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Events for May 2012

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  1. Week of April 29, 2012

    1. Tuesday, May 1, 2012

      1. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDr. Antonis Vakis
        Passive Vibration Absorption for Extremely High Density Recording
        2005 MEL - Deere Pavilion
      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. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pmDr. Mariana Silva Sohn
        Robust Topology Optimization in Static and Transient Problems
        2005 MEL - Deere Pavilion
      4. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmECE 590 - Graduate Seminar on Antennas, Electromagnetics, Optics and Remote Sensing
        245 Everitt Lab
      5. 4:00 pm - 4:50 pmAllen L. Garner, Ph.D., RF Instrumentation & Systems Lab, GE Global Research Center, Niskayuna, NY
        NPRE 596 Seminar: Pulsed Power and Plasmas: New Tools in Healthcare
        165 Everitt Laboratory, 1406 West Green Street, Urbana, IL
      6. 4:00 pmSoft Materials Seminar
        218 Ceramics Building
      7. 4:20 pm   6:00pmMarianne Gauthier, Matt Lee, Graduate Students
        Bioacoustics Research Laboratory Seminars
        3269 Beckman ' 3rd Floor Tower Room
      8. 4:20 pmBioacoustics Research Laboratory Seminars
        3269 Beckman - 3rd Floor Tower Room

    2. Wednesday, May 2, 2012

      1.  10th Annual CNST Nanotechnology Workshop 2012
        NCSA and MNTL
      2. 3:00 pmMichael Overton
        CANCELLED-GE/IE 590 Seminar-Nonsmooth, Nonconvex Optimization
      3. 3:00 pmMichael Overton Professor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University
        GE/IE 590 Seminar: Nonsmooth, Nonconvex Optimization
        101 Transportation Building
      4. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pmDr. Jiung Cho, Post-Doctoral Associate in Materials Science and Engineering with Prof. Paul Braun
        Nanohour Seminar - Tunable Thermal Transport in Lithium-ion Battery Cathodes as Measured by Time-Domain Thermal-Reflectance
        3269 Beckman Institute
      5. 3:30 pmProfessor Anthony J. Leggett, Physics Department, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
        Physics Colloquium:"Testing the limits of quantum mechanics: motivation, state of play, prospects"
        141 Loomis Lab
      6. 4:00 pmRob Johnson, Stony Brook University
        ITI Trust and Security Seminar
        2405 Siebel Center
      7. 5:00 pm - 6:00 pmP.U.R.E ECE/CS Research Symposium
        2nd Floor Atrium Siebel Center

    3. Thursday, May 3, 2012

      1.  10th Annual CNST Nanotechnology Workshop 2012
        NCSA and MNTL
      2. 12:00 pmStrongly Correlated Electron and Mesoscopics (SCEM) Journal Club

        1003 MRL (Superconductivity Center - MRL north wing)  - 104 S. Goodwin 
      3. 12:30 pmRavi Iyer
        ISTC-EC Seminar Series with Ravi Iyer, Intel
        4403 Siebel Center
      4. 1:00 pm - 2:00 pmDr. Donald Brown, Los Alamos National Laboratory
        NPRE Seminar: "Microstructural characterization of activated materials with neutron diffraction"
        103 Talbot Laboratory, 104 S. Wright Street, Urbana
      5. 3:00 pmDr. Melanie Loots, Associate Professor Ali Abbas, Assistant Professor Harrison Kim, Assistant Professor Angelia Nedich
        ISE Ethics Seminar
        103 Transportation BUilding
      6. 4:00 pmAerospace Engineering Seminar
        103 Talbot Lab

    4. Friday, May 4, 2012

      1. 9:30 amDongho Kim
        Final Examination - Dongho Kim
        239 Coordinated Science Lab
      2. 9:30 amFinal Examination - Hongbo Zhang
        301 Coordinated Science Lab
      3. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDr. Noo Li Jeon, Seoul National University
        Neuroengineering Seminar
        1005 Beckman
      4. 12:00 pmPreliminary Exam - I-Jui Sung
        368 CSL
      5. 3:00 pmXiaolei Li
        Final Examination - Xiaolei Li
        159 Everitt
      6. 3:00 pmDavid Boyce, Northwestern University
        Joint ISE/CEE Seminar-Predicting Road Traffic Route Flows Uniquely for Urban Transportation Planning
        3310 Newmark Laboratory

  2. Week of May 6, 2012

    1. Monday, May 7, 2012

      1.  Prof. Cheng-Wei Qiu, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore
        Nano-EP seminar: Manipulating the light: Tractor Beam, Trapping, and Transformation Optical Devices
        1000 MNTL
      2. 10:00 amFinal Examination - Bo Tan
        114 CSL
      3. 10:00 amVrashank Shukla
        Preliminary Examination - Vrashank Shukla
        419 Coordinated Science Lab
      4. 3:00 pmDr. Jose D. Faraldo-Gomez, Theoretical Molecular Biophysics Group, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt, Germany
        "Specificity, Mechanism and Membrane Organization of the ATP synthases"
        3269 Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave

    2. Tuesday, May 8, 2012

      1. 10:00 amJohn Stratton
        Preliminary Examination - John Stratton
        216 CSL
      2. 10:00 amPreliminary Examination - Wei Chen
        469a CSL
      3. 12:00 pmAlexei Czeskis, University of Washington
        ITI Special Seminar
        3405 Siebel Center
      4. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDr. Anastasios Sextos
        Structural health monitoring as a tool for assessing the performance of major Greek bridges under asynchronous seismic excitation
        2005 MEL - Deere Pavilion
      5. 12:30 pmFinal Examination - Seungchul Lee
        419 CSL
      6. 1:00 pmPreliminary Examination - Brian Herting
        TBD
      7. 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
      8. 4:00 pmAnupam Datta, Carnegie Mellon University
        ITI Trust and Security Seminar
        3405 Siebel Center

    3. Wednesday, May 9, 2012

      1. 2:00 pmSeung Jun Kim, Ph.D. candidate
        Final Defense: "An Experimental Study of Critical Heat Flux with Surface Modification and Its Analytic Prediction Model Development"
        111K Talbot Laboratory Conference Room, 104 S. Wright St
      2. 4:00 pmFinal Examination - Yingying Kuai
        365 Everitt Laboratory

    4. Thursday, May 10, 2012

      1. 10:00 amUsman Tariq
        Preliminary Examination - Usman Tariq
        3169 Beckman Institute
      2. 11:00 amFinal Examination - Neal Crago
        469A CSL
      3. 1:00 pmAaron Becker
        Final Examination - Aaron Becker
        B02 Coordinated Science Lab
      4. 2:00 pmPhil Atkins
        Preliminary Examination - Phil Atkins
        159 Everitt Lab

  3. Week of May 13, 2012

    1. Sunday, May 13, 2012

      1. 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. 12:00 pmMCB Director's Distinguished Seminar: "Synapses with minds of their own," by Michael Friedlander
        B102 CLSL
      2. 2:00 pmShehla Saleem Rana
        Preliminary Examination - Shehla Saleem Rana
        469B Coordinated Science Lab
      3. 3:00 pmProfessor Pavel Jungwirth, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague
        "Interactions between Ions and Proteins in Water:" The Hofmeister Series
        3269 Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave

    3. Tuesday, May 15, 2012

      1. 2:00 pmFinal Examination - Pradeep Shenoy
        159 Everitt Lab
      2. 3:00 pmDong Jin
        Preliminary Examination - Dong Jin
        469A Coordinated Science Lab
      3. 3:00 pmPreliminary Examination - Feng XIong
        3005 MNTL

    4. Thursday, May 17, 2012

      1. 12:00 pmStrongly Correlated Electron and Mesoscopics (SCEM) Journal Club

        1003 MRL (Superconductivity Center - MRL north wing)  - 104 S. Goodwin 

  4. Week of May 20, 2012

    1. Tuesday, May 22, 2012

      1. 12:00 pmIvar Martin - LANL
        Special ICMT Seminar: "Spontaneous Quantum Hall Effect and Fractionalization in Itinerant Chiral Magnets"
        190 Engineering Sciences Building

    2. Wednesday, May 23, 2012

      1. 1:00 pmAntonio J. Conejo, professor at the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
        Grainger Distinguished Lecture: Scheduling Energy and Reserve in Systems with High Wind Penetration
        B02 Coordinated Science Lab

  5. Week of May 27, 2012

    1. Thursday, May 31, 2012

      1. 12:00 pmStrongly Correlated Electron and Mesoscopics (SCEM) Journal Club

        1003 MRL (Superconductivity Center - MRL north wing)  - 104 S. Goodwin 
      2. 12:30 pmProf. Naresh Shanbhag
        ISTC-EC Seminar Series presents Prof. Naresh Shanbhag
        4403 Siebel Center