Visiting the Hill this week

MONDAY

"BME Seminar: Mariah Hahn"

Details: Mariah Hahn of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will be speaking as part of the Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series.

When and Where: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m., SciTech Center Room 136

Sponsor: School of Engineering

"Sounding the Inexpressible: Postwar Musical Memory and the Case of Schoenberg's 'Survivor from Warsaw'"

Details: Jeremy Eichler, chief classical music critic at the Boston Globe, will discuss how concert music impacted the American postwar cultural memory. He will specifically focus on Arnold Schoenberg's 'Survivor from Warsaw,' the first musical memorial to the Holocaust written by a major composer.

When and Where: 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m., Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center Varis Lecture Hall

Sponsor: Department of Music

"A Keynote Conversation with Michael Nyman and Michael Kunichika"

Details: Michael Nyman, a pianist and visual artist, and Michael Kunichika, an assistant professor of Russian and Slavic studies at New York University, will speak about Nyman's visual art exhibition, "Images Were Introduced," which runs at the Tufts University Art Gallery through May 17.

When and Where: 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center Distler Performance Hall

Sponsor: Tufts University Art Gallery

TUESDAY

"The Civilian in Wartime: H. G. Wells and the First World War"

Details: Sarah Cole, author of "Modernism, Male Friendship and the First World War" (2003) and "At the Violet Hour: Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland" (2012) and a professor of English at Columbia University, will be speaking.

When and Where: 4:00 p.m., Center for the Humanities Fung House

Sponsor: Center for the Humanities at Tufts

"Fertility Decline and Missing Women"

Details: Seema Jayachandran, associate professor of economics at Northwestern University, will be discussing her research on fertility decline and gender-selective abortion in India.

When and Where: 4:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m., Braker Hall room 118

Sponsor: Department of Economics

"Understanding Boko Haram"

Details: A panel of international experts will discuss the origins and expansion of Boko Haram, an insurgent group that has displaced over three million people in northern Nigeria and the surrounding area. The panel will also explore existing and potential international policy responses to Boko Haram in light of the group's continued atrocities in the region.

When and Where: 5:30 - 7:00 p.m., Cabot ASEAN Auditorium

Sponsors: Humanitarian Action Society, Human Rights Project, Africana Club, Fletcher Students in Security

"Careers in Social Impact"

Details: This event features an evening of conversations with a group of social impact professionals who will discuss how students can find their place in the social impact field. Alumni will share their experiences and then split into in-depth breakout sessions with attendees.

When and Where: 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., Alumnae Lounge

Sponsors: Tufts Social Impact Alumni Network (TSIN), Career Services, Tisch College

WEDNESDAY

"Tisch College Distinguished Speaker Series: Former U.S. Senator Scott Brown, (LA '81)"

Details: Former U.S. Senator Scott Brown (LA '81) will speak to the community as part of the Tisch College Distinguished Speaker Series.

When and Where: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., Cabot ASEAN Auditorium

Sponsors: Tisch College, Department of Political Science

"Great Powers and Conflict Management, 1914 to 2015: War in the Balkans"

Details: James Lyon, associate researcher at the University of Graz in Austria, will be discussing his forthcoming book "Serbia and the Balkan Front: 1914" (August 2015). The talk will be followed by a conversation with journalist Anna De Lellio, who has written two books on events in the region.

When and Where: 4:30 p.m., Center for the Humanities Fung House

Sponsor: Center for the Humanities at Tufts

THURSDAY

"ME Seminar: Julie Adams, Vanderbilt University"

Details: Julie Adams of Vanderbilt University will give a lecture on human factors as part of the Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series.

When and Where: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., Nelson Auditorium (Anderson Hall room 112)

Sponsor: School of Engineering

"On Hairdos, Polynomials and the Shape of the Universe"

Details: Eli Grigsby, a topologist at Boston College, will give this year's Martin Guterman Undergraduate Lecture. In a talk aimed at undergraduates, Grigsby will discuss the mathematics of braids, complex polynomials, three-dimensional spaces and quantum computers.

When and Where: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Pearson Chemical Laboratory room 104

Sponsor: Department of Mathematics

FRIDAY

“Opportunities for Regional Energy Cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Role of Cyprus”

Details: Republic of Cyprus' Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism Yiorgos Lakkotrypis will discuss energy cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean as part of the Charles Francis Adams Lecture Series.

When and Where: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m., Carmichael Hall Chase Center

Sponsor: Charles Francis Adams Lecture Series, Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy