Siebel School Master Calendar

Monday, September 29, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Ruta Mehta
Recurring

9:00 - 10:00 am

3218 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Theory Seminar: Dr. Leonardo Nagami Coregliano, "Tamer regularity lemmas and PAC learning theory."

10:00 am

3401 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
CS CARES Office Hours: Yael Gertner
Recurring

3:00 - 4:00 pm
- Meeting

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Computing Startup Seminar Series: Prof. Ranjitha Kumar

11:00 am - 12:15 pm

0216 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
Salesforce Tech Talk

5:30 pm

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
- Informational

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Cubist Systems Lobby Day

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Siebel Center for Computer Science Atrium
- Informational
ONLINE: CS CARES Office Hours: Sharifa Sultana
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm
- Meeting
Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Dr. Mashfiqui Rabbi, "Computational Interventions for Behavior Change."

3:30 pm

1304 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 2, 2025

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

11:00 am - 12:20 pm

2405 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
ONLINE: CS CARES Office Hours: Heng Ji

12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Meeting
HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Jeff Erickson
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm

3237 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Computer Vision Seminar Series: Dr. Zhengyuan Yang, "Post-Training for Long-Horizon Multimodal Reasoning."

4:00 pm
- Seminar/Symposium
CS Compiler Seminar: Yifan Zhao, "Neptune: Advanced ML Operator Fusion for Locality and Parallelism on GPUs."

4:00 - 5:00 pm

3102 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
After Hours in Chicago

5:30 - 7:30 pm

200 South Wacker Drive, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606

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

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Robin Kravets
Recurring

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

3114 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Robotics Seminar: Dr. Dinesh Jayaraman, "Engineering Better Robot Learners: Exploration and Exploitation

1:00 pm
- Seminar/Symposium
Systems Research Seminar

1:30 pm

Siebel 2407 & 2405
- Conference/Workshop
Systems Research Mini Workshop: Dr. Jing Liu, "Transparently Enhancing Applications through Operating System Architectures and Mechanisms."

2:00 - 3:00 pm

2405 Siebel Center
- Conference/Workshop
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other
Systems Research Mini Workshop: Xiangpeng Hao, "LiquidCache: Efficient Pushdown Caching for Cloud-Native Data Analytics."

3:00 - 4:00 pm

2405 Siebel Center
- Conference/Workshop
Systems Research Mini Workshop: Ao Li, "[Fray: An Efficient General-Purpose Concurrency Testing Platform for the JVM]."

4:00 - 5:00 pm

2405 Siebel Center
- Conference/Workshop

Monday, October 6, 2025

Gul Agha Festschrift Symposium
Recurring

9:00 am

Discovery Partners Institute (DPI), 200 S. Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL

Join us for a symposium honoring the groundbreaking career of Professor Gul Agha.
- Festival/Celebration
Sandia Open Office Hours

9:00 - 10:30 am

2102 Siebel Center for Computer Science
- Informational
HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: CJ Coleman
Recurring

10:00 - 11:00 am

2246 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Theory Seminar: Soumik Ghosh, "Peaked quantum advantage using error correction."

10:00 am

3401 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Ketan Rajawat & Prof. Indranil Saha - AI Research and Education at IIT Kanpur

2:00 pm

Coordinated Science Lab 1308 W Main st, Urbana, 61801 CSL B02
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Gul Agha Festschrift Symposium
Recurring

9:00 am

Discovery Partners Institute (DPI), 200 S. Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL

Join us for a symposium honoring the groundbreaking career of Professor Gul Agha.
- Festival/Celebration
Computing Startup Seminar Series: Vijay Chander

11:00 am - 12:15 pm

0216 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
ServiceNow Lobby Day

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center for Computer Science Atrium
- Informational
HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Brighten Godfrey
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm

3211 Siebel Center
- Meeting
CAP Seminar: Dr. Brandon Reagen, "Towards Practical Cryptographic Computing."

4:00 pm

2405 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

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

10:00 am

Siebel Center 2405
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Defense of Aditya Prakash

12:00 pm
- Other
HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Yongjoo Park
Recurring

12:00 - 1:00 pm

2114 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Human-Computer Interaction Lightning Talks

3:30 pm

1304 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
ServiceNow Tech Talk

6:30 pm

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
- Informational

Thursday, October 9, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Adam Bates
Recurring

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

2246 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Student Startup to Top-Tier VC Funded Company

2:00 - 4:00 pm

National Center for Supercomputing Applications Auditorium
- Informational
Computer Vision Seminar Series: Jieneng Chen, "Towards Generative Worlds for Deeper Reasoning and Informed Embodiment."

4:00 pm

2244 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
CS Compiler Seminar: Arya Vohra & Leo Seojun Lee, "Mind the Abstraction Gap: Bringing Equality Saturation to Real-World ML Compilers."

4:00 - 5:00 pm

3102 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
CS Compiler Seminar: Avaljot Singh, "Automated Verification of Soundness of DNN Certifiers."

4:00 - 5:00 pm

3102 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
IMMERSE Seminar Series: Dr. Katryna Starks, "The PLAYlab: Games and Interactive Research for Social Good."

4:00 pm

2405 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 10, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Steve Herzog
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm

1210 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Robotics Seminar: Dr. Farshid Alambeigi, "Surgineering Using Intelligent and Flexible Robotic Systems."

1:00 pm
- Seminar/Symposium
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other
Systems Research Seminar Series: Dr. Bogdan "Bo" Stoica, "Bug finding at the mechanism level."

4:00 pm

1214 Siebel Center
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, October 13, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Ruta Mehta
Recurring

9:00 - 10:00 am

3218 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Theory Seminar: Nikhil Shagrithaya, "Probabilistic Guarantees to Explicit Constructions: Local Properties of Linear Codes."

10:00 - 11:00 am

3401 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
COLLOQUIUM: Dean Pospisil, "Understanding Neural Representations and Inferring How They Are Generated"

3:30 pm

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
- Seminar/Symposium
ONLINE: CS CARES Office Hours: Yael Gertner
Recurring

4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Meeting

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Computing Startup Seminar Series: Sudip Chakrabarti

11:00 am - 12:15 pm

0216 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Sarita Adve

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

4102-E NCSA
- Meeting

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Final Defense of Yuan Shen

9:30 am
- Other
HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Mattox Beckman
Recurring

9:30 - 10:30 am

2212 Siebel Center
- Meeting
ONLINE: CS CARES Office Hours: Sharifa Sultana
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm
- Meeting
COLLOQUIUM: Ruhi Sarikaya, "Path to Artificial General Intelligence: Past, Present, and Future"

3:30 pm

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
- Seminar/Symposium
Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Ali Cem Kaynak, "Usability Problems in the digital application process for subsidized student loans in Germany."

3:30 pm

1304 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 16, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Jeff Erickson
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm

3237 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Computer Vision Seminar Series: Zhuang Liu, "A Decade's Battle on Dataset Bias: Are We There Yet?"

4:00 pm
- Seminar/Symposium
CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event
CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event

Friday, October 17, 2025

DAIS Distinguished Alumni Seminar: Dr. Jiaming Shen, "Identifying and Incentivizing Grounded Natural Language Generation.""

11:00 am

4124 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Robin Kravets
Recurring

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

3114 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Robotics Seminar: Dr. Yu She, "Toward Intelligent Manipulation: From Multimodal Sensing to Neural-Symbolic Control."

1:00 pm

1232 Coordinated Science Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Machine Learning Seminar: Jiacheng Lin, "LLMs, RL, and the Rise of Self-Evolving Agents in Real-World Healthcare."

2:00 - 3:15 pm
- Ceremony/Service
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other
MiV Seminar: Arvind Ramanathan, Argonne National Lab - "Autonomous Laboratory for Accelerating Biotherapeutic Discovery"

4:00 pm

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 20, 2025

Theory Seminar: Ian Mertz, "How to Reuse Space."

10:00 - 11:00 am
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Computing Startup Seminar Series: Svetlana Vranic-Sowers

11:00 am - 12:15 pm

0216 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Brighten Godfrey
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm

3211 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214
- Community Service

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Yongjoo Park
Recurring

12:00 - 1:00 pm

2114 Siebel Center
- Meeting
COLLOQUIUM: Jason Xinyi Liu, "Robotic Language Grounding"

3:30 pm

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
- Seminar/Symposium
Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Dr. Pedro Lopes, "Integrating Interactive Devices with the User's Body."

3:30 pm

1304 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

6:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214
- Community Service

Thursday, October 23, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Adam Bates
Recurring

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

2246 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Rasoul Mahdavi - "InsPIRe: Communication-efficient PIR with Server-side Preprocessing"

11:00 am

SC 0216
- Seminar/Symposium
CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event
CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event
CS Compiler Seminar: Adharsh Kamath and Jai Arora

4:00 - 5:00 pm

3102 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 24, 2025

Final Defense of Shubham Ugare

10:00 am
- Other
Final Defense of William Sentosa

10:00 am

Siebel Center 3102
- Other
HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Steve Herzog
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm

1210 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Machine Learning Seminar: Tianyu Liu, "Pioneering Biological Discoveries with a Human-Aware Artificial Intelligence System."

2:00 - 3:15 pm

1304 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other
Systems Research Seminar Series: Dr. Li Chen, "Heterogeneity-aware Efficient and Adaptive Learning at Clusters and Edges."

4:00 - 5:00 pm

1214 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 27, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Ruta Mehta
Recurring

9:00 - 10:00 am

3218 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Theory Seminar: Dr. Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury, "Towards a Theory of Equilibrium in Data Markets."

10:00 - 11:00 am

3401 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Defense of Ali Ebrahimpour Boroojeny

10:30 am
- Other
COLLOQUIUM: Hadi Meidani, "Learning the Physical World: Neural Models for Data, Simulation, and Design"

3:30 pm

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
- Seminar/Symposium
ONLINE: CS CARES Office Hours: Yael Gertner
Recurring

4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Meeting
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214

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

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Computing Startup Seminar Series: PhD Student Startup Panel

11:00 am - 12:15 pm

0216 Siebel Center (with refreshments!)
- Seminar/Symposium
HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Sarita Adve
Recurring

12:00 - 1:00 pm

4102-E NCSA
- Meeting
Final Defense of Pritom Saha Akash

1:00 pm
- Other
Final Defense of Jinyang Li

2:30 pm

Siebel Center 3102
- Other
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214
- Community Service

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Mattox Beckman
Recurring

9:30 - 10:30 am

2212 Siebel Center
- Meeting
ONLINE: CS CARES Office Hours: Sharifa Sultana
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm
- Meeting
Final Defense of Wenxuan Bao

1:15 pm
- Other
Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Dr. Shuang Zhao, "Physics-based differentiable and inverse rendering."

3:30 pm

1304 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

6:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214
- Community Service

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Final Defense of Aditya Prakash

12:00 pm

CSL 141
- Other
HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Jeff Erickson
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm

3237 Siebel Center
- Meeting
ONLINE: CS CARES Office Hours: Heng Ji

1:00 - 2:00 pm
- Meeting
Computer Vision Seminar Series: Dr. Hermann Blum, "Robotic Scene Understanding in the Era of Foundation Models."

3:00 pm
- Seminar/Symposium
CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event
CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event
CS Compiler Seminar: Dr. Charith Mendis, "Agile and evolvable software construction in the era of rapidly evolving hardware accelerator designs."

4:00 - 5:00 pm

3102 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 31, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Robin Kravets
Recurring

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

3114 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Robotics Seminar: Alexander Smith and Neeloy Chakraborty

1:00 pm

1232 Coordinated Science Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Machine Learning Seminar: Dr. Haoxiang Wang, "Beyond Diffusion: The Rise of LLM-Native Image Generation."

2:00 - 3:15 pm
- Seminar/Symposium
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other