Sunday, January 13, 2013

wk1 excavations: Jan.16-22


40 comments:

  1. 'Startup Cafe with Andrew Cittadine, CEO of DxP' is a technology entrepreneur speaking series (this one specifically is based around medical device companies). Jan. 16, 12:00pm at EnterpriseWorks Atrium, 60 Hazelwood Drive.

    It seems that registration is required (name/email):
    http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/7?eventId=26464708&calMin=201301&cal=20130113&skinId=1

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  2. Russian movie night: Ironiya sud'by, part I. January 17th, 7:00 pm in the Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 FLB.

    I think they have these reoccurring throughout the semester. Someone from the Slavic languages department chooses a russian movie to show and talk about.

    http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/596?eventId=27368810&calMin=201301&cal=20130113&skinId=1

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  3. CSAMES Brown Bag Lecture: "Battle Grounds of the Future: Revisiting the First Anglo-Afghan Campaigns, 1839 - 1919"

    Jan 22, 2013

    12:00 pm

    Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

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  4. Cupcake Decorating

    Date Jan 22, 2013
    Time 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
    Location Courtyard Cafe
    Free admission

    Apparently they will be teaching how to decorate your own cookie/cupcake while supplies lasts! Although this seems like less of a learning experience and more of a buffet assembly line of sprinkles and fudge sort of thing, but who knows! It's free and you get a cupcake.

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  5. Sustainability Seminar -- Beyond Energy Efficiency: Behavior Change Tactics for the Pollution Prevention Community

    Jan 17, 2013
    2-3pm
    Free
    @ Illinois Sustainable Tech Center, One E Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61820

    The director of behavior and human dimensions program at the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) is going to be discussing behavior change research and why people do the things they do and how they can do things to influence others' behavior and implement change in environmental policy.

    http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/7?eventId=26731670&calMin=201301&cal=20130113&skinId=1

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  6. Short notice, but...

    "Dish It Up: Mama Monster: Lady Gaga and Gender Politics"

    Jan 14, 2013
    12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    Women's Resources Center 703 S. Wright Street, 2nd floor Champaign, IL
    FREE

    Enjoy a complimentary meal while listening to speakers, lecturers, and panelists explore a variety of topics at the intersection of gender and other social identities. Each Dish It Up program offers vegan and vegetarian food options.

    http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2345?eventId=27138988&calMin=201301&cal=20130114&skinId=2292

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  7. Middle East Story Time

    Angela Williams will help you explore the Middle East through activities, music and stories.

    Jan 19, 2013
    2:00-2:45pm
    Urbana Free Library
    (more specific info provided in the link)


    http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/596?eventId=27442063&calMin=201301&cal=20130114&skinId=1

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  8. Yasemin Yildiz: "Beyond the Mother Tongue"

    Date: Jan 22, 2013
    Time: 7:30 pm
    Location: 3rd Floor, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana
    Cost: Free and open to the public.

    Professor Yildiz will discuss her award-winning book, "Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition," in which she proposes that monolingualism is more than just a simple numerical term and instead constitutes the heart of a major modern paradigm that has sought to shape individuals, communities, disciplines, and institutions of its image.

    http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/319?eventId=27439033&calMin=201301&cal=20130114&skinId=1

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  9. "The Complexity, Simplicity, and Unity of Living Systems from Cells to Cities; A Physicist's Search for Unifying Theories of Biological and Social Structure and Dynamics"
    Wednesday, January 16, 2013
    4:00 pm
    Distinguished Professor Geoff West, Santa Fe Institute
    Physics Colloquium

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  10. Caroline Bishop, Washington University: "Becoming Cicero: Self-Quotation and Self-Fashioning in 'De Natura Deorum and De Divinatione'"

    Speaker Caroline Bishop, Washington University
    Date Jan 16, 2013
    Time 3:30 pm
    Location Room 217, Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana, IL
    Cost Free and open to the public.

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  11. Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group "Development and Application of Molecular Simulation Methods for Modeling Macromolular Behavior In Vivo"

    Speaker: Professor Adrian H. Elcock, Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
    Date Jan 14, 2013
    Time 3:00 pm
    Location 3269 Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave

    http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/598?eventId=27189327&calMin=201301&cal=20130114&skinId=1

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    1. Here is another one then...
      Learn how to approach a case interview
      Sponsor: SCNO
      Date: Thursday, January 17 at 7:30pm
      Location: Wohlers 240
      Attire: Business Casual

      I will be going to this event.

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  12. Physics Colloquium, "Dark Matter in the Discovery Age"

    Speaker Dan Hooper, Fermilab
    Date Jan 23, 2013
    Time 4:00 pm
    Sponsor Physics Department
    Contact Marjorie Gamel
    E-Mail mgamel@illinois,edu
    Phone 217-333-3762
    Event type Physics Colloquium
    Views 1860
    Originating Calendar Physics - Colloquium

    http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/701?eventId=23995030&calMin=201301&cal=20130115&skinId=5445

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    1. Sorry I am late I didn't realize that response was for my lecture here is one i can go to this week. I thought we were starting our post next week.

      Food for the Soul: "The Black Men's State of Mental Health"

      Speaker Dr. Deidre Weathersby & Milo Dodson, Ph. D. candidate, Sankofa African American Outreach, Counseling Center
      Date Jan 16, 2013
      Time 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
      Location 708 S. Mathews Urbana, IL 61801
      Sponsor Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center
      Phone 217-333-2092
      Event type Lunch
      Views 14
      Originating Calendar Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center

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  13. Canoe Crossings: Building Links Between Pacific Islanders and Native Peoples of the Great Lakes Region through the Revitalization of Canoes and Canoe Cultures

    Speaker Vicente Diaz
    Date Jan 18, 2013
    Time 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    Location Native American House
    Cost FREE

    http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/1534?eventId=26611218&calMin=201301&cal=20130115&skinId=2292

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  14. Hypnotist Steve Marino
    Date Jan 17, 2013
    Time 8:00 pm
    Location Illini Union Courtyard Cafe
    Cost Free Admission

    Hypnotism and what have you?

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  15. CSAMES Brown Bag Lecture: "The Egyptian Economy After the Arab Spring Revolution: Where Is It Going? Current Situation and Future Perspective"

    Speaker: Karima Korayem, Professor of Economics, Faculty of Commerce at Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
    Date: Jan 17, 2013
    Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
    Location: Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, Urbana
    Cost: Free and open to the public
    E-Mail: aswillms@illinois.edu
    Phone (217) 244-5939
    Event type: Brown Bag lecture

    Karima Korayem is a Professor of Economics in Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from McMaster University (Canada). She worked as a consultant to several international, regional, and national organizations. Among them: the UN (WFP, UNDP, UNECA, UNDESA, ESCWA, UNICEF, ILO), the World Bank, the International Development Research Center (IDRC), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR), the League of Arab States, the Social Fund for Development (SFD) and the National Bank of Egypt. She was also a Visiting Scholar at Rutgers.

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  16. "Unauthorized Translation: Encoding Protest in Nadia El Fani's Bedwin Hacker"
    Greta Bliss, Grinnell College

    Jan 18th 2013
    4:30pm
    Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

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  17. This one looks pretty interesting as well:

    BigData: Probabilistic Methods for Efficient Search and Statistical Learning in Extremely High-Dimensional Data

    Speaker Ping Li (Cornell University)
    Date Jan 17, 2013
    Time 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
    Location 1EH 106B1
    Sponsor Statistics Department

    http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/1249?eventId=26228079&calMin=201301&cal=20121222&skinId=6233

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  18. Videoconference Panel Discussion (with U. of Pittsburgh): The Next Member State: Croatia's Path to the European Union

    scheduled for Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:00:00 CST

    The European Union Center of Excellence and European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh, in cooperation with Pitt's Center for Russian and East European History (REES) will host the next in our ongoing series of virtual roundtables on the subject of Croatia's impending accession as the 28th member state of the European Union. REES Associate Director Andrew Konitzer will moderate. REES Center Director Robert Hayden will join Professor Natasa Besirevic, a faculty member of the Political Science Department at the University of Zagreb; Dr. Laura Hastings, Political Science lecturer and Interim Director of the Global Studies degree major at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and other experts throughout the U.S. in a discussion of the Europeanization process in the western Balkans, the impact on Croatia (and on the EU) of enlargement, and related topics. Joining the Conversation will be audiences from the EUCEs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Washington, Seattle. Audiences at all sites are encouraged to participate.

    The Next Member State: Croatia's Path to the European Union

    Date Jan 22, 2013
    Time 11:00 am
    Location Room 411 507 E. Green St., Champaign, IL
    Cost This event is open to the public.
    Sponsor European Union Center
    Event type Lecture
    Views 14
    Originating Calendar Russian, E. European & Eurasian Center: Speakers

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  19. Possible External Triggers of Star Formation in the Orion-A Giant Molecular Cloud

    Friday 18 January 2013
    12:00PM
    Speaker: Yoshito Shimajiri (Nobeyama Radio Observatory)

    We present new, wide and deep images in the 1.1 mm continuum and the 12CO (J=1'0) emission toward the northern part of the Orion A Giant Molecular Cloud (Orion-A GMC). The 1.1 mm data were taken with the AzTEC camera mounted on the Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment (ASTE) 10 m telescope in Chile ....

    Four types of possible triggers were revealed; 1) Collision of the diffuse gas on the cloud surface, particularly at the eastern side of the OMC-2/3 region, 2) UV compression from OB stars that forms shells and filamentary structures of Photo-Dominated Regions (PDR), 3) UV radiation implosion on the pre-existing dense molecular cloud cores in the western region of Ori-KL, and 4) collision of dense gas with the powerful outflows in the OMC-2/3 and the OMC-4 regions. Our wide-field and high-sensitivity imaging has provided the first comprehensive views of the potential sites of triggered star formation in the Orion A GMC.

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  20. Thursday Linguistics Seminar: Alla Rozovskaya (PhD Candidate in Linguistics)

    Date Jan 17, 2013
    Time 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
    Location Lucy Ellis Lounge
    Sponsor Linguistics
    Event type seminar
    Views 143

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  21. Date Jan 18, 2013
    Time 1:30 pm
    Location 819 Psychology
    Sponsor Developmental Division
    Contact Renee Baillargeon
    E-Mail rbaillar@illinois.edu
    Event type Brown Bag
    Views 57
    Originating Calendar Psychology General Calendar
    'Parents' involvement in children's learning in the United States and China'

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  22. Jan 22, 2013 • Siebel Center Room 1404 • 6 PM
    Speaker: Paul Magelli

    Lectures cover fundamental concepts of entrepreneurship and commercialization of new technology in new and existing businesses. Guest speaker topics vary, but typically include: evaluation of technologies and business ideas in general; commercializing new technologies; financing through private and public sources; legal issues; product development; marketing; international business issues.

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  23. Global Transfer Afterglow: Jeff Chan’s Cultural Arts Quartet

    Saturday, January 19, 2013, at about 9:30pm | Lobby

    Free Admission

    Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801



    In Jeff Chan’s words, this group is “a no-holds-barred foursome built for blowing.” Chan and Ed Wilkerson Jr. oversee magnetic melody lines on winds as Avreeayl Ra on drums sets the groove and Tatsu Aoki on bass nimbly strides and struts through modern works by Chan, straight-up jazz classics, and world music.

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  24. This is actually pretty cool.

    OpenACC GPU Programming Workshop
    Jan 15, 2013 - Jan 16, 2013
    11:00 am
    Location: NCSA 1030
    Sponsor: NCSA
    Registration
    Views: 1035
    NCSA is one of several satellite sites hosting the OpenACC GPU programming workshop on January 15 and 16, 2013. This workshop is presented by The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, the National Institute for Computational Sciences, and Georgia Tech.

    OpenACC is the accepted standard using compiler directives to allow quick development of GPU capable codes using standard languages and compilers. It has been used with great success to accelerate real applications within very short development periods. This workshop assumes knowledge of either C or Fortran programming. It will have a hands-on component using Keeneland, an XSEDE resource deployed at the National Institute for Computational Sciences. Keeneland is the NSF’s premier GPU resource.

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  25. Event Detail Information

    Francophone Studies: Lectures by Candidate: "Khatibi's Poetics of the Intersigne"

    Speaker Dr. David Fieni
    Date Jan 16, 2013
    Time 4:30 pm
    Location 1065 Lincoln Hall
    Sponsor Department of French
    Contact Karen Fresco
    E-Mail kfresco@illinois.edu
    Phone (217)244-2727
    Event type campus-wide lecture
    Views 34
    Originating Calendar African studies - Outreach Calendar

    (Info from Khatibi Wikipedia Page)

    Khatibi was a literary critic, novelist, and playwright from Morocco, he primarily commented on Maghreb region's political and social norms.

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  26. Astrophysics Colloquium : You-Hua Chu, UIUC: "Extragalactic Supernova Remnants"

    Speaker You-Hua Chu
    Date Jan 22, 2013
    Time 4:00 pm
    Location 134 Astronomy

    Supernova remnants (SNRs) mark sites where information of the SN progenitors can be diagnosed by smart observations. Studies of SNRs in the Milky Way galaxy are often plagued by uncertainties in distance, extinction, and line-of-sight confusion. These problems are mitigated in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), which is near enough that stars can be resolved and deep/sensitive observations can be made in all wavelengths. I will use observations of the LMC SNRs to illustrate what we have learned about SNRs, how we use stellar and interstellar information to diagnose the nature of the SN progenitor, and how to search for surviving binary companions of SN progenitors.

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  27. RUSSIAN NATIONAL BALLET THEATRE: DON QUIXOTE

    Tuesday 22 January, 7PM
    Tryon Festival Theatre, Krannert
    $10

    Daring escapes, tumultuous love affairs, grand adventures, and drama en pointe—it’s all in a day’s work for the more than 50 dancers in this ensemble. Get swept away by Cervantes’ imperfect hero, Siegfried’s misplaced affections, the neighborly struggles of the Montagues and Capulets, or the simple poetry of Chopin-inspired ballet. No matter the tale, the Russian ballet tradition is resplendent with wistful scores, enchanting fables, and a romantic majesty that captivates the hearts of audiences.

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  28. GRUP DE CONVERSA DE CATALÁ
    (Catalan Conversation Group)

    Tuesdays | 5PM
    Espresso Royale @ Goodwin + Oregon

    Starting tomorrow, Chris Baldwin, who studied in Barcelona, is organizing a Catalan conversation group, meeting Tuesdays at 5pm at the Espresso Royale at Goodwin and Oregon. Updates will be posted in facebook.com/groups/catalanuiuc or/and sent via email. For more details about it, please contact Chris at lenguarchitect@aol.com.

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  29. Tuesday, January 22, 2013
    Using Study Abroad Experience in Interviews

    I COULD NOT FIND A POSTING FOR THIS EVENT, BUT IT WAS REVIEWED BY MONICA

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