Harpur Calendar of Events

SEFF 2023 is coming to HCS @ 1803 Castle Gardens Rd #2, Vestal, NY 13850

There will be van service between campus and the venue!!! Pick up and Drop off will be the at the small parking lot/loading dock behind the Lecture Hall/Classroom Wing, across the road from Parking Lot L.
 
Follow us at @seffbing and check the website for updates in the next 24hrs https://www.binghamton.edu/cinema/festival

The full schedule, including transportation, is below:

SEFF 2023: SUN, DEC 3 - DAY 2
11:30am Van leaves BU
12pm Gathering
12:15pm Van leaves BU 
12:45pm Program 4: TRT: 36 min + 10min Q&A
1:30pm Van leaves HCS
2pm Van leaves BU
2:15pm- Program 5: TRT: 50 min + 10min Q&A
3:15pm Van leaves HCS
3:45pm Van leaves BU
4pm Program 6: TRT: 46min + 10min Q&A
5:30pm Van leaves HCS 

Join Binghamton University's Department of Music for the fall opera, a production of "Hansel and Gretel," Sunday, Dec. 3. Performances will take place at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. in the Anderson Center Chamber Hall. Tickets are $10 for general admission; $5 for seniors, veterans and University staff/faculty; and free for children and current students with their student ID cards.

Join Binghamton University's Department of Music for the fall opera, a production of "Hansel and Gretel," Sunday, Dec. 3. Performances will take place at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. in the Anderson Center Chamber Hall. Tickets are $10 for general admission; $5 for seniors, veterans and University staff/faculty; and free for children and current students with their student ID cards.

Feet in the Water, Head on Fire (2023, Canada, 92 min), Terra Long's feature debut, is a breathtaking portrait of California's Coachella Valley that is both anchored in the specifics of place and community, while freely exploring the limits of cinematic time and space. Shaped by seismic forces of the San Andreas Fault, the Coachella Valley is home to an agricultural community built around the date palm trees introduced to the region in the early 1900s. Today, the land and its people face combined threads from economic upheaval, US immigration policy, and climate change. This event is open to all. $4 admission at the door.

Join the Binghamton University Music Department at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 4, in Casadesus Recital Hall as members of our Piano Ensemble perform pieces by Chaminade, Tchaikovsky, Shubert, Tailleferre and more. All events in Casadesus Recital Hall are free and open to the public.

Vincent Canby of The New York Times called Monty Python's Life of Brian "the foulest-spoken biblical epic ever made, as well as the best-humored—a nonstop orgy of assaults, not on anyone's virtue, but on the funny bone." Join the Department of Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies to finish off the semester by watching this film, heralded as one of the greatest comedies of all time — and screened as part of the course "Swords & Sandals: Ancient Film", an exploration of how the ancient Mediterranean world is depicted in this visual medium — at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Dec. 4, in AM-189.

Common mental health disorders are a worldwide epidemic and there is no evidence that the epidemic is subsiding. Societal changes, such as urbanicity as well as societal crises such as pandemics, economic crisis and war amplify the adverse effects on mental health. Evidence for leading theories that explain the onset and maintenance of common mental health conditions is fragmented, mostly focusing on a single etiological factor. Whereas, mental health conditions are the result of the interplay of mental-, biological, stress related- and societal factors that can change over time. In this presentation first steps towards an integrative dynamical framework including the impact of societal challenges will be discussed that do incorporate the interplay between relevant factors that contribute to mental health conditions in order to explore new targets for prevention and treatment. The opportunity of using technology will be demonstrated as potential next step. Opportunities and challenges will be discussed, such as sustainable dissemination of digital interventions and the role of artificial intelligence.
 
Dr. Claudi Bockting is a Visiting Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard University, a Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry at the Amsterdam University Medical Centers, and the co-director of the Centre for Urban Mental Health at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. As a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (UvA-IAS), she studied the use of complex systems models in order to explore new targets for prevention, treatment and relapse prevention of mental disorders.
 
For more information, contact Luis Rocha (rocha@binghamton.edu). http://coco.binghamton.edu/

The UDiversity Educational Institute and the Center for Learning and Teaching present the Fall 2023 Inclusive Pedagogy Series. This hybrid four-part series will be offered both in-person and via Zoom, on alternate course schedules, to accommodate faculty on all University campuses. Lunch will be provided for in-person participants, but space is limited, and an RSVP is required. All sessions occur from noon-1:30 p.m., in UU324 (exceptions noted). For more info and to sign up, visit https://bengaged.binghamton.edu/events_list

The Center for Middle East and North Africa studies hosts a book launch for Azize Aslan's new book, "Anticapitalist economy in Rojava."

Join the Binghamton University Music Department for a performance of the Percussion Ensemble and Steel Drum Band at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 5, in the Anderson Center Chamber Hall. Tickets are $10 for general admission; $5 for seniors, veterans and University staff/faculty; and free for children and current students with their student ID cards.

Join the Binghamton University Music Department as the Flute Ensemble gives its semester performance at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 5, in Casadesus Recital Hall. All events in Casadesus Recital Hall are free and open to the public.

The UDiversity Educational Institute and the Center for Learning and Teaching present the Fall 2023 Inclusive Pedagogy Series. This hybrid four-part series will be offered both in-person and via Zoom, on alternate course schedules, to accommodate faculty on all University campuses. Lunch will be provided for in-person participants, but space is limited, and an RSVP is required. All sessions occur from noon-1:30 p.m., in UU324 (exceptions noted). For more info and to sign up, visit https://bengaged.binghamton.edu/events_list

The study of motifs in networks can help researchers uncover links between the structure and function of networks in biology, sociology, economics, and many other areas. Empirical studies of networks have identified feedback loops, feedforward loops, and several other small structures as “motifs” that occur frequently in real-world networks and may contribute by various mechanisms to important functions in these systems. However, these mechanisms are unknown for many of these motifs. To create a foundation for uncovering these mechanisms via theoretical models, I study the incremental contributions of motifs in networks to correlation patterns in node activity in linear stochastic systems. The results paint an intuitive picture of the emergence of correlation patterns in complex systems, and they provide insights into the issues that arise when researchers use correlation patterns in high-dimensional systems to infer causal relationships. Building on these insights, I propose to refine structural inference from lagged correlation matrices via easy-to-compute correction terms. This approach achieves accuracies higher than commonly used methods in structural inference from time-series data (i.e., Granger causality, transfer entropy, and convergent crossmapping), but with much shorter computation time than possible with any of these methods. It is thus a promising alternative to current paradigms for the inference of linear models, and it is an example of how ideas from network theory and dynamical systems can improve and extend the tools for data science. I will close with an outlook on my current work, in which I work to extend this motif-based framework to the dynamics of coevolving networks.
 
Dr. Alice Schwarze is an applied mathematician with interests in dynamical systems and complex networks. She received her DPhil (PhD) in mathematics from the University of Oxford in 2019. Subsequently, she has conducted postdoctoral research at the Department of Biology at the University of Washington (2019-2021) and the Department of Mathematics at Dartmouth College (2021-present). Dr. Schwarze is committed to improving diversity, equity, and inclusion in academia and higher education. Since 2020, she has convened the Women in Network Science seminar to improve the visibility of women researchers in network science and further recognition for their work. In 2021, she was elected president of the Women in Network Science Society. With the aim to make network science more diverse and inclusive, she joined the board of the Network Science Society in 2023.

For more information, contact Hiroki Sayama (sayama@binghamton.edu). http://coco.binghamton.edu/

Join our Binghamton University Music Department composition students and faculty and hear new works by our University composers, as well as works by Michael Poll, guitar, during a performance at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 6, in Casadesus Recital Hall. All events in Casadesus Recital Hall are free and open to the public.

Our speaker will be Dr. Polly L. Arnold - Chemical Sciences Division Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Berkeley College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley. Polly will be doing a presentation on the subject of Inorganic/Organometallic Chemistry.

Dr. Arnold has lectured worldwide on her science and on diversity in STEM matters and has advised both government and industry. In 2017, she was awarded the Lord Kelvin Prize, Scotland's senior research prize in the physical sciences. She was also appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2017 for services to chemistry and to women in science, technology, engineeering and mathematics.

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2018 for substantial contributions to the improvement of natural knowledge. Last year, she was also selected by the American Chemical Society as one of the twelve LGBT in STEM trailblazers.

This illustrious group of child musicians has been delighting music lovers across the globe for six centuries with their purity of tone, distinctive charm and popular repertoire. The enormously popular chorus is composed of four touring choirs that hail from dozens of nations and together give over 300 concerts a year around the world. Christmas in Vienna showcases these gifted musicians with voices of unforgettable beauty in an extraordinary program featuring Austrian folk songs, classical masterpieces, popular songs and, of course, holiday favorites. LINK: https://bit.ly/42BrCil

Register online for Zoom event

Join the artist, Michal Heiman, in conversation with Elizabeth Mozer (Associate Professor, Theatre) about linkages between Heiman's Dress Project and Mozer's one-woman play The Asylum Project. Learn more about the exhibition, Michal Heiman: Chronically Linked.

Direct from Bulgaria! Join the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, led by principal conductor Nayden Todorov, on an afternoon journey through the works of the world’s greatest composer, Ludwig van Beethoven. LINK: https://bit.ly/3X1W6bY

After nearly selling out the theater in 2022, the Red Hot Chilli Pipers (that’s pipers, not peppers) return to the Anderson Center in March 2024 to celebrate St. Patrick in foot-stomping Binghamton style. Their passion for pipes will leave you breathless!LINK: https://bit.ly/43BjCiH

One of the world’s most celebrated illusionists, Rob Lake’s mind-blowing illusions dazzle and entertain millions across network television, in Times Square, on the Vegas strip, in Atlantic City and before sold-out audiences in casinos, arenas and theatres worldwide. Named “The World's Greatest Illusionist” by NBC, Lake is internationally renowned for his mesmerizing and award-winning illusion spectacular. LINK: https://bit.ly/3P8hYAO