Events
COLLOQUIA & SEMINARS
The departments of the College of Science and Letters host colloquia and seminars throughout the spring and summer sessions.
| 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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
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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) |
| 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 |
For the latest information about these events visit the following department Web pages:
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