Week of November 4, 2012 to November 10, 2012

1. Monday, November 5, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmMonique Combescot - Institut des NanoSciences de Paris
      ICMT Seminar: "BEC-BCS crossover in excitonic systems"
      190 Engineering Sciences Building
   2. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDr. Carol Handwerker - Reinhardt Schuhmann Jr. Professor of Materials Engineering, Purdue University
      Sustainability Seminar series - Sustainable Electronics: Lessons learned from the RoHS and the Pb-free transition
      Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, One E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
   3. 5:30 pmKate Orff
      Petrochemical America by Kate Orff (Asst. Professor, Columbia University)
      Plym Auditorium room 134 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall

2. Tuesday, November 6, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmFaith Wilson Stein
      Noontime Scholar Lecture - Ruskin in Russia, and The Ethics in Aesthetics
      101 ISB, 910 S Fifth St Champaign
   2. 2:00 pmPamela Cappas-Toro, Ph.D. Student, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
      Lemann Lectures Series: El Corte, Afox and Carnaval: Re (imagining) Afro descendant Music under Dominican and Brazilian Dictatorships
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign

3. Wednesday, November 7, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmDr. Gee Lau
      PATH Seminar-Dr. Gee Lau
      2506 Veterinary Medicine Basic Sciences Building
   2. 12:00 pmCarlos Palenzuela (CITA)
      Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave events"
      464 Loomis
   3. 4:00 pmProfessor Mark Neubauer, Physics Department, University of Illinois
      Physics Colloquium: "Higgs boson: Discovery, Properties and Prospects"
      141 Loomis
   4. 6:30 pmInternational Carrers Workshop Series: Using Campus Resources to Jumpstart Your International Career
      101 Armory 505 East Armory Avenue Champaign, IL 61820

4. Thursday, November 8, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmAndrew Eisen, Ph.D. Student, History
      Lectures Series: This is a Cold War: Militarization and Migration along the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1945-1955
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   2. 4:00 pmAssistant Professor Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, ECE Illinois
      ISE Graduate Seminar-Decentralized Optimal Coordination of Distributed Energy Resources
      103 Transportation Building

5. Friday, November 9, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmEvelyne Accad: "Voices of Women in the Arab (springs) Tempests (or storms)"
      101 International Studies Bldg, 910 S. Fifth St.
   2. 3:00 pmProfessor Alexander S. Mankin, Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago
      'Encounters of the nascent peptide and antibiotics in the exit tunnel of the ribosome'
      3269 Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave
   3. 3:30 pm

      Dr. Alexander Boris -
      Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany

      
      Condensed Matter Seminar at Special Time: Superconductivity-induced transfer of optical spectral weight in iron-pnictide and cuprate high-Tc superconductors
      

      190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield
      at SPECIAL TIME of 3:30 pm after ICMT Workshop.

       

6. Saturday, November 10, 2012

   1. 10:15 am

      Professor Michael Weissman

      
      Our Weird Quantum World
      141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics 1110 W. Green St. Urbana IL
   2. 2:30 pm - 3:30 pmSpanish Story Time: "Rene Has Two Last Names/ Rene tiene dos apellidos"
      The Urbana Free Library, Children's Department, 210 W Green St, Urbana.