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Events for November 2012

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  1. Week of October 28, 2012

    1. Thursday, November 1, 2012

      1. 12:00 pmDan Freed, University of Texas, Austin, Dept. of Mathematics
        Math/Physics Seminar Provisional title: "Twisted equivariant matter"
        464 Loomis (1110 W Green St., Urbana)
      2. 4:00 pmAssociate Professor Harrison Kim
        ISE Special Lecture Series Featuring Recently Promoted Faculty-Closing the Loop of (Really Long) Life Cycle of Complex Systems Portfolio
        103 Transportation Building
      3. 4:00 pmSibelan Forrester
        New Directions in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia - A Russian in Persia, and Persia in Russian: Translating Yuri Tynyanov's 'The Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar'
        101 International Studies Building, 910 S Fifth St Champaign
      4. 5:30 pmGale Summerfield, Ying Chen, Terri Weissman, and Gary Xu
        China Today Gallery Conversation--Rising Dragon: Contemporary Chinese Photography
        Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr.
      5. 7:30 pmCharles D. Ferguson, President, Federation of American Scientists
        MillerComm2013-Leveraging Science and Technology to Transform International Security: The Social Responsibility of Engineers and Scientists
        Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    2. Friday, November 2, 2012

      1. All Day2012 Tinker Pre-Dissertation Summer Field Research Workshop
        101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
      2. 12:00 pmClaudia Lennhoff, Executive Director of Champaign County Healthcare Consumers
        The Future of Health Reform
        University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St.
      3. 1:00 pm

        Prof. Yong P. Chen -
        Dept. of Physics, School of Electrical & Computer Engg, Birck Nanotech Cntr -
        Purdue University - West Lafayette IN


        Condensed Matter Seminar: Electronic Transport in Topological Insulators

        190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield
        Moved back to 190 ESB for 11/2 -- conflicting event was cancelled.
      4. 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm

        Juan Roberto Perilla, Beckman Institute (Schulten Lab), University of Illinois, Urbana


        CPLC Seminar: "Structure of the HIV-1 Capsid Assembly by Cryo-EM and All-Atom Molecular Dynamics Simulation"
        144 Loomis
      5. 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm

        Vishal Kottadiel, Department of Biology (Rao Lab), Catholic University of America, Washington, DC


        CPLC Seminar: "Shining a light: Using single-molecule fluorescence to decipher the coordination between subunits of the bacteriophage T4 DNA packaging motor"
        144 Loomis
      6. 5:00 pmDr. Benjamin Ervin
        ISE Scholars of Practice-Dr. Benjamin Ervin, MIT
        303 Transportation Building

    3. Saturday, November 3, 2012

      1. All Day2012 Tinker Pre-Dissertation Summer Field Research Workshop
        101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign

  2. Week of November 4, 2012

    1. Monday, November 5, 2012

      1. 12:00 pmMonique Combescot - Institut des NanoSciences de Paris
        ICMT Seminar: "BEC-BCS crossover in excitonic systems"
        190 Engineering Sciences Building
      2. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDr. Carol Handwerker - Reinhardt Schuhmann Jr. Professor of Materials Engineering, Purdue University
        Sustainability Seminar series - Sustainable Electronics: Lessons learned from the RoHS and the Pb-free transition
        Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, One E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
      3. 5:30 pmKate Orff
        Petrochemical America by Kate Orff (Asst. Professor, Columbia University)
        Plym Auditorium room 134 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall

    2. Tuesday, November 6, 2012

      1. 12:00 pmFaith Wilson Stein
        Noontime Scholar Lecture - Ruskin in Russia, and The Ethics in Aesthetics
        101 ISB, 910 S Fifth St Champaign
      2. 2:00 pmPamela Cappas-Toro, Ph.D. Student, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
        Lemann Lectures Series: El Corte, Afox and Carnaval: Re (imagining) Afro descendant Music under Dominican and Brazilian Dictatorships
        101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign

    3. Wednesday, November 7, 2012

      1. 12:00 pmDr. Gee Lau
        PATH Seminar-Dr. Gee Lau
        2506 Veterinary Medicine Basic Sciences Building
      2. 12:00 pmCarlos Palenzuela (CITA)
        Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave events"
        464 Loomis
      3. 4:00 pmProfessor Mark Neubauer, Physics Department, University of Illinois
        Physics Colloquium: "Higgs boson: Discovery, Properties and Prospects"
        141 Loomis
      4. 6:30 pmInternational Carrers Workshop Series: Using Campus Resources to Jumpstart Your International Career
        101 Armory 505 East Armory Avenue Champaign, IL 61820

    4. Thursday, November 8, 2012

      1. 12:00 pmAndrew Eisen, Ph.D. Student, History
        Lectures Series: This is a Cold War: Militarization and Migration along the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1945-1955
        101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
      2. 4:00 pmAssistant Professor Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, ECE Illinois
        ISE Graduate Seminar-Decentralized Optimal Coordination of Distributed Energy Resources
        103 Transportation Building

    5. Friday, November 9, 2012

      1. 12:00 pmEvelyne Accad: "Voices of Women in the Arab (springs) Tempests (or storms)"
        101 International Studies Bldg, 910 S. Fifth St.
      2. 3:00 pmProfessor Alexander S. Mankin, Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago
        'Encounters of the nascent peptide and antibiotics in the exit tunnel of the ribosome'
        3269 Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave
      3. 3:30 pm

        Dr. Alexander Boris -
        Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany


        Condensed Matter Seminar at Special Time: Superconductivity-induced transfer of optical spectral weight in iron-pnictide and cuprate high-Tc superconductors

        190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield
        at SPECIAL TIME of 3:30 pm after ICMT Workshop.

         

    6. Saturday, November 10, 2012

      1. 10:15 am

        Professor Michael Weissman


        Our Weird Quantum World
        141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics 1110 W. Green St. Urbana IL
      2. 2:30 pm - 3:30 pmSpanish Story Time: "Rene Has Two Last Names/ Rene tiene dos apellidos"
        The Urbana Free Library, Children's Department, 210 W Green St, Urbana.

  3. Week of November 11, 2012

    1. Monday, November 12, 2012

      1. 12:00 pmMatthew Foster - Rice University
        ICMT Seminar: "Interaction-mediated surface state instability in dirty topological superconductors"
        190 Engineering Sciences Building
      2. 3:00 pmAssistant Professor Jian Ma, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
        Next-Generation Comparative Genomics using Next-Generation Sequencing
        3269 Beckman Institute
      3. 4:00 pmAssociate Professor Wotao Yin, Rice University
        ISE Graduate Seminar-Smooth Sparse Optimization
        303 Transportation Building

    2. Tuesday, November 13, 2012

      1. 2:00 pmAnita Chan, Assistant Professor, Media and Cinema Studies
        Lectures Series: Hacking Digital Universalism: De-scripting Technological Design in the Andes
        101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
      2. 3:00 pmDr. Michael Jeffords and Susan Post
      3. 3:00 pmHitesh Changlani - Cornell
        ICMT Seminar: "Emergent spins on a randomly diluted antiferromagnet at the percolation threshold "
        280 MRL (104 S. Goodwin)

    3. Wednesday, November 14, 2012

      1. 12:00 pmRukmani Vijayaraghavan (University of Illinois)
        Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Mergers of Galaxy Groups and Clusters: Implications for Cluster Galaxy Evolution"
        464 Loomis
      2. 1:00 pmFumihiro Kaneda
        QI/AMO Seminar: Efficient generation and activation of multi-photon bound entanglement
        280 MRL
      3. 4:00 pmProfessor Hongkun Park, Harvard University, Department of Chemistry
        Physics Colloquium "Nano-Bio Interfacing and Single-Cell Transcriptomics: Innovative New Tools for Biology"
        141 Loomis Lab

    4. Thursday, November 15, 2012

      1. 12:00 pmDamarys Canache, Associate Professor, Political Science
        Lectures Series: Determinants of Discrimination in Latin America
        101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
      2. 12:00 pmProfessor Shinsei Ryu, Univ. of Illinois, Dept. of Physics
        Math/Physics Seminar "Coordinates noncommutativity for three-dimensional topological insulators"
        464 Loomis (1110 W Green St., Urbana)
      3. 4:00 pmProfessor Zelda Zabinsky, Washington University
        ISE Graduate Seminar-Adaptive Random Search for Global Optimization with the Interacting Particle Algorithm
        103 Transportation Building

    5. Friday, November 16, 2012

      1. 11:00 am - 4:00 pmDr. Kevin Gibson (Purdue Univ.); Duane Friend (UI Extension); Dr. Krishna Reddy (UIC); Dr. Kurt Spokas (USDA - St. Paul); Audrey Sweet (SUI-C); Dr. Junhua Jiang (UI - ISTC); Dr. Tom Holm (UI - ISWS); Dr. Rick Larson (UI - NRES); Paul Weaver (Chip Energy, Inc.); Paul Anderson (Chip Energy, Inc.)
        Illinois Biochar Group Fall Meeting
        Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, One E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61822
      2. 1:00 pm

        Dr. Wai-Kwong Kwok - Senior Scientist & Group Leader -
        Superconductivity and Magnetism Group - Materials Science Division -
        Argonne National Laboratory (IL)

         

         

         

         


        Condensed Matter Seminar: Vortex Pinning and Critical Currents in Iron Based Superconductors

        190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield

         
      3. 2:00 pm

        Peter Freddolino, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, NY


        CPLC Seminar: "Coping with the unknown: A guide for bacteria and bacteriologists"
        144 Loomis
      4. 4:15 pmProfessor Ovidiu Radulescu, Theoretical Biophysics and Systems Biology, University of Montpellier 2, France
        'Which details matter? Model reduction helps computational biology.'
        3269 Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave

  4. Week of November 18, 2012

    1. Wednesday, November 21, 2012

      1. 12:00 pmNo seminar: Thanksgiving break
        Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar
        464 Loomis

    2. Friday, November 23, 2012

      1. 1:00 pmCondensed Matter Seminar: No Seminar - Thanksgiving Holiday Week

        190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield

         
      2.  NO CPLC SEMINAR - Thanksgiving Break

  5. Week of November 25, 2012

    1. Monday, November 26, 2012

      1. 3:00 pmProfessor Isaac Cann, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
        Enzymatic Plant Cell Wall Deconstruction for Biofuel Production
        3269 Beckman Institute
      2. 4:00 pmProfessor Ion Stoica, University of Berkeley
        Professor Ion Stoica, Taming Big Data with BDAS (Berkeley Data Analytics Stack)
        2405 Siebel Center

    2. Tuesday, November 27, 2012

      1. 12:00 pmValleri Hohman
        Noontime Scholar Lecture - Cold War Performances: The Moscow Art Theatre's Haunted Return to America
        101 International Studies Building, 910 S Fifth St Champaign
      2. 3:00 pmDr. Pati Vitt - Chicago Botanic Garden
      3. 3:00 pm

        Dr. Alexander Thaler -
        Dept. of Physics & Astronomy - Iowa State


        Special Condensed Matter Seminar: Structural and Magnetic Properties and Superconductivity in Transition Metal Substituted Ba-122 Single Crystals

        1003 SuperConductivity - 104 S Goodwin (between MRL & ESB)

    3. Wednesday, November 28, 2012

      1. 12:00 pmDr. Mitchell Ho
        PATH Seminar-Dr. Mitchell Ho
        2506 Veterinary Medicine Basic Sciences Building
      2. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmMarta Keane - Recycling Program Specialist & Green Business Relations Coordinator; Will County Land Use Department - Resource Recovery & Energy Division
        Sustainability Seminar series - Electronic Recycling in Will County 2012
        Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, One E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
      3. 12:00 pmHotaka Shiokawa (University of Illinois)
        Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Radiative models of tilted black hole accretion flows"
        464 Loomis
      4. 4:00 pmCozad New Venture Competition Kickoff Event
        1090 Lincoln Hall
      5. 4:00 pmProfessor Andrew Ferguson, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois
        Physics Colloquium "Machine Learning and Biology: Folding paths and fitness landscapes"
        141 Loomis Lab

    4. Thursday, November 29, 2012

      1. 12:00 pmGeorge Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor and Chair. History, University of Pittsburgh
        Lemann Lectures Series: Racial Inequality in Brazil and the United States, 1990-2010
        101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
      2. 12:00 pmTudor Dimofte (IAS, School of Natural Sciences)
        Math/Physics Seminar: "3-Manifolds and 3d Gauge Theories"
        464 Loomis (1110 W Green St., Urbana)

    5. Friday, November 30, 2012

      1. 1:00 pm

        Mike Norman - Director -
        Materials Science Division - Argonne National Lab


        Condensed Matter Seminar: Stay Away from Theorists

        190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield

         
      2. 2:00 pm

        Karen Fleming, Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD


        CPLC Seminar: "Membrane Protein Stability"
        144 Loomis