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Events for March 2013

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Week of February 24, 2013
1. Friday, March 1, 2013
  1. 9:00 amChBE 565 Seminar of Special Interest, Mr. Xueyi Zhang, University of Minnesota, "Zeolite Nanosheets: Catalyst Architecture at the Molecular Scale"
    217 Noyes Laboratory
  2. 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
  3. 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
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. 4:00 pm Materials Sciences and EngineeringProf. Edward Arzt, Saarland University, Germany, "Micropatterned artificial Gecko surfaces: A path to switchable adhesive function"
    100 MSEB
  3. 4:00 pm
    Lindsay LeBlanc
    
    Special QI/AMO Seminar: Engineering dispersion relationships for ultracold atoms
    280 MRL
2. Tuesday, March 5, 2013
  1. 4:00 pmSoft Materials Seminar
    119 Materials Science and Engineering Building
3. Wednesday, March 6, 2013
  1. 10:00 amChBE 565 Seminar of Special Interest, Dr. James Costello, Boston University, "Translating Genomics Data into Actionable Models to Discover Novel Therapeutics"
    1000 Lincoln Hall
  2. 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. 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
  2. 11:00 am
    Ribhu Kaul (University of Kentucky)
    
    Special ICMT Seminar: Quantum Criticality in Mott Insulators
    190 ESB
  3. 2:00 pmChBE 565 Seminar of Special Interest, Dr. Heather Kulik, Stanford University, "Predictive and Fast: New First-principles Tools for Catalysis"
    116 Roger Adams Laboratory
  4. 4:00 pmHard Materials Seminar
    119 Materials Science and Engineering Building
  5. 4:00 pm Materials ChemistryProfessor Kristopher Kilian, UIUC, "Tailoring the Biorecognition Interface for Advanced Cell Culture Materials"
    112 Chem Annex
5. Friday, March 8, 2013
  1. 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
  2. 2:00 pm
    David Piston, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
    
    CPLC Seminar: "Molecular Communication Underlying Hormone Secretion"
    464 Loomis
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 pmKevin Healy, Departments of Bioengineering and Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
    Materials Science and Engineering Colloquium
    100 Materials Science and Engineering Building
  5. 4:00 pm Materials Sciences and EngineeringProf. Kevin Healy, Univ. of California, Berkeley, "Bioinspired Materials to Direct Cell Behavior"
    100 MSEB
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. 4:00 pm Inorganic ChemistryProf. Bart Bartlett, University of Michigan, "Designing Chemically Robust Metal Oxides for Visible-Light Photocatalysis: toward Solar Z-Scheme Water Splitting"
    112 Chem Annex
  3. 4:00 pmSoft Materials Seminar
    119 Materials Science and Engineering Building
3. Wednesday, March 13, 2013
  1. 4:00 pmProfessor David Hsieh, CalTech
    Physics Colloquium: McMillan Award Presentation - "Topological Insulators"
    141 Loomis Lab
  2. 4:00 pmProf. Patanjali Kambhampati, McGill University, "Excitons in Semiconductor Quantum Dots: Design principles for lasers, optical switches, and LEDs"
    112 Chem Annex
4. Thursday, March 14, 2013
  1. 12:00 pmCHEM 575 Seminar, Ms. Yinan Zhang, UIUC, "One Drug, Multiple Targets"
    217 Noyes Laboratory
  2. 4:00 pmHard Materials Seminar
    119 Materials Science and Engineering Building
  3. 4:00 pm Materials ChemistryProfressor Gang Logan Liu, UIUC,"Title: Nanoplasmonics Enhanced Molecular and Cellular Imaging: 'Chip' Solutions to Expensive Bioimaging Problems"
    112 Chem Annex
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
6. Saturday, March 16, 2013
  1. 1:00 pmSpring Vacation Begins
Week of March 17, 2013
1. Wednesday, March 20, 2013
  1. 4:00 pmNo Physics Colloquium, Spring Break
    Physics Colloquium
2. 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
Week of March 24, 2013
1. Monday, March 25, 2013
  1. 7:00 amInstruction resumes
  2. 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
  3. 4:00 pmAngel Yanguas-Gil, Argonne National Laboratory
    Materials Science and Engineering Colloquium
    100 Materials Science and Engineering Building
  4. 8:00 pm John C. Bailar Lecture2013 John C. Bailar Lecture, Professors 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. 1:00 pmDr. Matthias Schroeter, Max Planck Institute, Goettingen, Germany
    Special ICMT/Condensed Matter Seminar: "Getting jamming into shape"
    190 ESB
  3. 2:00 pmChBE 565 Seminar of Special Interest, Mr. Venkat Viswanathan, Stanford University, "Electrochemistry of Oxygen with Lithium and Protons: Implications for Lithium-air Batteries and Fuel Cells"
    116 Roger Adams Laboratory
  4. 4:00 pm2013 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
  5. 4:00 pmCANCELLED - Prof. David Spiegel, Yale University, "Using small molecules to engineer and explore human immunity"
    116 Roger Adams Laboratory
  6. 4:00 pmSoft Materials Seminar
    119 Materials Science and Engineering Building
3. Wednesday, March 27, 2013
  1. 9:00 am Advisor: Paul J. A. KenisMatt Naughton
    Final Defense: Investigation of Contaminant Effects and Cathode Catalysts in Microfluidic Fuel Cells
    117 RAL
  2. 4:00 pmDr. Carl Hayden, Sandia National Laboratories, "Lipid membrane bending by protein-protein crowding"
    112 Chem Annex
  3. 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. 4:00 pmHard Materials Seminar
    119 Materials Science and Engineering Building
  2. 4:00 pm Materials ChemistryProf. Kyoung-Shin Choi, University of Wisconsin, "Materials Chemistry via Electrochemistry: Electrochemical Synthesis of Electrode Materials with Controlled Architectures for Use in Clean Energy Production"
    112 Chem Annex
5. Friday, March 29, 2013
  1. 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
  2. 2:00 pm
    Sima Setayeshgar, Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington
    
    CPLC Seminar: "Optimal strategies in single cell sensing and response"
    464 Loomis