Week of November 25, 2012 to December 1, 2012

1. Monday, November 26, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmAnna Grzymala-Busse (University of Michigan)
      Comparative Politics Workshop
      404 David Kinley Hall
   2. 12:00 pm

      Ophelia Eglène, Political Science, Middlebury College

      
      EUC Lecture Series: Reluctance before the Crisis: Why Britain Never Adopted the Euro
      

      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   3. 12:00 pmAmit Kramer -- UIUC -- Labor and Employee Relations
      Social-Personality Brown Bag -- Amit Kramer -- UIUC
      819 Psychology
   4. 3:30 pmDevelopment Seminar-Salim Rashid (UIUC)
      317 David Kinley Hall
   5. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmProfessor Sewoong Oh, IESE
      Communications Seminar: Iterative Ranking from Pair-wise Comparisons
      141 Coordinated Science Lab
   6. 4:00 pm   Reception immediately following in AtriumProfessor Kendall Houk
      Marvel Lecture, Professor Kendall Houk, University of California, Los Angeles, "Theory and Mechanisms of Cycloadditions - Applications in Synthesis, Chemical Biology, and Materials Chemistry"
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory
   7. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmProfessor Rebecca Foote
      SIP Colloquium -- Professor Rebecca Foote: "The production of agreement in L2 Spanish"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   8. 7:30 pmMatan Hermoni lecture
      Levis Faculty Center

2. Tuesday, November 27, 2012

   1. 9:00 am - 11:00 amATLAS Web Services Office Hours
   2. 10:00 am

      Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament

      
      Videoconference: Europe in Crisis? The Prospects for a Renewed EU-US Partnership
      

      Room 411, 507 E. Green St., Champaign, IL
   3. 11:00 amMark Pituch, Academic Program Officer at the Delegation of the European Union to the United States
      History of the European Union and Challenges to Its Future: The Euro Crisis
      

      Hermann Hall Auditorium, 3241 S. Federal St, Chicago, IL
   4. 12:00 pmValleri Hohman
      Noontime Scholar Lecture - Cold War Performances: The Moscow Art Theatre's Haunted Return to America
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S Fifth St Champaign
   5. 1:00 pm - 5:00 pmData Services at the Scholarly Commons
      Main Library, Room 306
   6. 3:30 pm - 5:00 pmLabor Seminar-Jason Lindo (University of Oregon)
      215B David Kinley Hall
   7. 4:00 pmJoaquin Vieira
      Astrophysics Colloquium: Joaquin Vieira, Caltech: "ALMA unveils high-redshift cosmic microscopes discovered by the South Pole Telescope"
      134 Astronomy
   8. 4:00 pmJob Talk
      142 Psychology Building
   9. 4:00 pmMathematics Colloquium: Trjitzinsky Memorial Lectures
      314 Altgeld Hall
   10. 7:00 pmUkrainian Program Film Series - Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
       1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Language Bldg. 707 South Mathews Avenue Urbana

3. Wednesday, November 28, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmCSE Seminar: Bringing Sound to the Big Data Age
   2. 12:00 pmCell & Developmental Biology Seminar: Dr. Douglas DeSimone, University of Viriginia, Department of Cell Biology, "Force Dependence of Collective Cell Migration"
      B102 CLSL
   3. 12:00 pmFlorin Dolcos -- UIUC
      VCHP Brownbag - Florin Dolcos (Cog Neuro division) -- UIUC
      Psych 819
   4. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pmATLAS Web Services Office Hours
   5. 2:00 pm   Final Defense, Prof. Taekjip Ha, AdvisorMr. Michael D. Brenner
      Mr. Michael Brenner, UIUC Force manipulation and single-molecule FRET of transcriptional regulatory processes".
      433 RAL
   6. 3:00 pmWorld Histories from Below
      307 Greg Hall
   7. 3:30 pm - 5:00 pmMicroeconomics Seminar-Yuichiro Kamada (Berkeley, Haas)
      215B David Kinley Hall
   8. 4:00 pmProfessor Kendall Houk
      Marvel Lecture, Professor Kendall Houk, University of California, Los Angeles, "Designing New Enzymes"
      100 Noyes Laboratory
   9. 4:00 pmMathematics Colloquium: Trjitzinsky Memorial Lectures
      245 Altgeld Hall
   10. 4:00 pm - 4:30 pmMindful Meditation
       Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
   11. 5:30 pm - 6:30 pmRussian Conversation Table
       Courtyard Cafe, Illini Union

4. Thursday, November 29, 2012

   1. 8:30 am - 10:00 amPhD & Faculty Discussion-Current topics in ECON
      322 David Kinley Hall
   2. 12:00 pmCHEM 575 Seminar: Mr. Chih-Chi Chu, UIUC, Antibody-Recruiting Molecules: "New ARMs in the Battle Against Cancer"
      163 Noyes Lab
   3. 12:00 pmGeorge Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor and Chair. History, University of Pittsburgh
      Lemann Lectures Series: Racial Inequality in Brazil and the United States, 1990-2010
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   4. 12:00 pmTimothy J. Ebner, M.D./Ph.D. - Professor and Head, Dept. of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota-"Visualizing Activity in the Cerebellar Cortex: Beams, Bands, Patches, and Plasticity"
      B102 CLSL
   5. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pmData Services by Appointment
   6. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pmData Services by Lync
   7. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Japanese Language Table
      2050 Foreign Languages Building
   8. 4:00 pmZachery Matesich
      CHEM 535 Seminar, Mr. Zachery Matesich, UIUC, "Divergent Reactions on Racemic Mixtures"
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory
   9. 4:00 pmJob Talk
      142 Psychology Building
   10. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmVandana Puri, Ph.D. candidate, Linguistics
       Linguistics Seminar Series -- Vandana Puri, Ph.D. candidate: "Pitch Accents in Hindi-English Late and Simultaneous Bilinguals"
       Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   11. 4:00 pmMathematics Colloquium: Trjitzinsky Memorial Lectures
       245 Altgeld Hall
   12. 4:00 pm

       Dr. Petra Levin, Washington University-St. Louis

       
       Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Petra Levin, "Big Enough: Insights Into the Molecular Basis of Cell Size Homeostasis"
       B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana
   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. 4:00 pm   Materials CHEM 585Ms. Jennifer Esbenshade, UIUC, "Recyclable Magnetic Nanophotocatalysts"
       112 Chem Annex
   15. 4:00 pm   CHEM 585 Lit SeminarMs. Lu Xu, UIUC, "Magnetic Bistability on Molecular Scale : Single-molecule Magnet"
       112 Chem Annex
   16. 5:30 pm - 7:00 pmFrench Pause Cafe
       Espresso Royale, 1117 W. Oregon, Urbana (corner of Oregon and Goodwin)

5. Friday, November 30, 2012

   1. 9:30 amNathan Todd -- DePaul U
      Clinical-Community Brown Bag -- Nathan Todd -- DePaul U
      room 819
   2. 12:00 pmAndrei Cimpian -- UIUC
      Cognitive Brown Bag --Andrei Cimpian -- UIUC
      815 Psychology
   3. 12:00 pm

      Donna Buchanan, Associate Professor of Musicology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

      
      EUC Lecture Series: Integrative Soundscapes: Building EU Community through Bulgarian Mumming Festivals & Folkloric Practice
      

      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   4. 12:00 pmAshly Townsen, Bryce Reeder and Matt Powers (University of Illinois)
      Faculty Student Seminar Series
      404 David Kinley Hall
   5. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pmDr. Alyssa Park, Dept. of History, University of Iowa
      EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Dr. Alyssa Park, Dept. of History, University of Iowa: "Korean Family in Comparative Perspective: Looking Beyond the North: Korean Migrants, Passports, and Citizenship in Russia and Manchuria at the Turn of the 20th Century"
      2090 B Foreign Languages Building
   6. 1:30 pmAron Barbey -- UIUC -- (Speech & Hearing Sciences & Beckman Institute)
      Developmental Brown Bag -- Aron Barbey -- UIUC
      819 Psychology
   7. 3:30 pm - 5:00 pmApplied Microeconomics Seminar-Michael Eriksen (University of Georgia)
      TBA
   8. 4:00 pm   Analytical Chemistry SeminarProfessor Rohit Bhargava, UIUC, "Vibrational Spectroscopic Imaging - New Technology Enables Analytical Science in Cancer Pathology"
      116 RAL
   9. 5:00 pm - 6:00 pmBasement, Illini Union (near Sushi-San)
      EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Korean Conversation Table