Events
COLLOQUIA & SEMINARS
The departments of the College of Science and Letters host colloquia and seminars throughout the spring semester.
| APPLIED MATHEMATICS | |||
| Date + Time | Location | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 10 4:40 p.m. | LS 106 | James (Jianguo) Liu (Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University) | Stochastic Transport and Assembly of Intracellular HIV-1 Gag Protiens: Modeling and Numerical Simulations |
| Jan. 23 4:40 p.m. | LS 152 | Cheng Ouyang (University of Illinois at Chicago) | Some Functional Inequalites for Stochastic Differential Equations Driven by Brownian Motions |
| Jan. 30 4:40 p.m. | LS 152 | Ryan Martin (University of Illinois at Chicago) | A Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Framework for Large-Scale Multiple Testing |
| Feb. 6 | LS 152 | Jin Zhang (Stuart School of Business, IIT) | Jump Robust Two Time Covariance Estimation and Realized Volatility Budgets |
| Feb. 20 4:40 p.m. | LS 152 | Shin-Shin Kao (Visiting the University of Southern California) | A Study on the Degree-Based Conditions for Hamilton Properties |
| April 23 | MTCC Auditorium | Philip Holmes (Princeton University) | Remembering Karl Menger |
| BIOLOGY | |||
| Date + Time | Location | Speaker | Topic |
| Jan. 23 | LS 111 | Jaswinder Sharma (Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory) | DNA-Directed Self-Assembly of Nanoparticle Arrays and Biosensing Applications of Fluorescent Metallic Nanoclusters |
| Jan. 30 3:15 p.m. | LS 111 | Sadie Wignall (Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University) | Building a Spindle without Centrosomes: Oocyte Meiosis in C. Elegans |
| Feb. 6 3:15 p.m. | LS 111 | Sadagopan Krishnan (Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford) | New Approaches for Drug Screening, Diagnosis and Biofuel Cells (.pdf) |
| CHEMISTRY | |||
| Date + Time | Location | Speaker | Topic |
| Jan. 18 3:15 p.m. | LS 111 | Andrew Lee (AuraSense, LLC) | Exploration of Polyphosphate and Protein Chemistry with Capillary Electrophoresis |
| Jan. 25 3:15 p.m. | LS 111 | Keith Bowman (Duchossois Leadership Professor of Materials Engineering Chair of Mechanical, Materials & Aerospace Engineering, IIT) | Piezoelectric Materials: Alloy Systems and Anisotropy |
| Feb. 1 3:15 p.m. | LS 111 | Joy Racowski (Argonne National Laboratory) | New Reactivity of High Oxidation State Palladium (.pdf) |
| Feb. 8 3:15 p.m. | LS 111 | Mark M. Morrison (Sherwin Williams Company) | Nanotechnology Applications in Coatings (.pdf) |
| COMPUTER SCIENCE | |||
| Date + Time | Location | Speaker | Topic |
| Jan. 9 12:45 p.m. | SB 113 | Boris Glavic (University of Toronto) | Integrating Data Provenance Support in Database Systems |
| Jan. 13 11 a.m. | SB 225 | Hideaki Kimura (Brown University) | Correlation-Aware Optimizations for Analytic Databases |
| Jan. 20 11:15 a.m. | SB 225 | Umar Farooq Minhas (University of Waterloo) | Scalable and Highly Available Database Systems in the Cloud |
| Jan. 23 10 a.m. | SB 225 | Michael Grossniklaus (Portland State University) | Graph Data Management and Processing |
| Feb. 28 12:45 p.m. | SB TBA | Michael E. Papka (Deputy Associate Laboratory Director of Computing, Environment, and Life Sciences; Director of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne National Laboratory) | There's a Supercomputer in My Backyard? |
| HUMANITIES | |||
| Date + Time | Location | Speaker | Topic |
| Feb. 17 2 p.m. | SH 218 | Krisanna Scheiter (IIT Sawyier Fellow) | Aristotle on the Purpose of Revenge |
| Feb. 24 2 p.m. | SH 218 | Mohamed Mehdi | TBA |
| Feb. 27 12:30 p.m. | SH 218 | Matt Shapiro (IIT Social Sciences) & Karl Stolley (IIT Humanities) | Work-in-Progress Seminar |
| Mar. 9 2 p.m. | SH 218 | Vivian Weil (IIT Humanities) | From the Trenches, a report on conversations with chief technologists and managers of nano companies in the Midwest |
| Mar. 16 2 p.m. | SH 218 | Catherine Bronson (IIT Humanities) | TBA |
| Mar. 30 2 p.m. | SH 218 | Stephen Harris (IIT Sawyier Fellow) | TBA |
| April 13 2:30 p.m. | LS 111 | Jon McGinnis (Department of Philosophy, University of St. Louis—Missouri) | Spring 2012 Sawyier Philosophy Lecture in Science, Technology and Society "Methodological Misfits: Struggling with Observation and Mathematics in Medieval Islamic Science" |
| Apr. 20 2 p.m. | SH 218 | Michael Davis (IIT Humanities) | TBA |
| PHYSICS | |||
| Date + Time | Location | Speaker | Topic |
| Jan. 25 | MTCC Auditorium, Hermann Hall | Various | National Nuclear Science Day |
| Jan. 26 3:50 p.m. | LS 111 | Mark Hammergren (Adler Planetarium) | Not Just Sky Shows: Astronomy Research at the Adler Planetarium |
| Feb. 9 3:50 p.m. | LS 111 | David Koltick (Purdue University) | Associated Particle Neutron Imaging Technology for Medical Diagnostics (.pdf) |
For the latest information about these events visit the following department Web pages:
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