Siebel School Master Calendar

Monday, September 29, 2025

• • 9:00 - 10:00 am
  • 3218 Siebel Center

  HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Ruta Mehta

  • Meeting
• • 10:00 am
  • 3401 Siebel Center

  Theory Seminar: Dr. Leonardo Nagami Coregliano, "Tamer regularity lemmas and PAC learning theory."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 - 4:00 pm

  CS CARES Office Hours: Yael Gertner

  • Meeting

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
  • 0216 Siebel Center

  Computing Startup Seminar Series: Prof. Ranjitha Kumar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:30 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  Salesforce Tech Talk

  • Informational

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Siebel Center for Computer Science Atrium

  Cubist Systems Lobby Day

  • Informational
• • 1:00 - 2:00 pm

  ONLINE: CS CARES Office Hours: Sharifa Sultana

  • Meeting
• • 3:30 pm
  • 1304 Siebel Center

  Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Dr. Mashfiqui Rabbi, "Computational Interventions for Behavior Change."

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 2, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 12:20 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center

  AImpact Center Seminar: Dr. Kate Donahue, "Opportunities and Challenges in Human-AI Systems."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm

  ONLINE: CS CARES Office Hours: Heng Ji

  • Meeting
• • 1:00 - 2:00 pm
  • 3237 Siebel Center

  HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Jeff Erickson

  • Meeting
• • 4:00 pm

  Computer Vision Seminar Series: Dr. Zhengyuan Yang, "Post-Training for Long-Horizon Multimodal Reasoning."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1218 Siebel School

  CS CARES Coffee Social

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 4401 Siebel School

  CS CARES Coffee Social

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 3102 Siebel Center

  CS Compiler Seminar: Yifan Zhao, "Neptune: Advanced ML Operator Fusion for Locality and Parallelism on GPUs."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:30 - 7:30 pm
  • 200 South Wacker Drive, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606

  After Hours in Chicago

  An informal career reception in Chicago for CS and ECE students and companies to connect, network, and socialize!

  • Social/Informal Event

Friday, October 3, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • 3114 Siebel Center

  HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Robin Kravets

  • Meeting
• • 1:00 pm

  Robotics Seminar: Dr. Dinesh Jayaraman, "Engineering Better Robot Learners: Exploration and Exploitation

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:30 pm
  • Siebel 2407 & 2405

  Systems Research Seminar

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center

  Systems Research Mini Workshop: Dr. Jing Liu, "Transparently Enhancing Applications through Operating System Architectures and Mechanisms."

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other
• • 3:00 - 4:00 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center

  Systems Research Mini Workshop: Xiangpeng Hao, "LiquidCache: Efficient Pushdown Caching for Cloud-Native Data Analytics."

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center

  Systems Research Mini Workshop: Ao Li, "[Fray: An Efficient General-Purpose Concurrency Testing Platform for the JVM]."

  • Conference/Workshop

Monday, October 6, 2025

• • 9:00 am
  • Discovery Partners Institute (DPI), 200 S. Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL

  Gul Agha Festschrift Symposium

  Join us for a symposium honoring the groundbreaking career of Professor Gul Agha.

  • Festival/Celebration
• • 9:00 - 10:30 am
  • 2102 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  Sandia Open Office Hours

  • Informational
• • 10:00 - 11:00 am
  • 2246 Siebel Center

  HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: CJ Coleman

  • Meeting
• • 10:00 am
  • 3401 Siebel Center

  Theory Seminar: Soumik Ghosh, "Peaked quantum advantage using error correction."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 2:00 pm
  • Coordinated Science Lab 1308 W Main st, Urbana, 61801 CSL B02

  Prof. Ketan Rajawat & Prof. Indranil Saha - AI Research and Education at IIT Kanpur

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 - 8:00 pm
  • Siebel 1214, Thomas M Siebel Center for Computer Science, 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Peer Mentoring Center

  PMC is a place to help undergraduate students succeed in and outside the classroom.

  • Community Service

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

• • 9:00 am
  • Discovery Partners Institute (DPI), 200 S. Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL

  Gul Agha Festschrift Symposium

  Join us for a symposium honoring the groundbreaking career of Professor Gul Agha.

  • Festival/Celebration
• • 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
  • 0216 Siebel Center

  Computing Startup Seminar Series: Vijay Chander

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center for Computer Science Atrium

  ServiceNow Lobby Day

  • Informational
• • 1:00 - 2:00 pm
  • 3211 Siebel Center

  HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Brighten Godfrey

  • Meeting
• • 4:00 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center

  CAP Seminar: Dr. Brandon Reagen, "Towards Practical Cryptographic Computing."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 - 8:00 pm
  • Siebel 1214, Thomas M Siebel Center for Computer Science, 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Peer Mentoring Center

  • Community Service

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

• • 10:00 am
  • Siebel Center 2405

  Physics-guided mmWave/sub-THz Wireless Systems: From Energy-Aware PHY Layer to Exotic Beam Shaping

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm

  Final Defense of Aditya Prakash

  • Other
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 2114 Siebel Center

  HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Yongjoo Park

  • Meeting
• • 3:30 pm
  • 1304 Siebel Center

  Human-Computer Interaction Lightning Talks

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 6:00 - 8:00 pm
  • Siebel 1214, Thomas M Siebel Center for Computer Science, 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Peer Mentoring Center

  • Community Service
• • 6:30 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  ServiceNow Tech Talk

  • Informational

Thursday, October 9, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • 2246 Siebel Center

  HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Adam Bates

  • Meeting
• • 2:00 - 4:00 pm
  • National Center for Supercomputing Applications Auditorium

  Student Startup to Top-Tier VC Funded Company

  • Informational
• • 4:00 pm
  • 2244 Siebel Center

  Computer Vision Seminar Series: Jieneng Chen, "Towards Generative Worlds for Deeper Reasoning and Informed Embodiment."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 4401 Siebel School

  CS CARES Coffee Social

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1218 Siebel School

  CS CARES Coffee Social

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 3102 Siebel Center

  CS Compiler Seminar: Arya Vohra & Leo Seojun Lee, "Mind the Abstraction Gap: Bringing Equality Saturation to Real-World ML Compilers."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 3102 Siebel Center

  CS Compiler Seminar: Avaljot Singh, "Automated Verification of Soundness of DNN Certifiers."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center

  IMMERSE Seminar Series: Dr. Katryna Starks, "The PLAYlab: Games and Interactive Research for Social Good."

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 10, 2025

• • 1:00 - 2:00 pm
  • 1210 Siebel Center

  HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Steve Herzog

  • Meeting
• • 1:00 pm

  Robotics Seminar: Dr. Farshid Alambeigi, "Surgineering Using Intelligent and Flexible Robotic Systems."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Monday, October 13, 2025

• • 9:00 - 10:00 am
  • 3218 Siebel Center

  HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Ruta Mehta

  • Meeting
• • 10:00 - 11:00 am
  • 3401 Siebel Center

  Theory Seminar: Nikhil Shagrithaya, "Probabilistic Guarantees to Explicit Constructions: Local Properties of Linear Codes."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Dean Pospisil, "Understanding Neural Representations and Inferring How They Are Generated"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm

  ONLINE: CS CARES Office Hours: Yael Gertner

  • Meeting
• • 5:00 - 8:00 pm
  • Siebel 1214, Thomas M Siebel Center for Computer Science, 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Peer Mentoring Center

  PMC is a place to help undergraduate students succeed in and outside the classroom.

  • Community Service

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
  • 0216 Siebel Center

  Computing Startup Seminar Series: Sudip Chakrabarti

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 4102-E NCSA

  HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Sarita Adve

  • Meeting
• • 5:00 - 8:00 pm
  • Siebel 1214, Thomas M Siebel Center for Computer Science, 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Peer Mentoring Center

  • Community Service

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

• • 9:30 am

  Final Defense of Yuan Shen

  • Other
• • 9:30 - 10:30 am
  • 2212 Siebel Center

  HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Mattox Beckman

  • Meeting
• • 1:00 - 2:00 pm

  ONLINE: CS CARES Office Hours: Sharifa Sultana

  • Meeting
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Ruhi Sarikaya

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 6:00 - 8:00 pm
  • Siebel 1214, Thomas M Siebel Center for Computer Science, 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Peer Mentoring Center

  • Community Service

Thursday, October 16, 2025

• • 1:00 - 2:00 pm
  • 3237 Siebel Center

  HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Jeff Erickson

  • Meeting
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 4401 Siebel School

  CS CARES Coffee Social

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1218 Siebel School

  CS CARES Coffee Social

  • Social/Informal Event

Friday, October 17, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • 3114 Siebel Center

  HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Robin Kravets

  • Meeting
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other
• • 4:00 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  MiV Seminar: Arvind Ramanathan, Argonne National Lab - "Autonomous Laboratory for Accelerating Biotherapeutic Discovery"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 20, 2025

• • 10:00 - 11:00 am
  • 2246 Siebel Center

  HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: CJ Coleman

  • Meeting
• • 5:00 - 8:00 pm
  • Siebel 1214, Thomas M Siebel Center for Computer Science, 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Peer Mentoring Center

  PMC is a place to help undergraduate students succeed in and outside the classroom.

  • Community Service

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
  • 0216 Siebel Center

  Computing Startup Seminar Series: Svetlana Vranic-Sowers

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 - 2:00 pm
  • 3211 Siebel Center

  HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Brighten Godfrey

  • Meeting
• • 5:00 - 8:00 pm
  • Siebel 1214, Thomas M Siebel Center for Computer Science, 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Peer Mentoring Center

  • Community Service

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 2114 Siebel Center

  HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Yongjoo Park

  • Meeting
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Jason Xinyi Liu, "Robotic Language Grounding"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 6:00 - 8:00 pm
  • Siebel 1214, Thomas M Siebel Center for Computer Science, 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Peer Mentoring Center

  • Community Service

Thursday, October 23, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • 2246 Siebel Center

  HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Adam Bates

  • Meeting
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 4401 Siebel School

  CS CARES Coffee Social

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1218 Siebel School

  CS CARES Coffee Social

  • Social/Informal Event

Friday, October 24, 2025

• • 10:00 am

  Final Defense of Shubham Ugare

  • Other
• • 1:00 - 2:00 pm
  • 1210 Siebel Center

  HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Steve Herzog

  • Meeting
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Monday, October 27, 2025

• • 9:00 - 10:00 am
  • 3218 Siebel Center

  HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Ruta Mehta

  • Meeting
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Hadi Meidani

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm

  ONLINE: CS CARES Office Hours: Yael Gertner

  • Meeting
• • 5:00 - 8:00 pm
  • Siebel 1214, Thomas M Siebel Center for Computer Science, 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Peer Mentoring Center

  PMC is a place to help undergraduate students succeed in and outside the classroom.

  • Community Service

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 4102-E NCSA

  HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Sarita Adve

  • Meeting
• • 1:00 pm

  Final Defense of Pritom Saha Akash

  • Other
• • 5:00 - 8:00 pm
  • Siebel 1214, Thomas M Siebel Center for Computer Science, 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Peer Mentoring Center

  • Community Service

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

• • 9:30 - 10:30 am
  • 2212 Siebel Center

  HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Mattox Beckman

  • Meeting
• • 1:00 - 2:00 pm

  ONLINE: CS CARES Office Hours: Sharifa Sultana

  • Meeting
• • 1:15 pm

  Final Defense of Wenxuan Bao

  • Other
• • 6:00 - 8:00 pm
  • Siebel 1214, Thomas M Siebel Center for Computer Science, 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Peer Mentoring Center

  • Community Service

Thursday, October 30, 2025

• • 1:00 - 2:00 pm
  • 3237 Siebel Center

  HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Jeff Erickson

  • Meeting
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 4401 Siebel School

  CS CARES Coffee Social

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1218 Siebel School

  CS CARES Coffee Social

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm

  ONLINE: CS CARES Office Hours: Heng Ji

  • Meeting

Friday, October 31, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • 3114 Siebel Center

  HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Robin Kravets

  • Meeting
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other