April 6 Faculty Committee on Instructional Development, Davis Baird, dean, South Carolina Honors College, will discuss working with students as a humanities faculty member to foster undergraduate research, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Harper College, Gressette Room. To make a reservation, call the provost's office at 7-2808 or e-mail provost@gwm.sc.edu.

April 6 Physics and astronomy, "A Detector for Optical Astrophysical Transients," Donald York, University of Chicago, 4 p.m., Jones Physical Sciences Center, Room 409.

April 7 Philosophy, "The Enigma of Origins: On Heidegger's Readings of Hoelderlin's River Songs," William McNeill, DePaul University, 3:30 p.m., College of Nursing, Room 127. Reception in the philosophy department at 2:30 p.m.

April 7 Sociology, 2006 Bruce Mayhew Memorial Lecture, "Beyond Social Networks: A Dynamic Network Analysis Approach Applied to Counter Terrorism," Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon University, 1:30 p.m., Gressette Room, Harper College. Reception to follow.

April 7 Linguistics, "Steps in Grammatical Shift," Carol Myers-Scotton, professor emeritus, USC Department of English, Linguistics Program, 3:30 p.m., Gambrell Hall, Room 152.

April 7 Chemistry and biochemistry, Nancy Makri, University of Illinois, Urbana, 4 p.m., Jones Physical Sciences Center, Room 006. Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.

April 10 Chemical engineering, "Crystal Engineering through Particle Size and Shape Measurement, Kinetic Parameter Estimate, Modeling, and Control," James B. Rawlings, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin, 3:30 p.m., Swearingen Engineering Center, Faculty Lounge.

April 10 School of Medicine, Biomedical Science Seminar, "Metabotropic Glutamate Reception Signaling Mechanisms in Addiction," M. Foster Olive, assistant professor, Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina. 4 p.m., School of Medicine Campus, Building 1, Room B-1.

April 13 Physics and astronomy, David Hertzog, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 4 p.m., Jones Physical Sciences Center, Room 409.

April 13 Philosophy, "Visual Space as Variable and Task-Orientated: A Study of Van Gogh's 'Modern' Use of Scientific Perspective," Patrick Heelan, Georgetown University, 3:30 p.m., Sumwalt 102.

April 14 Philosophy, "Embodied Consciousness and the Quantum Mind," Patrick Heelan, Georgetown University, 3:30 p.m., College of Nursing, Room 127.

April 17 Biological sciences, Elizabeth Gosling, School of Science, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, 4 p.m., Coker Life Sciences, Room 005.

April 18 Mathematics, SIAM Student Chapter Special Guest Lecture, "The pseudo-transient continuation method for solving nonlinear equations," Tim Kelley, N.C. State University, 3:30 p.m., LeConte College, Room 412. Refreshments, 3 p.m., Wyman Williams Room.

April 19 Women's Studies, Pedagogy Brownbag Series: Teaching for Social Justice, "Women in Politics in South Carolina," Mary Baskin Waters, chair, S.C. Governor's Commission on Women, noon, Flinn Hall, Room 101.

April 20 Physics and astronomy, Varsha Kulkami, associate professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy at USC, 4 p.m., Jones Physical Sciences Center, Room 409.

April 20 Chemical engineering, Vasilios Manousiothakis, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 3:30 p.m., Swearingen Engineering Center, Faculty Lounge.

April 21 Walker Institute, "The Evolving Role of South Korea in Northeast Asia: Implications for American Foreign Policy," Frank Jannuzi, East Asian specialist for the minority staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1:30 p.m., Gambrell Hall, Room 429. Jannuzi also will meet with students for an informal session entitled "How to Find a Job or Internship on Capitol Hill," 10:30 a.m.-noon, Gambrell Hall, Room 428.

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