Week of April 29, 2012 to May 5, 2012

1. Monday, April 30, 2012

   1. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDr. Satish V. Kailas - Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Center for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science
      Brown Bag Seminar series - Towards Sustainable and Eco-Friendly Cutting Oils
      Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, One E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
   2. 12:00 pm

      Prof. Claudio Chamon - Boston University

      
      ICMT Seminar: "Zero Modes in Interacting Fermionic Systems: The Closed and Open Cases"
      190 Engineering Sciences Building
   3. 2:00 pmManuel Glave, GRADE, Peru
      Lecture Series: Displaced for Development? Indigenous Peoples Rights and Extractive Industries Development in the Peruvian Andes and Amazonia
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   4. 3:00 pmProfessor Toshiko Ichiye, Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
      "Hydration in Biological Computer Simulations"
      3269 Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave
   5. 4:00 pmDr. Randy Katz, UC at Berkeley
      Gilles lecturer Professor Randy Katz: Mesos: A Platform for Fine-Grained Resource Sharing in the Data Center
      2405 Siebel Center
   6. 4:00 pm   Reception immediately following in Atrium

      Professor Ada E. Yonath
      Nobel Prize in Chemistry Recipient, 2009                                                                                  The Martin S. and Helen Kimmel Professor of Structural Biology
      Department of Structural Biology
      Weizmann Institute of Science

      
      Nelson J. Leonard Distinguished Lecture, Professor Ada Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, "A Remnant of a Prebiotic Catalytic Apparatus Functioning Within the Contemporary Ribosomes"
      Alice Campbell Alumni Center Ballroom, 601 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana

2. Wednesday, May 2, 2012

   1. 3:00 pmMichael Overton
      CANCELLED-GE/IE 590 Seminar-Nonsmooth, Nonconvex Optimization
   2. 3:30 pmProfessor Anthony J. Leggett, Physics Department, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
      Physics Colloquium:"Testing the limits of quantum mechanics: motivation, state of play, prospects"
      141 Loomis Lab

3. Thursday, May 3, 2012

   1. 10:15 amIllinois Launch Mentors Meeting
      

      Illini Center, 4th Floor, Classroom C, 200 S. Wacker, Chicago, IL 60606
   2. 12:00 pmStrongly Correlated Electron and Mesoscopics (SCEM) Journal Club
      

      1003 MRL (Superconductivity Center - MRL north wing)  - 104 S. Goodwin 
   3. 3:00 pmDr. Melanie Loots, Associate Professor Ali Abbas, Assistant Professor Harrison Kim, Assistant Professor Angelia Nedich
      ISE Ethics Seminar
      103 Transportation BUilding

4. Friday, May 4, 2012

   1. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDr. Savita Kaul - CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun - 248005, INDIA
      Brown Bag Seminar series - Potential of Non-Edible Oils for Energy & Non-Energy applications
      Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, One E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
   2. 3:00 pmDavid Boyce, Northwestern University
      Joint ISE/CEE Seminar-Predicting Road Traffic Route Flows Uniquely for Urban Transportation Planning
      3310 Newmark Laboratory