Week of November 11, 2012 to November 17, 2012

1. Sunday, November 11, 2012

   1. 3:00 pmLecture: Lisa Lucero (Anthropology, UI)
      First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple, 77 West Washington Street, Chicago, IL

2. Monday, November 12, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmRogers Smith (University of Pennsylvania)
      Comparative Politics Workshop
      404 David Kinley Hall
   2. 12:00 pmLinda Skitka -- U of I, Chicago
      Social-Personality Brown Bag -- Linda Skitka -- U of I, Chicago
      819 Psychology
   3. 3:30 pmDevelopment/Labor Seminar-Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern)
      317 David Kinley Hall
   4. 4:00 pmDr. Mohamed A. Mohamdein President of Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt Professor of Steel Structures
      CEE Special Seminar: 'Higher Education in Egypt'
      2311 Newmark Lab (Yeh Center)
   5. 4:00 pmProfessor Bradley Moore
      Professor Bradley Moore, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, "Genomics-inspired discovery and engineering of natural product small molecules"
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory
   6. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmProfessor Eleonora Stoppino
      SIP -- Professor Eleonora Stoppino: "Tarzan in Tuscany: Wild Children and Education in Fourteenth-Century Italy"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   7. 5:00 pmThomas N. Corns and David Loewenstein
      Paradise Lost: "The Early History, and, Remarks on the New Oxford Edition
      The Rare Books & Manuscript Library, 346 Library
   8. 7:30 pmSamir El-youssef
      Samir El-youssef Lecture
      Levis Faculty Center
   9. 7:30 pmSamir El-youssef
      Samir El-youssef lecture
      Levis Faculty Center
   10. 8:00 pm   John C. Bailar Jr. Lectures2011-2012 John C. Bailar Jr. Lecture, Prof. Lawrence Que, Jr., University of Minnesota, "BIO-INSPIRED HYDROCARBON OXIDATIONS BY NONHEME IRON CATALYSTS"
       B102 CLSL

3. Tuesday, November 13, 2012

   1. 9:00 am - 11:00 amATLAS Web Services Office Hours
   2. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmProfessor Rajmohan Gandhi, Director, Global Crossroads Living-Learning Community, Research Professor, CSAMES
      CSAMES Brown Bag Lecture: "Understanding Punjab 1947"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews, Urbana
   3. 1:00 pm - 5:00 pmData Services at the Scholarly Commons
      Main Library, Room 306
   4. 2:00 pmAnita Chan, Assistant Professor, Media and Cinema Studies
      Lectures Series: Hacking Digital Universalism: De-scripting Technological Design in the Andes
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   5. 4:00 pm   John C. Bailar Jr. Lectures2011-2012 John C. Bailar Jr. Lecture, Professor Lawrence Que, Jr., University of Minnesota, "High-valent Iron: Structures, Spin States, and Reactivity"
      112 Chem Annex
   6. 4:00 pmAstrophysics Colloquium: Yun Wang, The University of Oklahoma: " Probing the Nature of Cosmic Acceleration"
      134 Astronomy
   7. 4:00 pmMathematics in Science and Society: Mireille Boutin
      245 Altgeld Hall
   8. 6:00 pm

      Judith Ryan, Harvard University

      
      "Their Own Worlds of Ice": Arctic Exploration in Christoph Ransmayr and W. G. Sebald
      

      Music Room, Levis Faculty Center
   9. 6:00 pm - 7:00 pmProfessor Judith Ryan, Harvard University
      GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES -- Professor Judith Ryan, Harvard University: "'Their Own Worlds of Ice': Arctic Exploration in Christoph Ransmayr and W. G. Sebald"
      Music Room, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St.
   10. 7:00 pmPrisoner of the Mountains
       1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building

4. Wednesday, November 14, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmCell & Developmental Biology Seminar: Dr. Robert Roeder, Rockefeller University, "Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms in Animal Cells"
      B102 CLSL
   2. 12:00 pmBrownbag Canceled
      VCHP Brownbag - canceled (OPAM/Psychonomics)
   3. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pmATLAS Web Services Office Hours
   4. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Japanese Language Table
      2050 Foreign Languages Building
   5. 3:30 pm   Chem 545 Literature SeminarMr. Bruno Giuliano Nicolau, University of Illinois, "Quantum Teleportation"
      112 Chem Annex
   6. 3:30 pm   Chem 545 Literature SeminarMr. William Shaw, University of Illinois, "Vibrational Spectroscopy: Probing the Dynamics of Interfacial Water" "
      112 Chem Annex
   7. 3:30 pm   Chem 545 Literature SeminarMs. Tuseeta Banerjee, University of Illinois, "Water in non polar confinement"
      112 Chem Annex
   8. 4:00 pm - 4:30 pmMindful Meditation
      Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
   9. 5:30 pm - 6:30 pmRussian Conversation Table
      Courtyard Cafe, Illini Union
   10.  POSTPONED NEW DATE TBA "The Jews Who Are Not One: Politics & French Culture" - Public lecture by Lawrence Kritzman (Dartmouth College)

5. Thursday, November 15, 2012

   1. 8:30 am - 10:00 amPhD & Faculty Discussion-Current topics in ECON
      322 David Kinley Hall
   2. 12:00 pmCHEM 575 Seminar: Ms. Xi Zhao, UIUC, "Targeting the cloak of Mycobacterium tuberculosis via the sugar-processing enzymes"
      163 Noyes Lab
   3. 12:00 pmClaudio Grosman, PhD-Dept. of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, UIUC - "The unanticipated complexity of the ring of glutamates in the charge-selectivity filter of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor"
      B102 CLSL
   4. 12:00 pmDamarys Canache, Associate Professor, Political Science
      Lectures Series: Determinants of Discrimination in Latin America
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   5. 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm2012 Robert Bohrer Memorial Student Workshop in Statistics
      Beckman Institute, Room 5602
   6. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pmData Services by Appointment
   7. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pmData Services by Lync
   8.  

      Dr. Michael Glickman, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

      
      *CANCELLED* Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Michael Glickman, "Double Strand DNA Break Repair in Mycobacteria: Novel Pathways of Repair and Response"
      B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana
   9. 4:00 pm

      Dr. James Slauch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

      
      *SPEAKER CHANGE* Microbiology Seminar: Dr. James Slauch, "Salmonella Resistance to Phagocytic Superoxide"
      B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana
   10. 4:00 pmMarshall Brennan
       CHEM 535 Seminar, Mr. Marshall Brennan, UIUC, "FeMo Cofactor: The Characterization of Nature's Carbide"
       116 Roger Adams Laboratory
   11. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmJill Hallett, Ph.D. candidate, Linguistics
       Linguistics Seminar Series -- Jill Hallett, Ph.D. candidate, Linguistics
       Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   12. 4:00 pmMathematics Colloquium: Jeff Vaaler
       245 Altgeld Hall
   13. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmModern Greek Studies'Conversation Table in Modern Greek
       Espresso Royale, 1117 W. Oregon, Urbana (corner of Oregon and Goodwin)
   14. 4:15 pm - 5:00 pmBohrer Lecture: "Statistical downscaling for Bivariate Data in Climate Projections" by Xuming He, University of Michigan
       5602 Beckman Institute
   15. 5:30 pm - 7:00 pmFrench Pause Cafe
       Espresso Royale, 1117 W. Oregon, Urbana (corner of Oregon and Goodwin)

6. Friday, November 16, 2012

   1. 9:00 am   11:00 am - Advisor: Paul J A KenisDaria Khvostichenko
      Final Defense: Mesophase-based approaches for on-chip membrane protein crystallization and structure determi
      117 RAL
   2. 9:00 am - 11:00 am   Advisor: Dr. Paul J. A. KenisDaria Khvostichenko
      Final Defense: Mesophase-based approaches for on-chip membrane protein crystallization and structure determination
      117 Roger Adams Lab
   3. 10:00 am   Advisor: Christopher RaoYuki Kimura
      Final Defense: Cellular strategies for chemotactic navigation in complex chemical environments
      401 RAL
   4. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDr. James A. Huntington
      Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. James A. Huntington, University of Cambridge "The ins and outs of serpin polymerization."
      B102 CLSL
   5. 1:30 pmSinc Cheung -- UIUC
      Developmental Brown Bag - - HAS BEEN CANCELLED
      819 Psychology
   6. 2:00 pmAlison Lanski, U. of I.
      CLASSICS -- Alison Lanski, U. of I.: "The Use of Emissaries in Herodotus' 'Cyrus Logos'"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana
   7. 3:00 pmProfessor Peter R. Taylor, Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative and University of Melbourne, "Keeping it Short: A Gzip for Wave Functions"
      165 Noyes Lab
   8. 4:00 pm   Analytical Chemistry Literature SeminarMr. David Wetzel, UIUC, "Boolean Based Biosensors"
      116 RAL
   9. 4:00 pm   Analytical Chemistry Literature SeminarMr. Philip Rabe, UIUC, "Detection of Allergenic Ingredients in Food Products"
      116 RAL