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Events for March 2013

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  1. Week of February 24, 2013

    1. Friday, March 1, 2013

      1. All DayMartin Medina Sr. (International Relations Specialist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Washington, DC.), Catherine Alexander (Anthropology, Durham University, UK ), Stephanie Foote (English and Gender Studies, UIUC), Nicky Gregson (Geography, Durham University, UK), Darrin Durant (Science and Tech. Studies, York University), Daniel Schneider (Urban and Regional Planning, UIUC), Jonathan Bloom (Independent investigative journalist), Janet Kalish (freegan.info, New York City), Michelle Schmidt (Sociology, UIUC), Steven Sonka (Director of ADM Institute for the Prevention of Post-harvest Loss, UIUC) Zsuzsa Gille (Sociology, UIUC)
        2013 Joint Area Centers Symposium. JACS: The Future of Waste
        The Illini Union, Room 314 A
      2. 11:00 amRichard Sowers, University of Illinois
        ISE Head Candidate Seminar-Networks, Nonlinearity, Engineering, and Finance
        303 Transportation Building
      3. 12:00 pm

        Audrey Williams, University of Iowa, Graduate of the 2012 ACDIS Summer Workshop in International Security


        From Seoul to the Hague: Making the Most of the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit
        356 Armory, 505 East Armory Avenue, Champaign, IL
      4. 12:00 pmMegan Sweeney, Professor of Sociology at UCLA
        Megan Sweeney
        TBA
      5. 12:00 pmRev. Alexander Sharp
        Rev. Alexander Sharp, Executive Director Emeritus of Protestants for the Common Good
        Lazter Hall, University YMCA
      6. 1:00 pm

        Prof Andrey Chubukov -
        Dept of Physics - University of Wisconsin


        Condensed Matter Seminar: Time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductivity in Fe-pnictides with only electron or only hole pockets

        190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield

         
      7. 1:30 pmMegan Sweeney, Professor of Sociology, UCLA
        U.S. Contraceptive Use in Comparative Perspective
        3057 Lincoln Hall
      8. 2:00 pm

        Justin Kinney, Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY


        CPLC Seminar: "Using DNA sequencing to characterize the biophysics of transcriptional regulation"
        464 Loomis
      9. 4:00 pmLynne Rudder Baker, Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
        MillerComm2013-Baker
        Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    2. Saturday, March 2, 2013

      1. All DayMartin Medina Sr. (International Relations Specialist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Washington, DC.), Catherine Alexander (Anthropology, Durham University, UK ), Stephanie Foote (English and Gender Studies, UIUC), Nicky Gregson (Geography, Durham University, UK), Darrin Durant (Science and Tech. Studies, York University), Daniel Schneider (Urban and Regional Planning, UIUC), Jonathan Bloom (Independent investigative journalist), Janet Kalish (freegan.info, New York City), Michelle Schmidt (Sociology, UIUC), Steven Sonka (Director of ADM Institute for the Prevention of Post-harvest Loss, UIUC) Zsuzsa Gille (Sociology, UIUC)
        2013 Joint Area Centers Symposium. JACS: The Future of Waste
        The Illini Union, Room 314 A
      2. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmLatin American Story Time
        Champaign Public Library

  2. Week of March 3, 2013

    1. Monday, March 4, 2013

      1. 12:00 pmRafael Fernandes (Minnesota)
        ICMT Seminar: "Manifestations of electronic nematic degrees of freedom in the high-temperature iron-based superconductors"
        190 ESB
      2. 12:00 pmMiriam Cooke (Duke University)
      3. 1:30 pm - 2:30 pmDi Long, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin
        Satellite Remote Sensing in Water Resources Management and Agricultural Engineering

        Room 201, Water Survey Research Center (map)
        2204 Griffith Drive, Champaign, IL
      4. 4:00 pm

        Lindsay LeBlanc


        Special QI/AMO Seminar: Engineering dispersion relationships for ultracold atoms
        280 MRL

    2. Tuesday, March 5, 2013

      1. 2:15 pm - 3:15 pmRyan Sriver, Department of Atmospheric Sciences
        Confronting Uncertainties in Climate Projections

        Room 201, Water Survey Research Center (map)
        2204 Griffith Drive, Champaign, IL
      2. 4:00 pmJon Orwant, Research manager, Google
        CAS Initiative-Culture as Data: Social Spaces on the Internet-Orwant
        Coordinated Science Laboratory, Room B02, Auditorium; 1308 W. Main, Urbana
      3. 7:00 pm - 8:00 pmProfessor Terrie Groth, Political Scientist from University of Braslia, Brazil
        Lemann Lecture Series. Kids & Politics: Civic Engagement and Service Learning in Brazil
        Pennsylvania Avenue Residence Halls, Saunders Lounge, 906 College Ct., Urbana
      4. 7:30 pmTimothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History, Yale University
        MillerComm2013-Snyder
        Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    3. Wednesday, March 6, 2013

      1. 12:00 pmBen Ryan (University of Illinois)
        Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Direct Planetesimal Formation by Gravitational Collapse"
        464 Loomis
      2. 1:30 pmPhillippe Faucher, Department of Political Science, Universit de Montral
        Lemann Lecture Series: The Challenges Facing the Brazilian Developmental State
        101 International Studies Building
      3. 4:00 pmDr. Charles Ferguson, President, Federation of American Scientist
        Physics Colloquium, "The Physics of Nuclear Disarmament"
        141 Loomis

    4. Thursday, March 7, 2013

      1.  Physical Activity, Health, and Well-Being in Brazil
      2. 10:00 am

        Dr. Julio Barreiro


        Special QI/AMO Seminar: Harnessing additional degrees of freedom and the environment to experimentally enable quantum applications and simulations
        280 MRL
      3. 11:00 am

        Ribhu Kaul (University of Kentucky)


        Special ICMT Seminar: Quantum Criticality in Mott Insulators
        190 ESB
      4. 12:00 pmFlorence Babb, Vada Allen Yeomans Professor of Women's Studies. Department of Anthropology. University of Florida
        Lecture Series: Gender, Race, and Tourism in Andean Peru and Chiapas, Mexico
        101 International Studies Building
      5. 4:00 pmRussell Barton, Smeal College of Business, Penn State
        ISE Seminar-SPC for Monitoring Supply Chain Execution
        303 Transportation Building
      6. 4:00 pmYvonne Kleinmann - Head of Research Group at the Institute for Slavic Studies, Leipzig University
        New Directions in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia - Legal Histories in Eastern Europe New Foci, Methods and Approaches
        101 International Studies Building, 910 S Fifth St Champaign
      7. 7:30 pmCharles D. Ferguson, President, Federation of American Scientists, Washington, DC
        MillerComm2013-Ferguson
        Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    5. Friday, March 8, 2013

      1.  Physical Activity, Health, and Well-Being in Brazil
      2. 9:30 amJohn Sutherland
        ISE Head Candidate Seminar-Manufacturing Research for Improved Sustainability
        303 Transportation Building
      3. 12:00 pmDr. Cindi Love
        Soulforce, Dr. Cindi Love, Executive Director
        Lazter Hall, University YMCA
      4. 1:00 pm

        Peter B. Littlewood -
        Assoc. Director - Physical Sciences and Engineering - Argonne National Laboratory
        Prof of Physics - James Franck Institute - University of Chicago


        Condensed Matter Seminar: Screening of charge and structural motifs in oxides

        190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield

         
      5. 2:00 pm

        David Piston, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN


        CPLC Seminar: "Molecular Communication Underlying Hormone Secretion"
        464 Loomis

    6. Saturday, March 9, 2013

      1. 2:30 pmSpanish Story Time: Hairs/ Pelitos
        The Urbana Free LIbrary

  3. Week of March 10, 2013

    1. Monday, March 11, 2013

      1. 12:00 pmBabak Seradjeh (Indiana University)
        ICMT Seminar: "Transport signatures of Floquet Majorana fermions in driven topological superconductors"
        190 ESB
      2. 1:30 pmYang-Yu Liu Northeastern University http://barabasilab.neu.edu/people/yangliu/Welcome.html
        Special CPLC Seminar: Controllability and Observability of Complex Biological Systems
        190 ESB
      3. 3:00 pmDr. Robert Best, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD
        Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group - 'Coarse grained models for protein folding and misfolding in the bacterial chaperonin GroEL'
        3269 Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave
      4. 4:00 pmDr. Dan Spielman, Yale University
        Dr. Dan Spielman, "Algorithms, Graph Theory, and the Solution of Laplacian Linear Equations"
        2405 Siebel Center

    2. Tuesday, March 12, 2013

      1. 11:00 amThomas Faulkner, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton New Jersey
        Special ICMT Seminar:"Entanglement Entropy in Holography"
        190 ESB
      2. 12:00 pmAnika Walke, Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis
        Noontime Scholar Lecture- Resistance, Rescue, Reproductive Labor: Jewish 'Family Units' and the Nazi Genocide
        101 ISB, 910 S Fifth St Champaign
      3. 2:00 pmAdiara Schwingel (Kinesiology and Community Health), Wojciech Chodzko-Zajko, and Tania Benedetti (UFSC)
        'VAMOS': Active Living, Enhancing Health
        101 International Studies Building
      4. 2:00 pmAdiara Schwingel, Kinesiology and Community Health, Wojciech Chodzko-Zajko and Tania Benedetti, UFSC
        Lemann Lecture Series: 'VAMOS': Active Living, Enhancing Health
        101 International Studies Building
      5. 3:00 pmDr. Michael Jeffords and Susan Post
        1816 S. Oak St Champaign, IL

    3. Wednesday, March 13, 2013

      1. 8:30 am - 4:30 pmPaul Wesselmann
        2013 Faculty/Staff Seminar
        Illini Union Rooms ABC
      2. 12:00 pmGabor Toth (University of Michigan)
        Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Physics-Based Space Weather Modeling"
        464 Loomis
      3. 12:00 pmDamarys Canache, Political Science; Nils Jacobsen, History; Andrew Orta, Anthropology
        Venezuela After Chavez
        101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
      4. 4:00 pmProfessor David Hsieh, CalTech
        Physics Colloquium: McMillan Award Presentation - "Topological Insulators"
        141 Loomis Lab

    4. Thursday, March 14, 2013

      1. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDr. John Kelly - Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Loyola University - Chicago
        Sustainability Seminar series - Ecotoxicology of Antimicrobial Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products in Illinois Rivers and Streams
        Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, One E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
      2. 4:00 pmBenjamin Recht, University of Wisconsin-Madison
        ISE Seminar-How to Make Predictions When You're Short on Information
        303 Transportation Building

    5. Friday, March 15, 2013

      1. 10:30 amIsao Maruyama (Osaka University)
        Special ICMT Seminar: "Deformation and bipartition of entangled systems with sinusoidal functions"
        190 ESB
      2. 1:00 pm

        Prof David Hsieh -
        Dept of Physics Mathematics and Astronomy - California Institute of Technology


        Condensed Matter Seminar: Seeing and controlling the surface states of a topological insulator with ultrafast lasers

        190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield

         
      3.  

        Gerardo Morfini, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Illinois, Chicago


        CANCELLED

  4. Week of March 17, 2013

    1. Tuesday, March 19, 2013

      1. 3:00 pmDr. Raghu Sathyamurthy - University of Arkansas
        1816 S. Oak St Champaign, IL

    2. Wednesday, March 20, 2013

      1. 12:00 pmNo seminar this week - Spring Break
        Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar
        464 Loomis
      2. 4:00 pmNo Physics Colloquium, Spring Break
        Physics Colloquium

    3. Friday, March 22, 2013

      1. 1:00 pmCondensed Matter Seminar: No Seminar - Spring Break & APS March Meeting

        190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield

         
      2.  NO CPLC SEMINAR - Spring Break

  5. Week of March 24, 2013

    1. Monday, March 25, 2013

      1. 3:00 pmProfessor Peijun Zhang, Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
        Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group - 'Structural Mechanisms of HIV-1 Capsid Assembly, Maturation and Host Cell Restriction '
        3269 Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave
      2. 8:00 pm   John C. Bailar Lecture

        Professor D. J. Darensbourg


        2013 John C. Bailar Lecture, Professor Donald J. Darensbourg., Texas A&M University "Making Chemicals from Carbon Dioxide"
        B102 CLSL

    2. Tuesday, March 26, 2013

      1. 10:00 am

        Dr. Kyung Soo Choi


        Special QI/AMO Seminar: A Quantum Circus with Acrobatic Photons and Floppy Spins
        280 MRL
      2. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmJack J. Hutchens, PhD Candidate, Slavic Languages and Literatures
        Noontime Scholar Lecture - Polish, Jewish, Queer: The Hybridities of Julian Stryjkowski
        101 International Studies Building, 910 S Fifth St Champaign IL
      3. 1:00 pmDr. Matthias Schroeter, Max Planck Institute, Goettingen, Germany
        Special ICMT/Condensed Matter Seminar: "Getting jamming into shape"
        190 ESB
      4. 2:00 pm - 3:30 pmJulio Csar Bicca-Marques, Ph.D., Lemann Distinguished Visiting Scholar
        Lemann Lecture Series: Monkeys, humans and yellow fever: a case of lethal and costly misinformation in southern Brazil
        101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
      5. 3:00 pmDr. Andrea Porras - Western Illinois University
        1816 S. Oak St Champaign, IL
      6. 4:00 pm   John C. Bailar Lecture

        Professor Marcetta Y. Darensbourg


        2013 John C. Bailar Lecture, Professor Marcetta Y. Darensbourg., Texas A&M University "Molecular Constructs as [FeFe]-H2ase Enzyme Active Site Biomimetics for Proton Reduction"
        112 Chem Annex
      7. 4:00 pmMartha Crenshaw, Center for International Security, Stanford University
        MillerComm2013-Crenshaw
        Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois
      8. 4:00 pm

        Martha Crenshaw, Center for International Security, Stanford University


        Responding to Global Terrorism
        Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory, Urbana
      9. 4:00 pmMartha Crenshaw
        Responding to Global Terrorism: Provocation, Retaliation and Deterrence
        Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

    3. Wednesday, March 27, 2013

      1. 12:00 pmDr. William C. Wilson
        PATH Seminar-Dr. William C. Wilson
        2506 Veterinary Medicine Basic Sciences Building
      2. 12:00 pmHotaka Shiokawa (University of Illinois)
        Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of the formation of Orion-like star clusters"
        464 Loomis
      3. 1:30 pm - 3:00 pmDenis Mizne, Executive Director Fundao Lemann
        Lemann Lecture Series: The state of education in Brazil today: Challenges and innovations
        101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
      4. 4:00 pmProfessor Jorge Nocedal, Northwestern University
        Illinois Distinguished Lecture Series in Operations Research
        NCSA Auditorium
      5. 4:00 pmNeal Lane, Rice University
        Physics Colloquium, 'Giving Science Advice to the President ' and Why It's Getting Harder'
        141 Loomis

    4. Thursday, March 28, 2013

      1. 12:00 pmBruce Bagley, Professor and Chair. Department of International Studies. University of Miami
        Lecture Series: Major Trends in Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 21st Century
        101 International Studies Building
      2. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmMichael Brown - Executive Director, Ecology Action Center and Community Solid Waste Coordinator, Normal, IL
        Sustainability Seminar series - Ecology Action Center: New Initiatives in Zero Waste Events and HHW Collection in Bloomington-Normal
        Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, One E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
      3. 4:00 pmJorge Nocedal
        ISE Seminar-Nonlinear Optimization Methods for Machine Learning
        303 Transportation Building

    5. Friday, March 29, 2013

      1. 12:00 pmRev. Dr. Eugene Barnes
        Rev. Dr. Eugene Barnes, Founder and Executive Director of Metanoia Centers
        Lazter Hall, University YMCA
      2. 1:00 pm

        Prof Yew San Hor -
        Dept of Physics - Missouri University of Science and Technology


        Condensed Matter Seminar: Superconductivity in chemical doping of topological insulators

        190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield

         
      3. 2:00 pm

        Sima Setayeshgar, Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington


        CPLC Seminar: "Optimal strategies in single cell sensing and response"
        464 Loomis