Nov 24thFall 2014 Poetry Night 7:30 PM - 9:15 PM CST Room 100 Join us for a night of free food, drinks, and good company, as we celebrate the art of the spoken word. Leadership Workshop: Institutional Memory 1:00 PM - 1:35 PM CST Room 521 Join us for the next installment in our bi-weekly leadership workshop series! This session will focus on skills for notating and preserving ideas about your club's traditions and best practices, so that this knowledge can be passed down to new members of your organizations. Math Society Lecture Series II with Professor Moshe Kim 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST Room 209 As is written in the bulletin, all the economic undergraduates of NYUSH must take Mathematics for Economics, which includes multivariable calculus and differential equations. However, many sophomore economics students who are taking this course complain that this course is both difficult and unnecessary for an economics student. Is it necessary for an economics student to possess advanced math skills? Professor Moshe Kim, as a professional economist, will give his opinion. Professor Kim’s research interests are banking, financial markets, and industrial organization. He has published articles in a lot of academic magazines, such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Law and Economics, etc. Professor Moshe Kim teaches Microeconomics, which is a required course for all students who want to major in Business and Finance and Marketing and Economics. This is also a good chance for the freshmen to get to know this professor. Please RSVP via our Orgsync page so that we could prepare enough food! Seats and food are reserved for those who RSVP! “Your Day is my Night” Screening and discussion with filmmaker Lynne Sachs 5:15 PM - 6:45 PM CST Room 101 “YOUR DAY IS MY NIGHT” 你的白天是我的黑夜 (64min. 2013), in Mandarin, Spanish & English with English subtitles), is a hybrid documentary by Lynne Sachs. Immigrant residents of a “shift-bed” apartment in the heart of New York’s Chinatown share their stories of personal and political upheaval. Lynne Sachs makes films, performances, installations and web projects that explore the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences by weaving together poetry, collage, painting, politics and layered sound design. She teaches experimental film and video at New York University and The New School. A Relational Model to Understand Art Practices in Hong Kong 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM CST Room 310 The speed of exchanges today has transformed the way art is made and the ongoing “globalization” shaping the art scenes, has made the questions of influences and period styles problematic to address in art historical writing and teaching. How are these trends visible in Hong Kong? These questions are addressed through illuminating case studies by Professor Vigneron, whose research focus is on the history of Chinese painting from the 18th century onwards and on different aspects of contemporary Chinese art seen in a global context. Professor Vigneron is also a practicing artist. He has held several solo exhibitions in Hong Kong and has taken part in local and international exhibitions. Leadership Workshop: Introduction to Digital Layout in InDesign 6:00 PM - 6:40 PM CST Room 504 Join us for the next installment in our bi-weekly leadership workshop series! This session will focus on skills for designing and marketing club events using layout tools in Adobe InDesign. Nov 25thTopics in Mathematical Physics in View of Differential Equations 1:45 PM - 4:15 PM CST Room 357, Geography Building, 3663 Zhongshan Road North, Shanghai (中山北路校区，地理楼357室)NYU-ECNU Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU Shanghai TOPIC: Topics in Mathematical Physics in View of Differential Equations SPEAKER: Yisong Yang, New York University ABSTRACT: This is an introductory graduate course treating a broad range of fundamental concepts and formalisms in theoretical physics from the viewpoint of mathematical analysts in general and of differential equations in particular. The course consists of seven units. Postsocialist Publishing: Internet Literature in China 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM CST Room 101 This talk will provide an overview of the development of online literature in China in the past fifteen years. Work in all genres, from poetry to pornography, will be introduced. The emphasis will be on ways in which online literary activity is helping to transform the state-run publishing system, and how these developments tie in with recent analyses of Chinese postsocialist culture. ARC Linguistics Society: Language and the University 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM CST 528 We'll pick up where we left off last week and discuss how we use different languages in the university setting. How does language relate to access and power? Who owns a language and who defines it? How can the way we use and view language advance our educational and social goals? Nov 27th Volatility Institute at NYU Shanghai Launch Event 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM CST NYU Shanghai, 3rd Floor Auditorium You’re Invited to the Launch of the Volatility Institute at NYU Shanghai We would like to extend a special invitation to students, faculty and staff of NYU Shanghai to attend the launch event for the Volatility Institute at NYU Shanghai with special guest Professor Robert Engle, Michael Armellino Professor of Management and Financial Services, Director, The Volatility Institute at NYU Stern and 2003 Nobel Laureate in Economics The Volatility Institute at NYU Shanghai aims to create opportunities for cutting-edge research focused on both the Chinese financial markets and the world, facilitate collaboration among market participants and academic researchers within China and abroad, and help shape the world of finance by providing timely financial information and analysis to academics, practitioners, regulators and policy makers through our innovative technology platforms and services. Nov 28th A Dialogue with Nobel Prize Winner Robert Engle, NYU Stern Alumnus 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM CST Room 210 Career Development Center is delighted to provide NYU Shanghai students with the opportunity to meet and have a dialogue with Professor and Nobel Laureate Robert Engle. This event is RSVP only, with limited seats (so RSVP as soon as possible!) Professor Engle is the Michael Armellino Professor of Finance at the New York University Stern School of Business and was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work statistical modeling of time-varying volatility. Nov 29thSkyFarm with GoodtoChina 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CST Jiashan Market Want a chance to relax after a long week of studying and explore Jiashan Market cafes and enjoy its international atmosphere? Join us in a morning of community service in Jiashan Market organized by GoodtoChina! You will be gardening on the rooftop of one of the district's famous cafes and learning about environmental sustainability. A group of 3-4 students will be meeting in front of TSE at 9 AM to take the metro to the market (volunteers should bring their metro cards! The fare should not exceed 4RMB each way), and will be returning in the same way, though those who would like to stay and explore are of course welcome to.