Test Master Calendar (OCR)
Saturday, October 25, 2025
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8:00 am - 12:00 pmUrbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets -
10:15 am 11:30am141 Loomis Laboratory of PhysicsIn this talk, we’ll explore what entanglement is, how to create, shape, and detect it, and how we're learning to harness it for revolutionary technologies. We’ll also learn why it deeply troubled some of the greatest minds in science.
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Monday, October 27, 2025
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10:00 - 11:00 am3401 Siebel Center
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
"Data Management" Yifei Kang, CNRG Research Data Management Specialist
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2:00 - 3:20 pm317 David Kinley Hall
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4:00 - 5:00 pmCIF 2035
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
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8:30 - 10:00 amEveritt Lab (between the front doors and the atrium) -
10:00 - 10:30 amBeckman Institute Center Atrium
Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Gather in the Garden will take place every Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Kai-Mei Fu, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
"Patterning the meristem: Development and Evolution of the floral ground plan" Ya Min, Assistant Professor Plant Biology, Physics
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3:30 pmVirtual Only! -
3:45 - 4:45 pmNCSA Auditorium -
4:00 pmBeckman Institute 1025 - Auditorium -
4:00 pm4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
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5:00 pmCoble Hall, Conference Room 108 -- 801 S. Wright Street
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5:00 - 6:30 pmJohn Deere Technology Innovation Center, 2021 S 1st StreetJoin us on Tuesday, October 28 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. for the RSO Leadership Dinner in the Research Park at EnterpriseWorks.
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
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9:00 am - 4:00 pmBeckman Institute, Tower Room 2269Please join us for this half day conference, with an optional deep dive workshop on quantitative research design in the afternoon.
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
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12:00 pmBeckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower
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!
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 pmChemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
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2:00 - 3:20 pm317 David Kinley Hall
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4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
7:00 - 8:00 pmLincoln Hall Theater
Thursday, October 30, 2025
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9:00 am - 3:30 pmI Hotel and Illinois Conference Center (1900 S. First St., Champaign)
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSLProfessor, University of Michigan, Life Sciences Institute
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12:00 pmNoyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
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12:00 pmNoyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
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3:30 pm106B1 Engineering Hall
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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5:00 - 6:30 pmAtkins Building Patio & Lawn, 1800 S Oak StJoin us on Thursday, October 30 from 5:00 to 6:30pm on the Atkins Patio & Lawn for our last Fire at Five of the season! This monthly happy hour + bonfire is a great opportunity to network with other companies throughout the Research Park.
Friday, October 31, 2025
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10:00 - 10:50 am1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801 -
11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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2:00 pmRoger Adams Lab 419
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2:15 - 3:00 pmSiebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
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3:00 pmLevis Faculty Center Room 210
Juno Salazar-Parreñas, Tropical Polar Bears: A Story of Competing Colonialisms in the Great Acceleration
Saturday, November 1, 2025
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10:15 am 11:30am141 Loomis Laboratory of PhysicsWhen lead nuclei collide at near light speed in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, they create the hottest matter in the universe, the Quark-Gluon Plasma, a state that existed moments after the Big Bang. University of Illinois researchers developed radiation-hard detectors to study how this plasma forms and evolves, advancing the quest to recreate matter from the dawn of time.
Monday, November 3, 2025
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All DayUp to seven of Mayo Clinic’s prestigious fellowships are reserved for Illinois sophomores and juniors who are seriously considering a biomedical research career as a PhD or MD-PhD. This special preselection process allows University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students to submit their SURF application to a selection committee of Illinois faculty and staff.
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9:00 - 11:00 amAgricultural Engineering Science Building - Room AESB 217, 1304 W Pennsylvania Ave, Urbana 61801
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12:00 - 1:00 pmESB 190
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4:00 - 5:00 pmCIF 2035
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
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4:00 pm1310 Yeh Student Center, 205 N Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
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10:00 - 10:30 amBeckman Institute Center Atrium
Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Gather in the Garden will take place every Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
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10:00 amMRI Exhibit
Come find out more about the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology! Learn about the barrier-busting interdisciplinary research facility and community of innovation. First Thursday of the month from 10-10:30 a.m.
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Wolfgang Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Jungsu Kim, PhD P. Michael Conneally Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Dept. of Medical and Molecular Genetics; Indiana University School of Medicine "Leveraging Neurogenetics to Decode Functional Mechanisms in Alzheimer’s Disease"
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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4:00 pm4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
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5:00 pmCoble Hall, Conference Room 108 -- 801 S. Wright Street
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 - 4:30 pmIllini Rooms B & C, Illini Union, 1401 W. Green Street, Urbana, ILThe iSchool Research Showcase shares human-centered, interdisciplinary research through a keynote speech and a series of short presentations and posters by School of Information Sciences faculty, staff, and graduate students. Kevin Hamilton, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation – Humanities, Arts & Related Fields, will deliver the keynote.
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12:00 - 12:50 pmEveritt 1306 -
12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
"Introducing ZEISS Lightfield 4D: One Snap, One Volume" Matt Curtis, Product Application Sales Specialist, Life Sciences Midwest, Zeiss Research Microscopy Solutions
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12:00 - 12:50 pmW109 - Turner Hall -
12:00 pmBeckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower
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!
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2:00 - 3:00 pmChemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
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4:00 - 6:00 pmAlice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801
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4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
4:00 - 5:00 pmLoomis Lab 141
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4:00 - 5:30 pmThomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science, 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Hosted by the CS STARS, our researchers share their work with students interested in exploring computing and data science research opportunities.
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4:30 - 6:00 pmEnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin us on Wednesday, November 5 from 4:30 to 6 PM at EnterpriseWorks for the PowerUp Series: Creality RaptorX 3D Scanner & Large Format Printer Workshop!
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5:00 - 6:00 pmECEB 1002
ECE faculty will share information on their tech elective courses, allowing you to learn more about the available options.
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5:00 - 7:00 pmThis is a virtual event. Zoom link coming soon!The International Student Entrepreneurship Workshop helps international students understand policies and requirements for pursuing entrepreneurship and starting a business in the United States.
Thursday, November 6, 2025
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10:00 - 11:00 amJoin us on Thursday, November 6 from 10-11 a.m. for a webinar on Email Marketing Essentials with Scott Clanin of Clanin Creative.
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11:00 am - 12:00 pmPlease join us Nov. 6, 11 a.m.-noon on Zoom to learn more about submitting projects and becoming an academic mentor for the Community-Academic Scholars program.
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSLTanveer Singh, Ph.D.
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12:00 pmNoyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
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12:00 pmNoyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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5:00 - 6:00 pmRoom F, College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820
Friday, November 7, 2025
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9:00 - 10:00 amEnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveStartup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9 to 10 AM on the first Friday of every month.
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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2:00 - 3:20 pm317 David Kinley Hall
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2:00 pm3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
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2:15 - 3:00 pmSiebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
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3:00 pmBeckman Institute Auditorium
Please join us for the Friday Psychology-Beckman Colloquium Series, a new monthly event designed to bring together faculty, researchers, postdocs, and students from across the Psychology Department, Beckman Institute, and beyond to engage in lively, interdisciplinary conversations around psychology.
Saturday, November 8, 2025
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9:00 am - 5:00 pmIllini Union
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10:15 am 11:30am141 Loomis Laboratory of PhysicsThis presentation will introduce participants to a groundbreaking project called CraftCells: A Window into Biological Cells. This is the first tool that lets anyone—from researchers to curious students—step inside an accurate 3D model of a cell and see how life is organized at the tiniest scale.
Monday, November 10, 2025
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11:30 am - 12:30 pmMRL 280
Monthly MRSEC Grad students and Postdocs meeting.
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12:00 - 1:00 pmESB 190
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12:00 pmMax L. Rowe Auditorium, College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
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10:00 - 10:30 amBeckman Institute Center Atrium
Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Gather in the Garden will take place every Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Nicholas Wu, PhD Department of Biochemistry; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “Deciphering antibody sequences”
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3:45 - 4:45 pm134 Astronomy Building -
4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
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10:00 - 11:00 amChampaign Public Library (Robeson Pavilion A/B) - 200 W. Green Street, Champaign, IL 61820Join us on Wednesday, November 12 from 10-11 a.m. for a workshop on Canva 201 at the Champaign Public Library with Scott Clanin of Clanin Creative.
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
"Mapping RNA Biology Across Dimension" Diptatanu Das, PhD Candidate Department of Biochemistry, School of Molecular & Cellular Biology
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12:00 pmW109 Turner Hall
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12:00 pmBeckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower
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!
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1:00 - 2:00 pmTBD
Part of the Cancer Center at Illinois Seminar Series that features the latest research and the center of cancer and engineering.
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 pmChemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
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4:00 - 5:15 pmGregory Hall Room 223
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4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
Thursday, November 13, 2025
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8:30 - 11:30 amMartens Center, 1515 N. Market St., ChampaignThe Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute (IHSI) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is hosting a hands-on workshop designed to introduce community-based organizations to program evaluation on Nov. 13, 8:30 - 11:30 a.m., at the Martens Center in Champaign.
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11:00 am114 Transportation Building
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSLAssociate Professor, Department of Cancer Biology
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12:00 - 1:30 pmLevis Faculty Center Room 208
In contrast to the moral panics about the ways that AI chatbots may be shrinking people’s social worlds by replacing human-to-human interaction, there is an incredible optimism in some corners that AI will radically open up the social world to include animals, enhancing or enabling new forms of interspecies communication.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm
A detailed quantification and comparative analysis of carbon emissions for three landfill final cover systems: (i) soil-only cover; (ii) soil-geosynthetic cover; and (iii) an engineered turf cover are presented. 1.0 PDH
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
"Web Hosting" David Slater, CNRG Associate Director of High Performance Computing
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1:00 - 2:00 pmLoomis 464
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2:30 - 3:30 pmMRL 280
Cookies & Coffee Hour by I-MRSEC & IQUIST. Please come and have some cookies, coffee and good conversation.
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Friday, November 14, 2025
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11:00 am - 2:00 pmAgricultural Engineering Science Building - Room AESB 137, 1304 W Pennsylvania Ave, Urbana 61801
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
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12:00 - 1:00 pmEnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin the Data + AI User Group on Friday, November 14 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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2:00 pm3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
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2:15 - 3:00 pmSiebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
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2:30 - 3:30 pmIllini Rooms | Illini Union | 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 -
4:00 - 5:00 pmPlant Sciences Laboratory (PSL) Room 1103
Saturday, November 15, 2025
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All DayGrainger Engineering undergrads - consider a dual degree! Your primary degree + the ILEE degree.
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10:15 am 11:30am141 Loomis Laboratory of PhysicsDid you know the internet is distributed using light? A quantum network uses the smallest possible blips of light, called photons, to share information in a fundamentally different way, based on the concepts of quantum mechanics. This presentation will share the work that led to the launch of the first Public Quantum Network (PQN) at The Urbana Free Library.
Sunday, November 16, 2025
Monday, November 17, 2025
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9:00 - 11:00 amAgricultural Engineering Science Building - Room AESB 217, 1304 W Pennsylvania Ave, Urbana 61801
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12:00 - 1:00 pmESB 190
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2:00 - 3:20 pm317 David Kinley Hall
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4:00 - 5:00 pmCIF 2035 -
4:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
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4:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
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4:00 pm1310 Yeh Student Center, 205 N Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
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10:00 - 10:30 amBeckman Institute Center Atrium
Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Gather in the Garden will take place every Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
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10:00 - 11:00 amJoin us on Thursday, November 18 from 10-11 a.m. for a webinar on Navigating Google's Latest Updates for Business Growth with Scott Clanin of Clanin Creative.
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Iain Cheeseman, PhD Herman and Margaret Sokol Professor of Biology; Core Member, Whitehead Institute; Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Unlocking the Hidden Proteome”
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4:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
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4:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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4:00 - 4:50 pm1306 Everitt LaboratoryLectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Richard Feder (University of California, Berkeley)
11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236 -
12:00 - 12:50 pmW109 - Turner Hall -
12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
"Why kill the Fluorescence? Let it Power your Raman" Seemesh Bhasker, IGB Fellow Carl R Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
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12:00 pmBeckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower
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!
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4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
4:00 - 5:00 pmLoomis Lab 141
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5:00 - 6:00 pmECEB 1002
Learn about the career journey of Gerald Wilson, the Director of Entrepreneurship for EnterpriseWorks at Research Park on campus.
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5:00 - 6:00 pmUndergraduates in all majors are invited to join the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute (IHSI) for an information session Nov. 19 from 5 to 6 p.m. on Zoom to learn about the Summer 2026 Community-Academic Scholars program.
Thursday, November 20, 2025
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11:00 am114 Transportation Building
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL -
12:00 - 1:00 pmEnterpriseWorks Atrium, 60 Hazelwood Drive, ChampaignResearch Park Friendsgiving is happening on Thursday, November 20th from 12:00pm-1:00pm.
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3:00 pmAtrium
Join other members of the Beckman community for coffee and cookies in the Beckman Atrium. The Cookie Collab is scheduled for 3 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month.
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
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4:00 - 5:00 pm1002 Grainger Auditorium
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Friday, November 21, 2025
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12:00 - 1:00 pmEnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, ChampaignThis is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
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12:00 - 1:00 pmEnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin the Society of American Military Engineers on Friday, November 21 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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2:15 - 3:00 pmSiebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
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4:00 - 5:00 pm1214 Siebel Center
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
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10:00 - 10:30 amBeckman Institute Center Atrium
Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Gather in the Garden will take place every Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
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12:00 pmBeckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower
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!
Thursday, November 27, 2025
Friday, November 28, 2025
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2:15 - 3:00 pmSiebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom