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Events and Announcements - Week of May 7th

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1. Finals Week and Summer GSO Office Hours
2. ISO End of the Semester Get Together
3. UA Astronomical Society meeting
4. YESPLUS GSO presents DE-STRESS UALBANY!
5. School of Public Health Spring Fling!
6. Summer Teaching Bootcamp
7. End-of-the-Year AGSO Picnic
8. Armenian Student RGSO Interest?
9. School of Public Health Community Garden Planting Day!
10. BMS/EHS GSO Wilderness Retreat
11. 11th Annual Professional MBA Research Forum
12. Cristobal Silva Lecture
13. BMS/EHS GSO Movie Night
14. AMI presents...
15. Extended Library Hours for Graduate Students

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1.  Finals Week and Summer GSO Office Hours

The GSO will be open regular business hours through this Tuesday, May 8th (10am - 7pm).

During Finals Week, 5/9 through 5/16, we will be open for the abbreviated hours of 10am - 4pm.  We will not be open the last day of finals, 5/17. 

The GSO Office will be closed from 5/17 through 5/28.

Our Summer Office hours will be 5/29 (the first day of Summer Sessions) through 8/17, 10 - 4pm, Monday - Thursday.  These hours are subject to change depending on traffic flow and student use of the office.  Please suggest different hours if being open at different times would be most beneficial to students' schedules.      

The Office will be closed 8/20 - 8/24 and open for the commencement of the Fall 2012 semester, Monday 8/27. 

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2.  ISO End of the Semester Get Together

Indian Student Organization (ISO) is organizing an end of the semester get together on Thursday, May 17 at 7:00 pm in Campus Center 375. Please join us to welcome our new E-board for 2012-13 and bid adieu to our current E-board. This will be our last official gathering for this academic year. We will have free refreshments and drinks for everyone.

Please RSVP at the following Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/305076146234293/

Date: Thursday, May 17
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Campus Center 375

We hope to see you there!

"Your GSO funds at Work"

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3.  UA Astronomical Society meeting

The University at Albany Astronomical Society will meet for the last
time this semester on Sunday, May 13, at 8 pm in Physics 129.

Do Mother proud: help organize an Astronomy RGSO to plan fall events.

Coming on June 5: transit of Venus!

We'll conclude the meeting with stargazing at the campus observatory.

Contact:
Phil Erner
Physics Ph.D. student
x2-4541
perner@albany.edu

facebook.com/UAAstronomicalSociety
twitter.com/AlbanyStarGaze

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4.  YESPLUS GSO presents DE-STRESS UALBANY!

Wed, May 9 at 7:30pm in Chapel House Interfaith Center
 
Exam time is synonymous with submissions, finals, workload, pressure and STRESS. Agreed? Health experts say MEDITATION IS THE KEY to success in stressful circumstances. Come join us on May 9, Wednesday evening at 7:30pm in Chapel House Interfaith Center for a FREE GUIDED MEDITATION session! Learn to stay calm through the finals week and enhance focus and concentration abilities. Workshop is FREE because this is Your GSO funds at work! Feel FREE to bring friends along (UAlbany students or not, all are welcome)!
Contact Nikhil at njain@albany.edu for more details or call 518-291-9377 for more details.

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5. School of Public Health Spring Fling!

Join us for an exciting end of the year mixer with School of Public Health students and Alumni!  It will be a great networking experience, and all money raised will go toward the local chapter of The Alzheimer’s Association.  Admission is FREE, BUT if you purchase a $5 Spring Fling donation ticket, you will receive a special offer :)  See you there!

When? Thursday, May 10,  7-10 PM
Where? Blue82, 80 N. Pearl St., Albany, NY 12207

Questions? Comments? Concerns? Email Christian at ChristianHchuk@gmail.com

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6.  Summer Teaching Bootcamp

Lecture Center 3-A
Tuesday, May 22
9am-1pm
 
Are you a graduate student teaching a summer class? Do you have questions about how to structure class time, design assignments, manage behaviors, etc.?
 
In partnership with ITLAL, the UAlbany Future Faculty Leadership Council (UAFFLC) is hosting a 4-hour workshop (including lunch) for graduate students who will be teaching a course this summer. We will discuss topics such as course design, syllabus development, assessment, and how best to use your time in class. Come get some ideas and ask questions to help with your syllabus revisions or delivery of established course content. This session is timed so that you can apply what you learn directly to your upcoming teaching assignment. If you have it, please bring a working copy (or draft) of your syllabus.
 
You can register at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3JYQWPF
 
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Shannon Scotece at futurefacultyfellow@albany.edu 
 
 The Future Faculty Leadership Council is a group of graduate students who organize events for the UAlbany graduate student community on becoming successful faculty members. Visit us at: http://uafuturefaculty.blogspot.com/

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7.  End-of-the-Year AGSO Picnic

The annual "End-of-the-Year AGSO Picnic" will be held Saturday, May 12th from 12:00 to 4:00.

Please join us at Six Mile Waterworks.

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8. Armenian Student RGSO Interest?

Are you an Armenian student? Are you interested in joining a graduate student organization?
If so, please contact Vahe (vahep@aol.com) for more information. We want to determine the interest of graduate Armenian students in forming a new student organization.

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9.  School of Public Health Community Garden Planting Day!

The SPH-RGSO has begun a community garden initiative to provide a healthy, sustainable and educational model for community projects. The project is still in its infancy, but hopes to use the garden as an educational resource for high school students, university students and faculty and staff in healthy lifestyles.
This event will include preparing beds, planting summer seeds and educating participants in seasonally appropriate planting techniques.

When: May 21st at Noon
Where: East Campus

Questions? Comments? Concerns? Email Alex at alexleorshapiro@gmail.com

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10.  BMS/EHS GSO Wilderness Retreat

Dippikill Wilderness Retreat
Date: June 22nd to June 24th


We will spend two nights at the Dippikill Wilderness Retreat in the Adirondacks. Cost of lodging will be provided.
Please e-mail if you are interested as advanced planning is necessary.
E-mail: bms.ehs.gso@gmail.com


Your GSO funds at work!

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11.  11th Annual Professional MBA Research Forum

Event :  11th Annual Professional MBA Research Forum

Time:    Wednesday, May 9th from 5:30-7:30 pm,  drop in anytime between 5:30-7:30 p.m. and stay as long as you want.

Place :   University Hall (the green glass building, main entrance to campus off Collins Circle)

Free food, No sign-up or tickets are needed

The forum will feature poster presentations in the areas of marketing, finance, information technology, management, and new venture development. Please click here for a complete list of this year’s projects:
http://www.albany.edu/business/eveMBA_research_forum_12.pdf

A great opportunity to learn the business research projects conducted by Evening MBA students and network with the professional MBA students who are currently working in the real world from all kinds of background: technology, science, education, business, engineering, psychology, et all.

Contact information for further questions:
Melissa Palmucci
Director, Campus MBA Programs
Business Administration 220
School of Business, University at Albany
1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222

www.albany.edu/business

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12.  Cristobal Silva Lecture

The Americanist Reading Group and the Department of English will host a lecture by Cristobal Silva of Columbia University on Tuesday, May 8 at 4:15 PM in 110 University Hall.  Silva’s talk, “Geographies of Immunity: Imagining the Nation in the Age of Yellow Fever,” comes from a current book project titled Republic of Medicine: Epidemiology and the Atlantic Slave Trade.  His work proposes a unique intersection for scholars of early American and/or transatlantic literature, slavery and literature, the history of medicine, the history of rhetoric in America, and questions of the biopolitical.

Silva’s recent book, Miraculous Plagues: An Epidemiology of Early New England Narrative (Oxford UP, 2011), examines the way in which contagious disease—especially smallpox—influenced community formation in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New England.  He argues that Colonial populations produced specific rhetoric(s) (those both political and theological) in order to contend with their varying levels of immunity to disease during the Colonial experience.

Silva, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia, is currently Editor of the journal The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (Penn Press).   He specializes in colonial and eighteenth-century American literature and culture and transatlantic literature.

Please contact Lucas Hardy with questions (lhardy@albany.edu).  I look forward to seeing many of you at what promises to be a compelling talk!

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13.  BMS/EHS GSO Movie Night

The BMS/EHS GSO presents the 2nd Movie Night of the spring semester.

Movie: The PhD Movie
Date: May 17th at 5:30 pm
Location: Massry Conference Center, Cancer Research Center, East Campus

Refreshments will be provided.
Join us for movie and Pizza.

Your GSO funds at work!

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14.  AMI presents...

Fock Spaces

Dan Stevenson
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
2:45pm       --       ES 146

Abstract: The Fock spaces are spaces of entire functions that are integrable with respect to a gaussian weight.  In this talk I introduce the Fock spaces and their properties and define sets of interpolation and sampling.  Finally I give two descriptions of interpolating and sampling sequences in terms of density and the evaluation operator.

AND:

The Zeroth K-Theory Group

Emily Hempel
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
1:30pm       --       ES 146

Abstract: K-theory assigns a sequence of abelian groups, Kn, to a category with cofibrations.  In this talk, I will introduce K0 by exhibiting examples in familiar settings such as fields and finitely generated abelian groups.  The underlying category theory will be brushed under the rug, so this talk will be accessible to all graduate students.

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15.  Extended Library Hours for Graduate Students

In response to requests that received from graduate students last semester, extended hours will begin the Friday before reading day (May 4) this semester. This will provide graduate students, who need to complete projects and papers prior to final exam week, with access to the Libraries' resources and facilities.

The University Library will be open from 8am to 1am on Friday, May 4, then 9am – 1am on Saturday, May 5, around the clock from 9am on Sunday, May 6 to 1am on Saturday, May 12 (think of this one as a late Friday night closing), 9am – 1am on Saturday, May 12, and around the clock from 9am on Sunday, May 13 through 8pm on Thursday, May 17.

The Science Library will open at its regularly scheduled opening hour each day, and it will remain open until 1am Sunday – Thursday and 8pm Friday - Saturday.

This is the first time in a while that we have tailored hours to graduate students' needs, and we need some assistance getting the word out. If you have any venues for sharing this information with graduate students or with faculty who teach graduate level courses, please consider helping us get the word out. We're hopeful that these extra hours will be beneficial to graduate students as the semester draws to a close!

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