Urbana Campus Research Calendar (OVCRI)

RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.

An introduction to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and its support of US national security. This will include an overview of the NGA Research Directorate and brief description of the offices and divisions that comprise the range of research areas of NGA Research. Time will be alloted for Q&A related to career paths and research opportunities.

Speaker: Ogulcan Orsel, Bahl Group, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC

Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

February 1, 2023: Intro to PyTorch - Priyam Mazumdar Training Overview: This tutorial will introduce basics of PyTorch framework necessary to build a neural network, train it and evaluate the accuracy of the model

This week's guest Dr. Tony Yannarell (NRES) speaks on "How causal thinking can improve applies research."

"The role of nuclear-enriched long non-coding RNA in hypoxia response and cancer progression"

"Role of RNA Helicase MOV10 and its phosphorylation in mRNA regulation."

Speaker: Jong Yeon Lee, University of California Santa Barbara

Nicole King, PhD Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Department of Genetics, Genomics and Development; University of California, Berkeley "Intrinsic and extrinsic regulators of choanoflagellate cell physiology"

Illinois startups and small business that are developing medical or healthcare-based innovation, that are interested in pursuing an NIH SBIR/STTR proposal submission, are encouraged to apply for participation in this workshop series that is aimed at guiding teams through the proposal development process.

Illlinois startups and small business that are developing medical or healthcare-based innovation, that are interested in pursuing an NIH SBIR/STTR proposal submission, are encouraged to apply for participation in this workshop series that is aimed at guiding teams through the proposal development process.

Speaker: Lintao Li, Covey Group, Department of Physics, UIUC

February 8, 2023: Intro to Tensor Flow - Shirui Luo Training Overview: This tutorial will introduce basics of TensorFlow necessary to build a neural network, train it and evaluate the accuracy of the model.

Chambana Science Cafe Julian Cooper, PhD Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellow "Addressing Challenges in Sustainability of Materials through Chemistry"

Assistant Professor, Cancer Biology

This seminar with curator, writer, and Ethnic Studies scholar Dr. Thea Quiray Tagle will cover different models of working with BIPOC visual artists that challenge the alienating norms behind much art historical scholarship and curatorial practice.

“Inclusive Lab Leaders is back! The spring session of ILL is designed to help grad students and postdocs become more effective researchers, particularly around power dynamics, conflict, and collaboration. Find more information and workshop dates on the registration page.”

Rajeev Assary of Argonne National Laboratory will speak at a Beckman Institute Special Director's/Molecular Science and Engineering Seminar at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10. Dr. Assary, group leader of molecular materials in the ANL Materials Science Division, will present “Insights into molecular materials for energy: Let’s start from computing …”

This week's guest Dr. Kristin Hurst (Southern Illinois University) speaks on "Leveraging psychological insights to promote environmental behavior: The role of conservation and moral framing."

This lesson is designed to be a one-hour hybrid workshop taught by two Scholarly Commons graduate assistants to members of the University of Illinois Community concerning the importance and ethics of data storytelling. While this workshop is open for everyone, it will cater most toward graduate students and advanced undergraduate students.

Jian Ma, PhD Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology, School of Computer Science; Carnegie Mellon University "Machine learning for spatial genomics"

Illinois startups and small business that are developing medical or healthcare-based innovation, that are interested in pursuing an NIH SBIR/STTR proposal submission, are encouraged to apply for participation in this workshop series that is aimed at guiding teams through the proposal development process.

Illinois startups and small business that are developing medical or healthcare-based innovation, that are interested in pursuing an NIH SBIR/STTR proposal submission, are encouraged to apply for participation in this workshop series that is aimed at guiding teams through the proposal development process.

Join us from 2–3 p.m. CST at 1205 W. Clark St. Urbana, IL, in NCSA 1104 to hear from undergraduate students about their research efforts through the Students Pushing INnovation (SPIN) program at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

Speaker: Ian George, Chitambar Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC

This one-hour hybrid workshop taught by the Research Data Service will cover best practices for data management, focusing especially on organization. Learn practical tips for cleaning up your file directories and spreadsheet data. While this workshop is open for everyone, it will cater mostly to graduate students.

February 15, 2023: Distributed Data Parallel Model Training in PyTorch - Shirui Luo Training Overview: This tutorial walks through distributed data parallel training in PyTorch via DDP. We will start with a simple non-distributed training job, and end with deploying a training job across several GPUs in a single HAL node.

Register to participate in-person or via Zoom in the Bio Innovations Speaker Series on the topic of The Challenges for Academic-Industry Collaborations.

Associate Professor, Dept. Psychological and Brain Sciences

Join us on Zoom as we explore Turkish Coffee, and let's establish a forty-year friendship while having Turkish Coffee together. We'll walk you through this Turkish tradition step by step, and you'll even be able to play Turkish coffee trivia for the chance to win your own Turkish coffee set.

Each lecture will be paired with food prepared by Bevier Cafe and held in-person at the Spice Box Cafe. “Food For Those Who Want to be Free: Race, Food Security, and Civil Rights in Black Life” Bobby J. Smith II, PhD African American Studies

Join us for an in-person talk by Dr. Robin McDowell. She will discuss her work Swamp Capitalism: Environmental Racism in South Louisiana Landscapes. Robin McDowell’s work demonstrates how racial, environmental, and economic encounters in these spaces created conditions of Black life that shaped and continue to shape the foundations of North America.

Rethinking Design Synthesis with Deep Generative Models

Join Prof. Shannon Gayk (University of Indiana) and Prof. Christina Laffin (University of British Columbia) for an informal lunchtime discussion of their experiences using recreations of premodern pilgrimage routes in Europe and Japan to foster students engagement with the premodern world.

This lesson is designed to be a one-hour hybrid workshop taught by two Scholarly Commons graduate assistants to members of the University of Illinois Community concerning best practices for data visualization. While this workshop is open for everyone, it will cater most toward graduate students and advanced undergraduate students.

Dr. Joel Corush (Illinois Natural History Survey) is joining us February 17th with "From macroevolution to microevolution to conservation and back again."

Premodern Pilgrimage in Cross-Cultural Perspective Join us for a comparative conversation about pilgrimage and travel in the premodern world, from England to Japan. Papers by Prof. Christina Laffin (University of British Columbia) and Prof. Shannon Gayk (University of Indiana), with a response from Prof. Adam Newman (UIUC, Department of Religion)