Siebel School Master Calendar

Monday, November 3, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: CJ Coleman
Recurring

10:00 - 11:00 am

2246 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Theory Seminar: Dr. Daniel Alabi, "Existence of Error-Correcting Codes Imply Privacy Lower Bounds."

10:00 - 11:00 am

3401 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
AI Area Social

3:00 - 5:00 pm

North Lawn between Siebel Center and NCSA
- Social/Informal Event
Final Defense of Jiakun Yan

3:00 pm

Siebel Center 4102
- Other
COLLOQUIUM: Sarah Lawsky, "Formalization and Rule-Intensive Law"

3:30 pm

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
- Seminar/Symposium
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, November 4, 2025

Computing Startup Seminar Series: Dr. Mariana Silva, CEO, PrairieLearn

11:00 am - 12:15 pm

0216 Siebel Center (with refreshments!)
- Seminar/Symposium
Fall 2025 Graduate Student Town Hall

4:30 - 6:30 pm

1404 SC
- Conference/Workshop
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214
- Community Service
Tech Pulse 2030 – Preparing the Future AI Workforce

5:00 - 7:30 pm

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

This roundtable explores how communities can bridge the gap between education and employment in the age of AI.
- Conference/Workshop

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Yongjoo Park
Recurring

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

2114 Siebel Center
- Meeting
AICE Center, NLP Large Group Series: Sewoong Lee, "Sparse Autoencoders: Discoveries, Limitations, and the Bridge Between Experiement and Theory."

1:00 - 2:00 pm

2405 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
Trick or Research

4:00 - 5:30 pm

Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science, 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Hosted by the CS STARS, our researchers share their work with students interested in exploring computing and data science research opportunities.
- Exhibition
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

6:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214
- Community Service

Thursday, November 6, 2025

Computer Vision Seminar Series: Dr. Yisen Wang, "Toward a Theoretical Understanding of Self-Supervised Learning in the Foundation Model Era."

10:00 - 11:00 am
- 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. Keshav Pingali, "A Graphical Model for Context-Free Grammar Parsing."

4:00 - 5:00 pm

3102 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 7, 2025

Final Defense of Houxiang Ji

10:00 am
- Other
HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Steve Herzog
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm

1210 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Robotics Seminar: Dr. Andrea Bajcsy, "Towards Open World Robot Safety."

1:00 pm
- Seminar/Symposium
Machine Learning Seminar: Dylan Zhang, "Supervision Shall Fit the Model During Supervised Fine-tuning."

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
Final Defense of Al Smith

3:00 pm

Medical Sciences Building Auditorium Room 274
- Other

Monday, November 10, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Ruta Mehta
Recurring

9:00 - 10:00 am

3218 Siebel Center
- Meeting
COLLOQUIUM: Nihar Shah, "Despicable Science? Autonomous AI Scientists and Lotteries for Funding"

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, November 11, 2025

Final Defense of Ziqi Wang

10:00 am
- Other
Final Defense of Federico Cifuentes-Urtubey

11:00 am

Siebel Center 0218
- Other
HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Sarita Adve
Recurring

12:00 - 1:00 pm

4102-E NCSA
- Meeting
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214
- Community Service

Wednesday, November 12, 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
Special Seminar: Rachel Adler, "Designing Accessible Health Technologies for Cancer Survivors with Disabilities"

3:30 pm
- Seminar/Symposium
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

6:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214
- Community Service

Thursday, November 13, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Jeff Erickson
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm

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

4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Meeting

Friday, November 14, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Robin Kravets
Recurring

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

3114 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Final Defense of Ruicheng Xian

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

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other
The Grainger College of Engineering Hall of Fame Fireside Chat

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Illini Rooms | Illini Union | 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801
- Lecture

Monday, November 17, 2025

Final Defense of Arun Narenthiran Veeranampalayam Sivakumar

9:00 am
- Other
HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: CJ Coleman
Recurring

10:00 - 11:00 am

2246 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Theory Seminar: Dr. Thomas Rothvoss, "The Subspace Flatness Conjecture and Faster Integer Programming."."

10:00 - 11:00 am

3401 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
COLLOQUIUM: Dave Zhao, "Representation Learning in Computational Genomics"

3:30 pm

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
- Seminar/Symposium
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, November 18, 2025

Final Defense of Yangyi Chen

11:00 am
- Other
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214
- Community Service
Visa Tech Talk

5:30 pm

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
- Informational

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Yongjoo Park
Recurring

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

2114 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Final Defense of Zhen Zhu

1:00 pm

Siebel Center 3404
- Other
Special Seminar: Bin Hu

3:30 pm
- Seminar/Symposium
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

6:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214
- Community Service

Thursday, November 20, 2025

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, November 21, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Steve Herzog
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm

1210 Siebel Center
- Meeting
Cunjiang Yu, UIUC - "Optoelectronics On and In Tissue for Cardiac Modulation"

4:00 pm

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
- Seminar/Symposium
Systems Research Seminar Series: Siddhant Ray, "METIS: Fast Quality-Aware RAG Systems with Configuration Adaptation."

4:00 - 5:00 pm

1214 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 24, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Ruta Mehta
Recurring

9:00 - 10:00 am

3218 Siebel Center
- Meeting
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, November 25, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Sarita Adve
Recurring

12:00 - 1:00 pm

4102-E NCSA
- Meeting
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214
- Community Service

Wednesday, November 26, 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
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

6:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214
- Community Service

Thursday, November 27, 2025

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, November 28, 2025

HYBRID: CS CARES Office Hours: Robin Kravets
Recurring

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

3114 Siebel Center
- Meeting