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Events for May 2012

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  1. Week of April 29, 2012

    1. Tuesday, May 1, 2012

      1. 1:00 pm   Analytical Chemistry Final Defense: Advisor - Prof. Ryan BaileyMr. Abraham Qavi, UIUC, "The Development of New Sensing Methodologies for Nucleic Acids using Arrays of Silicon Photonic Microring Resonators"
        117 RAL
      2. 2:00 pm   116 RALChBE 565 Seminar, "Nanoparticle Formation Processes and Targets of Opportunity", Professor Robert K. Prud'homme, Princeton University
        116 Roger Adams Lab
      3. 2:00 pm - 3:20 pmEconomics and Policy Seminar-Matthew Kahn (UCLA)
        3007 BIF
      4. 4:00 pmJohn Tobin
        Astrophysics Colloquium - John Tobin, NRAO, Charlottesville, VA: "Protostellar Envelope Structure and a Forming Protostellar Disk"
        134 Astronomy
      5. 4:00 pmProf. Prashant Kamat, University of Notre Dame, "TBA"
        112 Chem Annex
      6. 4:00 pmProf. Prashant Kamat, University of Notre Dame, "TBA"
        112 Chem Annex
      7. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmNaomi Nagy, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
        Romance Linguistics -- First Annual Illinois Romance Linguistics Lecture - Naomi Nagy, University of Toronto: "Language contact and lexical change in Faetar"
        Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana
      8. 4:00 pmStatistics Department Faculty Meeting
        122 Illini Hall
      9. 6:00 pm - 7:00 pmBosnian/Croatian/Serbian Conversation Table
        Espresso Royale, on Goodwin and Oregon in Urbana

    2. Wednesday, May 2, 2012

      1. 11:15 am - 11:45 amMary Wolters
        Mindful Meditation
        Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
      2. 12:00 pmCell & Developmental Biology Seminar: Dr. Wei Guo, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Biology, "Molecular Basis of Polarized Exocytosis and Cell Migration"
        B102 CLSL
      3. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmJapanese Language Table
        2050 Foreign Languages Building
      4. 3:00 pm - 5:00 pmATLAS WEB office hours
        ATLAS House Conference Room; 608 S Mathews, Urbana / Room 103
      5. 3:00 pm - 6:00 pmData Services Open Lab Hours
        314 Main Library
      6. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFarzad Farnoud (Hassanzadeh) - UIUC
        CSL Women in Engineering Seminar: Rank Modulation Codes for Flash Memories
        B-02 Coordinated Science Lab
      7. 4:00 pm   Chemistry Informal SeminarDr. Boris Rybtchinski, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, "Water-based noncovalent materials: robustness, adaptivity, and function"
        217 Noyes Lab
      8. 4:00 pmProfessor Emily Weiss, Northwestern University, "Nanoscale Interfacial Charge Transfer"
        112 Chem Annex
      9. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmLourdes Onederra, Writer (Universidad del Pais Vasco/Real Academia de la Lengua Vasca)
        SIP Colloquium - Lourdes Onederra, Writer (Universidad del PaIs Vasco/Real Academia de la Lengua Vasca): "Why do we write (in Basque)?"
        Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

    3. Thursday, May 3, 2012

      1.  Invited speakers: Prof. Mirjam Broersma (Max Planck Institute) and Prof. Jerry Packard (U of I Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures)
        SLATE - 4th Annual SLATE Graduate Research Symposium
        Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
      2. 9:00 am - 11:00 amATLAS WEB office hours
        ATLAS House Conference Room; 608 S Mathews, Urbana / Room 103
      3. 2:00 pm

        Dr. Michael McInerney, Oklahoma University


        Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Michael McInerney, "Syntrophy, the paradigm for anaerobic metabolic cooperation"
        B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana
      4. 2:00 pmGary Alan Fine, John Evans Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University
        Znaniecki Lecture, "Apology and Redress: Escaping the Dustbin of History in the Post-Segregationist South."
        Noyes 161
      5. 3:30 pm - 5:00 pmCommunication Awards Reception
        2nd Floor, Levis Center
      6. 3:30 pmSociology Annual Spring Reception
        Rosati's Pizza, 701 South Gregory Place, Urbana
      7. 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmEALC--China Workshop: "Teaching and Learning about China"
        Room 160 English Building, 608 S. Wright, Urbana
      8. 4:30 pmHarlin Investiture: Prof. Eric Oldfield
        Alice Campbell Alumni Hall
      9. 4:30 pmInvestiture of Professor Eric Oldfield as the Harriet A. Harlin Professor in Chemistry
        Alice Campbell Alumni Center
      10. 4:30 pmInvestiture of Professor Eric Oldfield as the Harriet A. Harlin Professor in Chemistry
        Alice Campbell Alumni Center

    4. Friday, May 4, 2012

      1.  Retreat - Tentative Date
      2. 10:00 amGary Alan Fine, John Evans Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University
        "Apology and Redress: Escaping the Dustbin of History in the Post-Segregationist South."
      3. 10:00 amMona Taylor
        Final Oral Defense - - Mona Taylor
        819 Psych Bldg
      4. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDr. Ella Chan
        Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ella Chan, Oregon Health & Science University, "2010 Anne A. Johnson Work Award Seminar: Adaptor-mediated proteolytic control during the bacterial oxidative stress response"
        B102 CLSL
      5. 3:30 pm - 5:00 pmApplied Microeconomics Seminar-Seung-Hyun Hong (U Illinois)
        215 David Kinley Hall
      6. 4:00 pmEALC--Professor Ronald P. Toby: "Picturing the Japanese Past: From 'Illustration' to 'Text'"
        Bevier Commons (Bevier Hall, 905 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana)
      7. 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmLINGUISTICS--End-of-year reception and student awards
        Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
      8. 4:00 pm   Analytical Chemistry seminarProfessor David Weis, University of Kansas, "Untangling the Spaghetti of Disordered Proteins with Mass Spectrometry"
        162 Noyes Lab

    5. Saturday, May 5, 2012

      1. 4:00 pmBulgarian Association Coffee Hour
        Espresso Royale Cafe (Goodwin and Oregon)

  2. Week of May 6, 2012

    1. Monday, May 7, 2012

      1. 12:00 pmMilan Svolik
        Comparative Politics Workshop - Milan Svolik
        404 David Kinley Hall
      2. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmDr. Urs Niesen - Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
        ICWS/Communications Seminar: Interference Alignment: From Degrees-of-Freedom to Constant-Gap Capacity Approximations
        141 Coordinated Science Lab

    2. Tuesday, May 8, 2012

      1. 2:00 pm   116 RALChBE 565 Seminar, "Engineering Cell Migration in vivo for Nerve Repair and Glioma Therapy", Professor Ravi V. Bellamkonda, Georgia Institute of Technology
        116 Roger Adams Laboratory
      2. 4:00 pm   Materials ChemistryMr. Sumit Ashtekar, UIUC, "Visualizing Atomic Motions on Amorphous Surfaces"
        161 Noyes Lab

    3. Wednesday, May 9, 2012

      1. 11:15 am - 11:45 amMary Wolters
        Mindful Meditation
        Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
      2. 1:00 pmJenessa Sprague
        Final Oral Defense - - Jenessa Sprague
        318 Psych Bldg
      3. 3:00 pm - 5:00 pmATLAS WEB office hours
        ATLAS House Conference Room; 608 S Mathews, Urbana / Room 103
      4. 3:00 pm - 6:00 pmData Services Open Lab Hours
        314 Main Library
      5. 3:00 pmGraduate Studies Committee Meeting
        300 C Greg Hall

    4. Thursday, May 10, 2012

      1. 9:00 am - 11:00 amATLAS WEB office hours
        ATLAS House Conference Room; 608 S Mathews, Urbana / Room 103
      2. 2:30 pmJennifer Gerrish, University of Pennsylvania
        CLASSICS - Jennifer Gerrish, University of Pennsylvania: "Sallust's Histories and Triumviral Historiography"
        Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

    5. Friday, May 11, 2012

      1. 10:00 amMichelle Cruz-Santiago
        Final Oral Defense - - Michelle Cruz-Santiago
        819 Psych Bldg

    6. Saturday, May 12, 2012

      1. All DayCommencement Weekend
        Various - see individual ceremonies for details
      2.  Spring Convocation
      3. 9:00 amSociology, Anthropology, and Interdisciplinary Studies Convocation
        Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
      4. 12:30 pmCommunication Convocation
        Foellinger Auditorium
      5. 3:00 pmPsychology Awards Ceremony
        23 Psychology Building
      6. 4:00 pmBulgarian Association Coffee Hour
        Espresso Royale Cafe (Goodwin and Oregon)
      7. 5:30 pmSLCL Convocation
        Foellinger Auditorium

  3. Week of May 13, 2012

    1. Sunday, May 13, 2012

      1. All DayCommencement Weekend
        Various - see individual ceremonies for details
      2.  Spring Convocation
      3.  Translation in the EU
        Paris, Strasbourg, Brussels
      4. 10:30 amCampus wide Commencement
        Assembly Hall
      5. 1:30 pmMr. Raymond M. Pasteris
        Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering-Convocation May 2012
        Colwell Playhouse, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

    2. Monday, May 14, 2012

      1.  Translation in the EU
        Paris, Strasbourg, Brussels
      2.  SLCL - Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program (IFLIP) Summer '12

    3. Tuesday, May 15, 2012

      1.  Translation in the EU
        Paris, Strasbourg, Brussels
      2.  SLCL - Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program (IFLIP) Summer '12

    4. Wednesday, May 16, 2012

      1.  Translation in the EU
        Paris, Strasbourg, Brussels
      2.  SLCL - Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program (IFLIP) Summer '12
      3. 3:00 pm - 5:00 pmATLAS WEB office hours
        ATLAS House Conference Room; 608 S Mathews, Urbana / Room 103
      4. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmProf. Augustin Chaintreau - Columbia University
        Communications Seminar: Transactional Privacy: Unknotting the Privacy Tussle with Economics
        301 CSL

    5. Thursday, May 17, 2012

      1.  Translation in the EU
        Paris, Strasbourg, Brussels
      2.  SLCL - Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program (IFLIP) Summer '12
      3. 9:00 am - 11:00 amATLAS WEB office hours
        ATLAS House Conference Room; 608 S Mathews, Urbana / Room 103
      4. 12:30 pmKennneth Gergen, Swarthmore College
        Brown Bag - - Kennneth Gergen -- Swarthmore College
        815 Psychology
      5. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmDr. Eitan Yaakobi - California Institute of Technology
        Communications Seminar: On the Uncertainty of Information Retrieval in Associative Memories
        141 Coordinated Science Lab

    6. Friday, May 18, 2012

      1.  Translation in the EU
        Paris, Strasbourg, Brussels
      2.  SLCL - Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program (IFLIP) Summer '12
      3. 9:00 am   Final Defense, Professor John Hartwig, AdvisorMr. Sherzod Madrahimov, UIUC, "Mechanistic studies on Iridium catalyzed allylic substitution"
        A414 CLSL

    7. Saturday, May 19, 2012

      1.  Translation in the EU
        Paris, Strasbourg, Brussels
      2.  SLCL - Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program (IFLIP) Summer '12

  4. Week of May 20, 2012

    1. Sunday, May 20, 2012

      1.  Translation in the EU
        Paris, Strasbourg, Brussels
      2.  SLCL - Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program (IFLIP) Summer '12

    2. Monday, May 21, 2012

      1.  Translation in the EU
        Paris, Strasbourg, Brussels
      2.  SLCL - Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program (IFLIP) Summer '12
      3. 12:00 pmFrances Chen -- Univ. of Freiburg
        Brown Bag -- Frances Chen - - Univ. of Freiburg
        Psychology bldg., room 819

    3. Tuesday, May 22, 2012

      1.  Translation in the EU
        Paris, Strasbourg, Brussels
      2.  SLCL - Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program (IFLIP) Summer '12

    4. Wednesday, May 23, 2012

      1.  Translation in the EU
        Paris, Strasbourg, Brussels
      2.  SLCL - Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program (IFLIP) Summer '12

    5. Thursday, May 24, 2012

      1.  Translation in the EU
        Paris, Strasbourg, Brussels
      2.  SLCL - Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program (IFLIP) Summer '12
      3. 8:30 amMove to Lincoln Hall.
        Lincoln Hall 702 S. Wright St. Urbana, IL
      4. 8:45 am - 4:00 pmWorkshop on the European Parliament

        166 Wohlers Hall, 1206 South Sixth Street, Champaign, IL 61820

      5. 4:00 pmDr. Lucinda Buhse
        Dr. Lucinda Buhse, FDA, "Identification and Detection of Impurities and Contaminants in Heparin Sodium"
        116 RAL

    6. Friday, May 25, 2012

      1.  Translation in the EU
        Paris, Strasbourg, Brussels
      2.  SLCL - Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program (IFLIP) Summer '12
      3. 8:30 amMove to Lincoln Hall.
        Lincoln Hall 702 S. Wright St. Urbana, IL
      4. 9:00 am   Final Defense, Professor Thomas Dunning, AdvisorMr. Jeffrey Leiding, UIUC, "Insight Into the Unusually High Reactivity of Two Closed-Shell Molecules: A High-Level Ab Initio Study Using the Recoupled Pair Bonding Model"
        A414 CLSL

    7. Saturday, May 26, 2012

      1.  Translation in the EU
        Paris, Strasbourg, Brussels
      2. 8:30 amMove to Lincoln Hall.
        Lincoln Hall 702 S. Wright St. Urbana, IL
      3. 1:00 pm - 4:00 pmSpurlock Museum Open Hours
        Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana

  5. Week of May 27, 2012

    1. Sunday, May 27, 2012

      1.  Translation in the EU
        Paris, Strasbourg, Brussels
      2. 8:30 amMove to Lincoln Hall.
        Lincoln Hall 702 S. Wright St. Urbana, IL

    2. Monday, May 28, 2012

      1. 8:30 amMove to Lincoln Hall.
        Lincoln Hall 702 S. Wright St. Urbana, IL

    3. Tuesday, May 29, 2012

      1. 8:30 amMove to Lincoln Hall.
        Lincoln Hall 702 S. Wright St. Urbana, IL
      2. 2:30 pm   Advisor: Professor John F. HartwigDaniel Robbins
        Mr. Daniel Robbins, UIUC, "New Methodologies and Approaches to Reaction Discovery in Transition Metal Catalysis"
        170 Noyes Laboratory

    4. Wednesday, May 30, 2012

      1. 8:30 amMove to Lincoln Hall.
        Lincoln Hall 702 S. Wright St. Urbana, IL

    5. Thursday, May 31, 2012

      1. 8:30 amMove to Lincoln Hall.
        Lincoln Hall 702 S. Wright St. Urbana, IL
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