Arts & Sciences Events

Marina Artuso, University of Syracuse, Title of Talk: New physics in charm and beauty decays: the LHCb perspective

Law Day introduces students to law school by providing a glimpse into the study of law, the life of a law student, and the law school admission process. Participants will have the opportunity to meet current law students, faculty, and W&M administrators.

Come listen to varying perspectives of the current immigration system and possible implications of comprehensive immigration reform.

Please join Africana Studies for the Africana Studies-Reves Center lecture by Fahad Bishara, Dept. of History, entitled, "The Most Enduring Obligation: Debt, Personhood, and Political Economy in Omani East Africa, c. 1800 - 1860."

Is it Possible to Build a Yelp or Wikipedia for Foreign Aid Projects? Brad Parks and Michael Tierney, AidData Center, William and Mary

Jillian Dempsey, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill presents "New Approaches to Probing Charge Transport Pathways in Solar Fuel Production Schemes"

"The Adventures of Transitioning from a Traditional Lecture to a more student-centered class"

The French & Francophone Studies Program announces its fourth annual student research conference: Fete de la Recherche, November 1, 2013.

Admission is free for everyone.

A collaboration between the William & Mary Chamber Winds and the student performers from the William & Mary Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance featuring the music from Igor Stravinsky's "Historie du Soldat."

Choreography by W&M Dance faculty Joan Gavaler, Leah Glenn and Denise Damon Wade. Performed by Orchesis dance company. This concert will also feature a reconstruction of THE WORD, a piece by world-renowned modern dance pioneer Paul Taylor.

The Sustainability Summit will bring together groups and departments across campus that are involved in environmental initiatives for a day of panels and workshops. This event will improve communication and foster new partnerships for a sustainable W&M.

Pi Delta Phi, the French Honor Society, invites its members to visit the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond on November 2nd, 11:30 am. Contact Prof. St. Clair to coordinate the carpool.

A collaboration between the William & Mary Chamber Winds and the student performers from the William & Mary Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance featuring the music from Igor Stravinsky's "Historie du Soldat."

Choreography by W&M Dance faculty Joan Gavaler, Leah Glenn and Denise Damon Wade. Performed by Orchesis dance company. This concert will also feature a reconstruction of THE WORD, a piece by world-renowned modern dance pioneer Paul Taylor.

Psi Chi presents: The Role of Culture in Psychological Science A talk by Dr. Joanna Schug Sunday, November 3rd, 5 pm in Tidewater B The talk will follow Psi Chi new member inductions. All are welcome! Food and refreshments will be provided.

Dancing is encouraged!

A public lecture entitled "Black Bottom of Modernity: Racial Imagination in Japanese Modernism" by Prof. Keiko Nitta, Rikkyo University

Please join us in celebrating the work of the first class of Catron Scholars. Brief presentations by the six Scholars will be followed by a reception.

Although most students have written response papers based on assigned readings, many do not have much experience with assignments requiring substantial outside research.

Goldwater Scholarships provide undergraduate tuition funding for excellent students who plan to go into careers in the sciences, math, and engineering. Sophomore and juniors are eligible to apply.

Using themes such as patriotism, home, freedom, bravery, loss, and hope, this program, performed by Carson Hudson and Amy Miller, is a compact and moving study of the catastrophe that overtook America in the 1860s. Free admission.

Dr. Regina Harrison, Professor of Spanish, Quechua and Comp. Lit. will give a talk titled "Cashing in on Culture: Indigenous Communities and Tourism"

Joint event with the Lemon Project and the William & Mary Chapter of the NAACP.

Learn more about the W&M Summer Study Abroad Program in Santiago de Compostela, Spain!

Having grown up in New York and now based in Beijing, Michael Cherney, photographer, calligrapher and book artist, combines photography with classical ink painting, viewing present day environment and landscape in China through the lens of art history.

A Personal Journey to Wellness

The Jefferson Program visits the state's capital twice a year to hear speakers on varied areas of public policy.

Come and view the New-Realism style paper-cut artworks that integrate traditional Chinese techniques with Western painting.

Geology brownbag talk with Ramon Cedeno and Jeffery Knox

Disaggregated Computation for Computer Graphics Turner Whitted

Andrew Trask '99, Patent Attorney at Williams & Connolly LLP, presents "From Lab Bench to Bench Trial: A Chemistry Major's Path to Patent Law"

Professor Han-Peter Plag of Old Dominion University will explore issues related to long-term forecasts of sea level.

"Morphogenesis: new players that play well with old ones in shaping the vertebrate body plan"

Nandini Trivedi, Ohio State University, Title of Talk: Probing quantum phase transitions

The College of William and Mary's Middle Eastern Music Ensemble, in concert with guest artist Amir ElSaffar, will perform Iraqi traditional and popular music, Middle Eastern classics and original music.

The W&M Law School's Black Law Students Association will present a symposium on "Race and the Law in America" on Saturday, Nov. 9. Panel 1, 9AM, The Socio-Historical Dimensions of Race and Law; Panel 2, 11AM, The Affirmative Action Debate. Free.

Earn W&M credit in GER and major-specific courses with a summer study abroad program. Apply today!

Max Hansen, University of Washington, Title of Talk: Three particles in a box: Mapping the finite-volume spectrum to the S-matrix

Learn more about the William & Mary summer program in Potsdam, Germany!

Join the Global Education Office in celebrating International Education Week & the Summer 2014 application launch! Find out about each W&M summer program, speak with former students and learn about scholarship opportunities! Lunch will be provided!

Dr. Charity Hudley will talk about her research on language and culture in Virginia Schools and her new book: We Do Language: English Language Variation in Secondary English Classrooms.

The program will help place students in legislative (and occasionally, executive) branch offices based on their political preference, though placements are dependent upon the needs of individual offices.

Faculty Only. Learn and share ideas on how to maximize your broadening participation/broader impact sections of grant proposals.

Professor John Dillery (University of Virginia) will lecture on "Atys, Adrastus and Croesus' Great Nemesis: Herodotus and Names."

Constitutional Conversations is the award-winning seven-month long examination of our nation's founding document.

The Gallery Players, a conductor-less chamber ensemble comprised of 16 string musicians and 1 clarinetist will be performing Vivaldi's Concerto alla Rustica, Brahms Clarinet Quintet, and Rounds for String Orchestra by David Diamond.

Geology brownbag talk with Ariel Deutsch

Title: Evolution of dispersal in heterogeneous environments

Victor Ryzhov, Northern Illinois University presents "Structure and Reactivity of Peptide Radical Ions Studied by Ion Spectroscopy and Ion-Molecule Reactions"

Mathematics Colloquium: Ji Li, University of Connecticut

Professor Jamie Dreier will give a colloquium talk to the philosophy department on Nov. 15 at 3:30 p.m. in James Blair Hall 205.

"In a Nutshell: Animal-mediated Dispersal of the Oaks"

John Howell, University of Rochester, Title of Talk: Entropy, Information and Compressive Sensing in the Quantum Domain

Art song recital by Ethan Roday, baritone with Judith Zwelling, piano.

Large and small group performances by members of the Appalachian Music Ensemble under the direction of Tripp Johnson.

This candlelight concert will feature the W&M Early Music Ensemble performing 18th-century chamber music in an 18th-century church. Directed by Professor Ruth Griffioen.

Title: Finite Element Method on Evolving Surfaces

Department of Music student recital.

Amy Nicholson, University of Maryland, Title of Talk:From cold atoms to QCD: what can we learn from correlator distributions?

Come meet with advisors from the Global Education Program Office to discuss your Study Abroad options and see what you have been missing!

Please join Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for a Brown Bag Lecture by Visiting Assistant Professor in GSWS, Victoria Castillo. Her talk will be on, "The Interpersonal Is Political: Gender and Anti-Imperialism in the Transnational Friendship of Vic

Come meet with advisors from the Global Education Program Office to discuss your Study Abroad options and see what you have been missing!

Title: A unifying mechanism for spontaneous, stimulus induced, and dynamic cell polarity

H. Thomas Watkins would share his stories, insights, and success in business. Please register online by going to: {{https://www.eventbrite.com/event/8654318299}}

"Re-vising is re-vision -- seeing your paper again. Revising is more than correcting spelling errors, it's finding clarity of thought. It could even be finding new thoughts you didn't have before you started the papers." The above quote from Wikibook.

Learn more about the W&M Summer Study Abroad Program in Goa, India!

Learn more about the W&M Summer Study Abroad Program in Florence, Italy!

This presentation "Rubbish!" is part of a project that engages with fashion, documentary and new media to address rubbish as the repressed underside of Chinese consumer culture in the post-socialist era.

Performance by the W&M Opera Workshop directed by Ryan Fletcher.

Lydia Davis is a former Man-Booker Prize winner for fiction. Author of seven books, her writing is known for its incisiveness. She can pack a big story within one page of prose. She even has stories that are one sentence long. Seriously.

La Cage Aux Folles Book by Harvey Fierstein Lyrics and Music by Jerry Herman Based on the play by Jean Poiret

Speaker: Edray Goins, Purdue. Title: From Klein's Platonic Solids to Kepler's Archimedean Solids: Elliptic Curves and Dessins d'Enfants

Cathy Murphy, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, presents "Biological Applications and Implications of Gold Nanoparticles"

Generalized Forchheimer Equations in Porous Media and Finite Element Approximation of Wave Equations

Professor Patrick Hatcher of Old Dominion University will explore recent advances in algae-to-biodiesel technology associated with the Virginia Coastal Energy Research Consortium (VCERC).

Swem Library welcomes W&M alumnus Steve Vogel ‘82, author and reporter for The Washington Post, to campus to discuss his new book, "Through the Perilous Fight: Six Weeks That Saved the Nation." Cocktail reception and book signing to follow presentation.

"The consequences of shape: non-uniform muscle dynamics in hollow, cylindrical muscular organs"

Olivier Pfister, University of Virginia, Title of Talk: The quantum optical frequency comb as a (really large) quantum computing register

Come and enjoy the Tea Ceremony at the Confucius Institute!

Fall Fashion Show Collaboration with several Asian Culture Student Groups: Korean-American Student Assoc., Japanese Culture Assoc., Chinese Student Org., Filipino-American Student Assoc., South-Asian Student Assoc.

On Friday, Nov. 22, the William & Mary Global Film Festival will launch its 2014 theme, "Journeys and Passages," with a double feature from Chilean director Sebastian Silva and starring Michael Cera.

Admission is free for everyone.

La Cage Aux Folles Book by Harvey Fierstein Lyrics and Music by Jerry Herman Based on the play by Jean Poiret

Please join the William & Mary Middle Eastern Music Ensemble and the Music of India Ensemble for an exciting evening of non-Western music. Savor the juxtaposition of the traditional maqams and ragas of two of the world's great classical musics. Free.

La Cage Aux Folles Book by Harvey Fierstein Lyrics and Music by Jerry Herman Based on the play by Jean Poiret

Performances by W&M students are judged by a panel of judges.

La Cage Aux Folles Book by Harvey Fierstein Lyrics and Music by Jerry Herman Based on the play by Jean Poiret

Concert featuring faculty and student jazz musicians.

Title: Evolutionarily Stable and Convergent Stable Dispersal Strategies

Learn more about the W&M Summer Study Abroad Program in Antigua!

Please join the Department of Music for a Music in American Culture Series lecture addressing the historical connections, contradictions, and continuing dialogue between the music of India and the jazz tradition.

Jefferson Lab offers paid summer internships! You can work alongside scientists on exciting projects. A Jefferson Lab representative will highlight opportunities. Hear from a William & Mary J-Lab intern as well.

This performance will consist of jazz standards by Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Herbie Hancock, among others. Free admission.

A joint concert by the Percussion Ensemble directed by John Lindberg and the Woodwind Ensemble directed by Patti Carlson.

Qian Si will defend her dissertation -Enhancement of Mass Spectra Signal Processing for Improved Cancer BioMarker Discovery.