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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Friday, October 18, 2024
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This research compares USV data with forecasts generated by the Global Forecast System (GFS) and Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS).
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Dr. Bob Hughes (Oregon State University) is this week's seminar speaker.
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The Institute of Communications Research (ICR) is delighted to invite you to our Research Seminar event featuring Caleb Carr, Professor of Communication at Illinois State University, speaking on AI in Communication Research.
Monday, October 21, 2024
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
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Speaker: Jong Yeon Lee, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Susan Leggett, PhD Department of Bioengineering; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "Cancer-On-a-Chip: Reconstructing Breast and Ovarian Tumor Microenvironments to Uncover Dynamics of Cancer Spread"
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Christopher Janjigian talks about "Infinite geodesic in inhomogeneous exponential last passage percolation."
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Robert Townsend, program director for Humanities, Arts, and Culture at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, will discuss the latest from the Humanities Indicators project. Learn what their data means for our work inside and outside the academy in 2024 and beyond.
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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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Speaker: Jeremiah Heller
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Eddie O'Byrn (African American Studies, UIUC) & Emma Velez (Gender & Women’s Studies, UIUC) will deliver a lecture as part of this year's Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series, organized by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. Relevant readings are available in the corresponding Box folder. For more information, including access to the readings, please contact t
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
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"Assessing the Impact of Paraben on Uterine Collagen Architecture: An Integrated Approach Using SHG, AFM, and Nanoindentation" - Mahmuda Arshee, Graduate Teaching Assistant - Mechanical Science & Engineering
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Join Mary Ton, Digital Humanities Librarian, for dinner and discussion at the Humanities Research Institute about how to engage with AI ethically and effectively in your research and teaching through beginner-friendly tools.
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Join us for a FREE screening of Padauk: Myanmar Spring followed by a discussion led by the Director of The Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies (CEAPS), Matt Winters. Padauk: Myanmar Spring takes the viewer to the streets of Myanmar during the heady days following the February 2021 military coup.
Thursday, October 24, 2024
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Speaker: Robert Lemke Oliver (Tufts)
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Gloria Groom will discuss an exhibition of the work of Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte, coming next year to the Art Institute of Chicago next year.
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Jesse Erickson, Astor Curator of Printed Books & Bindings at the Morgan Library, joins the RBML virtually to discuss Black bibliographical exploration and trace the migrations of Black Vernacular English (BVE) from 18th-century literature to that of the hip hop generation. This Zoom presentation is open to the public; please pre-register at go.illinois.edu/Erickson.
Friday, October 25, 2024
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Exploring the Gutters: Illinois’ South Asian Comics Collection This talk by Mara Thacker, South Asian Studies & Global Popular Culture Librarian, will look into the history and evolution of the South Asian comics collection situated within the context of comics production and circulation in South Asia and showcase samples
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Prof. Alzate explores ways of “entering the body” as something that can be mapped, in connection to place: family spaces, hospitals, the space where we migrated from, and larger social spaces. She will describe the affordances of body maps to explore the body as storage of trauma, maps as narratives, and pushes for communal aesthetics in graphic design.
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Dr. Emily Cohen (University of Maryland) is this week's seminar speaker.
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Monday, October 28, 2024
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The Biomedical Imaging Center & The Stephens Family Clinical Research Institute at Carle Health seminar series continues with Bruce Damon, Stephens Family Clinical Research Institute.
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IGB-HRI Distinguished Public Lecture Series: "Linking Life Sciences and Humanities" with Jennifer Raff, PhD. Raff is an award-winning author and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas (KU).
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Join us for Dr. Claire Jiménez's lecture "Noise As Meaning: An Exploration of Voice." Drawing upon the Barbadian scholar and poet Kamau Brathwaite’s assertion that the “noise” is part of the meaning, Jiménez, author of What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez, explores the pedagogical implications of teaching “voice” in the creative writing workshop.
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
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Speaker: Alex Ma, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
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Sara Piccirillo, PhD The Robert M. Faxon Jr. Endowed Professor in Neuro-Oncology; University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center "Intra-tumor heterogeneity of human glioblastoma at single-cell and spatial resolution" IGB Seminar - Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering Research Theme
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
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"A MINFLUX view of phage infection" - Ayesha Bhikha, Graduate Research Assistant - Physics Wenqing Zhu, Graduate Research Assistant - Physics Instrument: MINFLUX
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Focusing on research and teaching in global languages and cultures, and on some artworks concerned with languages, this lecture calls for making a more pragmatic, and more assertive, case for knowing and learning world languages. Knowing and learning world languages are crucial to our students’ lives, to solving urgent social and technological problems, and to...
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Friday, November 1, 2024
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Urban scholars have long grappled with the complexities of urban informality, and its implications for the realities of urban communities. Informality has often been understood in terms of bounded, unplanned, and unregulated spaces of the poor that require regulation to achieve formality.
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Dr. Lauren Quinn (College of ACES, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) is this week's seminar speaker.
Monday, November 4, 2024
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The United States struggles with a seemingly incurable case of historical amnesia. But a remedy for that affliction is ready for mobilization. If historians-in-training choose to acquire Applied History’s tricks of the trade, they could replace the fog of historical amnesia with the clarity of historical perspective.
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The documentary touristic intents centers on the never-completed Nazi resort of Prora, built to house 20,000 working-class Germans and used in propaganda to advance a promise of leisure time for the masses. The film asks: Is there an obligation to remember a building’s dark past?
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
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Speaker: Joseph Falson, Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science, California Institute of Technology
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In recent times, alarm over the future of history departments and programs in higher education has been widespread. In that same era, Patty Limerick has had innumerable opportunities to provide historical perspective to audiences far beyond the borders of the academic world.
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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.
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Thursday, November 7, 2024
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Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Program
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Professor Bob Morrissey (Department of History) joins us to discuss the John Eliot Bible, published in 1664, and how this unusual text can be used to examine American origin stories, as well as histories of historical interpretation and practice in our land-grant institution. Come take a look at RBML’s copy of this exceedingly rare book!
Friday, November 8, 2024
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FSHN Graduate Seminar Series Presenter | Shelby Keye, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Health and Kinesiology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Title | TBA Room 180 Bevier 11:00 AM Friday, November 8, 2024
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Dr. Tiffany Schriever (Western Michigan University) is this week's seminar speaker.
Saturday, November 9, 2024
Monday, November 11, 2024
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
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Speaker: Andrew Higginbotham, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Chicago
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Keiko Torii, PhD Professor, Johnson & Johnson Centennial Chair in Plant Cell Biology Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute "Breaking the Silence: How to Make Small Plant Mouths that Support Our Sustenance"
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Promit Ghosal Talks about " ."
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
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To build on the findings of the recent NASEM Consensus Report, “Toward Sequencing and Mapping of RNA Modifications” and bring together faculty from engineering and the physical, chemical, and life sciences to seed new ideas and collaborations, so we are well-positioned to either drive or respond to RFAs.
Thursday, November 14, 2024
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Kim Lewis, PhD University Distinguished Professor Director, Antimicrobial Discovery Center Northeastern University, Boston "The Quest for New Antibiotics"
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A poetry reading by Devon Walker-Figueroa, made possible by the Robert J. and Katherin Carr visiting author series.
Friday, November 15, 2024
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Please join us for a lecture by Candace Vogler, the David B. and Clara E. Stern professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago.
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Dr. Leona Li-Fan Su (College of Media, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) is this week's seminar speaker.
Monday, November 18, 2024
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Kalen Petersen of Washington University in St. Louis will present, "HIV Effects in the Aging Brain.”
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
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Speaker: Yong Chen, Professor, Purdue University
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This presentation will include bottom liner system design and slope analyses at different stages of construction and operation of heap leach pads. It will also include geomembrane selection, process quality control, and construction and operation troubleshooting of heap leach pads. 1.0 PDH
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Studying Subcellular Metabolites using label-free Null-Deflection scanning probe Infrared (NDIR) Spectroscopic Imaging with Ashwin Bale.
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Speaker: Edy Kirr
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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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A reading by Master of Fine Arts Candidates in Creative Writing.
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Thursday, November 21, 2024
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Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Neuroscience Program
Friday, November 22, 2024
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Dr. Roberto Sosa (National Polytechnic Institute) is this week's seminar speaker.