Private equity funds is focus of inaugural Wasserman Workshop
Andrew Metrick, associate professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, will give the inaugural Bert W. Wasserman Workshop in Law and Finance, on Monday, Nov. 19.
Metrick will discuss “The Economics of Private Equity Funds” 4:30-5:45 p.m. in the faculty lounge, Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. The lecture, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Corporate Law at the Law School, is open to the public.
A Yale College graduate, Metrick has taught at the Wharton School since 1999. He has won numerous awards for teaching and is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
The Bert W. Wasserman Workshop in Law and Finance was established by Craig Wasserman ’86 in memory and honor of his father, Bert W. Wasserman, a distinguished leader in the field of finance who exemplified the field’s highest professional and ethical standards. The goal of the workshop is to support the study of corporate law and finance by sponsoring workshops and discussion forums for the presentation of current research and the discussion of topical issues in law and finance.
‘Art Thief’ author to speak at master’s tea
Calhoun College will host a master’s tea with Noah Charney, author of “Art Thief,” on Monday, Nov. 26.
The tea will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master’s house, 434 College St. All are welcome to attend.
Charney is the founding director of the non-profit charity Association for Research Into Crimes Against Art, the first international think tank on art crime. He teaches art history in Florence, Italy, for Miami-Dade College and he also teaches in the Oxbridge Academic programs.
Charney is editor of “Art & Truth,” a collection of essays in which authors wrote about personal experiences with art from any medium, with a particular focus on what makes art appealing to a wide audience.
An art historian, Charney decided to pursue research into art thefts while working toward a Ph.D. at Cambridge University.
Good Energies executive is next speak in Yale Leaders Forum
Richard L. Kauffman, chief executive officer of Good Energies, will give a talk as part of the Yale Leaders Forum on Tuesday, Nov. 27.
Kauffman’s lecture will take place 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. in the General Motors Room at the School of Management (SOM), 55 Hillhouse Ave. The public is welcome to attend this talk.
Kauffman was previously a partner of Goldman Sachs, where he was chair of the Global Financing Group and a member of the firm’s Partnership Committee, Commitments Committee and Investment Banking Division Operating Committee.
Kauffman has had broad experience in capital markets and corporate finance and previously served as vice chair of Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Securities Business and co-head of its Banking Department. Prior to assuming this position, Kauffman was vice chair and a member of the European Executive Committee of Morgan Stanley International.
Kauffman has been a lecturer in finance and financial accounting at SOM and a teaching fellow in foreign policy at Yale College. He earned a master’s degree in international relations from Yale, as well as a master’s in public and private management from SOM.
A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Kauffman is on the board of the Foreign Policy Association, SOM’s board of advisors and the French-American Foundation, among others.
Music scholar is next speaker in ‘Scroll, Book, Screen’ series
The “Scroll, Book, Screen: Means and Meaning in the Humanities” series will continue on Tuesday, Nov. 27, with a talk by Leo Treitler, Distinguished Professor of Music Emeritus at the City University of New York Graduate School.
“Signifying Music and Music Performance” is the title of Treitler’s talk, which will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 208, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. Sponsored by the Humanities Program and the Whitney Humanities Center, the talk is free and open to the public. For more information call Manana Sikic at (203) 432-0673 or e-mail manana.sikic@yale.edu.
Treitler specializes in the music of the Middle Ages, especially Gregorian chant and early polyphony. He has also written about music historiography, the theory and practice of music criticism, musical notation, and the aesthetics and philosophy of music.
He has investigated the beginnings of music writing in the West, and has sought to distinguish between oral and written traditions in the transmission of Gregorian chant, extending that inquiry into other repertoires, including the piano music of Chopin. His current book project is titled “Speaking of Music.”
Betts Lecture will explore ‘empire builders’
The Betts Lecture, sponsored by the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders, will be delivered by Walter Nugent, the Tackes Professor of History (Emeritus) at the University of Notre Dame, on Thursday, Nov. 29.
Titled “Empire-Builders of the Early Republic,” Nugent’s talk will take place at 5 p.m. in Rm. 211, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 432-2328 or e-mail lamar.center@yale.edu.
In his lecture, Nugent will focus on empire-building in the early republic, the era of Jefferson, Madison, John Quincy Adams and Jackson from 1804 to 1819. The salient events were the failed attempt to conquer Canada, the successful demolition of the Creeks and the capture of the Floridas. According to Nugent, the gap between imperial behavior and the rhetoric of freedom was evident throughout.
Nugent taught history at the University of Notre Dame from 1984 to 2000 and, before that, was a professor of history at Indiana University for 21 years.
He is the author of many books, including “Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870- 1914,” “Into the West: The Story of Its People” and the forthcoming “Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion.” Nugent served as president of the Western History Association 2005-2006.
The lecture series honors Roland W. Betts II, a senior fellow of the Yale Corporation, for his support of the Howard R. Lamar Center.
1997 Nobel Prize winner to visit the campus
Steven Chu, co-winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, will visit the campus Wednesday-Friday, Nov. 28-30.
Chu will give the Tetelman Lecture on Wednesday at 5:15 p.m. in Davies Auditorium, Becton Center, 15 Prospect St. He will be the guest at a master’s tea on Thursday at 4 p.m. in the common room, Swing Dorm, 100 Tower Parkway. On Friday, Chu will deliver the Sigma Xi Lecture at 10 a.m. in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The talks are sponsored by the Faculty of Engineering and Jonathan Edwards College. All are welcome.
Chu shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips for “the development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.”
A professor of physics and of molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Berkeley, Chu is also director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Previously, Chu was the Theodore and Francis Geballe Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University, where he served for 17 years as a scientist, teacher and administrator.
Chu is author or co-author of more than 200 articles and professional papers. He is a member of National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academia Sinica, and is a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and of the Korean Academy of Science and Engineering.
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