Siebel School Speaker Series Master Calendar

Friday, March 28, 2025

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

  MiV Seminar: Frithjof Gressman and Ivan Raikov "Efficient multi-objective optimization of neural dynamical systems through joint learning of objectives, constraints and sensitivities"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

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

  IQUIST Seminar: "Probing Topology and Correlation by Milli-Kelvin Microwave Microscopy", Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin

  Speaker: Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

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

  Distinguished Lecture: Masashi Sugiyama, "Towards Reliable Machine Learning from Imperfect Training Data"

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  • 3:30 pm
  • Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 0216

  Mina Lee "Writing with AI: Capturing Its Influence, Designing Its Future"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 3, 2025

• • 11:00 am

  Special Seminar: Subigya Nepal

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 7, 2025

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Xin Bing, "Learning Large Softmax Mixtures with Warm Start EM"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

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

  IQUIST Seminar: "On the Extended Church-Turing Thesis, Quantum Mechanics, and Beyond, Bill Fefferman, University of Chicago

  Speaker: Bill Fefferman, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

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

  Distinguished Lecture: James Mickens

  • Seminar/Symposium

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

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Rex (Zhitao) Ying

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

  Rex Ying "A Riemannian Geometry Perspective on Foundation Models"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

• • 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

Friday, April 18, 2025

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

  MiV Seminar: Xiaotian Zhang - topic TBD

  • 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

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 28, 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

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

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

Friday, May 16, 2025

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

  MiV Seminar: Hyegi Min

  • Seminar/Symposium