Lectures
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Immigration of European Highly Skilled Workers to Germany: Intra-EU Brain Circulation or Brain Drain/Gain?
Lecture | January 25 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Céline Teney, University of Bremen, Germany
Institute of European Studies, GHI West - The Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington DC
Based on a unique representative survey and semi-structured interviews of non-German EU physicians working in Germany, Céline Teney will investigate whether intra-EU highly skilled immigrants who exert a profession suffering from an acute EU labour shortage constitute the manifestation of an integrated European labour market – conceptualized as brain circulation – or whether they contribute to... More >
Photobears: Nanoscribe Seminar: 3D printing by two-photon polymerization sets new standards in micro- and nanofabrication
Lecture | January 25 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | Cory Hall, 400 Hughes Room
Dr. Benjamin Richter, Nanoscribe GmbH
The world’s fastest commercially available 3D printer with sub-micrometer resolution andare used to fabricate microstructures for numerous application areas such as photonics, cell biology, micromechanics, microoptics and microfluidics. With casting and molding techniques, the structures made of photo resist can be transferred into other materials like metals, silicon, ceramics or... More >
DiPerna Lecture: On the long-term dynamics of nonlinear dispersive evolution equations
Lecture | January 25 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall
Wilhelm Schlag, University of Chicago
We will give an overview of some of the developments in recent years dealing with the description of asymptotic states of solutions to semilinear evolution equations ("soliton resolution conjecture"). New results will be presented on damped subcritical Klein-Gordon equations, joint with Nicolas Burq and Genevieve Raugel.
Milton and the Syntax of Faith
Lecture | January 25 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 220 Geballe Room
Linda Gregerson, Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan
Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair in English, James D. Hart Chair in English
In Book 11 of the Confessions, Augustine attempts to contemplate the mystery of time and, in particular, the temporal embeddedness that makes human beings particularly unqualified to comprehend eternity...
Note: Gregerson will also be offering a poetry reading at 2pm in 300 Wheeler Hall on the 25th. More >
Linda Gregerson
Artist Talk with Anicka Yi: Sensing as Research
Lecture | January 25 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, Maude Fife Room, 3rd Floor
Anicka Yi
Artist Anicka Yi will talk about her work and artistic practice as it relates to synthetic biology, bio engineering, extinction, and bio fiction.
