Lecture Notes
Jan. 27 to Feb. 10, 2012
Practical abstractions for dynamic and parallel software
WHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. Jan. 30
WHERE: Indiana Memorial Union, Maple Room, Bloomington
WHAT: Umut A. Acar, Max Planck Institute, presents practical and powerful abstractions for taming software complexity in two large domains: dynamic software that interacts with dynamically changing data; and parallel software that utilizes multiple processors or cores.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION:
www.soic.indiana.edu/discover/news-events/calendar-main.shtml
Henna 101
WHEN: 5 to 6 p.m. Jan. 30
WHERE: Asian Culture Center, 807 E. 10th St., Bloomington
WHAT: Come to the Asian Culture Center to learn the ancient Indian art of henna designs. We will begin with a brief introduction about henna, its origins and different ways of application followed by hands-on experience.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION:
go.iu.edu/4tV
School Accountability, Standards and Family Sorting
WHEN: 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Jan. 30
WHERE: Georgian Room, Indiana Memorial Union, 900 E. Seventh St., Bloomington
WHAT: David Figlio, Orrington Lunt Professor of Education, Social Policy and Economics at Northwestern University, will investigate whether school accountability systems affect families' decisions about school choice and about where they reside.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-5971 or ashlyn@indiana.edu
Steroids: The good, the bad and the ugly
WHEN: 4 p.m. Feb. 1
WHERE: Psychology, 1101 E. 10th St. Room 101, Bloomington
WHAT: Speaker: Cheryl Anne Frye, University at Albany, will discuss progestogens' actions via cognate membrane progestin receptors.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION:
www.indiana.edu/~gillctr/speakers.shtml
The Resurrection of Calas, the Burial of Louis: Performing Justice in Revolutionary France
WHEN: 3:30 p.m. Feb. 3
WHERE: Indiana Memorial Union, Maple Room, 900 E. Seventh St., Bloomington
WHAT: Yann Robert, a postdoctoral fellow in Stanford University's Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars, discusses two seemingly unrelated historical events that are mirror images of each other. This raises important and still contemporary questions about the place of performance in legal proceedings, yet arrive at very different answers, which shed new light on revolutionary drama, justice and the Terror.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-5458 or ipiedmon@indiana.edu
SPEA Governance and Management speaker series
WHEN: Noon to 1:30 p.m. Feb. 3
WHERE: SPEA Room 167, Bloomington
WHAT: Eva Witesman, assistant professor, Romney Institute of Public Management at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, is the keynote speaker
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION:
go.iu.edu/4tV
or yahnem@indiana.edu
Translations in Early 20th-Century Mongolia
WHEN: Noon to 1:15 p.m. Feb. 3
WHERE: IU Ballantine Hall, 004, 1020 Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington
WHAT: Makoto Tachibana, a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellow and visiting scholar in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University, will discuss the historical significance of translation as it applies to the introduction of foreign knowledge.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-3765 or easc@indiana.edu
U.S. Energy Outlook: Whatever Happened to "Peak Oil"?
WHEN: 4 p.m. Feb. 6
WHERE: Fine Arts Auditorium, Bloomington
WHAT: Marcia McNutt, the first woman to serve as director of the U.S. Geological Survey, will review the U.S. outlook for fossil fuel resources and the challenges we face in developing these resources. For that reason, the USGS is also supporting wind and solar energy development to help reduce our dependence on fossil fuel.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-2934 or hamburg@indiana.edu
Earthquakes Near and Far: A Study in Community Resiliency
WHEN: Noon Feb. 6
WHERE: Geology S201 (Patton Room), Bloomington
WHAT: Marcia McNutt, director of the U.S. Geological Survey, will discuss earthquake losses as a function of community resilience and preparation.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-2934 or hamburg@indiana.edu
Micro Seminar Series
WHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. Feb. 7
WHERE: Myers Hall 130, Bloomington
WHAT: Speaker: Kenneth Bayles, University of Nebraska Medical Center, will discus "Metabolic Control of Bacterial Programmed Cell Death During Biofilm Development."
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION:
go.iu.edu/4tV
The SoIC Colloquium Series
WHEN: 3 p.m. Feb. 8
WHERE: IMU, Maple Room, Bloomington
WHAT: Casey S. Greene, Princeton University, will discuss "Next-gen Bioinformatics: Democratizing genome-scale data analysis"
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION:
predrag@indiana.edu
Beryl Radin
SPEA Governance and Management Speaker Series
WHEN: Noon Feb. 9
WHERE: Kelley Business School, BU 307, Bloomington
WHAT: Speaker: Beryl Radin, Scholar in Residence, Department of Public Administration and Policy
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION:
yahnem@indiana.edu
Empowering the Powerless: Legal Services for Vulnerable Populations in China and India.
WHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. Feb. 9
WHERE: Room 121, IU Maurer School of Law, Bloomington
WHAT: Panelists will try to identify institutional barriers to the greater provision of high-quality legal services to among the most needy in the world. Speakers: Professor Sylvia Vatuk, University of Illinois, Chicago, and professor Sida Liu, Wisconsin
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-856-4044 or kturchi@indiana.edu
Mapping the Thermal City: Built Landscapes, Urban Climatology, and a History of Heat in Tokyo
WHEN: Noon to 1:15, Feb. 10
WHERE: Ballantine Hall, 004, Bloomington
WHAT: Keynote speaker: Scott O'Bryan, EALC and History, Bloomington
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION:
easc@indiana.edu
Colloquium speaker J.D. Trout
WHEN: 1:30 to 3:30 Feb. 10
WHERE: Ballantine Hall 003, Bloomington
WHAT: J.D. Trout, departments of philosophy and psychology at Loyola University, Chicago, argues that scientific realism should explain such great leaps of theoretical progress by appealing to insights and circumstances that are radically epistemically contingent -- conditions like geographic, economic or psychological "accidents" or luck.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION:
parobert@indiana.edu
Creating a more adaptable robot with multi-robot systems
WHEN: 3 to 4 p.m. Feb. 10
WHERE: Lindley Hall, 102, Bloomington
WHAT: Michael Rubenstein, postdoctoral fellow in Radhika Nagpal's Self-Organizing Systems Research Group at Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, will describe the importance that shape has in a multi-robot system, and discuss work on an algorithm that allows a group of robots to autonomously self-assemble any desired connected shape.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION:
hauserk@indiana.edu
