phd seminar 2022

2022 Seminars

September 7, 2022

1:00-2:00 PM

David Jones, MD, PhD A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine Department of the History of Science, Harvard University Professor in the Department of Epidemiology Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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September 14, 2022

Maya Mathur, PhD Assistant Professor, Quantitative Sciences Unit and the Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University

Works-in-Progress Seminar

September 21, 2022

Anna Plym, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Karolinska Institutet

Matthew Shupler, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

September 28, 2022

Bizu Gelaye, PhD Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Psychiatry at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, The Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School

October 5, 2022

Prof. Dr. Annette Peters Chair of Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat München Director, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München

October 12, 2022

David Hunter, MBBS, ScD, FRACPHM Richard Doll Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Oxford; Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention, Emeritus, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Conception by Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Offspring Health

October 26, 2022

Deborah Lawlor, PhD Professor of Epidemiology, UK Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol

November 2, 2022

Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University and Professor of Epidemiology, Barry Commoner Center, City University of New York   

November 9, 2022

1:00-2:00 PM Marc Lipsitch, DPhill Professor of Epidemiology, Director, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director of Science, Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, CDC

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1:00-2:00 PM John W. Jackson, ScD Assistant Professor, Departments of Epidemiology, Mental Health, and Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

1:00-2:00 PM Carol Hogue, ScD Professor Emerita of Epidemiology and Jules and Uldeen Terry Professor Emerita of Maternal and Child Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Joint seminar with the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Program

1:00-1:50 PM Ran Balicer, MD PhD Chief Innovation Officer, Clalit Health Services & Founding Director, Clalit Research Institute

Noa Dagan, MD PhD Head of the Data- & AI-Driven Medicine Department, Clalit Innovation

Beate Ritz, MD, PhD Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles

Regulatory Memory Loss: The FDA’s Road to Aducanumab

January 26, 2022

Steven Goodman, MD, MHS, PhD Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health and of Medicine (Primary Care and Population Health) Associate Dean of Clinical and Translational Research, Stanford University School of Medicine Watch Recording

February 2, 2022

Bianca De Stavola, PhD Professor of Medical Statistics Population, Policy & Practice Department UCL Great Ormand Street Institute of Child Health

February 9, 2022

Vincent Jaddoe, MD, PhD Pediatrician and Professor of Pediatric Epidemiology Departments of Epidemiology and Pediatrics, Erasmus MC, Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

February 16, 2022

Onyebuchi A. Arah, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Epidemiology Affiliated Professor, Department of Statistics Associate Dean, Graduate Division Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA

March 2, 2022

Marcia C. Castro, PhD Andelot Professor of Demography Chair, Department of Global Health and Population Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

March 9, 2022

James Robins, MD Mitchell L. and Robin LaFoley Dong Professor of Epidemiology Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

March 23, 2022

Kristen Brantley, PhD Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Epidemiology Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Kai Wang, MD, PhD Research Associate, Department of Epidemiology Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

March 30, 2022

1:00-2:00PM

Jay S. Kaufman, PhD Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health, McGill University

April 6, 2022

Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD Dana and David Dornsife Dean and Distinguished University Professor of Epidemiology, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University

April 27, 2022

Chandra L. Ford, PhD Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Founding Director, Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health, Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA

May 4, 2022

Tamarra James-Todd, PhD Mark and Catherine Winkler Associate Professor of Environmental Reproductive Epidemiology, Department of Environmental Health Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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18th eawe PhD Seminar

2-4 november 2022.

Welcome to the  18th EAWE PhD seminar !

The  PhairywinD team and the  European Academy of Wind Energy  ( EAWE ) invite you to participate in the 18th EAWE PhD seminar.  

For this edition of the seminar, we look forward to welcoming you in person in Bruges (Belgium) from 2-4 November 2022 .

The seminar is a great opportunity for PhD researchers to present their work to peers and to get involved with the wind energy community. The seminar is organized for PhDs by PhDs, and both starting and concluding researchers are welcome.

If you have questions about the seminar which are not answered on these pages, please reach out to us by email:

Contact :  [email protected]

The seminar is hosted and organized by PhairywinD  (financed by FPS Economy ), in collaboration with BERA

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• Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
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Leading bioethics scholars from around the world lecture on vital issues in the field at our biweekly Seminar Series. Lectures, held at lunchtime, are free and open to the public.

Past seminars are video recorded and posted on our YouTube channel .

2022-23 |  2021-22 | 2020-21  |  2019-20 | 2018-19

All seminars run from noon-1 p.m. and are held in person at the School of Public Health’s Feinstone Hall. Speakers and dates for Spring 2024 are confirmed; seminar topics will be updated as they become available. 

1/29/24 The Social Value Misconception in Clinical Research By Jake Earl, PhD

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2/12/24 – POSTPONED The Feb. 12 Seminar has been postponed. Information about a rescheduled date will be shared as soon as it is available.  Jenny Reardon, PhD

2/26/24 Beneath the Sword of Damocles: Moral Obligations of Physicians in a post- Dobbs Landscape By Anne Drapkin Lyerly, MD

3/25/24 Reconfiguring the ethical imagination in clinical practice and medical education By Michelle Munyikwa, MD, Ph.D

4/1/24 Catastrophe Ethics by Travis Rieder, PhD

4/8/24 CANCELED: J. David Velleman, PhD

4/22/24 Peter P. Reese, MD, PhD

4/29/24 Cost Containment: Protecting Vulnerable Elderly From Profiteering and Poor Quality Care By Joan M. Teno, MD Hutzler-Rives Memorial Lecture

5/13/24 From Carceral Healthcare to Abolition Ethics: A Moral Obligation to Move Towards Justice By Jennifer James, PhD

10/9/23 Downgrading Docs: Medical Authority in Roe , Dobbs —and Beyond By Marc Spindelman, JD

10/23/23 Artificial Intelligence and Ethics: Towards a Robust Normative Framework By Matthew Liao, PhD

9/12/22 Exploring the Black Box of Human Development: Scientific and Ethical Implications of Crossing the 14-Day Limit of Embryo Research By Insoo Hyun, PhD

10/10/22 Constructive (data) Trusts by Jasmine E. McNealy, PhD

10/24/22 “But Why Is That Better?” By Vikki Entwistle, PhD

11/14/22 Anti-Racist Bioethics, Structural Racism, and the Struggle for Hearts and Minds By Yolonda Wilson, PhD

12/12/22 Decolonizing Global Health: Do We Agree On What it Means? By Matthew DeCamp, MD, PhD

1/23/22 Becoming Good: Ethics of Early Intervention in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry By Iliana Singh, PhD

2/13/23 Diversity as a Challenge to Designing Ethical Food Systems? By Matthias Kaiser, D.Phil.

2/27/23 Exploring Challenges in Vaccine Research through Challenging Cases By Christine Grady, MSN, PhD

3/6/23 Ethical decision-making and the deliberative process: the ‘ETHOX Approach’ revamped By Mark Sheehan, PhD

3/13/23 When Pregnancy is Punishment: Foreclosure of Abortion and the Traumas of Motherhood in Incarcerated Settings By Carolyn Sufrin, MD, PhD

3/27/23 Failure or Full Circle: 35 years of research in Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision Making……getting to the next level By Laurie Badzek, LLM, JD, MS, RN, FNAP, FAAN

4/10/23 Justice-Based Rationale for Imposing Limits on Research Risks By Liza Dawson, PhD, MA

4/17/23 A Metabolic Ethics for Metabolism Cage Research By  Anthony Ryan Hatch, PhD

9/27/21 Think Again: Is Advance Care Planning Obsolete? by James A. Tulsky, MD

10/11/2021 The Paradoxical Fragility of the Norms of Protection of Health Care in War by Len Rubenstein , JD Watch the Seminar

10/25/2021 Rage Renegades by Myisha Cherry, MDiv, PhD

11/8/2021 F-AI-rest of Them All by Marzyeh Ghassemi

11/22/2021 Disability and Health: A Complicated Relationship by Elizabeth Barnes, PhD

1/24/2022 The 2021 Revised ISSCR Guidelines for Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation by Robin Lovell-Badge

1/31/2022 Strengthening Ethical Practice at the Frontline of Global Health Research: Reflections on Opportunities and Challenges by Sassy Molyneux and Dorcas Kamuya

2/14/2022 Ethics and International Food Assistance by Michelle Jurkovich, PhD, MA

2/28/2022 Older People and Demands of (Global) Social Justice by Sridhar Venkatapuram, MSc, MPhil, PhD, FRSA, Hon, FFPH

3/14/2022 Kidney to Share:  A living kidney donor’s experience and lessons learned about barriers and opportunities in kidney donation with Martha Gershun

3/28/2022 Diagnostic Ethics: Parameters for safe, ethical and socially just management of medically unexplained symptoms by Diane O’Leary, PhD

4/11/2022 Prognosis in Serious Neurological Disease: Opportunities and Challenges by Robert G. Holloway, MD, MPH Watch the Seminar

4/25/2022 The Ethics of Surrogate Decision-Making by David S. Wendler, PhD, MA

5/9/2022 When Bad Things Happen to Good Deeds: Moral Problems with Beneficence with Karen Stohr, PhD

9/21/20 COVID-19, Public Health and Equity: How to reduce the disproportionate impact on disadvantaged communities Q&A with Dr. Leana Wen Watch the seminar

10/12/2020 Caesar Atuire, PhD An African Philosophical Perspective on the Tension between Autonomy and Solidarity Watch the seminar

10/26/2020 Hugo Slim, PhD Humanitarian Ethics, the COVID Crisis and Black Lives Matter Watch the Video

10/30/2020 Ruha Benjamin, PhD Viral Justice: Pandemics, Policing, and Public Bioethics

11/9/2020 Susan Block, MD – Hutzler-Rives Memorial Lecture Clinicians, COVID, and the Culture of Medicine Watch the seminar

11/23/2020 Patricia Kingori, PhD What Can a Focus on Fakes and Fakery Teach Us About Health?

12/14/2020 Anji Wall, MD

Decision-Making, Perceptions and Experiences in Uterus Transplantation

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1/25/2021 Peter A. Ubel, MD Sick to Debt: Fixing Our High Out-of-Pocket Health Care System

2/8/2021 Jim Lavery, MSc, PhD Fair Partnership as a Determinant of Effectiveness of Global Health Campaigns and Implications for Research Ethics

2/22/2021 Jack Bobo Can Agriculture Save the Planet Before it Destroys It?

3/8/2021 Roland Griffiths, PhD Psychedelic Science: Therapeutic Implications and Ethical Challenges

3/22/2021 Barbara J. Evans, PhD, JD, LLM Rules for Robots and Why AI/ML Medical Software Breaks Them

4/12/2021 Gloria Ramsey, JD, RN, FNAP, FAAN Advance Care Planning in a Pandemic-Respecting Choices for Racially & Ethnically Diverse Communities

4/26/2021 Saad B. Omer, MBBS, MPH, PhD, FIDSA Equitable Allocation of the Vaccine in an Unfair Pandemic

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5/10/2021, noon Diversifying Precision Medicine: Reflections from the Trenches of Clinical Translational Genomics Stephanie Malia Fullerton, DPhil

Join us on Zoom:   https://jh.zoom.us/j/95612821056?pwd=OE8rVVNvcFVpYmJ5R0gzMTd1ZHBwdz09 Passcode: Fullerton

6/19/2020 Our Problem is Power Olúfẹ́mi O.  Táíwò, PhD Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University

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5/11/2020 Applying Rigor to Data Collection in Machine Learning: Considerations in Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics Timnit Gebru, PhD Technical co-lead of the Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team Google

4/13/2020 Can the Researcher-Participant Relationship Ground Ancillary-Care Obligations? Henry Richardson, JD, MPP, PhD

3/9/2020 Moral Distress: A Time for Hope? Watch the Video

Alisa L. Carse, PhD Associate Professor of Philosophy and Faculty Affiliate Kennedy Institute of Ethics

2/24/2020 Identifying and Assessing Barriers to Equitable Postpartum Sterilization Watch the Video Kavita Shah Arora, MD, MBE, MS Assistant Professor of Reproductive Biology and Bioethics Case Western Reserve University Practicing general obstetrician/gynecologist, MetroHealth Medical Center

2/17/2020 Recovering Inside? Ethical and Policy Challenges in Correctional Behavioral Health Care Dominic Sisti, PhD Watch the Video Director, Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health Care Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy University of Pennsylvania

1/27/2020 Healthcare Architecture: A Moral Imperative Diana Anderson, MD, ACHA Watch the Video Healthcare Architect Geriatric Medicine Fellow University of California, San Francisco

Reading and Moderated Conversation with Dani Shaprio, author of the NYT best selling memoir “Inheritance” Berman Institute 25th Anniversary event, with Ruth Faden

Watch the video Face On or Off: Face Transplants and the Resistance to Categorization Sharrona Pearl, PhD Associate Professor of Medical Ethics Drexel University

11/25/2019 Ethical Principles in Action: Palliative Care and People Living with Serious Illness Diane Meier, MD, FACP, FAAHPM Director, Center to Advance Palliative Care Co-director, Patty and Jay Baker National Palliative Care Center Professor, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Catherine Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics, Icahn School of Medicine of Mount Sinai

11/11/2019 Engaging Communities to Improve Comprehension of Informed Consent for Genomics Research Clement A. Adebamowo, BM, ChB, ScD, FWACS, FACS Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health Associate Director (Population Science Program) and Director Global Health Cancer Research, Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center

May 13, 2019 Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBE “Evaluating IRB Quality and Effectiveness” Seminar Details

PhD Student Seminar

The EASM PhD Student Seminar is a two-day international seminar, taking place prior to the 2022 EASM Conference in Innsbruck on the 4th and 5th of September, 2022. The seminar aims at gathering doctoral students in the field of sport management from all over the world for mutual discussions, presentations of their research projects and feedback from senior scholars. Another important element is the creation of networks, that will hopefully encourage future joint research projects across nations and the establishment of fruitful social relations.

Application and Registration

The application period, started on the 8 th of April, 2022, has closed with 15th of May , as previously announced. First time attendees were given priority.

Since there were a very high number of applications of outstanding quality this year, EASM, the EASM PhD Student Seminar Project Lead, Ms. Chris Horbel, and the EASM 2022 Organising Committee have a agreed, to accept 20 PhD students in total , instead of a maximum of 15 PhD students, as advertised previously.

Our heartfelt congratulations to this achievement and we are very much looking forward to welcoming the successful PhD students to Innsbruck!

All successful candidates have already received their letter of acceptance and were requested to register for the seminar and the EASM Conference via the official event booking system. Deadline for registration is 26th of June, 2022. If no registration is made by that date, the spot will be made available for students on the waiting list.

The fee for participation in the EASM PhD Student Seminar 2022 is 670 EUR. Participation in the EASM PhD Student Seminar 2022 includes access to the 2022 EASM Conference in Innsbruck (full package).

For information and reference to the application process:  the application must include a short presentation (max. 400 words, excluding references) of the PhD project including the problem statement, research field, as well as theoretical and methodological considerations. Furthermore, applicants must indicate the name(s) of their supervisor(s), their institutional affiliation and the status of their project (e.g. at the beginning, halfway or at the end). The PhD project must have a sport management perspective. Please use the main conference’s standard scientific tracks as a yardstick whether your project falls within the sport management field, but feel free to contact Chris Horbel ( [email protected] ) in case you are unsure or would like to discuss in advance of submitting your application.

Please send your abstract and the required information via email to Chris Horbel ( [email protected] ) and Josef Fahlén ( [email protected] ).

Requirements for participation

Submission of short paper

In order to participate, the doctoral student is required to submit and present a short paper .

Paper presentations are an important part of the EASM PhD Student Seminar. The purpose is to give young scholars the opportunity to present their work and receive comprehensive feedback from senior scholars and fellow students. We do not expect fully finished papers. On the contrary, we encourage submitting ‘early-work-in-progress’ because this provides a good point of departure for subsequent revision and improvement before submitting the manuscript to a peer-reviewed journal or integrating it in the PhD thesis.

Papers can be a first draft of a journal article, a detailed description of the research project or a (method-)chapter for the dissertation. Papers must be written in English and should be between 2,000 and 3,000 words (without references) in length. A consistent reference style must be applied.

We encourage a focus on research design, methodology or philosophy of science. This implies less emphasis on comprehensive state-of-art literature review (what is going on in the specific research area) and thorough analysis (we assume this will be the next step). Our intention is, if possible, to discuss the early-phase of the PhD research projects. For second time seminar attendees: if a methodological paper was presented the first time you attended, you might move on to present a paper containing either your theoretical framework, a state-of-the-art literature review or an outline of your analysis.

Paper presentation and discussion

Each participant will get 30 minutes for the presentation and discussion of the paper. Participants should briefly introduce their papers/projects in a presentation of max. 10 minutes. This should include highlighting key questions to fellow seminar participants or focusing on a specific topic for subsequent discussion.

Prior to the seminar, all papers will be circulated among the participants and each participant will be assigned one paper in the role as main discussant. After the presentation by the author, the assigned discussant will provide comments and feedback and chair the subsequent round of questions and comments by other participants and the senior scholars.

We put great emphasis on a comfortable atmosphere to provide fruitful and constructive feedback to each presenter, which will hopefully support progress on everyone’s project. So please bear in mind that most participants are non-native English speakers. Over the years, the EASM PhD Student Seminar has build-up a great number of successful ‘alumni’. Also, fine international networks have been established.

Thank you for sharing your work with us!

Deadline for submission of the short paper is 5th of August,2022 . The short paper must be submitted via email to Chris Horbel ( [email protected] ) and Josef Fahlén ( [email protected] ). Within a week after submission deadline, papers will be circulated and roles as discussants assigned.

Contact information

Please do not hesitate to contact the Lead Coordinator of the EASM PhD Student Seminar, Chris Horbel ( [email protected] ), for any further academic information.

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Fall 2022 PhD Seminar

featuring Bratin Sengupta and Haryana Thomas  Wednesday, December 7, 2022

ZOOM LINK PW: UBCBE1

Bratin Sengupta Miao Yu Lab Group

Highly Interconnected Nanopores in Stable Interfacial Nanofilms Precisely Separate Molecules under Harsh Conditions

Membranes with high throughput and rigid, molecular-sized pores, which are stable in harsh organic solvents and at elevated temperatures/pressures, are needed in industry to decrease energy consumption for separations. Although polyamide nanofilms fabricated via facile and scalable interfacial polymerization led to membrane application in large scale water desalination, polymeric membranes are usually unstable in organic solvents, especially at high temperatures, and limited by permeability-selectivity tradeoff due to flexible pores. Inorganic membranes with stable rigid pores can extend membrane application for harsh industrial separations, involving solvents at elevated temperatures. However, there exists no inorganic counterpart to amorphous polymers, which can be scalably fabricated as interfacial thin films while having precisely tuned rigid nanopores. Herein, we report, for the first time, an ultrafast scalable interfacial reaction to generate rigid, porous, inorganic counterpart to polymeric nanofilms – carbon-doped titanium oxide (CDTO) nanofilms, for precise molecular sieving. This new class of material has the most interconnected nanopores among all reported organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN) membranes, yielding the highest solvent permeance, 2-3 orders of magnitude higher than commercial membranes, even if they are thicker. This high pore-interconnectivity establishes a new dimension in reducing transport resistance to increase permeance. CDTO, as a single membrane material, exhibits the broadest pore tunability covering the entire OSN range (200-1,000 Da) and the most precise pore size control (as small as 100 Da). With the excellent mechanical and thermal stabilities, CDTO can perform long-term, highly efficient organic separations under industrially relevant conditions, as demonstrated for the first time in this work for specialty chemical production, tolerating severe environments where polymeric membranes fail.

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University at Buffalo, working with Professor Miao Yu. I joined University at Buffalo in Spring 2021. I got my MS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA in December 2020 and B. Tech from National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India in July 2015, both in Chemical Engineering. My research involves synthesis of new materials to rationally design membranes for precise molecular separation.  

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

• Time: 11.00 AM
• Location: 206 Furnas Hall
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Bratin Sengupta PhD Candidate Miao Yu Research Group

Haryana Thomas Ford Versypt Research Group

Predicting therapeutic efficacy of renal fibrosis in diabetes: A mathematical model

Diabetic kidney disease is a significant burden on global public health. One of the main reasons for the rising burden of diabetic kidney disease is the lack of efficacious drugs that can remedy kidney damage. Thus, there is a need to both determine why these therapeutics are ineffective, and a need to identify new therapeutic targets that are more efficacious. In pursuit of these objectives, we repurposed a previous lupus model to build a mathematical model of kidney damage in diabetes to predict the therapeutic efficacy of different treatment approaches for diabetic kidney damage. This model enabled us to identify a main driver for therapeutic inefficacy and to propose a more efficacious treatment approach for reversing kidney damage in diabetes. This identification of better therapeutic strategies can help the development of drugs that are effective in treating diabetic kidney disease and thus reduce the health burden of diabetic kidney disease on individuals as well as the public health system.

Haryana Thomas is a doctoral candidate in Dr. Ashlee Ford Versypt’s Systems Biomedicine and Pharmaceutics Lab in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He received his B.S. degree from Calvin University in Michigan. His research is on developing mechanistic mathematical models of kidney damage in the context of diabetes with the aim of providing clinically translatable insight. To date, Haryana has given multiple invited talks and presentations at webinar series, conferences, and mathematical societies. He has won multiple travel awards and in 2021 was named as the Leadership Development Fellow by the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. 

Haryana Thomas PhD Candidate Ford Versypt Research Group

Graduate Research Seminars 2021/2022

Graduate Research Seminars and Graduate Development Workshops Fridays, 3:30-4:45 pm The Department invites Graduate students to present their research on every Friday throughout the academic year. The seminars are followed by a Q&A session. 

August 27, 2021

Workshop –  Science Communication Led by Shauna Bennett, Assistant Teaching Professor, GU, The Department of Biology

September 3rd, 2021

Zachary Park,  Rose lab “Keeping up with Kfc1, a novel regulator of meiosis that is essential for m(6)A mRNA methylation”.

September 10, 2021

Nicole Wagner,  Johnson lab “Metagenomic Analysis of the Water and Microbial Mats of the Antarctic Untersee Oasis”.

September 17, 2021

Joan Reger , Huang lab “Investigating the role for Tubulin Polymerization Promoting Protein (TPPP) in Oligodendrocytes and Disease “ .

September 24, 2021

Tyler Ripple , Wimp lab “Snails, Nitrogen, and the Decomposition of Dead Plants”.

October 1st, 2021

Workshop –  “Equity in Science: Representation, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change in Graduate Education” Led by DEI committee

October 8, 2021

Jewel Tomasula , Wimp lab “ Investigating the Genetic Diversity of a Clonal Plant in the Salt Marsh”.

October 15, 2021

Arifa Ahsan , Silva and He lab “Temporal dynamics of the homeostasis of activity-induced nascent proteins”.

October 22, 2021

Sylvia Min , Rolfes lab “Grf10 and Phosphate and Copper Homeostasis in  C. albicans .”

October 29, 2021

Vanessa Angelova , Singer lab “Intestinal barrier defects in giardiasis.”

November 21, 2021

Workshop –  Mental Health Resources Led by: Dr. John Loughlin-Presnal and Dr. Nisha Molugu, both from CAPS (counseling and psychological services)

November 12, 2021

Molly McEntee,  Mann lab “Female reproduction in Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins: Costs of and counterstrategies to allied male sexual coercion”.

November 19, 2021

Anaïs Roussel , Johnson lab “Biomarkers Transformation on the Irradiated Martian Surface.”

December 3, 2021

Melissa Collier , Bansal lab “Informing past and forecasting future infectious disease dynamics in the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin: a data-driven mathematical modeling approach”.

Spring 2022

January 14, 2022.

Workshop –  Equity in Science: Representation, Culture, and the Dynamics and Change in Graduate Education. Led by JEDI with Dr. Julie Posseltuin

January 21, 2022

Vaughn Shirey, Ries lab “Curiosity Cabinets to Climate Change: What natural history museums can tell us about cold-adapted butterflies on a warming planet.”.

January 28, 2022

Katherine Kraft , Rose lab “Mei Oh Mei: Investigating Kar4’s Meiotic Function(s) ”.

February 4, 2022

Mara Heilig ,  Armbruster lab “Determining the role of histone modification during transgenerational diapause signaling in  Aedes albopictus ”.

February 18, 2022

Shahad Alqahtani ,  Brinsmade lab “How does CodY control the activity of the SaeR/S Two Component System in  Staphylococcus aureus? ”.

February 25, 2022

Workshop –  Getting the Mentoring That You Need . Led by Caleb C. McKinney, PhD, MPS

March 18, 2022

Maggie Weng,  Johnson lab “Understanding the circadian rhythms of a hypersaline saltern”.

March 25, 2022

Ellen Jacobs , Mann lab “Individual variation in bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) maternal style in Shark Bay, Western Australia”

April 1st, 2022

Deb George,  Coate lab  and Rita (Akinkuotu) Kosile , Singer lab Deb  title: “The Role of Eph/Ephrin signaling in Type II SGN Turning.” Rita  Title: “Tryptophan Metabolites Impact Intestinal Barrier Repair In Giardiasis.”

April 8, 2022

Workshop: Resume/CV/Online presence Led by Caitlin Moore, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

April 22, 2022

Ursula Machi,  Rose lab “Regulation of Yeast Cell Fusion.”

April 29, 2022

Cesar Velez-Penaloza, Silva lab “The 3’UTR interfere with Sox11 Function in neurogenesis” Dennis DiMaggio, Brinsmade lab “Impact of  de novo  pyrimidine biosynthesis on the SaeRS Two-Component system of  Staphylococcus aureus “

• Feb 15, 2022

PhairywinD organises the 2022 EAWE PhD Seminar!

Press release | Bringing the 2022 EAWE PhD Seminar to Belgium

Press release – 15/02/2022

Historical Bruges (Belgium) is hosting the 2022 EAWE PhD Seminar this year, expecting to welcome over 100 PhD researchers from over the whole of Europe, interested in key-talks and presentations on wind energy. The organization this year is in the capable hands of the PhairywinD PhD group, 9 Belgian early stage researchers focusing on offshore wind energy.

Save the date: 02/11- 04/11/2022 – Bruges, BE

The European Academy of Wind Energy (EAWE) is an international community that promotes and supports the development of wind energy science with a focus on connecting expertise, facilitating knowledge exchange, and promoting interest in wind energy. It aims to be the independent scientific voice of European wind energy research.

EAWE yearly initiates a couple of important conferences on wind energy, with Torque and WESC being the biggest ones, attracting over 1000 participants worldwide. Their annual PhD seminar, however, aims primarily at early stage researchers and wants to be an accessible event where PhD students and supervisors from all over Europe can easily exchange information and experience on research in wind energy. Therefore, the seminar is small-scale and it is organized for PhDs by PhDs!

Unique this year are the organization team and the location. First off, the team is comprised of 9 PhD researchers from different universities. Traditionally, the seminar is hosted by one host institute, but this time the collaboration within the PhairywinD project means we span the entire country and our PhDs have the support of all of the Belgian knowledge institutes working on wind energy, a unique starting position! Secondly, we will host the seminar in historical Bruges, which has a perfect location near the Belgian coast (and the option to visit the expanding offshore wind farms) and has many selling-points as a conference town for foreign visitors.

The organization team is now preparing a fascinating 3-day programme, filled with key-note speeches, PhD presentations, site visits, academic-industrial collaboration activities and social events. The seminar website is up and running at https://phd2022.eawe.eu/ and the call for abstracts will be launched soon. In the meantime, we also invite you all to follow our progress via the PhairywinD website and social media channels.

The entire team is grateful to have won the seminar bid for 2022 and is looking forward to an exciting year of planning, organizing and managing this event to make it the best edition yet!

Stay tuned for more news soon.

The PhairywinD team

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Call for Papers: Resilient Urban Communities Conference & PhD Seminars – Strathmore University

Important deadlines.

• Call for Papers : 2nd May 2022
• Submission of Abstracts Deadline : 3rd August 2022
• Acceptance of the Abstracts Deadline : 3rd September 2022
• Acceptance of Presentation Videos Deadline : 3rd October 2022
• RUC Conference and Seminars : 5th to 8th December 2022

Inquires & Submissions:

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PhD Seminar Call and Purpose

The PhD Seminar aims to improve the research work of current PhD students and broaden their perspectives by giving them the opportunity to discuss their research ideas and results in a supportive environment, where they receive constructive feedback from an audience consisting of peers as well as senior researchers in the field, reflect upon publication and career strategies, provide a forum for the interaction among the PhD students and an opportunity to network with the international RUC community. The PhD Seminar Call 2022 is open to all enrolled doctoral students doing research in non-profit studies, urban studies, development economics, or related fields at all stages of their doctoral studies. Those PhD students doing research on social entrepreneurship, NPOs and Philanthropy including the social economy are particularly encouraged.

The key themes for PhD Seminar include supportive ecosystems, participatory urban governance, management structures of SEs and NPOs, and their resilience/sustainability. Some of the seminar topics (but not limited to) are building resilience during PhD work, incorporating diverse points of view in your research, types of research approaches and designs, managing the relationships with supervisors /receiving feedback and publication of high-quality academic articles. The central attractions to this PhD Seminar are

the small group sessions: each student is allotted time to discuss her/his work and obtain feedback from peers and faculty. The PhD Seminar also includesopening and closing plenary sessionsand at least one professional development session with presentations by leading scholars in the field. Additionally, the PhD Seminar shall feature the 3-minute Thesis Competition (voluntary). The winner will be awarded a monetary prize and their presentation will be featured on the RUC website. The seminar is envisaged to take place on a face- to-face basis, but in case of restrictions due to COVID, we are prepared to switch to a virtual session. RUC shall provide limited scholarships to attend the seminar expected to take 1 and 1⁄2 days. Each application for the PhD seminar should include:

•  A research paper not exceeding one and a half pages that refers to the stage of your thesis (e.g., proposal, literature review/ theoretical development, methods, incipient results (a proposal template will be provided).
• A personal motivation statement of about 3⁄4 page length and what you hope to get from Seminar.
• An official document confirming your status as a doctoral student at your University.

Eligibility

• Be doctoral students, particularly at early stages of their research work. If you expect to defend your dissertation before December 2022, you do not apply as you will not likely benefit from the Seminar.
• Be conducting research connected to non-profit-organizations and social enterprises in deprived communities and in policy fields such as housing, education, social services with a special focus on governance arrangements and business models.
• Be able to participate in the entire PhD Seminar to be held in Nairobi, Kenya.
• Be prepared to present and discuss their doctoral work with peers and faculty, and to participate in anactive and constructive way in group discussions.

Early Research Career (ECR) Seminar Call and Purpose:

ECRs generally face far greater difficulty at research work and even publications with often inadequate understanding of the publishing models including open access journals. The ECR Seminar shall allow you to build ideas about your research teams, establish the collaborations and networks necessary for your professional growth, establishment as independent researchers how to lead unique and innovative programmes of research within your domains. For this seminar, the ECRs are expected to have some initial but limited postdoctoral experience and not yet ready for independence or to lead their own groups but expected to have started to make important contributions to research. They will be in the initial stages of driving their own research (usually evidenced by publications) but they still require more time to consolidate their existing skills and explore new scientific realms, under the guidance of an experienced researchers or sponsors.

The seminar targets ECRs who are able to articulate and drive their own research ideas and form collaborations, but are not yet ready to lead their own independent research groups. The ECR Seminar Call is open to researchers within 5 years after their PhD qualification doing research in non-profit studies, urban studies, development economics, or related fields. The costs of research career mismanagement are high and include stagnation in growth, reduced ability to generate research funding and impact of research project completion among others. Some of the seminar topics (but not limited to) are leading research teams: the challenges, exploring the transition to research leadership, managing performance and underperformance, collaboration and fostering interdisciplinary research and publications of high-quality journal articles. The seminar is envisaged to take place on a face-to-face basis, but in case of restrictions due to COVID, we are prepared to switch to a virtual session. RUC shall provide limited scholarships to attend the seminar expected to take 1 and 1⁄2 days. Each participant application should include:

• A research profile that includes the qualifications, your recent publications and your research summary in thearea of focus
• A personal motivation statement of about 3⁄4 page length and what you hope to gain from the Seminar
• An official document confirming your status as a Researcher or Faculty at your University

ECR Seminar Eligibility

• Be researchers with at most 5 years PhD qualification and trying to set their research career on track.
• Be able to participate in the entire ECR Seminar and Conference to held in Nairobi, Kenya.
• Be prepared to share their current research with peers for networking and identification of collaboratorsin an active and constructive way in group discussions.

Resilient Urban Communities (RUC) Conference

The programme focuses on social enterprises (SEs) and non-profit organizations (NPOs) as subsidiary social service providers and vehicles for participation and integration in African mega cities that contribute to the resilience of urban communities. Organizations of the civil society or development space, such as social enterprises (SEs) and non-profit organizations (NPOs) are important players in the labour market of African economies. The presentations for the Conference shall majorly be from the research being undertaken though the organizers will allow exceptional research contributions closely related to the research domain, including invited speakers. The PhDs and ECRs with close related researches shall be invited to make presentations after reviewing their extended individual abstracts. The full research papers fof the accepted presentations by the PhDs and ECRs, that meet individual journal requirements shall be forwarded for publication in different journals that RUC Consortium team subscribe within the research domain.

Proposed Programme for the Conference and Seminars

• Monday, 5th December 2022 (RUC Consortium Meeting and Visit to Social Enterprises)
• Tuesday, 6th December 2022: (Whole Day) PhD and ECR Seminars
• Wednesday, 7th December 2022: (Morning) PhD and ECR Seminars
• Wednesday, 7th December 2022: (Afternoon) Peer Mentor Sessions and Visit to National Park
• Thursday, 8th December 2022: (Whole Day) Resilient Urban Cities ConferenceConference Deadlines:

Conference Deadlines

• Call for Papers: 2nd May 2022
• Submission of Abstracts Deadline: 3rd August 2022
• Acceptance of the Abstracts Deadline : 3rd September 2022
• Acceptance of Presentation Videos Deadline: 3rd October 2022
• RUC Conference and Seminars: 5th to 8th December 2022

CS 591 PhD Seminar, Fall 2022

Registration for this seminar is required for all Ph.D. students newly admitted into the Computer Science Department. M.S. students who are considering to apply to our Ph.D. program may also register for the seminar. Ph.D. students must earn a Satisfactory ("S") grade for the seminar or will need to re-take the seminar the following year. Receiving a Satisfactory grade is required before students are allowed to schedule the qualifying exam. All assignments must be satisfactorily completed to receive an "S" grade.

Learning Goals

The goals of the seminar include teaching incoming PhD students about:

• The professional skills needed for conducting research (communication, ethics, idea finding, etc.)
• How to be a successful graduate student and future leader in research
• The policies and procedures of the CS graduate program
• Research opportunities with faculty
• Resources available within the department and university for research and personal well-being

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Time and location.

Mondays, 11:00 - 11:50am, 1320 DCL

Robin Kravets ([email protected]) Viveka Kudaligama ([email protected])

Class announcements and discussions will be held via slack. You will be invited to the class slack space. Once you join, please make sure your name is set up correctly. Feel free to use nicknames if that is how you want to be addressed.

Attendance is required and recorded electronically. Arriving more than 5 minutes late to the seminar will be counted as an unexcused absence. Students who receive two or more unexcused absences will receive an Unsatisfactory ("U") grade and will need to re-take the seminar. Excused absences include University-related travel (e.g. to attend an academic conference) and personal illness. Job interviews do not qualify as an excused absence so please schedule them around class time. To seek an excused absence, please email [email protected] (and copy [email protected]) before the start of class or as soon as possible.

Participation

You must participate in class discussion. We want discussions to be casual and enjoyable so that each of you feel comfortable offering comments and speaking candidly. We will do our best to moderate the discussion and keep it moving forward. We expect you to be attentive during lecture.

You are not allowed to use extra computing devices during class for any purpose. Please focus on our seminar. If there is any doubt, please read: Laptop multitasking hinders classroom learning for both users and nearby peers

A first violation of this policy will result in a warning. A second violation of this policy will result in an Unsatisfactory ('U") grade for the seminar.

Disability Accommodations

To obtain disability-related academic adjustments or auxillary aids, students with disabilities must contact the course instructor and the Disability Resources and Educational Services (DRES) as soon as possible. To contact DRES you may visit 1207 S. Oak St., Champaign, call 333-1970, or send an e-mail message to [email protected]. They are glad to assist and so are we.

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Research seminars run by phd candidates in, or affliated to, the department of international development., lse global china phd working group seminar.

The LSE Global China PhD working group runs a series of China and the Global South research seminars through Autumn and Winter terms for research students and early career scholars at LSE and beyond. The WT seminars are supported by LSE PhD academy, the ESRC student event fund and LSE ID RIIF Funds. Anyone who may be interested is welcome to participate. If you would like to join the seminar via zoom, please email Yuezhou Yang ( [email protected] ).

Tuesdays, 5-6:30pm, at CON7.03 and on Zoom.

LSE International Development PhD Colloquium

The International Development PhD Colloquium is a series of research seminars throughout the year for PhD candidates in the Department of International Development to present their work in progress.

Details for the 2022-23 Colloquium are forthcoming

Colloquium Schedule 2021-22

Coordinators: Dr Kate Meagher and Nina Craven ( email )      

Please note that these seminars are mainly attended by postgraduate students and staff in International Development. Staff and students from other LSE departments may join if invited by the organisers and/or speakers.

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Graduate Seminars 2022-23

Spring 2023, philos 203: seminar: history of ancient philosophy.

Instructor: Adam Crager Thursdays: 4:00pm – 6:50pm Location: Dodd 399

Subtitle: Aristotle’s  Posterior Analytics

Description: TBA

Philos 232: Seminar: Philosophy of Science

Instructor: Sheldon Smith Mondays: 2:00pm – 4:50pm Location: Dodd 325

Philosophy of Time

Specifically, we will be reading through Craig Callender’s relatively recent (2017) book _What Makes Time Special?_.  The book is basically about the degree to which we should think that actual time in nature matches the picture that we seem to have of it, as having “a flowing present that divides a fixed past from an open future.”  There are stretches of the book that walk us through various physical theories and what they suggest about time, but Callender has attempted to make the book accessible to those without prior background in physics and, in any case, I am willing to help with those portions, if need be.  Having taken or audited Phil 130 (Space and Time) might help, but I don’t think it would be required for understanding.

Philos 235: Seminar: Philosophy of Mathematics

Instructor: Sean Walsh Tuesdays: 2:00pm – 4:50pm Location: Dodd 399

Intuitionism and Inferentialism

Description: The topic of this seminar is connections between (1) intuitionism in the philosophy of mathematics and logic and (2) inferentialism in the philosophy of language. Intuitionistic logic is in many ways the oldest non-classical logic, and its rich history and wide connections to many other areas make it an excellent candidate for a first non-classical logic to learn, and we will provide an introduction to it as we proceed. Inferentialism in the philosophy of language is a family of views that deprioritize the reference of an expression and correspondingly prioritize its role in reasoning (broadly construed). We’ll read Brandom and Dummett and look at Schroeder-Heister’s recent development of Prawitz’s program and some recently uncovered relations to inquisitive semantics. We’ll read Warren and think about the relation between inferentialism and conventionalism, we’ll read Linnebo’s recent work on intuitionism and absolute generality, and we’ll contrast the inferentialist perspective on intuitionistic logic to that recently developed by Fine. Along the way we’ll present in overview some of the background technical ideas like the Curry-Howard isomorphism and normalization in proof-theory.

Philos 244: Seminar: Topics in Value Theory: Rationality and Action

Instructor: A.J. Julius  Tuesdays: 2:00pm – 4:50pm Location: Dodd 325

Subtitle: Action Affordance Attribution

Description:  “the distinction between what is personal to the individual and what is accidental to him,” writes marx, “is not a conceptual distinction but a historical fact,” one that “each age” makes for itself “not according to a concept but compelled by material collisions in life.” “the problem of action,” for harry frankfurt, “is to explicate the contrast between what an agent does and what merely happens to him.” we’ll read several 20th-century writings that isolate this action question. we’ll read texts by hegel that do the opposite, run the question together with all questions . hegel and the late-bourgeois action theorists will equip us to read kant’s theory of property as answering the action question or trying to. with help from marx, finally, we’ll historicize all of the above. owning and using/making–relations a person bears to a thing not a person—are represented not only in the greek ethical exaltation of self-sufficient action above world-dependent production but in the roman legal ratification of slavery as a master-person’s ownership of a human-thing. the attribution to a person of actions of making or using things, like attribution to the person of property in the things she uses or makes, expresses the predicament and orientation of the commodity-owner/exchanger/producer. the owner of nothing to sell but her own capacity for work, who exercises it at the will of an owner of things produced and usable in work like hers: how will she understand what’s happening to her as something she does?

Philos 287: Seminar: Philosophy of Language

Instructor: Sam Cumming Wednesdays: 2:00pm – 4:50pm Location: Dodd 325

Modality crops up all over the place in language, but most familiarly in auxiliaries like might, can and must,  as well as more artificial constructions like it is necessary/possible that  _______. The investigation of modality in logic and language profoundly affected philosophy in the later C20th, and has not lost steam in the C21st. Moreover, increasing attention has been paid to the features of modal systems in natural languages over that period (beginning especially with Kratzer).

This seminar will try to be both introductory and critical. We will get to know the standard apparatus of intensional semantics, but I will also argue that inference  is a better general basis for understanding modality than possible worlds . We will reconsider other central Kripkean ideas, including the rigidity of noun phrases, and the distinction between epistemic and metaphysical modality. The last part of the seminar will be exploratory, mapping out the close relationship between modals, which seem to mark the conclusion of an inference, and the evidential systems in many languages (not English!) which contribute information about the source of a claim (e.g., direct-perceptual, indirect-inferred, indirect-testimonial).

Winter 2023

Instructor: Henry Mendell Mondays: 2:00-5:00pm Location: Dodd 325

Skeptical themes in some middle dialogues of Plato

The middle dialogues of Plato have standardly been called ‘dogmatic’ dialogues where the principal interrogator, Socrates (or Parmenides, if his dialogue is middle) presents Plato’s views and arguments, although there has been in recent years a movement towards reading them with Plato removed more distantly from the philosophical content, where the question, “Who speaks for Plato?” does not necessarily get the obvious answer, the principal interrogator of the dialogue.  In between lie the plethora of meta-interpretative readings of these dialogues that seek to read into them systems or arguments that require various hidden keys of entry (e.g., that Plato is unfolding a pedagogical sequence in his entire corpus of a system or that Plato is revealing to an elite few something hidden to others).  I want to experiment with something else.  These dialogues are exercises in doing philosophy; so let’s pay attention to how their arguments unfold, with all the quirky and ironic claims about the arguments, theories, steps in arguments taken seriously.  Socrates may be famous for irony (and maybe we will have to look into what this claim amounts to), but maybe he is less ironic than many readers take him.  This flat reading may have interesting consequences about what we are expected to do when we read the dialogues.  The texts which I, so far, have found interesting for this sort of approach are:  Phaedo  (the only good philosopher is a dead one?),  Phaedrus  (since each step in the dialogue undermines the previous step, at the last step the dialogue seems to say, “You can’t understand me”?  See Gorgius,  Encomium of Helen ), the three analogies of the  Republic  and the subsequent educational program in  Republic  VII (Socrates has no theory of the Good; the account of mathematics is thin and at best allusive to issues of ontology), and perhaps the  Parmenides  (is Parmenides is merely doing what he says he is doing?).  The  Timaeus  (this is a likely account) is obvious on this issue, but maybe it is worth looking at it too (even if it is late, as most scholars think).  For a sense of my approach, look at my article in the second edition of the  Cambridge Companion to Plato , “Betwixt and Between:  Plato and the objects of mathematics.”

Philos C219: Topics in History of Philosophy

Instructor:  AJ Julius Wednesdays, Fridays: 10:00A-11:50A Location: Royce 154

We will take the quarter to read through Hegel’s Philosophy of right .

Interested students should contact Prof. Julius for more information. Please note, this is a concurrent graduate section for an undergraduate course, Philos C119. It satisfies the History Course requirement but does not satisfy the requirement for a graduate seminar in history.

Philos 232: Philosophy of Science

Instructor: Hayley Clatterbuck Wednesdays: 2:00-5:00pm Location: Dodd 325

Cultural and Biological Evolution

How do we explain uniquely human cognitive abilities, such as complex language, tool use, and cumulative culture? Traditional accounts postulate individual biological changes in the human lineage to explain each of these differences. However, given the short amount of time since our most recent common ancestor with chimpanzees, this seems quite evolutionarily implausible.

Increasingly, philosophers of biology have argued that our differences from nonhuman animals are rarely the result of natural selection and that we share most of our fundamental cognitive architecture with other species. Instead, most of our uniquely human traits are the result of much more rapid cumulative cultural evolution. On this account, a trait like language is more like reading (a cultural innovation) than bipedalism (a genetic one).

In this course, we will be examining the differences between cultural and natural selection in order to evaluate how key traits, like language, evolved. We will start by looking at how Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, originally formulated to explain changes in populations of organisms, was generalized and made substrate-neutral. Then, we will investigate the following questions: what conditions had to be in place for cumulative cultural evolution to arise? What are the different signatures of biological and cultural evolution? How can we tell whether a trait arose by biological or cultural evolution or both? What does the etiology of a trait tell us about whether it is innate, contingent, or universal? Finally, what implications does this debate have for our conception of human nature?

Philos C247: Topics in Political Philosophy

Instructor: Pamela Hieronymi Thursdays: 2:00-5:00pm Location: Dodd 325

Political Equality, Freedom, and Hierarchy

After a bit of orientation in the existing literature, the centerpiece of this seminar will be Niko Kolodny’s forthcoming book,  The Pecking Order: Social Hierarchy as a Philosophical Problem . Kolodny’s main contention is that moral and political theorizing needs to recognize, in addition to negative claims protecting the boundaries of persons and positive claims to benefits, a basic claim against inferiority, which entails the absence of a social hierarchy.

Philos 254A: Legal Theory Workshop

Instructor: Mark Greenberg Thursdays: 12:25-2:25pm Location: Law 1314

The unusual seminar is structured around the Legal Theory Workshop. The Workshop is modeled on Ronald Dworkin and Thomas Nagel’s long-running workshop at NYU.  It brings leading scholars from around the world to discuss their works in progress with graduate students, law students, and faculty. The papers can be diverse, ranging across, for example, legal philosophy, moral philosophy, metaphysics, the relevance of philosophy of language to legal interpretation, and legal theory more generally.

The seminar involves biweekly discussions with visiting scholars, with intervening preparatory weeks in which the class discusses the paper to be presented in the following week. In the preparatory weeks, students gain relevant background but we also focus on how to develop a good philosophical question and what makes for a good philosophical conversation.  The art of asking good questions is a major focus of the class. The written work for the class involves “question papers,” which include questions for the speaker.

This year’s program includes a distinguished group of scholars. The schedule is available at  https://law.ucla.edu/centers/interdisciplinary-studies/law-and-philosophy-program/events/legal-theory-workshop/ .

No prior background is necessary, but students should be open to in-depth investigation of theoretical issues. All philosophy students are welcome and have the relevant preparation. Background will be supplied in the weeks in between speaker visits.

Philos M257: Philosophy Legal Theory

Instructor: Andrew Currie Mondays: 5:30-7:30pm Location: Law 3393

Philosophy of Property

This seminar investigates the philosophical foundations of private property. The law of property defines what is mine and what is yours: is this definition purely conventional or does it reflect a natural order? How, if at all, is the intervention of the state in the protection of property rights justified? We will consider justificatory and critical accounts of private property, including accounts of its genealogy, and investigate the relationship between property and sovereignty. We may also examine whether there are limits on what may be treated as property.

Please note, this course meets on the law school’s Spring 2023 Semester calendar , with the first class meeting on Monday, January 23rd and the final class meeting on Tuesday, April 25th (an Administrative Makeup Monday).

Philos 282: Seminar: Metaphysics

Instructor: Calvin Normore Tuesdays: 4:00-7:00pm Location: Dodd 325

SUBTITLE: TBA

The course will take up both contemporary views about and historical treatments of three questions. 1) what is Truth, 2) what are the truths and 3) why should we care about either of the first two. More details TBA.

Philos 286: Philosophy of Psychology

Instructors: Josh Armstrong & Carlotta Pavese Tuesdays: 12:30-3:30pm Location: Dodd 325

Language and Skill

Is the ability to speak a language an acquired skill? Leading proponents of the generative approach to human language—notably Chomsky (2000) and Pinker (2003)—have argued that the thesis that language capacities are skills is hopelessly confused and at odds with a range of empirical evidence, which suggests that human language capacities are grounded in a biologically inherited set of language instincts or a Universal Grammar (UG). However, many of the arguments leveled against thinking of language as a skill rest on a debatable conception of what skills are. It is therefore worth investigating whether this general resistance to the claim that human language capacities are skills has been fostered by naïve and implausible conceptions of the nature of skills and of skilled action.

We will start by trying to understand what skills are—in contrast with other sorts of practical abilities, such as instincts. We will look at the literature in the philosophy of mind, starting from anti-cognitivists such as Dreyfus and Ryle, to then look at intellectualists, such as McDowell, as well as at the most recent cognitivist (Sutton and Christensen, Pavese, Krakauer, Fridland) and anti-cognitivist developments (Hutto, Gallagher). We will also look at the philosophy of biology and at evolutionary psychology in order to find resources for demarcating skills from practical abilities that are not skills. Armed with a renewed conception of what skills are, we will look at evidence from both the study of language development and acquisition, as well as from the literature on the evolution of language, that might favor the hypothesis that language is a skill after all.

Philos 206: Topics in Medieval Philosophy

Instructors: Brian Copenhaver and Calvin Normore Mondays: 12:00-2:00pm Location: Royce 306

Picturing Knowledge in Historical Perspective

Whether thought is best understood by analogy with language, with pictorial representation or with both is an issue at least as old as Plato’s Cratylus and as contemporary as 2020 revision of the article on Mental Representation in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. This interdisciplinary seminar will attempt to trace from late antiquity into the 17th century, both some of the ways in which pictures were used as tools to create and express knowledge claims and some of the theoretical issues surrounding those uses.

Beginning with an outline of the issues and a discussion of the structure and limits of pictorial representation we will turn to the use of diagrams in late antiquity, to the role of icons in Byzantine thought and to discussions of picturing in Latin Medieval traditions. We will then turn to the dramatic changes in the nature and use of pictorial representation from the fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth centuries ending with a discussion of Descartes’ use of pictures and diagrams.

The seminar will meet weekly for two hours in a hybrid format and there will be an optional third hour scheduled at participants convenience for preparatory and follow-up meetings. The instructors of record will begin and end the series of classes but most of the classes will be given by experts in the particular subjects being discussed.

Philos C210: Spinoza

Instructor: John Carriero Wednesdays, Fridays: 10:00A-11:50A Location: Bunche 3150

Interested students should contact Prof. Carriero for more information. Please note, this is a concurrent graduate section for an undergraduate course, Philos C110, and does not satisfy the requirement for a graduate seminar in history.

Philos 248: Problems in Moral Philosophy

Instructors: Barbara Herman and Seana Shiffrin Wednesdays: 2:00-5:00pm Location: Dodd 325

Staying Within the Lines? The directive import of moral and legal norms

Accounts of both moral and legal prescriptions typically involve both the identification and articulation of moral and legal values and the identification and articulation of moral and legal norms (to use a term meant to be neutral between rules, directives, standards, and other norms that connect those values to actions and motives). The seminar will explore the moral significance of having and crafting norms, of the form those norms take, of their articulation and enforcement, and of the attitudes that agents and citizens should have toward the lines these norms draw. Among the topics to be considered include: why there are duties; discretion and imperfect duties; purposive interpretation as a necessary condition of compliance; rules vs standards; underenforcement and overarticulation; supererogation

Philos 257: Philosophy Legal Theory

Instructor: Andrew Currie Mondays: 4:00-7:00pm Location: Law 3393

Epistemology & Law

This seminar brings some contemporary work in epistemology to bear on the dual questions of how the law is known (how we work out what the law is) and how the law knows (how the law takes itself to know something). Our focus will be on common law systems of precedent, in which decisions of courts are themselves sources of law. According to some theorists, judicial decisions contribute to the law by giving rise to rules or to reasons; according to others, judicial decisions contribute to the law by forming part of the materials which any theory of law should fit and justify. After considering these theories, we will ask whether we can understand precedent by instead appealing to the notion of abduction or inference to the best explanation. We may turn to Bayesian epistemology, with the aim of understanding the relationship between abduction, Bayesian confirmation theory, and precedent. We will conclude by examining the relationship between legal proof and knowledge.

Philos 283: Seminar: Theory of Knowledge

Instructor: Carlotta Pavese Mondays: 2:00-4:50pm Location: Dodd 325

Seminar: Theory of Knowledge

This is a graduate seminar in epistemology, focusing on the relation between knowledge and action. We will start discussing virtue epistemology—an approach to epistemology which aims at understanding knowledge on the model of skilled or virtuous action. We will think about the consequences of thinking of epistemic states on the model of actions and we will ask whether epistemic competences are better thought along the lines of skills, or virtues, or what else. We will discuss whether knowledge plays a normative role vis a vis assertion and action. Then we will look at theories that attempt to understand action, and in particular intentional action, at least in part in terms of knowledge. We will think about Anscombe’s notion of practical knowledge, about what theoretical role it might play vis a vis skilled and intentional action, and about how it ought to be understood if it has to play such theoretical roles. We will discuss whether intelligent action is constitutively related to knowledge. Starting from Aristotle and Ryle, we will read about skills, know-how, and technai, with a glance at the recent literature, and we will think about some outstanding problems facing the so-called intellectualist legend.

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 HZDR PhD Seminar 2022

In July this year, a joint CASUSCON conference was organised for the first time in Wrocław, which was initiated by the University of Wrocław and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf/CASUS . It aimed to strengthen cooperation between the two centres by establishing contacts for broadening research activities through cross-border cooperation. The initiative received organisational and financial support from the Ministry of Education and Science and the Saxon State Ministry of Science . 

To expand this collaboration and encourage doctoral students from UWr and HZDR/CASUS to establish scientific contacts, the organisers invite you to participate in the HZDR PhD Seminar 2022 , which will take place on 19 and 20 October at the Scandic Wrocław Hotel at ul. Piłsudskiego 53/57. Doctoral students will have the opportunity to listen to scientific and informative sessions and keynote speakers, as well as participate in workshops.  A contribution by presenting a poster on a topic of your choice is expected.  

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Some results uranium dioxide powder structure investigation

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• Published: 28 June 2009
• Volume 50 , pages 281–285, ( 2009 )

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Features of the macrostructure and microstructure of uranium dioxide powders are considered. Assumptions are made on the mechanisms of the behavior of powders of various natures during pelletizing. Experimental data that reflect the effect of these powders on the quality of fuel pellets, which is evaluated by modern procedures, are presented. To investigate the structure of the powders, modern methods of electron microscopy, helium pycnometry, etc., are used. The presented results indicate the disadvantages of wet methods for obtaining the starting UO 2 powders by the ammonium diuranate (ADU) flow sheet because strong agglomerates and conglomerates, which complicate the process of pelletizing, are formed. The main directions of investigation that can lead to understanding the regularities of formation of the structure of starting UO 2 powders, which will allow one to control the process of their fabrication and stabilize the properties of powders and pellets, are emphasized.

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However, up to now, the main carriers of catalytic additives have been mineral sorbents: silica gels, alumogels. This is obviously due to the fact that they consist of pure homogeneous components SiO2 and Al2O3, respectively. It is generally known that impurities, especially the ash elements, are catalytic poisons that reduce the effectiveness of the catalyst. Therefore, carbon sorbents with 5-15% by weight of ash elements in their composition are not used in the above mentioned technologies. However, in such an important field as a gas-mask technique, carbon sorbents (active carbons) are carriers of catalytic additives, providing effective protection of a person against any types of potent poisonous substances (PPS). In ESPE “JSC "Neorganika" there has been developed the technology of unique ashless spherical carbon carrier-catalysts by the method of liquid forming of furfural copolymers with subsequent gas-vapor activation, brand PAC. Active carbons PAC have 100% qualitative characteristics of the three main properties of carbon sorbents: strength - 100%, the proportion of sorbing pores in the pore space – 100%, purity - 100% (ash content is close to zero). A particularly outstanding feature of active PAC carbons is their uniquely high mechanical compressive strength of 740 ± 40 MPa, which is 3-7 times larger than that of  such materials as granite, quartzite, electric coal, and is comparable to the value for cast iron - 400-1000 MPa. This allows the PAC to operate under severe conditions in moving and fluidized beds.  Obviously, it is time to actively develop catalysts based on PAC sorbents for oil refining, petrochemicals, gas processing and various technologies of organic synthesis.

Victor M. Mukhin was born in 1946 in the town of Orsk, Russia. In 1970 he graduated the Technological Institute in Leningrad. Victor M. Mukhin was directed to work to the scientific-industrial organization "Neorganika" (Elektrostal, Moscow region) where he is working during 47 years, at present as the head of the laboratory of carbon sorbents.     Victor M. Mukhin defended a Ph. D. thesis and a doctoral thesis at the Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia (in 1979 and 1997 accordingly). Professor of Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia. Scientific interests: production, investigation and application of active carbons, technological and ecological carbon-adsorptive processes, environmental protection, production of ecologically clean food.   

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