Week of February 10, 2013 to February 16, 2013

1. Monday, February 11, 2013

   1. 12:00 pmDam Thanh Son (University of Chicago)
      ICMT Seminar: "The geometry of the quantum Hall effect"
      190 ESB
   2. 12:00 pmNoreen Sugrue, WGGP
      Morocco: A Country of Contradictions
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   3. 3:00 pmDr. Jeremy C. Smith, U of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
      Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group 'Computational molecular biophysics for renewable energy, environmental science and drug design'
      3269 Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave

2. Tuesday, February 12, 2013

   1. 10:00 am

      Waseem Bakr

      
      Special QI/AMO Seminar: Condensed Matter Physics with Ultracold Atoms - from Mott Insulators to Topological Superfluids
      280 MRL
   2. 3:00 pmDr. Tih-Fen Ting - University of Illinois Springfield

3. Wednesday, February 13, 2013

   1. 10:00 amMichael Stone (Illinois, Dept. of Physics)
      Mathematics/Physics Seminar "Matrix Models and Tau functions"
      464 Loomis
   2. 12:00 pmZach Etienne (University of Illinois)
      Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Can black hole-neutron star binary mergers produce gamma ray bursts?"
      464 Loomis
   3. 4:00 pmProfessor Steve Pollock, Physics Department, University of Colorado, Boulder
      Physics Colloquium, "A research-validated approach to transforming upper-division E&M"
      141 Loomis

4. Thursday, February 14, 2013

   1. 12:00 pmGail Ferguson. Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Studies. UIUC
      Lecture Series: Americanization of Urban Jamaican Teenagers and Implications for Family Life on the Island
      101 International Studies Building
   2. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDr. Fredrik Grondahl - Associate Professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
      Sustainability Seminar series - Sustainable Use of Algae Biomass for a Swedish Bio-based Economy
      Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, One E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
   3. 4:00 pmJackie Shen, Barclays Investment Bank, NY
      ISE Seminar-Portfolio Algos: Demands, Challenges, and Opportunities
      303 Transportation Building

5. Friday, February 15, 2013

   1. 12:00 pmAlia Bilal
      Inner-City Muslim Action Network, Alia Bilal
      Lazter Hall, University YMCA
   2. 1:00 pm

      Prof Jiangping Hu -
      Dept of Physics - Purdue

      
      Condensed Matter Seminar: Iron Based Superconductors As Odd Parity Superconductors
      

      190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield

       
   3. 1:00 pmFriday, February 15th 1:00pm, room 101 ISB Antonio Sergio Guimares, Professor of Sociology. USP
      Lemann Lecture Series: Racial Democracy: The Sociological History of a Concept
      101 International Studies Building
   4. 5:00 pmWGGP 2013-14 Multidisciplinary Awards Deadline