Week of February 10, 2013 to February 16, 2013

1. Monday, February 11, 2013

   1. 10:00 amMona Jarrahi - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
      ECE Special Seminar by Mona Jarrahi
      B02 CSL
   2. 12:00 pmDr. Kevin Wood, Harvard University
      Decoding the Multi-Drug Response in Populations of Bacteria and Human Cancer Cells
      2240 DCL
   3. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmSrikanthan Sridharan
      ECE - 590 I Power & Energy Systems Seminar
      Room 50, Everitt Lab

2. Tuesday, February 12, 2013

   1. 12:00 pmBioNanotechnology Seminar Series
   2. 12:00 pmKennedy Nguyen, University of California at Merced
      Characterization and Effect of Engineered Solid and Mesoporous Silica Particle Physical Properties on In Vitro Toxicity
      1000 MNTL
   3. 12:30 pmSarah E. Holton, University of Illinois
      Combining Three-dimensional Cell Culture Models and Chemical Imaging for Understanding Fibroblast-epithelial Interactions During Early Breast Cancer Progression
      1000 MNTL
   4. 4:00 pm - 4:55 pmMartin Reifschneider, Project Engineering and Manager Neil Howard, Engineering Manager -- Bechtel Power Corporation; and Mike Childerson, Design Engineering Manager, Babcock & Wilcox
      NPRE 596 Grad Seminar: "Generation mPower & B&W mPower Small Modular Reactor: Creating the Future of Nuclear Power"
      106B8 Engineering Hall, 1308 West Green Street, Champaign, IL
   5. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmTaxation of Tuition Waivers Workshop for graduate assistants
      Illini Union, Room 314 A
   6. 4:30 pmAdam Luchies; Trong Nguyen
      Bioacoustics Research Laboratory Mini-Seminar Series
      Room 4269 Beckman Institute
   7. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmCounseling Center Workshop - Me, Myself, & I: Single and Satisfied!
      Wilson Chapel Room @ YMCA

3. Wednesday, February 13, 2013

   1. 11:00 amDr. Chong Wang, Project Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University
      Dr. Chong Wang: Probabilistic Modeling for Large-scale Data Exploration
      2405 Siebel Center
   2. 12:00 pmProf. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
      Prof. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
      2240 DCL
   3. 12:00 pmProfessor Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, University of Illinois
      Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Energy Conversion Processes: Insights from Theory and Computation
      2240 DCL
   4. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmTaxation of Tuition Waivers Workshop for graduate assistants
      Illini Union, Room 314 B
   5. 3:00 pmProfessor Noah J. Cowan, Johns Hopkins University
      Antagonistic thrust forces enhance controllability and stability at the expense of energy in the glass knifefish
      B02 Auditorium CSL
   6. 4:00 pmStrategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects on Security (SHARPS)
      2405 Siebel Center
   7. 4:00 pmCarl A. Gunter, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      TSS Seminar: Carl A. Gunter: "Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects on Security (SHARPS)"
      2405 Siebel Center

4. Thursday, February 14, 2013

   1. 12:30 pmECE Spring Faculty Meeting
      5602 Beckman Institute
   2. 2:00 pmDr. Ximin He, Harvard University
      Warm-blooded Plastics: Bio-inspired Smart Soft Materials Systems
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory
   3. 4:00 pmDr. Jackie Shen, Barclays Investment Bank
      Portfolio Algos: Demands, Challenges, and Opportunities
      303 Transportation Building

5. Friday, February 15, 2013

   1.  Last day to withdraw* and receive a 70% refund of tuition (fees are non-refundable***).
   2. 3:00 pmProfessor Raphal Jungers, Universite Catholique de Louvain
      Joint spectral characteristics: a tale of three disciplines
      B02 Auditorium CSL
   3. 5:00 pmLt. Gen. Eugene L. Tattini,Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif.
      ECE Pulse 2013
      National Center for Supercomputing Applications
   4. 8:00 pmCoyote Hackathon
      2405 Siebel Center
   5. 8:00 pm   Judging will continue at 8:15 a.m. on Feb. 16Coyote Hackathon 2013
      2405 Siebel Center

6. Saturday, February 16, 2013

   1. 8:00 pmCoyote Hackathon
      2405 Siebel Center
   2. 8:00 pm   Judging will continue at 8:15 a.m. on Feb. 16Coyote Hackathon 2013
      2405 Siebel Center
   3. 9:00 am - 5:00 pmECE Pulse 2013
      National Center for Supercomputing Applications