Urbana Campus Research Calendar (OVCRI)
Monday, September 26, 2022
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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.
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
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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.
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Speaker: Michael Flatté, The University of Iowa
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Stacey Finley, PhD University of Southern California; Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering "Computational modeling of the tumor ecosystem"
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Receive an overview of science communication from Lexie Kesler, an outreach and communications specialist at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.
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Join our team of SBIR experts and the FAST (Federal and State Technology) Center of Illinois for a SBIR 101 event from 2:00-3:00pm on Tuesday, September 27.
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Sex hormones are powerful neuromodulators of learning and memory. Dr. Jacobs highlights recent findings from her lab suggesting that neuroendocrine factors rapidly and dynamically influence the human brain over the lifecourse.
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Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
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R is statistical software that is licensed as an open source program under GNU license. In other words, it is free. As statistical software, it can be used for data manipulation, calculation, inference, and graphical display. It contains advanced statistical procedures often not yet available in other statistical software and is available on a variety of platforms.
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
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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.
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CDB Career Development Seminar
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Dr. Shalamar Armstrong’s Soil Ecosystem and Nutrient Dynamics laboratory (SEND Lab) focuses on soil conservation and management, soil health, nutrient management, and water quality. His research program influences his teaching, student interactions, and engagement with agricultural industry stakeholders, and federal and state agencies.
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CDB Career Development Seminar
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Todd Coleman, Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University, will lecture on “Monitoring and modulating nervous systems in the brain and visceral organs” at 4:00 pm in 2269 Beckman Institute and on Zoom September 28, 2022. One of our MBM trainees will give an introduction.
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This course will show you how to run the most common bivariate statistical analyses in SPSS.
Thursday, September 29, 2022
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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.
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Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Friday, September 30, 2022
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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.
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Panel on Global Feminist Methods: Discussion on decolonization, collaborative research, and activism. Lunch provided starting at 11:30am with an RSVP by September 28th.
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This week's guest Dr. TJ Zenzal (USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center) takes on avian ecology with "Applied Avian Ecology for Conservation and Management along the Northern Gulf of Mexico."
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A reading group on the thought of Martin Heidegger studying a selection of his works on and around poetry. By the mid-1930s Heidegger came to see poetry as one of the most fundamental issues of Western thought, as well as the way out of aesthetics and Modernity.
Saturday, October 1, 2022
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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.
Sunday, October 2, 2022
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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.
Monday, October 3, 2022
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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.
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
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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.
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Speaker: Sabre Kais, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University
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The New Frontiers Initiative continues its faculty seminar series with two 30 minute talks: Prof. Eleftheria Kontou will discuss Critical infrastructure and vulnerability detection during an evacuation with alternative fuel vehicles. Wendy Tam Cho will discuss Mitigating Racial Health Disparities through High Performance Computing Enabled Causal Inference Analysis
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Srikanth Singamaneni, PhD Washington University in St. Louis; The Lilyan & E. Lisle Hughes Professor, McKelvey School of Engineering "Harnessing Plasmonic-Fluors for Ultrasensitive and Minimally-invasive Bio-diagnostics"
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Receive an overview of human subjects research from Jennifer Ford, an assistant director in the Office for the Protection of Research Subjects.
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IGB Faculty Spotlight Lecture Pamela Martinez Vargas, PhD University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Department of Statistics "SARS-CoV-2 dynamics across scales: From within-host dynamics to socioeconomic disparities"
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Information flow in the cortex is classically considered as feedforward-hierarchical computation. However, recent findings have started to reveal rather parallel and distributed processing. Dr. Kato will discuss his team's work studying parallel sensory pathways across the primary and higher auditory cortices in extracting complex sound features.
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Python 1: Getting Started with Python workshop
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
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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.
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"Emergent behavior and phase transition in cell-ECM systems mediated by long range cell-cell mechanical interaction" Umnia Doha, PhD Student, Mechanical Science & Engineering Instrument: LSM 710 Lunch will be provided
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Speaker: Ian Nodurft, Searles Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIC
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Join Us! The talk will feature Research Associate Noemi Vergopolan from Princeton University. Feel free to bring your lunch. There will be time for interacting with the speakers after the presentation.
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Hee Jung Chung, Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience at Illinois, will lecture on “The role of brain specific tyrosine phosphatase STEP in hippocampal excitability and seizures” at 4:00 pm in 2269 Beckman Institute and on Zoom October 5, 2022. One of our MBM trainees will give an introduction.
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This workshop will cover the basics on gathering data using Qualtrics.
Thursday, October 6, 2022
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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.
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Departments of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
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Prof. Fei-Fei Li, Stanford Univ., will speak about "From Seeing to Doing: Understanding and Interacting with the Real World." at 2 p.m. CST Oct. 6. The virtual talk is part of the annual Beckman-Brown Lecture on Interdisciplinary Science.
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The Colloquium on Digital Transformation is a series of weekly online talks featuring top scientists from academia and industry on how artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data can lead to scientific breakthroughs with large-scale societal benefit. Free to attend – Zoom registration required.
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The transition to graduate school is even more complicated when it is also accompanied by a transition to a new country. In this workshop, a panel of international graduate students will answer questions and share their experiences; all students are welcome to attend, but RSVP from international students will have priority.
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As part of the Chancellor's Call to Action to Address Racism & Social Injustice, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi will join Vice Chancellor Sean C. Garrick for a moderated discussion with questions from the campus community. Please register online by October 3. For more information please visit, calltoaction.illinois.edu/symposium. Community questions will be taken until September 2
Friday, October 7, 2022
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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.
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The Chancellor's Call to Action to Address Racism and Social Injustice Research Symposium will include presentations and a poster session the 22 projects funded during the first year of the program. Please register online by October 3. For more information, please visit calltoaction.illinois.edu/symposium.
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NCSA is officially beginning the application process for our Fellows Program. We're seeking creative and innovative individuals to join our 2023-24 cohort of NCSA Fellows. If you’re a UIUC faculty member or researcher interested in seed funding to conduct new collaborative research projects with NCSA – this opportunity is for you!
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Maureen Warren will present a talk titled, “What Can We Learn About the Fake News of today from KAM’s Exhibition, Fake News & Lying Pictures?” Reservation and advance payment is required.
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Curious about Marcel Proust? Prof. François Proulx (FRIT) and RBML curator Caroline Szylowicz will mark the 100th anniversary of his death with an exploration of his books, manuscripts and letters. Come share — or discover — favorite characters, passages, and anecdotes.
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A reading group on the thought of Martin Heidegger studying a selection of his works on and around poetry. By the mid-1930s Heidegger came to see poetry as one of the most fundamental issues of Western thought, as well as the way out of aesthetics and Modernity.
Saturday, October 8, 2022
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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.
Sunday, October 9, 2022
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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.
Monday, October 10, 2022
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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.
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Dr. Sulc will present a top-down coarse-grained model, oxDNA, which was specifically designed for simulations of DNA nanotechnology systems, and present examples where it has been used to help design and understand function of DNA, RNA and protein-DNA hybrid nanostructures and processes.
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
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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.
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Speaker: Graeme Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder
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Kim Barrett, PhD UC Davis School of Medicine, Vice Dean for Research and Distinguished Professor of Physiology and Membrane Biology "Intestinal epithelial reprogramming in the pathogenesis of infectious diarrhea"
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Receive an overview of laboratory safety from Stephanie Hess, a director in the Division of Research Safety.
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Brains can be modeled as functional networks, where interregional connections and their weights are estimated as a correlations. Dr. Betzel will present an approach for exactly decomposing these connections (edges) into their time-varying contributions. This approach yields framewise estimates of networks across time and can be used to estimate the novel construct of "edge
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Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
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Stata is a small but powerful menu- and syntax-driven statistical package for managing, analyzing, graphing data, as well as for creating programs and macros.
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
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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.
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Speaker: Louis Schatzki, Chitambar Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC
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Join Us! The talk will feature Science & Research Manager Gina Nichols from Field to Market. Feel free to bring your lunch. There will be time for interacting with the speakers after the presentation.
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The liver is crucial for maintaining whole body energy balance. Dr. Moore's lab found FXR and PPARα also regulate processes that are not related to metabolic pathways but are central to liver energy balance. Dr. Moore's presentation will focus on the previously described roles of FXR and PPARα in control of autophagy and recent results on control of liver secretome.
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“Ibn Arabi and his Commentators: The School of Philosophical Sufism"
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The SAS program is a syntax-driven statistical and data management program used in many different professional and academic disciplines. It has a reputation for being difficult to learn at first, so let us help you get ahead of the curve with this introductory course.
Thursday, October 13, 2022
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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.
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Featuring talks from Glenn Fried, PhD, Kingsley Boateng, PhD, Reza Rajabi-Toustani, PhD, Devinda Wijewardena, Yuhan Wang, Gopika Gopan, and Abberior Staff Register by emailing core-event-reservations@igb.illinois.edu by October 10th, 2022
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Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
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This lecture will provide a brief introduction to gagaku (Japanese court music) and its cultural history. The second part will focus on the cultural history of gagaku. Themes such as the relationship between gagaku and Buddhism, communities of practices within and outside of the Imperial court, and the history of gagaku in the US will be introduced.
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The Colloquium on Digital Transformation is a series of weekly online talks featuring top scientists from academia and industry on how artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data can lead to scientific breakthroughs with large-scale societal benefit. Free to attend – Zoom registration required.
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Speak Café stands for Song, Poetry, Expression, Art, and Knowledge. It is an open-mic coffeehouse at Krannert Art Museum.
Friday, October 14, 2022
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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.
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This week's seminar - "Understanding Global Changes in Large River Ecosystems" - is being brought to us by Dr. Kathi Jo Jankowski (USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center).
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A reading group on the thought of Martin Heidegger studying a selection of his works on and around poetry. By the mid-1930s Heidegger came to see poetry as one of the most fundamental issues of Western thought, as well as the way out of aesthetics and Modernity.
Saturday, October 15, 2022
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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.
Sunday, October 16, 2022
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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.
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IEEE VIS 2022 will be the year’s premier forum for advances in theory, methods, and applications of visualization and visual analytics. The conference will convene an international community of researchers and practitioners from universities, government, and industry to exchange recent findings on the design and use of visualization tools.
Monday, October 17, 2022
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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.
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IEEE VIS 2022 will be the year’s premier forum for advances in theory, methods, and applications of visualization and visual analytics. The conference will convene an international community of researchers and practitioners from universities, government, and industry to exchange recent findings on the design and use of visualization tools.
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"TBA." Belmont Lab
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
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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.
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IEEE VIS 2022 will be the year’s premier forum for advances in theory, methods, and applications of visualization and visual analytics. The conference will convene an international community of researchers and practitioners from universities, government, and industry to exchange recent findings on the design and use of visualization tools.
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Speaker: Jacob Taylor, Chief Science Officer, Riverlane; Adjust Professor, The University of Maryland
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Steve Quake, PhD Stanford University; Lee Otterson Professor of Bioengineering; Co-President, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub; Professor of Applied Physics; Professor of Physics "A Decade of Molecular Cell Atlases"
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Receive an overview of animal research from Jiajie Jessica Xu, an assistant director, veterinarian, in the Division of Animal Resources.
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Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
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Stata is a small but powerful menu- and syntax-driven statistical package for managing, analyzing, graphing data, as well as for creating programs and macros.
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
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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.
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IEEE VIS 2022 will be the year’s premier forum for advances in theory, methods, and applications of visualization and visual analytics. The conference will convene an international community of researchers and practitioners from universities, government, and industry to exchange recent findings on the design and use of visualization tools.
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Dr. Piere Rodriguez-Aliaga, Stanford University
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Speaker: Supriya Mandal, Pfaff Group, Department of Physics UIUC
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Join Us! The talk will feature Associate Professor Jason McLachlan from the University of Notre Dame. Feel free to bring your lunch. There will be time for interacting with the speakers after the presentation.
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"Uncovering cell biology of the intestinal parasite Cryptosporidium parvum" Maria Guadalupe Nava, Graduate Student, College of Veterinary Medicine Instrument: SR-SIM Lunch will be provided
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This course will show you how to run the most common bivariate statistical analyses in SAS.
Thursday, October 20, 2022
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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.
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IEEE VIS 2022 will be the year’s premier forum for advances in theory, methods, and applications of visualization and visual analytics. The conference will convene an international community of researchers and practitioners from universities, government, and industry to exchange recent findings on the design and use of visualization tools.
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Featuring emerging scholarship on the art of this period against the backdrop of the exhibition Fake News & Lying Pictures: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic, Krannert Art Museum hosts a symposium on Early Modern Global Political Art.
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Graduate school can be a stressful time; this workshop seeks to open a conversation about the importance of maintaining one's mental health. Presenters will focus on healthy coping mechanisms, dealing with impostor syndrome, and resources available to support students.
Friday, October 21, 2022
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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.
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Featuring emerging scholarship on the art of this period against the backdrop of the exhibition Fake News & Lying Pictures: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic, Krannert Art Museum hosts a symposium on Early Modern Global Political Art.
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A reading group on the thought of Martin Heidegger studying a selection of his works on and around poetry. By the mid-1930s Heidegger came to see poetry as one of the most fundamental issues of Western thought, as well as the way out of aesthetics and Modernity.
Saturday, October 22, 2022
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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.
Sunday, October 23, 2022
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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.
Monday, October 24, 2022
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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.
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Speaker: Florian Marquardt, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
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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.
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How do humans reason about and find meaning in images? Despite advances in artificial neural networks such as deep neural networks for computer vision applications, extracting salient information from images and then reasoning about it in the myriad ways that people can remains a challenge. This talk will describe a new computational model of human primary visual cortex.
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Join our team of SBIR experts and the FAST (Federal and State Technology) Center of Illinois for a SBIR 101 event from 12:00-1:00pm on Tuesday, October 25.
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Receive an overview of radiation safety from Anja Metz, an assistant director and radiation safety officer at the Division of Research Safety.
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Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
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R I: Getting Started with R workshop
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
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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.
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"Synthetic lethality and repair protein dynamics in mammalian stalled fork repair" : Dr. Arvind Panday, Harvard Medical School
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"Introduction of the New Vevo F2 for Preclinical Imaging and Biomedical Engineering" Sarah Burris, PhD & Bret Hawkins, FujiFilm Instrument: Vevo F2 Lunch will be provided
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Join us! The talk will feature Associate Professor Tiffany Jamann from UIUC. Feel free to bring your lunch. There will be time for interacting with the speakers after the presentation.
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Sepideh Sadaghiani, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Illinois, will lecture on “The functional connectome across temporal scales” at 4:00 pm in 2269 Beckman Institute and on Zoom October 26, 2022. One of our MBM trainees will give an introduction. The lecture is free and open to the public courtesy of the Miniature Brain Machinery Program.
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R is statistical software that is licensed as an open source program under GNU license. In other words, it is free. As statistical software, it can be used for data manipulation, calculation, inference, and graphical display. It contains advanced statistical procedures often not yet available in other statistical software and is available on a variety of platforms.
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Rare Book & Manuscript Library Curators Ruthann E. Mowry and Dr. Cait Coker will host this live, interactive presentation of materials documenting the history of European witchcraft. Bring your questions as we discuss witch trial records and accounts in their historical context and our contemporary parallels.
Thursday, October 27, 2022
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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.
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Our wastewater is rich with vital societal resources and is an opportunity to enhance the circular economy.
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The Colloquium on Digital Transformation is a series of weekly online talks featuring top scientists from academia and industry on how artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data can lead to scientific breakthroughs with large-scale societal benefit. Free to attend – Zoom registration required.
Friday, October 28, 2022
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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.
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A reading group on the thought of Martin Heidegger studying a selection of his works on and around poetry. By the mid-1930s Heidegger came to see poetry as one of the most fundamental issues of Western thought, as well as the way out of aesthetics and Modernity.
Saturday, October 29, 2022
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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.
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Presented in collaboration with the CU Jazz Festival, the Chicago-based Mai Sugimoto will be leading an improvising quartet, playing alto saxophone and flute, with Fred Jackson Jr. on alto saxophone and soprano saxophone; Ethan Philion on bass; and Isaiah Spencer on drums.
Sunday, October 30, 2022
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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.
Monday, October 31, 2022
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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.
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Dr. Christopher Thornton, director of the Division of Research Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities, will speak in-depth about NEH grant opportunities and offer suggestions for submitting a successful application at this upcoming workshop.