Events Archive
Presentations
Benjamin Grosser
Why would someone be afraid of an artificially-intelligent painting machine? How does a computer that watches the movies provoke reconsiderations of human vision? What can we learn about visual culture from an autonomous robot that makes its own video art? Employing sound, code, robotics, and video…
Rudolf Haken
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Rob Schwimmer
A concert will be held to conclude the Four Color Fest. The featured instrument of the evening will be the Haken Continuum, invented by Wolfgang Haken’s son and UI Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty member Lippold Haken. Continuum will be played by internationally renowned musician Rob…
Rudolf Haken (Music, UI)
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Rob Schwimmer (composer-pianist/keyboardist, NYC)
In this talk, Robin J. Wilson will present the history and solution of the four-color problem: Can every map be colored with just four colors so that neighboring countries are colored differently? The solution took 124 years to find, and used 1200 hours of computer time. But what did it involve, is…
Marc Hertzman
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Lucas Wagner
11:00am, Marc Hertzman,The 'Indians of Palmares': Conquest, Violence, and Land in Northeast Brazil.
In 1695 after the fall of Palmares, one of history's largest and longest-lasting fugitive-slave settlements, Indigenous people who participated in its defeat staked claim to land promised to them by…
Hans Heinrich Hock
February 28, 2002
Did Comparative Linguistics Prepare the Ground for the Holocaust?
Frederick E. Hoxie
James McDonald (Choctaw, 1801-1833?), the first American Indian to practice law in the United States, was born in Mississippi. At the start of his legal career, McDonald was enlisted to assist his chief, Pushmataha, in defending the Choctaws' homeland from the advances of a rising generation of…
Vera Mikyoung Hur
The motion of fluids can be complicated, as we know whenever we see waves break on a beach, fly in an airplane, or look at a lake on a windy day. Euler in the 1750s proposed a mathematical model for incompressible fluids, and since then an immense amount of progress has been made. But huge problems…
Sheldon Jacobson
The first pentavalent combination vaccine for pediatric immunization gained Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in December 2002. This vaccine provides a significant breakthrough for making additional space available in the crowded National Childhood Immunization Schedule. It also provides…
Laurie Johnson
Join us for a screening of the 1922 silent horror film directed by F. W. Murnau. Max Schreck stars as Count Orlok, a vampire who terrorizes a small German town.
Laurie Johnson will provide a brief introduction.
A reception will follow.
Hosted by:
Center for Advanced Study
Department of Germanic…
Lilya Kaganovsky
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Christopher Freeburg
Food for Thought: A new Center for Advanced Study public events series featuring presentations of research and creative projects by recent CAS Associates and Fellows.
This informal series includes talks that were canceled after campus shut down in Spring 2020. With the possibility of in-person…
Auinash Kalsotra
The prevalence of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) is rapidly increasing in developing societies, posing a significant public health threat. But not everyone with NAFLD develops the more advanced form of the disease, where the fat deposition is accompanied by severe inflammation and…
Farzad Kamalabadi
Spectral imaging, the simultaneous imaging and spectroscopy of a radiating scene, is a fundamental sensing technique with pervasive applications in the physical and life sciences. Nevertheless, inherent limitations exist on the attainable temporal, spatial, and spectral resolutions in conventional…
Susan Kieffer
Megacatastrophes such as hurricane Katrina and the recent Sumatran tsunami often cause vastly more loss of life, disruption of human activities and damage than events orchestrated by terrorists. Equally or more destructive volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods, and tsunamis have occurred…
Steve E. Koonin
The world's demand for energy will grow by some 60 in the next 25 years. Satisfying that demand in an economical and environmentally acceptable manner is one of the most significant challenges facing society. New technologies will play a central role in meeting this challenge, albeit conditioned by…
Jean-Pierre Leburton
The ability to manipulate the enormous information resources contained in DNA molecules for applications in information technology is one of the new great scientific challenges at the cross road of biology, information science and electrical engineering. This talk will review some basic properties…
Eduardo Ledesma
In 2010, MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires) held a retrospective of 1960s and 70s Super 8 films by Argentine experimental filmmakers Claudio Caldini and Narcisa Hirsch, in what seemed like an anachronistic and nostalgic look to a past technology. On the contrary, this event…
Charles ("Stretch") Ledford
Charles Ledford’s cameras have taken him from the slums of Nairobi and Lagos (Ajelogo After the Bulldozers) to America’s urban ghettos (Overtown: Inside/Out) to the homes of some of Illinois’ most vocal gun-rights advocates (Handguns and Humor in the Heartland) - worlds that are as far removed from…
Kai-Fu Lee
In this talk, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee will talk about the four waves of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how AI will permeate every part of our lives in the next decade. He will also talk about how this will be different from previous technology revolutions — it will be faster and be driven by not one…
Zhi-Pei Liang
Since its invention in the early 1970s, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has revolutionized medicine and biology. However, its applications thus far have been limited primarily to structural imaging and functional imaging. Professor Liang’s research group has made major advances in overcoming the…
Harry Liebersohn
The Globalization of Music: Craft, Science and Commerce since the Late Nineteenth Century
Professor Liebersohn’s research into music and globalization continues his explorations since the late 1980s into the history of cultural encounters, investigating the transfer of art, ideas and information…
Emmy Lingscheit
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Ben Grosser
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Amy L. Powell
VIDEO
Emmy Lingscheit and Ben Grosser on making art within and about the pandemic
Lijun Liu
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Damien Guironnet
11:00am, Lijun Liu, Structure and Evolution of the Continental Lithosphere
Continents are considered buoyant tectonic units that have been passively drifting at Earth’s surface since their formation in the geological past. However, many lines of evidence suggest that the seemingly stable continents…
Ania Loomba
Introduction by Carol Neely, Professor of English
For centuries, plays like Othello and The Tempest have spoken about race to audiences across the globe. But are concepts like 'race' and 'racism' appropriate to analyze communities in early modern Europe? Or is it that early modern vocabularies have…
Yi Lu
Functional DNA Nanotechnology and Its Applications in Environmental Monitoring, Food Safety, Medical Diagnostics and Imaging
Selective sensors are very ueseful for on-site and real-time detection in environmental monitoring, food safety, medical diagnostics and imaging. Despite much effort, few…