Monday, September 21, 2026

• AE 590 Panelist Discussion: Non-Aerospace Industry Career Opportunities - Violet Allmandinger, Alberto Davila, and Fabian Dettenrieder

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: "Tackling Heterogeneity for Practical Quantum Systems," Kate Smith, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Northwestern University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Kate Smith, Northwestern University

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CAP Seminar Series: Dr. Nandita Vijaykumar, "Architecting Efficient and Scalable Systems for Physical Intelligence and Visual Computing."

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or Zoom

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

• IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "When Magnons Meet Quantum Optics: From Single Quanta to Itinerant-Magnon Phase-Space Tomography," Jinho Lim, Hoffmann Group

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Jinho Lim, Hoffmann Group

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Human-Computer Interaction Talk Series: Dr. Shm Garanganao Almeda, "The Design of Technology by, and for, Artistic Worlds."

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  0216 Siebel Center

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Philip Phillips (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Solving the Mott Problem"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, September 24, 2026

• Quantum User Group (QUG) Monthly BYO Lunch and Learn - September

  Time

  12:30 pm

  Location

  NCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana IL 61801 Room 1040

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 (Optional) Seminar Speaker: Dongho Lee

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Coordinated Science Lab B02

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• IMMERSE Seminar: Heidi Phillips & Janet Sinn-Hanlon - The Virtual Canine Spay: Creating Multipurpose Reusable Assets for VR and Online Courses

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 0216

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, September 25, 2026

• Machine Learning Seminar: Jeonghwan Kim, "Learning to See, Integrate, and Act: Visual Grounding for Multimodal Foundation Models."

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  1302 Siebel Center

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, September 28, 2026

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Kevin Li - Interactional Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics: From Measurements to Multi-Fidelity Modeling

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Arnab Banerjee, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Arnab Banerjee

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

• IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Complete characterization of perfect quantum strategies in quantum magic rectangle games," Evelyn Wu, Clark Group

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Evelyn Wu, Clark Group

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Human-Computer Interaction Talk Series: Dr. Yung-Ju (Stanley) Chang, "Building Intelligence Around Limited Human Attention: Our Research Trajectory Toward Attention-Aware Agentic System."

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  0216 Siebel Center

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Geoff Greene (University of Tennessee) "The Neutron Lifetime, Why do we keep measuring it? & Why do we keep getting it “wrong”?"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Optional Seminar Speaker: Ken Jacobs - Artemis II Launch and Mission Overview

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 3039

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 1, 2026

• IMMERSE Seminar - Jason Climer

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, October 5, 2026

• COLLOQUIUM: Hao Wang, "Bayesian Deep Learning: From Reliable Neural Networks to Interpretable Foundation Models"

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Inseok Hwang - Toward Trustworthy Human-aware Cyber-Physical-Human Systems (CPHS)

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Ceren Dag, Assistant Professor of Physics, Indiana University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Ceren Dag

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

• IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Sujeet Bhalerao, Leditzky Group

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Sujeet Bhalerao, Leditzky Group

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Alessandra Buonanno (Albert Einstein Institute) "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 8, 2026

• IMMERSE Seminar: Ismini Lourentzou

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 2405

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, October 12, 2026

• COLLOQUIUM: Yilun Du

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Steve Ulrich

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Hong Tang, Llewellyn West Jones Jr. Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yale University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

• IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Jason Elhaderi, Draper Group

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Jason Elhaderi, Draper Group

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• HWW Grand Research Challenge Showcase

  Time

  12:00 - 1:30 pm

  Join us as we highlight the incredible work of each of Humanities Without Walls' Reciprocity and Redistribution Grand Research Challenge projects in four virtual showcases over the 2026-27 academic year. During each event, 2-3 teams will present their projects and share a bit about the centrality of reciprocal and redistributive methods to their work.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Andrea Young (University of California Santa Barbara) "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 15, 2026

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Michael Karp - Receptivity of Shock Waves to Flow Perturbations

  Time

  12:30 - 1:30 pm

  Location

  CIF 3031

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• IMMERSE Seminar - Shenlong Wang

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, October 19, 2026

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Mark Messner - Smarter Materials Modeling with AI, Physics, and Large Data

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Niklas Mueller, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Niklas Mueller

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

• IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Harshvardhan Mantry, Pfaff Group

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Harshvardhan Mantry, Pfaff Group

  • 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

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Peter Abbamonte (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Title"

  Time

  4:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 22, 2026

• IMMERSE Seminar - Minjia Zhang

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, October 26, 2026

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: H.S. Udaykumar (Uday)

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • 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

  

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

• IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "An optimal analysis of the product test," Jacob Beckey, Leditzky Group

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Jacob Beckey, Leditzky Group

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Bob Bernstein (FermiLab) "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • 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

  

Monday, November 2, 2026

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Nora Ayanian

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • 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

  

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

• IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Will Chistopherson, DeMarco Group

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Will Christopherson, DeMarco Group

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium McMillan Award: Patrick Ledwith (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • 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

  

Monday, November 9, 2026

• AE Seminar Speaker: Samuel Coogan - Safe autonomy from fast reachability

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • 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

  

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

• IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Javier Montaner, Clark Group

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Javier Montaner, Clark Group

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Dylan Yost (Colorado State University) "Precision tests of quantum electrodynamics through hydrogen spectroscopy and vacuum birefringence"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • 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

  

Monday, November 16, 2026

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Sedina Tsikata

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, November 17, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Huan Zhao, 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

  

Wednesday, November 18, 2026

• IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Exact unitary designs under symmetry," Chris Vairogs, Leditzky Group

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Chris Vairogs, Leditzky Group

  • 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

  

Wednesday, December 2, 2026

• IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Xi Zhang, Kou Group

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Xi Zhang, Kou Group

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• HWW Grand Research Challenge Showcase

  Time

  12:00 - 1:30 pm

  Join us as we highlight the incredible work of each of Humanities Without Walls' Reciprocity and Redistribution Grand Research Challenge projects in four virtual showcases over the 2026-27 academic year. During each event, 2-3 teams will present their projects and share a bit about the centrality of reciprocal and redistributive methods to their work.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Brian Fields (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, December 7, 2026

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Ivan Bermejo-Moreno

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, December 9, 2026

• The Physics Colloquium: Doug Natelson (Rice University) "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, March 24, 2027

• IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Phillip Kim, Pfaff Group

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Philip Kim, Pfaff Group

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, March 25, 2027

• "Degrees of Erasure": Director's Fellows Symposium

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, March 26, 2027

• "Degrees of Erasure": Director's Fellows Symposium

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, April 21, 2027

• IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Sonia Rani, Pfaff Group

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Sonia Rani, Pfaff Group

  • Seminar/Symposium