Week of April 8, 2012 to April 14, 2012

1. Sunday, April 8, 2012

   1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees

2. Monday, April 9, 2012

   1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
   2. 11:00 am2012 CS Graduate Symposium
      1st and 2nd Floors of Siebel Center
   3. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm   CDTBradford Chamberlain, Cray
      Illinois-Intel Parallelism Center (I2PC) Distinguished Speaker Series: Bradford Chamberlain (Cray)
      3405 Siebel Center
   4. 4:00 pmEva Tardos,Cornell University
      Mueller-Thuns Lecture: Eva Tardos: Near-Optimal Greedy Mechanisms
      2405 Siebel Center
   5. 5:30 pmICSSP Scholarship Recruiting & Pizza Event
      3403 Siebel Center

3. Tuesday, April 10, 2012

   1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
   2. 4:30 pm - 6:30 pmAnnual Research Park Student Career Fair
      Atkins Building, 1800 S. Oak Street, Research Park
   3. 5:00 pmMary L. Gray, Indiana University and Microsoft Research
      Critical Studies as BIG DATA: Making the Case for Cultural Approaches to Media and Technology Studies
      CSL Auditorium
   4. 5:00 pmLectures in Entrepreneurship: Steve Vivian
      1404 Siebel Center

4. Wednesday, April 11, 2012

   1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
   2. 12:00 pmVictor Jongeneel
      Brown Bag: Dealing with Genomics Data
      Room 1040, NCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana
   3. 4:00 pmMaureen Stillman, Mission Critical Wireless, LLC
      ITI TSS Seminar: Maureen Stillman: "LTE Security (4G Security)"
      2405 Siebel Center
   4. 4:00 pmMaureen Stillman, Mission Critical Wireless, LLC
      TSS Seminar: Maureen Stillman: "LTE Security (4G Security)"
      2405 Siebel Center

5. Thursday, April 12, 2012

   1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
   2. 12:30 pmBen Taskar, University of Pennsylvania
      ISTC-EC: Geometry of Diversity and Determinantal Point Processes: Representation, Inference and Learning
      2102 SC
   3. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm   CDTUzi Vishkin, University of Maryland
      Illinois-Intel Parallelism Center (I2PC) Distinguished Speaker Series: Uzi Vishkin (University of Maryland)
      3405 Siebel Center
   4. 4:00 pmSolutions and Challenges in Modern Circuit Placement
      151 Everitt Lab

6. Friday, April 13, 2012

   1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
   2. 8:00 am - 5:00 pmAbaqus training
      Room 1040, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana, IL
   3.  Last day for doctoral thesis format check by Academic Office
   4.  Last day to drop a semester course without at "W" grade
   5.  Last day to withdraw from spring term without a "W" grade
   6. 2:00 pmTamir Hazan
      Estimating the Partition Function with Random Maximum A-Posteriori Perturbations
      SC 3405

7. Saturday, April 14, 2012

   1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
   2. 8:00 am - 5:00 pmVarious (entrepreneurs, professors, etc)
      Invention to Venture: Stay in School Startup, Commercializing your Research
      http://tec.illinois.edu/i2v
   3. 10:00 am - 4:00 pmUrbana-Champaign Mini Maker Faire
      Independent Media Center (202 S. Broadway, Urbana, IL)