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
   4. 4:00 pmSteven Nutt, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California
      Materials Science and Engineering Colloquium
      100 Materials Science and Engineering Building
   5. 4:00 pm   Materials Sciences and EngineeringProf. Steven Nutt, University of Southern California, " Defect control in OOA processing of composite prepregs"
      100 MSEB

2. Tuesday, April 2, 2013

   1. 2:00 pm   Advisor: Charles ZukoskiTianying Jiang
      Final Defense: The effects of concentration, interaction, size distribution and shape anisotropy on rheology of colloidal mixtures
      117 RAL
   2. 4:00 pm   Inorganic ChemistryDr. Wendy J. Shaw, Pacific Northwest National Lab, "Enhancing homogeneous catalysts with a peptide-based outer-coordination sphere"
      112 Chem Annex
   3. 4:00 pmSoft Materials Seminar
      119 Materials Science and Engineering Building

3. Wednesday, April 3, 2013

   1. 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
   2. 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
   3. 4:00 pmProf. John Tully, Yale, "Chemical Dynamics at Metal Surfaces: The Role of Electronic Excitations"
      112 C hem Annex

4. Thursday, April 4, 2013

   1. 11:00 amProf. Philip Phillips (Illinois)
      Re-scheduled ICMT Seminar: "Unparticles and Cuprate Superconductivity"
      190 ESB
   2. 12:00 pmCHEM 575 Seminar, Ms. Yang Song, UIUC, "Stem Cell Fate Controlled by Matrix Stiffness"
      217 Noyes Laboratory
   3. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmProf. Lingjun Li
      Prof. Lingjun Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Expanding the Chemical Toolbox to Probe Neuronal Signaling"
      B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Lab
   4. 2:00 pm   Advisor: Paul J. A. KenisSudipto Guha
      Final Defense: "X-RAY COMPATIBLE MICROFLUIDIC PLATFORMS FOR STUDYING PROTEIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION"
      A446 CLSL
   5. 2:00 pm   Materials ChemistryProfessor Ivan Aprahamian, Dartmouth College, "Hydrazone-Based Switches, Fluorophores, and Sensors"
      B102 CLSL
   6. 4:30 pm   Advisor: Paul J. A. KenisBrian A Rosen
      Final Defense: Low Temperature Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide Utilizing Room Temperature Ionic Liquids
      271 RAL

5. Friday, April 5, 2013

   1. 9:30 am   Final Defense: Professor Wilfred van der Donk, AdvisorMr. Patrick Knerr
      Mr. Patrick Knerr, UIUC, Final Defense, "Chemical and Chemoenzymatic Syntheses of Lantibiotics and Other Bioactive Cyclic Peptides"
      433 Roger Adams Laboratory
   2. 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