Week of March 3, 2013 to March 9, 2013

1. Monday, March 4, 2013

   1. 12:00 pmRafael Fernandes (Minnesota)
      ICMT Seminar: "Manifestations of electronic nematic degrees of freedom in the high-temperature iron-based superconductors"
      190 ESB
   2. 4:00 pm   Materials Sciences and EngineeringProf. Edward Arzt, Saarland University, Germany, "Micropatterned artificial Gecko surfaces: A path to switchable adhesive function"
      100 MSEB
   3. 4:00 pm

      Lindsay LeBlanc

      
      Special QI/AMO Seminar: Engineering dispersion relationships for ultracold atoms
      280 MRL

2. Tuesday, March 5, 2013

   1. 4:00 pmSoft Materials Seminar
      119 Materials Science and Engineering Building

3. Wednesday, March 6, 2013

   1. 10:00 amChBE 565 Seminar of Special Interest, Dr. James Costello, Boston University, "Translating Genomics Data into Actionable Models to Discover Novel Therapeutics"
      1000 Lincoln Hall
   2. 4:00 pmDr. Charles Ferguson, President, Federation of American Scientist
      Physics Colloquium, "The Physics of Nuclear Disarmament"
      141 Loomis

4. Thursday, March 7, 2013

   1. 10:00 am

      Dr. Julio Barreiro

      
      Special QI/AMO Seminar: Harnessing additional degrees of freedom and the environment to experimentally enable quantum applications and simulations
      280 MRL
   2. 11:00 am

      Ribhu Kaul (University of Kentucky)

      
      Special ICMT Seminar: Quantum Criticality in Mott Insulators
      190 ESB
   3. 2:00 pmChBE 565 Seminar of Special Interest, Dr. Heather Kulik, Stanford University, "Predictive and Fast: New First-principles Tools for Catalysis"
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory
   4. 4:00 pmHard Materials Seminar
      119 Materials Science and Engineering Building
   5. 4:00 pm   Materials ChemistryProfessor Kristopher Kilian, UIUC, "Tailoring the Biorecognition Interface for Advanced Cell Culture Materials"
      112 Chem Annex

5. Friday, March 8, 2013

   1. 1:00 pm

      Peter B. Littlewood -
      Assoc. Director - Physical Sciences and Engineering - Argonne National Laboratory
      Prof of Physics - James Franck Institute - University of Chicago

      
      Condensed Matter Seminar: Screening of charge and structural motifs in oxides
      

      190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield

       
   2. 2:00 pm

      David Piston, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

      
      CPLC Seminar: "Molecular Communication Underlying Hormone Secretion"
      464 Loomis