Siebel School Speaker Series Master Calendar

Friday, April 11, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  MiV Seminar: Jakob Arend - "Full-stack support for high-performance neural experimentation"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, April 12, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Room 1013, ECE Building, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61820

  Saturday Engineering for Everyone: Quantum Steampunk - The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow, Nicole Yunger Halper, University of Maryland

  Speaker: Nicole Yunger Halpern, University of Maryland

  • Lecture

Monday, April 14, 2025

• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Ananya Bhattarcharjee, "Adaptive Narrative Interventions for Supporting Wellbeing"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Rex (Zhitao) Ying, "A Riemannian Geometry Perspective on Foundation Models"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center

  Rex Ying "A Riemannian Geometry Perspective on Foundation Models"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

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  • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: "Floquet Topology and Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Quantum Matter", Babak Seradjeh, Professor of Physics, Indiana University

  Speaker: "Floquet Topology and Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Quantum Matter", Babak Seradjeh, Professor of Physics, Indiana University

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

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  • 10:00 - 10:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Special Seminar: "Light, Silicon, and Steel: PsiQuantum's Path to Utility-Scale, Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing, Aaron Fluitt, Senior Director of Technology Partnerships, PsiQuantum

  Speaker: Aaron Fluitt, Senior Director of Technology Partnerships, PsiQuantum

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Rainer Engelken

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:30 pm
  • NCSA Auditorium

  Dave Patterson & Andy Konwinski, "Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Halil Kilicoglu, "Enhancing Rigor and Integrity of Biomedical Research using Natural Language Processing"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • NCSA Auditorium

  Fireside Chat with Andy Konwinski and Pete Sonsini: "My Journey From Research to Startup"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 18, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  MiV Seminar: Xiaotian Zhang - topic TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 21, 2025

• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Nishil Talati, "Co-Design for the AI Era: From Traditional Systems to Generative AI"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Xinwei Shen, "Distributional Learning: From Methodology to Applications"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

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  • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: "Engineering (Useful) Trapped-Ion Quantum Technologies", Sara Mouradian, University of Washington

  Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washington

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

  Distinguished Lecture: Jason Cong, "Efficient LLMs: From Model Innovation to Customized Acceleration"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 28, 2025

• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Umang Mathur

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Alexandre Bourassa, Google Quantum AI

  Speaker: Alexandre Bourassa, Senior Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 2, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  MiV Seminar: Ki Yun Lee and Saeduur Rahman - topic TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 5, 2025

• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Preslav Nakov

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Srinivasan Arunachalam, IBM

  Speaker: Srinivasan Arunachalam, Senior Research Scientist, IBM

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Ilan Shomorony, "An Information Theory for Out-of-Order Information: Applications in DNA Data Storage and Genomics"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 9, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  MiV Seminar: Shriya Srinivasan, Harvard University - "Unlocking the Gut's Brain with Ingestible Bioelectronics"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 12, 2025

• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Masooda Bashir

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 16, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  MiV Seminar: Hyegi Min

  • Seminar/Symposium