Mark your calendar for these upcoming events, beginning 10/9/20
October 8, 2020
Tomorrow @ Baruch…
Friday, October 9
9:00 AM-10:30 AM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Zoom Your Way! Zoom Hacks and Shortcuts for ease of use in the Classroom, host, Catherine Kawalek, Center for Teaching and Learning
Review of Zoom functions to make teaching and learning rewarding. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.
Kindly register in advance HERE.
9:00 AM-9:00 PM
Yael Weiss: 32 Bright Clouds, performer, Yael Weiss
32 BRIGHT CLOUDS: BEETHOVEN CONVERSATIONS AROUND THE WORLD is a global music-commissioning, performing, and recording project. Curated and performed by pianist Yael Weiss, this groundbreaking project commissions new works from thirty-two countries of conflict and secluded areas spanning the globe, all united through musical themes from Beethoven. 32 Bright Clouds aims to harness music’s great power for unity and peace. This event is sponsored by the Baruch Performing Arts Center (BPAC) and the Aaron and Freda Silberman Recital Series. This event will run from October 1-18. For more information click here.
RSVP required: https://ci.ovationtix.com/1091/production/1031673
Coming next week…
Tuesday, October 13
12:15 PM-1:45 PM
DELTA Seminar Series: Faculty “Brown Bag,” presenters, Ivan Montiel and Elena Vidal, Baruch College
Please join us for a developmental virtual “brownbag” featuring two current research projects from Baruch faculty. Associate Professor Ivan Montiel will present, “Should I stay or should I go? Theorizing on private standard decertification,” and Assistant Professor Elena Vidal will present, “Divestitures and New Product Development: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry.” Sponsored by the Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management. For a list of all upcoming DELTA Seminars click here.
EMAIL: Lauren Aydinliyim for Zoom link
Wednesday, October 14
12:30 PM-2:00PM
The Information System and Statistics Research Seminar Series, presenter, Simon Mak, Duke University
Professor Simon Mak will present his research on “A Hierarchical Expected Improvement Method for Bayesian Optimization.” Abstract: The Expected Improvement (EI) method, proposed by Jones et al. (1998), is a widely-used Bayesian optimization method which makes use of a Gaussian process surrogate model. However, one drawback of EI is that it is overly greedy in exploiting the fitted model for optimization, which results in suboptimal solutions even for large sample sizes. To address this, we propose a new hierarchical EI (HEI) framework, which makes use of a hierarchical Gaussian process model. HEI preserves a closed-form acquisition function and corrects the over-greediness of EI by encouraging exploration of the optimization space. Under certain prior specifications, we prove the global convergence of HEI over a broad function space, and derive global convergence rates under smoothness assumptions. Sponsored by the Paul H. Chook Department of Information System and Statistics. For more information, contact Prof. Zeda Li.
ZOOM LINK: https://baruch.zoom.us/j/3601957288
MEETING ID:360 195 7288
PASSWORD: fall2020
Thursday, October 15
11:00 AM-12:00 AM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Transition to Distance Learning: Weekly Check-in, hosts, Tamara Gubernat and Seth Graves, Center for Teaching and Learning
This weekly check-in session is an opportunity to connect with colleagues: to celebrate successes and collectively work through any challenges that may arise.. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.
Kindly register in advance HERE.
12:30 PM-2:00PM
Weissman Center for International Business Seminar, presenter, Aseem Kaul, Carlson School of Management, Minnesota University
Associate Professor of Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship, Aseem Kaul, will present his paper, “Follow the Smoke: The Pollution Haven Hypothesis in Global Sourcing.” To request a copy of the paper in advance, contact Ruthy Gascot at the Weissman Center.
ZOOM LINK: https://baruch.zoom.us/j/88169962065
MEETING ID: 881 6996 2065
PASSCODE: 468519
6:00 PM-7:00PM
Zotero Workshop, host, Prof. Joseph Hartnett, Newman Library
This workshop provides a hands on introduction to Zotero, a free open-source, bibliographic citation management tool that allows you to collect, store and organize information as you research, and to rapidly generate citations and bibliographies with your word processor in a variety of styles as you write. You will learn to install Zotero, capture items into your personal library, generate in text citation and bibliographies, sync to the cloud and utilize many of the software’s functions. General Note: This virtual Zotero workshop will be held online via ZOOM. After you register, you will receive a unique link to join the session on ZOOM the day of before the session.
REGISTER HERE.
Looking Forward…
Friday, October 23
12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Natural Sciences Faculty Seminar Series, presenter, Mason Wolak, Acting Head of the Nanomaterials Section, United States Naval Research Laboratory
Dr. Mason Wolak will present on “Cellular Tracking and Drug Screening for SARS-CoV-2 Using Quantum Dot-Spike Conjugated Pseudo-Virions.” He and his collaborators, Eunkeu Oh, Kimihiro Susumu (US Naval Research Laboratory – NRL) and Kirill Gorshkov (National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences – NCATS), are developing tools to study and treat SARS-CoV-2. Faculty and students invited to attend.
EMAIL: Rebecca Spokony for Zoom link
To submit an event for the Office of the Associate Provost’s weekly email, please click here. Events must be submitted by noon on Wednesday of the week before the event takes place.