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
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10:00 - 11:00 am 12/8/20253401 Siebel Center -
12:00 - 1:00 pm 12/8/2025428 Mumford Hall -
12:00 - 1:00 pm 12/8/2025ESB 190 -
12:30 pm 12/8/2025Charles G. Miller Auditorium -
1:00 pm 12/8/2025Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236 -
4:00 pm 12/8/2025100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street -
4:00 pm 12/8/2025116 Roger Adams Lab -
4:00 pm 12/8/2025Nathan M. Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory -
11:00 - 11:50 am 12/9/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Liang Jiang, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
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11:30 am 12/9/20252405 Siebel Center -
12:00 pm 12/9/2025612 Conference CenterPaul A. Janmey, PhD Institute for Medicine and Engineering, Center for Engineering Mechanobiology University of Pennsylvania "Activity of chromatin remodeling motors controls nuclear mechanics and tumor cell migration in 3D environments"
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12:00 - 1:30 pm 12/9/2025Part 3 Welding Parameters will focus on the following: • Understanding Heat, Speed, and Pressure • Establishing Welding Windows • Importance of Welding Windows • Impact/Dangers/Wrinkles from Ambient conditions • Parameter recommendations • Pre-weld Testing • Correct seam overlap • What if FML is not clean (dust, water, painting)
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1:00 pm 12/9/2025Civil and Environmental Engineering Building Room 3017 -
2:00 - 2:50 pm 12/9/2025143 Altgeld HallSayan Banerjee (UNC) talks about "Percolation on Dynamic Random Networks."
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3:30 pm 12/9/2025Chem Annex 1024 -
3:45 - 4:45 pm 12/9/2025134 Astronomy Building -
4:00 pm 12/9/2025Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave, 116 RAL -
4:00 - 4:50 pm 12/9/20251306 Everitt LaboratoryLectures 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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5:30 pm 12/9/2025Campus Instructional Facility, Room 2039Join us for a lecture in the Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age series with Matthew DeCamp (University of Colorado). Drawing on insights from medical practice, philosophy, and the social sciences, his lecture will explore the use of AI in medicine and argue that AI has the potential to change who we are and what we value.
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10:00 am 12/10/2025Beckman Institute - Rooms 1005 and 3269 -
11:00 am 12/10/2025Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236 -
12:00 - 12:50 pm 12/10/2025W109 - Turner Hall -
1:00 pm 12/10/2025Roger Adams Laboratory, 600 S Mathews Ave, Room 171 -
1:00 - 2:00 pm 12/10/2025NCSA 1040Part of the Cancer Center at Illinois Seminar Series that features the latest research at the center of cancer and engineering.
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3:30 pm 12/10/2025HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 12/10/2025Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 12/10/2025Loomis Lab 141 -
10:00 am 12/11/2025162 Noyes Lab -
11:00 am 12/11/2025Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL -
11:00 am 12/11/2025Altgeld 241 -
12:00 - 1:30 pm 12/11/2025Part 4 Importance of Seam Testing will focus on the following: • Non-Destructive Testing – air channel, pick, air lance, and vacuum testing • Destructive Testing – In-house and 3rd Party Testing • Factory and Field Testing • What if seam test(s) fails - Patching • Project goal is a liner system that does not leak – work together-welder, CQA, regulator,
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3:30 pm 12/11/2025Chem Annex 1024 -
4:00 pm 12/11/20254100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building -
12:00 pm 12/15/2025Charles G. Miller Auditorium -
12:00 pm 12/17/2025Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL -
11:00 am 1/20/2026TBD -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 1/21/2026Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 1/26/2026116 Roger Adams Lab -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 1/26/2026CIF 2035 -
4:00 pm 5:00 pm 1/27/2026Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
12:00 - 12:50 pm 1/28/2026Everitt 2310 -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 1/28/2026Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
7:00 pm 1/28/2026Plym Auditorium, 134 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, 611 Lorado Taft Dr, Champaign -
4:00 pm 5:00 pm 1/29/2026Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
5:00 - 7:00 pm 1/29/2026Krannert Art MuseumEleven faculty members from the School of Art & Design will be featured in the upcoming exhibition, Another Place: Storymaking the Entangled Prairie. The exhibition considers how people make and define place through stories, and how stories carry out a kind of labor, maintaining narratives about the places we live—and about us.
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11:00 am 1/30/2026Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236 -
3:00 - 5:00 pm 1/30/2026Gregory Hall 223Join us for a lecture by Ladelle McWhorter, a professor of philosophy at the University of Richmond.
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4:00 pm 5:00 pm 2/3/2026Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/4/2026Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
4:00 pm 5:00 pm 2/5/2026Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
12:00 pm 2/6/2026B102 CLSL -
4:00 pm 5:00 pm 2/10/2026Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
12:00 pm 2/11/2026Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/11/2026Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
2:00 pm 2/12/2026116 RAL -
4:00 pm 5:00 pm 2/12/2026Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
11:00 am 2/13/2026Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236 -
3:00 - 5:00 pm 2/13/2026Gregory Hall 223Join us for a lecture by Sandford Goldberg, the Chester D. Tripp professor in the Humanities in the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University.
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4:00 pm 5:00 pm 2/17/2026Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 - 4:50 pm 2/17/20264025 Campus Instructional FacilityLectures 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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4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/18/2026Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
2:00 pm 2/19/2026116 Roger Adams Lab -
4:00 pm 5:00 pm 2/19/2026Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:30 pm 2/19/2026TBDA reading by Callie Siskel made possible by the Robert J. and Katherin Carr visiting author series. Callie Siskel is the author of Two Minds, forthcoming from W. W. Norton, and Arctic Revival, selected by Elizabeth Alexander for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her poetry appears in The Paris Review, The Atlantic, and the New York Review of Books. A
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4:30 pm 2/19/2026Illini Union Bookstore | Author's CornerA reading by Callie Siskel made possible by the Robert J. and Katherin Carr visiting author series. Callie Siskel is the author of Two Minds, forthcoming from W. W. Norton, and Arctic Revival, selected by Elizabeth Alexander for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship.
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5:15 - 6:45 pm 2/19/2026TBD -
3:00 - 5:00 pm 2/20/2026Gregory Hall 223Join us for a lecture by Heather Demarest, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Boulder.
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4:00 pm 5:00 pm 2/24/2026Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory





