Week of March 10, 2013 to March 16, 2013

1. Monday, March 11, 2013

   1. 12:00 pmBabak Seradjeh (Indiana University)
      ICMT Seminar: "Transport signatures of Floquet Majorana fermions in driven topological superconductors"
      190 ESB
   2. 1:30 pmYang-Yu Liu Northeastern University http://barabasilab.neu.edu/people/yangliu/Welcome.html
      Special CPLC Seminar: Controllability and Observability of Complex Biological Systems
      190 ESB
   3. 3:00 pmDr. Robert Best, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD
      Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group - 'Coarse grained models for protein folding and misfolding in the bacterial chaperonin GroEL'
      3269 Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave
   4. 4:00 pmKevin Healy, Departments of Bioengineering and Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
      Materials Science and Engineering Colloquium
      100 Materials Science and Engineering Building
   5. 4:00 pm   Materials Sciences and EngineeringProf. Kevin Healy, Univ. of California, Berkeley, "Bioinspired Materials to Direct Cell Behavior"
      100 MSEB

2. Tuesday, March 12, 2013

   1. 11:00 amThomas Faulkner, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton New Jersey
      Special ICMT Seminar:"Entanglement Entropy in Holography"
      190 ESB
   2. 4:00 pm   Inorganic ChemistryProf. Bart Bartlett, University of Michigan, "Designing Chemically Robust Metal Oxides for Visible-Light Photocatalysis: toward Solar Z-Scheme Water Splitting"
      112 Chem Annex
   3. 4:00 pmSoft Materials Seminar
      119 Materials Science and Engineering Building

3. Wednesday, March 13, 2013

   1. 4:00 pmProfessor David Hsieh, CalTech
      Physics Colloquium: McMillan Award Presentation - "Topological Insulators"
      141 Loomis Lab
   2. 4:00 pmProf. Patanjali Kambhampati, McGill University, "Excitons in Semiconductor Quantum Dots: Design principles for lasers, optical switches, and LEDs"
      112 Chem Annex

4. Thursday, March 14, 2013

   1. 12:00 pmCHEM 575 Seminar, Ms. Yinan Zhang, UIUC, "One Drug, Multiple Targets"
      217 Noyes Laboratory
   2. 4:00 pmHard Materials Seminar
      119 Materials Science and Engineering Building
   3. 4:00 pm   Materials ChemistryProfressor Gang Logan Liu, UIUC,"Title: Nanoplasmonics Enhanced Molecular and Cellular Imaging: 'Chip' Solutions to Expensive Bioimaging Problems"
      112 Chem Annex

5. Friday, March 15, 2013

   1. 10:30 amIsao Maruyama (Osaka University)
      Special ICMT Seminar: "Deformation and bipartition of entangled systems with sinusoidal functions"
      190 ESB
   2. 1:00 pm

      Prof David Hsieh -
      Dept of Physics Mathematics and Astronomy - California Institute of Technology

      
      Condensed Matter Seminar: Seeing and controlling the surface states of a topological insulator with ultrafast lasers
      

      190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield

       
   3.  

      Gerardo Morfini, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Illinois, Chicago

      
      CANCELLED

6. Saturday, March 16, 2013

   1. 1:00 pmSpring Vacation Begins