CAS

Center for Advanced Studies

Upcoming Public Events

Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Tatsuya Nakatani Gong Orchestra

Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Vijay Prashad
The Russian Revolution as the Mirror of Third World Aspirations

Thursday, September 7, 2017
Isabel Hofmeyr
A History of the Indian Ocean World in Five Objects

Annual Initiative

2017-18: Learning Publics

2018-19: Improvisers Exchange (events beginning Fall 2017)

Upcoming Deadlines

CAS/MillerComm Public Events Series
and
GAM Visiting Prof/Artist/Scholar

Application Deadline for Spring 2018 events or later

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Associate & Fellow Research Appointments

Application Deadline for appointments in 2018-19

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

CAS Associates and Fellows

CAS Associates and Fellows 2017-18 (BOT approved)

CAS Associate Iwona Jasiuk wins 2016 IAAM Award

NEW: Noonhour Presentations by recent Associates and Fellows

The CAS Spring Symposium 2016 included a panel discussion on Data Science Research at Illinois: CAS Data Science report

CAS Associates and Fellows 2017-18 research projects brochure CAS AF 2017-18

CAS Faculty

Seven new CAS Professors appointed with Board of Trustees approval: Antoinette Burton (History), Gary Dell (Psychology), Eduardo Fradkin (Physics), Martin Gruebele (Chemistry), Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (Chemistry), Harry Liebersohn (History), Catherine Murphy (Chemistry).

Jonathan Sweedler, CAS Professor of Chemistry will give the CAS 27th Annual Lecture on October 11

May Berenbaum, CAS Professor of Entomology awarded the Verrill Medal at Yale

In memoriam, Klaus Schulten (1947-2016), CAS Professor of Physics

In memoriam, Brigit Kelly (1951-2016), CAS Professor of English