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Lecture Notes

January 21- February 4, 2011

Amr Sabry

Amr Sabry

Discrete Quantum Computing
WHEN: Jan. 21, 3-4 p.m.
WHERE: Info East, room 130, 919 East 10th St., Bloomington
WHAT: Amr Sabry, professor of computer science at IU, presents a new discrete model of quantum computing that is obtained by instantiating the mathematical structure of actual quantum computing with a finite field instead of the infinite field of complex numbers.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-4341 or dunn@indiana.edu

Let's Play Mah-Jong
WHEN: Jan. 21, 2-4 p.m.
WHERE: Asian Culture Center, 807 E. 10th St., Bloomington
WHAT: Mah-Jong is a game of skill coupled with wit and fortune. Come to play, learn, or teach this wonderful game.
COST: Free and open to the public; call for free registration
INFORMATION: 812-856-5361 or acc@indiana.edu

Modern Vision, Classic Methods
WHEN: Jan. 21, 4 p.m.
WHERE: Morrison Hall 007, ground floor, Bloomington
WHAT: Noted photographer and guest curator Herbert Ascherman Jr. will discuss the various 19th century techniques used by the photographers who contributed work to the current exhibition. Ascherman will explore the relationship of these photographic processes to the erotic metaphors created by these contemporary artists.
COST: Free and open to the public but participants should be 18 years of age or older, unless accompanied by a parent or guardian.
INFORMATION: 812-855-7686 or kinsey@indiana.edu

Nature, Labor, Money: Flashpoints of Capitalist Crisis in the 21st Century
WHEN: Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Rawles Hall, room 100, Bloomington
WHAT: Nancy Fraser will discuss Karl Polanyi's concept of fictitious commodification from his 1944 book, The Great Transformation. After proposing a post-metaphysical reinterpretation of this concept, she will use it to analyze burgeoning markets in nature, reproductive labor, and finance as flashpoints of the current crisis of neoliberalism.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-9973 or ivirk@indiana.edu

Alexandra Avakian

Alexandra Avakian

"Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World" lecture
WHEN: Jan. 27, 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: IU School of Journalism, Ernie Pyle Hall Auditorium, 940 E. Seventh St., Bloomington
WHAT: Alexandra Avakian, an acclaimed photojournalist whose images have appeared in National Geographic, Time and Life magazines, will discuss the challenges, insights and rewards of nearly two decades spent photographing Muslims around the world.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-856-2804 or kjbeaver@indiana.edu

Marketization, Social Protection, Emancipation: Grammars of Struggle in Capitalist Crisis
WHEN: Jan. 27, 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Rawles Hall, room 100, Bloomington
WHAT: Nancy Fraser will examine Karl Polanyi's conception of the double movement. Seeking to expand his idea of a two-sided conflict between partisans of deregulated markets and proponents of social protection, she will incorporate a third pole of social movement, aimed at emancipation.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-9973 or ivirk@indiana.edu

Scalable computing for econinformatics
WHEN: Jan. 27, 3-4 p.m.
WHERE: Oak Room, Indiana Memorial Union, Bloomington
WHAT: Scott J. Emrich, director of Notre Dame's Bioinformatics Core, will present an IUCenter for Bioinformatics Research Special Talk.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-4341 or lreed@indiana.edu.

Plug-and-Play Macroscopes
WHEN: Jan. 28, 3-4 p.m.
WHERE: Informatics East, room 130, Bloomington
WHAT: The IU School of Informatics and Computing Colloquium Series presents Katy Börner, IU School of Library and Information Science.
COST: Free and open to the public.
INFORMATION: 812-855-4341 or lreed@indiana.edu.

The Guilt They Carry: The Moral Wounds of War
WHEN: Feb. 3, 4-5 p.m.
WHERE: Indiana Memorial Union,Georgian Room, 900 East Seventh St., Bloomington
WHAT: Professor Sherman will speak about the moral struggles soldiers face and the nature of the guilt they often feel concerning issues of empathic distress and unintended harm toward battle buddies and civilians.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-0262 or glmurray@indiana.edu

Cyber-physical systems: Linking sensing, networking, computation, and people
WHEN: Feb. 4, 3-4 p.m.
WHERE: Lindley Hall, room 102, Bloomington
WHAT: Jim Kurose, executive associate dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Distinguished University Professor (and past chairman) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts will discuss cyber-physical systems.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-4341 or lreed@indiana.edu

Elon Lindenstrauss

Elon Lindenstrauss

On the work of Elon Lindenstrauss
WHEN: Feb. 4, 4-5 p.m.
WHERE: Swain East, room 140, Bloomington
WHAT: "On the work of Elon Lindenstrauss," an IU Mathematics Department colloquium presented by IU Associate Professor of Mathematics David Fisher. Lindenstrauss is an Israeli mathematician and winner of the 2010 Fields Medal whose main research areas are ergodic theory, dynamical systems, and their applications to number theory.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: For more information contact Christopher Judge at cjudge@indiana.edu.