Siebel School Speaker Series Master Calendar

Thursday, October 9, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 2244 Siebel Center
Computer Vision Seminar Series: Jieneng Chen, "Towards Generative Worlds for Deeper Reasoning and Informed Embodiment."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 3102 Siebel Center
CS Compiler Seminar: Arya Vohra & Leo Seojun Lee, "Mind the Abstraction Gap: Bringing Equality Saturation to Real-World ML Compilers."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 3102 Siebel Center
CS Compiler Seminar: Avaljot Singh, "Automated Verification of Soundness of DNN Certifiers."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405
IMMERSE Seminar- Katryna Starks - The PLAYlab: Games and Interactive Research for Social Good
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center
IMMERSE Seminar Series: Dr. Katryna Starks, "The PLAYlab: Games and Interactive Research for Social Good."
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 10, 2025

- 1:00 pm
Robotics Seminar: Dr. Farshid Alambeigi, "Surgineering Using Intelligent and Flexible Robotic Systems."
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 13, 2025

- 10:00 - 11:00 am
- 3401 Siebel Center
Theory Seminar: Nikhil Shagrithaya, "Probabilistic Guarantees to Explicit Constructions: Local Properties of Linear Codes."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Dean Pospisil, "Understanding Neural Representations and Inferring How They Are Generated"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
- 0216 Siebel Center
Computing Startup Seminar Series: Sudip Chakrabarti
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Broadband quantum-limited amplification and near-ultrastrong nonlinear light-matter coupling with superconducting circuits", Kevin O'Brien, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Speaker: Kevin O'Brien, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Ruhi Sarikaya
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 17, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
MiV Seminar: Arvind Ramanathan, Argonne National Lab - "Autonomous Laboratory for Accelerating Biotherapeutic Discovery"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
- 0216 Siebel Center
Computing Startup Seminar Series: Svetlana Vranic-Sowers
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum trajectories and stochastic excursions of thermal machines," Gabriel Landi, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester

Speaker: Gabriel Landi, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Jason Xinyi Liu, "Robotic Language Grounding"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 23, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405
IMMERSE Seminar - Mike Yao
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 27, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Hadi Meidani
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Point Defects in Crystals: Trapped Atoms for Quantum Technologies," Kai-Mei Fu, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington

Speaker: Kai-Mei Fu, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: Wolfgang Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

Speaker: Wolfgang Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 6, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405
IMMERSE Distinguished Speaker - Ali Israr
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 10, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Nihar Shah
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

Speaker: Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Rachel Adler
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 13, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405
IMMERSE Seminar- Dominic Kao
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 17, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Dave Zhao, "Representation Learning in Computational Genomics"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Computing Enhanced Sensing," Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Speaker: Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 21, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
MiV Seminar: Cunjiang Yu, University of Illinois - "Title TBD" - Nov 21, 2025
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, December 5, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
MiV Seminar: Anthony Jack, Case Western Rerserve University - "Ethics of biologically inspired AI - what is most likely to go wrong?"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: Liang Jiang, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

Speaker: Liang Jiang, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 27, 2026

- 4:00 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
MiV Seminar: Vickie Webster-Wood, Carnegie-Mellon University - Title TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 3, 2026

- 4:00 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
MiV Seminar: Kon-Well Wang, University of Michigan - Title TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 17, 2026

- 8:30 am
- 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
MiV Seminar: L. Mahadevan, Harvard - Title TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 1, 2026

- 4:00 pm
MiV Seminar: Rob Wood, Harvard - Title TBD
- Seminar/Symposium