Siebel School Speaker Series Master Calendar

Monday, October 19, 2026

• COLLOQUIUM: Yoav Artzi, "Sparks of New Pre-Training"

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

• PL/FM/SE Seminar Series: Dr. Subhajit Roy, "Bridging Logic and Language: Program Verification in the LLM Era."

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  2406 Siebel Center

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Human-Computer Interaction Talk Series: Michelle Jensen, "Starting Where Students Are: Learning & Integrating Computer Security."

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  0216 Siebel Center

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 22, 2026

• IMMERSE Seminar - Minjia Zhang: Towards High-Performance and Cost-Effective LLM Inference

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Hannah Manetsch, Senior AMO Physicist, Oratomic

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Hannah Manetsch

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 29, 2026

• IMMERSE Seminar - Deana McDonagh

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Chong Wang, Research Faculty, Perimeter Institute

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Chong Wang

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, November 5, 2026

• IMMERSE Seminar - Jina Kang

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: "Learning Ground State Observables from Quantum Experiments," Kunal Sharma, Senior Research Scientist, IBM

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Kunal Sharma

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, November 12, 2026

• IMMERSE Distinguished Speaker- Barry Silverstein

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, November 13, 2026

• Haohan Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  4:15 pm

  Location

  4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building, 1206 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, November 17, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: "Scanning NV Microscopy for Quantum Materials: From Magnetic Imaging to Nanoscale EPR", Huan Zhao, Eugene Wigner Distinguished Staff Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Huan Zhao

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, November 19, 2026

• IMMERSE Seminar - Avinash Gupta

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, December 1, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Charlotte Bottcher, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Charlotte Bottcher

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, December 3, 2026

• IMMERSE Seminar - Shenlong Wang: May the Force Be with Your Pixels

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

  In this talk, I will present our recent works on physical world models that connect pixels to explicit 3D state and dynamics, and integrate physical simulation with generative models to create interactive, physically grounded visual experiences

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, January 20, 2027

• COLLOQUIUM: Yilun Du

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, January 22, 2027

• Abhishek Bhattacharjee, Princeton University

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, April 23, 2027

• L. Mahadevan, Harvard University

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, April 30, 2027

• Metin Sitti, Max Planck Institute

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  • Seminar/Symposium