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CMNS Events Calendar: August 3 - December 20, 2017 Please mark your calendar and join us for the following upcoming events in CMNS: SHIH-I PAI LECTURE, HOSTED BY IPST Tuesday, October 17, 2017 (reception at 3 p.m., lecture at 4 p.m.) Locations: Reception in James A. Yorke Rotunda, William E. Kirwan Hall (Mathematics Building); Lecture in 1412 John S. Toll Physics Building "Perturbation and Control of Human Brain Network Dynamics" Speaker: Danielle S. Bassett, 2014 MacArthur Fellow and Associate Professor and Eduardo D. Glandt Faculty Fellow of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania PAINT BRANCH LECTURE, HOSTED BY IREAP Tuesday, October 24 (snacks at 3:30 p.m., lecture at 4 p.m.) Location, 1412 Toll Physics Lecture Hall "Quantum Information Processing and Raising Schrödinger’s Cat" Speaker: David Wineland, NIST http://ireap.umd.edu/paintbranch/2017 CMNS ICE CREAM SOCIAL Friday, October 27 at 3:00-4:30 p.m. Location: Chemistry Atrium BIOSCIENCE DAY 2017 Thursday, November 16 all day Keynote Speaker: Simon Levin (Ph.D. ’64, mathematics), 2014 National Medal of Science recipient and Princeton University George M. Moffett Professor of Biology and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Afternoon Speakers on Neuroscience: Akiva Cohen of the University of Pennsylvania (B.S. ’85, microbiology; M.S. ’89 zoology), Sharon Crook of Arizona State University (M.A. ’91, Ph.D. ’96, applied mathematics) and Ajay Verma of United Neuroscience (B.S. ’84, zoology) http://bioscienceday.umd.edu CAMPUSWIDE COMMENCEMENT Tuesday, December 19 (time TBA) https://commencement.umd.edu CMNS COMMENCEMENT Wednesday, December 20 (time TBA)