Siebel School Speaker Series Master Calendar

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

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  IQUIST Special Seminar: "Floquet engineering qubits and couplers for fast, robust parametric gates," Jacob Repicky, Yale University

  11:00 am - 12:20 pm

  1002 Supercon

  Speaker:

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  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
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  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

Thursday, December 4, 2025

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  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

Friday, December 5, 2025

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  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

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  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

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

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  IQUIST Seminar: Liang Jiang, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Speaker: Liang Jiang, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

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  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

Friday, February 20, 2026

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  Bumsoo Han, UIUC

  4:00 pm

  2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 6, 2026

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  Suyi Li, Virginia Tech

  4:00 pm

  2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 27, 2026

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  Vickie Webster-Wood, Carnegie-Mellon University

  4:00 pm

  2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 3, 2026

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  Kon-Well Wang, University of Michigan

  4:00 pm

  2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 17, 2026

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  L. Mahadevan, Harvard University

  8:30 am

  2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 1, 2026

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  Rob Wood, Harvard University

  4:00 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 8, 2026

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  Andrea Liu - University of Pennsylvania

  4:00 pm

  2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  • Ceremony/Service

Friday, August 28, 2026

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  Orit Peleg, University of Colorado Boulder

  4:00 pm

  2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  • Seminar/Symposium