Urbana Campus Research Calendar (OVCRI)
Sunday, February 26, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
Monday, February 27, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
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The Spatial Omics Initiative / CAIM monthly working group brings together researchers from different disciplines to enable breakthroughs in genomic biology by developing new ways to embed omics data in space, and to facilitate the matching of biological problems to quantitative methods.
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
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Speaker: Yiwen Chu, Professor, Department of Physics, ETH Zürich
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Michelle Hoffman, PhD Executive Director of the Chicago Biomedical Consortium "A new kind of service for academics who want to commercialize tech: The Chicago Biomedical Consortium Approach"
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Illinois startups and small business that are developing medical or healthcare-based innovation, that are interested in pursuing an NIH SBIR/STTR proposal submission, are encouraged to apply for participation in this workshop series that is aimed at guiding teams through the proposal development process.
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Illinois startups and small business that are developing medical or healthcare-based innovation, that are interested in pursuing an NIH SBIR/STTR proposal submission, are encouraged to apply for participation in this workshop series that is aimed at guiding teams through the proposal development process.
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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, March 1, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
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Working on cutting edge innovation, translational research, or addressing cultural or global challenges? Ask a mentor to nominate you.
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Cell-environment interactions during tissue maturation and disease
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Speaker: Will Huie, Covey Group, Department of Physics, UIUC
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Join us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for restorative yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome bring your own mat!
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Jessica Brinkworth, PhD Assistant Professor of Anthropology "Making Resilient Science"
Thursday, March 2, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
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Professor, Dept. Biomedical Engineering
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Dr. Backlund will present his lab's work establishing the quantum information theoretical limits to several tasks related to lifetime estimation and discrimination of a two-level spontaneous optical emitter. Focusing in particular, on the model problem of resolving two mutually incoherent exponential decays with highly overlapping temporal probability profiles.
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Public Lecture by Clare Croft, Associate Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan; We'll consider what we can and cannot derive from understanding ourselves alongside one another. How does a list become a movement? An audience? A performance?
Friday, March 3, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
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Tenure-stream faculty who wish to learn more about the Interseminars Initiative are encouraged to attend this Zoom info session.
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Dr. Mera’s lab has uncovered a complex communication network between the initiator of chromosome replication (DnaA) and the initiator of chromosome segregation (ParA).
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Dr. Sophie Taddeo (Chicago Botanic Garden) is this week's seminar speaker.
Saturday, March 4, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
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Visiting Illinois as an Improvisers Exchange artist-in-residence, Jason Kao Hwang’s (composer/violin/viola) music explores the vibrations and language of his history. In Human Rites Trio, longtime bandmates Ken Filiano (bass) and Andrew Drury (drums) embark upon extemporaneous, transformational sonic journeys stemming from the narrative landscapes of Jason’s composition
Sunday, March 5, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
Monday, March 6, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
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Understanding the mechanisms of tissue regeneration and oncogenesis by imaging live mice
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
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Katrina Claw, PhD Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine; University of Colorado "Indigenizing Pharmacogenomics and Biomedical Research"
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This talk will discuss the significance of Haydar Amuli’s (d. 790/1388) most important work, Jami’ al-asrar. Amuli was the most important medieval heir to the teachings of Ibn ‘Arabi and as a Twelver Shi'a, he recast Ibn 'Arabi's doctrines into a wider Shi'i cosmological framework.
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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, March 8, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
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Regulatory logic of hair cell regeneration
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Lunch with the Core "Computer services at the IGB" Dan Davidson, Director of Computer and Network Resource Group - IGB Topic: Computer Services Lunch will be provided
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Part of the Illinois Computer Science Speakers Series.
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Join us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for restorative yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome bring your own mat!
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March 8, 2023: How to use pretrained models - Priyam Mazumdar Training Overview: There are several popular AI model repositories that provide access to pre-trained models via easy-to-use APIs. Hugging Face is one of the latest such repositories that hosts a number of very recent models, such as Facebook’s OPT and OpenAI’s GPT models, as well as many datasets.
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The Humanities Research Institute and The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program co-host an annual event bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia. Each speaker will have five minutes to tell the story of the woman in his or her discipline that changed the field in important ways.
Thursday, March 9, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
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With intensive mentoring and systematic activities focused on professional development, trainees will become the next generation of interdisciplinary leaders capable of undertaking fundamental research and enabling translational advances.
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Join the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and the DRIVE Committee for the Illinois Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship Annual Symposium. The Symposium celebrates their accomplishments and features presentations of their path-breaking research.
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You are invited to AND requested to help spread the word about an online conference on Afghan Women Speak: Voices from Within and Beyond. March 9, 2023; 11:00 am - 2:00 pm PST [9 am-12 pm PST/ 5-8 pm UK / 9:30-12:30 pm Kabul time/ 4-7 am Melbourne. This event is FREE and open to all
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Assistant Professor, Dept. Biological Sciences
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Director of Research Data Service and Associate Professor at the University Library, Dr. Imker will present her research on molecular biology databases, reasearch data management and her role as Director of Research Data Service
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This artist talk by Danielle Andress will examine the shared lineages of weaving and modern computing languages.
Friday, March 10, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
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Dr. Songlin Fei (Purdue University) is this week's seminar speaker.
Saturday, March 11, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
Sunday, March 12, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
Monday, March 13, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
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Join us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for restorative yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome bring your own mat!
Thursday, March 16, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
Friday, March 17, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
Saturday, March 18, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
Sunday, March 19, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
Monday, March 20, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
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NCSA’s Quantum Computing Interest Group is proud to welcome Physics Professor and IQUIST Director Brian DeMarco for a presentation on “The Frontier of Quantum Computing and Networking Technology” at 11 a.m. on March 20 in Room 1030 at NCSA. Quantum technologies are rapidly advancing so please join us for discussion, networking and complimentary coffee and cookies!
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
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Speaker: Mikael Backlund, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign
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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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GNDP is hosting a monthly reading group the 3rd Tuesday of each month on spatial transcriptomics this semester. The goal is to learn about this new technology, with a focus on how it can be applied to address new questions in brain and behavior. Please contact Jess Quicksall (jessicaq@illinois.edu) if you would like to attend, virtual/hybrid format.
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Come get inspired by hearing Dean Cohen speak on the journey of medicine & learn about the future of medicine at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine.
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
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Speaker: Michael Mollenhauer, Pfaff Lab, Department of Physics, UIUC
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Join us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for restorative yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome bring your own mat!
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In this Women@NCSA event, Dr. Ramsey will talk about how to change our perceptions about conflict, the role of power in conflict, emotional labor, self-care in response to emotional labor, how those in power can help mitigate the impacts of emotional labor in the workplace, ways leaders can support marginalized employees, and more.
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3/22/2023: DRYML an open source meta-library for machine learning and more - Matthew Krafczyk Training Overview: DRYML aims to empower the ML practitioner to spend less time writing boilerplate code & more time implementing new techniques. DRYML provides a model serialization framework along with serialization implementation for many common ML frameworks & model types
Thursday, March 23, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
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Associate Professor, Dept. Pathology and Cell Biology
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Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, will present "Inclusive speech technology" at the Beckman Institute Director's Seminar at noon on Thursday, March 23 in 1005 Beckman and on Zoom. Lunch will be provided.
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The IGB Lunchbox Series lectures are paired with food prepared by Bevier Cafe and held in-person at the Spice Box Cafe. “Breaking Bread and Barriers: Addressing Health Disparities in the U.S.” Zeynep Madak-Erdogan Sylvia D. Stroup Scholar of Nutrition and Cancer Food Science and Human Nutrition March 23, 2023, 12:00pm Buffet-style lunch opens at 11:45
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Renowned Japanese Mangaka Kazuo Maekawa is coming to campus for a series of events! On March 23rd at 12pm he will deliver a talk in room 106 in the Main Library. Snacks will be provided to in-person attendees. Virtual attendees may register to attend on Zoom at https://go.illinois.edu/Manga.
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Join us from noon–1 p.m. CST at 1205 W. Clark St. Urbana, IL, in NCSA 1104 to hear from undergraduate students about their research efforts through the Students Pushing INnovation (SPIN) program at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
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Join the Slavic Reference Service and the Language Workshop at Indiana University for the next installment of the Research and Language Learning series. On March 23 we are featuring Dr. Marianne Kamp who will be giving a talk entitled "Learning to Listen in Uzbek: Oral History and Language Proficiency." For more information and to register, please visit: https://forms.gle/
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This talk will place trends in the modern era of vaccination in the context of issues related to the nuclear family, economy, health care, and federal politics. It will also discuss how shifting social values, environmental concerns, gender roles, the valuation of children, and the relationship between secular and religious values inform vaccination skepticism.
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Join us for a School of Art & Design Visitors Series lecture by William Camargo. William Camargo’s work entails research, intervention, and looking at new forms of displacement in local history. In his long-term series Origins & Displacements: Making Sense of Place, Histories & Possibilities, he responds to found archives of his hometown of Anaheim.
Friday, March 24, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
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Join us on March 24, 2023, for an empowering Women in STAT event that showcases the perspectives of successful female leaders in academia and industry.
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Communicating science is a complex process that must take into consideration multiple factors such as the complex nature of scientific information, the way individuals process complex information, as well as the external factors that impact people’s everyday lives.
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This week's guest Dr. Adam Janke (Iowa State University) speaks on "Learning & Land Grants: Experiences as a Wildlife Extension Educator."
Saturday, March 25, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
Sunday, March 26, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
Monday, March 27, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
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The Center for Artificial Intelligence and Modeling (CAIM) monthly working group facilitates the matching of biological problems to quantitative methods, covering such topics as single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, biomolecular networks in space and time explored using single-cell biophysics, microbiome dynamics and methods for control, and cancer genomics.
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
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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, March 29, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
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"Identification of structural model of mammalian meiotic synaptonemal complex with super-resolution scope (MINFLUX)" Reza Rajabi Toustani, Postdoc Research Associate, Department of Comparative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine
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Speaker: Won Kyu Calvin Sun, Covey Group, Department of Physics, UIUC
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Join us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for restorative yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome bring your own mat!
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3/29/2023: XAI Tutorial: Explainability of Deep Neural Networks Training Overview: DNNs are often treated as black boxes. This talk will focus on some of the modern methods of explainability for DNNs and discuss their implementation, usage, and limitations.
Thursday, March 30, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
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Professor, Dept. Internal Medicine and Molecular & Integrative Physiology
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Allison Lide has worked as a Montessori teacher in the US, Afghanistan, Morocco, and Austria. Her focus is on "restorative pedagogy" with children who have been through trauma. She co-founded the Garden of Flowers Montessori Preschool in Kabul in 2002 and is working on a book about the transformative process of implementing Montessori education in Afghanistan.
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Dr. Costantini will demonstrate that high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is capable of delivering crucial information that cannot be achieved by other current analytical methods about “real world” electronic and energy materials. Specifically, he will show that by combining vacuum electrospray deposition (ESD) and high-resolution STM
Friday, March 31, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
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The Beckman Institute Open House will be held in person on Friday, March 31 and Saturday, April 1. Visitors of all ages can do hands-on demos and activities, solve a science scavenger hunt, and meet the people behind world-changing scientific discoveries.
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FSHN 597 Graduate Seminar Series Presenter | Bradley M. Appelhans, PhD Associate Professor Department of Family and Preventive Medicine Rush University Medical Center Title | TBA
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This lecture debates upon the definition and function of the term, ‘identity’ and ‘culture’ leading to the argument that identity encapsulates difference while culture is a phenomenon by which decolonization occurs. The later part of the presentation reads a few select South Asian works to reveal the nature of identity and culture and the multiple levels at which it exists
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This lecture debates upon the definition and function of the term, 'identity' and 'culture' leading to the argument that identity encapsulates difference while culture is a phenomenon by which decolonization occurs. The later part of the presentation reads select South Asian works to reveal the nature of identity and culture and the multiple levels at which it exists.
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Dr. Jayson Porter (Brown University) is this week's seminar speaker; he'll be presenting "Strong Enough to Remove Dirt: Soap, Race, and Environmental Violence in Guerrero Mexico, 1920–1960."
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Join us for a virtual presentation in the School of Art & Design Visitors Series by designer Shannon Bruce Elliott! Shannon Bruce Elliott, Footwear Designer, will be discussing her own transition from apparel design to footwear, her career highlights in the footwear industry, issues around sustainability and product development, and practical purchasing advice.
Saturday, April 1, 2023
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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
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The Beckman Institute Open House will be held in person on Friday, March 31 and Saturday, April 1. Visitors of all ages can do hands-on demos and activities, solve a science scavenger hunt, and meet the people behind world-changing scientific discoveries.
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Join KAM’s Educators and librarians from the Champaign Public Library for an interactive story time for children and their families and caregivers. All ages welcome!