Urbana Campus Research Calendar (OVCRI)

Spectral Deformation Theory and the Hilbert Stack

In lieu of the Graph Theory and Combinatorics Seminar this week, we will be having the PhD defenses of four students: Ce Chen, Igor Araujo, Zimu Xiang, and Ramón Iván García Alvarez.

Speaker: Qian Xu, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology

Angad Mehta, PhD Department of Chemistry; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "Synthetic biology for evolutionary studies and human health"

Speaker: Rainer Engelken (UIUC)

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

Speaker: Juntai Zhou, Leditzky Group

“Effect of PGC1α expression on mitochondrial biogenesis and pathogenesis in Fragile X syndrome” Vipendra Kumar Visiting Research Scientist, Prof. Nien-Pei Tsai’s lab Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois

Speaker: Gabriel Provencher Langlois

Associate Professor, Dept. of Molecular & Integrative Physiology

Speaker: Al Holder (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) Title: Uncertain Differential Equations

Speaker: Ethan Lake, Miller Fellow, University of California - Berkeley

Join us for the University of Illinois Foundation’s Resident Expert Speaker Series—designed to bring practical insights and emerging trends to advancement professionals across the University of Illinois System. This session features Karen Aarestad, PhD, who will share research and strategies on Characteristics of Alumni Donors in Academic Medicine.

Graduate Student Homotopy Theory Seminar

Speaker: Rahul Trivedi, Research Group Leader, Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics

Shai Bel, PhD Azrieli Faculty of Medicine; Bar-Ilan University “Partners in Slime: Host-Microbiota Interactions in the Gut Mucus Layer”

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

Speaker: Hannah Day, Pfaff Group

Speaker: TBD

In collaboration with The Grainger College of Engineering and Siebel Center for Design, the Human-Centered Engineering Consortium is hosting the first symposium on human-centered engineering. The symposium will bring together educators, practitioners and researchers from all engineering disciplines. Attendance is free and all are welcome! Come join us in the conversation.

Please join us Thursday, March 5th at 9:00 AM for Community Conversations with Cunningham Children’s Home. Parking will be available in the southeast corner of the State Farm Center. This session is part of a series featuring local nonprofits and campus and community colleagues who have given their time and talents to those organizations.

Joel Waldfogel will present "AI and the quantity and quality of creative products: have LLMs boosted creation of valuable books?" as part of the AImpact Speaker Series.

Speaker: Lauren Childs (Virginia Tech)

Speaker: Hong-Ye Hu, Harvard Quantum Initiative (HQI) Fellow, Harvard University

Graduate Student Homotopy Theory Seminar

Speaker: Dafei Jin, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Notre Dame

Speaker: Gabriel Provencher Langlois (UIUC)

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

Speaker: Jared Gibson, Kou Group

Speaker: TBD

Illinois' Georgia Malandraki and Brad Sutton will present, "Multimodal Approaches to Understanding Swallowing Control and Developing Plasticity Based Interventions for Dysphagia."

3rd Wednesd‑AI; A Monthly Learning Community for AI Exploration 3rd Wednesd‑AI is a hands-on space to learn, practice, and play while building AI skills together. Stay current on AI developments, experiment with new tools, and share discoveries with colleagues in a supportive environment. Bring your lunch, laptop, and curiosity. Learn together. Try new things. Have fun!

Speaker: TBD

Graduate Student Homotopy Theory Seminar

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

Oraya Zinder, PhD Candidate Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois

Speaker: TBD

Speaker: Yue Liu (Purdue University)

Graduate Student Homotopy Theory Seminar

Speaker: Henry Yuen, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University

Speaker: Anjali Nair (U Chicago)

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

Speaker: Anna Honeycutt, Chitambar Group