Week of October 14, 2012 to October 20, 2012

1. Monday, October 15, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmKai Sun - University of Michigan
      ICMT Seminar: "When topology meets strong correlation"
      190 Engineering Sciences Building

2. Tuesday, October 16, 2012

   1. 2:00 pmCarlos Azzoni. Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Administration and Accounting. University of Sao Paulo. Lemann Distinguished Visitor Fall12
      Lemann Lectures Series: Regional disparities in Brazil: evolution, consequences, and policy alternatives
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign

3. Wednesday, October 17, 2012

   1. 10:30 am - 11:30 amDr. Cora B. Marrett, Deputy Director, National Science Foundation
      "Graduate Education - Incubator for Innovation"
      Levis Faculty Center, 3rd floor
   2. 12:30 pmAndrea M. Ghez (University of California Los Angeles)
      Joint Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar and Icko Iben Jr. Lecture Astrophysics Colloquium: "Bringing our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole into Focus with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics" - Andrea M. Ghez (UCLA)
      144 Loomis
   3. 4:00 pmGiorgio Gratta, Stanford
      Physics Colloquium, "Neutrinos from Hell: the Dawn of Neutrino Geophysics"
      141 Loomis Lab
   4. 4:30 pmBrian Dolinar
      The Black Cultural Front Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation
      Illini Union Bookstore - Authors Corner

4. Thursday, October 18, 2012

   1. 4:00 pmGiorgio Gratta, Stanford
      Physics Colloquium, "Neutrinos from Hell: the Dawn of Neutrino Geophysics"
      141 Loomis Lab
   2.  Conference on The New Middle East: Social and Political Change in the Twenty-First Century
      Levis Faculty Center
   3. 4:00 pmAssociate Professor Emilio Frazzoli, MIT
      ISE Graduate Seminar-Autonomy and Distributed Control for Future Urban Mobility
      103 Transportation Building
   4. 5:30 pmMichael Schreffler, Chair and Associate Professor of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University
      Lectures Series. Latin American Visualities: Cuzco 1643
      Architecture Bldg, room 302
   5. 7:30 pmMatthew W. Finkin; Center for Advanced Study Professor of Law
      CAS Annual Lecture
      Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

5. Friday, October 19, 2012

   1.  Conference on The New Middle East: Social and Political Change in the Twenty-First Century
      Levis Faculty Center
   2. 9:00 am

      Speakers Bio

      
      Resentment's Conflicts, A Symposium
      Pine Lounge, Illini Union
   3. 12:00 pmDavid Morrison, Deputy Director of Illinois Coalition for Political Reform
      The Fight for Campaign Finance Reform in Illinois
      University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St.
   4. 1:00 pm

      Dr. Masud Haque -
      Max Planck Institute - Dresden Germany

      
      Condensed Matter / ICMT Seminar: Composite object dynamics in interacting 1D lattice systems: propagation, locking, and scattering
      

      190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield

       
   5. 2:00 pm

      Sanjeevi Sivasankar, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames

      
      CPLC Seminar: "Tuning the biomechanics of cell-cell adhesion"
      144 Loomis

6. Saturday, October 20, 2012

   1.  Conference on The New Middle East: Social and Political Change in the Twenty-First Century
      Levis Faculty Center