Benjamin York will defend his thesis titled "On the classification of l-adic and adelic Galois representations attached to elliptic curves with complex multiplication" in the Department of Mathematics. The work of this thesis sits at the intersection of algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry.

Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Jinhong DongTitle: “An Activator by Any Other Name: Mechanisms of Gene Activation and Repression by Essential Transcription Factor ZNF143"Major Advisor: Dr. Michael GuertinLocation: Cell & Genome Sciences BuildingEdmund and Arlene Grossman Auditorium, R1210400 Farmington AvenueVia Zoom: https://uconn-edu.zoom.us/j/98321765411?pwd=VgRkJLGvdpid1rOaK6PkPsrjMrX07C.1 (https://uconn-edu.zoom.us/j/98321765411?pwd=VgRkJLGvdpid1rOaK6PkPsrjMrX07C.1)Meeting ID: 983 2176 5411Passcode: 003581

Turkey Faces Anatolia: Postcolonial Perspectives on Kemalism Doctoral Field of Study: Political Science

The work pursues the goal of a robust method to predict progressive damage and failure in both polymer– and ceramic–matrix composites evaluated at both the macroscale and mesoscale levels. Analytical results and comparisons to experimental test results for both material systems are presented and discussed.

El Instituto's MA student, Ruth Edward's, is presenting their thesis presentation and everyone is welcome to join! Title: "A Home in Both Places: Gender, Afro-Caribbean Migration, and Transnational Homemaking in Central Brooklyn, 1924–1980" by Ruth Edwards. Brief Description:The history of Afro-Caribbean migration to New York City is often studied starting in 1965 with the post-racial promises of the Hart-Celler Immigration and Nationality Act as it precedes the direct increase of Afro-Caribbeans moving abroad. This has framed the Caribbeanization of New York City as a later development, and obscured the ways that Afro-Caribbean women, who migrated before this period, cultivated transnational networks of care that have served as the structure for other migrants—family and not—who came before them, after them and persist in the present. Examining the lives of four Afro-Caribbean women through a historical lens, this thesis recognizes the role of gender in processes of transnational homemaking in Central Brooklyn as a way to build a picture of some of the dynamics which shaped Afro-Caribbean migration between the years of 1924 and 1980. I consider archival documents from The Martha Gayle Collection provided by The Center for Brooklyn History in order to illustrate Afro-Caribbean life during this time. Altogether, I argue that these stories depict a different landscape for Afro-Caribbean life, and the Caribbeanization of New York City, before the 1970s in ways that transform the ways in which we conceive of the lives of Afro-Caribbean women as they sustain transnational relationships and networks of migration beyond traditional economies