OCR Event Manager - Master Calendar

Monday, July 27, 2026

• Research Park Softball League Playoffs

  Time

  5:30 - 7:30 pm

  Location

  Florida & Lincoln Playing Fields

  

  • Social/Informal Event

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

• IMPA Undergraduate Summer Research Poster Session

  Time

  1:30 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  Illini Union room 104

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Research Park Softball League Finals

  Time

  5:30 - 7:30 pm

  Location

  Florida & Lincoln Playing Fields

  

  • Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

• Prof. Christoforos Hadjicostis, Talk "Resilient Distributed Average Consensus in Adversarial Multi-Agent Systems"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  ECEB 4070

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• PowerUp Series: My 3D Printing Journey with Alex Chequim, DigiFarmz

  Time

  3:00 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive

  

  • Other

Thursday, July 30, 2026

• Fire at Five: Happy Hour and Bonfire - LEGOmania

  Time

  5:00 - 6:30 pm

  Location

  Atkins Building Patio & Lawn, 1800 S Oak St

  

  • Social/Informal Event

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

• Final Defense of Tzortzis Koulaxizis, "Flow Effects on Polymers: Microchannel Dispersion and Crystallization After Shear"

  Time

  10:00 am

  Location

  2045 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• PhD Final Defense – Wendi Zhao

  Time

  6:00 pm

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, August 5, 2026

• 2026 Community-Academic Scholars Poster Session & Celebration | Register by July 30

  Time

  10:00 am

  Location

  I Hotel & Conference Center

  

  • Informational

Thursday, August 6, 2026

• FINAL DEFENSE: Jubyeong Chae "'Mechanistic Understanding and Development of Nickel-Catalyzed C-C Cross-Coupling Reactions". Advisor: Professor Liviu Mirica

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  1024 Chem Annex

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, August 7, 2026

• First Friday Breakfast - August

  Time

  9:00 - 10:00 am

  Location

  EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive

  

  • Social/Informal Event

Monday, August 10, 2026

• PhD Final Defense – Renjing Jiang

  Time

  10:00 am

  Location

  CEEB 3019

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Final Defense of Darien Raymond "TBA"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  2045 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, August 17, 2026

• Warblers, Sparrows, and Thrushes, Oh My!

  Time

  7:00 pm

  Location

  801 N Country Fair Dr, Ste D, Champaign, IL, United States, Illinois 61821

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

• Champaign-Urbana AgTech Breakfast

  Time

  8:00 - 9:30 am

  Location

  Illinois Conference Center (1900 South First St, Champaign)

  

  • Conference/Workshop

• Final Defense of Tiara Torres-Flores, "TBD"

  Time

  10:00 am

  Location

  3269 Beckman

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Final Defense of Changhyun Hwang, "TBD"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  2045 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, August 20, 2026

• Small Shifts, Big Impact — 5 Essential Management Skills for Better Leadership

  Time

  10:00 - 11:00 am

  

  • Webinar

• Final Defense of Song Yin, "TBD"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  TBD

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, August 21, 2026

• Champaign Blockchain Meetup - August

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign

  

  • Conference/Workshop

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series -Rizwan Uddin and Mohan Sankaran

  Time

  4:00 - 4:50 pm

  Location

  1306 Everitt Laboratory

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

• Machine Learning With Natural History Collections

  Time

  9:00 am - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Forbes Natural History Building, Room 1005

  

  • Professional Development

• PEEC Fall 2026 Welcome Back Event (Ice Cream Social), August 26, 2026, 4:00 PM, NHB, 2020B

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  NHB, 2020B

  

  • Social/Informal Event

Thursday, August 27, 2026

• Markets for Models

  Time

  2:00 - 3:20 pm

  Location

  317 David Kinley Hall

  

  • Seminar/Symposium

• Fire at Five Happy Hour and Bonfire - A Taste of Tuscany

  Time

  5:00 - 6:30 pm

  Location

  Atkins Building Patio & Lawn, 1800 S Oak St

  

  • Social/Informal Event

Saturday, August 29, 2026

• Bats in the Spotlight: Presentation and Night Hike.

  Time

  6:30 - 8:30 pm

  Location

  Starved Rock State Park Visitor Center, Oglesby, Illinois

  

  • Informational

Monday, August 31, 2026

• International Symposium on Energy, Carbon, and Industrial Systems

  Time

  8:30 am

  Location

  I Hotel and Illinois Conference Center

  

  • Conference/Workshop