Research Seminars @ Illinois
Tailored for undergraduate researchers, this calendar is a curated list of research seminars at the University of Illinois. Explore the diverse world of research and expand your knowledge through engaging sessions designed to inspire and enlighten.
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Monday, October 2, 2023
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This dissertation illuminates that the political imaginations enclosed in the contestations between and within different social constellations, rather than the technologies per se, constitute platform urbanism.
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
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Speaker: Noah Kurinsky, Staff Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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Gil Blander, PhD President, Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Segterra (Inside Tracker) "Longitudinal Longevity Data Analysis: Insights And Lessons From A Decade Of Insidetrack-ing"
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Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
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The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory offers a series of public lectures on the topics of critical theory every fall semester. Shirl Yang (Washington University, Department of English) will deliver a lecture titled “A Labor Theory of Suspense.”
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
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Two graduate students will present their research at the second Beckman Graduate Student Seminar of the fall semester: Saddam Hossain and Aravind Baby. Lunch will be provided to registered attendees. The event takes place Wednesday, October 4 at noon in 5602 Beckman Institute.
Thursday, October 5, 2023
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As part of our annual Ukrainian Studies Conference, we are hosting two special events that are free and open to the public: Film screening of "The Price of Conflict," October 5, 7:15p.m. at Spurlock Museum, with opening remarks by Film Producer Polina Herman; Piano Recital, featuring acclaimed Ukrainian pianist Pavlo Gintov, October 6, 7:30 p.m. at...
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Prof. Emery Brown, will speak about "General Anesthesia, Neuromodulation and Altered States of Arousal" at 3 p.m. CST Oct. 5. The talk is part of the annual Beckman-Brown Lecture on Interdisciplinary Science.
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Speak Café stands for Song, Poetry, Expression, Art, and Knowledge. It is an open-mic public performance space at Krannert Art Museum curated by local artist, Shaya Robinson, featuring guest performers and welcoming all to the mic.
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Join us in hearing MFA Students in Creative Writing read their work!
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Join us for an evening of conversation about inequities in health care, incarceration, and addiction recovery—all through a local lens. Hear from our panelists about their organizations, the challenges they face, and how they're working to positively impact community health and individual well-being.
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Join us for an evening of conversation about inequities in health care, incarceration, and addiction recovery—all through a local lens. Hear from our panelists about their organizations, the challenges they face, and how they're working to positively impact community health and individual well-being.
Friday, October 6, 2023
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As part of our annual Ukrainian Studies Conference, we are hosting two special events that are free and open to the public: Film screening of "The Price of Conflict," October 5, 7:15p.m. at Spurlock Museum, with opening remarks by Film Producer Polina Herman; Piano Recital, featuring acclaimed Ukrainian pianist Pavlo Gintov, October 6, 7:30 p.m. at...
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Speaker: Prof. Isobel Hook
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Join us for an informative Fellowship Information Session on the American Association of University Women's fellowship, led by Dana Johnson, Ph.D., Assistant Director of External Fellowships at the Graduate College. Lunch is provided with registration.
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Dr. Jennifer Druhan (University of Illinois, Earth Science & Environmental Change) is this week's seminar speaker.
Saturday, October 7, 2023
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As part of our annual Ukrainian Studies Conference, we are hosting two special events that are free and open to the public: Film screening of "The Price of Conflict," October 5, 7:15p.m. at Spurlock Museum, with opening remarks by Film Producer Polina Herman; Piano Recital, featuring acclaimed Ukrainian pianist Pavlo Gintov, October 6, 7:30 p.m. at...
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Edition Redux is the most recent of Ken Vandermark's ensembles, an addition to an ongoing series of bands that have been internationally and critically acclaimed, which include The Vandermark 5, FME, The Resonance Ensemble, The Territory Band, Made To Break, and Marker...
Sunday, October 8, 2023
Monday, October 9, 2023
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
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Speaker: Kanu Sinha, Assistant Professor, School of Electrical, Energy and Computer Engineering, Arizona State University
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Join us for a talk by Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize laureate and Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, United Kingdom.
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Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
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The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory offers a series of public lectures on the topics of critical theory every fall semester. Shelley Weinberg (UIUC, Department of Philosophy) will deliver a lecture titled “Descartes and Locke on the Certainty of Knowledge.”
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
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"Super-Resolution Imaging of AMPA Receptors in Brain Tissue" Rohit Vaidya Graduate Research Assistant, Physics Instrument: LSM 880 & Cryostat Lunch will be provided
Thursday, October 12, 2023
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Fan Lam will speak at the Beckman Institute's Director's Seminar at noon on Thursday, October 12. Fan, will present: "Multiscale, Multiparametric Biochemical Imaging of the Brain." The seminar will be held in Beckman Institute, room 1005. Lunch will be provided to registered attendees.
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The University of Illinois Library and Creative Writing program in the Department of English welcome the U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada LimĂłn.
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October Dance 2023 features the historic work, Steps in the Street (from Chronicles) by Modern Dance pioneer Martha Graham. Also on the program, premieres by Dance at Illinois faculty, Cynthia Oliver, Alexandra Barbier, Anna Sapozhnikov and undergraduate BA major, Nawal Assougdam.
Friday, October 13, 2023
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The University of Illinois Library and Creative Writing program in the Department of English welcome the U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada LimĂłn.
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October Dance 2023 features the historic work, Steps in the Street (from Chronicles) by Modern Dance pioneer Martha Graham. Also on the program, premieres by Dance at Illinois faculty, Cynthia Oliver, Alexandra Barbier, Anna Sapozhnikov and undergraduate BA major, Nawal Assougdam.
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Dr. Eric Larson (University of Illinois, Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences) is this week's seminar speaker.
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Deadline to apply for the HRI Director's Fellows program. Applications due by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, October 13.
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Deadline to apply for the HRI Director's Fellows program. Applications due by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, October 13.
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Join us via Zoom to delve into the captivating world of witches, demons, and women’s history through a spellbinding lecture and a rare glimpse into the past, as we explore the origins, powers, and misunderstood narratives surrounding these topics.
Saturday, October 14, 2023
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October Dance 2023 features the historic work, Steps in the Street (from Chronicles) by Modern Dance pioneer Martha Graham. Also on the program, premieres by Dance at Illinois faculty, Cynthia Oliver, Alexandra Barbier, Anna Sapozhnikov and undergraduate BA major, Nawal Assougdam.
Monday, October 16, 2023
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
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Speaker: Alireza Marandi, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering & Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
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Neil Hunter, PhD Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics; University of California, Davis "Cohesin and Chromosome Segregation in Oocytes: a Goldilocks scenario"
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Geotechnical Engineers are responsible for providing long term solutions to develop infrastructure while accommodating natural landscapes and changes in geology. This presentation will offer insights on what to consider in these design evaluations, what to avoid, and provide experience driven recommendations. 1.0 PDH
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Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
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The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory offers a series of public lectures on the topics of critical theory every fall semester. Tamara Chaplin (UIUC, Department of History) will deliver a lecture titled “Queering French History.”
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Friday, October 20, 2023
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FSHN 597 Graduate Seminar Series Presenter | Tom Ford, MPH ​Vice President, Food Safety & Quality Assurance ​​Compass Group ​​North America Division ​Title | Six Degrees of Food Safety-One Illini’s Journey Room 180 Bevier 11:00 AM Friday, Oct. 20, 2023
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Speaker: Dr. Sara Simon
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This week Dr. Mariela Fernandez (University of Illinois, Recreation, Sport, and Tourism) speaks on Environmental Justice in park planning and management in urban Latinx communities.
Monday, October 23, 2023
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Experimental measurements of chromosome conformation, epigenetic modifications, and stochastic cellular behavior present new opportunities for understanding fundamental biology. Dr. Liang will discuss how 3D polymer models using the CHROMATIX method and Hi-C chromosome conformation capture studies can identify a small set of non-random polymer interactions.
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
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Jeni Cross, PhD Director, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences; Colorado State University "Science of team science: what social scientists know about great teaming and junior scientists wish you did too"
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The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory offers a series of public lectures on the topics of critical theory every fall semester. Ned O’Gorman (UIUC, Department of Communications) will deliver a lecture titled “Arendt and the Question of Technology.”
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
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The Mellon Foundation & the American Council of Learned Societies support PhD students in the humanities and interpretative social sciences who show promise of leading their fields in new directions. Fellowships offer a $40K stipend, plus $10K for research, professional development, travel, and mentoring.
Thursday, October 26, 2023
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Associate Professor, Dept. Neurobiology & Behavior at Stony Brook
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A monthly meeting to discuss computational microbial genomics.
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A thesis larger than a library, a quarter folded in fourths, ice cream melted on novels, miniature paper models, popped balloons, and moldy books of cheese. Ben Denzer shares the playful process of his practice. Ben Denzer is an artist, designer, and publisher. He studied Architecture and Visual Arts at Princeton and has an MFA in Graphic Design from RISD.
Friday, October 27, 2023
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FSHN 597 Graduate Seminar Series Presenter | Robert McGorrin, PhD Professor, Food Science & Technology ​Fellow, American Chemical Society ​Fellow, Institute of Food Technologists ​Oregon State University Title | TBA Room 180 Bevier 11:00 AM Friday, Oct. 27, 2023
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Dr. Brian Roth (Michigan State University) is this week's seminar speaker.
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Sunday, October 29, 2023
Monday, October 30, 2023
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
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Join us for the feature film, A Tale of Two Labs, produced by NCPRE in collaboration with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), directed by NCPRE’s Executive Producer of Media Michael Dunne, and shot on location in part at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.
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Speaker: André Schleife, Blue Waters Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
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The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory offers a series of public lectures on the topics of critical theory every fall semester. Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern, Department of Philosophy) will deliver a lecture titled “Revocability, Exception, Disqualifying Qualification: Grammars of Power After Foucault and Roe.”
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Thursday, November 2, 2023
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Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Program Chair Director, Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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Dr. Grillot will review the recent findings and prospects on nanostructure based light emitters made with quantum-dot technology. Many applications ranging from silicon-based integrated solutions to quantum information systems will be presented. In addition, Dr. Grillot will strongly highlight the importance of nanotechnologies in industry and society.
Friday, November 3, 2023
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Dr. Andrew Margenot (University of Illinois, Crop Sciences) is this week's seminar speaker.
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2023 David Gottlieb Memorial Lecture Jörn Piel, PhD Professor of Microbial Interactions, Institute of Microbiology ETH Zürich "Natural products from strange microbes"
Monday, November 6, 2023
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A monthly meeting with IGB Spatial Omics Initiative and CAIM to discuss spatial omics.
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Spns lipid transporters are critical for transporting sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) and lysolipids across cellular membranes. S1P regulates the growth, survival, and migration of cells with profound proangiogenic effects. In humans, Spns2 acts as the main S1P transporter in endothelial cells, making it a potential drug target for modulating S1P export and signaling.
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
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Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
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The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory offers a series of public lectures on the topics of critical theory every fall semester. Ramón Soto-Crespo (UIUC, Department of English) will deliver a lecture titled “Environmental Humanities and the Caribbean.”
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
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The Kaplan Family Writers in Residence Series is delighted to welcome Laila Lalami for a reading of creative work.
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Archivist Steven Booth joins the RBML virtually to discuss the Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) archive, a collection of more than 4.5 million photographs of published and unpublished works documenting the Black experience dating from 1942 to the 21st century.
Thursday, November 9, 2023
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Associate Professor of Department Molecular & Cellular Physiology
Friday, November 10, 2023
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FSHN 597 Graduate Seminar Series Presenter | Jodi Flaws, PhD Professor ​Department of Comparative Biosciences ​University of Illinois Title | The effects of environmental chemicals in food on female reproduction Room 180 Bevier 11:00 AM Friday, Nov. 10, 2023
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Dr. Brian Allan (University of Illinois, Entomology) is this week's seminar speaker.
Saturday, November 11, 2023
Monday, November 13, 2023
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
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Speaker: Gregory Fuchs, Professor, Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University
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Sean Gibbons, PhD Washington Research Foundation Distinguished Investigator at the Institute for Systems Biology, University of Washington "Engineering the metabolic outputs of the human gut microbiome through microbial community-scale metabolic modeling"
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The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory offers a series of public lectures on the topics of critical theory every fall semester. Robert Markley (UIUC, Department of English) will deliver a lecture titled “Problems in Theorizing the Origins of Capitalism.”
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Thursday, November 16, 2023
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Join us in hearing MFA Students in Creative Writing read their work!
Friday, November 17, 2023
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FSHN 597 Graduate Seminar Series Presenter | Paul McNamara, PhD Professor Director of AgReach University of Illinois Title | TBA Room 180 Bevier 11:00 AM Friday, Nov. 17, 2023
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Dr. Giorgia Auteri (Missouri State University) is this week's seminar speaker.
Saturday, November 18, 2023
Sunday, November 19, 2023
Monday, November 20, 2023
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Thursday, November 23, 2023
Friday, November 24, 2023
Saturday, November 25, 2023
Sunday, November 26, 2023
Monday, November 27, 2023
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A monthly meeting to discuss computational microbial genomics.
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
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Speaker: Michael R. Wasieleski, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
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Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
