4:00–5:00 p.m.
Join Global Education Oregon for an information session on our Summer 2025 Cinema Studies in Dublin program! This summer program is a fantastic opportunity to work both critically and creatively, taking courses on contemporary Irish cinema and digital filmmaking, as well as attending Ireland’s largest film festival held every year in Galway, the Film Fleadh. Weekly excursions and local outings in and around Dublin and the Irish countryside allow you to learn on location about the country’s rich film history and explore the sites where important historical events, and films about those events, took place.
This program has received high interest, and students are encouraged to apply early. The Cinema Studies in Dublin program is on a rolling admission application process, and the final deadline to apply in March 15.
4:30 p.m.
The Creative Writing Program invites you to a poetry reading with Peter Vertacnik.
Peter Vertacnik is the author of The Nature of Things Fragile (Criterion Books, 2024), winner of the 2023 New Criterion Poetry Prize. His poetry, translations, and criticism have appeared in journals such as 32 Poems, Bad Lilies, The Cortland Review, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, The Hopkins Review, Literary Matters, Poet Lore, and THINK, among others. With Chase Dearinger, Vertacnik is the co-director of the Cow Creek Chapbook Prize at Pittsburg State University. Currently he resides in northeast Florida where he teaches at Episcopal School of Jacksonville.
Free and open to the public.
For more information about the Creative Writing Reading Series, please visit https://humanities.uoregon.edu/creative-writing/reading-series
6:30 p.m.
The University of Oregon is hosting an immigration information and support session for our international, undocumented, and Dreamer students, faculty, and staff.
Essential Information: Gain up-to-date knowledge on immigration policies, and available resources for UO students. Expert Perspectives: Hear from legal professionals and university representatives on the evolving rules and policies. Community Building: Connect with fellow members of our diverse community and find support from peers and allies.Panelists:
Victor Essien, Immigration Attorney based in New York Betsy Boyd, senior associate vice president for federal affairs, UO Government and Community Relations Jessica Price, special counsel for research, ethics & international affairs, UO General Counsel’s Office Kristin Yarris, associate professor, Global Studies and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, department head, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, College of Arts and Sciences Eric Garcia, assistant director, training director, UO Counseling ServicesRepresentatives from the Dean of Students, Division of Global Engagement, and Division of Graduate Studies will be available for questions and support.
7:00–9:30 p.m.
Join us for a screening of the award-winning documentary film SOS–The San Onofre Syndrome: Nuclear Power’s Legacy. The film chronicles how Southern California residents came together to force the shutdown of an aging, leaking nuclear power plant only to be confronted by an alarming reality—tons of nuclear waste left near a popular beach, only 100 feet from the rising sea. The solution for the waste, to ship it to a storage site on Indigenous land in the Southwest, causes the residents to rethink the decision to export their toxic waste. The film’s producer/directors Mary Beth Brangan and James Heddle will engage in discussion following the screening.
This talk is part of the “Anti-Nuclear Research and Activism in the US and Japan” film and speaker series that links nuclear accidents in Japan with the U.S. The series will bring three speakers, two filmmakers, and one film to campus in winter and spring terms to discuss nuclear issues and activism in the U.S. and Japan. This series is of particular importance in the Pacific Northwest because of the Hanford Site in Washington and the new push for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors along the Columbia River.
1:00 p.m.
Join the creative writing program for an info session to learn more about the Walter and Nancy Kidd Creative Writing Workshops. This program is a unique studio experience for students to purse their passion for creative writing. The Kidd Workshops are open to all majors and feature a yearlong sequence of creative writing classes.
Applications for the 2025-26 academic year are due by March 8, 2025. For more information and to apply, please visit https://humanities.uoregon.edu/creative-writing/undergraduate-programs/kidd-workshops
5:10 p.m.
Please join the Department of History and Professor John Leisure for a documentary screening of Men with Cameras: Filming the 1923 Kantō Earthquake in Japan.
For more information, email Professor John Leisure at leisure@uoregon.edu.
Doors open at 5 pm.
2023 | 81 Minutes | Produced by Documentary Film Preservation Center, Tokyo
6:00–8:00 p.m.
Eman Abdelhadi is a scholar, organizer and writer based in Chicago. She is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Her research has been cited by NPR, the Washington Post, the Associated Press, and other outlets. She co-wrote the revolutionary sci-fi novel Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072 (Common Notions Press 2022), and she writes a regular column on Palestine and politics for In These Times Magazine.
She is a long-time organizer in the movement for Palestinian liberation and is currently active through Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine at UChicago. She helped found the group Sociologists for Palestine, a group organizing within the American Sociological Association (ASA) to advance a resolution supporting a just peace in Israel-Palestine and has also been involved with the Uncommitted National Movement.
RSVP: tinyurl.com/emanabdelhadi
6:00–7:00 p.m.
Join the UO Women in Economics Club in welcoming the UO Investment Group!
They will be presenting a financial investment workshop, with time for discussion and questions. You can find us in Anstett 193 from 6-7pm.
We hold meetings bi-weekly on odd weeks from 6-7pm in Anstett 193. All are welcome, regardless of major or gender! Hope to see you there!
The UO Women in Economics Club (WiE) was established in 2023 to support and meet the unique needs of women and gender-diverse individuals in the male-dominated economics field. WiE strives to build community, empower, and increase participation in economics through academic and social events. The club hosts guest speakers, roundtable discussions, professional development workshops, and more. Students undergraduate through PhD are welcome.
"In a male-dominated field, the Women in Economics Club is the first opportunity I've had to directly collaborate with and support my female peers." -M.S. Economics '24
3:00 p.m.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Organic/Inorganic/Materials Seminar Series
Professor Professor Renana Gershoni Poranne, Technion Hosted by Mike Haley
Data are a Girl’s Best Friend: From High-Throughput Computation to Generative Deep Learning
Chemical databases are an essential tool for data-driven investigation of structure-property relationships and design of novel functional compounds, and they are the crucial foundation for machine- and deep-learning techniques, which efficiently map the chemical space and allow discovery of new molecular motifs of molecules and materials for various uses. However, there is a lack of suitable databases of polycyclic aromatic systems (PASs).
To enable the application of such techniques to the design of novel functional PASs, we established the COMPAS Project — a COMputational database of Polycyclic Aromatic Systems. This new database already contains over 500k molecules in three datasets: cata-condensed polybenzenoid hydrocarbons (COMPAS-1),1 cata-condensed hetero-PASs (COMPAS-2),2 and peri-condensed polybenzenoid hydrocarbons (COMPAS-3).3
With this new data in hand, we demonstrate the first examples of interpretable learning models in the chemical space of PASs. To this end, we developed two types of molecular representation to enable efficient and effective machine- and deep-learning models to train on the new data: a) a text-based representation4 and b) a graph-based representation.5 Our dedicated representations not only achieve higher predictive ability with fewer data, but are also amenable to interpretation – thus allowing the extraction of chemical insight from the model.
Using the COMPAS database and our dedicated representations, we implemented the first guided diffused-based model for inverse design of PASs: GaUDI.6 Our model generates new PASs with defined target properties. In addition to its flexible target function and high validity scores, GaUDI also accomplishes design of molecules with properties beyond the distribution of the training data.
References
(1) Wahab, A.; Pfuderer, L.; Paenurk, E.; Gershoni-Poranne, R. The COMPAS Project: A Computational Database of Polycyclic Aromatic Systems. Phase 1: Cata-Condensed Polybenzenoid Hydrocarbons. J. Chem. Inf. Model. 2022, 62 (16), 3704.
(2) Mayo Yanes, E.; Chakraborty, S.; Gershoni-Poranne, R. COMPAS-2: A Dataset of Cata-Condensed Hetero-Polycyclic Aromatic Systems. Sci. Data 2024, 11 (1), 97.
(3) Wahab, A.; Gershoni-Poranne, R. COMPAS-3: A Data Set of Peri-Condensed Polybenzenoid Hydrocarbons. ChemRxiv February 26, 2024.
(4) Fite, S.; Wahab, A.; Paenurk, E.; Gross, Z.; Gershoni-Poranne, R. Text-Based Representations with Interpretable Machine Learning Reveal Structure-Property Relationships of Polybenzenoid Hydrocarbons. J. Phys. Org. Chem. 2022, e4458.
(5) Weiss, T.; Wahab, A.; Bronstein, A. M.; Gershoni-Poranne, R. Interpretable Deep-Learning Unveils Structure–Property Relationships in Polybenzenoid Hydrocarbons. J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88 (14), 9645–9656. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.2c02381.
(6) Weiss, T.; Mayo Yanes, E.; Chakraborty, S.; Cosmo, L.; Bronstein, A. M.; Gershoni-Poranne, R. Guided Diffusion for Inverse Molecular Design. Nat. Comput. Sci. 2023, 3 (10), 873–882. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-023-00532-0.
7:30 p.m.
Directed by Tricia Rodley One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble.
Selina Fillinger’s brilliant, all-female farce took Broadway by storm in a star-studded production that earned three 2022 Tony nominations.
Synopsis courtesy of Concord Theatricals