Week of April 29, 2012 to May 5, 2012

1. Sunday, April 29, 2012

   1. 2:00 pmLAS Honors Convocation
      Foellinger Auditiorium

2. Monday, April 30, 2012

   1.  Euro Challenge 2012 - Final Round
      

      Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 33 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10045  (map)
   2.  Euro Challenge 2012 - Recognition and Awards Reception
      

      The Moody’s Corporation 7 WTC, 250 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10007 (map)
   3.  Euro Challenge 2012 - Semifinal Round
      

      Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 33 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10045  (map)
   4. 10:00 amChih-Mao Huang
      Final Oral Defense -- Chih-Mao Huang
      3269 Beckman Inst
   5. 12:00 pmPsych 494 Students' Presentations
      Brain & Cognition Brown Bag - - Psych 494 Students' Presentations
      4269 Beckman Institute
   6. 12:00 pmJorge Bravo
      Comparative Politics Workshop - Jorge Bravo
      404 David Kinley Hall
   7. 2:00 pmManuel Glave, GRADE, Peru
      Lecture Series: Displaced for Development? Indigenous Peoples Rights and Extractive Industries Development in the Peruvian Andes and Amazonia
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   8. 3:30 pm - 5:00 pmEconometrics Seminar-Arie Beresteanu (U Pittsburgh)
      125 David Kinley Hall
   9. 4:00 pm   MatSE Department ColloquiumDr. Frances Ross, Watson Research Center, IBM, "Vapor and Liquid Phase Crystal Growth in the Transmission Electron Microscope"
      100 Materials Science and Engineering Building
   10. 7:00 pmPersian Cultural Association presents "A Separation"
       Animal Sciences Lab; Room 150; 1207 West Gregory Drive: Urbana, IL 61801

3. Tuesday, May 1, 2012

   1. 1:00 pm   Analytical Chemistry Final Defense: Advisor - Prof. Ryan BaileyMr. Abraham Qavi, UIUC, "The Development of New Sensing Methodologies for Nucleic Acids using Arrays of Silicon Photonic Microring Resonators"
      117 RAL
   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. 2:00 pm - 3:20 pmEconomics and Policy Seminar-Matthew Kahn (UCLA)
      3007 BIF
   4. 4:00 pmJohn Tobin
      Astrophysics Colloquium - John Tobin, NRAO, Charlottesville, VA: "Protostellar Envelope Structure and a Forming Protostellar Disk"
      134 Astronomy
   5. 4:00 pmProf. Prashant Kamat, University of Notre Dame, "TBA"
      112 Chem Annex
   6. 4:00 pmProf. Prashant Kamat, University of Notre Dame, "TBA"
      112 Chem Annex
   7. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmNaomi Nagy, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
      Romance Linguistics -- First Annual Illinois Romance Linguistics Lecture - Naomi Nagy, University of Toronto: "Language contact and lexical change in Faetar"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana
   8. 4:00 pmStatistics Department Faculty Meeting
      122 Illini Hall
   9. 6:00 pm - 7:00 pmBosnian/Croatian/Serbian Conversation Table
      Espresso Royale, on Goodwin and Oregon in Urbana

4. Wednesday, May 2, 2012

   1. 11:15 am - 11:45 amMary Wolters
      Mindful Meditation
      Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
   2. 12:00 pmCell & Developmental Biology Seminar: Dr. Wei Guo, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Biology, "Molecular Basis of Polarized Exocytosis and Cell Migration"
      B102 CLSL
   3. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmJapanese Language Table
      2050 Foreign Languages Building
   4. 3:00 pm - 5:00 pmATLAS WEB office hours
      ATLAS House Conference Room; 608 S Mathews, Urbana / Room 103
   5. 3:00 pm - 6:00 pmData Services Open Lab Hours
      314 Main Library
   6. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFarzad Farnoud (Hassanzadeh) - UIUC
      CSL Women in Engineering Seminar: Rank Modulation Codes for Flash Memories
      B-02 Coordinated Science Lab
   7. 4:00 pm   Chemistry Informal SeminarDr. Boris Rybtchinski, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, "Water-based noncovalent materials: robustness, adaptivity, and function"
      217 Noyes Lab
   8. 4:00 pmProfessor Emily Weiss, Northwestern University, "Nanoscale Interfacial Charge Transfer"
      112 Chem Annex
   9. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmLourdes Onederra, Writer (Universidad del Pais Vasco/Real Academia de la Lengua Vasca)
      SIP Colloquium - Lourdes Onederra, Writer (Universidad del PaIs Vasco/Real Academia de la Lengua Vasca): "Why do we write (in Basque)?"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

5. Thursday, May 3, 2012

   1.  Invited speakers: Prof. Mirjam Broersma (Max Planck Institute) and Prof. Jerry Packard (U of I Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures)
      SLATE - 4th Annual SLATE Graduate Research Symposium
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   2. 9:00 am - 11:00 amATLAS WEB office hours
      ATLAS House Conference Room; 608 S Mathews, Urbana / Room 103
   3. 2:00 pm

      Dr. Michael McInerney, Oklahoma University

      
      Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Michael McInerney, "Syntrophy, the paradigm for anaerobic metabolic cooperation"
      B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana
   4. 2:00 pmGary Alan Fine, John Evans Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University
      Znaniecki Lecture, "Apology and Redress: Escaping the Dustbin of History in the Post-Segregationist South."
      Noyes 161
   5. 3:30 pm - 5:00 pmCommunication Awards Reception
      2nd Floor, Levis Center
   6. 3:30 pmSociology Annual Spring Reception
      Rosati's Pizza, 701 South Gregory Place, Urbana
   7. 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmEALC--China Workshop: "Teaching and Learning about China"
      Room 160 English Building, 608 S. Wright, Urbana
   8. 4:30 pmHarlin Investiture: Prof. Eric Oldfield
      Alice Campbell Alumni Hall
   9. 4:30 pmInvestiture of Professor Eric Oldfield as the Harriet A. Harlin Professor in Chemistry
      Alice Campbell Alumni Center
   10. 4:30 pmInvestiture of Professor Eric Oldfield as the Harriet A. Harlin Professor in Chemistry
       Alice Campbell Alumni Center

6. Friday, May 4, 2012

   1.  Retreat - Tentative Date
   2. 10:00 amGary Alan Fine, John Evans Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University
      "Apology and Redress: Escaping the Dustbin of History in the Post-Segregationist South."
   3. 10:00 amMona Taylor
      Final Oral Defense - - Mona Taylor
      819 Psych Bldg
   4. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDr. Ella Chan
      Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ella Chan, Oregon Health & Science University, "2010 Anne A. Johnson Work Award Seminar: Adaptor-mediated proteolytic control during the bacterial oxidative stress response"
      B102 CLSL
   5. 3:30 pm - 5:00 pmApplied Microeconomics Seminar-Seung-Hyun Hong (U Illinois)
      215 David Kinley Hall
   6. 4:00 pmEALC--Professor Ronald P. Toby: "Picturing the Japanese Past: From 'Illustration' to 'Text'"
      Bevier Commons (Bevier Hall, 905 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana)
   7. 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmLINGUISTICS--End-of-year reception and student awards
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   8. 4:00 pm   Analytical Chemistry seminarProfessor David Weis, University of Kansas, "Untangling the Spaghetti of Disordered Proteins with Mass Spectrometry"
      162 Noyes Lab

7. Saturday, May 5, 2012

   1. 4:00 pmBulgarian Association Coffee Hour
      Espresso Royale Cafe (Goodwin and Oregon)