Siebel School Speaker Series Master Calendar

Theory Seminar: Dr. Daniel Alabi, "Existence of Error-Correcting Codes Imply Privacy Lower Bounds."

10:00 - 11:00 am 11/3/2025

3401 Siebel Center

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COLLOQUIUM: Sarah Lawsky, "Formalization and Rule-Intensive Law"

3:30 pm 11/3/2025

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

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IQUIST Seminar: "The Quantum Intranet", Wolfgang Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

11:00 - 11:50 am 11/4/2025

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Wolfgang Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

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IMMERSE Distinguished Lecture - Ali Israr: Feeling the Data: Haptics as Information Media in Immersive Environments

4:00 - 5:00 pm 11/6/2025

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

ALI ISRAR (PhD) is a technology leader, inventor, scientist and an engineer. Over the last 25 years Ali has conducted research and development with Haptics Feedback Technologies at the forefront of industry with ByteDance, Meta and Disney. Ali had managed research and product innovation teams, managed end-to-end development of core hardware and software modules.

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CS Compiler Seminar: Dr. Keshav Pingali, "A Graphical Model for Context-Free Grammar Parsing."

4:00 - 5:00 pm 11/6/2025

3102 Siebel Center

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COLLOQUIUM: Nihar Shah, "Despicabe Science? Autonomous AI Scientists and Lotteries for Funding"

3:30 pm 11/10/2025

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

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IQUIST Seminar: "Hidden time-reversal symmetry in dissipative quantum systems: from exact solutions to engineering many-body entanglement," Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

11:00 - 11:50 am 11/11/2025

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

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COLLOQUIUM: Rachel Adler, "Designing Accessible Health Technologies for Cancer Survivors with Disabilities"

3:30 pm 11/12/2025

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

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IMMERSE Seminar- Dominic Kao

4:00 - 5:00 pm 11/13/2025

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

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COLLOQUIUM: Dave Zhao, "Representation Learning in Computational Genomics"

3:30 pm 11/17/2025

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

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IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Computing Enhanced Sensing," Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:00 - 11:50 am 11/18/2025

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT

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IMMERSE Seminar - Mike Yao: Immersion as a Lens: Using VR to Understand Human Experience

4:00 - 5:00 pm 11/20/2025

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

Virtual 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.