The Columbia University Club of Fairfield County invites you to join us for a very special presentation by Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory researcher Klaus Jacob.

With Climate Change, Sandy, Irene, Fukushima and many other disasters occupying global and regional head lines, it is time to ask what is responsible for the apparent rise in disasters and related losses. Professor Jacob will tackle this question, by analyzing global trends, illustrated by examples, including Superstorm Sandy, and the effects of expected sea level rise on frequency and intensity of future coastal storm surges in particular. A generalized conclusions is that societal vulnerabilities increase often due to lack of sensible land use and urban planning. In short: we are in risk denial.

For RSVPs received before March 1, the price to attend is $30 for paid CUCFC members and their guests, $50 for all others for RSVPs. On or after March 1 the price will be $40 and $60, respectively. The price includes a delicious buffet and wine, beer, or soda.

Reserve your seat now! RSVP via email to cnathan1@optonline.com and then send a check payable to “Columbia University Club of Fairfield County” to Olga Kimmerlin, 73 River Road, Weston, CT 06833.

Or, send your RSVP to Claire and then pay via PayPal by clicking here for the alumni club member and guests early bird price, or here for non-members early bird price.

On or after March 1, click here for members & guests, or here for non-members.

Questions? Contact CUCFC club president Claire Nathan ’98SW at cnathan1@optonline.net.

Visit the Columbia University Club of Fairfield County online at alumniclubs.columbia.edu/fairfield.

Does playing softball in Central Park during spring and summer months with fellow Columbia University and Barnard College alumni sound like fun? 

To join, first please visit our Facebook page, then e-mail our team captain Howard Lipan at hkl11@caa.columbia.edu. In the e-mail, please be sure to include your UNI, school/degree (e.g. GSAS'11 PhD), skill set (fielding, pitching, hitting & base running, etc.), cell#, and how you heard of our team.

In May, we organize coached "spring training" practice sessions and intramural games; June to September, we compete in league and post-season tournament games with other university alumni teams. 

There are no fees to join or play. Our team is privately funded and all team equipment, ball field equipment, Central Park permits, tournament fees, etc. are provided. (Note that personal equipment and apparel are the responsibility of each player).

In May 2013, students from the Masters Programs in Museum Anthropology and Historic Preservation at Columbia University will hold an exhibition in Low Library to highlight archaeology's ability to preserve New York City's heritage. This exhibition features artifacts recovered during excavations of New York City sites such as Van Cortlandt Park, South Ferry, and Hanover Square. The exhibit is free to the public.

For more information visit http://saveourstories.tumblr.com/

Sponsored by Columbia University's Masters Programs in Museum Anthropology and Historic Preservation.

Internet Week is looking for volunteers for Monday, Tues, Wed, and Thurs. Ideally the volunteer would be available for the full day-- they would not need to commit to the whole week-- though we would welcome volunteers available for half days, too. Volunteers would help to check in guests, provide guidance and assist some of our speakers. In return the volunteers will receive credentials for the week of events. Interested volunteers should email samantha.fodrowski@gmail.com or call 617-697-4207.  Information about Internet Week can be found below.

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IWNY, taking place this year from May 20-27 2013, was launched in 2008 in cooperation with the New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment. It is a week-long festival celebrating Internet business and culture and will attract more than 45,000 Internet professionals, working across all sectors, attending 250+ events produced by IWNY and 150+ citywide event partners.

More information: https://internetweekny.com/
Registration: https://internetweekny.com/orders

Contact information: Caroline Waxler - caroline@internetweekny.com

IWNY, taking place this year from May 20-27 2013, was launched in 2008 in cooperation with the New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment. It is a week-long festival celebrating Internet business and culture and will attract more than 45,000 Internet professionals, working across all sectors, attending 250+ events produced by IWNY and 150+ citywide event partners.

More information: https://internetweekny.com/
Registration: https://internetweekny.com/orders

Contact information: Caroline Waxler - caroline@internetweekny.com

Join the Columbia University Club of South Texas for this month's no-fee no-RSVP social mixers for the Ivy+ crowd.

Bar Sorrel for 2.0 (skews older) on May 21.

The Dogwood in Midtown on May 29.

Just show up and buy your own drink.

Questions? Please contact George Worthington at worthworldtx@sprintmail.com.

This Three-day official ITIL® Foundations certification course provides you with a general overview of the IT Service Management Life-cycle which is outlined in ITIL’s five core books – Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition, Service Operation and Continual Service Improvement. ITIL’s “service life-cycle” consists of 24 processes and four functions.

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The 2013 APAM Qualifying Exam will take place on Thursday, May 23, and Friday, May 24. 

Please contact the Student Services Coordinator, Montserrat Fernandez-Pinkley, at mf2157@columbia.edu, if you intend on taking the exam.

Exam results will be available in the afternoon on May 28.

The Penn and Columbia Alumni Clubs of Minnesota invite you to attend a breakfast event "Broader Possibilities for Your Work, Life, and Legacy" with guest speaker George Dow, Executive Career Transition Consultant.

Actual or anticipated career transition involves many career choices to consider. It also offers a time for reflection, development and the opportunity to assess how one is doing from personal, professional and community perspectives.

George will begin by discussing nine distinct career options, with economic considerations, degree of difficulty, and strategies for each. He’ll then guide us through an exercise to evaluate other important aspects of our lives. How are you managing beyond your working identity? What do you want to continue? What do you want to change? How are you contributing to your personal, professional and community legacy? Now is an ideal time for each of us to get our whole house in order. Come prepared to think broadly and deeply about your preferred personal, professional and community future.

Itinerary: 
7:30 am – 8:00 am Registration
8:00 am – 9:45 am Program

Cost:
Complementary for dues-paying Columbia Club members
$15 for other alumni and guests
*Price includes breakfast and charitable donation to Urban Debate League. 

RSVP: Please contact Columbia Club’s Whitney Windmiller at whitney.windmiller@ml.comby May 10. Space is limited.

We are very happy to invite all Ivy/TCAN Clubs*. All guests are very welcome! 

Payment Options:
After you RSVP to Whitney please:
a.) Submit $15 via Paypal to drutman89@gsb.columbia.edu
or
b.) Send check to Dan Rutman, Columbia Club MN, 6728 Rosemary Lane, Edina MN 55439 (please make check payable to Dan Rutman and write "Alumni Event" in memo).

* Ivy/TCAN clubs consist of Amherst, Brown, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Michigan, MIT, Northwestern, NYU, Penn, Princeton, Smith, Stanford, Virginia, Wharton, Williams, Yale, Interclub and IvyLife.

Networking is one of the best ways to reconnect with your fellow alumni and make inroads for that next career step! Join the monthly breakfast series to meet alumni, and career professionals to learn about ways to connect.

Be prepared to share highlights about yourself as well!

All breakfasts take place at the Columbia Alumni Center located at 622 West 113th Street, New York, NY.

Resources to prepare for the Networking Breakfasts can be found here.

Networking is one of the best ways to reconnect with your fellow alumni and make inroads for that next career step! Join the monthly breakfast series to meet alumni, and career professionals to learn about ways to connect. Be prepared to share highlights about yourself as well! All breakfasts take place at the Columbia Alumni Center located at 622 West 113th Street, New York, NY. Resources to prepare for the Networking Breakfasts can be found here: http://www.careereducation.columbia.edu/resources/networking

"Differential Roles for AIM in Obesity-Associated Autoimmunity and Fatty Liver Diseases." Miyasaki Toru, MD, PhD, The University of Tokyo.

Joshua D. Berke, PhD, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program at University of Michigan, will present a seminar entitled: "No Going Back Now: Basal Ganglia Dynamics in Action Selection and Suppression".

Dr. Christina Queitsch, Assistant Professor Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle "Genomic footprints of the evolutionary capacitors HSP90 and RNA polymerase V"

Dr. Christina Queitsch, Assistant Professor Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle "Genomic footprints of the evolutionary capacitors HSP90 and RNA polymerase V"

Dr. Christina Queitsch, Assistant Professor Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle "Genomic footprints of the evolutionary capacitors HSP90 and RNA polymerase V"

The Earth Institute's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Division of Ocean and Climate Physics (DOCP) Seminar Series presents "Tropical Cyclone Genesis Factors in Paleoclimate Simulations", with Robert Korty, Texas A&M University. Open to the public.

For more information on LDEO visit www.ldeo.columbia.edu

For more information on the Earth Institute visit www.earth.columbia.edu

Interested in becoming a bartender or want to learn how to make hundreds of drinks? Impress your friends or potential employers through our School of Mixology, learning the skills and knowledge it takes to be a great bartender. The Columbia Bartending Agency is one of the few Schools that teach using real alcohol, so you can taste your own creations (provided you are 21+). And with an unbeatable price of $250 for five-courses, why learn anywhere else?

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Spouses/guests welcome. For questions, please contact the Alumni Office at 212-342-2964 or mmw7@columbia.edu.

Join Columbia DC as we root for Washington’s Nationals as they go head to head with Philadelphia’s Phillies!

Tickets: $33.00 for Mezzanine Seats #229 (40 tickets are available on first-come-first-serve basis).

Questions? Contact: programs@columbiadc.org

Nobel Laureate and University Professor at Columbia Universty Joseph E. Stiglitz to deliver a Lecture titled: The Imperative of Shared Prosperity: How Inequality Holds Back the Economies of the Middle East and the World on Sunday May 26, 2013 at 7:30

The Imperative of Shared Prosperity:  How Inequality Holds Back the Economies of the Middle East and the World

It has taken years of crises, but mainstream economics is finally recognizing the fundamental damage that inequality does to societies and to economies. The International Monetary Fund has shown that inequality and instability are inextricably linked. And the World Bank has launched a new push for not just growth but shared prosperity in emerging economies and the developing world.In this lecture, Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz will discuss in detail the economic and political costs of the kind of inequality that poses a large and increasing threat to countries around the world, from the United States, to Europe, to the Middle East, and beyond. Drawing on the themes of his recent book The Price of Inequality, he will discuss how inequality is more than just a matter of fairness.  It can depress GDP and its rate of growth, and if unchecked, it can inflict deep and persistent injury on societies. Particularly dangerous is inequality of opportunity. Professor Stiglitz will draw connections between these problems, the crises, and the slow recovery — and movements for change that have arisen in response — around the world and especially in the Middle East in the last few years. Beyond describing the significant challenges that inequality poses, he will outline the policy responses that can help restore economies to stable, sustainable growth.

Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University, the winner of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, and a lead author of the 1995 IPCC report, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He was chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisors under President Clinton and chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank for 1997-2000. Stiglitz received the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded biennially to the American economist under 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the subject. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University, held the Drummond Professorship at All Souls College Oxford, and has also taught at M.I.T, Yale, Stanford, and Princeton.

Stiglitz helped create a new branch of economics, "The Economics of Information," exploring the consequences of information asymmetries and pioneering such pivotal concepts as adverse selection and moral hazard. His work has helped explain the circumstances in which markets do not work well, and how selective government intervention can improve their performance.

At Columbia, Stiglitz co-chairs the Committee on Global Thought and is co-founder and co-president of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue. He is also president of the International Economic Association, co-chair of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress and chair of the Commission of Experts of the President of the United Nations General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System.

He is the author most recently of The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future.

All NYC Public Schools will be closed on Monday May 27th for Memorial Day. 

Memorial Day - University Holiday

Join fellow SIPA alumni for an evening reception with SIPA's Jan Svejnar, director of the Center on Global Economic Governance.

Food and drink will be available.

Guests welcome.

Newly admitted students to SIPA will also be on hand as well.

Please register here. 

The Institute for Sustainable Development & International Relations (IDDRI) at Sciences Po, the Chair for Sustainable Development at Ecole Polytechnique/EDF, the Columbia Global Center Europe at Reid Hall in Paris, and the Alliance Program at Columbia University are pleased to invite you to the following event: May 28, 2013 | 12:30PM-2:30PM | Columbia Global Center Europe in Paris (Reid Hall Paris) "Capture du carbone dans l'air ambiant / Carbon capture in ambient air" A seminar on sustainable development and environmental economics with Klaus Lackner (Ewing-Worzel Professor of Geophysics, Columbia University; Director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, Earth Institute at Columbia University) and Alain Goeppert (Research Scientist, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute at the University of Southern California)

Les émissions de gaz à effet de serre, au premier rang desquels le CO2, ne cessent de croître. Il devient donc chaque jour moins probable que cette tendance s’infléchisse avant que la concentration des gaz à effet de serre dans l’atmosphère ne dépasse ce que les climatologues considèrent comme compatible avec une probabilité raisonnable de maintenir l’augmentation de température moyenne en-dessous de 2°C. L’acidification des océans due à l’augmentation de la concentration du CO2 atmosphérique, amène en outre à formuler l’hypothèse que ce seuil déjà ambitieux s’avère lui-même trop élevé. Compte tenu de la persistance de ces gaz dans l’atmosphère, il se pourrait qu’il n’y ait finalement d’autre solution que d’aller les y rechercher. Summary: Join us for a discussion about why carbon capture is the next step in fighting increasing levels of greenhouse gasses. The speakers will also be discussing current research projects going on throughout the world. For more information about the event and the speakers, please click here.

You will receive information which will be helpful for you as a new Columbian. When you attend, you will learn about the benefits that are available to you as a Columbia employee, and you will receive guidance on how to find information at Columbia. You will have the opportunity to discuss your benefits after the program with a member of the HR Benefits team.

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You are invited to attend a public talk with Professor Klaus Lackner entitled “Capture of Carbon Dioxide from Ambient Air”.

What is the potential?

A session from the sustainable development and environmental economy seminar, organized with the support of the Alliance program.

Speakers:

Klaus Lackner
PhD in Physics, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth & Environmental Engineering; Director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy at the Earth Institute, Columbia University

Alain Goeppert
PhD in Chemistry, Université Louis Pasteur, France
Research Scientist at the University of Southern California, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute

Please note: Dr. Goeppert will present in French; Dr. Lackner in English

Additional information is found here.  

Maulik K. Patel
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

"Radiation (Ion beams) induced modifications in nuclear materials"

Materials used in the nuclear reactors (fuels and structural materials including cladding) and in nuclear waste forms for disposal/transmutation of nuclear waste constantly experience the most complex extreme environment, one that includes radiation. Radiation causes microstructural modifications, which are initiated primarily by formation of point defects and at high temperatures lead to the nucleation of dislocations and voids. These defects then bring about deleterious changes in the thermo-physical, chemical and mechanical properties of materials used in nuclear fission reactor applications. Thus it is a big challenge to understand the complex phenomena of radiation damage, characterize the damage itself and finally correlate the material properties that can be modified to make more radiation tolerant materials. Some of the problems associated with studying radiation damage of materials irradiated in reactors or nuclear waste are, slow defect accumulation over long irradiation time scales. Secondly, the materials become radioactive themselves making it difficult to characterize damage by conventional techniques. Finally, simultaneous irradiation by several different radiation species makes it difficult to understand separate effects. Thus, in order to evaluate the performance of existing and futuristic materials used in nuclear environments, accelerated ion beams are used to experimentally simulate radiation damage and perform controlled separate effects studies in the lab. Thus in this presentation I will, (1) introduce the general topic of radiation damage, (2) outline various sources of radiation existing in a nuclear environment and the mode by which they cause damage, (3) how accelerated ion beams can be used to simulate radiation damage and its drawbacks and (4) various characterization techniques used to understand and correlate damage to material property. The contents of the talk will be kept at a level plausible to students from under grad. to graduate level.

Host: Prof. I.C. Noyan

Join us on May 28th 2013 to see the great Entry to Mid-Level Sales Opportunities we have at The Bowdoin Group:

Sales Associates  Account Executives  Recruiters  Consultants  Client Services  Content Executives  Global Content Manager  Sales Director (Media)  Product Managers  Internships (IT and Research)

To attend, please RSVP with your resume to Carly Donovan –cdonovan@bowdoingroup.com

Refreshments will be served.

TBG Benefits:

The United Nations Secretariat, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Children\'s Fund and United Nations Population Fund are piloting a Virtual Careers Fair on 29 May 2013.

For a 24 hour period beginning on 29 May at 8am Bangkok time, until 8pm New York time you will be able to chat and pose questions to UN staff in these organizations about different careers opportunities in the UN Common System.

To participate please log on to http://careerfair.un.org on 29 May 2013.

Please note that no CVs or applications will be accepted as the Fair is for information purposes. You will also be able to watch videos describing the participating organizations as well as the application process, competitive examinations and competency-based interviews.

http://www.facebook.com/UN.Careers
http://twitter.com/un_careers
http://linkd.in/un_careers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-MEIkzPMmE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyRN-rcSjDk 

Only individuals who have completed the application process, registered for training and who have a designated approver already trained in the program will be allowed to attend a training session. 

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This course is intended for managers and will provide an overview of patient satisfaction reporting, including a tutorial on generating reports through Press Ganey Online.

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Environmental Health & Safety offers regularly scheduled ergonomic workshops designed to offer tips and techniques for avoiding Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSDs) and receiving advise on making your workplace more ergonomically fit.  Employees are encouraged to register for the workshop below.  If you have any questions, please contact us at erg-ehrs@columbia.edu.

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Taking the Next Step: Advanced Social Media for Your Job Search

LinkedIn is now an essential tool for job-seekers and career-advancers; those who are well versed are reaching their career goals more quickly. Career Coach and Author Robert Hellmann will go beyond the basics to show you advanced techniques in leveraging LinkedIn to build your network, research job prospects, contact people, and get meetings and interviews. We will also briefly touch upon Twitter and other social media tools. You will learn about specific strategies, techniques and resources that you can use immediately to help you reach your career goals!

Speaker: Robert Hellmann, Career Consultant and Professor at New York University, www.hellmannconsulting.com

About Speaker: Robert Hellmann has helped hundreds of clients in diverse industries and professions to reach their job-search and on-the-job goals. In addition to his private practice, Rob is a certified Five O'Clock Club Master Career Coach, a Vice President at the Club, and a professor at NYU.   He is also the author of the book "Your Social Media Job Search."  Rob's career-related insights have appeared in media outlets such as the New York Times, Forbes, the Washington Post, Money Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, ABC News, and NBC News.  He combines his 20-plus years in corporate marketing with his Five O'Clock Club training to help people market themselves in their careers.  Rob's website at www.hellmannconsulting.com has been sought out by those seeking career advice for his career blog, seminars and links to career resources.

Registration for Webinar:
Registering for this webinar is free - simply click on the registration link below. Please note that UNI login is required for registration for all webinars. If you do not know your UNI or password please click here for Alumni or here for Students.

After completing registration, you will receive an automatic confirmation email from our webinar service, GoToWebinar, with a link to log on to the seminar on the scheduled day. Note that this link is unique to you - please save it as CCE is unable to generate the link. Finally, to join the webinar, in addition to the unique link, you will need a computer, Internet access, and speakers/microphone attached to your computer or a telephone. For more information on how the webinars work, please visit this link.

TO REGISTER AND FOR MORE INFORMATION, please click on this link: Advanced Social Media

This course is part of the Customer Service Track and will increase your understanding of how Emotional Intelligence (EI) skills can enhance teamwork and patient-centered care. Through interactive exercises, participants will learn how to use EI skills to increase their effectiveness with colleagues and patients.

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Thesis Defense in Chemistry

"Self-assembly of nanoparticles on fluid and elastic membranes"

Presented by Andela Saric (Cacciuto Group)

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 2:30pm
The Miller Room 328 Havemeyer

Parents often want to explore their options beyond their public school, but most independent school education is notoriously expensive in New York City.  Come to our Spring School Fair and talk to educators from a range of private New York City metropolitan area schools serving Kindergarten through 8th Grade or Middle School students.  Some schools have a religious affiliation (parochial), others are secular; some charge a  flat fee tuition (most of them under $6,000 per child) and others use a sliding scale tuition based on income.  We have invited schools located in Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, New Jersey, Westchester and Rockland County, as well as in Manhattan.  (Please note that there will be no representatives from public schools.)

Some schools will have openings for the 2013/2014 school year, while others will be accepting applications in the fall for the 2014/2015 school year.

Come and find out more about these Schools of Value!


No Registration Necessary

Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 6:00 PM

Bloomberg LP 731 Lexington Ave (b/w 58th and 59th street), 28th floor, New York, NY

• Special Data Science event! This month we're featuring some of the coolest kids of the Data Science world, in NYC and beyond:

  * Cathy O'Neil, Senior Data Scientist at Johnson Research Labs
  * Claudia Perlich, Chief Scientist at M6D
  * Drew Conway, Scientist-in-Residence at IA Ventures
  * Chris Wiggins, Professor at Columbia University and co-founder of HackNY
  * Max Shron - the data scientist behind OKCupid, among other projects

  This month we have the smaller room on the 28th floor, so please RSVP ASAP!

  http://www.meetup.com/NYC-Data-Business-Meetup/events/119328002/?a=ea1_grp&rv=ea1

The Harvard Club of the Netherlands is pleased to invite you attend an evening event with Mr. Paul Arlman, Chair of Transparency International (TI) Dutch Chapter, who will speak on "Towards a More Transparent and Integrity Focused Netherlands". 

Agenda:
18:00-19:00: Drinks and Welcome by Dr. Peter A. Hall, Board Member of Harvard Club
19:00-20:15: Introduction by Ms. Maja Groff, Board Member of Harvard Club, Moderator; Speaker Presentations; Interactive Question & Answer Session
20:15-21:30: Light Dinner Buffet

RSVP:
Please email harvardnlevents@gmail.com with your name, your Alumni club and name(s) of your guest(s). Please let us know if you will be able to attend by May 10, 2013. 

In addition to the Harvard Club of the Netherlands, the Harvard Business School Club, the Ivy Circle, the MIT Club and the World Bank Club have been invited. 

Cost:
We are very grateful to NautaDutilh for hosting this event, for which there is no charge. NautaDutilh is a large independent law firm in the Benelux area specializing mainly in corporate and banking and finance law and known for its expertise in areas such as tax, intellectual property, competition, telecoms and media, commercial property and insurance, with a long-standing tradition of public service and academic involvement.

Further event details:

TI has recently completed a National Integrity Systems Assessment of the Netherlands which has identified areas of concern in tackling corruption in the public and private sectors. TI is known worldwide, with an established reputation for setting international standards and for addressing country specific, regional and global transparency issues, while encouraging policy and decision-makers to create a culture of good governance and responsible leadership.

Mr. Arlman is a former Chair of Plan International, Secretary General of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, founding member of the European Corporate Governance Institute, Executive Director of the World Bank and a Director for International Affairs in the Ministry of Finance in the Netherlands. He trained in law and international affairs in Rotterdam, Groningen and Nice.

Mr. Arjen Tillema is a partner at NautaDutilh specializing in white collar and fraud issues. He is a graduate of Groningen University and Harvard Law School (class of '91) as well as substitute judge at the Arnhem District Court. Mr. Tillema will offer a perspective on the topic of the evening based on his private practice as an attorney. He will speak on Business Ethics and Compliance, with a focus on the professional services and financial sector, and will provide thoughts on some of the issues raised by Mr. Arlman. He will also address topical issues such as the Banker's Oath, whistleblowers and internal fraud, and will draw on his experience as the former external counsel for the Dutch Central Bank for over a decade.

Further reading and background:

• The TI National Integrity Assessment Report (2012)
• NRC Article "Ons Gepolder Werkt Corruptie"
• “De Bankierseed: panacee of symboolpolitiek?” Article to be published in Het Tijdschrift voor Financiëel recht, March 2013 (Arjen Tillema and S.A. Gawronski)

Columbia University Alumni Association (Hong Kong) Limited ("CUAAHK") will be holding its Annual General Meeting "AGM" and a Panel Discussion entitled "Hong Kong as a Global Asset Management Center: Challenges and Opportunities", featuring key government official and industry experts. 

Please come to renew acquaintances, expand your network of alumni, and share your views as to what CUAAHK can do for you.  

Panel Discussion:  Hong Kong as a Global Asset Management Center: Challenges and Opportunities

Keynote Speaker:
Julia Leung Fung-yee, SBS, JP (Columbia Journalism School) Under Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, The Government of HKSAR

Panelists:

• Eric R. Mason, Managing Director, The Church Pension Fund (Columbia Business School)
• Kai R. Sotorp, Head of Asia Pacific, UBS Global Asset Management
• Frank K. Tang, CEO and Managing Partner, FountainVest Partners (Columbia Business School)

Moderator: 
Danny L.  Lee, Managing Director, Bain Capital Asia, LLC (Columbia College)

Itinerary:
6:30 p.m. Cocktails & Registration
7:00 p.m. AGM
7:30 p.m. Dinner
8:30 p.m. Panel Discussion

Price:
Price includes dinner and 2 drinks.  Member's price is subsidized by CUAAHK
$280 for CUAAHK Members: http://goo.gl/v36kg 
$480 for Non-Members: http://goo.gl/zZ2rq 

CUAAHK Membership:  Please take this opportunity to renew your CUAAHK Membership
$500 for One Year Membership: http://goo.gl/2oteS 
$5,000 for Lifetime membership:  http://goo.gl/2mC9q

RSVP by email to cuaahk@gmail.com AND PayPal payment (by clicking the respective links above) by Wednesday, May 22, 2013 to guarantee your space.  

Business attire and strictly no jeans, shorts and slippers are permitted at the Hong Kong Club.

In remembrance of Edward W. Said on the 10^th anniversary of his passing,the Columbia Global Centers | Middle East presents:

2013 Edward Said Memorial Lecture

Preconditions for a Just Resolution of the Palestine Question with Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University

Wednesday May 29, 2013 at 6:30 p.m.  RSVP

Khalidi is the author of Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (2013); Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East (2009); The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006), which has been translated into French, Arabic and Hebrew; Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004), which has been translated into French, Italian and Spanish; Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1997), winner of the Middle East Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Prize as best book of 1997, and which has been translated into Arabic, French and Italian and was reissued with a new introduction in 2010; Under Siege: PLO Decision-making during the 1982 War (1986), which has been translated into Arabic and Hebrew; and British Policy towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914 (1980); and is co-editor of Palestine and the Gulf (1982) and The Origins of Arab Nationalism (1991). He has written over a hundred articles on aspects of Middle Eastern history.

"Type 2 Diabetes - Thoughts on Pathogenesis from a Beta-Cell Biologist." Jack Leahy, MD, University of Vermont.

Alumni from classes ending in 3 or 8 (e.g. 1963 or 1988 etc.) are invited back to campus for Alumni Reunion Weekend! Reconnect with your fellow classmates and the School during this weekend of exciting events.

For the full schedule of events and registration, visit alumni.engineering.columbia.edu/reunion.

Make plans now to return to New York City and Columbia's campus for Alumni Reunion Weekend, Thursday, May 30-Sunday, June 2, 2013.