blood Drive.”Blood drive held at six locationsaround campus. Check www.colum-bia.edu/cu/president/blooddrive forlocations and times, or to register.

THUR., 15TH - SAT.,17TH“Nation, Identity and Conflict.”Eighth Annual ASN Convention.Register online at www.nationali-ties.org or contact Gordon N. Bardosat 854-8487, gnb12@columbia.edu.

16TH, FRI.“Byzantium: Faith and Power.”Daylong symposium in conjunctionwith the Byzantine Exhibition at theWallach Art Gallery. Presentation ofpapers on the Kariye Camii and itsrestoration by the Byzantine Instituteof America. For more information,www.columbia.ecu/cu/wallach. Ital-ian Academy (117th and Amster-dam.

FRI., 16TH - SAT., 17TH9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. “Liberal-ism’s Return: French SocialThought After 1968.” Conferencesponsored by Department of Historyand the Center for French and Fran-cophone Studies, Columbia Universi-ty. For more information,www.maisonfrancaise.org/liberalism.Buell Hall, Maison Francaise.

FRI., 16TH - SUN., 18TH“The USA and Russia: Elections,Energy, Oligarchs and Invest-ment.” 27th Arden House Confer-ence, sponsored by the Davis Centerand Columbia University’s HarrimanInstitute, in Harriman, New York.Contact Marshall Goldman, gold-man3@fas.harvard.edu, or RobertPrice, rfprice@fas.harvard.edu.

20TH, TUE.6:00 P.M. “A Spring HistorySeries: Our Past Engaged: FourTurning Points in Columbia’sRecent History.” Moderated byRobert McCaughey, Barnard Col-lege. “Beyond the Knickerbockers:Inclusive Columbia.” Talk given byRosalind Rosenberg. www.c250.col-umbia.edu. Low Library Rotunda.

8:00 P.M. “Does the Jewish StateHave A Future?” Tony Judt,Remarque Institute, New York Uni-versity; Alan Brinkley, professor ofAmerican History and Provost,Columbia University; Amos Elon,Israeli author and historian; RaefZreik, Palestinian-Israeli civil rightslawyer and political activist. Spon-sored by the Columbia UniversityIsrael Forum, Remarque Institute,NYU. Altschul Auditorium, IAB

Tony Judt

WED., 21ST & THUR.,22ND8:00 A.M. - 6:00 P.M. “Interna-tional Conference on CorporateSocial Responsibility in China.”Sponsored by the China InternationalBusiness Project, Columbia Universi-ty, and the Institute of InternationalEconomy, Nankai University, Tian-jin, P.R.C. Further details,jmw2110@columbia.edu orkhb2101@columbia.edu. Presentedby WEAI. 918 IAB.

24TH, SAT.“Columbia Community Out-reach.” Columbia students, faculty,administration and alumni gather fora full day of community service pro-jects throughout NYC. For moreinformation and to register,www.columbia.edu/cu/outreach/home.html.

27TH, TUE.6:00 P.M. “A Spring HistorySeries: Our Past Engaged: FourTurning Points in Columbia’sRecent History.” Robert McCaugh-ey, Barnard College. “Columbia’68: A Turning Point in the Historyof Student Power.” www.c250.co-lumbia.edu. Low Library Rotunda.

28TH, WED.“Last School Standing.” Do youhave what it takes to be the lastschool standing? Quiz show onColumbia history and current eventshosted by CU alumnus Ben Stein.Register at www.columbia.edu/cu/bacchanal.

29TH, THUR.1:00 P.M. “Reception Commemo-rating the 38th Anniversary of theFounding of the StudentHomophile League at Columbia.”All LGBTQ alumni and supporterswelcome. Re-dedication of theStephen Donaldson Lounge and pre-sentation by Rick Shur of HunterCollege. Room C555, Alfred Lern-er Hall.

6:00 P.M. “Russia’s Present Con-dition: Why Putin Couldn’t Lose.”Moderated by Nina L. Krushcheva,Project Director, Harriman Institute.Participante: Gideon Lichfield, Rus-sia correspondent for The Economist;Maria Lipman, Russian journalistand contributor to The WashingtonPost and The New York Review ofBooks; Adam Michnik, editor inchief of Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland;and David Remnick, editor in chiefof The New Yorker. Sponsored byHarriman Institute and the NewSchool’s Graduate Program in Inter-national Affairs and the World PolicyInstitute. RSVP atdover@newschool.edu. SwayduckAuditorium, 65 Fifth Avenue (bet13th and 14th).

Vladimir Putin

CUMC16TH, FRI.1:00 P.M. “MethamphetamineUse Among MSM in New York:An Emerging Epidemic.” PatriciaCase, ScD, Harvard Medical School.Sponsored by the Center for Inter-vention and Prevention Research onHIV and Drug Abuse. 870-3514.815 McVickar Hall, CUSSW.

19TH, MON.12:00 P.M. “Voices Against Vio-lence.” Ann Stueve, Columbia Uni-versity; and Renee Wilson Simmons,Education Development Center.302-8213. Irving Center for Clini-cal Research Conference Room(622 W. 168th St).

20TH, TUE.12:00 P.M. “Modeling HumanDiseases from Cancer to Neu-ropsychiatriac Disorders.” MarioR. Capecci, University of Utah.Russ Barrie Lecture Room 1.

21ST, WED.12:00 P.M. “Phase-Specific Genesand Virulence of Histopasma Cap-sulatum.” William Goldman, Wash-inton University. MicrobiologySeminar. 301 HSSC.

22ND, THUR.9:30 A.M. - 11:00 A.M. “TheCross, Condoms and Stethoscopes:The Balm in Gilead’s Africa,HIV/AIDS Faith Initiative.”

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Joyce Moon Howards, Departmentof Sociomedical Sciences, ColumbiaUniversity Mailman School ofHealth. www.hivcenternyc.org. NYState Psychiatric Institute, NewBuilding, Rm. 6602, 1051 River-side Drive.

23RD, FRI.12:00 P.M. “CLIC-1: A VeryUnusual Ion Channel.” Samuel N.Breit, professor of Medicine andhead of Inflammation ResearchGroup, Center for Immunology, St.Vincent’s Hospital and University ofNew South Wales, Sydney, Aus-tralia. Microbiology Seminar. 523Black Building.

24TH, SAT.12:00 P.M. “Qigong for Self-Care: A One-Day Training forHealth Professionals and Others.”Jeffrey Zimmerman. $65 trainingfee. To register, please call 342-0002 or visit www.columbiaintegra-tive medicine.org. Millstein Hospi-tal Building.

27TH, TUE.12:00 P.M. “Mechanisms ofHuman Tumor Formation.”Robert A Weinberg, MIT. RussBarrie Lecture Room 1.

29TH, THUR.9:30 A.M. - 11:00 A.M. “Secreto AVoces: Lessons on the Life Historyand Respondent-Driven SamplingMethods with Latin Gay Men inChicago and San Francisco.” JesusRamirez-Valles, University of Illi-nois-Chicago, School of PublicHealth. www.hivcenternyc.org. NYState Psychiatric Institute, NewBuilding, Rm. 6602, 1051 RiversideDrive.

EXHIBITSWED., APR. 21ST6:00 P.M. “The Art ConstitutionProject: The Illustrated Constitu-tion of the Russian Federation.”Conceived and curated by SergeyDenisov, Iban Kolesnikov, and PeterVoice. Presented by The HarrimanInstitute, the Kolodzei Art Founda-tion, Inc., and the Moscow Museumof Modern Art. 6th Floor IAB, DagHammarskjold Lounge.

NOW THRU - APR. 23RD12:00 P.M.- 6:00 P.M. from Tues-day-Saturday. “Jean Prouve:Three Nomadic Structures.”Architecture. 854-8430. ArthurRoss Gallery, Buell Hall.

NOW THRU - MAYDaily, Monday - Friday. “GodzillaConquers the Globe: JapaneseMovie Monsters in InternationalFilm Art.” For more information,854-5036. C.V. Starr East AsianLibrary: Main Reading Room andRare Book Room.

NOW THRU- JUNE 12Wednesday - Saturday, 1:00 P.M. -5:00 P.M. “Restoring Byzantium:The Kariye Camii in Istanbul andthe Byzantine Institute Restora-tion.” Exhibition featuring the schol-arly rediscovery and restoration ofone of the most impressive Byzan-time monuments to survive in themodern city of Istanbul. For moreinformation, 854-2877 or visitwww.columbia.edu/cu/wallach. Wal-lach Art Gallery, 8th floor, Scher-merhorn Hall.

Mosaic at Kariye Camii

ATHLETICS16TH, FRI.2:00 P.M. W Tennis v. Brown

17TH, SAT.12:00 P.M. M Baseball v. Prince-ton (2)

12:00 P.M. W Tennis v. Yale

1:00 P.M. W Softball v. Dartmouth

18TH, SUN.12:00 P.M. M Baseball v. Prince-ton (2)

12:00 P.M. W Softball v. Harvard(2)

20TH, TUE.7:00 P.M. W Lacrosse v. Lafayette

21ST, WED.3:00 P.M. W Softball v. Buffalo

24TH, SAT.12:00 P.M. M Tennis v. Princeton

1:00 P.M. W Lacrosse v. Harvard

29TH, THUR.2:00 P.M. W Softball v. Fordham(2)