Week of January 27, 2013 to February 2, 2013

1. Monday, January 28, 2013

   1.  Official 10th day. Deadline to reduce course credit and to drop one or more, but not all courses, and receive a 100% refund of tuition and fees for the dropped course(s). (Please click here for more information)
   2. 11:00 am - 12:00 pmGoogle@Illinois - Lightning Tech Talks & Luncheon/Dinner
      2405 Siebel Center
   3. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmKai Van Horn, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
      ECE - 590 I POWER & ENERGY SYSTEMS SEMINAR
      Room 50, Everitt Lab
   4. 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmThe Corporate Connection After Hours
      Siebel Center Atrium

2. Tuesday, January 29, 2013

   1. 12:00 pm - 12:30 pmJoshua Grolman, CMMB IGERT Trainee, University of Illinois
      Functional Micro-patterned Core-Shell Alginate Fibers via Raleigh Instability
      1000 MNTL
   2. 12:00 pmJoshua Grolman, Materials Science and Engineering, PnD Candidate
      Functional Micro-patterned Core-Shell Alginate Fibers via Raleigh Instability
      1000 MNTL
   3. 4:00 pm - 4:50 pmDr. Christopher G. Wahl, Post doctorate research associate, Physics, Yale University
      NPRE 596 Grad Seminar: "Source Detection with Spectroscopic Gamma-Ray Imagers"
      106B8 Engineering Hall, 1308 West Green Street, Champaign, IL
   4. 5:00 pmBoeing Information Technology
      Information Session with Boeing Information Technology
      152 Wohlers Hall
   5. 5:00 pmUnion Pacific Tech Talk - iPad Mini Raffle!
      163 Everitt Lab
   6. 7:00 pm - 8:00 pmGoogle@Illinois - Lightning Tech Talks & Luncheon/Dinner
      1404 Siebel

3. Wednesday, January 30, 2013

   1. 3:00 pmDr. Dimitra Panagou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      A Feedback Control Design Methodology for Underactuated Systems Subject to State Constraints and Disturbances
      B02 Auditorium CSL
   2. 3:00 pmCharles R. Kalmanek, AT&T Labs Inc.
      ITI Distinguished Lecture: Charles R. Kalmanek: Managing Complex Systems: Mobile Networks and Cloud Computing
      NCSA Auditorium (1122 NCSA)
   3. 4:00 pmCharles R. Kalmanek
      Managing Complex Systems: Mobile Networks and Cloud Computing
      Coordinated Science Laboratory auditorium (B02)
   4. 4:00 pmDr. Mark S. Avnet, McKinsey & Company
      Shared Knowledge Networks in Engineering Organizations: Implications for Process Improvement and Organizational Change
      303 Transportation Building

4. Thursday, January 31, 2013

   1. All DayThe 8th annual CSL student conference
      Coordinated Science Laboratory
   2. 4:00 pmTariq Ehsan Elahi, University of Waterloo
      TSS Seminar: Tariq Ehsan Elahi: "Censorship Resistance on the Internet: Strategies and techniques for free and open communication"
      4405 Siebel Center
   3. 5:00 pm

      Dr. Sunil Kumar
      PhD Electrical & Computer Engineering '96

       

      Sunil Kumar is Dean and George Pratt Shultz Professor of Operations Management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

       

      Dr. Kumar’s academic research includes performance evaluation and control of manufacturing systems, service operations, and communications networks. In particular, he studies systems affected by stochastic variability via mathematical models. He also studies application of optimization methods and control theory to managerial problems. Dr. Kumar has published dozens of scholarly research articles and has served as the editor of the Stochastic Models area of the journal Operations Research. He co-developed a widely used factory simulator for teaching operations management. The simulator, “Littlefield Technologies,” has been used in classes at more than 50 business and engineering schools. He also served as an operations consultant to several companies.

       

      Dr. Kumar joined the Chicago Booth faculty on January 1, 2011, after spending 14 years on the faculty of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business where he also served as senior associate dean for academic affairs, overseeing the school’s MBA program and leading faculty groups in marketing and organizational behavior.

       

      Born in India, Dr. Kumar received a Master of Engineering degree in computer science and automation from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Mangalore University in Surathkal. He earned a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

      
      Engineering at Illinois Event in Tucson
      

      The Home of an Engineering Alumnus
      Tucson, Arizona
   4. 6:00 pmAnmol Bhasin, Director of Engineering at LinkedIn
      LinkedIn Information Session
      2405 Siebel Center

5. Friday, February 1, 2013

   1. All DayThe 8th annual CSL student conference
      Coordinated Science Laboratory
   2.  Last day to withdraw* and receive an 80% refund of tuition (fees are non-refundable***).
   3. 1:00 pmGeorge Arnold, Director, Smart Grid and Cyber-Physical Systems Program Office. National Coordinator for Smart Grid Interoperability. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
      Interoperability and Cybersecurity in the Smart Grid
      NCSA Auditorium - Webcast
   4. 1:00 pmGeorge Arnold, Director, Smart Grid and Cyber-Physical Systems Program Office, National Institute of Standards and Technology
      TCIPG Seminar Series on Technologies for a Resilient Power Grid: Interoperability and Cybersecurity in the Smart Grid
      NCSA Auditorium