Readings/Lectures/Showings
April 2006
NSWA Events Calendar
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Monday, April 3, 7 p.m.:
Epidemiologist Chris Spitters lectures on “TB, HIV and Malaria.” Spitters is clinical assistant professor of epidemiology at the UW Schools of Medicine and Public Health and Community Medicine, as well as a contractor for Public Health Services, Seattle. This lecture is part of the Global Health Issues Lecture Series, offered by UW Extension in partnership with the Global Health Resource Center and the Frameworks in Global Health Program. Cost is $20 for individual lectures. For registration information: http://www.extension.washington.edu/ext/special/globalhealth/default.asp#register
Tuesday, April 4, 4 p.m.:
Dr. Martin Wikelski, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University, presents “Going Wild: Biotelemetry Allows Experimental Approaches in Small-Animal Migration.” Presented by UW Department of Biology at Physics-Astronomy Building A102. http://protist.biology.washington.edu/bio2/news/seminars/
Tuesday, April 4, 6:30 p.m.:
Professor Tamar Katriel presents “On Cultural Ways of Speaking” for the Walker-Ames Lecture Series. By drawing on ethnographic studies of ways of speaking, the talk will demonstrate how the exploration of speech patterns serves as a form of cultural inquiry. Co-sponsored by the UW Graduate School, Department of Communication, Department of Anthropology, Linguistics Department, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, College of Education, Department of English. Free admission, no ticket required. UW Kane Hall 110.
http://www.bookstore.washington.edu
Tuesday, April 4, 7 p.m.:
The Science Fiction Museum presents an evening with Ray Harryhausen, one of the greatest stop-motion animators in film history. His handiwork is on display in films ranging from “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms” to “One Million Years B.C.” and “Clash of the Titans.” In 1992 Harryhausen was presented with an honorary Academy Award for his work. After a film montage, Harryhausen will talk about his work and answer questions from the audience. Presented by the Science Fiction Museum, at the JBL Theater in the Experience Music Project, 325 Fifth Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109. For ticket information:
Wednesday, April 5, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m.:
People for Puget Sound presents “Forum: Toxics in Puget Sound,” a daylong forum focusing on toxic contamination of Puget Sound. Topics range from storm water and air pollution and contamination of the food chain, to environmental justice and the implications for the economy and industry. Tickets range from $45 to $60. For details, call 206-382-7007 or visit:
Wednesday, April 5, 7 p.m.:
Peter Ross and Robert Duff speak about toxins in the mammals of Puget Sound - orcas, seals and humans. Ross is a marine mammal toxicologist at the Institute of Ocean Sciences in Canada, whose research concerns PCBs and flame-retardant chemicals in the sea mammals of Puget Sound. Duff is the director of environmental health assessments for Washington state's Department of Health and a leader in reducing the impacts of persistent bio-accumulative toxins on human health and the environment. Presented by People for Puget Sound. Tickets are $10/$15 at the door; advanced ticketing is recommended. Free child care offered beginning at 5:30 p.m. For details, call 206-382-7007 or visit:
Thursday, April 6, 11 a.m.:
Jon Honea presents Monster Seminar Jam on the “Effect of Salmon Spawning on Seasonal Changes in Structure and Function of Stream Macroinvertebrate Communities.” Honea teaches at the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, NOAA Fisheries and University of Washington. NorthWest Fisheries Science Center, 2725 Montlake Blvd. E., Auditorium. http://www.fish.washington.edu/news/fishline/fishline.html
Thursday, April 6, 1-2:30 p.m. and 3-4:30 p.m.:
Take advantage of free First Thursday to explore the Washington plant collection with an educator in the Biodiversity Lab at the University of Washington Burke Museum. http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/events/index.php
Thursday, April 6, 1:30 p.m.:
Jan Newton of the UW Applied Physics Laboratory discusses “Climate and Puget Sound/Hood Canal Oceanography.” CIG Conference Room, second floor of Lisa Li Building, 4909 25th Ave. NE, Seattle. Directions: http://www.cses.washington.edu/about/directions.shtml
Thursday, April 6, 3:30 p.m.:
Yoky Matsuoka of Carnegie Mellon University discusses “Neurobotics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding and Assisting Humans.” University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering. EE-105 Colloquium.
http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis/Colloquia
Thursday, April 6, 4 p.m.:
Ann Tarrant, postdoctoral fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, discusses “Comparative Approaches to Characterizing Nuclear Receptor Signaling in Aquatic Animals.” School of Aquatic Fisheries and Sciences, 120 Fishery Sciences (Auditorium). http://fish.washington.edu/seminars/
Thursday, April 6, 7 p.m.:
Rockfish expert Milton Love shares life, loves, photos and stories of deep water denizens in “Reefer Madness: Tails of Rockfish of the Pacific Coast.” Love is the author of Probably More Than You Want to Know About Fishes of the Pacific Coast and co-author of The Rockfishes of the Northeast Pacific. The event is sponsored by People for Puget Sound. REI Flagship Store, 222 Yale Ave. N., Seattle. Event cost: Admission $8 in advance; $10 at the door. $2 discount for students.
Thursday, April 6, 7 p.m.:
Local author William Calvin is presented with this year’s Walter P. Kistler Book Award at a ceremony that is open to the public and will include a lecture by the author, Q&A, and book signing. Calvin's recent work is titled A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change. The Walter P. Kistler Book Award is named for the originator of the award program and benefactor of the Foundation for the Future. Ceremony at Kane Hall 130, UW.
http://www.futurefoundation.org
Monday, April 10, 4 p.m.:
Maureen Purcell, research scientist at the USGS Western Fisheries Research Center, discusses “Genomic Approaches for Understanding the Aquatic Host-Pathogen Relationship.” School of Aquatic Fisheries and Sciences, 120 Fishery Sciences (Auditorium), UW.
http://fish.washington.edu/seminars/
Tuesday, April 11, 12:30 p.m.:
Phillip B. Messersmith of Northwestern University’s biomedical engineering department gives a talk on “Mussel Adhesive Proteins: Adhesive Mechanisms and Synthetic Polymer Mimics for Prevention of Biofouling.” UW Center for Nanotechnology. Bagley Hall, Room 260.
http://www.nano.washington.edu/seminars/seminars.asp
Tuesday, April 11, 3:30 p.m.:
John Arthur of the University of Pennsylvania discusses “Neuromorphic VLSI for Learning and Memory.” University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering. EE-105 Colloquium.
http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis/Colloquia
Wednesday, April 12, 8 a.m.- 5 p.m.:
The “Stewardship and Restoration of Coastal Rivers Conference” focuses on emerging policy issues, current understanding of coastal rivers as ecological systems and scientific challenges for the next decade. Seattle Museum of History and Industry, 2700 24th Ave. E. $35 for students, $70 for professionals. For more information on the conference and to register:
http://fish.washington.edu/crrc
Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 8 p.m.-Midnight:
“Yuri’s Night '06: World Space Party.” This worldwide event celebrates space and global cooperation on the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic spaceflight as well as the first flight of the space shuttle. Yuri’s Night at the Museum of Flight features live music by Boy Eats Drum Machine, m.0, Optimus Rhyme, Plan B and KJ Sawka. Attendees can also enjoy films, science displays and presentations by special guests, including former astronaut Bonnie Dunbar and Stardust principal investigator Don Brownlee. Ticket prices are $25 per person in advance on Ticketweb beginning in mid-March, or $30 at the door.
http://www.museumofflight.org | http://www.ticketweb.com | http://www.yurisnight.com
Thursday, April 13, 1:30 p.m.:
Bryan Black of the Oregon State University Cooperative Institute for Marine Resource Studies presents a talk on “Pacific Rockfish, Tree Rings and Climate-Driven Linkages Between Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems.” CIG Conference Room (2nd Floor, Lisa Li Building), 4909 25th Ave. NE, Seattle. http://www.cses.washington.edu/cig/outreach/seminars.shtml
Thursday, April 13, 3:30 p.m.:
Svetlana Labeznik of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign presents “Local, Semi-Local and Global Models for Texture, Object and Scene Recognition.” UW Computer Science and Engineering. EE-105 Colloquium. http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis/Colloquia
Thursday, April 13, 4 p.m.:
Steven Roberts, assistant research scientist at Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, discusses “How Bivalves Deal with Change: Developmental and Environmental Responses.” School of Aquatic Fisheries and Sciences, 120 Fishery Sciences (Auditorium). http://fish.washington.edu/seminars
Thursday, April 13, 7:30 p.m.:
Australian scientist Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth, explains the differences between the terms climate change and global warming and discusses the way changes in our weather point to a looming environmental crisis. Part of the Seattle Science Lectures, sponsored by University Book Store, Town Hall Seattle, the Pacific Science Center and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Admission is $5 at the door. Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. http://www.townhallseattle.org
Monday, April 17, 4 p.m.:
Dr. Amro Hamdoun, National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, presents “The Cellular Toolkit for Development in Real-World Environments: How Embryos Keep Toxicants Out.” School of Aquatic Fisheries and Sciences, 120 Fishery Sciences (Auditorium). http://fish.washington.edu/seminars
Monday, April 17, 7 p.m.:
Roger Rosenblatt, professor and vice chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the UW School of Medicine and director of the Rural/Underserved Opportunities Program, discusses “Global Ecology and Environmental Health Issues.” This lecture is part of the Global Health Issues Lecture Series, offered by UW Extension in partnership with the Global Health Resource Center and the Frameworks in Global Health Program. The cost is $20 for the individual lectures. For more information and registration information, visit: http://www.extension.washington.edu/ext/special/globalhealth/default.asp#register
Tuesday, April 18, 4 p.m.:
Dr. Spencer Barrett, professor of botany at the University of Toronto, discusses the evolution of combined vs. separate sexes in flowering plants. M.F. Denton Lecture. Presented by the UW Department of Biology. Physics-Astronomy Building A102. http://protist.biology.washington.edu/bio2/news/seminars
Tuesday, April 18, 7:30 p.m.:
Seattle Science Lecture features Joel R. Primack, one of the world's leading cosmologists. With Nancy Ellen Abrams, he has written The View From the Center of the Universe, a work that presents new ways of understanding the universe without math or jargon. Downstairs at Town Hall, enter on Seneca Street. Tickets $5. http://www.townhallseattle.org
Thursday, April 20, 1:30 p.m.:
Greg Jones, associate professor at Southern Oregon University, discusses “Impacts of Climate Change on Pacific Northwest Wines.” CIG Conference Room (2nd Floor, Lisa Li Building), 4909 25th Ave. NE, Seattle. http://www.cses.washington.edu/cig/outreach/seminars.shtml
Thursday, April 20, 4 p.m.:
Kevin Fielman, PISCO postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Santa Barbara, presents “Linking Biogeography and Larval Thermotolerance in Sea Urchins Using a Functional Genomics Approach.” School of Aquatic Fisheries and Sciences, 120 Fishery Sciences (Auditorium).
http://fish.washington.edu/seminars
Monday, April 24, 7 p.m.:
Science on Tap presents Beverly Pierson, professor emerita of biology at the University of Puget Sound, speaking on “Extreme Life: Creatures That Breach the Barriers to Our Existence.”
Monday, April 24, 7 p.m.:
Professor Stephen Pacala of Princeton University speaks on “Solving the Carbon and Climate Problem With Technology Available Today.” This is a free public lecture sponsored by the UW Program for Climate Change. 120 Kane Hall, UW. http://depts.washington.edu/uwpcc/ourprog/Pacala_lecture.html
Monday, April 24, 7: p.m.:
Steve Bezruchka, senior lecturer at the UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine, discusses “Structural Violence, Globalization and Dreams.” This lecture is part of the Global Health Issues Lecture Series, offered by UW Extension in partnership with the Global Health Resource Center and the Frameworks in Global Health Program. The cost is $20 for the individual lectures. For more information and registration information, visit:
http://www.extension.washington.edu/ext/special/globalhealth/default.asp#register
Tuesday, April 25, 12:30 p.m.:
Professor Shouheng Sun of Brown University’s Department of Chemistry discusses “Monodisperse Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications.” UW Center for Nanotechnology. Bagley Hall, Room 260. http://www.nano.washington.edu/seminars/seminars.asp
Tuesday, April 25, 7:30 p.m.:
Author Peter Matthiessen concludes the Seattle Arts and Lecture Series. Matthiessen is one of the foremost naturalists and novelists at work today, still writing and traveling after more than 50 years of work in the world. He is the author of such novels as At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Far Tortuga, and Killing Mr. Watson, and such nonfiction works as The Snow Leopard, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, The Birds of Heaven and, most recently, End of Earth. Benaroya Hall. For tickets and information, call 206-621-2230 or visit:
Wednesday, April 26, 4 p.m.:
Eric Davidson, professor of cell biology at the California Institute of Technology, discusses “The Genomic Program for Embryonic Development: A Gene Regulatory Network Analysis of Embryogenesis in the Sea Urchin.” Presented by UW Department of Biology at Physics-Astronomy Building A102. http://protist.biology.washington.edu/bio2/news/seminars
Wednesday, April 26, 7:30 p.m.:
“Talk of the Times: Intelligent Design vs. Evolution.” The debate about whether to teach intelligent design in public schools has dominated headlines during the last year. The Seattle-based Discovery Institute has led a national effort to promote the teaching of intelligent design, while most scientists and academics see intelligent design as a threat to rigorous science education. What is really at stake and why has this suddenly become such a hot topic? David Postman, political reporter for The Seattle Times, interviews Peter Ward, UW professor of geological sciences; and Stephen Meyer, director of the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute, followed by audience Q&A. Presented with The Seattle Times. Downstairs at Town Hall, enter on Seneca Street. Tickets, $5.
http://www.townhallseattle.org
Thursday, April 27, 2006, 11 am-12:30 pm
Jacquelynne R. King of the Pacific Biological Station, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, presents Monster Seminar JAM: “Putting It All Together: Building an Ecosystem-Based Management Framework.” NWFSC Auditorium, 2725 Montlake Blvd. E.
http://www.fish.washington.edu/news/fishline/fishline.html
Thursday, April 27, 1:30 p.m.:
Anthony Leiserowitz of the University of Oregon presents “Public Perceptions of Climate Change Science.” CIG Conference Room (2nd Floor, Lisa Li Building), 4909 25th Ave. NE, Seattle.
http://www.cses.washington.edu/cig/outreach/seminars.shtml
Thursday, April 27 through Sunday, April 30, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.:
“Washington Weekend” at UW features open houses at various departments, including Engineering, Health Sciences, Earth and Space Sciences and the Quaternary Research Center. There are also tours of the Botany Greenhouse and the Medicinal Garden (Thursday). The UW Quaternary Research Center is hosting a spring meeting of researchers from around the Pacific Northwest who are interested in aspects of the region's Quaternary environments, history and processes. Check the Web site - there’s too much to list here!
http://www.washington.edu/alumni/weekend/index.html
Saturday, April 29, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.:
“Aerospace Design: The Art of Engineering from NASA’s Aeronautical Research Exhibit.” Explore the unique intersection of science, engineering and design that occurs within the test sections of NASA’s wind tunnels. Aerospace Design was jointly conceived by the Department of Architecture of The Art Institute of Chicago and NASA's Aerospace Technology Enterprise. The exhibit runs through Oct. 29. Exhibit is free with museum admission.
Saturday, April 29, 2-3:30 p.m.:
“NASA Wind Tunnel Research.” On the opening day of the “Aerospace Design” exhibit, Allen Kilgore presents a firsthand view of life with NASA's wind tunnels. Kilgore is the deputy director for experimental research services at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, but “tunnelmaster” would sum up his responsibilities more succinctly. The presentation is free with museum admission.
Monday, May 1, 7 p.m.:
Sally Stansfield of the Gates Foundation discusses “Health Metrics: How Can We Benchmark Health?” This lecture is part of the Global Health Issues Lecture Series, offered by UW Extension in partnership with the Global Health Resource Center and the Frameworks in Global Health Program. The cost is $20 for the individual lectures. For more information and registration information, visit: http://www.extension.washington.edu/ext/special/globalhealth/default.asp#register
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