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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Thursday, December 4, 2025
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11:00 am114 Transportation Building -
11:00 am - 12:00 pm347 Altgeld HallSpeaker: Jesse Cohen (MSU)
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL -
12:00 - 1:30 pmPart 2: Welding Equipment and Selection will focus on the following: • Hot wedge fusion welder – solid and split wedges • Hot air fusion welder • Hand extrusion welder • Adhesive and solvent welding • Data logging technology and its benefits • Equipment setup
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2:30 - 3:30 pm2405 Siebel Center
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Ingenuity Mars Helicopter - The Engineering Journey of the First Rotorcraft Flight on Another Planet
4:00 - 5:00 pm1002 Grainger Auditorium -
4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Friday, December 5, 2025
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10:00 - 10:50 am1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 - 1:00 pmNCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040
Speaker: Nicholas Stone
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12:00 - 1:00 pm428 Mumford Hall
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12:30 pm2049 Natural History Building and on ZoomIn recent years, the shipping industry has increasingly strategized to decarbonize itself. Conventionally, the industry has been understood as a hard-to-abate sector, one that is hard to decarbonize due to its heavy reliance on fossil fuels. In response to the global call for climate action, however, it has increased its engagement in decarbonization in recent years.
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1:00 pm1232 Coordinated Science Laboratory
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3:00 - 5:00 pmGregory Hall 223
Join us for a lecture titled "Adam Smith on Slavery" by Aaron Garrett, a professor of philosophy at Boston University.
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3:00 pm2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom
Monday, December 8, 2025
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
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12:00 - 1:00 pm428 Mumford Hall
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12:30 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
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1:00 pmRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Liang Jiang, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center
Paul A. Janmey, PhD Institute for Medicine and Engineering, Center for Engineering Mechanobiology University of Pennsylvania "Activity of chromatin remodeling motors controls nuclear mechanics and tumor cell migration in 3D environments"
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12:00 - 1:30 pm
Part 3 Welding Parameters will focus on the following: • Understanding Heat, Speed, and Pressure • Establishing Welding Windows • Importance of Welding Windows • Impact/Dangers/Wrinkles from Ambient conditions • Parameter recommendations • Pre-weld Testing • Correct seam overlap • What if FML is not clean (dust, water, painting)
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2:00 - 2:50 pm143 Altgeld Hall
Sayan Banerjee (UNC) talks about "Percolation on Dynamic Random Networks."
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3:45 - 4:45 pm134 Astronomy Building -
4:00 pmRoger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave, 116 RAL
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4:00 - 4:50 pm1306 Everitt LaboratoryLectures 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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5:30 pmCampus Instructional Facility, Room 2039
Join us for a lecture in the Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age series with Matthew DeCamp (University of Colorado). Drawing on insights from medical practice, philosophy, and the social sciences, his lecture will explore the use of AI in medicine and argue that AI has the potential to change who we are and what we value.
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 - 12:50 pmW109 - Turner Hall -
1:00 - 2:00 pmNCSA 1040Part of the Cancer Center at Illinois Seminar Series that features the latest research at the center of cancer and engineering.
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1:00 pmRoger Adams Laboratory, 600 S Mathews Ave, Room 171
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3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
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4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
4:00 - 5:00 pmLoomis Lab 141
Thursday, December 11, 2025
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL -
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Part 4 Importance of Seam Testing will focus on the following: • Non-Destructive Testing – air channel, pick, air lance, and vacuum testing • Destructive Testing – In-house and 3rd Party Testing • Factory and Field Testing • What if seam test(s) fails - Patching • Project goal is a liner system that does not leak – work together-welder, CQA, regulator,
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4:00 pm4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Friday, December 12, 2025
Monday, December 15, 2025
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
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4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
Thursday, January 22, 2026
Monday, January 26, 2026
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4:00 - 5:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
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4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
7:00 pmPlym Auditorium, 134 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, 611 Lorado Taft Dr, Champaign
Thursday, January 29, 2026
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
5:00 - 7:00 pmKrannert Art MuseumEleven faculty members from the School of Art & Design will be featured in the upcoming exhibition, Another Place: Storymaking the Entangled Prairie. The exhibition considers how people make and define place through stories, and how stories carry out a kind of labor, maintaining narratives about the places we live—and about us.
Friday, January 30, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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3:00 - 5:00 pmGregory Hall 223
Join us for a lecture by Ladelle McWhorter, a professor of philosophy at the University of Richmond.