Mark your calendar for these upcoming events, starting February 5
February 4, 2021
Tomorrow @ Baruch…
Friday, February 5
9:00 AM-10:00 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Zoom Your Way!, hosted by Catherine Kawalek, CTL
Learn Zoom hacks and shortcuts for ease of use in the classroom. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.
àKindly register in advance HERE.
12:00 PM-1:00 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Distance Learning: Weekly Check-in, hosted by Tamara Gubernat, CTL
How was the first week of your online semester? This weekly online 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/.
àKindly register in advance HERE.
Next week @ Baruch…
Monday, February 8
12:30 AM-2:00 PM
Weissman Center International Business Seminar Series, speaker, Timothy Devinney, University of Manchester
Professor Devinney is one of the most prolific writers and influential thinkers in the field of International Business. His work has appeared in leading journals in management and International Business. In the past he held positions at Chicago University, UCLA, Leeds University and several universities in Australia. He has been a visiting professor at universities around the world, and active member of international academic associations. You can learn more about his impressive background at https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/timothy.devinney.html. For more information, contact Lilac Nachum.
àZoom link: https://baruch.zoom.us/j/83662343712
Passcode: 866345
Thursday, February 11
12:30 PM-1:45 PM
Public and Private Sector Uses of Criminal Justice System Data: Perspectives on Digital Punishment, Privacy, and Stigma, speakers, Professors Yafit Lev-Aretz, Baruch College, and Sarah Lageson, Rutgers University-Newark School of Criminal Justice
Similar to other systems of recordkeeping, criminal recordkeeping has been significantly transformed in the digital age. Collecting and publishing mugshots and booking details of individuals arrested by law enforcement agencies has become a highly profitable enterprise for many businesses. Some of those companies not only engage in criminal recordkeeping for profit, but also offer reputation management services for individuals wishing to pay for the removal of their mugshots from the cataloging websites. Social networks have also proven to be a popular venue for criminal recordkeeping by businesses and individuals. Mugshots posted by police departments on Facebook are often shared and reposted widely by users, local newsrooms, and predatory extortion websites. The deep involvement of private sector actors in what used to be the exclusive domain of the criminal justice system raises fascinating questions about legal boundaries and ethical choices around private criminal recordkeeping. This event is sponsored by The Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity. For more information on this event and others click visit: https://zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/faculty-research/centers-institutes/zicklin-center-corporate-integrity/programs-services/
àRegister HERE.
12:30 AM-1:45 PM
The Information Systems and Statistics Research Seminar Series, speaker, Dr. David Pfau, DeepMind
Dr. David Pfau from DeepMind will present “The Metric is ALL You Need (for disentangling).”
Abstract: Learning a representation from data that disentangle different factors of variation is hypothesized to be a critical ingredient for unsupervised learning. Defining disentangling is challenging – a “symmetry-based” definition was provided by Higgins et al. (2018), but no prescription was given for how to learn such a representation. We present a novel nonparametric algorithm, the Geometric Manifold Component Estimator (GEOMANCER), which partially answers the question of how to implement symmetry-based disentangling. We show that fully unsupervised factorization of a data manifold is possible if the true metric of the manifold is known and each factor manifold has nontrivial holonomy.
For more information, contact Zeda Li.
àZoom link: https://baruch.zoom.us/j/3601957288
Passcode: spring2021
Looking Forward…
Friday, February 19
12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Natural Sciences Virtual Seminar Series, speaker, Dr. Eric Folker, Baruch College
Dr. Eric Folker will give a Globus Seminar entitled “Myonuclei: Socially distancing since before it was cool.” He will be discussing his work on muscle development. To understand how and why nuclei move, he utilizes the model system Drosophila melanogaster. Drosophila muscle cells are remarkably similar to those of humans, but offer superior genetic, optical, and physiological tractability. His group capitalizes on these advantages to perform genetic screens, advanced imaging in the developing organism, and functional output assays to define the mechanisms of nuclear movement and the determine how nuclear movement impacts muscle architecture and function.
àRegister HERE.
12:00 PM-1:00 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Distance Learning: Weekly Check-in, hosted by Tamara Gubernat, CTL
This informal 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/.
àKindly register in advance HERE.
Friday, February 26
12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Natural Sciences Virtual Globus Seminar, speakers, Dr. Jessica Ware, Assistant Curator, American Museum of Natural History and Assistant Professor, Richard Gilder Graduate School, Sackler Institute of Comparative Genomics
Dr. Ware will give a seminar entitled “Studying diversity in insects, and in entomology.” She will focus on the evolution of dragonflies, termites and cockroaches, as well as her efforts to diversify entomology as a discipline.
àRegister HERE.
12:00 PM-1:00 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Distance Learning: Weekly Check-in, hosted by Tamara Gubernat, CTL
This informal 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/.
àKindly register in advance HERE.
Events for the Office of the Associate Provost’s weekly email must be submitted by noon on Wednesday of the week before the event takes place. To submit an event, please click here.