Week of March 24, 2013 to March 30, 2013

1. Monday, March 25, 2013

   1. 3:00 pmProfessor Peijun Zhang, Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
      Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group - 'Structural Mechanisms of HIV-1 Capsid Assembly, Maturation and Host Cell Restriction '
      3269 Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave
   2. 8:00 pm   John C. Bailar Lecture

      Professor D. J. Darensbourg

      
      2013 John C. Bailar Lecture, Professor Donald J. Darensbourg., Texas A&M University "Making Chemicals from Carbon Dioxide"
      B102 CLSL

2. Tuesday, March 26, 2013

   1. 10:00 am

      Dr. Kyung Soo Choi

      
      Special QI/AMO Seminar: A Quantum Circus with Acrobatic Photons and Floppy Spins
      280 MRL
   2. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmJack J. Hutchens, PhD Candidate, Slavic Languages and Literatures
      Noontime Scholar Lecture - Polish, Jewish, Queer: The Hybridities of Julian Stryjkowski
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S Fifth St Champaign IL
   3. 1:00 pmDr. Matthias Schroeter, Max Planck Institute, Goettingen, Germany
      Special ICMT/Condensed Matter Seminar: "Getting jamming into shape"
      190 ESB
   4. 2:00 pm - 3:30 pmJulio Csar Bicca-Marques, Ph.D., Lemann Distinguished Visiting Scholar
      Lemann Lecture Series: Monkeys, humans and yellow fever: a case of lethal and costly misinformation in southern Brazil
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   5. 3:00 pmDr. Andrea Porras - Western Illinois University
      1816 S. Oak St Champaign, IL
   6. 4:00 pm   John C. Bailar Lecture

      Professor Marcetta Y. Darensbourg

      
      2013 John C. Bailar Lecture, Professor Marcetta Y. Darensbourg., Texas A&M University "Molecular Constructs as [FeFe]-H2ase Enzyme Active Site Biomimetics for Proton Reduction"
      112 Chem Annex
   7. 4:00 pmMartha Crenshaw, Center for International Security, Stanford University
      MillerComm2013-Crenshaw
      Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois
   8. 4:00 pm

      Martha Crenshaw, Center for International Security, Stanford University

      
      Responding to Global Terrorism
      Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory, Urbana
   9. 4:00 pmMartha Crenshaw
      Responding to Global Terrorism: Provocation, Retaliation and Deterrence
      Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

3. Wednesday, March 27, 2013

   1. 12:00 pmDr. William C. Wilson
      PATH Seminar-Dr. William C. Wilson
      2506 Veterinary Medicine Basic Sciences Building
   2. 12:00 pmHotaka Shiokawa (University of Illinois)
      Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of the formation of Orion-like star clusters"
      464 Loomis
   3. 1:30 pm - 3:00 pmDenis Mizne, Executive Director Fundao Lemann
      Lemann Lecture Series: The state of education in Brazil today: Challenges and innovations
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   4. 4:00 pmProfessor Jorge Nocedal, Northwestern University
      Illinois Distinguished Lecture Series in Operations Research
      NCSA Auditorium
   5. 4:00 pmNeal Lane, Rice University
      Physics Colloquium, 'Giving Science Advice to the President ' and Why It's Getting Harder'
      141 Loomis

4. Thursday, March 28, 2013

   1. 12:00 pmBruce Bagley, Professor and Chair. Department of International Studies. University of Miami
      Lecture Series: Major Trends in Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 21st Century
      101 International Studies Building
   2. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmMichael Brown - Executive Director, Ecology Action Center and Community Solid Waste Coordinator, Normal, IL
      Sustainability Seminar series - Ecology Action Center: New Initiatives in Zero Waste Events and HHW Collection in Bloomington-Normal
      Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, One E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
   3. 4:00 pmJorge Nocedal
      ISE Seminar-Nonlinear Optimization Methods for Machine Learning
      303 Transportation Building

5. Friday, March 29, 2013

   1. 12:00 pmRev. Dr. Eugene Barnes
      Rev. Dr. Eugene Barnes, Founder and Executive Director of Metanoia Centers
      Lazter Hall, University YMCA
   2. 1:00 pm

      Prof Yew San Hor -
      Dept of Physics - Missouri University of Science and Technology

      
      Condensed Matter Seminar: Superconductivity in chemical doping of topological insulators
      

      190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield

       
   3. 2:00 pm

      Sima Setayeshgar, Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington

      
      CPLC Seminar: "Optimal strategies in single cell sensing and response"
      464 Loomis