Week of March 24, 2013 to March 30, 2013

1. Monday, March 25, 2013

   1. 7:00 amInstruction resumes
   2. 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
   3. 4:00 pmAngel Yanguas-Gil, Argonne National Laboratory
      Materials Science and Engineering Colloquium
      100 Materials Science and Engineering Building
   4. 8:00 pm   John C. Bailar Lecture2013 John C. Bailar Lecture, Professors 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. 1:00 pmDr. Matthias Schroeter, Max Planck Institute, Goettingen, Germany
      Special ICMT/Condensed Matter Seminar: "Getting jamming into shape"
      190 ESB
   3. 2:00 pmChBE 565 Seminar of Special Interest, Mr. Venkat Viswanathan, Stanford University, "Electrochemistry of Oxygen with Lithium and Protons: Implications for Lithium-air Batteries and Fuel Cells"
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory
   4. 4:00 pm2013 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
   5. 4:00 pmCANCELLED - Prof. David Spiegel, Yale University, "Using small molecules to engineer and explore human immunity"
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory
   6. 4:00 pmSoft Materials Seminar
      119 Materials Science and Engineering Building

3. Wednesday, March 27, 2013

   1. 9:00 am   Advisor: Paul J. A. KenisMatt Naughton
      Final Defense: Investigation of Contaminant Effects and Cathode Catalysts in Microfluidic Fuel Cells
      117 RAL
   2. 4:00 pmDr. Carl Hayden, Sandia National Laboratories, "Lipid membrane bending by protein-protein crowding"
      112 Chem Annex
   3. 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. 4:00 pmHard Materials Seminar
      119 Materials Science and Engineering Building
   2. 4:00 pm   Materials ChemistryProf. Kyoung-Shin Choi, University of Wisconsin, "Materials Chemistry via Electrochemistry: Electrochemical Synthesis of Electrode Materials with Controlled Architectures for Use in Clean Energy Production"
      112 Chem Annex

5. Friday, March 29, 2013

   1. 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

       
   2. 2:00 pm

      Sima Setayeshgar, Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington

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