Week of November 11, 2012 to November 17, 2012

1. Monday, November 12, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmMatthew Foster - Rice University
      ICMT Seminar: "Interaction-mediated surface state instability in dirty topological superconductors"
      190 Engineering Sciences Building
   2. 3:00 pmAssistant Professor Jian Ma, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
      Next-Generation Comparative Genomics using Next-Generation Sequencing
      3269 Beckman Institute
   3. 4:00 pmAssociate Professor Wotao Yin, Rice University
      ISE Graduate Seminar-Smooth Sparse Optimization
      303 Transportation Building

2. Tuesday, November 13, 2012

   1. 2:00 pmAnita Chan, Assistant Professor, Media and Cinema Studies
      Lectures Series: Hacking Digital Universalism: De-scripting Technological Design in the Andes
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   2. 3:00 pmDr. Michael Jeffords and Susan Post
   3. 3:00 pmHitesh Changlani - Cornell
      ICMT Seminar: "Emergent spins on a randomly diluted antiferromagnet at the percolation threshold "
      280 MRL (104 S. Goodwin)

3. Wednesday, November 14, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmRukmani Vijayaraghavan (University of Illinois)
      Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Mergers of Galaxy Groups and Clusters: Implications for Cluster Galaxy Evolution"
      464 Loomis
   2. 1:00 pmFumihiro Kaneda
      QI/AMO Seminar: Efficient generation and activation of multi-photon bound entanglement
      280 MRL
   3. 4:00 pmProfessor Hongkun Park, Harvard University, Department of Chemistry
      Physics Colloquium "Nano-Bio Interfacing and Single-Cell Transcriptomics: Innovative New Tools for Biology"
      141 Loomis Lab

4. Thursday, November 15, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmDamarys Canache, Associate Professor, Political Science
      Lectures Series: Determinants of Discrimination in Latin America
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   2. 12:00 pmProfessor Shinsei Ryu, Univ. of Illinois, Dept. of Physics
      Math/Physics Seminar "Coordinates noncommutativity for three-dimensional topological insulators"
      464 Loomis (1110 W Green St., Urbana)
   3. 4:00 pmProfessor Zelda Zabinsky, Washington University
      ISE Graduate Seminar-Adaptive Random Search for Global Optimization with the Interacting Particle Algorithm
      103 Transportation Building

5. Friday, November 16, 2012

   1. 11:00 am - 4:00 pmDr. Kevin Gibson (Purdue Univ.); Duane Friend (UI Extension); Dr. Krishna Reddy (UIC); Dr. Kurt Spokas (USDA - St. Paul); Audrey Sweet (SUI-C); Dr. Junhua Jiang (UI - ISTC); Dr. Tom Holm (UI - ISWS); Dr. Rick Larson (UI - NRES); Paul Weaver (Chip Energy, Inc.); Paul Anderson (Chip Energy, Inc.)
      Illinois Biochar Group Fall Meeting
      Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, One E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61822
   2. 1:00 pm

      Dr. Wai-Kwong Kwok - Senior Scientist & Group Leader -
      Superconductivity and Magnetism Group - Materials Science Division -
      Argonne National Laboratory (IL)

       

       

       

       

      
      Condensed Matter Seminar: Vortex Pinning and Critical Currents in Iron Based Superconductors
      

      190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield

       
   3. 2:00 pm

      Peter Freddolino, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, NY

      
      CPLC Seminar: "Coping with the unknown: A guide for bacteria and bacteriologists"
      144 Loomis
   4. 4:15 pmProfessor Ovidiu Radulescu, Theoretical Biophysics and Systems Biology, University of Montpellier 2, France
      'Which details matter? Model reduction helps computational biology.'
      3269 Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave