Bucket List represents the unbelievable intellectual privilege and luxury we enjoy as Columbia students. We do our very best to bring to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus that will hopefully make you realize how lucky we are to be here. Our recommendations for this week are below and the full list is after the jump. Bwog sincerely hopes that you indulge in some self-edification.

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Mon, Feb 28

  • “Large Deviations and Fast Simulation for Multiscale Diffusions and Rough Energy Landscapes” 214 Mudd, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm, Konstantinos Spiliopoulos and Guillaume Bal
  • “Strategic Communication in Networks: The Nature of Disagreement” 1101 IAB, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm, Uliana Loginova
  • “Optimizing 902.11 Mesh Networks” 535 Mudd, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm, Theodoros Salonidis
  • “Where’s the Uzbek Revolt? Twenty Years of Dictatorship and Counting: An Anthropologist’s Assessment” 1219 IAB, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, Russell Zanca
  • “Gender Mainstreaming at the Asian Development Bank: An Insider’s Perspective” 15112 IAB, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Shireen Lateef
  • “Calculations on Tunneling by Carbon Tell Experimentalists: Where to Look and What to Look For” 209 Havemeyer, 1:30 pm – 6:00 pm, Wes Borden
  • “Large Deviations and Fast Simulation for Multiscale Diffusions and Rough Energy Landscapes” 210 Mudd, 2:45 pm – 5:00 pm, Konstantinos Spillopoulo
  • “Justifying Defeat: Rajput Honor in the Age of Akbar” 208 Knox, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm, Cynthia Talbot
  • “Barack Obama and Contemporary Racial Politics” 707 IAB, 4:10 pm – 6:30 pm, Rogers Smith
  • “The Sixth Multilingual Kalevala Marathon” Deutsches Haus, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm, Ulla Suokko, Sari Nordman, and More
  • “On Natural Ground: History and the Task of Writing in the Amazon” 201 Casa Hispanica, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Alejandro Quin
  • “Boucher’s Interiority” 612 Schermerhorn, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

Tues, March 1

  • “Sustaining Life, Securing Our Future: A Symposium Celebrating the Diversity of Life on Earth” Faculty House, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm, Nancy Degnan, Shahid Naeem, Daniel Botkin, Ruth Defries, James S. Miller, Cheryl Palm, Eleanor J. Sterling, Alonso Aguirre, Helen Crowley, Matthew Palmer, Jon Paul Rodriguez, Maria Uriarte, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Minosca V. Alcantara, Robert Newman, Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez, Michael Pippenger, and Steven A. Cohen
  • “The Hidden Crisis: Armed Conflict and Education” Roone Arledge Auditorium, Lerner Hall, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, Irina Bokova, Michelle Bachelet, Michaelle Jean, Mary Robinson, Jeffrey Sachs, and Kevin Watkins
  • “Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams” 1219 IAB, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, Charles King
  • “Models for Campus-Based Publishing” 555 Lerner Hall, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm, Maria Bonn, Monica McCormick, and Charles Watkinson
  • “Field Measurements for Reducing Toxic Environmental Exposures in Developing Countries” 417 Schermerhorn, 12:15 pm – 1:00 pm, Alexander van Geen
  • “Winning LGBT Equality in Russia” Garden Room 2, Faculty House, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm, Nikolai Alekseev and Tanya Domi
  • “Economic Development” 963 Schermerhorn, 2:10 pm – 4:00 pm, Peter C.Y. Chow
  • “How Should We Define and Approach Global Governance in the 21st Century?” 1501 IAB, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Michael Doyle, Jack Snyder, Saskia Sassen, Mark Mazower, and Jean-Marie Guehenno
  • “Sport and Beyond: Helping Youth to Rebuild after Conflict” 130 Macy Hall, Teachers College, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm, Sophie Denis
  • “Submodular-Function Maximization” 317 Mudd, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, John Lee
  • “The Succession of Empires: Greek and Mesopotamian Perspectives” 616 Hamilton, 4:10 pm – 6:10 pm, Johannes Haubold
  • “Paranoid Empire: Perpetual War, Gender, and the Crisis of Vision” 754 Schermerhorn, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm, Anne McClintock
  • “A Rolling Stone Conversation” Lecture Hall, 3rd Floor Journalism, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm, Eric Bates and Matt Taibbi
  • “U.S. Fixed Income: Fixed Income Derivatives” 207 Math, 7:40 pm – 9:30 pm, Rick Klotz
  • “Woman Rebel—Film Screening” 1401 IAB, 8:10 pm – 9:30 pm

Wed, March 2

  • “Personalized Adaptation to Accommodate Diverse User Needs” 414 Schapiro Center, 11:00 pm – 1:00 pm, Leah Findlater
  • “Is China Evolving into a Mafia State?” 918 IAB, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, John Garnaut
  • “Building a Safety Net That We Can Love” C03 School of Social Work, 12:15 pm – 1:45 pm, David B. Grusky
  • “The Role of New Media in Political Uprisings: Lessons from the Middle East” 1512 IAB, 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm, Iason Athanasiadis, Thanassis Cambanis, and Anne Nelson
  • “Adjoint L-Functions and Families of Galois Representations” 520 Math, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm, Michael Harris
  • “Bringing Sustainability into Routine Management Decisions” Faculty House, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm, Various
  • “A Conversation with Michelle Bachelet, Former President of Chile, Under Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women” 1501 IAB, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, with Elisabeth Lindenmayer
  • SGO Town Hall on Diversity” Diana Event Oval, Diana Center, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Student Discussion

Thurs, March 3

  • “As Lord Siva Hunts the Deer: Kalidasa’s Use of Poetic Elements from the Mahabharata” 501 IAB, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm, Ram Karan Sharma
  • “Sympletic Topology from Insights to Interactions” 507 Math, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm, Claude Viterbo
  • “Sino-Indian Relations: Reality and Prosperity” 918 IAB, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, Hu Shisheng
  • “Immigrants, Minorities, and Racial/Ethnic Turnover in American Suburbs” 801 IAB, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm, Lorrie Frasure Yokley
  • “The Impact of Colonial and Post-Independence Institutions on Economic Development in Latin America” 1512 IAB, 12:00 pm – 4 March, 2011 12:15 pm, Adam Przeworski, Jose Antonio Ocampo, Alejandra Irigoin, Alberto Diaz Cayeros, Luz Marina Arias, Rafael Dobado, Alan Dye, Carolina Curvale, Stephen Haber, Robert Kaufman, Claudio Lomnitz, James Mahoney, John Coatsworth, Miguel A. Centeno, Mariano Tommasi, Jose Moya, Maria Victoria Murillo, and Pablo M. Pinto
  • “Homelessness: New Policy Directions” 6602 Psychiatric Institute, Medical Center, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm, Raphael Bostic
  • “Discrimination in a Colorblind Society: Are Racial Divisions Shaping the French Model of Integration?” 801 IAB, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, Patrick SImon
  • “Extermal Metrics on CP^2 Blown up at Two Points” 520 Math, 2:40 pm – 4:00 pm, Gabor Szekelyhidi
  • “The Role of the Stratosphere in the Teleconnection between ENSO and the Atmospheric Circulation over the North Atlantic” 214 Mudd, 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm, Ying Li and Sarah Kang
  • “Life at the Single Molecule Level” 209 Havemeyer, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Xiaoliang Sunney Xie and Louis Brus
  • “Freedom is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America’s Struggle over Black Family Life from LBJ to Obama” 801 IAB, 4:10 pm – 6:00 pm, James Patterson
  • “Imperfect Duties, Gratitude, and the Ethics of Posession” 716 Philosophy, 4:10 pm – 6:00 pm, Barbara Herman
  • “The Cauchy Integral in $/mathbb C^n$” 507 Math, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm, Loredana Lanzani
  • “Beyond Boundaries: The Manning Marble Reader—Book Signing” Presidential Ballroom, Faculty House, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm, Russell Rickford and Manning Marbel
  • “Some Relative Cases of Manin-Mumford for Abelian Surfaces” 312 Math, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm, Umberto Zannier
  • “Garbage, Human Remains, and Wastelands: The Remainder in Latin American Visual Arts and Literature” 201 Casa Hispanica, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Marcela Romero-Rivera
  • “Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades: The Beginnings of Symbolism” 1219 IAB, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Boris Gasparov
  • “The Market Maker—Film Screening” 209 Warren Hall, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
  • “’Ici Finit L’exil,’ Documentary Film Festival: Immigration and Multiculturalism in France” Buell Hall, Maison Francaise, 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm, Kiye Simon Luang
  • “U.S. Fixed Income: Conclusion” 207 Math, 7:40 pm – 9:30 pm, Rick Klotz

Fri, March 4

  • “Approaches to Tackling Under-Nutrition in Low Income Settings” 1501 IAB, 9:00 am – 10:30 am, Jessica Fanzo, C.J. Jones, Roseline Remans, and Glenn Denning
  • “Text and Image” Buell Hall, Maison Francaise, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Various
  • “Perspectives on Indo-Mediterranean Commerce” 5th Floor Conference Room, Italian Academy, 9:00 am – 5 March, 2011 6:00 pm, Marco Maiuro, Andrew Wilson, Andre Wink, Francesco de Angelis, Katia Schoerle, Taco Terpstra, Dario Nappo, Jean-Jacques Aubert, Steven E. Sidebotham, Martha Howell, Harry Falk, Jairus Banaji, Om Prakash, William Harris, Federico de Romanis, Tansen Sen, Roxani Margariti, Martha Howell, Adam Kosto, and Ronald Findlay
  • “Religious Fundamentalisms and Politics: A Clash about What?” 602 Hamilton, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, Olivier Roy
  • “Legendrian and Transverse Knots in Cabled Knot Types” 417 Math, 10:45 am – 12:00 pm, Bulent Tosun
  • “The Unending Search for a New Global Monetary and Financial Architecture” Garden Room 2, Faculty House, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, Gerardo della Paolera
  • “Using the General Social Survey” 270B IAB, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm, Greg Eirich
  • “Investigating Pathogen Trasnport in Bangladesh Aquifer Soils” 924 Mudd, 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm, Patricia Culligan
  • “Filtered Knot Contact Homology and Transverse Knots” 520 Math, 1:20 pm – 4:00 pm, Lenhard Ng
  • “A Supersingular K3 Surface in Characteristic 2 and the Leech Lattice” 417 Math, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, Shigeyuki Kondo
  • “Committee to Protect Journalists at 30: From the Frontlines to Online” 1501 IAB, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Dan Rather, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Terry Anderson, Maria Teresa Ronderos, Michael Kamber, Jacob Weisberg, Rebecca MacKinnon, Sheila Coronel, Mohamed Abdel Dayem, Nazila Fathi, Ahmed and Shihab-Eldin
  • “’Modernity at Large’ and Its Imaginaries in Germany and Beyond” Deutsches Haus, 2:30 pm – 5 March, 2011 8:00 pm, Isabelle Rispler, Antoine Acker, Mohammad Rafi, Alexis Radisoglou, Joseph Prestel, Alexander Phillips, Adam T. Rosenbaum, Christoph Schaub, Christine Bentley, Stephanie Revell, Sophie Alexander, David L. Barry, Michelle Lacoss, Stefanie Orphal, Alexander von Thun, Ulrike Hamann, Misa Dayson, Alanna Lockward, Yvonne Zivkovic
  • “Biomass Refining Systems via Alkaline Hydrothermal Treatment: Catalyst Development” 833 Mudd, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Toung Lak Joo
  • “Factors Influencing the Success of Women in the Geosciences” Monell Building Auditorium, Lamont-Doherty, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm, Linda Gundersen
  • “Two Theories of Subjectivity: Decarttes’ I Think and Rastafarian I and I” 758 Schermerhorn Extension, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Vivaldi Jean-Marie
  • “China in the Asia-Pacific: The Way Forward for Japan/U.S. and the Region” 417 IAB, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm, Gerald Curtis, Shoichi Itoh, Tomoo Marukawa, Evans Revere, Ambassador Shigeyuki Hiroki, and Kay Shimizu
  • “The International Position and Foreign Policy of Serbia” 1219 IAB, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm, Ambassador Pavle Jevremovic
  • “Composer Portrait: Mario Davidovsky” Miller Theater, Dodge Hall, 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Sat, March 5

  • “Hope is Viral: 30 Years in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS” Roone Arledge Auditorium, Lerner Hall, 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm, Bri Arden, Patryk Larney, Dr. Robert Fullilove, and More

Sun, March 6

  • “A Delicate Balance: Antarctica and Its Surrounding Oceans” Monell Building Auditorium, Lamont-Doherty, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm, Douglas Martinson