Siebel School Speaker Series Master Calendar
Monday, November 3, 2025
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10:00 - 11:00 am3401 Siebel Center -
3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
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11:00 am - 12:15 pm0216 Siebel Center (with refreshments!)
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Wolfgang Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Thursday, November 6, 2025
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4:00 - 5:00 pm3102 Siebel Center
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4:00 - 5:00 pmSiebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405In this talk, I will present recent work on multichannel and multidimensional haptic displays that augment user experience—allowing users to feel stories through semantic cues in natural language, manipulate virtual objects with varying compliance and dynamic properties, and mitigate cybersickness through spatial haptics applied to the body.
Friday, November 7, 2025
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2:00 - 3:15 pm1304 Siebel Center
Monday, November 10, 2025
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10:00 - 11:00 am3401 Siebel Center
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3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Thursday, November 13, 2025
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11:00 am2405 Siebel Center
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4:00 - 5:00 pmSiebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405Screens now mediate much of our daily life. My research asks how we can build effective virtual worlds--from games to virtual reality to AI-enhanced immersive systems. In this talk, I'll share key findings from my work on virtual identities, virtual reality, audiovisual feedback, AI, and games, and discuss emerging directions for this research.
Friday, November 14, 2025
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2:00 - 3:15 pm1304 Siebel Center
Monday, November 17, 2025
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10:00 am3403 Siebel Center
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3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
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11:00 am - 12:15 pm0216 Siebel Center (with refreshments!)
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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1:00 - 2:00 pm2405 Siebel Center
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1:00 pm301 Coordinated Science Lab
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3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
Thursday, November 20, 2025
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11:00 am2405 Siebel Center
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4:00 - 5:00 pm3102 Siebel Center
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4:00 - 5:00 pmSiebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405Virtual reality (VR) and immersive media provide a unique experimental space for testing and extending psychological and communication theories. In this talk, I’ll walk through how immersive environments have been used to study human experience—not only as platforms for message delivery, but as media with their own psychological effects.
Friday, November 21, 2025
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4:00 pm2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
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4:00 - 5:00 pm1214 Siebel Center