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.

Molecular Mechanics and Cell-Cell Communication
November 18, 2009
Deborah Leckband, Chemical and Molecular Engineering

Bone as Structural and Biological Material
October 21, 2009
Iwona Jasiuk, Mechanical Science and Engineering

Can Robots Learn Language the Way Children Do?
September 16, 2009
Stephen Levinson, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Neural Representations of Value in Individual and Social Decision-Making
April 22, 2009
Ming Hsu, Beckman Fellow

Language Processing in Conversation
April 22, 2009
Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Beckman Fellow

Using Background Knowledge to Improve Visual Learning
March 11, 2009
Derek Hoiem, Beckman Fellow

Modeling Early Sentence Comprehension
March 11, 2009
Yael Gertner, Beckman Fellow

Chemical Structures and Imaging for Cancer Pathology
February 25, 2009
Rohit Bhargharva, Bioengineering

Control of the Mechanical Properties of electrospun Polymeric Nanofibers
January 28, 2009
Ioannis Chasiotis, Aerospace Engineering

How Empathy is Supporting More Effective Product Development
December 10, 2008
Deana McDonagh, Art + Design

Beyond Words: Prosody in Speech Production and Perception
November 19, 2008
Jennifer Cole, Linguistics

Imaging Microvascular Blood Flow with MRI
October 22, 2008
Brad Sutton, Bioengineering - Presentation

Applications of Feedback System Engineering Principles to the Design of Brain Machine Interfaces
September 24, 2008
Todd Coleman, Electrical and Computer Engineering - Presentation

I Know What You Saw Last Summer: Decoding Brain Activity Associated with Natural Scenes
April 18, 2008
Dirk Bernhardt-Walther, Beckman Fellow

Functional Microstructured Materials
April 18, 2008
Stephanie Rinne, Beckman Fellow

Optical Pulse Shaping for Nonlinear Imaging Techniques
March 07, 2008
Joe Geddes, Beckman Fellow

Studying Attention Outside the Confines of the Laboratory
March 07, 2008
Mark Neider, Beckman Fellow

Computer-Aided Design of MEMS and NEMS: State of the Art and Future Challenges
February 01, 2008
Andreas Cangellaris, Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Utility of Speech Gestures and Facial Expression in Communication
December 07, 2007
Charissa Lansing, Speech and Hearing Science

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