Week of March 31, 2013 to April 6, 2013

1. Monday, April 1, 2013

   1. 12:00 pmProf. Matthew Gilbert (Electrical & Computer Engineering, Illinois)
      ICMT Seminar: "Hunting for Majorana Fermions in 3D Topological Insulators"
      190 ESB
   2. 1:30 pmProfessor Erdal Toprak, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
      Special Seminar,"Revealing evolutionary paths to antibiotic resistance"
      190 ESB
   3. 3:00 pmProfessor Alessandro Laio, Statistical and Biological Physics, International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy
      Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group - 'Simulating complex biochemical processes
      3269 Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave

2. Tuesday, April 2, 2013

   1. All DayGraduate College Online Learning Symposium
   2. 11:00 amRakesh Nagi, State University of New York
      ISE Head Candidate Seminar-Fusion of Hard and Soft Information and the Graph Association Problem
      303 Transportation Building
   3. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmKaren Retzer, Sampling Operations Supervisor
      Introduction to Survey Sampling
      505 E. Green St. Room 201
   4. 2:00 pmLeonardo Bursztyn, Assistant Professor of Economics, UCLA Anderson School of Management.
      Lemann Lecture Series: Poverty and the Political Economy of Public Education Spending: Evidence from Brazil
      101 International Studies Building

3. Wednesday, April 3, 2013

   1. 12:00 pmEric Petersen (University of Illinois)
      Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar:"Review of Data from the Planck Mission"
      464 Loomis
   2. 1:00 pmDr. Alfred U'Ren, The Institute of Nuclear Science, National Autonomous University of Mexico
      QI/AMO Seminar; "Generation of Spatially-Structured Heralded Single Photons"
      280 MRL
   3. 4:00 pmMartin Wattenberg, Co-leader "Big Picture" visualization group, Google
      CAS Initiative-Culture as Data: Social Spaces on the Internet-Wattenberg
      Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois
   4. 4:00 pmDan Hooper, Assistant Professor University of Chicago, Assoc. Scientist Fermi National Laboratory
      Physics Colloquium, "Searching for dark matter in the discovery age"
      141 Loomis

4. Thursday, April 4, 2013

   1. 10:00 amJames Franklin Sharp, Sharp Seminars, NY
      Scholars of Practice-James Franklin Sharp
      303 Transportation Building
   2. 11:00 amProf. Philip Phillips (Illinois)
      Re-scheduled ICMT Seminar: "Unparticles and Cuprate Superconductivity"
      190 ESB
   3. 12:00 pmJeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History'and Chair. Emory University
      Lemann Lecture Series: What's so New About the New Multicultural Brazil?
      101 International Studies Building

5. Friday, April 5, 2013

   1. 11:00 amMark Lawley, Purdue University
      ISE Head Candidate Seminar-Proactive Planning and Scheduling for Chronic Care
      303 Transportation Building
   2. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmPresented by Dr. Kurt Spokas - USDA-ARS Soil Scientist
      Brown Bag Research Seminar - Biochar: The science behind the hype
      Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, One E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
   3. 12:00 pmEboo Patel
      Eboo Patel, Interfaith Youth Core and Member of President Obama's Advisory Council
      Lazter Hall, University YMCA
   4. 1:00 pm

      Prof Anupam Garg -
      Dept of Physics and Astronomy - Northwestern University

      
      Condensed Matter Seminar: Collective magnetization relaxation in single molecule magnets
      

      190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield

       
   5. 1:15 pm - 3:00 pmIllinois Biochar Group Meeting
      Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, One E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61820