Week of April 22, 2012 to April 28, 2012

1. Sunday, April 22, 2012

   1. 3:00 pmProfessor Susan Rotroff, Washington University
      CLASSICS - AIA Lecture, Professor Susan Rotroff, Washington University: "The Unsolved Mystery of the Agora Bone Well"
      62 Krannert Art Museum (Auditorium)

2. Monday, April 23, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmBrion Woroch, University of Illinois
      Brain & Cognition Brown Bag - - Brion Woroch, University of Illinois
      4269 Beckman Institute
   2. 12:00 pmJanet Tritsch Memorial Award deadline
   3. 3:30 pm - 5:00 pmDevelopment Seminar-Alex Whalley (UC Merced)
      310 David Kinley Hall
   4. 4:00 pmDr. Tadhg Begley
      Dr. Tadhg Begley, Texas A&M University, "Divergent Strategies for the Biosynthesis of Thiamin Pyrophosphate in Saccharomyces cerevisia and in Bacillus subtilis"
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory
   5. 4:00 pmZhou Chunya, artist
      East Asian Languages and Cultures -- Chinese Artists Forum: Zhou Chunya
      2nd Floor, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana
   6. 4:00 pm   MatSE Department ColloquiumProf. Mohamed E.H. El-Sayed, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, "Development of enzyme-activated nano-conjugates for targeted hepatic cancer therapy"
      100 Materials Science and Engineering Building
   7. 4:00 pm - 5:30 pmSLCL -- School reception/recognition ceremony/book exhibit
      Colonial Room, Illini Union
   8. 5:15 pmEuropean Movie Night: Welcome to the Sticks
      

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

3. Tuesday, April 24, 2012

   1. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmScott Althaus and Xinyuan Dai
      Graduate Student Professionalization Series
      404 David Kinley Hall
   2. 12:00 pmPantelis Lekkas (Onassis Foundation Senior Visiting Scholar & Associate Professor of Political Science, Panteion University)
      Modern Greek Studies - CSAMES brownbag lunchtime series - Pantelis Lekkas, Panteion University: "Nationalism Qua Modernization: The Greek War of Independence"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   3. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDr. Pantelis Lekkas
      Nationalism qua Modernization: The Greek War of Independence
      Lucy Ellis Lounge (FLB 1080)
   4. 2:00 pm   116 RALChBE 565 Seminar, "Microstructure and Rheology Relationships for Concentrated Colloidal Dispersions: Shear Thickening Fluids and Their Applications", Professor Norman Wagner, University of Delaware
      116 Roger Adams Lab
   5. 2:00 pm - 3:20 pmDevelopment/Economics and Policy Seminar-Francisca Antman (U Colorado Boulder)
      3007 BIF
   6. 4:00 pmAstrophysics Colloquium - NO COLLOQUIUM TODAY
   7. 4:00 pmProf. Ian Fleming
      Dr. Ian Fleming, Univ. of Cambridge, "Short Cuts: Scenes from a Life in Chemistry"
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory

4. Wednesday, April 25, 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. Nicholas Dyson, Harvard University, Department of Medicine, "Control of cell proliferation by pRB and E2F proteins"
      B102 CLSL
   3. 12:00 pmRichard Yao, University of Illinois
      VCHP Brownbag - Richard Yao - University of Illinois
      Psychology 819
   4. 1:00 pm   Advisor: Professor Scott E. DenmarkMatthew Burk
      Mr. Matthew Burk, UIUC, "Asymmetric Lewis Base Catalysis: I. Lewis Base Catalyzed Halogenation and Development of an Enantioselective Bromocycloetherification Reaction; II. Enantioselective Addition of Silyl Ketene Imines to Carbonyl Electrophiles"
      A414 CLSL
   5. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmProfessor Saswati Sarkar - University of Pennsylvania
      CSL Women in Engineering Seminar: Optimal Malware Attack and Defense in Mobile Wireless Networks
      141 Coordinated Science Lab
   6. 3:00 pm - 6:00 pmData Services Open Lab Hours
      314 Main Library
   7. 3:30 pm - 5:00 pmDevelopment/Macroeconomics Seminar-Ricardo Bebczuk (Universidad Nacional de La Plata)
      312 DKH
   8. 4:00 pmDr. Gerhard Hummer, NIH, "Water in proteins: when it's there and when it isn't"
      112 Chem Annex
   9. 4:00 pm

      Her Excellency, Marina Kaljurand, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Estonia to the United States

      
      Estonia's Experiences Prior to and Since Integration into the EU
      

      Levis Faculty Center, Room 407, 919 W. Illinois, Urbana, IL (map)
   10. 4:00 pmIPRH Prizes in the Humanities -- Award Reception
       IPRH (Humanities Lecture Hall) / 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue, Urbana
   11. 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmSenior Honors Poster Fair
       Psychology Atrium
   12. 7:30 pm

       Jim Tusty, Producer of The Singing Revolution
       Carol Leff, Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

       
       The Singing Revolution
       

       Bevier Hall, Room 180, 905 S. Goodwin, Urbana, IL (map)

5. Thursday, April 26, 2012

   1.  Bonnie Honig; Eyal Weizman; Saba Mahmood
      Beyond Utopia? Art, Theory, and the Coming of "Spring"
      I Hotel & Conference Center; 1900 S.First Street; Champaign, Illinois
   2. All Day

      Ambassador to the United States Marina Kaljurand (Estonia)

      Ambassador to the United States Zygimantas Pavilionis (Lithuania)

      Ambassador to the United States Andrejs Pildegovics (Latvia)

      Benjamin Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications, Speechwriting to the President of the USA

      Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Senior Director for European Affairs, National Security Council, The White House

      Dick Durbin, U.S. Senator from the State of Illinois

      Vjaceslavs Dombrovskis, Member of Latvia’s Parliament

      
      The Global Baltics: The Next Twenty Years
      

      750 South Halsted Street, Chicago, IL (map of conference sites)
   3. 9:00 am - 11:00 amATLAS WEB office hours
      ATLAS House Conference Room; 608 S Mathews, Urbana / Room 103
   4. 10:00 am   Final Defense, Professor Andrzej Wieckowski, AdvisorMr. Robert Kutz, UIUC, "In-Situ Spectroelectrochemical Surface Studies of Fundamental Fuel Cell Catalysis"
      A414 CLSL
   5. 12:00 pmProfessor David Haberman, Indiana University
      "Faces on the Trees: Exploring the Environmental Implications of Tree Worship in India"
      213 Gregory Hall
   6. 12:00 pmDavid Haberman, Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University and Interim Head of the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana
      RELIGION - David Haberman, Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University "Faces on the Trees: Exploring the Environmental Implications of tree worship in India"
      213 Gregory Hall
   7. 2:00 pmThomas Swensen, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in American Indian Studies
      Indigenous Historical Ecologies at Fort Ross California State Park's 'Cultural Heritage Day'
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building
   8. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmJapanese Language Table
      2050 Foreign Languages Building
   9. 3:00 pmDr. Phil Kym
      Abbott Lecture: Dr. Philip Kym, Abbott Laboratories, "Discovery of Modality Specific TRPV1 Antagonists for the Treatment of Chronic Pain"
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory
   10. 4:00 pmWenxin Jiang, Northwestern University
       "High Dimensional Statistical Learning with Bayesian Variable Selection" by Wenxin Jiang, Northwestern University
       165 Everitt Lab
   11. 4:00 pmProfessor Makoto Fujita
       Abbott Lecture: Professor Makoto Fujita, University of Tokyo, "Emergent Self-Assembly of Giant Coordination Polyhedra"
       116 Roger Adams Laboratory
   12. 4:00 pmDr. Usha Goswami -- Cambridge University, England
       CS/AI Colloquium -- Dr. Usha Goswami -- Cambridge University, England
       2269 Beckman Institute
   13. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmLinguistics Club Series talk - Professor Charles Goodwin, Applied Linguistics, UCLA: "The Co-Operative Organization of Human Action"
       Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   14. 4:00 pmMathematics Colloquium: Catharina Stroppel
       245 Altgeld Hall
   15. 4:00 pm

       Dr. Kenneth Nealson, University of Southern California

       
       Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Kenneth Nealson, "The Global Ocean Study: A metageomic look at the surface picoplankton"
       B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana
   16. 7:30 pmMamele - Yiddish Movie
       Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Language Building

6. Friday, April 27, 2012

   1.  Bonnie Honig; Eyal Weizman; Saba Mahmood
      Beyond Utopia? Art, Theory, and the Coming of "Spring"
      I Hotel & Conference Center; 1900 S.First Street; Champaign, Illinois
   2. All Day

      Ambassador to the United States Marina Kaljurand (Estonia)

      Ambassador to the United States Zygimantas Pavilionis (Lithuania)

      Ambassador to the United States Andrejs Pildegovics (Latvia)

      Benjamin Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications, Speechwriting to the President of the USA

      Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Senior Director for European Affairs, National Security Council, The White House

      Dick Durbin, U.S. Senator from the State of Illinois

      Vjaceslavs Dombrovskis, Member of Latvia’s Parliament

      
      The Global Baltics: The Next Twenty Years
      

      750 South Halsted Street, Chicago, IL (map of conference sites)
   3. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDr. Michael T. Green
      Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Michael T. Green, Penn State University, "Understanding C-H bond activation in heme proteins: the role of thiolate ligation in cytochrome P450"
      B102 CLSL
   4. 12:00 pmIan Dobbins, Washington University in St. Louis
      Cognitive brownbag: Ian Dobbins, Washington University in St. Louis
      819 Psychology
   5. 1:30 pmFirst Year Graduate Student Presentations
      Developmental Brown Bag -- First Year Graduate Student Presentations
      819 Psychology
   6. 2:00 pmAmy Oh
      CLASSICS - Amy Oh, "Vigilantius and Jerome"
      Room 4080A, Foreign Languages Building
   7. 2:00 pm - 5:00 pmTurkish Studies Symposium: "Turkish Transnational Television -- Reshaping of Diaspora Identities in Europe and the Rise of a Regional Cultural Hegemon"
   8. 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

      Omar Al-Ghazzi, University of Pennsylvania
      Beyazit Akman, Illinois State University – Dept. of English
      Myria Georgiou, London School of Economics — Communications Dept.
      Dima Issa, University of Balamand
      
      

      
      Turkish Studies Symposium: Turkish Transnational Television - Reshaping of Diaspora Identities in Europe and the Rise of a Regional Cultural Hegemon
      

      Music Room, Levis Faculty Center, 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801 (map)
   9. 2:30 pm - 4:00 pmBrian Quick, Faculty Member, Department of Communication
      Dept of Communication Colloquium Series-Brian Quick
      Music Room Levis Faculty Center
   10. 3:00 pmDonald Sawyer, Visiting Lemann Professor at Harvard
       Lecture: Saving South America's Ecosystem Functions
       101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   11. 3:30 pm - 5:00 pmEconometrics Seminar-Daniel Wilhelm (Chicago Booth)
       215 David Kinley Hall
   12. 4:00 pm   Analytical Chemistry SeminarDr. Bryan Pivovar, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, "The Use of Extended Surface Catalysts in Fuel Cells"
       116 RAL
   13. 5:00 pm - 6:00 pmKorean Conversation Table
       Basement, Illini Union (near Sushi San)

7. Saturday, April 28, 2012

   1. All Day

      Ambassador to the United States Marina Kaljurand (Estonia)

      Ambassador to the United States Zygimantas Pavilionis (Lithuania)

      Ambassador to the United States Andrejs Pildegovics (Latvia)

      Benjamin Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications, Speechwriting to the President of the USA

      Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Senior Director for European Affairs, National Security Council, The White House

      Dick Durbin, U.S. Senator from the State of Illinois

      Vjaceslavs Dombrovskis, Member of Latvia’s Parliament

      
      The Global Baltics: The Next Twenty Years
      

      750 South Halsted Street, Chicago, IL (map of conference sites)
   2. 9:00 amMeeting of the Southern Illinois chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   3. 4:00 pmBulgarian Association Coffee Hour
      Espresso Royale Cafe (Goodwin and Oregon)
   4. 7:30 pmBalkanalia Concert: Songs of Heartbreak and Longing from Albania to Armenia
      

      Smith Recital Hall, 805 S. Matthews, Urbana, IL (map)