Calendar: Oct. 27 to Nov. 3

Religious Services

Thursday, Oct. 27

12 p.m. Lutheran Discussion Group will meet in Levering. For more information call Rev. Don Burggraf at (410) 235-2356.

5 p.m. A Divine Liturgy and Dinner for Eastern Orthodox students will be held at the Interfaith Center.

7:30 p.m. Baptist Bible study will take place at the University Baptist Church.

9 p.m. Unitarian Universalist Services with Dr. Larry Egbert will be held at the Interfaith Center Library.

Friday, Oct. 28

1:15 p.m. Jumah prayers will be held at the Interfaith Center. Visit http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumso for more information.

8 p.m. Seventh Day Adventist services with Fredrick Russell will be held at the Interfaith Center.

Saturday, Oct. 29

Time TBA, Shabbat Dinner at the Interfaith center; for more information and updated times visit http://www.jhu.edu/~jsa.

Sunday, Oct. 30

11 a.m. Catholic Mass will be held at the Interfaith Center. Visit http://www.catholic.jhu.edu for more information.

11 a.m. Aarthi will be held at the Interfaith Center, lower level. For more information, e-mail HSC@jhu.edu.

2 p.m. Stepping Stones Ministry will hold services in Shaffer 3, followed by a fellowship meeting at 3:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m. Baptist service and contemporary worship will take place at the University Baptist Church.

Wednesday, Nov. 2

7 p.m. Buddhist meditation will be practiced at the Interfaith Center.

8 p.m. The Graduate Christian Fellowship will have its weekly meeting in the Marylander Apartments in the London Room. For more information about the meeting, e-mail Bmac@jhu.edu.

Performing Arts

Friday, Oct. 28

8 p.m. Come see comedy improv with the Buttered Niblets at Arellano Theater in Levering Hall. This event costs $1.

Saturday, Oct. 29

7:30 p.m. Opera Potpourri: The Miracle of Mozart will take place at the Peabody Institute in the Friedberg Hall. This is a free event.

8 p.m. Barrymore's Ghost will be performed in Arellano in Levering Hall. This is a free event. For more information call (410) 516-2224.

Sunday, Oct. 30

2 p.m. Prepatory Young Person's String Program will take place at the Peabody Institute in the Friedberg Hall. This is a free event.

Monday, Oct. 31

7:30 p.m. The Peabody Singers will perform at the Peabody Institute in Griswold Hall. Tickets range in cost from $8-18.

Thursday, Nov. 3

8 p.m. See the Upright Citizen's Brigade Comedy Truope at Shriver Hall. This event is free with college ID. For more information call Rachel Heimann at (410) 516-0333 or e-mail her at reh@jhu.edu. Also visit http://www.jhu.edu/~hillel.

Miscellaneous Events

Thursday, Oct. 27

5 p.m. A Diabetes Dinner at Rocky Run with 10% of all sales going to support the American Diabetes Association. This event is being sponsored by Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity. For more information contact Javier Russo or Militza Machuca at jrusso10@jhu.edu or militzamachuca@jhu.edu.

6 p.m. There will be an SAC General Meeting in Mattin 162. For more information contact Alice Li at sacexec@jhu.edu.

Friday, Oct. 28

4:30 p.m. The JHSPH Happy Hour will take place in the Bloomberg building in East Baltimore in the first floor student lounge. This free event is sponsored by The Insoluble Fraction and the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Social Group.

5 p.m. The National Aquarium in Baltimore offers a discounted admission of $5 every Friday after 5 p.m. The discounted admission is a great deal, so don't pass it up! Even if you have been to the aquarium before, head down to check out the new dolphin show. For more information, including hours of operation, group discounts and directions, call (410) 567-3845.

7 p.m. The Scream Movie Marathon will take place at the Hop Stop. For more information contact Savithri Raja at (410) 516-8209 or at savithri@jhu.edu.

8 p.m. The Maryland Space Grant Observatory located in Bloomberg offers you a free chance to look at the solar system with its telescopes, weather permitting. Call (410) 516-6525 for updates and observing conditions before heading to Bloomberg.

10 p.m. Coffee Grounds takes place every Friday night in the Mattin Center Silk Road Cafe. Come out for the free Krispy Kreme doughnuts and coffee, and stay for the fun evening activity.

10 p.m. The RAB Midnight Masquerade Cruise around Baltimore will take place in the Inner Harbour. Buses for this event leave at 9:30 p.m. and transportation is included in the $20 ticket cost. For more information visit http://www.jhu.edu/~rab.

Monday, Oct. 31

7 p.m. Inter-Fraternity Council Meeting will happen in Shriver in the Board room. For more information call Robert Turning at (410) 516-2224 or e-mail greeklife @jhu.edu.

9 p.m. Monday Night Football will be shown at the HopStop. This is a free event and will last until midnight.

Tuesday, Nov. 1

6:30 p.m. Free Massages will be given at the HopStop every Tuesday. For more information call Savithri Raja at (410) 516-8209 or e-mail savithri@jhu.edu.

7 p.m. The Panhellenic Council Meeting will take place in the Mattin Center 210. For more information contact Ali Rickards at (410) 516-2224 or e-mail ajr484@aol.com.

7:30 p.m. The Student Council General Meeting will take place in the Shriver Hall Board Room. For more information contact Samantha Shepard at stuco@jhu.edu or visit http://web.jhu.edu/studentprograms/involvement.

Thursday, Nov. 3

6 p.m. There will be a SAC General Meeting in Mattin 162. For more information contact Alice Li at sacexec@jhu.edu.

Lectures and Workshops

Thursday, Oct. 27

3:30 Omar Knio, professor at the Mechanical Engineering department will speak on Development and Applications of Reactive Multilayers in Hodson, room 210. This is a free event sponsored by Mechanical Engineering Department.

4 p.m. Responsive Materials from De Novo Designed Peptides: Progress Towards Novel Tissue Engineering Scaffolds is the title of a lecture to be given by Joel P. Schneider, Ph.D., associate professor at the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Delaware.

4 p.m. The Seventh Annual Alan J. Goldman Lecture: Scheduling an Air Taxi Service will be held at Maryland Hall, room 110. George Nemhauser, Ph.D., A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Institute Professor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology will speak at this free event.

6 p.m. Gulru Cakmak will lecture on Camille Pissaro and French Landscape Painting at the BMA garden room. This free event is sponsored by the Humanities Center.

Friday, Oct. 28

11 a.m. CEAFM Seminar with Dr. Mathew Wells, Ph.D., professor at Yale, will take place in Maryland 110. This free event is sponsored by CEAFM at JHU. For more information contact Rob LeBlanc at (410) 516-0463.

2 p.m. The APL Colloquium presents Pakistan: Between Mosque, Military and Nuclear Weapons with Ambassador Husain Haqqani. This free event will take place in the Applied Physics Laboratory in the Parsons Auditorium and is sponsored by the Carenegie Endowment for International Peace and APL Colloquium. For more information contact Laura Mercer at (443) 778-5625.

3 p.m. Saikiran Rapaka of JHU will give a lecture on Renormalized Numerical Simulation of Flow in Porous Media. This free event will take place in Latrobe Hall room 107 and is sponsored by Mechanical Engineering at JHU. For more information call Deana Santoni-Long at (410) 516-6451.

3:30 p.m. The Stress in a Non-Uniform Suspension of Heavy Particles will be discussed by Quan Zhang of JHU. This free event will take place in Latrobe Hall room 107 and is sponsored by Mechanical Engineering at JHU. For more information call Deana Santoni-Long at (410) 516-6451.

4 p.m. Tudor and Stuart Club Talk: "Changing Into an Animal: Joyce's Ulysses" will be given by Maud Ellman of the University of Notre Dame. This free event will take place in Gilman 323 and is sponsored by the English Dept at JHU. For more information call (410) 516-4313.

Monday, Oct. 31

12:15 p.m. Genes, Proteins and Parkinson's Disease will be discussed by Ted Dawson of JHMI. This free event will take place at 3520 San Martin Drive and is sponsored by the Carnegie Institution.

4 p.m. Andrej Zlatos of the University of Wisconsin will give a lecture on "Diffusion and Mixing in Fluid Flow." This free event will take place in Krieger 308 and is sponsored by Analysis.

4 p.m. Is the Cortex a Digital Computer? is the title of a lecture to be given by Dana Ballard of the University of California. This free event will take place in Krieger 338 and is sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute.

4 p.m. Seth Schwartz will give a seminar TBA with Gerson D. Cohen, professor of rabbinic culture and history, the Jewish Theological Seminary at Columbia University. This free event will take place in Gilman 315.

5 p.m. A Poetry Reading featuring Breyten Breytenbach will take place at Homewood campus. This is a free event sponsored by the Humanities Center. For more information call Marva Phillip at (410) 516-7619.

5:15 p.m. Nietzsche's Curses will be discussed by Manfred Schneider, Ph.D., the visiting Max Kade Professor at the University of Virginia. This free event will take place in Gilman 328 and is sponsored by the Department of German. For more information call (410) 516-7508.

Tuesday, Nov. 1

8 a.m. The DLC Diversity Conference with Dr. Valerie Petit Wilson of the Leadership Alliance will take place in the Glass Pavilion. This free event is sponsored by Johns Hopkins Institutions Diversity Leadership Council. For more information contact Nicole L. Beverly at diversityconverence@jhu.edu.

4 p.m. Yuri Tschinkel of the Mathematisches Institut G9attingen in Germany will speak on "Geometry Over Finite Fields." This free event will take place in Krieger 308 and is sponsored by the Department of Mathematics.

4 p.m. Global Dimming: A New Estimate will be discussed by V. Ramanathan of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of California, San Diego. This free event will take place in the Olin Auditorium and is sponsored by the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

4:15 p.m. Photochemical Generation of Compound I and its Relations will be discussed by Professor Martin Newcomb of the University of Illinois. This free event will take place in Remsen 233 and is sponsored by Dr. David Goldberg of the Department of Chemistry. For more information call Rosalie Elder at (410) 516-7432.

Wednesday, Nov. 2

2:30 p.m. APL Colloquium -- Warfighting in the 21st Century will be given by Thomas Barnett, Ph.D., author and strategic planner. This free event will take place in the Applied Physics Laboratory in the Parsons Auditorium and is sponsored by APL Colloquium at JHU. For more information call Laura Mercer at (443) 778-5625.

4 p.m. Professor of Health, Behavior and Society Carl Latkin will hold Preventitive Medicine/Public Health Grand Rounds at Sheldon Hall in Bloomberg Building on 615 N. Wolfe Street, East Baltimore Campus. For more information call Yolander Dosey at (410) 955-3540.

5:15 p.m. "Il Cappello Di Don Rodrigo: Maschere E Identita nei Promessi Sposi" will be given by Professor Fabio Finotti of the Italian University of Trieste. This free event will take place in Gilman room 223 and is sponsored by the Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures at JHU.

8 p.m. "Polling and Politics" will be held in Shriver Hall in the Auditorium. This free event is sponsored by the 2005 MSE Symposium.

Thursday, Nov. 3

12 p.m. Mattin Art Munch: Making the Most of Your Travel Photographs will be hosted by Jay Van Rensselaer, B.A. and director of JHU Homewood Photo Services. This free event will be held in Suite 226 in the Mattin Center.

2 p.m. Yuri Tschinke, Professor Mathematisches Institut G9attingen, Germany, will speak on "Arithmetic Over Function Fields." This free event will be held in Krieger 302 and is sponsored by Algebraic & Complex Geometry and Number Theory.

3 p.m. The Bell Lecture -- Review of Experimental Techniques For High Rate Deformation and Shock Studies will be given by John Field of the University of Cambridge. This free event will take place in Hodson 210 and is sponsored by the Department of Mechanical Engineering. For more information contact Deana Santoni-Long at (410) 516-6451.

3:30 p.m. Peter Goldreich of the California Institute of Technology and the Institute for Advanced Study will speak on Planet Formation. This free event will be held in the Bloomberg Center's Schafler Auditorium and is sponsored by Physics and Astronomy.

4 p.m. "African American Musicians as Artists, Critics and Activists" will be given by Dr. Eric Porter, professor of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This free event will be held in the Sherwood Room in Levering Hall.

6 p.m. Pre-Health Junior/Senior Medical School Application Meeting will take place in Hodson 110. This free event is sponsored by pre-professional programs.