Week of October 21, 2012 to October 27, 2012

1. Monday, October 22, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmSidney Nagel - James Franck Institute - University of Chicago
      ICMT Seminar: "Jamming as the epitome of disorder"
      190 Engineering Sciences Building
   2. 3:00 pmDr. Norman Ornstein - American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and columnist for "Roll Call" and distinguished U of I faculty
      "Depending on Deficits: Whose Problem Is It, and Why Should We Care?"
      Room 314A Illini Union
   3. 4:00 pmProfessor P. (Saday) Sadayappan
      Domain-specific abstractions for high-performance computing
      2405 Siebel
   4. 5:30 pmBradford McKee
      "Landscape and Confrontation"
      Plym Auditorium (Room 134) Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
   5. 7:30 pmDr. Norman Ornstein
      "Dealing With Debt and Deficits in a Dysfunctional Political Environment"
      Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln, Urbana

2. Tuesday, October 23, 2012

   1. 2:00 pmJoseph Love, Professor Emeritus, History. Former director Lemann Institute
      Lemann Lecture Series:The Revolt of the Whip
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   2. 4:00 pm

      Christopher Michel

      
      V. Dale Cozad Lecture in Entrepreneurship
      

      Deloitte Auditorium Business Instructional Facility, 515 E. Gregory Drive, Champaign

       

3. Wednesday, October 24, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmTobias Baldauf (University of Zurich)
      Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Halo Clustering beyond the Local Bias Model" - Tobias Baldauf (University of Zurich)
      464 Loomis
   2. 1:00 pmProfessor Mark Saffman
      QI/AMO Seminar: Bottling Rydberg atoms for scalable quantum computing
      280 MRL
   3. 4:00 pmDr. Richard S. Ostfeld-Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies
      B102 CLSL - 601 S. Goodwin
   4. 4:00 pmProfessor Sidney R. Nagel, University of Chicago
      Physics Colloquium:"Speak, Memory! What can a material memorize?"
      141 Loomis Lab
   5. 4:30 pmGonalo Tavares
      Carr Reading Series - Gonalo Tavares
      Illini Union Bookstore Authors Corner

4. Thursday, October 25, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmDavid Mares, Institute of the Americas Chair for Inter-American Affairs. Director, Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies. Professor, Political Science, University of California, San Diego
      Lectures Series: Resource Nationalism in Latin America: Concepts, Politics and Policy
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   2. 12:00 pmMarius Junge, Illinois
      Math/Physics Seminar: "Non-locality from a math perspective"
      464 Loomis (1110 W Green St., Urbana)
   3. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

      Thushara Dibley PhD,
      Visiting Scholar, ACDIS; University Honorary Associate, Department of Indonesian Studies,
      University of Sydney, Australia

      
      Voices from the global south: Examining the contribution of local civil society to the peacebuilding theory/practice nexus
      356 Armory, 505 East Armory Avenue, Champaign
   4. 4:00 pmAssociate Professor Angelia Nedich
      ISE Special Lecture Series Featuring Recently Promoted Faculty-Distributed Optimization Over Networks
      103 Transportation Building
   5. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmDr. B.K. Sharma - Senior Research Engineer at ISTC
      Brown Bag Seminar series - Presenting the movie: Bag It: Is Your Life Too Plastic?
      Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, One E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61820

5. Friday, October 26, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmJose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and founder, Define American
      Define American: Immigration in the 2012 Election
      University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St.
   2. 1:00 pm

      Prof. Randi Holmestad -
      Dept of Physics - Norwegian University of Science and Technology -
      Trondheim Norway 

       

      
      Condensed Matter Seminar: Formation of clusters and precipitates in age hardenable Al alloys
      

      190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield

       
   3. 2:00 pm

      David Millar, Department of Molecular Biology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA

      
      CPLC Seminar: "Assembly and Conformational Dynamics of Nucleic Acid ' Protein Complexes Probed at the Single-Molecule Level"
      144 Loomis

6. Saturday, October 27, 2012

   1. 10:15 am

      Professor Jon Thaler

      
      Extrasolar Planets
      141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics 1110 W. Green St. Urbana IL