Director's Seminar Series Archive
The Director's Seminar Lecture Series was designed to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration between Beckman faculty. Open to the entire UIUC campus, the seminars are held monthly throughout the academic year and offer attendees the opportunity to learn about fellow Beckman researchers and their fields of study.
Processing and Visualization Methods for High-Throughput Microscopy Imaging; and Examining Human Brain Function with Simultaneous Magnetic Stimulation and Fast Optical Imaging
May 03, 2012
David Mayerich and Nathan Parks, Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
Molecular Engineering, Live Cell Imaging, and Mechanobiology
April 05, 2012
Yingxiao (Peter) Wang, Bioengineering
Development of Molecular and Stem Cell Strategies for the Prevention of Age-Related Muscle Loss: What We’ve Learned from Exercise Research
March 08, 2012
Marni Boppart, Kinesiology & Community Health
Noise: At the Intersection of Hearing, Aging, and Disorder
February 02, 2012
Fatima Husain, Speech & Hearing Science
Retrieving Words while Speaking: From Freudian Slips to Cognitive Neuroscience
December 08, 2011
Gary Dell, Psychology
Proteins, Nanotubes and Glasses: Science Adventures at the Beckman Institute
November 10, 2011
Martin Gruebele, Chemistry
Deep Semantics for Natural Language Reasoning: Going Social and Mobile
October 20, 2011
Roxanna Girju, Linguistics
Exercise and Brain Health
September 29, 2011
Justin Rhodes, Psychology
The Influence of Lipid Membranes on Protein Structure; Brain Reading: A Multimodal Approach to Understanding the Neural Mechanisms of Language Comprehension
April 20, 2011
Beckman Institute Fellows: Amy Shih, Biophysics and Computational Biology; Edward Wlotko, Psychology
Neural Systems for the Dynamic Use of Memory; Enhancing the Light Harvesting Efficiency in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells Coupled to Photonic Crystals
March 16, 2011
Beckman Institute Fellows: Joel Voss, Psychology; Agustin Mihi, Physics
Making Sense of Our Visual World: Our Proficient but Limited Visual Brain
February 23, 2011
Diane Beck, Psychology
The Role of Quantitative Ultrasound for Cancer Diagnosis and Monitoring and Assessment of Cancer Therapy
January 26, 2011
Michael Oelze, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Charge Transport Simulation: From Transistors to Ion Channels
November 17, 2010
Umberto Ravaioli, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Fast Imaging with Sparse Sampling: Getting More with Less
October 27, 2010
Zhi-Pei Liang, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sequencing a DNA Molecule Using a Nanopore
September 08, 2010
Alek Aksimentiev, Physics
Spectral Histology of Human Tissue Using Mid-infrared Spectroscopic Imaging
April 21, 2010
Michael Walsh, Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
Printed Arrays of Semiconductor Materials for Photovoltaics
April 21, 2010
Jongseung Yoon, Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
Why Did Icarus Fall from the Sky? Climate Change and the Political Economy of Vulnerability
January 27, 2010
Jesse Ribot, Geography
Neural Representations of Value in Individual and Social Decision-Making
April 22, 2009
Ming Hsu, Beckman Fellow