Urbana Campus Research Calendar (OVCRI)

This course is the recommended starting point for learning how to use the COMSOL Multiphysics® software.

Join us as we celebrate the launch of the edited volume, Paper Knives, Paper Crowns: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic with curator Maureen Warren and special guests.

Departments of Molecular & Integrative Physiology and Electrical & Computer Engineering

C3.ai DTI's 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.

Igor Pak, Professor of Mathematics at UCLA focusing on two aspects of combinatorial inequalities: recent results by Huh et. al. regarding Mason's conjectures and Stanley's inequality.

We kick off the Fall 2022 NRES Seminar Series with Mark Davis (Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute): Old Wine in New Bottles: Viewing Modern Pit Viper Conservation through the Lens of Legacy Data.

Speaker: Prineha Narang, Howard Reiss Development Chair, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

Jian Hua, PhD Cornell University; Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science Plant Biology Section "Plant Autoimmunity, Triggers and Players"

Exposure to inflammation during critical developmental windows can disrupt neural circuitry formation and function, increasing the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders. Using maternal viral infection, Dr. Antonson's lab investigates how microbial, immune, and microglial signaling might underlie the etiologies of these disorders.

Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

Speaker: A. Afham (U Sydney (Australia) and JKU Linz (Austria))

Join us! The talk will feature Professor Michael Castellano from Iowa State University. Feel free to bring your lunch.  There will be time for interacting with the speakers after the presentation.

James Hinman, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Illinois, will lecture on “Neural basis of cognitive maps in multiple reference frames” at 4:00 pm in 2269 Beckman Institute and on Zoom September 7, 2022.  One of our MBM trainees will give an introduction. The lecture is free and open to the public courtesy of the Miniature Brain Machinery Program.

Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Join us as we learn about broadside creation and printing, then tour Fresh Press at the U of I. Ben Blount, letterpress artist from Evanston, IL; Emmy Lingscheit, Assoc. Professor in Printmaking; and Guen Montgomery, Clinical Professor in Art & Design will co-create a broadside that will be printed in a live demo by the Noble Print Club.

This 90-minute workshop addresses the basics of accessing and using the Illinois Campus Cluster (ICC). The content is suitable for researchers and students who already have experience working with clusters and want to know more about the ICC and those who have little to no experience working with clusters and want to learn how to use one.

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.

The first year of graduate school comes with some big transitions and uncertainty.  Learning what to expect, and setting healthy boundaries, will help you survive and thrive through these changes.

Speak Café stands for Song, Poetry, Expression, Art, and Knowledge. It is an open-mic coffeehouse at Krannert Art Museum.

Join us for a Brown Bag conversation with Mike Thomson (Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecturer, BBC World Affairs Correspondent, Presenter and Author), Charles “Stretch” Ledford, Jane Ray, and Steve Witt on "News, Stories, and Information in the Peacebuilding Process".

The Beckman Institute and Cancer Center at Illinois invite campus researchers to attend the TEP Open House, including tours and a poster session. Recently renovated in the lower level of Beckman, TEP offers state-of-the-art equipment and expert staff to help accelerate research.

As part of Welcoming Week 2022, Krannert Art Museum invites you to explore themes of love, belonging, loneliness, and migration through artworks at museum. Invite anyone from anywhere in the world; the tour will be held at various times to support loved ones joining us from different time zones. Every virtual tour is held at 7 pm local time in the destination country.

This webinar describes the challenges and benefits of using drone imagery in remote tropical forests, and how these data can be used in ecological research.

James Eberwine, PhD Elmer Holmes Bobst Professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine; University of Pennsylvania "Beyond Single Cells: Subcellular Single Organelle ‘Omics and Functional Genomics"

Receive an overview of research integrity from Chris Lehmann, a research integrity officer in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation and a clinical professor of civil and environmental engineering.

To understand how the visual brain works in the natural world, we must study cortical neurons. Specifically, we must identify what kinds of information they store, and then relate this information to different types of images. Dr. Ponce will describe how his team uses machine learning to extract visual attributes represented by neurons.

Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

As part of Welcoming Week 2022, Krannert Art Museum invites you to explore themes of love, belonging, loneliness, and migration through artworks at the museum. Invite anyone from anywhere in the world; the tour will be held at various times to support loved ones joining us from different time zones. Every virtual tour is held at 7 pm local time in the destination country.

"Introduction to the IGB Core" Dr. Glenn Fried, Director of Core Facilities, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Speaker: Brian Doolittle, Chitambar Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC

Join Us! The talk will feature Professor Fernando Miguez from Iowa State University. Feel free to bring your lunch. There will be time for interacting with the speakers after the presentation.

James Hinman, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Illinois, will lecture on “Neural basis of cognitive maps in multiple reference frames” at 4:00 pm in 2269 Beckman Institute and on Zoom September 7, 2022.  One of our MBM trainees will give an introduction. The lecture is free and open to the public courtesy of the Miniature Brain Machinery Program.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology

Will (D)iversity, (E)quity, and (I)nclusion Die? Advocacy and Action Towards Greater Accountability in an Empowered University

As part of Welcoming Week 2022, Krannert Art Museum invites you to explore themes of love, belonging, loneliness, and migration through artworks at the museum. Invite anyone from anywhere in the world; the tour will be held at various times to support loved ones joining us from different time zones. Every virtual tour is held at 7 pm local time in the destination country.

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.

We hope you will join us for an opening reception at Levis Faculty Center on the afternoon of September 15. Join us on the back patio to gather with the humanities community at Illinois. Rain location: Levis first floor atrium

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.

CDB Career Development Seminar

The NRES Fall 2022 Seminar Series continues with Dr. Katie O'Reilly (Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute) on September 16 - "Great Lakes, Great Challenges: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Address Human Impacts on Lake Michigan Coastal Ecosystems."

As part of Welcoming Week 2022, Krannert Art Museum invites you to explore themes of love, belonging, loneliness, and migration through artworks at the museum. Invite anyone from anywhere in the world; the tour will be held at various times to support loved ones joining us from different time zones. Every virtual tour is held at 7 pm local time in the destination country.

As part of Welcoming Week 2022, Krannert Art Museum invites you to explore themes of love, belonging, loneliness, and migration through artworks at the museum. Invite anyone from anywhere in the world; the tour will be held at various times to support loved ones joining us from different time zones. Every virtual tour is held at 7 pm local time in the destination country.

"Expanding the Physical Interactome of Hsp90," Freeman Lab

Indentifying Different "Flavors" of Heterochromatin.    Belmont Lab

Pierre Béland, Canadian Chair for the International Joint Commission (IJC), will give this keynote address. Béland has worked as a scientist in environmental ecology and the impact of toxic manmade chemicals in the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence food chains, and also hosted a TV series and participated in documentaries on the subject.

Speaker: Hugo Cable, Quantum Architect, PsiQuantum

Jacob Becraft, PhD Co-founder and CEO of Strand Therapeutics "An Academia-to-Biotech Roadmap: Research and Development at the Frontiers of mRNA Therapeutics"

Learn about publications and authorships from Patty Jones, the associate director for research at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.

Cognitive processes can have profound effects on sensory experience. Dr. Gritton will discuss his team's recent electrophysiology findings revealing that prefrontal cortex is highly sensitive to behavioral errors when task rules are updated. Dr. Gritton will also provide evidence that this engagement leads to rapid plasticity in sensory cortices altering perceptual perform

Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

R I: Getting Started with R workshop

Speaker: Will Christopherson, DeMarco Group, Department of Physics, UIUC

"PEG Microgels as Modular 3D Cell Scaffold and Cytokine Sensor" Hyeon Ryoo, Graduate Student, Bioengineering Instrument - LSM 880 Lunch will be provided

Hanna Poffenbarger investigates basic controls on the flow of carbon and nutrients through soils and applies this knowledge to develop sustainable nutrient management practices.

Join us for a Brown Bag panel on “News, Stories, and Information in the Peacebuilding Process” with international visual, print and audio journalists, documentary filmmaker, librarian and scholars. An event to celebrate International Day of Peace, and Libraries for Peace Day.

Join to network with and learn more about Greater Peoria's entrepreneurial and startup ecosystem. Engage in brainstorming, discussions, and hear pitches from the latest graduates of the Distillery Labs gBETA accelerator.

A lecture discussing how "enabling those affected by war and tyranny to tell their stories, giving voice to the voiceless, empowers us all. Not only is being heard cathartic for those who've lost so much, it also helps us all to truly engage with what's happened, deepening our desire to help in whatever ways we can."

Mei Shen, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Illinois, will lecture on “Nanoelectrochemistry for Probing Fast Chemical Transmitter Release with High Temporal Resolution” at 4:00 pm in 2269 Beckman Institute and on Zoom September 21, 2022. Sara Bell, MBM trainee and PhD candidate in Chemistry, will give an introduction.

“Engaging Materialities in Early Medieval England”

SPSS is a user-friendly program that allows you to conduct statistical analyses through simple point-and-click menu items. This is an introductory course where you will learn the basic menu options and will be useful for people who have never used SPSS before.

THIS FREE, DAYLONG IN PERSON AND VIRTUAL EVENT will highlight the state-of-the-art research taking place at RFUMS and detail the novel approaches being developed for diagnosing and treating a wide range of diseases.

Third biennial showcase of technologies and startups emerging from prominent research universities in Illinois.

Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences

Dr. Choquette will discuss control of index-guided and anti-guided optical modes in vertical cavity surface emitting lasers and coherently coupled laser arrays using control of refractive index and the spatial extent of gain. Applications of non-Gaussian modes are highlighted.

Connecting FACES: Strengthening Agency, Advocacy, and Access Among Historically Marginalized Families Supporting Autistic Children

Communication is important in any mentoring relationship, whether you are the mentor or the mentee. The Graduate Office of Student Success will be presenting on strategies to effectively navigate conflict, and the workshop will also provide resources and tips for getting departmental support.

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is officially beginning the application process for its 2023–24 Fellows Program. This is a great opportunity for UIUC faculty members, researchers, or anyone who may be interested in receiving seed funding to conduct new collaborative research projects with NCSA!

Dr. Luthey-Schulten will present a whole-cell kinetic model (4DWCM) of JCVI-syn3A, a minimal bacterial cell with a reduced genome of 493 genes that has retained few regulatory proteins or small RNAs. Revealing how the cell balances the demands of its metabolism, genetic information processes, and growth, offering an insight into the principles of life for a bacterial cell.