Dr. Nasim Alem is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering department at Penn State University.  Nasim was a postdoctoral researcher in the physics department at University of California Berkeley and National Center for Electron Microscopy at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, before joining Penn State as an assistant professor in 2013. Nasim’s research is focused on how advanced electron microscopy techniques can be utilized to further understand and address the existing challenges in novel nanostructures and devices. Nasim’s research is particularly focused on how defects and interfaces can modulate the chemical and electronic structure of the crystals and further tailor their macroscale electronic, optical and plasmonic properties. Nasim is originally from Iran and enjoys hiking, skiing, and travelling.  In her spare time, Nasim does wheel throwing and ceramic artwork.    

Dr. Yvette Running Horse Collin is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe (OST) and she currently serves as the Oglala Lakota Nation Presidential Ambassador. For the past decade, she has received specialized training from a number of Lakota Traditional Knowledge Bearers in her People’s advanced sciences, environmental practices, and medicines. She is the Founder of Sacred Way Sanctuary and the Native American Horse Trail. Since 2005 she has served as the Executive Director for Sacred Healing Circle, a New Mexico-based 501c3 nonprofit organization that focuses its resources on supporting American Indian programs and communities. Dr. Running Horse Collin works with elders and youth to create a stronger, sustainable future.

Dr. Running Horse Collin is an award-winning journalist, and has held various executive positions at non-profit institutions. She has advised state, federal and Fortune 100 organizations on Native American policy. She lectures extensively throughout the United States and internationally on her People’s culture, traditional knowledge (TK) and the history surrounding the horse. She practices the traditional ways of her Ancestors and is a wife, mother, and grandmother.

Jessica Greenberg is an associate professor of Anthropology. Her work is motivated by a long-standing interest in the everyday life of social movements, as well as the hopes and disappointments that have animated democratic political activism after the Cold War. Her first book, After the Revolution: Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia (Stanford 2014) chronicles the lives of student activists as they confront the possibilities and disappointments of democracy in the shadow of political transformation in Serbia. Her current research builds on this interest in democratic practice, activism and power through the lens of human rights and the rule of law. Prior to coming to UIUC, Greenberg was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, and an assistant professor in Communication Studies at Northwestern University. She is currently the Co-Editor of the Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR). 

Michael Timko is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and the William B. Smith Chair at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His research focuses on reducing the environmental impacts of chemicals and fuels production, with elements that include waste-to-energy, bioenergy, and green and sustainable chemistry. The overarching theme of the work is connection of molecular level phenomena to real-world impacts. He will visit the CNRS at Université de Bordeaux to use their specialized methods for studying butanol recovery using supercritical carbon dioxide. Butanol is a potential replacement to gasoline, but it remains prohibitively expensive to produce due to the high costs and energy requirements of recovering and separating it. Prof. Timko found that supercritical carbon dioxide is much more energy efficient than other separation methods for recovering butanol from reaction mixtures. Now, at Université de Bordeaux he will study fundamental aspects of the separation process at the droplet level, with the goal of reducing further the energy requirements and making the process cost competitive. Prof. Timko’s training is in Chemical Engineering and Chemical Physics, at The Ohio State University, MIT, and Harvard University. He enjoys spending time with his family, biking, hiking, and cooking.

Eric Kurlander, PhD, is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Modern European History at Stetson University. Kurlander earned his BA at Bowdoin College and his MA and PhD at Harvard University. He offers courses on Modern German, European, and World History and his current book project, which is the topic of his 2020-2021 Fulbright Global Scholar Award, is titled: Before the Final Solution: A Global History of the Nazi “Jewish Question”. Kurlander’s recent monograph, Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich (Yale, 2017; paperback 2018), offers the first comprehensive study of the supernatural in Nazi Germany, illustrating how the Third Reich drew upon a wide variety of occult practices, esoteric sciences and pagan religious ideas to gain power, shape propaganda and policy, and pursue their dreams of racial utopia and empire. The book has been reviewed positively in the Washington Post, Times of London, and Der Spiegel, among many other periodicals, and has been translated into Italian, Polish, Czech, Croatian, and Estonian (with Chinese and Russian editions appearing next year). Kurlander has published four other books and edited volumes as well as articles in leading journals, including Central European History, German History, and The Journal of Contemporary History. He has held research and writing fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the German Historical Institute; the German Academic Exchange Service; the Krupp Foundation; and Harvard University's Program for the Study of Germany and Europe. At Stetson, Kurlander has received the William Hugh McInery Award for Excellence in Teaching and has contributed to the university in numerous leadership roles. He has served as Chair of the History Department, Chair of the Sociology and Anthropology Department, Chair of the Professional Development Committee, Chair of the Arts & Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee, and Chair of the Faculty Finance and Budget Committee as well as multiple terms on the Faculty Senate. In his free time, Kurlander enjoys parenting, reading, travel, sports, and popular culture. (https://www.stetson.edu/other/faculty/eric-kurlander.php)

Steven Wilf is Anthony J. Smits Professor of Global Commerce at the University of Connecticut School of Law.  An intellectual property scholar and a legal historian, his writings include works on both Europe’s and America’s legal past as well as on a variety of legal regimes such as copyright and patent.  He earned his law degree and a doctorate in history from Yale University, and clerked in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  His fellowships include Princeton’s Law and Public Affairs, Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute, and Kaminstein Scholar in Residence at the United States Copyright Office.  He is currently completing a book for Cambridge University Press on the history of intellectual property law.  During his Fulbright year at the Centre d'Etudes Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle in Strasbourg, he will be working on a project to bridge the gaps between United States and European Union approaches to trade secrets. 

Nous étudierons deux mécanismes qui prennent place dans le milieu interstellaire : la photoionisation du radical CH et la création des ions moléculaires négatifs via les résonances Feshbach rotationnelles. Pour ceci, nous développerons la théorie et les codes nécessaires, puis on comparera nos résultats aux spectres expérimentaux.