Events Archive
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Earlier this month, President Bush announced his decision to limit federal funding of embryonic stem cell research to existing stem cell lines. Since then, there has been tremendous media attention on this area of scientific inquiry, and the resulting moral, ethical and societal considerations.
We…
he CAS Forum on Critical Issues: Reforming Social Security, held on February 23, has been archived in both video and audio only format.
In the first State of the Union address of his second term, President Bush announced plans to overhaul Social Security by allowing younger workers to open…
Twenty-nine early career faculty members and graduate students from 22 campuses and 7 countries will convene at Illinois for the Human-Animal Studies Summer Institute, July 9-15. The ambitious program--developed in partnership with the Animals & Society Institute--includes presentations by UI…
A two day interdisciplinary symposium highlighting work of recent Center for Advanced Study Associates and Fellows
Day One – Monday, April 20, 2015
8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast and Registration
8:30-8:40 Introductory Remarks
Vice Chancellor for Research Peter Schiffer
8:40-10:30 Directors Panel…
Friday, September 28, 2001
Imagining Mind/Imagining Science Symposium
Program in Science, Technology, Information, and Medicine
CAS is pleased to offer in collaboration with the Animals & Society Institute this weeklong institute for 20 visiting early career faculty members and graduate students from around the US and abroad. Morning workshops will be followed by afternoon plenary presentations by visiting scholars.
All…
Since 2017, CAS in collaboration with the Animals & Society Institute has offered a weeklong institute for about 20 visiting early career faculty members and graduate students from around the US and abroad. Morning workshops, afternoon plenary presentations by visiting and local scholars as…
The 2022 Institute was canceled due to ongoing COVID restrictions. In lieu of the week-long in-person program, participants were invited to a special private screening of Gunda, an asynchronous lecture by Professor Pete Porter (East Washington University), and a live q&a session with Professor…
Day One: Monday, April 4, 2016
8:30am INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Peter Schiffer, Vice Chancellor for Research
8:40am PANEL ON DATA SCIENCE RESEARCH AT ILLINOIS
Robert Brunner (Astronomy) and Mara Wade (Germanic Languages & Literatures) with
Heidi Imker (University Library)…
James D. Anderson
Jim Anderson explores the ways in which evolving forms of race and ethnic performance entered into and shaped the culture of middle class America from the late nineteenth century to the present. He begins with an analysis of the art and lyrics of minstrel sheet music in the late nineteenth and…
Andrew W. Appel
The Four Color Theorem of Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken (1976) was proved and checked with the assistance of computer programs, though much of the proof was written (and refereed) only by humans. Contemporaneously, Edinburgh LCF (Logic for Computable Functions) was developed by Robin Milner--a…
Antonios Augustakis
Death, Burial and Ritual in Latin Literature
Death and dying occupy a prominent role in Latin literature: from gladiators dying a (dis)honorable death on the arena to soldiers fighting for their country to members of the élite committing suicide as a means of resistance against the increasing…
Renee L. Baillargeon
Beginning in the first year of life, infants attempt to make sense of others' intentional actions. For example, when watching their mother act on objects, infants take into account her goals, dispositions, and beliefs to interpret and predict her actions. Although the nature and development of…
David H. Baker
Many great discoveries in science have been made by carefully pursuing unintended and ancillary findings. Examples will be given from UIUC comparative nutrition research to illustrate how serendipity can (and does) work. Research on copper, niacin, and vitamin D-3 will be covered in the lecture.
Yuliyi Baryshnikov
Many processes we observe or live through (or in) are cyclic: the same sequence of states repeats over and over again. If they are also periodic - as if driven by an invisible clock - we have plenty of tools to analyze them. But what if they are not?
This talk will outline some novel methods and…
Christina Bashford
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Mauro Nobili
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…
Howard Berenbaum
In this talk, Howard Berenbaum will try to answer the question, what are beliefs (quick preview: almost everything.) He will then outline a model of reality construction and the factors that influence it.
FLYER
Philip V. Bohlman
AUDIO FILES
A performance by The New Budapest Orpheum Society
The eight-member New Budapest Orpheum Society re-sounds the songs of struggle, survival, and sacrifice from the tragic history of twentieth-century Jewish modernity. Repertories unearthed from concentration camps and the ghettos of World…
Phillip V. Bohlman
Word and song together join in the labors of the New Budapest Orpheum Society and Phil Bohlman as they explore the cabaretesque in Jewish music. The cabaretesque is a performative moment in which cultural, religious, and aesthetic differences of modern Judaism converge upon a stage, both…
Steven Bradlow
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Vesna Stojanoska
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…
Don Brenneis
Audit culture” has become a common – and extremely useful – rubric for capturing an ensemble of emergent ideologies, languages, documents, measures, and consequences within our academic worlds. I’ll be exploring the mutual entanglement of neoliberal styles in academic administration, new…
Robert Brunner
Statistical and Machine Learning for Petascale Astronomy
Following the success of the pioneering Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the astronomical community has made significant, new investments in large, photometric surveys. Currently, one of the most important such surveys is the Dark Energy Survey, an…
Antoinette Burton
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Renisa Mawani
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Teresa Mangum
VIDEO
Please join us for a special panel celebrating the launch of
Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for our Times (Duke University Press, November 2020)
Editors: Antoinette Burton, CAS Professor of History and Renisa Mawani, Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
Described by…
Vinton G. Cerf
The Internet continues to expand and Internet-based applications continue to multiply leading to challenges of scale that still need to be solved. Significant aspects remain to be addressed such as security problems, broadband asymmetry, mobility, geographic indexing, searching of images, and bit…