Week of November 25, 2012 to December 1, 2012

1. Monday, November 26, 2012

   1. 3:00 pmProfessor Isaac Cann, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      Enzymatic Plant Cell Wall Deconstruction for Biofuel Production
      3269 Beckman Institute
   2. 4:00 pmProfessor Ion Stoica, University of Berkeley
      Professor Ion Stoica, Taming Big Data with BDAS (Berkeley Data Analytics Stack)
      2405 Siebel Center

2. Tuesday, November 27, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmValleri Hohman
      Noontime Scholar Lecture - Cold War Performances: The Moscow Art Theatre's Haunted Return to America
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S Fifth St Champaign
   2. 3:00 pmDr. Pati Vitt - Chicago Botanic Garden
   3. 3:00 pm

      Dr. Alexander Thaler -
      Dept. of Physics & Astronomy - Iowa State

      
      Special Condensed Matter Seminar: Structural and Magnetic Properties and Superconductivity in Transition Metal Substituted Ba-122 Single Crystals
      

      1003 SuperConductivity - 104 S Goodwin (between MRL & ESB)

3. Wednesday, November 28, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmDr. Mitchell Ho
      PATH Seminar-Dr. Mitchell Ho
      2506 Veterinary Medicine Basic Sciences Building
   2. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmMarta Keane - Recycling Program Specialist & Green Business Relations Coordinator; Will County Land Use Department - Resource Recovery & Energy Division
      Sustainability Seminar series - Electronic Recycling in Will County 2012
      Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, One E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
   3. 12:00 pmHotaka Shiokawa (University of Illinois)
      Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Radiative models of tilted black hole accretion flows"
      464 Loomis
   4. 4:00 pmCozad New Venture Competition Kickoff Event
      1090 Lincoln Hall
   5. 4:00 pmProfessor Andrew Ferguson, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois
      Physics Colloquium "Machine Learning and Biology: Folding paths and fitness landscapes"
      141 Loomis Lab

4. Thursday, November 29, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmGeorge Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor and Chair. History, University of Pittsburgh
      Lemann Lectures Series: Racial Inequality in Brazil and the United States, 1990-2010
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   2. 12:00 pmTudor Dimofte (IAS, School of Natural Sciences)
      Math/Physics Seminar: "3-Manifolds and 3d Gauge Theories"
      464 Loomis (1110 W Green St., Urbana)

5. Friday, November 30, 2012

   1. 1:00 pm

      Mike Norman - Director -
      Materials Science Division - Argonne National Lab

      
      Condensed Matter Seminar: Stay Away from Theorists
      

      190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield

       
   2. 2:00 pm

      Karen Fleming, Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

      
      CPLC Seminar: "Membrane Protein Stability"
      144 Loomis

6. Saturday, December 1, 2012

   1. 10:15 am

      Professor Paul Debevec

      
      Understanding the Energy Challenge: It Takes More Than Science
      141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics 1110 W. Green St. Urbana IL