Research Seminars @ Illinois
Tailored for undergraduate researchers, this calendar is a curated list of research seminars at the University of Illinois. Explore the diverse world of research and expand your knowledge through engaging sessions designed to inspire and enlighten.
To have your events added or removed from this calendar, please contact OUR at ugresearch@illinois.edu
Sunday, September 29, 2024
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This is part of the culminating event series with Interseminars "Improvise & Intervene." Sunday's events include a tour, Closing Collage & Movement, and Community Dinner Reception.
Monday, September 30, 2024
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The Biomedical Imaging Center & The Stephens Family Clinical Research Institute at Carle Health seminar series continues with Dr. Mark Chiew, Department of Medical Biophysics University of Toronto, and will lecture on Self-supervised learning and friends - computational methods for MRI in incomplete and corrupted data regimes
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
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Speaker: Krister Shalm, Sr. Research Associate, University of Colorado Boulder
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Valkiria Durán-Narucki, PhD Lecturer & Environmental Psychologist; College of Staten Island, City University of New York "The Ecology of Learning Spaces: A Perspective from Environmental Psychology" IGB Seminar - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
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Partha Dey talks about "Network Evolution under Delays."
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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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This film captures the political awakening among Thais after the rise and fall of Thanathorn, a young politician who calls to end the cycle of coups d’etat. The film explores the 2019 election in Thailand, which marked the end of five years of full military rule and a new group of young politicians who campaign against an authoritarian constitution.
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
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"Scalable Analysis of Cell State Dynamics with Computational Imaging and Deep Learning" Dr. Shalin Mehta, Platform Leader of Computational Microscopy Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco
Thursday, October 3, 2024
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Speaker: Robert Lipshitz (Oregon)
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Some of the most consequential outcomes of global warming for societies and ecosystems are changes in extreme events. Comparing 2000-2019 with 1980-1999, extreme temperature and flood events have more than doubled globally while the number of disastrous storms and droughts has increased by 30-50%.
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Join us for the second installment of the Gwendolyn Brooks Social Justice Initiative. This year's featured guest is Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, who will give a public reading Thursday, Oct. 3 2024 at 5:30PM.
Friday, October 4, 2024
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To provide actionable information on the climate impacts on energy and other sectors and how climate change may influence the sustainable energy futures, we developed a three-pronged strategy focusing on high-resolution modeling to improve simulations of extreme events ...
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FSHN Graduate Seminar Series Presenter | Jason M. Ridlon, PhD Associate Professor Department of Animal Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Title | Bile Acid Metabolism by the Gut Bacterium, Clostridium scindens Room 180 Bevier 11:00 AM Friday, October 4, 2024
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Dr. Bess Perry (Michigan State University) is this week's seminar speaker.
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Monday, October 7, 2024
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
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Speaker: Joseph Heremans, Scientist, Argonne National Laboraotry
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THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED Paul Sternberg, PhD Bren Professor of Biology in the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering; California Institute of Technology "Neural computation of semiochemicals in nematode sex and diapause" IGB Seminar - Gene Networks in Neural and Developmental Plasticity Research Theme
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Professor Jamie L. Jones (English) will talk about her scholarly work over lunch at this event for residents of the Honors LLC, Innovation LLC, and Sustainability LLC.
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Prof. Paul Braun will provide an overview of the current state-of-the-art batteries being used in electric vehicles and other transportation systems and then discuss what the future may bring, with an emphasis on how innovations in materials science and engineering are making possible these advances.
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Jeff Kuan (TAMU) talks about "Universal Asymptotics through Orthogonal Polynomial Duality."
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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, October 9, 2024
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This session will cover conceptual design, storytelling techniques, and scriptwriting. Our goal is to set a strong foundation to help researchers understand communication in this popular, innovative format. We will have four subsequent sessions that go into more depth, but this first workshop is paramount to getting started!
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This interactive workshop will use practical applications of two AI tools—Microsoft Copilot and Perplexity AI. These tools support your research process, offering intelligent assistance with brainstorming, refining ideas, finding sources, and enhancing your writing development.
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"Round Table Discussion" - Dr. Glenn Fried, Director of the Core Facilities - Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Topic: Core Facilities
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Lecture by Dr. Jennifer T. Bernhard, Department Head and Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. This is a hybrid event and will take place in the University Archives (146 Main Library) or you can register for the Zoom link.
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Kesav Krishnan (UVic) talks about "Uniqueness and CLT for the ground state Disordered Monomer-Dimer Model on Z^d."
Thursday, October 10, 2024
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This webinar will explore how geosynthetics can contribute to sustainability efforts in North America (the US and Canada) and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to achieve the UN’s sustainability goals. We will present both practical and theoretical insights, showcasing how geosynthetics can effectively reduce CO2 emissions and generate carbon credits in these regions.
Friday, October 11, 2024
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An overview of urban warming across scales — from city to regional to global — using multiple lines of evidence, including satellite observations, in situ measurements, and numerical modeling.
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Join visiting Fulbright researcher Rozafa Berisha for a talk exploring how young women from low-income backgrounds navigate hope and disappointment in a deindustrializing town in north Kosovo.
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The Robotics Seminar @ Illinois is hosting Prof. Kaiyu Hang for a virtual seminar.
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Please join us for a lecture by J. David Velleman, the Miller Research Professor in Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University.
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Please join us for a lecture by J. David Velleman, the Miller Research Professor in Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. In “A Method for Metaethics,” Velleman considers the question “What turns a fact into a reason for acting?” but he doesn’t answer the question; rather, he proposes a method for finding the answer.
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Dr. Rabin Bhattarai (Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) is this week's seminar speaker.
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Research regarding Artificial Intelligence is expanding but comes with methodological hurdles. This presentation will focus on the use of qualitative interviews and methods to understand people’s interactions with and perceptions toward AI. It will highlight key methodological challenges as well as outline strategies for addressing them.
Monday, October 14, 2024
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Eric Bates talks about "Parisi formulas in multi-species and vector spin glass models."
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
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Speaker: Tzu Chieh Wei, Professor, Stony Brook University
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Aaron Wright, PhD Schofield Endowed Chair in Biomedical Science; Department of Biology;Baylor University "Phenotype-Based Profiling of Environmental and Host-Associated Microbiomes" IGB Seminar - Microbiome Metabolic Engineering Research Theme
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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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Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi (Near Eastern Studies, Princeton) will deliver a lecture as part of this year's Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series, organized by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
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Please join us to learn how Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are working together through Sandia’s Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program. This event will feature keynote speakers from Sandia and posters from UIUC students on topics ranging from cybersecurity to materials science.
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Lunch with the Core, Speaker TBA
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This workshop will provide a beginner-friendly overview of how artificial intelligent tools interpret pictures and sound to generate new images, videos, and voices.
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Speaker: Nick Ramsey
Thursday, October 17, 2024
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GGT Seminar: A lagrangian correspondence on traceless SU(2) character varieties induced by a marking
Speaker: Paul Kirk (Indiana)
Friday, October 18, 2024
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This research compares USV data with forecasts generated by the Global Forecast System (GFS) and Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS).
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Dr. Bob Hughes (Oregon State University) is this week's seminar speaker.
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The Institute of Communications Research (ICR) is delighted to invite you to our Research Seminar event featuring Caleb Carr, Professor of Communication at Illinois State University, speaking on AI in Communication Research.
Monday, October 21, 2024
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
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Speaker: Jong Yeon Lee, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Susan Leggett, PhD Department of Bioengineering; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "Cancer-On-a-Chip: Reconstructing Breast and Ovarian Tumor Microenvironments to Uncover Dynamics of Cancer Spread"
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Christopher Janjigian talks about "Infinite geodesic in inhomogeneous exponential last passage percolation."
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Robert Townsend, program director for Humanities, Arts, and Culture at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, will discuss the latest from the Humanities Indicators project. Learn what their data means for our work inside and outside the academy in 2024 and beyond.
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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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Speaker: Jeremiah Heller
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Eddie O'Byrn (African American Studies, UIUC) & Emma Velez (Gender & Women’s Studies, UIUC) will deliver a lecture as part of this year's Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series, organized by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. Relevant readings are available in the corresponding Box folder. For more information, including access to the readings, please contact t
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
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"Assessing the Impact of Paraben on Uterine Collagen Architecture: An Integrated Approach Using SHG, AFM, and Nanoindentation" - Mahmuda Arshee, Graduate Teaching Assistant - Mechanical Science & Engineering
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Join Mary Ton, Digital Humanities Librarian, for dinner and discussion at the Humanities Research Institute about how to engage with AI ethically and effectively in your research and teaching through beginner-friendly tools.
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Join us for a FREE screening of Padauk: Myanmar Spring followed by a discussion led by the Director of The Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies (CEAPS), Matt Winters. Padauk: Myanmar Spring takes the viewer to the streets of Myanmar during the heady days following the February 2021 military coup.
Thursday, October 24, 2024
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Speaker: Robert Lemke Oliver (Tufts)
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Gloria Groom will discuss an exhibition of the work of Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte, coming next year to the Art Institute of Chicago next year.
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Jesse Erickson, Astor Curator of Printed Books & Bindings at the Morgan Library, joins the RBML virtually to discuss Black bibliographical exploration and trace the migrations of Black Vernacular English (BVE) from 18th-century literature to that of the hip hop generation. This Zoom presentation is open to the public; please pre-register at go.illinois.edu/Erickson.
Friday, October 25, 2024
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Exploring the Gutters: Illinois’ South Asian Comics Collection This talk by Mara Thacker, South Asian Studies & Global Popular Culture Librarian, will look into the history and evolution of the South Asian comics collection situated within the context of comics production and circulation in South Asia and showcase samples
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Prof. Alzate explores ways of “entering the body” as something that can be mapped, in connection to place: family spaces, hospitals, the space where we migrated from, and larger social spaces. She will describe the affordances of body maps to explore the body as storage of trauma, maps as narratives, and pushes for communal aesthetics in graphic design.
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Dr. Emily Cohen (University of Maryland) is this week's seminar speaker.
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Monday, October 28, 2024
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The Biomedical Imaging Center & The Stephens Family Clinical Research Institute at Carle Health seminar series continues with Bruce Damon, Stephens Family Clinical Research Institute.
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IGB-HRI Distinguished Public Lecture Series: "Linking Life Sciences and Humanities" with Jennifer Raff, PhD. Raff is an award-winning author and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas (KU).
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Join us for Dr. Claire Jiménez's lecture "Noise As Meaning: An Exploration of Voice." Drawing upon the Barbadian scholar and poet Kamau Brathwaite’s assertion that the “noise” is part of the meaning, Jiménez, author of What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez, explores the pedagogical implications of teaching “voice” in the creative writing workshop.
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
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Speaker: Alex Ma, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
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Sara Piccirillo, PhD The Robert M. Faxon Jr. Endowed Professor in Neuro-Oncology; University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center "Intra-tumor heterogeneity of human glioblastoma at single-cell and spatial resolution" IGB Seminar - Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering Research Theme
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
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"A MINFLUX view of phage infection" - Ayesha Bhikha, Graduate Research Assistant - Physics Wenqing Zhu, Graduate Research Assistant - Physics Instrument: MINFLUX
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Focusing on research and teaching in global languages and cultures, and on some artworks concerned with languages, this lecture calls for making a more pragmatic, and more assertive, case for knowing and learning world languages. Knowing and learning world languages are crucial to our students’ lives, to solving urgent social and technological problems, and to...
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Friday, November 1, 2024
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Urban scholars have long grappled with the complexities of urban informality, and its implications for the realities of urban communities. Informality has often been understood in terms of bounded, unplanned, and unregulated spaces of the poor that require regulation to achieve formality.
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Dr. Lauren Quinn (College of ACES, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) is this week's seminar speaker.