Week of March 4, 2012 to March 10, 2012

1. Monday, March 5, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmDr. Emilio Cobanera - Indiana University - Bloomington IN
      ICMT Seminar: "Dualities and Dimensional Reduction in Topological Quantum Order and Processing of Quantum Information"
      190 Engineering Sciences Building
   2. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmKyle Grosse, Depts. of MechSE and ECE, MNTL and Yanjing (Clare) Li, Dept. of Physics, MRL
      Nano-EP seminar: "Nanometer-Scale Thermal Metrology of Graphene, CNTs, and GST" and "Transport through Andreev Bound States in a Graphene-Based Quantum Dot"
      MNTL 1000
   3. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDr. Tamara Reid Bush
      Pain in the Neck: Kinematic Assessment of Cervical Spine Function
      2005 MEL - Deere Pavilion
   4. 1:00 pmProf. Carter Hall, University of Maryland
      Medium & High Energy Seminar: "Status of the LUX dark matter search at the Sanford Lab"
      464 Loomis
   5. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmTrevor Hutchins, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      ECE - 590 I Power and Energy Systems Seminar
      Room 50, Everitt Lab

2. Tuesday, March 6, 2012

   1. All DayInternational Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research Symposium: Powering the Future
      Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln, Urbana
   2. 11:00 amClayton E. Simien, Department of Physics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
      QI/AMO Seminar:"Laser Spectroscopy as a Probe of Fundamental Physics"
      464 Loomis
   3. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmKathryn A. Whitehead, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
      Bioengineering Seminar Series - "Giving genes the silent treatment: Lipid-like materials for siRNA delivery," Dr. Kathryn A. Whitehead, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 12:00 p.m. in 2240 Digital Computer Lab (Click for more information)
      2240 Digital Computer Lab (DCL)
   4. 12:00 pmDr. Moshe Schechter - Ben-Gurion University
      Special ICMT Seminar: "The ferromagnetic random field Ising model"
      190 Engineering Sciences Building
   5. 2:00 pm   116 RALChBE 565 Seminar, "Designer Vesicles from Synthetic Surfactants - Block co-Polymers and Recombinant Proteins", Professor Daniel A. Hammer, University of Pennsylvania
      116 Roger Adams Lab
   6. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pmDr. Kazunari Sasaki
      Materials Research for Durable Fuel Cells: Current Status and Future Perspectives
      190 Engineering Sciences Building
   7. 4:00 pmBioacoustics Research Laboratory Seminars
      3269 Beckman - 3rd Floor Tower Room
   8. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmPhillip Atkins University of Illinois
      ECE 590 Graduate Seminar on Antennas, Electromagnetics, Optics and Remote Sensing
      245 Everitt Lab
   9. 4:00 pmWilliam (Ross) Morrow
      GE/IE 590 Seminar-Numerical Methods for "Market Systems" Models in Engineering Design
      112 Transportation Building
   10. 4:00 pm - 4:50 pmDr. Clair Sullivan, Technical Intelligence Officer, CIA, Washington DC
       NPRE 596 Seminar: Low-Resolution Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy with Wavelet Analysis
       165 Everitt Laboratory, 1406 West Green Street, Urbana, IL
   11. 4:00 pmKetan Savla, MIT
       Seminar - ECE Faculty Candidate Ketan Savla, March 6, 2012, 4 p.m., room B02 CSL
       room B02 CSL
   12. 4:00 pmSoft Materials Seminar
       218 Ceramics Building
   13. 4:20 pm   6:00pmAdam Luchies, Brendon Smith, Nathan Hirtz, Xin Li, Graduate Students
       Bioacoustics Research Laboratory Seminars
       3269 Beckman ' 3rd Floor Tower Room

3. Wednesday, March 7, 2012

   1. 9:00 amGuanfeng Liang
      Final Examination
      469A CSL
   2. 10:00 amPhillipa Gill, University of Toronto
      ECE faculty candidate seminar: Phillipa Gill, University of Toronto
      B02 CSL
   3. 12:00 pmVasileios Paschalidis
      CTA Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Electromagnetic extraction of energy from black hole-neutron star binaries" - Vasileios Paschalidis (U. of I.)
      464 Loomis
   4. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pmNima Jokilaakso, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
      Nanohour Seminar - Nima Jokilaakso, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
      3269 Beckman Institute
   5. 3:30 pmProfessor Gordon Baym, University of Illinois
      Physics Colloquium,"Two-slit diffraction with highly charged particles: Niels Bohr's consistency argument that the electromagnetic field must be quantized"
   6. 4:00 pmShari Lawrence Pfleeger, I3P, Dartmouth College
      ITI Trust and Security Seminar
      2405 Siebel Center
   7. 5:00 pmDarnell Smith and Sean Safavinejad, ExxonMobil
      ECE Explorations (200): "The Outlook for Energy"
      151 Everitt Lab

4. Thursday, March 8, 2012

   1. 1:00 pmDr. Christian Weedbrook
      QI/AMO Seminar: "Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution using Thermal States"
      322 LLP
   2. 2:00 pm   116 RALSeminar of Special Interest, "Uncovering the Role of Water in Biomolecular Interactions: New Insights from Theory and Computation", Dr. Amish Patel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory
   3. 2:00 pmProf. Paul Fendley - University of Virginia
      Special ICMT Seminar: "Topological Order in Z_n spin systems"
      190 Engineering Sciences Building
   4. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pmDr. Erheng Wang
      Experimental Study of the Dynamic Elasto-Plastic Contact Behavior between Spherical Particles in Granular Materials
      2005 MEL - Deere Pavilion
   5. 4:00 pmDanijela Cabric from UCLA
      ECE Colloquium (ECE500): "Spatio-Temporal Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Networks"
      151 Everitt Lab
   6. 4:00 pmJiaqiao Hu
      GE/IE 590 Seminar-Model-Based Algorithms for Global Optimization
      101 Transportation Building
   7. 4:00 pmJiaqiao Hu
      GE/IE 590 Seminar: Model-Based Algorithms for Global Optimization
      101 Transportation Building

5. Friday, March 9, 2012

   1.  Engineering Open House
   2. 9:00 am - 4:00 pmEngineering Open House - March 9 and 10, 2012
   3. 1:00 pmCondensed Matter Seminar: No Seminar (Engineering Open House)
      

      190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield

       
   4.  NO CPLC SEMINAR - Engineering Open House
   5. 2:00 pmRy Ely, University of Illinois
      SPECIAL Medium & High Energy Seminar: "Observation of Neutrino Oscillation at Daya Bay "
      464 Loomis

6. Saturday, March 10, 2012

   1.  Engineering Open House
   2. 9:00 am - 3:00 pmEngineering Open House - March 9 and 10, 2012