Siebel School Master Calendar

Thursday, November 13, 2025

AImpact Center Seminar Series: Dr. Manish Raghavan, "AI & the role of heterogeneous information."

11:00 am

2405 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Jeff Erickson
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm

3237 Siebel Center
- Meeting
CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event
CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event
CS Compiler Seminar: Chamika Sudusinghe and Bhavya Prakash Hirani

4:00 - 5:00 pm

3102 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
ONLINE: CS CARES Office Hours: Heng Ji
Recurring

4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Meeting
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214

PMC is a place to help undergraduate Siebel School students succeed in and outside the classroom.
- Community Service

Friday, November 14, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Robin Kravets
Recurring

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

3114 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Final Defense of Ruicheng Xian

1:00 pm
- Other
Robotics Seminar: Dr. Wei Wang, "Toward Advanced Autonomy in Complex Aquatic Enviornments."

1:00 pm
- Seminar/Symposium
Machine Learning Seminar: Dr. Ren Wang, "Population-Based Methods for Adversarially Resilient Deep Models."

2:00 - 3:15 pm

1304 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
The Grainger College of Engineering Hall of Fame Fireside Chat

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Illini Rooms | Illini Union | 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801
- Lecture

Monday, November 17, 2025

Final Defense of Arun Narenthiran Veeranampalayam Sivakumar

9:00 am
- Other
HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: CJ Coleman
Recurring

10:00 - 11:00 am

2246 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Special Theory Seminar: Dr. Thomas Rothvoss, "The Subspace Flatness Conjecture and Faster Integer Programming."

10:00 am

3403 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
COLLOQUIUM: Dave Zhao, "Representation Learning in Computational Genomics"

3:30 pm

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
- Seminar/Symposium
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214

PMC is a place to help undergraduate students succeed in and outside the classroom.
- Community Service

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Final Defense of Yangyi Chen

11:00 am
- Other
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214
- Community Service
Visa Tech Talk

5:30 pm

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
- Informational

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Yongjoo Park
Recurring

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

2114 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Final Defense of Zhen Zhu

1:00 pm

Siebel Center 3404
- Other
Special Seminar: Bin Hu, "Towards Building General-Purpose AI Engineers"

3:30 pm

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
- Seminar/Symposium
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

6:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214
- Community Service

Thursday, November 20, 2025

AImpact Center Seminar Series: Dr. Avinash Collis, "Measuring the consumer benefits of AI."

11:00 am

2405 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event
CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214

PMC is a place to help undergraduate Siebel School students succeed in and outside the classroom.
- Community Service

Friday, November 21, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Steve Herzog
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm

1210 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Cunjiang Yu, UIUC - "Optoelectronics On and In Tissue for Cardiac Modulation"

4:00 pm

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
- Seminar/Symposium
Systems Research Seminar Series: Siddhant Ray, "METIS: Fast Quality-Aware RAG Systems with Configuration Adaptation."

4:00 - 5:00 pm

1214 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 24, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Ruta Mehta
Recurring

9:00 - 10:00 am

3218 Siebel Center
- Meeting
ONLINE: CS CARES Office Hours: Yael Gertner
Recurring

4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Meeting
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214

PMC is a place to help undergraduate students succeed in and outside the classroom.
- Community Service

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Sarita Adve
Recurring

12:00 - 1:00 pm

4102-E NCSA
- Meeting
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214
- Community Service

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Mattox Beckman
Recurring

9:30 - 10:30 am

2212 Siebel Center
- Meeting
ONLINE: CS CARES Office Hours: Sharifa Sultana
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm
- Meeting
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

6:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214
- Community Service

Thursday, November 27, 2025

CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event
CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214

PMC is a place to help undergraduate Siebel School students succeed in and outside the classroom.
- Community Service

Friday, November 28, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Robin Kravets
Recurring

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

3114 Siebel Center
- Meeting

Monday, December 1, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: CJ Coleman
Recurring

10:00 - 11:00 am

2246 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214

PMC is a place to help undergraduate students succeed in and outside the classroom.
- Community Service

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Brighten Godfrey
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm

3211 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214
- Community Service

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Yongjoo Park
Recurring

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

2114 Siebel Center
- Meeting
COLLOQUIUM: Shuo Chen, "The Web-Verbs Abstraction -- A Crucial Semantic Layer for A Reliable and Secure Agentic Web"

3:30 pm

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
- Seminar/Symposium
Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Dr. Karen M. Wickett, "Critical data studies and an ethics of care for data quality."

3:30 pm

1304 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

6:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214
- Community Service

Thursday, December 4, 2025

Final Defense of Aditya Karan

11:00 am

Siebel Center 3403
- Other
HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Adam Bates
Recurring

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

2246 Siebel Center
- Meeting
CS Compiler Seminar: Dr. John Regehr, "Translation Validation for LLVM's AArch64 and RISC-V Backends."

2:30 - 3:30 pm

2405 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event
CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214

PMC is a place to help undergraduate Siebel School students succeed in and outside the classroom.
- Community Service

Friday, December 5, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Steve Herzog
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm

1210 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other
Anthony Jack, Case Western Rerserve University - "Ethics of biologically inspired AI - what is most likely to go wrong?"

4:00 pm

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, December 8, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Ruta Mehta
Recurring

9:00 - 10:00 am

3218 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Special Seminar: Gan Zhang, "History Rhymes: Revolutionizing Weather-Climate Prediction Again with New Computational Tools"

3:30 pm

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
- Seminar/Symposium
ONLINE: CS CARES Office Hours: Yael Gertner
Recurring

4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Meeting
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214

PMC is a place to help undergraduate students succeed in and outside the classroom.
- Community Service

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Sarita Adve
Recurring

12:00 - 1:00 pm

4102-E NCSA
- Meeting
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214
- Community Service

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Mattox Beckman
Recurring

9:30 - 10:30 am

2212 Siebel Center
- Meeting
ONLINE: CS CARES Office Hours: Sharifa Sultana
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm
- Meeting
COLLOQUIUM: Philip Thomas, "Qualia Optimization: Exploring Mathematical Formulations of AI Experience"

3:30 pm

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
- Seminar/Symposium
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

6:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214
- Community Service

Thursday, December 11, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Jeff Erickson
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm

3237 Siebel Center
- Meeting
CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event
CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event
ONLINE: CS CARES Office Hours: Heng Ji
Recurring

4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Meeting
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214

PMC is a place to help undergraduate Siebel School students succeed in and outside the classroom.
- Community Service

Friday, December 12, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Robin Kravets
Recurring

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

3114 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Monday, December 15, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: CJ Coleman
Recurring

10:00 - 11:00 am

2246 Siebel Center
- Meeting

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Brighten Godfrey
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm

3211 Siebel Center
- Meeting

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Yongjoo Park
Recurring

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

2114 Siebel Center
- Meeting

Thursday, December 18, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Adam Bates
Recurring

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

2246 Siebel Center
- Meeting
CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event
CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event

Friday, December 19, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Steve Herzog
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm

1210 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Friday, December 26, 2025

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Friday, January 2, 2026

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Friday, January 9, 2026

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Friday, January 16, 2026

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Friday, January 23, 2026

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Friday, January 30, 2026

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Friday, February 6, 2026

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Friday, February 13, 2026

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Friday, February 20, 2026

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other
Bumsoo Han, UIUC

4:00 pm

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 27, 2026

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Friday, March 6, 2026

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other
Suyi Li, Virginia Tech

4:00 pm

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 27, 2026

Vickie Webster-Wood, Carnegie-Mellon University

4:00 pm

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 3, 2026

Kon-Well Wang, University of Michigan

4:00 pm

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 17, 2026

L. Mahadevan, Harvard University

8:30 am

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

2026 IMMERSE Symposium
Recurring

8:30 am

NCSA Building
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

2026 IMMERSE Symposium
Recurring

8:30 am

NCSA Building
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 1, 2026

Rob Wood, Harvard University

4:00 pm
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 8, 2026

Andrea Liu - University of Pennsylvania

4:00 pm

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, August 28, 2026

Orit Peleg, University of Colorado Boulder

4:00 pm

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
- Seminar/Symposium