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2013 International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics | CSL Colloquia & Seminars
IIT Physics Hosts 2013 International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics
The International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD) is a major international high-energy conference that attracts participants (theorists and experimentalists) with a common interest in reactions involving a large number of particles. The XLIII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics will be held September 15 to 20, 2013, by the HEP ANL division together with the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT, Chicago) and Northwestern University (Chicago). More >
COLLOQUIA & SEMINARS
The departments of the College of Science and Letters hosted colloquia and seminars throughout the spring semester.
Applied Mathematics | Biology | Chemistry | Computer Science | Humanities | MSED | Physics | Social Sciences
| APPLIED MATHEMATICS | ||
| Date & Time | Location | Topic & Speaker |
| Monday, Mar. 4, 4:40 p.m. | LS 152 | Richard Sower (University of Illinois at Chicago) |
| Thursday, Mar. 7, 4:40 p.m. | LS 152 | Lifting the Curse of Dimensionality: Numerical Integration in Very Dimensions, Ian Sloan (University of New South Wales) |
| Monday, Mar. 11, 4:40 p.m. | LS 152 | Network Games: Spotting Trendsetters and Bargaining with Middlemen, Vijay G. Subramnian (Northwestern University) |
| Monday, Mar. 25, 4:40 p.m. | LS 152 | Computational Studies for Cell Signaling and Cancer Stem Cells, Xinfeng Liu (University of South Carolina) |
| Monday, Apr. 1, 4:40 p.m. | LS 152 | Asymptotics of Implied Volatility in Extreme Regimes, Roger Lee (University of Chicago) |
| Monday, Apr. 8, 4:40 p.m. | LS 152 | Lasso-based Factor Screening Analysis & Optimal Supersaturated Designs, Hong Wan (Purdue University) |
| Monday, Apr. 15, 4:40 p.m. | LS 152 | Vortex Flow Simulations by Lagrangian Particle/Panel Methods, Robert Krasny (University of Michigan) |
| Monday, Apr. 29, 4:40 p.m. | LS 152 | Optimal Estimation of Functional Data, Ming Yuan (University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
| BIOLOGY | ||
| Date & Time | Location | Topic & Speaker |
| Monday, Jan. 14, 3:15 p.m. | LS 111 | Microsporidian Genomes- Models for Extreme Reduction, Jean-Francois Pombert (University of British Columbia) |
| Monday, Feb. 11, 3:15 p.m. | LS 111 | A Population Genomics Approach to Environmental Adaptation in Plants, Geoff Morris (University of South Carolina) |
| Monday, Feb. 18, 3:15 p.m. | LS 111 | Neuronal Regulation of Nutrient Response in Drosophila, Nancy Linford (University of Michigan) |
| Monday, Feb. 25, 3:15 p.m. | LS 111 | Reaping What You Sow: Bowman v. Monsanto and Farming in the 21st Century, Charles Krikorian (IIT) |
| Thursday, Mar. 7, 4 p.m. | MTCC Ballroom | IIT Biology Lecture Honoring IIT Biology Professor Emeritus Dale Webster Hemoglobins: from Man to Bacteria and Back, Serge Vinogradov (Ph.D. CHEM '60, Wayne State University) |
| Monday, Mar. 11, 3:15 p.m. | LS 111 | Population and Reproductive Genetics in the Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus), Jennifer V. Schmidt (University of Illinois at Chicago) |
| Monday, Apr. 15, 3:15 p.m. | LS 111 | Scientific Ethics, Charles Krikorian (IIT) |
| Monday, Apr. 22, 3:15 p.m. | LS 111 | "Healthy" Western Diet and Lifestyle: A Recipe for Chronic Disease!, Indika Edirisinghe (Institute of Food Safety and Health, IIT) |
| CHEMISTRY | ||
| Date & Time | Location | Topic & Speaker |
| Wednesday, Jan. 23, 3:15 p.m. | LS 111 | Joseph Morrone (Columbia University) |
| Wednesday, Jan. 30, 3:15 p.m. | LS 111 | Andrey Rogachev (Cornell University) |
| Wednesday, Apr. 10, 3:15 p.m. | LS 111 | Characterizing Particles in Parenteral Solutions, Phillip Carter (Director of Research, Baxter Healthcare) |
| COMPUTER SCIENCE | ||
| Date & Time | Location | Topic & Speaker |
| Monday, Feb. 25, 10 a.m. | SB 113 | Interactive Machine Learning in High-Expertise Domains, Kevin Michael Small, (National Institutes of Health) |
| Friday, Mar. 3, 11:25 a.m. | SB 111 | From Text to Knowledge: Advances in Information Extraction and Social Media Analysis, Aron Culotta (Northeastern Illinois University) |
| Monday, Mar. 4, 10:00 a.m. | SB 113 | Privacy and Integrity of Remote Storage and Computation, Olga Ohrimenko (Brown University) |
| Wednesday, Mar. 6, 12:45 p.m. | SB 111 | On Mining Big Data, Philip S. Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago) |
| Wednesday, Mar. 13, 10:00 a.m. | SB 113 | Privacy Preserving User Centric Policy Management Framework for Cloud Computing Environments, Hassan Takabi (University of Pittsburgh) |
| Tuesday, Apr. 2, 12:45 p.m. | SB 111 | Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf |
| Thursday, Apr. 4, 11:00 a.m. | SB 239 | FermiCloud Project: Developing Scientific Workflows on the Cloud, Steven C. Timm (Fermilab) |
| Thursday, Apr. 11, 12:45 p.m. | SB 111 | An Automatic Physical Design Tool for Clustered Column-stores, Alexander Rasin (DePaul University) |
| Friday, Apr. 12, 2 p.m. | SB 225 | Thinning the Waist of Next-Generation Intelligent Power Grids, David Yau (Purdue University) |
| Monday, Apr. 22, 12:45 p.m. | SB 113 | On Measuring and Evaluating Global Stability of Financial Networks, Bhaskar DasGupta (University of Illinois at Chicago) |
| Thursday, Apr. 25, 12:45 p.m. | SB 111 | Towards a Trustworthy Android Ecosystem, Yan Chen (Northwestern University) |
| HUMANITIES | ||
| Date & Time | Location | Topic & Speaker |
| Thursday, Feb. 14, 1:00 p.m. | SH 218 | The CoCensus Project: Aligning Embodiment with Informal Learning, Leilah Lyons (UIC) |
| Thursday, Mar. 14, 1:00 p.m. | SH 218 | The Emergence of the Digital Humanities, Steven Jones (Loyola) |
| Thursday, Apr. 11, 1:00 p.m. | SH 218 | Creation of digital archives and publications, Jennifer Thom (Newberry Library) |
| MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION | ||
| Date & Time | Location | Topic & Speaker |
| TBA | TBA | TBA |
| PHYSICS | ||
| Date & Time | Location | Topic & Speaker |
| Thursday, Jan. 17, 3:50 p.m. | LS 111 | Self-assembly of Biological Structures: Protein-mediated Actin Bundles and Faceted Polymer Vesicles, Homin Shin (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) |
| Thursday, Jan. 24, 3:30 p.m. | LS 111 | Massive Star Formation and the Milky Way Project, Grace Wolf-Chase (Adler Planetarium) |
| Thursday, Jan. 31, 3:30 p.m. | LS 111 | Water Playing Opposite Effects on Proteins at High and Low Temperatures, Liang Hong (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) |
| Thursday, Feb. 7, 3:30 p.m. | LS 111 | The Physical Properties of Biomolecular Recognition Probed with Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Jeff Wereszczinski (University of California, San Diego) |
| Thursday, Feb. 14, 3:30 p.m. | LS 111 | Scaling Theory of Complex Networks, Chaoming Song (Northeastern University-Boston, MA) |
| Thursday, Feb. 21, 3:30 p.m. | LS 111 | MAP: The Muon Accelerator Program at Fermilab, Pavel Snopok (IIT) |
| Thursday, Feb. 28, 3:30 p.m. | LS 111 | Structure Based Multiscale Modeling Reveals the Action of F1F0-ATPsynthase: A Ubiquitous Biological Nanomotor that Powers the Cell, Shayanti Mukherjee (University of Southern California) |
| Thursday, Mar. 7, 3:30 p.m. | LS 111 | We Found the Higgs: What Should Come Next in Our Quest to Understand the Origin of Mass?, Mayda Velasco (Northwestern University) |
| Thursday, Mar. 14, 3:30 p.m. | LS 111 | Synchrotron Radiation Studies of Advanced Nuclear Energy Materials, Jeff Terry (IIT) |
| Thursday, Mar. 28, 3:30 p.m. | LS 111 | Nuclear-Resonance-Stabilized X-ray Free-Electron Laser Oscillators (NRS-XFELO) for Metrology and Fundamental Physics, Bernhard Adams (Argonne National Laboratory) |
| Thursday, Apr. 4, 3:30 p.m. | LS 111 | The Ghost that Wasn't: Neutrino Physics in the 21st Century, Robert Plunkett (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) |
| Thursday, Apr. 11, 3:30 p.m. | LS 111 | The Development of Large-Area Psec Photodetectors and Possible Applications, Henry Frisch (University of Chicago) |
| Thursday, Apr. 18, 3:30 p.m. | LS 111 | The NOvA Experiment, Alec Habig (University of Minnesota-Duluth) |
| Thursday, May 2, 3:30 p.m. | LS 111 | The Piezo-Barkhausen Effect and the Fatigue of Steel, Thomas Erber (IIT) |
| SOCIAL SCIENCES | ||
| Date & Time | Location | Topic & Speaker |
| Thursday, May 2, 3:15 p.m. | Perlstein Hall Auditorium | Professor Segerstrale to Discuss Her New Book Nature's Oracle |
For the latest information about these events visit the following department Web pages:
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