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11:00am, Marc Hertzman, History, The 'Indians of Palmares': Conquest, Violence, and Land in Northeast Brazil. Noon, Lucas Wagner, Physics, Simplicity from Complexity: Learning Simple Physics from Detailed Quantum Simulations
SocialFuse: The event where you can pitch your startup idea, network, and find teammates. Or sit back and check things out!
This lecture will take a closer look at several broadsides on view this Fall at Krannert Art Museum in the exhibition Fake News and Lying Pictures: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic, a version of which will travel to University of San Diego Galleries and Smith College Museum of Art in Spring 2023 and Fall 2023.
Apply to spend a week in Silicon Valley during winter break visiting startups and leading technology companies featuring entrepreneurial UIUC alumni. Application deadline: Monday, Oct. 3.
David Rosenboom will present concrete examples from his more than five decades of pioneering work in propositional music illustrating how testable theoretical models in science and process-based what-if models in speculative arts can converge to mutual advantage in the new artscience.
The Colloquium on Digital Transformation is a series of weekly online talks featuring top scientists from academia and industry on how artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data can lead to scientific breakthroughs with large-scale societal benefit. Free to attend – Zoom registration required.
Professor Joe Barich will share basic information about trademarks and patents for students working on startup ideas.
Lia García is a Mexico City-based performance artist, activist, and educator whose work has been featured at the Annual Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Politics and Performance at NYU, Harvard University, and the University of Texas at Austin, among other universities and cultural centers across the Americas and Europe.
NCSA is officially beginning the application process for our Fellows Program. We're seeking creative and innovative individuals to join our 2023-24 cohort of NCSA Fellows. If you’re a UIUC faculty member or researcher interested in seed funding to conduct new collaborative research projects with NCSA – this opportunity is for you!
Speaker: Dr. Joel Meyers
CAS Food For Thought 1:00am, Naveen Narisetty, Statistics, Quantile Regression Modeling for Survival Data with a Cured Subgroup Noon, William Schneider, Social Work, Income and Housing Support Experiments and Child Neglect
Jacki Rand (Associate Vice Chancellor for Native Affairs, American Indian Studies) in conversation with Mimi Thi Nguyen (Gender & Women's Studies), moderated by Jenny L. Davis (American Indian Studies, Anthropology)
This presentation provides a general overview of the “Propaganda of History” since the origination of public schools in the United States during the 1840s.
Drawing on her research on slavery at the University of Alabama, Hilary Green explores the need for recovering and untangling institutional campus histories of race and slavery and how understanding the enslaved campus experience is essential for institutional reconciliation efforts in the present.
Speaker: Kedar Phadke
Speaker: Melanie Archipley
IEEE VIS 2022 will be the year’s premier forum for advances in theory, methods, and applications of visualization and visual analytics. The conference will convene an international community of researchers and practitioners from universities, government, and industry to exchange recent findings on the design and use of visualization tools.
Graduate students: this is a great opportunity to learn more about HRI's Campus Fellowships program and to ask questions in preparation of the December 2, 2022 deadline.
Professor Gruebele will discuss a few topics of current interest, ranging from specialization in science, to grand discoveries waiting to happen, to how making and using fossil fuels better is a big part of the equation, or the fundamental-applied pendulum that is currently swinging ‘applied.'
BS Dual Degree in Innovation, Leadership, and Engineering Entrepreneurship (ILEE) | Hear from advisers and current ILEE students, learn how ILEE can enhance your career and help you gain a competitive edge in the job market, ask questions, and more!
"14 ways of looking at the future" : a public lecture presented by Lin Hixson and Matthew Goulish, co-founders of the Chicago-based performance company Every house has a door.
This special virtual SocialFuse event is for Grainger Engineering & UChicago students only. Come pitch your startup idea, or listen to other pitches and see if there's a team you'd like to join. Learn how your startup (or the startup team you join) can be eligible to win funding from a $150,000 prize pool.
11:00am, Lijun Liu, Structure and Evolution of the Continental Lithosphere Noon, Damien Guironnet, Dealing with Plastic Waste: Upstream and Downstream Strategies
Dr. Christopher Thornton, director of the Division of Research Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities, will speak in-depth about NEH grant opportunities and offer suggestions for submitting a successful application at this upcoming workshop.
Drawing from her research on hundreds on translational humanities responses to the pandemic from dozens of countries around the world, Professor Ostherr will offer new methods for addressing human health grounded in cultural and historical context.
Graduate students in the humanities, arts and related fields: you are cordially invited to join us for a casual, relaxed gathering on the first floor of Levis Faculty Center!