Urbana Campus Research Calendar (OVCRI)

The ancient poet Sappho coined "sweetbitter" in one of her most evocative verses, still striking us to the heart nearly three millennia later. As with so many ancient figures, the poet is more legend than person today, her story told and retold even as her poetry continues to enchant and move. This exhibit will be on display through mid-August 2026.

Speaker: Ethan Lake, Miller Fellow, University of California - Berkeley

Shai Bel, PhD Azrieli Faculty of Medicine; Bar-Ilan University “Partners in Slime: Host-Microbiota Interactions in the Gut Mucus Layer”

Speaker: Robert Buckingham (U. of Cincinnati)

Speaker: Abhishek Methuku (UIUC) Title: Turán problems for ordered graphs and 0-1 matrices

This workshop presented by the Illinois Computes Program and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is a 2-hour session that will introduce basic deep learning techniques using PyTorch on the Illinois Computes Research Notebooks (ICRN) service.

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

Speaker: Hannah Day, Pfaff Group

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!

“Targeted drug delivery to tumor associated macrophages in glioblastoma mouse models" Urbi Saha, PhD Student Department of Neuroscience, University of Illinois

Prize-winning filmmaker Simon Bright will present on the challenges of preserving cinematic records of the liberation struggles of Southern Africa.

Wayne A. Wiegand, the F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies Emeritus at Florida State University, will present "Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Missing Stories in American Library History. A reception will follow the lecture.

Speaker: TBD

We will discuss programming for 2026-27 and plans for the Medieval Studies semimar.

In collaboration with The Grainger College of Engineering and Siebel Center for Design, the Human-Centered Engineering Consortium is hosting the first symposium on human-centered engineering. The symposium will bring together educators, practitioners and researchers from all engineering disciplines. Attendance is free and all are welcome! Come join us in the conversation.

Join us for the 24th annual Women's and Gender History Symposium. Featuring graduate research and keynote speakers Arunima Datta (Associate Professor of History, University of North Texas) and Eric McDuffie (Associate Professor of History, UIUC).

Please join us Thursday, March 5th at 9:00 AM for Community Conversations with Cunningham Children’s Home. Parking will be available in the southeast corner of the State Farm Center. This session is part of a series featuring local nonprofits and campus and community colleagues who have given their time and talents to those organizations.

Joel Waldfogel will present "AI and the quantity and quality of creative products: have LLMs boosted creation of valuable books?" as part of the AImpact Speaker Series.

"Biocluster Overview" David Slater Associate Director of High Performance Computing

Speaker: Lauren Childs (Virginia Tech)

Presentation by Paul Weavers from Vision

Speaker: Hong-Ye Hu, Harvard Quantum Initiative (HQI) Fellow, Harvard University

The panelists will talk about building AI Literacy for language teachers, both by sharing tools that can support educators and by recognizing the ways AI poses new challenges for teachers. They will also share examples for approaching AI Literacy for learners, including helping students better understand how AI use can impact their language learning, for better or worse.

SPEAK stands for Song, Poetry, Art, and Knowledge. It is an open-mic public performance space at Krannert Art Museum curated by local artist, Shaya Robinson, featuring guest performers and welcoming all to the mic.

Join us for a special tour led by exhibiting artists from "Another Place: Storymaking the Entangled Prairie." Gain insights into their creative practice and research. Today's tour features Brooke C. White (photography) and Emmy Lingscheit (printmaking). *Parking nearby is free on after 5 pm and on weekends.*

Graduate Student Homotopy Theory Seminar

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Speaker: Dafei Jin, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Notre Dame

Dr. Giroud will describe new developments in geomembrane design and performance. In particular, he will focus on new developments in the following four areas: (1) stability of geomembrane liner systems on slope, (2) properties of geomembrane liners, (3) leakage control by geomembrane liners, and (4) connection of geomembrane liners to rigid structures.

Speaker: Gabriel Provencher Langlois (UIUC)

Join the next Resources for Researchers Office Hours to explore qualitative data analysis and campus-supported tools. Jess Hagman from the University Library and Dawn Owens from the CITL data analytics team will highlight resources such as MAXQDA and others available to Illinois researchers.

Speaker: Abhishek Dhawan (UIUC) Title: Independent sets in K_{t,t,t}-free graphs

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

Attend this onsite workshop at NCSA to learn how to use OpenMP API compiler directives to quickly develop shared-memory parallel codes using standard languages and compilers. Knowledge of either C or Fortran programming is required. Hands-on exercises will use Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s Bridges-2 computing platform.

Speaker: Jared Gibson, Kou Group

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!

Illinois' Georgia Malandraki and Brad Sutton will present, "Multimodal Approaches to Understanding Swallowing Control and Developing Plasticity Based Interventions for Dysphagia."

Dr. Elizabeth Sutton, Director of Spurlock Museum of World Cultures, will discuss her background as an anthropologist and her work as the director of the Spurlock Museum.

The Center for Writing Studies invites you to our lecture on Thursday, October 16, featuring Dr. Toby Beauchamp, an Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and affiliate faculty in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Experience a performance in the galleries by Elliott Levin (saxophone, poetry, flute) and Damon Smith (bass). Sudden Sound concerts feature leading artists in avant-garde jazz and music improvisation. Curated by Jason Finkelman, director of Global Arts Performance Initiatives. Improvisers Exchange series. *Parking nearby is free after 5 pm and on weekends.*

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