Events

COLLOQUIA & SEMINARS

The departments of the College of Science and Letters host colloquia and seminars throughout the spring and summer sessions.

Date + Time	Location	Speaker	Topic
APPLIED MATHEMATICS
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 4:40 p.m.	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
Feb. 23 10 a.m.	E1 106	Lulu Kang (Applied Mathematics, IIT)	Polynomial Chaos for Uncertainty Quantification Methods
Feb. 27 4:40 p.m.	LS 152	Liping Tong (Loyola University)	A Joint Statistical Model for Social Network and Behavior
Mar. 5 4:40 p.m.	LS 152	Rajmonda Caceres (Student from University of Illinois, Chicago)	Time Scale of Dynamic Network
Mar. 7 4:40 p.m.	LS 152	Weihau Geng (University of Alabama)	Treecode-Accelerated Boundary Integral Poisson-Boltzmann Solver
Mar. 12 4:40 p.m.	LS 152	Ching-Shan Chou (Ohio State University)	Systems Biology of Cell Polarization
Mar. 26 4:40 p.m.	LS 152	Steve Wise (University of Tennessee)	PDE/Numerical Analyses and Computations of Some Diffuse Interface Models of Viscous Two-Phase Flows
Apr. 2 4:40 p.m.	LS 152	Jin Ma (University of Southern California)	Ruin Problems with Model Uncertainty
Apr. 5 10 a.m.	E1 106	Roberto Cavoretto (University of Turin, Italy)	Some Topics on Meshfree Approximation: Shepard's Algorithms and Applications
Apr. 9 4:40 p.m.	LS 152	Robert Gramarcy (University of Chicago)	Dynamic Trees for Response Surface Learning and Optimization
Apr. 11 4:40 p.m.	LS 152	Sven Leyffer (Argonne National Lab)	A New Toolkit for Mixed-Integer and Nonlinear Optimization
Apr. 16 4:40 p.m.	LS 152	Jeremy Staum (Northwestern University)	Moving Least Squares Regression for High-Dimensional Simulation Metamodeling
Apr. 18 10 a.m.	E1 121	Qi Ye (IIT)	Analyzing Reproducing Kernal Approximation Methods via A Green Function Approach
Apr. 18 4:40 p.m.	LS 152	Amanda Redlich (Rutgers University)	Deterministic Randomness
April 23	MTCC Auditorium	Philip Holmes (Princeton University)	Remembering Karl Menger
May 15 12:45 p.m.	E1 244	Michael Machen (IIT)	Numerical Methods for Solving Poisson-Nemst-Planck Equations in Ion Channels
May 17 12:45 p.m.	E1 244	Michael McCourt (IIT)
May 29 12:45 p.m.	E1 121	Sou-Chen Choi (University of Chicago)	A MINRES-QLP-Like Algorithim for Solving Complex Symmetric Linear Systems and Least-Squares Problems
BIOLOGY
Date + Time	Location	Speaker	Topic
Jan. 23 3:15 p.m.	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)
Feb. 13 3:15 p.m.	LS 111	Jeremy Maters (Pfizer)	Scaling Factors Used for Inter-Species Comparisons and Optimizing Antimicrobials Used in Animals (.pdf)
Feb. 27 3:15 p.m.	LS 111	Lena Al-Harthi (Rush University Medical Center)	Interplay Between HIV & Wnt/Beta-Catenin Signaling: A Tug of War Between Protection & Pathogenesis in the CNS (.pdf)
Mar. 26 3:15 p.m.	LS 111	Xiaolong He (University of Illinois-Chicago)	Splicing Factors as Tumor Regulators and Novel Therapeutic Targets (.pdf)
Apr. 9 3:15 p.m.	LS 111	Tony Kowal (IIT)	Cell-Substrate Adhesion in the Amoeba Dictyostelium Discoideum: Identifying a Link between the SadA Adhesion Receptor and the F-Actin Cytoskeleton
Apr. 16 3:15 p.m.	LS 111	Xinjian Peng (IIT Research Institute)	Identification of New Molecular Targets Using RT-PCR
Apr. 23 3:15 p.m.	LS 111	Tom Irving (IIT)	Structural Physiology: X-ray Diffraction Studies of Insect Flight and Cardiac Muscle at the Advanced Photon Source (.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)
Feb. 15 3:15 p.m.	LS 111	Brant Cage (IIT)	Novel Magnetic Materials: Theory and Applications (.pdf)
Feb. 22 3:15 p.m.	LS 111	Laura Anderson (Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago)	New C-C, C-N, and C-O Bond Formations via the N-O Bond Cleavage and Rearrangement of O-Vinyl Oximes and Hydroxylamine Ethers (.pdf)
Feb. 29 3:15 p.m.	LS 111	Ilias Belharouak (Argonne National Laboratory)	Lithium-Ion Batteries: Current State and Beyond
Mar. 14 3:15 p.m.	LS 111	Lawrence Miller (University of Illinois at Chicago)	Lanthanide Probes for Imaging and Analysis of Protein-Protein Interactions (.pdf)
Apr. 4 3:15 p.m.	LS 111	Taejin Kim (Argonne National Laboratory)	Conversion of Furfuryl Alcohol into Polyfurfuryl Alcohol: Reaction Mechanism and Thermodynamic Properties (.pdf)
Apr. 11 3:15 p.m.	LS 111	Paul R. Anderson (IIT)	Water Supply and Water Quality: Global, Regional, and Local Issues
Apr. 18 3:15 p.m.	LS 111	James McNeely (Ph.D. Student, IIT)	Chromium (III): The Other Essential Trace Element (.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 113	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?
Apr. 5 12:45 p.m.	SB 113	Witawas Srisa-an (University of Nebraska/Lincoln)	Taming the Beast: Past, Present, and Future of Race Detection
Apr. 9 12:45 p.m.	SB 111	George K. Thiruvathukal (Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, Loyola University)	An Object-Oriented Framework for Userland Filesystem Development
Apr. 11 12:45 p.m.	SB 113	Dongyan Xu (Purdue University)	Improving Network I/O Performance in Virtualized Clouds
Apr. 16 12:45 p.m.	SB 111	Jeff Hammond (ALCF, Argonne)	Parallel Applications
Apr. 18 10 a.m.	E1 121	Qi Ye (IIT)	Analyzing Reproducing Kernal Approximation Methods via A Green Function Approach
Apr. 18 4:40 p.m.	LS 152	Amanda Redlich (Rutgers University)	Deterministic Randomness
Apr. 23 2 p.m.	SB 204	James Riely (DePaul)	Understanding the Java Memory Model
Apr. 24 12:45 p.m.	SB 204	Kalyan Kumaran (ALCF, Argonne)	High Performance Computing, Networking and Data Management
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	The Moral Psychology of Political Ambition in Plato and Laozi
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)	Eve in the Formative Period of Islamic Exegesis: Intertextual Boundaries and Hermeneutic Demarcations
Mar. 30 2 p.m.	SH 218	Stephen Harris (IIT Sawyier Fellow)	Mahayana Ethics and the Demandingness Objection
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)	Bully Justice: Should International Law Permit State-Sanctioned Assassination?
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)
Feb. 23 3:50 p.m.	LS 111	Otto Raabe (Center for Health & the Environment, University of California—Davis	Risks of Cancer Associated with Ionizing Radiation (.pdf)
Mar. 1 3:50 p.m.	LS 111	Mats Selen (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)	A New Approach to Intro Physics at the University of Illinois (.pdf)
Mar. 8 3:50 p.m.	LS 111	Laura Pyrak-Nolte (Department of Physics, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University)	Geophysics of Fractures (.pdf)
Apr. 5 3:50 p.m.	LS 111	Robert McDermott (University of Wisconsin-Madison)	Materials Origin of Decoherence in Superconducting Qubit (.pdf)
Apr. 19 3:50 p.m.	LS 111	André de Gouvêa (Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University)	The Brave nu World (.pdf)
Apr. 26 3:50 p.m.	LS 111	Jeff Grube (Department of Astronomy, Adler Planetarium)	Very High Energy (VHE) Gamma-ray Astrophysics (.pdf)
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Date + Time	Location	Speaker	Topic
Mar. 8 12:40 p.m.	MTCC Auditorium	Eric Klinenberg (New York University)	Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone
Mar. 15 4 p.m.	Hermann Hall Auditorium	Gordon S. Wood (Alva O. Way Professor Emeritus of History, Brown University)	Benjamin Franklin Project Inaugural Lecture: What Made the Founders Different
Apr. 26 10:30 a.m.	Hermann Hall Ballroom	Various Speakers	Benjamin Franklin Project Symposium: Founding Science and the Making of a Modern Republic

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