Amber Hale
March 13, 2014
9:30 a.m. NUR201
“Analysis of the Role of Two Autophagy Pathway Related Genes, Beclin 1 and Tsc1, in Murine Mammary Gland Development and Differentiation”
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Religions have received much bad press in this new age of anxious states. Theorists of globalization, world economic uncertainty, and ‘national security’, for example, publicly worry about the role politicized Islamic religiosity might be playing in the press-termed ‘Arab Spring’ and its connection to violence. Other thinkers and policy mavens, particularly those associated with the burgeoning field of ‘risk analysis’, are increasingly edgy about religiously inflected Hindu and Buddhist nationalisms in South Asia, the rise of new forms of Christianity in Africa, or the possibly ‘destabilizing’ consequences of new religious enthusiasms in Russia and China. In this conference we seek to explore the many ways religions as practices are participating in the lives of people and groups living within the increasingly fragile and unsettling developments of our hyper age.
In the wake of the triple disasters of March 11, 2011 which devastated the Tohoku region of Japan with a massive earthquake, an enormous set of tsunami, and the catastrophic failure of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactor, both Japanese and foreign observers struggled to make sense of these events. Bestor examines some ways in which Japanese culture frames disasters, and based on fieldwork in Tohoku in 2011 and 2012, how local meaning-making unfolds.
This event is free, open to the public, and sponsored in part by: The Department of Anthropology, Student Government Association, and the Japan/America Society of Kentucky.
In the wake of the triple disasters of March 11, 2011 which devastated the Tohoku region of Japan with a massive earthquake, an enormous set of tsunami, and the catastrophic failure of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactor, both Japanese and foreign observers struggled to make sense of these events. Bestor examines some ways in which Japanese culture frames disasters, and based on fieldwork in Tohoku in 2011 and 2012, how local meaning-making unfolds.
This event is free, open to the public, and sponsored in part by: The Department of Anthropology, Student Government Association, and the Japan/America Society of Kentucky
It is often said that soliton contributions to perturbative processes in QFT are exponentially suppressed by a form-factor. We will provide a derivation of this form-factor by studying the soliton-antisoliton pair-production amplitude. This reduces to the calculation of a matrix element in the quantum mechanics on the soliton moduli space. We will investigate the conditions under which the latter leads to exponential suppression. We will also discuss how it suggests that the instanton-solitons of N = 2 SYM in 5D will not be suppressed and the implications for its relation to the (2,0) theory in 6D.
In the wake of the triple disasters of March 11, 2011 which devastated the Tohoku region of Japan with a massive earthquake, an enormous set of tsunami, and the catastrophic failure of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactor, both Japanese and foreign observers struggled to make sense of these events. Bestor examines some ways in which Japanese culture frames disasters, and based on fieldwork in Tohoku in 2011 and 2012, how local meaning-making unfolds.
Dr. Bestor earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University and is Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University. His books include: Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society (edited with Victoria Bestor and Akiko Yamagata, 2011), Doing Fieldwork in Japan (2003), and Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World (2004).
The Anthropology Graduate Student Association (AGSA) invites you to join the Department of Anthropology for our 13th annual Distinguished Lecture Series featuring cultrual anthropologist Dr. Thedodore Bestor. This event is free, and open to all.
The remarkable progress of large-scale astronomical surveys in the last two decades have allowed us to constrain the current cosmological model to an unprecedented precision. At the same time, the field of computational cosmology has emerged, and evolved hand-in-hand with the observational cosmology. In this talk, I will review the history and current status of observational cosmology, and describe how supercomputers have helped to shape our current views of cosmological structure formation. In the field of computational cosmology, I argue that we are now entering the third revolution in the cosmological study of galaxy formation. In the latter part of my talk, I will also discuss a separate work on the accretion onto supermassive black holes, and its cosmological importance.
Civil War: The Untold Story is a 5-part documentary series features University of Kentucky historian Amy Murrell Taylor. The documentary will premier in April on Kentucky Educational Television.
This event will feature a film screening of Episode 4: Death Knell of the Confederacy followed by a panel discussion/Q&A with:
FREE ADMISSION. Open to the public. Seating limited. First-come, first-served.
Join us for a sneak-peek screening of Civil War: The Untold Story, a visually stunning new 5-part documentary series narrated by Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey) and produced for public television by Great Divide Pictures. We will show Episode 4, Death Knell of the Confederacy which focuses on the Battles of Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and the 1864 Campaign for Atlanta.
Featured as on camera historian in the series is UK Associate Professor of History Amy Murrell Taylor. The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion: The Civil War in 2014: Does it still matter, and why?
The event is sponsored by the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences.
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THE ABSTRACT Neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) is a beyond-the-standard-model physics process in which a nucleus (A,Z) decays to (A,Z+2) with the emission of two electrons (but no neutrinos). Experimental searches for 0νββ are motivated by the access this process gives to testing any Majorana nature of neutrinos and lepton number non-conservation. This process is also a sensitive probe of the absolute neutrino mass scale. EXO (Enriched Xenon Observatory) is an experimental program searching for 0νββ decay of 136Xe. The first phase of the program, EXO-200, uses 200 kg of Xenon enriched to 80% in 136Xe, liquefied in a Time Projection Chamber (TPC) with scintillation readout (100 kg active mass), allowing for event calorimetry and 3D localization of ionizing events. EXO-200 has found the standard two-neutrino decay mode 2νββ of 136Xe, and has made a precision measurement of the (2.172±0.017[stat]±0.060[sys])×1021yr half. The collection of both light and charge signals and the reconstruction of event positions for both single and multi-cluster events allow background discrimination on top of the already low environmental background regime, and the possibility of studying events with extended topologies. A 5-tonne next generation liquid xenon experiment, nEXO, based on teh EXO-200 concept while implementing some notable innovations, is currently being designed. It promises to improve the sensitivity to improve the sensitivity to 0νββ of 136Xe by ~2 orders of magnitude and fully access the inverted hierarchy neutrino mass scale. This talk will discuss the detector performance and recent results from EXO-200 and present the nEXO experiment.
Refreshments will be served in CP 179 at 3:15 PM
