Events

Feb 6
Info Session for the Kidd Creative Writing Workshops 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...
Info Session for the Kidd Creative Writing Workshops
February 6
1:00 p.m.
Alder Building 111

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

 

 

Feb 6
Composition Writing Lab Drop-In Hours 2:00 p.m.

Students taking WR 121z, 122z, or 123 are invited to drop by the Tykeson 3rd floor Writing Lab (glass room, 351) for candy and quick writing support. Our GE Writing Support...
Composition Writing Lab Drop-In Hours
February 6–March 13
2:00–3:00 p.m.
Willie and Donald Tykeson Hall 351

Students taking WR 121z, 122z, or 123 are invited to drop by the Tykeson 3rd floor Writing Lab (glass room, 351) for candy and quick writing support. Our GE Writing Support Specialists (tutors) are available to help you with any part of a WR assignment, from coming up with ideas to reading to revising to polishing up a final draft. Join us!

Mondays 3-4 and Thursdays 2-3, beginning week 4, for the rest of Winter quarter 2025.

Feb 6
Department of History Documentary Screening: "Men with Cameras: Filming the 1923 Kantō Earthquake in Japan" 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...
Department of History Documentary Screening: "Men with Cameras: Filming the 1923 Kantō Earthquake in Japan"
February 6
5:10 p.m.
McKenzie Hall 229

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 

Feb 6
“Palestine and the Future of US Campus Activism” with Prof. Eman Abdelhadi 6:00 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...
“Palestine and the Future of US Campus Activism” with Prof. Eman Abdelhadi
February 6
6:00–8:00 p.m.
Ford Alumni Center Lee Barlow Giustina Ballroom

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

Feb 6
UO Women in Economics x UO Investment Group 6:00 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....
UO Women in Economics x UO Investment Group
February 6
6:00–7:00 p.m.
Anstett Hall 193

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

Feb 7
Impossible Futures: Why Women Leave American Muslim Communities noon

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...
Impossible Futures: Why Women Leave American Muslim Communities
February 7
noon

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 & 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.

She will be giving a talk on campus accesible via Zoom.

Feb 7
Studio Art in Athens Information Session noon

Join Global Education Oregon for an information session on the summer 2025 Studio Art in Athens program. The program is a great opportunity explore Athens through a series of...
Studio Art in Athens Information Session
February 7
noon
Lawrence Hall 143

Join Global Education Oregon for an information session on the summer 2025 Studio Art in Athens program. The program is a great opportunity explore Athens through a series of lectures, fieldwork, daily excursions to archaeological sites and museums, and contemporary galleries while creating interdisciplinary art.

You can learn more about the Studio Art in Athens program here: https://geo.uoregon.edu/programs/europe-greece/studio-art-athens

Feb 7
Organic/Inorganic/Materials Chemistry Seminar: Data are a Girl’s Best Friend: From High-Throughput Computation to Generative Deep Learning 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...
Organic/Inorganic/Materials Chemistry Seminar: Data are a Girl’s Best Friend: From High-Throughput Computation to Generative Deep Learning
February 7–January 31
3:00 p.m.
Willamette Hall 110

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.

Feb 7
POTUS or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive 7:30 p.m.

by Selina Fillinger 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...
POTUS or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
February 7–23
7:30 p.m.
Miller Theatre Complex Hope Theatre

by Selina Fillinger

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

Feb 8
POTUS or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive 7:30 p.m.

by Selina Fillinger 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...
POTUS or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
February 7–23
7:30 p.m.
Miller Theatre Complex Hope Theatre

by Selina Fillinger

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