Week of February 19, 2012 to February 25, 2012

1. Monday, February 20, 2012

   1.  Conference Travel Awards for Graduate Students
   2. 12:00 pmDeanna Barch, Washington University
      Brain & Cognition Brown Bag - - Deanna Barch, Washington University
      4269 Beckman Institute
   3. 12:00 pmRachel Beatty Riedl
      Comparative Politics Workshop - Rachel Beatty Riedl
      404 David Kinley Hall
   4. 4:00 pm   MatSE Department ColloquiumProf. Christopher Schu, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Harder, cheaper, greener: The deign and deployment of alloy coatings with stabilized nanocrystalline structures"
      100 Materials Science and Engineering Building
   5. 4:00 pmProfessor Yasuhide Inokuma
      Professor Yasuhide Inokuma, University of Tokyo, " Host-Guest Chemistry in Crystals of Networked Molecular Hosts"
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory

2. Tuesday, February 21, 2012

   1. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmAlexis Georgiadis, Student, Department of Journalism
      "The Impact of the Media on Cyprus and Greece"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge: Room 1080, Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews, Urbana
   2. 12:00 pmAlexis Georgiadis (Journalism Student)
      Modern Greek Studies - CSAMES Brown Bag Lecture Series: "The Impact of the Media on Cyprus and Greece"
      Lucy Ellis lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   3. 12:00 pmDr. Jue Wang, Baylor College of Medicine
      School of Molecular & Cellular Biology Seminar: Dr. Jue Wang, "Post Genomic Insights into Nutrient Stress and Genomic Integrity"
      *Room 612, Institute for Genomic Biology, 1206 West Gregory Drive, Urbana
   4. 2:00 pm - 3:30 pmJlio Emlio Diniz-Pereira, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil; Associate Professor, Visiting Associate Professor at University of Washington
      Lecture Series. The Impact of the Landless Workers Movement on the Development of Brazilian Activist Educators' Identities
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   5. 3:30 pmGreek Conversation Table
      Espresso Royale, 1117 W. Oregon, Urbana (corner of Oregon and Goodwin)
   6. 4:00 pmAstrophysics Colloquium: NO COLLOQUIUM TODAY
   7. 4:00 pmDr. Michelle Chang
      Dr. Michelle Chang, University of California, Berkeley, "Building New Chemical Function in Living Organisms"
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory
   8. 4:00 pmJob Talk
      142 Psychology Building
   9. 4:00 pm   Inorganic Chemistry SeminarProf. Christine Thomas, Brandeis University, "Metal-Metal Multiple Bonds In Early/Late Heterobimetallics: Small Molecule Activation and Catalytic Applications"
      112 Chem Annex
   10. 6:00 pm - 7:00 pmBosnian/Croatian/Serbian Conversation Table
       Espresso Royale, on Goodwin and Oregon in Urbana

3. Wednesday, February 22, 2012

   1. 2:00 pm   Advisor: Professor Mary KraftMs. Jessica Frisz
      Ms. Jessica Frisz, UIUC, "Using Imaging Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry to Determine Mammalian Plasma Membrane Component Distribution and Cell Differentiation State"
      433 Roger Adams Laboratory
   2. 3:00 pm - 5:00 pmATLAS WEB office hours
      ATLAS House Conference Room; 608 S Mathews, Urbana / Room 103
   3. 3:00 pm - 6:00 pmData Services Open Lab Hours
      314 Main Library
   4. 3:30 pmJessica Bardill, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in American Indian Studies
      Genomics for What Nation? The National Genographic Project, American Indian Nations, and Implications for Citizenship
      Asian American Studies conference room, 1208 W. Nevada, Urbana
   5. 5:15 pmEuropean Movie Night: A Prophet
      

      Lucy Ellis Lounge: Room 1080, Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews, Urbana (map)

4. Thursday, February 23, 2012

   1. 9:00 am - 11:00 amATLAS WEB office hours
      ATLAS House Conference Room; 608 S Mathews, Urbana / Room 103
   2. 12:00 pmMr. Subha Mukherjee
      CHEM 575 Seminar: Mr. Subha Mukherjee, "Kinetic Stabilizers & Proteostasis Regulators as Therapeutics for Misfolding Diseases"
      217 Noyes Laboratory
   3. 12:00 pmEduardo Coutihno, Distinguished Lemann Visiting Professor
      Lecture Series. Multiculturalism and Miscegenation in the Construction of Latin America`s Cultural Identity
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   4. 12:00 pmRodney W. Johnson, PhD, Professor and Director, Division of Nutritional Sciences, UIUC- "From inflammation to sickness and cognitive dysfunction: When the immune system subjugates the brain"
      B102 CLSL
   5. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmJapanese Language Table
      2050 Foreign Languages Building
   6. 2:00 pm   116 RALSeminar of Special Interest, Dr. David Flaherty, University of California, Berkeley, "Determining Driving Forces for Selective C-C Bond Cleavage in Hydrocarbons"
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory
   7. 4:00 pmJob Talk
      142 Psychology Building
   8. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmLinguistics Seminar - Prof. Jennifer Cole: Workshop on Funding for Graduate Student Research
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   9. 4:00 pmMathematics Colloquium: Amie Wilkinson
      245 Altgeld Hall
   10. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmDr. Auinash Kalsotra
       School of Molecular & Cellular Biology Seminar: Dr. Auinash Kalsotra, Baylor College of Medicine, "MicroRNA regulation of alternative splicing networks during heart development and disease"
       B102 CLSL
   11. 4:00 pmSteven Culpepper, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
       UIUC-Purdue Joint Colloquium
       Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

5. Friday, February 24, 2012

   1. 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm"Discourse Across Borders: Slavic Studies from Kievan Rus to Present Day"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   2. 12:00 pmGroup discussion
      Cognitive brownbag: Group discussion
      TBA
   3. 12:00 pmTiberiu Dragu
      Faculty-Student Seminar
      404 DKH
   4. 12:00 pmPanel with Brent Roberts, Bill Brewer, Dan Simons, and Aaron Benjamin
      VCHP Brownbag - ethics panel (NOTE DIFFERENT DAY)
      TBD (most likely at Beckman)
   5. 1:30 pmJosh Gulley (University of Illinois)
      Developmental Brown Bag - Josh Gulley (University of Illinois)
      819 Psychology
   6. 2:00 pmAlison Lanski, UIUC
      CLASSICS - Alison Lanski, UIUC: "Emissaries in Herodotus: Character and Identity"
      Room 4080A, Foreign Languages Building
   7. 2:30 pm - 4:00 pmInger Stole, Faculty Member, Department of Communication
      Dept of Communication Colloquium Series-Inger Stole
      Music Room Levis Faculty Center
   8. 3:00 pmWGHS Reading Group
      217 Gregory Hall
   9. 4:00 pmDr. Vitaly Chernetsky, Associate Professor, Miami University of Ohio
      SLAVIC -- Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky, Associate Professor, Miami University of Ohio: "National Cinema and Cinematic Nationhood: The Case of Modern Ukraine"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   10. 5:00 pm - 6:00 pmKorean Conversation Table
       Basement, Illini Union (near Sushi San)

6. Saturday, February 25, 2012

   1. 9:00 am - 7:00 pm"Discourse Across Borders: Slavic Studies from Kievan Rus to Present Day"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building