DETAILS OF SELECTED EVENTS

Friday, June 6^th

Kick-Off Reception
at the
Charles B. Wang Center
Celebrating Asian and Asian American Cultures

Island Luau
Polynesian Buffet & Tiki Bar
RSVP - $35       6-10pm

Reception with the new Dean of Arts and Sciences
Dr. James Staros

Hawaiian Hula Dancers Floor Show

Steel Drum Band for Dancing

Wang Center Tour

Web Photo Shoot
Remember the evening with the
magnificent bamboo chapel as the backdrop

After Party at the EOB
DJ Titus & Karaoke
Free Entrance - Cash Bar - 10pm - 2am
End of the Bridge, Student Union

Saturday, June 7^th


See SBU Alumni Association
Website for Full Schedule

9:30 - 10:30 AM
Registration / Continental Breakfast
Melville Library / Free but RSVP

10:30 AM
Psychology Lab Open House
Prof. Hoi-Chung Leung
Psychology A Building, 2^nd Floor  

Did you know that Psychology is the largest undergraduate major at Stony Brook? Ever wonder
what goes on in the labs?  Come and see!  Among the Psych Lab Open Houses will be
Dr. Leung's which studies how the human brain remembers spatial locations.

11 AM
Hot Topic Lecture: Neutrinos
Prof. Chang Kee Jung
Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Physics D122

Neutrinos play crucial roles in nuclear physics, astrophysics and cosmology.  Professor Jung heads an international research group working on neutrinos. They are unveiling some of the deepest secrets of these particles by using very large scale, state-of-the-art, underground detectors, notably the Super-Kamiokande detector in Japan, K2K, the JHFnu experiments in Japan, and they are leading the effort to build a next generation nucleon decay and neutrino experiment called UNO.  

2:30 PM
Alumni to Alumni
Business to Business Network
Alumni to Alumni Career Network
Alumni Across Generations Award
Student Union Auditorium

ALUMNI ACROSS GENERATIONS AWARD
to be presented to the
Director of the SBU Computing Center
Dominic Seraphin
M.S., Class of 1969
Director of the Systems Group
Division of Information Technology
Patriarch of the SBU Seraphin Dynasty
S. Dominic Seraphin, '85
Arun A. Seraphin, Ph.D., '91
Letha M. Seraphin, M.D., '95

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
The Software Industry

Wai Lam
SBU Alumnus Class of 1982
VP of Engineering and One of Founders of FalconStor

PANEL OF DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI
Moderator: Prof. Thomas Liao

John Cordero
Marketing
Vice President, Integrated Marketing of New York

Preeti Priya
Legal Profession
Associate, Rivera, Hunter, Colon & Dobshinsky, LLP
  
Dr. Arun Seraphin
Government
Analyst, U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee

S. Dominic Seraphin
Health Care Administration
Vice President, Business Development, St. Joseph's Medical Center

Edward Zero
Education
Executive Director, Long Island Regional School Support Center 

NETWORKING RECEPTION

Alumni representatives from all walks of life will have
the opportunity to meet each other and talk one to one about
job openings, collaborations, recommendations, using each others
products and services, what it is like in their company or their industry.

Immediately Following Speakers
Scrumptious hors d'oeuvres catered by Curry Club & Eastern Pavilion

and
Views of Asia and Asian America Alumni Photography Show
Union Bi-Level

8:30 PM
World Renowned Hawaiian Taiko Drummer
Kenny Endo
Sushi Reception Preceding
with performance by
Mala Mateen
Modern and Traditional Indian Dance
Wang Center - $15 for University Members and Alumni

10 PM – 4 AM
After Party @ The Velvet Lounge
with Live Entertainment
(adjacent to the Curry Club on Rte 25A just east of Nichol's Road, near where
the Corner Bookstore used to be, in what was the old railroad car restaurant)

 

Sunday, June 8^th


10 AM
Family Taiko Drumming Workshop
Kenny Endo
A unique introduction to how drums and percussion instruments of Japan express the sound of
water, the crashing of waves, the whistling wind, a joyous festival to the blossoming of flowers.
 Audience participation.  Recommended for children 5 and over.  
Charles B. Wang Center Theatre - $10 adults; $5 children 12 & under  

2 PM  
Drummers Workshop with Kenny Endo  
Sharpen your percussive skill and broaden the expressiveness of your drumming
using  Japanese techniques and philosophy.  A workshop for drummers.  
Charles B. Wang Center - $50