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. 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
   3. 4:00 pmAli Khademhosseini, Harvard Medical School
      Materials Science and Engineering Colloquium
      100 Materials Science and Engineering Building
   4. 4:00 pm   Materials Sciences and EngineeringProf. Ali Khademhosseini, Harvard Medical School, "Microengineered Hydrogels for Stem Cell Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration"
      100 MSEB

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. 4:00 pm   Inorganic ChemistryProfessor Seth Brown, Notre Dame University, "Nonclassical Redox Reactions"
      112 Chem Annex
   3. 4:00 pmSoft Materials Seminar
      119 Materials Science and Engineering Building

3. Wednesday, February 13, 2013

   1. 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
   2. 4:00 pmProf. Jon Camden, University of Tennessee Knoxville, "Application of STEM/EELS to Optical Plasmons and Surface Enhanced Nonlinear Spectroscopy"
      112 Chem Annex

4. Thursday, February 14, 2013

   1. 2:00 pmChBE 565 Seminar of Special Interest, Dr. Tracy He, Harvard University, "Warm-blooded Plastics: Bio-inspired Smart Soft Material Systems"
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory
   2. 4:00 pmHard Materials Seminar
      119 Materials Science and Engineering Building

5. Friday, February 15, 2013

   1. 8:00 am   Final Defense, Professor Ralph Nuzzo, AdvisorMr. Eric Brueckner, UIUC, "Fabrication and Transfer Assembly of Microscale, Solid-State Light Emitting Diodes and Solar Cells for Transparent and Flexible Electronics Applications"
      280 MRL
   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