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Events for February 2013

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  1. Week of January 27, 2013

    1. Friday, February 1, 2013

      1. 11:00 amDr. Jerry Vaske
      2. 12:00 pmAJ Julius, UCLA
        Three Easy Questions of Global Justice
        Reading Room, Levis Faculty Center
      3. 1:00 pm

        Prof David Cahill -
        Head - Dept of Materials Science and Engineering - University of Illinois


        Condensed Matter Seminar: eXtremes of Heat Conduction in Materials

        190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield

         
      4.  NO CPLC SEMINAR - Biophysical Society Annual Meeting

  2. Week of February 3, 2013

    1. Monday, February 4, 2013

      1. 12:00 pmStefanos Katsikas, Linguistics, Director of Modern Greek Studies Program, U of I
        EUC Lecture Series: Greece's Opening to the Soviet Bloc in the Early 1970s: A Conscious Diplomatic Strategy?
        Lucy Ellis Lounge 1080 Foreign Languages Bldg. 707 S. Mathews Urbana, IL
      2. 12:00 pmCharles Reichhardt (Los Alamos)
        ICMT Seminar: "Pattern Formation from Competing Interactions: Implications for Soft and Hard Condensed Matter Systems"
        190 ESB
      3. 4:00 pmSara Behdad
        ISE Seminar-Decision Analysis Methods to Make Product Take-back Systems Profitable
        303 Transportation Building

    2. Tuesday, February 5, 2013

      1. 11:00 amGil Young Cho (Berkeley)
        Special ICMT Seminar: "Superconductivity of doped Weyl semimetals: finite-momentum pairing and an electronic analog of He3-A phase"
        190 ESB
      2. 2:00 pmLuciano Tosta, Assistant Professor. Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, UIUC
        Lemann Lecture Series: O Sublime Serto: Miragens do Brasil em O Sertanejo, Os Sertes e Grande Serto: Veredas
        101 International Studies Building
      3. 4:00 pmMatt Campbell
        ISE Seminar-Automated Graph Synthesis in Engineering Design and Manufacturing
        303 Transportation Building

    3. Wednesday, February 6, 2013

      1. 10:00 amPhilippe Di Francesco
        Mathematics/Physics Seminar "Discrete Integrable systems: examples from physics and combinatorics"
        464 Loomis
      2. 12:00 pmRoman Gold (University of Illinois)
        Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Pulsar Glitches and Neutron Star Crusts"
        464 Loomis
      3. 4:00 pmProfessor Tony Liss, Physics Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
        Physics Colloquium, "After the Higgs'"
        141 Loomis

    4. Thursday, February 7, 2013

      1. 12:00 pmAldo Musacchio, Associate Professor of Business Administration. Harvard Business School
        Lecture Series: Leviathan Evolving: New Varieties of State Capitalism in Brazil and Beyond
        101 International Studies Building
      2. 4:00 pmGustavo Schwenkler
        ISE Seminar-Filtered Likelihood for Point Processes and Applications in Credit Risk
        303 Transportation Building
      3. 4:00 pmTodd Gitlin, Professor of Journalism and Sociology, Columbia University
        MillerComm2013-Gitlin
        Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois
      4. 4:00 pmTodd Gitlin
        Social Media May be Media but They are Not a Society
        Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

    5. Friday, February 8, 2013

      1. 12:00 pmSister Mary Ellen Lacy
        Nuns on the Bus, Sister Mary Ellen Lacy
        Lazter Hall, University YMCA
      2. 1:00 pm

        Prof Sergey Frolov -
        Dept of Physics and Astronomy - University of Pittsburgh


        Condensed Matter Seminar: Signatures of Majorana fermions in hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanowire devices

        190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield

         
      3. 2:00 pm

        John van Noort, Physics of Life Processes, Leiden University, The Netherlands


        CPLC Seminar: "Unraveling chromatin structure using single molecule force spectroscopy"
        464 Loomis
      4. 5:00 pmFLAS 2013-14 application Deadline

    6. Saturday, February 9, 2013

      1. 2:30 pm - 3:30 pmSpanish Story Time
        Urbana Free Library Children's Department. 210 W Green St, Urbana.

  3. Week of February 10, 2013

    1. Monday, February 11, 2013

      1. 12:00 pmDam Thanh Son (University of Chicago)
        ICMT Seminar: "The geometry of the quantum Hall effect"
        190 ESB
      2. 12:00 pmNoreen Sugrue, WGGP
        Morocco: A Country of Contradictions
        101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
      3. 3:00 pmDr. Jeremy C. Smith, U of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
        Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group 'Computational molecular biophysics for renewable energy, environmental science and drug design'
        3269 Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave

    2. Tuesday, February 12, 2013

      1. 10:00 am

        Waseem Bakr


        Special QI/AMO Seminar: Condensed Matter Physics with Ultracold Atoms - from Mott Insulators to Topological Superfluids
        280 MRL
      2. 3:00 pmDr. Tih-Fen Ting - University of Illinois Springfield

    3. Wednesday, February 13, 2013

      1. 10:00 amMichael Stone (Illinois, Dept. of Physics)
        Mathematics/Physics Seminar "Matrix Models and Tau functions"
        464 Loomis
      2. 12:00 pmZach Etienne (University of Illinois)
        Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Can black hole-neutron star binary mergers produce gamma ray bursts?"
        464 Loomis
      3. 4:00 pmProfessor Steve Pollock, Physics Department, University of Colorado, Boulder
        Physics Colloquium, "A research-validated approach to transforming upper-division E&M"
        141 Loomis

    4. Thursday, February 14, 2013

      1. 12:00 pmGail Ferguson. Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Studies. UIUC
        Lecture Series: Americanization of Urban Jamaican Teenagers and Implications for Family Life on the Island
        101 International Studies Building
      2. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDr. Fredrik Grondahl - Associate Professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
        Sustainability Seminar series - Sustainable Use of Algae Biomass for a Swedish Bio-based Economy
        Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, One E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
      3. 4:00 pmJackie Shen, Barclays Investment Bank, NY
        ISE Seminar-Portfolio Algos: Demands, Challenges, and Opportunities
        303 Transportation Building

    5. Friday, February 15, 2013

      1. 12:00 pmAlia Bilal
        Inner-City Muslim Action Network, Alia Bilal
        Lazter Hall, University YMCA
      2. 1:00 pm

        Prof Jiangping Hu -
        Dept of Physics - Purdue


        Condensed Matter Seminar: Iron Based Superconductors As Odd Parity Superconductors

        190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield

         
      3. 1:00 pmFriday, February 15th 1:00pm, room 101 ISB Antonio Sergio Guimares, Professor of Sociology. USP
        Lemann Lecture Series: Racial Democracy: The Sociological History of a Concept
        101 International Studies Building
      4. 5:00 pmWGGP 2013-14 Multidisciplinary Awards Deadline

  4. Week of February 17, 2013

    1. Monday, February 18, 2013

      1. 12:00 pm

        Shiwei Zhang  (William & Mary)


        ICMT Seminar: Computing electron correlation effects: an auxiliary-field perspective
        190 ESB
      2. 3:00 pm

        Kang-Kuen Ni


        Special QI/AMO Seminar: New Prospects for Cold Molecular Physics
        280 MRL

    2. Tuesday, February 19, 2013

      1. 2:00 pmCharles A. Perrone, Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies, University of Florida
        Lemann Lecture Series: Bossa Nova On Balance: Vetting Versions and Values
        101 International Studies Building
      2. 2:15 pm - 3:15 pmAndrew VanLoocke, USDA Agriculture Research Service
        Regional Scale Hydrologic Implications of Land Use and Global Change for the Midwestern U.S.

        Room 201, Water Survey Research Center (map)
        2204 Griffith Drive, Champaign, IL
      3. 4:00 pmJamol Pender
        ISE Seminar-New Approximations and Algorithms for Stabilizing Time Varying Queues''
        303 Transportation Building

    3. Wednesday, February 20, 2013

      1. 10:00 amMaarten Bergvelt
        Mathematics/Physics Seminar "Toda Lattice and Q-system Cluster Algebras"
        464 Loomis
      2. 12:00 pmMani Morampudi (University of Illinois)
        Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Magnetic field reversals in dynamos"
        464 Loomis
      3. 1:00 pm

        Professor Masahiro Hotta (Tohuku University)


        Special QI/AMO Seminar: Quantum Energy Teleportation

        280 MRL
      4. 4:00 pmMarkus Aspelmeyer, University of Vienna
        Physics Colloquium, "Quantum Optomechanics"
        141 Loomis Lab

    4. Thursday, February 21, 2013

      1. 11:00 am

        Chris Varney (University of Massachusetts)


        Special ICMT Seminar: Topological Phase Transitions

        190 ESB
      2. 12:00 pmAnita Chan, Assistant Professor. Media and Cinema Studies, UIUC
        Lecture Series: Technological Vanguards at the Periphery: Inter-tecnologidad in the Andes
        101 International Studies Building
      3. 1:30 pm - 2:30 pmBenjamin Ruddell, Assistant Professor of Engineering, Arizona State University
        Mapping and Managing Water Scarcity in the Great Lakes Region

        Room 201, Water Survey Research Center (map)
        2204 Griffith Drive, Champaign, IL
      4. 3:30 pm - 5:00 pmAlexandre Tombini, President, Central Bank of Brazil
        Lemann Distinguished Lecturer presentation "Brazil: The Current Economic Situation"
        Alice Campbell Alumni Center, Half Ballroom East
      5. 4:00 pmL.H. Shu
        ISE Seminar-Biological Analogies and Environmental Lead-user Insights as Sources of Ideas for Conceptual Design
        303 Transportation Building
      6. 4:00 pmTheodore Gerber
        New Directions in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia - Divided Historical Memory among Youth in Estonia: Sources of Ideational Cleavage
        101 International Studies Building, 910 S Fifth Street, Champaign

    5. Friday, February 22, 2013

      1. 11:00 amGeir Dullerud, University of Illinois
        ISE Head Candidate Seminar-From Theoretical Foundations to Complex Engineering Systems
        303 Transportation Building
      2. 12:00 pmKim Bobo
        Kim Bobo, Founder and Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice
        Lazter Hall, University YMCA
      3. 1:00 pm

        Prof Ryan T Gordon -
        Dept of Physics - Western Illinois University


        Condensed Matter Seminar: Superconducting gap studies of iron-based superconductors from London penetration depth measurements

        190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield

         
      4. 2:00 pm

        Aubrey Weigel, School of Biomedical Engineering (Krapf Lab), Colorado State University, Fort Collins


        CPLC Seminar: "Characterizing the diffusional behavior and trafficking pathways of KV2.1 using single particle tracking in live cells"
        464 Loomis

  5. Week of February 24, 2013

    1. Monday, February 25, 2013

      1. 12:00 pmMisha Stephanov (Univ. of Illinois, Chicago)
        ICMT Seminar: "Chiral Kinetic Theory"
        190 ESB
      2. 1:30 pm - 2:30 pmAjay Kalra, Postdoctoral Fellow, Desert Research Institute
        Association of Oceanic-Atmospheric Oscillations and Hydroclimatic Variables in the Colorado River Basin

        Room 201, Water Survey Research Center (map)
        2204 Griffith Drive, Champaign, IL
      3. 4:00 pmTinker Fellowship. Application Deadline

    2. Tuesday, February 26, 2013

      1. 2:00 pmCeli Scalon, Programa de Ps-Graduao em Sociologia e Antropologia ' IFCS / UFRJ
        Lemann Lecture Series: Development, Inequality and the Rising of a "new class"
        101 International Studies Building
      2. 3:00 pmDr. Christine Bertz
        1816 S. Oak St Champaign, IL
      3. 4:00 pm   Reception immediately following in the CLSL-A AtriumDr. Ann E. Weber, Vice President and Discovery Chemistry Site Head , Merck Research Laboratories
        SYLVIA STOESSER LECTURE: Dr. Ann E. Weber, Merck Research, "Adventures in Drug Discovery: Development of JANUVIA' for Type 2 Diabetes"
        116 Roger Adams Laboratory

    3. Wednesday, February 27, 2013

      1. 10:00 amMichael Gekhtman,(Notre-Dame, Dept. of Mathematics)
        Mathematics/Physics Seminar "Higher pentagram maps, cluster algebras and networks on surfaces"
        464 Loomis
      2. 12:00 pmRichard O'Shaughnessy (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
        Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Gravitational wave astrophysics with merging compact binaries"
        464 Loomis
      3. 4:00 pmProfessor David Kohlstedt, University of Minnesota
        Physics Colloquium,Simmons Lecture "Shearing Melt Out of the Earth: The Coupling between Rock Deformation and Melt Transport"
        141 Loomis

    4. Thursday, February 28, 2013

      1. 11:00 am

        Dr. Bryan Clark (Station Q)


        Special ICMT Seminar: "Frustrated Magnetism in Materials with Kagome Lattices"

        190 ESB
      2. 12:00 pmDzodzi Tsikata: 'Transnational Large-Scale Land Transactions, the Disappearing Commons and Livelihood Insecurities in Ghana: A Gender Perspective'
        Heritage Room, ACES Library, 1101 S. Goodwin, Urbana, IL 61801
      3. 12:00 pmEduardo Ledesma, Assistant Professor. Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. UIUC
        Lecture Series: Net Art, Digital Poetry and Rebellion in Latin America: Digital Contestation Post Y2K
        101 International Studies Building
      4. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmRob Martin and Hans Detweiler - Clean Line Energy Partners, LLC, Chicago, Illinois
        Sustainability Seminar series - Rock Island Clean Line - Bringing Wind Energy to the Eastern U.S.
        Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, One E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
      5. 4:00 pmJeremy J. Michalek, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
        ISE Seminar: Plug-in Vehicle Life Cycle Benefits and Costs--Implications and Strategies for Electrification
        303 Transportation Building
      6. 5:30 pmInnovation Celebration 2013

        NCSA, 1205 W. Clark, Urbana