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wellesley hosts mathematics conference this week Wellesley’s Mathematics Department will host the Fall Meeting of the Northeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America Nov. 21-22 in the Science Center. “We expect 150 to 200 participants from schools all over New England,” said
Ann Trenk, Wellesley mathematics professor and local arrangements chair. “We
have brought students to the conference for several years and they have enjoyed
the experience of attending a mathematics conference as well as meeting mathematics
majors and faculty from all over New England.” Held at a different school each fall and spring, the conference provides an opportunity for mathematicians to hear talks on current research, innovative teaching techniques and mathematics in the real world. It includes a session for student papers, to which Wellesley students may contribute. A session called “New Colleague Talks” allows faculty members in their first few years of teaching to give a talk that introduces them to the members of the section. One of the special events at this year’s conference is a workshop by Wellesley’s Mira Bernstein on “Exploring Four-Dimensional Geometry with Zometool.” “Zometool is a mathematical construction set whose ingenious design and versatility make it an ideal tool for exploring many aspects of three-dimensional geometry,” Bernstein said. “However, in this workshop our focus will be on the geometry not of three but of four dimensions.” Participants will use Zometool to construct 3D “shadows” (projections) of various four-dimensional shapes called polytopes. The centerpiece of the workshop will be a model of the truncated 120-cell—a beautiful, intricate structure about 6 feet in diameter built as a group effort by workshop participants. The workshop will run on a drop-in basis, and no prior experience is required. For more information, call x3140. film and lecture seek to illuminate bachata music If you have never heard of bachata, Wellesley’s Mezcla organization hopes to change all that. On Thursday, Nov. 20, from 7-9 pm in Collins Cinema, the group will present “Santo Domingo Blues: Los Tigres de la Bachata,” a film and lecture describing the struggle of bachata musicians to emerge from the margins of society. Tufts University sociology professor Deborah Pacini-Hernandez will provide a historical and social context to introduce the film and director Alex Wolfe will speak afterward. “Despite its nearly 80-year existence, bachata continues to be heavily stigmatized,” said Celeste Owens ’05, Mezcla lecture co-chair. Bachateros (bachata musicians) compose songs of bitterness that narrate lives greatly affected by political and economic policies of the Trujillo dictatorship and the Balaguer Era that followed the Dominican civil war of 1965, she explained. “Mezcla feels that the screening of Santo Domingo Blues and the accompanying lectures are essential to the understanding of an often overlooked society of Latin America,” said Owens, who hopes to “promote bachata as a legitimate form of cultural expression and foster an appreciation for Dominican culture and thereby multiculturalism here at Wellesley College.” Wolfe’s film was a hit at the 2003 New York Latino Film Festival, and Pacini-Hernandez is the author of Bachata: a Social History of a Dominican Popular Music. For more information, e-mail cowens@wellesley.edu. Wellesley’s Science Center will present the Brachman Hoffman Symposium Wednesday, Nov. 19. It includes a luncheon in Sage Lounge from 12:15-1 pm. Research presentations will be made in Science Center 278 from 1-2 pm by Brachman Hoffman Fellows Joanne Berger-Sweeney, biological sciences, and Panagiotis Metaxas, computer science. Sweeney’s talk is titled “Metastatic Melanomas and the Brain” while Metaxas will speak on “Faster Printers, Larger Monitors; Applications of Parallel Processing.” The fellowship was endowed by Marilyn Brachman Hoffman ’52 to recognize the value of basic research to advance knowledge and to affect the intellectual climate of the community. For more information, call x3000. wellesley student studies marine biology on the cape Marissa Sue ’05 is spending the fall semester studying environmental science at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. An environmental science major, Sue is one of 18 students enrolled in the Semester in Environmental Science (SES) program. The SES program
is sponsored by The Ecosystems Center, the MBL’s
ecological research arm. Under the instruction of the Center’s
scientists, Sue and her classmates are studying aquatic and terrestrial
ecosystems science with some of the world’s experts on the
subject, and attending lectures on topics such as biogeochemistry,
ecosystems
modeling and global change. They are also participating in a science
writing workshop taught by professional science journalists and a
seminar series that features prominent research SES students spend a significant amount of time in the laboratory and field—20 hours each week—investigating forests, ponds and estuaries on Cape Cod. Students then apply what they’ve learned in the classroom through their own independent research projects at local field sites. Sue and her classmates will present their findings to the Woods Hole scientific community Dec. 15. For more information, go to http://courses.mbl.edu/SES/. museum offers two free open class sessions Two open class sessions will be sponsored by the Davis Museum Thursday, Nov. 20. At 9:50 am in the Chandler/Bronfman Gallery, “Politics of Art and Memory in Post WWII Germany” will be presented by Corinna Treitel, history. The class is part of the history course “The First World War and the Making of Modern Europe.” At 11:10 am in the gallery on the second level of the museum, Lilian Armstrong, art, will present “Illuminating Time: Books of Hours in Wellesley College Collections,” part of the art history course, “The Beautiful Book: Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination in France and Italy.” Armstrong and her class will explore the components of Books of Hours in the exhibition Illuminating Time. Open class sessions are interdisciplinary classes taught by Wellesley faculty and are held in museum galleries using works of art as visual resource materials. These sessions offer free educational opportunities for the public and anyone interested in lifelong learning while providing stimulating curricular-related programs for students. No registration is required. All open class sessions run for 70 minutes. marjorie agosin, Spanish, spoke at Williams College as part of Latino Heritage Month. She discussed “At the Threshold of Memory: Human Rights in Latin America” and “A Cross and a Star: Jewish Women Writers in Latin America.” A poet and human-rights activist, Agosin read from her work and noted ways in which human rights have defined both the arts and political and social identities in the 20th and 21st centuries. Her talk focused on the transformations brought about by human-rights movements within the new democracies of Latin America. shona kerr, head coach, squash team, represented Boston’s “A” team in the Women’s Howe Cup in Seattle. The Howe Cup is the premiere U.S. Women’s Team competition and features teams from across the country. Kerr was the only college coach to compete in the late October tournament. Kerr teamed with Jeannie Blasberg, Sue Rafuse, Wendy Ansdell and Orla O’Doherty to reclaim the Howe Cup Trophy. In the 2002 Women’s Howe Cup, Boston’s “A” team fell in the trophy game by just one point. pamela seigle and jim vetter, Open Circle Program, Stone Center, presented “A National Call to Character: Capitalizing on Our Strengths” at the Character Education Partnership 10th National Forum. Their session, “Building Relationships, Teaching Skills: Strategies from the Open Circle Program,” focused on the importance of combining social skills instruction with fostering cooperative classroom and school communities to enable students to develop emotionally, ethically and academically. Jefferson Elementary School in Franklin, Mass., received a “Promising Practices” citation for using Open Circle approaches to integrate social development into their after school program at the Forum. info session. “Financial Aid for Study Abroad.” Speaker: Sylvia Hiestand. 12:30 pm, GRH 338. Sponsor: International Studies. Info: x2320. lecture. “Who Is Our New Dean of Students?” Speaker: Kimberly Goff-Crews. 12:30-1:30 pm, Severance Living Room. Sponsor: Phi Sigma Lecture Society. Info: cgomesca@wellesley.edu. lecture. “Using Nature’s Tools to Design Novel Hybrid Nanostructured Materials.” Speaker: Angela Belcher, materials science and engineering and bioengineering, MIT. 12:30 pm, SCI 278. Sponsor: Chemistry. Info: x3097. cws info session. “Summer 2004 Internships.” 4:30 pm, Library Lecture Room. Info: x2352. cws workshop. “Effective Networking.” 7 pm, Pendleton West 116. Preregister. Info: x2480. meditation. 7:30-9 pm, Buddhist meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793. meeting. Amnesty International. 8 pm, Café Hoop. Info: x1787. tuesday november 18 cws workshop. “Job Search Correspondence.” 4:30 pm, PNW 212. Preregister. Info: x2352. unitarian universalist meeting. 5-7 pm, Little Chapel. Info: x3484. film. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Part of “American Film and the Varieties of Patriotic Experience” series. 6:30 pm, PNE 239. Sponsors: Sociology, American Studies. Info: x2142. cws meeting. “Polishing Your Interviewing Skills: A Toastmasters Discussion.” 6:30 pm, Green Hall 130. Info: x2352. cws info session. “Lumpkin Summer Institute for Service Learning 2004 – Internship.” 7 pm, PNW 117. Info: x2352. blood drive. 10 am-3 pm, Alumnae Hall Ballroom. Sponsor: CWS. Info: x2352. president’s open office hour. 12:30-1:30 pm, Green 350. Info: x2243. spanish table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Tower Court Private Dining Room. Info: x3571. russian table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Russian Dept. Lounge, FND, 4th Floor. Info: x3549. cws workshop. “Second Interview.” 12:30 pm, Green 330. Preregister. Info: x2352. meeting. “Disability Discussion.” 12:30-1:30 pm, Founders 305. Info: x2434. symposium. Speakers: Brachman Hoffman Fellows Joanne Berger-Sweeney, biological sciences, on “Metastatic Melanomas and the Brain,” and Panagiotis Metaxas, computer science, on “Faster Printers, Larger Monitors; Applications of Parallel Processing.” 1-2 pm, SCI 277. (See story, above.) Info: x3000. afternoon tea. 3:30-5:30 pm, College Club. Cost, reservations: x2700. sustaining prayer. 1-2 pm. Billings 202. Sponsor: Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. Info: x2655. meditation. 7:30-9 pm, Buddhist meditation room, Lower Chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793. thursday
november 20 seminar. “Sleep, Memory and the Hippocampus.” Speaker: Matthew Wilson, MIT. 9:50-11 am, SCI 377. Sponsor: Biology. Info: x3153. open class. “Politics of Art and Memory in Post-WWII Germany.” Speaker: Corinna Treitel, history. 9:50 am, Chandler/Bronfman Gallery, DMCC. (See story, above.) Info: x2626. open class. “Illuminating Time: Books of Hours in Wellesley College Collections.” Speaker: Lilian Armstrong, art. 11:10 am, 2nd Level, Davis Museum. Sponsor: DMCC. (See story, above.) Info: x3552. lecture. "SHARIA: What Islamic Law Means for African Nations." Speaker: Christina Jones-Pauly, Harvard University. 12:30-1:20 pm, Pendleton Atrium. Sponsors: WASA, Harambee House. Info: cnnaemek@wellesley.edu. poetry reading. Poetry by Gerhard Altenbourg. Speaker: Jens Kruse, German. (In German.) 12:30-1:15 pm, Chandler/Bronfman Gallery, DMCC. Info: x2065. japanese table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Severance Conference Room. Info: x4442. cws info session. “Internships in Africa Summer 2004.” 4:30 pm, PNE 239. Info: x2352. english tutoring. 6-8 pm. PLTC Small Conference Room. Info: x2480. bible study. 7-8 pm; worship services, 8-9 pm, Little Chapel. Sponsor: Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. Info: x2655. math conference. Science Center. (See story, page 1.) Info: x3140. muslim prayer. 12:30-2 pm. Muslim Prayer Room, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Al-Muslimat. Info: x2656. concert. Prism Jazz. Jason Hunter, director. 7 pm, Tower Great Hall. Sponsor: Music. Info: x2028. dance performance. “Human Nature.” 7-8 pm, Jewett Auditorium. Sponsor: Dance Collective. Info: x7897. saturday
november 22 math conference. Science Center. (See story, above.) Info: x3140. concert. Wellesley-Brandeis Orchestra. Neal Hampton, conductor. 8 pm, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Music. Info: x2028. poetry reading. “Untyped.” 8 pm, Schneider. Sponsors GenerAsians, Ethos Woman. (See story, below.) Info: untyped@wellesley.edu. worship services. 11:15-12:30 pm, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. Info: x2655. catholic mass. 4 pm, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Religious Life. Info: x2688. concert. Chamber Music Society. Nancy Cirillo, Isabelle Plaster, directors. 7 pm, Jewett. Sponsor: Music. Info: x2028. study
break. "International Living: Alumnae Experiences
Studying and Living Abroad." 7-9 pm, Munger Living Room.
Sponsor: ACCESS. Info: x7803. administrative council. 11 am, Academic Council Room, GRH. english tutoring. 6-9 pm, PLTC Small Conference Room. Info: x2480. meditation. 7:30-9 pm, Buddhist meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793. meeting. Amnesty International. 8 pm, Café Hoop. Info: x1787. exhibit. One Hundred Years Ago: The Class of 1904. Archives,Clapp Library. Info: x2127. exhibit. Flower Portraits. Botanic Gardens Visitor Center. Info: x3094. exhibit. Chongquing Chilis. Jewett Arts Center Gallery. Through Dec. 10. Info: x2051. exhibits. Print Study Corridor; Reinstallation of the Permanent Collection; Two and One: Printmaking in Germany; Illuminating Time: Books of Hours from the Wellesley College Collections, through Feb. 8. Recent Acquisitions: Contemporary Art, through Feb. 15. Dancing Cranes, through Feb. 15. DMCC. Info: x2051. book sale. Clapp Library, reading room, main floor. Donations: 50 cents-$2. Info: x2894.
‘untyped’ poetry event celebrates diversity through the spoken word “Untyped” is an annual collaborative project sponsored by GenerAsians, the Asian/ Asian American magazine, and Ethos Woman, the literary magazine of Ethos, the association of black students. The event celebrates diversity through spoken word and poetry readings. “Untyped” will be presented this year on Saturday, Nov. 22, at 8 pm in Schneider Student Center. The poetry event aims to provide students with the opportunity to display their creativity and talent while finding inspiration from those who have established themselves in the arts. The sponsors hope the event will also serve an educational role on campus by dispelling stereotypes through literary expression. This year’s event will feature spoken word poetry by Yellow Rage and Giles Li as well as student artists presenting original works. For more information, e-mail untyped@wellesley.edu.
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