Week of February 24, 2013 to March 2, 2013

1. Monday, February 25, 2013

   1. 12:00 pmMisha Stephanov (Univ. of Illinois, Chicago)
      ICMT Seminar: "Chiral Kinetic Theory"
      190 ESB
   2. 1:30 pm - 2:30 pmAjay Kalra, Postdoctoral Fellow, Desert Research Institute
      Association of Oceanic-Atmospheric Oscillations and Hydroclimatic Variables in the Colorado River Basin
      

      Room 201, Water Survey Research Center (map)
      2204 Griffith Drive, Champaign, IL
   3. 4:00 pmTinker Fellowship. Application Deadline

2. Tuesday, February 26, 2013

   1. 2:00 pmCeli Scalon, Programa de Ps-Graduao em Sociologia e Antropologia ' IFCS / UFRJ
      Lemann Lecture Series: Development, Inequality and the Rising of a "new class"
      101 International Studies Building
   2. 3:00 pmDr. Christine Bertz
      1816 S. Oak St Champaign, IL
   3. 4:00 pm   Reception immediately following in the CLSL-A AtriumDr. Ann E. Weber, Vice President and Discovery Chemistry Site Head , Merck Research Laboratories
      SYLVIA STOESSER LECTURE: Dr. Ann E. Weber, Merck Research, "Adventures in Drug Discovery: Development of JANUVIA' for Type 2 Diabetes"
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory

3. Wednesday, February 27, 2013

   1. 10:00 amMichael Gekhtman,(Notre-Dame, Dept. of Mathematics)
      Mathematics/Physics Seminar "Higher pentagram maps, cluster algebras and networks on surfaces"
      464 Loomis
   2. 12:00 pmRichard O'Shaughnessy (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
      Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Gravitational wave astrophysics with merging compact binaries"
      464 Loomis
   3. 4:00 pmProfessor David Kohlstedt, University of Minnesota
      Physics Colloquium,Simmons Lecture "Shearing Melt Out of the Earth: The Coupling between Rock Deformation and Melt Transport"
      141 Loomis

4. Thursday, February 28, 2013

   1. 11:00 am

      Dr. Bryan Clark (Station Q)

      
      Special ICMT Seminar: "Frustrated Magnetism in Materials with Kagome Lattices"
      

      190 ESB
   2. 12:00 pmDzodzi Tsikata: 'Transnational Large-Scale Land Transactions, the Disappearing Commons and Livelihood Insecurities in Ghana: A Gender Perspective'
      Heritage Room, ACES Library, 1101 S. Goodwin, Urbana, IL 61801
   3. 12:00 pmEduardo Ledesma, Assistant Professor. Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. UIUC
      Lecture Series: Net Art, Digital Poetry and Rebellion in Latin America: Digital Contestation Post Y2K
      101 International Studies Building
   4. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmRob Martin and Hans Detweiler - Clean Line Energy Partners, LLC, Chicago, Illinois
      Sustainability Seminar series - Rock Island Clean Line - Bringing Wind Energy to the Eastern U.S.
      Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, One E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
   5. 4:00 pmJeremy J. Michalek, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
      ISE Seminar: Plug-in Vehicle Life Cycle Benefits and Costs--Implications and Strategies for Electrification
      303 Transportation Building
   6. 5:30 pmInnovation Celebration 2013
      

      NCSA, 1205 W. Clark, Urbana

5. Friday, March 1, 2013

   1. All DayMartin Medina Sr. (International Relations Specialist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Washington, DC.), Catherine Alexander (Anthropology, Durham University, UK ), Stephanie Foote (English and Gender Studies, UIUC), Nicky Gregson (Geography, Durham University, UK), Darrin Durant (Science and Tech. Studies, York University), Daniel Schneider (Urban and Regional Planning, UIUC), Jonathan Bloom (Independent investigative journalist), Janet Kalish (freegan.info, New York City), Michelle Schmidt (Sociology, UIUC), Steven Sonka (Director of ADM Institute for the Prevention of Post-harvest Loss, UIUC) Zsuzsa Gille (Sociology, UIUC)
      2013 Joint Area Centers Symposium. JACS: The Future of Waste
      The Illini Union, Room 314 A
   2. 11:00 amRichard Sowers, University of Illinois
      ISE Head Candidate Seminar-Networks, Nonlinearity, Engineering, and Finance
      303 Transportation Building
   3. 12:00 pm

      Audrey Williams, University of Iowa, Graduate of the 2012 ACDIS Summer Workshop in International Security

      
      From Seoul to the Hague: Making the Most of the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit
      356 Armory, 505 East Armory Avenue, Champaign, IL
   4. 12:00 pmMegan Sweeney, Professor of Sociology at UCLA
      Megan Sweeney
      TBA
   5. 12:00 pmRev. Alexander Sharp
      Rev. Alexander Sharp, Executive Director Emeritus of Protestants for the Common Good
      Lazter Hall, University YMCA
   6. 1:00 pm

      Prof Andrey Chubukov -
      Dept of Physics - University of Wisconsin

      
      Condensed Matter Seminar: Time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductivity in Fe-pnictides with only electron or only hole pockets
      

      190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield

       
   7. 1:30 pmMegan Sweeney, Professor of Sociology, UCLA
      U.S. Contraceptive Use in Comparative Perspective
      3057 Lincoln Hall
   8. 2:00 pm

      Justin Kinney, Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY

      
      CPLC Seminar: "Using DNA sequencing to characterize the biophysics of transcriptional regulation"
      464 Loomis
   9. 4:00 pmLynne Rudder Baker, Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
      MillerComm2013-Baker
      Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

6. Saturday, March 2, 2013

   1. All DayMartin Medina Sr. (International Relations Specialist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Washington, DC.), Catherine Alexander (Anthropology, Durham University, UK ), Stephanie Foote (English and Gender Studies, UIUC), Nicky Gregson (Geography, Durham University, UK), Darrin Durant (Science and Tech. Studies, York University), Daniel Schneider (Urban and Regional Planning, UIUC), Jonathan Bloom (Independent investigative journalist), Janet Kalish (freegan.info, New York City), Michelle Schmidt (Sociology, UIUC), Steven Sonka (Director of ADM Institute for the Prevention of Post-harvest Loss, UIUC) Zsuzsa Gille (Sociology, UIUC)
      2013 Joint Area Centers Symposium. JACS: The Future of Waste
      The Illini Union, Room 314 A
   2. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmLatin American Story Time
      Champaign Public Library