Week of October 28, 2012 to November 3, 2012

1. Monday, October 29, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmGregory A. Fiete - University of Texas at Austin
      ICMT Seminar: "Interacting Topological Phases in Transition Metal Oxides"
      190 Engineering Sciences Building
   2. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFLAS 13-14 Information Session
      Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, Room 126; 501 E. Daniel St, Champaign
   3. 4:00 pmProfessor Trevor Mudge
      Interconnect Fabrics for Multicore Computers
      2405 Siebel Center

2. Tuesday, October 30, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmLilya Kaganovsky, Associate Professor in Comparative & World Literature at Illinois
      Noontime Scholar Lecture - The Homogenous Thinking Subject or Soviet Cinema Learns to Sing
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S Fifth St, Champaign
   2. 3:00 pmDr. Jason Robinson
   3. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFLAS 13-14 Information Session
      Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, Room 126; 501 E. Daniel St, Champaign

3. Wednesday, October 31, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmAlexander Belikov (IAP Paris)
      Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Indirect detection of dark matter at GeV and TeV scales" - Alexander Belikov (IAP Paris)
      464 Loomis
   2. 4:00 pmCharles Ferguson, President, Federation of American Scientist
      Physics Colloquium: CANCELLED "The Physics of Nuclear Disarmament"
      141 Loomis Lab

4. Thursday, November 1, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmDan Freed, University of Texas, Austin, Dept. of Mathematics
      Math/Physics Seminar Provisional title: "Twisted equivariant matter"
      464 Loomis (1110 W Green St., Urbana)
   2. 4:00 pmAssociate Professor Harrison Kim
      ISE Special Lecture Series Featuring Recently Promoted Faculty-Closing the Loop of (Really Long) Life Cycle of Complex Systems Portfolio
      103 Transportation Building
   3. 4:00 pmSibelan Forrester
      New Directions in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia - A Russian in Persia, and Persia in Russian: Translating Yuri Tynyanov's 'The Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar'
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S Fifth St Champaign
   4. 5:30 pmGale Summerfield, Ying Chen, Terri Weissman, and Gary Xu
      China Today Gallery Conversation--Rising Dragon: Contemporary Chinese Photography
      Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr.
   5. 7:30 pmCharles D. Ferguson, President, Federation of American Scientists
      MillerComm2013-Leveraging Science and Technology to Transform International Security: The Social Responsibility of Engineers and Scientists
      Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

5. Friday, November 2, 2012

   1. All Day2012 Tinker Pre-Dissertation Summer Field Research Workshop
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   2. 12:00 pmClaudia Lennhoff, Executive Director of Champaign County Healthcare Consumers
      The Future of Health Reform
      University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St.
   3. 1:00 pm

      Prof. Yong P. Chen -
      Dept. of Physics, School of Electrical & Computer Engg, Birck Nanotech Cntr -
      Purdue University - West Lafayette IN

      
      Condensed Matter Seminar: Electronic Transport in Topological Insulators
      

      190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield
      Moved back to 190 ESB for 11/2 -- conflicting event was cancelled.
   4. 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm

      Juan Roberto Perilla, Beckman Institute (Schulten Lab), University of Illinois, Urbana

      
      CPLC Seminar: "Structure of the HIV-1 Capsid Assembly by Cryo-EM and All-Atom Molecular Dynamics Simulation"
      144 Loomis
   5. 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm

      Vishal Kottadiel, Department of Biology (Rao Lab), Catholic University of America, Washington, DC

      
      CPLC Seminar: "Shining a light: Using single-molecule fluorescence to decipher the coordination between subunits of the bacteriophage T4 DNA packaging motor"
      144 Loomis
   6. 5:00 pmDr. Benjamin Ervin
      ISE Scholars of Practice-Dr. Benjamin Ervin, MIT
      303 Transportation Building

6. Saturday, November 3, 2012

   1. All Day2012 Tinker Pre-Dissertation Summer Field Research Workshop
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign