Siebel School Speaker Series Master Calendar

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

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  Human-Computer Interaction Talk Series: Dr. Sarah El-Azab, "Patterns of Un-inclusion" within a Clinical Quality Registry: Racialized Information Loss and Implications for Equity-Focused Quality Improvement."

  3:30 - 4:30 pm

  0216 Siebel Center

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 24, 2026

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  Mengjia Yan "The Interplay of Efficient Formal Verification and Secure Processor Design"

  10:00 - 11:00 am

  Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 4403

  Modern systems are built on complex software and hardware, creating a large attack surface and a fragile trusted computing base (TCB). This talk focuses on how formal verification can help secure this system stack by offering rigorous security guarantees, and how security insights can in turn help make verification more effective.

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Machine Learning Seminar: Lifan Yuan, "From f(x) and g(x) and f(g(x)): LLMs Learn New Skills in RL by Composing Old Ones."

  2:00 - 3:15 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Robotics Seminar: Dr. Sam Burden, "On Human-Machine Interaction Games."

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  1232 CSL

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Computer Vision Seminar Series: Dr. Chuanxia Zheng, "Beyond Visual Geometry: Toward Physical 3D."

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  MiV Seminar: Boxuan Zhao, University of Illinois - "Mapping the Communicatome: Sequencing-Based Technologies to Decode Cell-Cell Connections at Single-Cell Resolution"

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

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  IQUIST Seminar: "Surface Engineering for Electron-on-Neon Quantum Computing Platforms," Kater Murch, Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley

  11:00 - 11:50 am

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

  Speaker: Kater Murch, Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

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  Human-Computer Interaction Talk Series: Dr. Calvin Liang, "Deconstructing the theory-practice gap in community based participatory research in HCI."

  3:30 - 4:30 pm

  0216 Siebel Center

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 1, 2026

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  MiV Seminar: Robert Wood, Harvard University - "The Mechanical Side of Artificial Intelligence"

  1:00 pm

  zoom online only

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  IMMERSE Distinguished Lecture - Ruth West

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Siebel Center for Design - Room TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

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  IQUIST Seminar: "Exploring Interacting Spin Physics with Molecular Tweezer Arrays," Lawrence Cheuk, Assistant Professor of Physics, Princeton University

  11:00 - 11:50 am

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

  Speaker: Lawrence Cheuk, Assistant Professor of Physics, Princeton University

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

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  Human-Computer Interaction Talk Series: Qianou (Christina) Ma, "Future-Proof Developers: Optimizing and Training for Human-AI Collaboration in Programming."

  3:30 - 4:30 pm

  0216 Siebel Center

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 8, 2026

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  Computer Vision Seminar Series: Shuyang (Kevin) Sun, "D4RT: Teaching AI to see the world in four dimensions."

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  MiV Seminar: Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania - "Tunable matter—a unifying paradigm for complex collective biological function"

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 26, 2026

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  Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

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  Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

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  Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

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  Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

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  Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

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  Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, July 7, 2026

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  Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

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  Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

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  Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

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  Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, August 28, 2026

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  Orit Peleg, University of Colorado Boulder

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 2, 2026

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  Abhishek Battacharjee, Yale University

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 16, 2026

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  Jason MacLean, University of Chicago

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 23, 2026

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  Rhonda Dzakpasu, Georgetown

  4:15 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium