Aaron Pollack, academic relationship executive from Wolfram, makers of Mathematica and Alpha, will be giving a free seminar about Mathematica version 7 on Monday, November 30 from 10:10 to 11 a.m. (Period C), followed by questions and answers and demonstrations until 12 p.m., in the Richter Library, Faculty Exploratory, room 305.

Mathematica is sometimes still perceived as primarily useful for only math and/or physics. This technical talk will illustrate how features in version 7 specifically change the pedagogy of teaching within chemistry, economics, and a number of other disciplines as well.

To register for this event, go to www.iacmiami.org. For further information, contact Bill Vilberg, [email protected] or 786-250-2255.

Claudia Kedar, visiting scholar from the University of Michigan’s Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center and postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, will lecture on Argentina during Juan Perón’s rule. Kedar will reveal that the tendency to describe populist Perón as the archenemy of the IMF and the World Bank as instruments of U.S. imperialism is no more than a myth promoted by Peronists and anti-Peronists alike. The lecture takes place on Monday, November 30 at 4 p.m. in the Richter Library, third-floor conference room. The event, a presentation of the University of Miami’s Center for Latin American Studies, is free and open to the public.

Please join us on Monday, November 30, at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, room 3109, for the seminar, “Islet Transplantation,” presented by  Norma S. Kenyon, professor of surgery, medicine, microbiology and immunology, and biomedical engineering. For more information or to add your name to the distribution list, please contact Ilse Duarte at [email protected].

The Laboratory Core of the Miller School of Medicine’s Developmental Center for AIDS Research (DCFAR) presents its guest speaker, Barton Haynes of Duke University. Haynes, director of Duke’s Human Vaccine Institute and Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology, will present “The Initial B Cell Response to HIV-1 and Influenza: Clues for Vaccine Development” on Monday, November 30 from 12 to 1 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Sciences Building, Room 3109.