lectures / readings / talks


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EESS Spring 11-12 Seminar Series: Kenneth G. Cassman

Wednesday, May 16, 2012.  12:15 PM.
Yang and Yamazaki Energy and Environmental Building, Room 111


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DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar: Daniel Ek

Wednesday, May 16, 2012.  4:30 PM.
NVIDIA Auditorium, Huang Engineering Center


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Ethics and War: "WAR: Ethical Challenges on the Horizon"

Wednesday, May 16, 2012.  04:30 PM.
Tresidder Memorial Union Oak Lounge (2nd Floor) Stanford, CA 94305, USA


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MediaX at Stanford - Spring Seminar Series

Ongoing every week from April 11, 2012 through June 6, 2012.  4:30 PM.
Peter Wallenberg Learning Theater, Wallenberg Hall (Bldg 160, Rm 124)



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"Age of Delirium" Film Screening

Wednesday, May 16, 2012.  6:30 PM.
Barnes/McDowell/Cranston room at the Fisher Conference Center in the Arrillaga Alumni Building.



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"When and how the marginal became central: Borderland complex in East Asian Buddhism"

Wednesday, May 16, 2012.  7:30 PM.
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center


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Award-Winning Teachers on Teaching Lecture Series

Thursday, May 17, 2012.  12:00 PM.
Hartley Conference Center Mitchell Earth Sciences Building


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World Without Hate featuring Rais Bhuiyan

Thursday, May 17, 2012.  12:00 PM.
Tresidder Cypress Lounge 459 Lagunita Drive Stanford, CA 94305


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Brown Bag Seminar (Kelly Brumley) and GES Town Hall Meeting

Thursday, May 17, 2012.  12:00 PM.
Geocorner 220


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E-IPER Weekly Seminar: Andy Gerhart

Thursday, May 17, 2012.  12:15 PM.
Huang Engineering Building, room 305


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Leading, Mobilizing and Funding the Reproductive Rights Movement for the 21st Century

Thursday, May 17, 2012.  3:30 PM.
Tresidder Memorial Union, West Oak, Second Floor


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Annual Boething Lecture 2012

Thursday, May 17, 2012.  4:00 PM.
Braun Auditorium, Mudd Chemistry Building, 333 Campus Dr.


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Boething Lecture with David Lindenmayer

Thursday, May 17, 2012.  4:00 PM.
Braun Auditorium, Mudd Chemistry Building


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Dr. Robert Lustig "Darwin, Diet, Disease, and Dollars" The Stanford Center on Longevity Distinguished Lecture, 2012

Thursday, May 17, 2012.  4:00 PM.
John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building, Koret-Taube Room (130)


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#Hashtagged: How Social Media are Revolutionizing the News.

Thursday, May 17, 2012.  4:15 PM.
Vidalakis Dining Room at Schwab Residential Center


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Reading & Signing with Former Senator Russ Feingold

Thursday, May 17, 2012.  6:00 PM.
Stanford Bookstore 519 Lasuen Mall (White Plaza) Main Level / Music Section


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Ethics@noon: Nora Engstrom (Stanford Law School) May 18, 2012

Friday, May 18, 2012.  12:00 PM.
This talk will be held in Bldg 200, Room 303. Note the change in location for the usual room. Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305, USA


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Paths to Sustainable Aquaculture

Friday, May 18, 2012.  12:00 PM.
Hopkins Marine Station, Monterey Boatworks Lecture Hall, Pacific Grove


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Nanoparticle based sensors for environmental contaminants

Friday, May 18, 2012.  12:15 PM.
Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building, 473 Via Ortega


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Transforming Stress, Transforming Lives - The HeartMath Solution Workshop

Friday, May 18, 2012.  1:30 PM.
Clark Center, Rm S361



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Can Science Determine Human Values?

Friday, May 18, 2012.  4:00 PM.
Cubberley Auditorium


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JUNOT DIAZ at Kieve Distinguished Speaker Lecture

Friday, May 18, 2012.  4:00 PM.
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center


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Patent Institutions Summit

Monday, May 21, 2012.  8:00 AM.
Paul Brest Hall, Munger Graduate Residences, Stanford Law School


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SCOPE Brown Bag Seminar: "Marketized Educational Reforms and the Politics of Advocacy" Presented by Janelle Scott

Monday, May 21, 2012.  12:00 PM.
CERAS (Center for Educational Research at Stanford) Room 100B (Located on the bottom floor)


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Stanford Woods Institute Environmental Forum with Naomi Oreskes

Monday, May 21, 2012.  12:00 PM.
GeoCorner Building 320, Room 105


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Symbolic Systems Program, M.S. Project Presentations

Monday, May 21, 2012.  12:15 PM.
460-126


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Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University

Monday, May 21, 2012.  4:15 PM.
Lane History Building 200 room 203


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SLAC Colloquium Series - Dumb Growth: The Transcontinental Railroads as Overgrowth

Monday, May 21, 2012.  4:15 PM.
Panofsky Auditorium - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory - 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025


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GES Department Seminar: Frieder Klein

Tuesday, May 22, 2012.  12:15 PM.
Geocorner 105


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Quantum Theory from Quantum Information? (What would Feynman say?)

Tuesday, May 22, 2012.  4:15 PM.
Hewlett Teaching Center, Rm. 201


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BioMed Entrepreneurship in Taiwan: a Stanford Connection

Tuesday, May 22, 2012.  4:15 PM.
Skilling Auditorium


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Maghrebi Studies Roundtable

Tuesday, May 22, 2012.  4:30 PM.
Stanford Humanities Center, Board Room


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The Real China Threat: Why Might We Need to Worry About a Stagnating China?

Tuesday, May 22, 2012.  05:00 PM.
Gunn-SIEPR Building Koret-Taube Conference Room 366 Galvez Street


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Ambassador Dennis Ross: “Chief Middle East Advisor to Three Presidents Reflects on Strategies to Peace”

Tuesday, May 22, 2012.  7:00 PM.
CEMEX Auditorium at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford



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EESS Spring 11-12 Seminar Series: Rafe Sagarin

Wednesday, May 23, 2012.  12:15 PM.
Yang and Yamazaki Energy and Environmental Building, Room 111



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DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar: Adam Lashinsky

Wednesday, May 23, 2012.  4:30 PM.
NVIDIA Auditorium, Huang Engineering Center


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Reading & Signing with Captain Chesley Sullenberger

Wednesday, May 23, 2012.  6:00 PM.
Stanford Bookstore 519 Lasuen Mall (White Plaza) Main Level / Music Section


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Alleviating Poverty through Venture Philanthropy

Wednesday, May 23, 2012.  6:00 PM.
Knight Management Center, Graduate School Of Business, Gunn Building Room 101


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"Terra Nova" Spring Architecture/Landscape Architecture lecture series

Wednesday, May 23, 2012.  6:30 PM.
Clark Center Auditorium


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A History of America in 15 Cars: Pulitzer Prize Winner Paul Ingrassia

Wednesday, May 23, 2012.  7:00 PM.
Automotive Innovation Facility


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Doug Oberhelman, Chairman & CEO of Caterpillar

Thursday, May 24, 2012.  12:00 PM.
CEMEX Auditorium Knight Management Center


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Geophysics Department Seminars: Alberto Ortega

Thursday, May 24, 2012.  12:15 PM.
Mitchell Building room 350/372


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“The English in Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade” a talk by Chris Brown

Thursday, May 24, 2012.  4:15 PM.
Lane History Corner, room 307


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"German Generations. The Anxiety of Belonging in Modern German History"

Thursday, May 24, 2012.  4:15 PM.
Pigott Hall (Bldg. 260), Room 252


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Arrow Lecture: Dani Rodrik (International Political Economy, Harvard)

Thursday, May 24, 2012.  5:30 PM.
Annenberg Auditorium, 435 Lasuen Mall


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“Baul Women in India and Bangladesh: Negotiating Contradictory Expectations.”

Thursday, May 24, 2012.  5:30 PM.
Building 70, Room 72A1


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Reading & Signing with Ava Farmer, aka Sandy Lerner

Thursday, May 24, 2012.  6:30 PM.
Stanford Bookstore 519 Lasuen Mall (White Plaza) Main Level / Music Section


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Ethics@noon: Sam Arnold (Center for Ethics in Society, Post Doctoral Fellow)

Friday, May 25, 2012.  12:00 PM.
Bldg 110, Room 112 (main quad) Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305, USA


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Restoring the Gulf of California: Ecosystem-Based Strategies to Save the Vaquita and Preserve Artisanal Fisheries

Friday, May 25, 2012.  12:00 PM.
Hopkins Marine Station, Monterey Boatworks Lecture Hall, Pacific Grove


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Rotavirus: Deposition, aggregation and inactivation kinetics

Friday, May 25, 2012.  12:15 PM.
Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building, 473 Via Ortega, Room 111


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GES Department Seminar: Scott Burns

Tuesday, May 29, 2012.  12:15 PM.
Geocorner 105



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Magnetic Field Line Reconnection of Flux Ropes

Tuesday, May 29, 2012.  4:15 PM.
Hewlett Teaching Center, Rm. 201


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TBA

Tuesday, May 29, 2012.  4:15 PM.
The Board Room, Stanford Humanities Center


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The 2012 U.S. Presidential Election and U.S. Foreign Policy

Tuesday, May 29, 2012.  4:30 PM.
Bechtel Conference Center Encina Hall 616 Serra Street


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EESS Spring 11-12 Seminar Series: David Battisti

Wednesday, May 30, 2012.  12:15 PM.
Yang and Yamazaki Energy and Environmental Building, Room 111


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DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar: Drew Houston

Wednesday, May 30, 2012.  4:30 PM.
NVIDIA Auditorium, Huang Engineering Center


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Emily Kopley: “The Waves as Lyric Poem”

Wednesday, May 30, 2012.  6:00 PM.
Stanford Humanities Center, Boardroom



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First Year Graduate Student Check-In

Thursday, May 31, 2012.  12:00 PM.
Geocorner 220


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Stanford Woods Institute Environmental Forum with Scott Doney

Thursday, May 31, 2012.  3:30 PM.
Bechtel Conference Room, Y2E2 Room 299


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Beatrice Yormark Distinguished Lecture: Anna Wienhard (Princeton)

Thursday, May 31, 2012.  4:15 PM.
Building 380, Room 380-W. (Tea before talk at 3:30pm in the second floor lounge, 382-T)


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Scientific Computing for Movies, Video Games and Virtual Surgery

Thursday, May 31, 2012.  4:15 PM.
Hewlett Teaching Center, Room 201


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Pegasus Physicians at Stanford: Medicine: Conundrums and Mysteries

Thursday, May 31, 2012.  5:30 PM.
Cantor Arts Center Auditorium


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Iranian Studies Lecture Series

Thursday, May 31, 2012.  06:30 PM.
Pigott Hall, Building 260, Room 113. Closest parking is at the Oval. Look for Lasuen Mall (located to your left, if facing Memorial Church).


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Café Scientifique — Brain Tissue Generation & the Genesis of Autism: Recent Breakthroughs

Thursday, May 31, 2012.  7:00 PM.
Stanford Blood Center 3373 Hillview Ave Palo Alto, CA 94304


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Apex Consumers and the Tapestry of Nature

Friday, June 1, 2012.  12:00 PM.
Hopkins Marine Station, Monterey Boatworks Lecture Hall, Pacific Grove


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To be announced

Friday, June 1, 2012.  12:15 PM.
Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building, 473 Via Ortega




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GES Department Seminar: David Schuster

Tuesday, June 5, 2012.  12:15 PM.
Geocorner 105


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Turkmenistan: Films of Velmurad Ovezov (1990s)

Tuesday, June 5, 2012.  7:00 PM.
Building 200, Room 30


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deLeeuw Memorial Lecture: Raviel Netz (Stanford)

Wednesday, June 6, 2012.  4:15 PM.
Building 380, Room 380-C. (Reception before talk at 3:15pm in the Math Courtyard)


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#OccupyArt: Immigration, Nation, and the Art of Occupation

Wednesday, June 6, 2012.  7:00 PM.
320-105


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Bio-X Seminar, Mapping genome-wide nucleosome dynamics

Thursday, June 7, 2012.  3:15 PM.
Clark Center Auditorium


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The Dawn of Personalized Medicine

Thursday, June 7, 2012.  7:00 PM.
Francis C. Arrillaga Alumni Center 326 Galvez Stanford University


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Saving Pristine Places

Friday, June 8, 2012.  12:00 PM.
Hopkins Marine Station, Monterey Boatworks Lecture Hall, Pacific Grove


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CANCELLED - Singing Doo-dah! A Performance with Stanford Continuing Studies

Tuesday, June 12, 2012.  7:30 PM.
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Stanford Breakfast Briefings

Wednesday, June 13, 2012.  7:30 AM.
Stanford Faculty Club 439 Lagunita Dr.


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9th Annual E-Commerce Best Practices Conference

Monday, June 18, 2012.  8:00 AM.
Stanford Law School


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Stanford Summer Theater Festival: The Films of Sam Shepard

Ongoing every week from July 9, 2012 through August 6, 2012.  7:00 PM.
Annenberg Auditorium, Cummings Art Building