Week of March 3, 2013 to March 9, 2013

1. Sunday, March 3, 2013

   1. 9:30 pmBroomball with BMES

2. Monday, March 4, 2013

   1. 10:00 amDr. Jie Chen, Argonne National Laboratory
      Dr. Jie Chen, "Large-Scale Numerical Linear Algebra Techniques for Big Data Analysis"
      2405 Siebel Center
   2. 12:00 pmProfessor Dipanjan Pan, Washington University
      Probing Angiogenesis with a Hybrid Manganese-Ultralow Gadolinium Nanocolloids and Drug Delivery: Synthesis, Characterization and Translation
      2240 DCL
   3. 7:30 pmRegister for Texas Instruments Technical Sales Program - LAST Info Session

3. Tuesday, March 5, 2013

   1. 4:00 pmJon Orwant, Research Manager, Google
      Culture as Data: Social Spaces on the Internet
      CSL Auditorium (B02)
   2. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmProf. Xudong Chen, National University of Singapore
      ECE 590 Graduate Seminar on Antennas, Electromagnetics, Optics and Remote Sensing
      106B1 Engineering Hall
   3. 4:30 pm - 6:00 pmAiguo Han, Xin Li
      Bioacoustics Research Laboratory mini-seminar series
      Room 4269 Beckman Institute
   4. 5:30 pm - 7:30 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 Boston
      

      Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP
      Boston's Financial District
      125 Summer Street, 11th Floor
      Boston, Massachusetts

4. Wednesday, March 6, 2013

   1. 10:00 amDr. Paul Fischer, Argonne National Laboratory
      Dr. Paul Fischer, "PDE-Based Simulation Beyond Petascale"
      2405 Siebel Center
   2. 12:00 pmProfessor Ping Ma, University of Illinois
      TBA
      2240 DCL
   3. 3:00 pmProfessor Andrey Sarychev, Florence University
      Controlling Velocities and Domains of the Incompressible Fluid by Means of Degenerate Distributed Forcing
      B02 Auditorium CSL
   4. 4:00 pmKiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran, 10MW+ Direct-Drive Offshore Wind Turbines
      ECE Special Seminar by Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran
      269 Everitt
   5. 7:00 pm - 8:30 pmSiemens Medical Solutions info session

5. Thursday, March 7, 2013

   1. 11:00 amDaniel Hsu, Microsoft Research New England
      Daniel Hsu, "Fast Learning Algorithms for Discovering the Hidden Structure in Data"
      2405 Siebel Center
   2. 12:00 pmDr. Jeff Hasty, University of California, San Diego
      Engineered Gene Circuits: From Oscillators to Synchronized Clocks and Biopixels
      2240 DCL

6. Friday, March 8, 2013

   1. 8:30 amDianne Chong, Boeing
      Boeing tech talk
      2405 Siebel Center
   2. All DayEngineering Open House
      Engineering Campus
   3.  Last day to drop a semester course online
   4.  Last day to withdraw* and receive a 50% refund of tuition (fees are non-refundable***).
   5. 9:00 am - 3:00 pmAlumni Welcome Center at Engineering Open House
   6. 9:30 amProfessor John W. Sutherland, Purdue University
      Manufacturing Research for Improved Sustainability
      303 Transportation Building
   7. 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmECE Alumni Student Mixer
      Illini Union, General Lounge (Rm 210)
   8. 5:30 pm - 6:30 pmSparking Connections Alumni Reception
   9. 7:00 pmPhil Plait
      "Death from the skies"
      Foellinger Auditorium

7. Saturday, March 9, 2013

   1. All DayEngineering Open House
      Engineering Campus
   2. 9:00 am - 3:00 pmAlumni Welcome Center at Engineering Open House