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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Sunday, December 7, 2025
Monday, December 8, 2025
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10:00 - 11:00 am3401 Siebel Center -
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 pmNathan M. Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory
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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 pmPart 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 2039Join 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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10:00 amBeckman Institute - Rooms 1005 and 3269
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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
Saturday, December 13, 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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12:00 - 12:50 pmEveritt 2310
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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.