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.

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“We are each other’s harvest” : Gwendolyn Brooks and the Formation of Black Literary Canon
Recurring

All Day 9/26/2024 - 5/23/2025

Main Library Room 346

RBML’s new exhibit celebrates the 75th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks’s 'Annie Allen' – the poetry collection that won the first Pulitzer Prize by a Black author – and explores the rich history of Black literature’s emergence into the mainstream. On display through May 2025.
- Exhibition
First Gen Forward Event
Recurring

8:30 am 10/9/2024 - 9/24/2025

O’Leary Learning Center, College of Education
- Social/Informal Event
Transportation Infrastructure Precast Day (TIP Day)

8:30 am - 2:30 pm 11/1/2024

CEEB
- Conference/Workshop
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury

10:00 - 10:50 am 11/1/2024

2310 EVRT - 1406 W Green St, Urbana IL 61801
- Seminar/Symposium
Validating GFS and GEFS Forecasts of Arctic Surface Fluxes against Saildrone Observations

10:00 - 10:50 am 11/1/2024

2311 NCEL - Yeh Center

This research compares USV data with forecasts generated by the Global Forecast System (GFS) and Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS).
- Seminar/Symposium
CAPS Seminar

12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/1/2024

NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040
- Seminar/Symposium
Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Yang Yang (University of California - Santa Barbara), "New Strategies for Stereoselective Radical Biocatalysis"

12:00 pm 11/1/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Quantum photonics with rare-earth materials"

1:00 pm 11/1/2024

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium
ROBOTICS SEMINAR: Experiences in Developing Robotics Solutions in a Startup Company

1:00 pm 11/1/2024

CSL Studio 1232
- Seminar/Symposium
AI-assisted User Intent Formalization for Programs: Problem and Applications

2:00 - 3:00 pm 11/1/2024
- Seminar/Symposium
Large Language Models: An Applied Econometric Framework

2:00 - 3:30 pm 11/1/2024

317 David Kinley Hall
- Seminar/Symposium
NRES Seminar Series: Lauren Quinn

3:00 pm 11/1/2024

W-109 Turner Hall

Dr. Lauren Quinn (College of ACES, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) is this week's seminar speaker.
- Seminar/Symposium
Shravan Dommaraju, Final Defense, UIUC, "Algorithmic Discovery and Characterization of New Biosynthetic Reactions"

3:00 pm 11/1/2024

B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Hybrid GGIS Colloquium | A Political Economy of Urban Informality Under Racial Capitalism

3:00 pm 11/1/2024

2049 Natural History Building
- Lecture
THEORY SEMINAR: Sudarshan Shyam on "A new lower bound for multi-color discrepancy with applications to fair division, Sudarshan Shyam, Aarhus University

10:00 am 11/4/2024

Siebel 3401
- Seminar/Symposium
Speaker Kaylee Wells - U.S. Grassland Recreation Under Climate Change: Evidence From Big Visitation Data and Weather

12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/4/2024

426 Mumford Hall
- Seminar/Symposium
The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: "Topo-photovoltaics"

12:00 pm 11/4/2024

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium
"Peaceworks on Campus"

12:00 pm 11/4/2024

Latzer Hall (inside University YMCA) - 1001 S. Wright St., Champaign
- Lecture
Nuclear Physics Seminar - Wenbin Zhao (LBL) "Connections between Heavy-ion Collisions and Electron-Ion Collisions"

1:00 pm 11/4/2024

464 Loomis
- Seminar/Symposium
FINAL DEFENSE, Jiachun Shi, "A time-resolved framework for structure-property-processing relations of polymeric systems using recovery rheology"

1:00 pm 11/4/2024

1092 Lincoln Hall
- Ceremony/Service
Decarbonization of the Gas Processing and Chemical Plants: The Path for Technology Commercialization

2:00 - 3:00 pm 11/4/2024

1 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign, IL 61820
- Seminar/Symposium
Remote Work and Consumer Cities

2:00 - 3:30 pm 11/4/2024

317 David Kinley Hall
- Seminar/Symposium
Distinguished Lecture: Patrick McDaniel, "Adversarial Machine Learning: A 10-year Perspective"

3:30 pm 11/4/2024

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online
- Seminar/Symposium
Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Chuan He, University of Chicago, "Nucleic Acid Chemical Labeling"

4:00 pm 11/4/2024

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Self-assembly models for crystal growth and phase transitions"

4:00 pm 11/4/2024

100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
- Seminar/Symposium
Entomology Colloquium - Hollister Herhold, Entomologist, American Museum of Natural History - "Tracheae and Hemoglobins - Morphological and Molecular Adaptations for Respiration in Insects"

4:00 pm 11/4/2024

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
CS COMPILER SEMINAR: WhiteFox: White-Box Compiler Fuzzing Empowered by Large Language Models

4:30 - 5:30 pm 11/4/2024

Room 2406 (Siebel)
- Seminar/Symposium
Andres Mejia (U Penn): An Equivariant Calculus of Embeddings

11:00 am 11/5/2024

Altgeld 241
- Seminar/Symposium
IQUIST Seminar: "Thin film intermetallics: new structure-types and unconventional superconductivity," Joseph Falson, California Institute of Technology

11:00 - 11:50 am 11/5/2024

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

Speaker: Joseph Falson, Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science, California Institute of Technology
- Seminar/Symposium
Shady situations: Strategies for improving photosynthesis in the lower canopy

12:00 pm 11/5/2024

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Laurie Leonelli, Phd Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "Shady situations: Strategies for improving photosynthesis in the lower canopy"
- Seminar/Symposium
Enhancing Research with Copilot and Perplexity AI tools

12:00 - 12:50 pm 11/5/2024

Main Library 314

This 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. You will learn how to use tools to efficiently gather insights, structure arguments, and streamline your res
- Informational
Ting-Yang Hsiao's Final Defense

1:00 pm 11/5/2024

343 Altgeld Hall
- Other
Susanna Barrett, Final Defense, UIUC, "Insights Into Rotaxane Formation Enable Cyclase Engineering For Lasso Peptide Diversification."

2:00 pm 11/5/2024

612 Institute for Genomic Biology
- Seminar/Symposium
Statistics Final Defense - Dongxiao Wu, "Robust Sensitivity Analysis for Quantiles of Hidden Biases and Treatment Effects in Matched Observational Studies"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 11/5/2024
- Seminar/Symposium
CBPP Research Seminar - Hanna Druckenmiller

2:00 - 3:20 pm 11/5/2024

3007 BIF
- Seminar/Symposium
INHS Seminar | Changes in Precipitation Frequency Standards Due to Climate Change in Illinois

3:00 pm 11/5/2024

1005 Forbes Natural History Building, 1816 S Oak Street, Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium
Chem 515 Literature Seminar: Arsha Choudhary, UIUC "Design Strategies for Earth-Abundant Metal Based Photo-redox Catalysts" (TBD) (I)

3:30 pm 11/5/2024

1024 Chem Annex
- Seminar/Symposium
Seminar Speaker: Professor Da Yang, UChicago

3:30 pm 11/5/2024

2079 NHB
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Sevi Agiakloglou, UIUC, "PROTACs as Next Generation Degraders: The Development of ARV - 471 in ER+ Breast Cancer"

4:00 pm 11/5/2024

116 Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
"Memories in motion: using virtual reality to examine representational drift," by Jason R. Climer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

4:00 pm 11/5/2024

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminar: Yutong "Gloria" Hou/Vanderpool Lab and Ezza Khan/Mera Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/5/2024

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Enhancing the Representation Accuracy of Neural Networks for Multiscale Dynamics

4:00 pm 11/5/2024

4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
- Seminar/Symposium
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series -Mr. Andy Robinson and Dr. Andrew Stumpf

4:00 - 4:50 pm 11/5/2024

2100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building, 1206 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801

Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
- Seminar/Symposium
Compute-Energy-Nexus Workshop

8:00 am - 5:00 pm 11/6/2024

Coordinated Science Laboratory, 1308 W Main St CSL B02
- Conference/Workshop
Speaker Richie R Ma - Tick size and price discovery: Futures-options evidence

12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/6/2024

426 Mumford Hall
- Seminar/Symposium
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Fatemeh Taherasghari (UIUC) "Probing Gravitational Lorentz Invariance: Einstein-Aether Theory and Compact Binary Dynamics in Post-Minkowskian Framework"

12:00 pm 11/6/2024

Loomis 464
- Seminar/Symposium
Lunch with the Core - Age and Sex-Dependent Morphological Differences within the Neuromuscular Junction of Gastrocnemius and Diaphragm

12:00 pm 11/6/2024

612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

"Age and Sex-Dependent Morphological Differences within the Neuromuscular Junction of Gastrocnemius and Diaphragm " Sarah Asif, PhD Student Neuroscience Program, Martha Gillette's Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Distinguished BIOE 500 Seminar Speaker - Kim Blackwell

12:00 - 12:50 pm 11/6/2024

Everitt Laboratory 2310
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Rapti Pal, UIUC, "Spinterface Theory for Chirality-Induced Spin-Selectivity"

2:00 pm 11/6/2024

2021 Chemistry Annex, 601 S. Mathews Ave, Room 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Huihang Qiu, UIUC, "Advancing Polymer Network Characterization: Bridging Kinetics and Network Structure through Computational Methods"

2:00 pm 11/6/2024

2021 Chemistry Annex, 601 S. Mathews Ave, Room 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Jason Wu, UIUC, "Bayesian Optimization for Chemical Synthesis"

2:00 pm 11/6/2024

2021 Chemistry Annex, 601 S. Mathews Ave, Room 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Ahmet Arda Turk, UIUC, "Elucidating the Ultrafast Nature of Molecular Fragmentation in Electron-Ionization Mass Spectrometry"

2:00 pm 11/6/2024

2021 Chemistry Annex, 601 S. Mathews Ave, Room 1024
- Ceremony/Service
Chem 545 Literature Seminar: Rapti Pal, "Spinterface Theory for Chirality-Induced Spin-Selectivity"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 11/6/2024

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Chem 545 Literature Seminar: Huihang Qiu, "Advancing Polymer Network Characterization: Bridging Kinetics and Network Structure through Computational Methods"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 11/6/2024

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
The Skyscraper Revolution: Global Economic Development and Land Savings

2:00 - 3:30 pm 11/6/2024

317 David Kinley Hall
- Ceremony/Service
Computing in an Ethical Pluriverse: Toward Incorporating Different Voices in Data, Development, and Sustainability

3:30 pm 11/6/2024

0218 Siebel Center
- Lecture
Physics Colloquium: "Quantum networking with solid-state emitters"

4:00 pm 11/6/2024

Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
- Seminar/Symposium
PEEC Seminars- Dr. Van Savage, UCLA, Impacts of Higher-Order Interactions among Drugs, Genes, and Species

5:00 - 6:00 pm 11/6/2024

Alice Campbell Alumni Center
- Seminar/Symposium
How did Global Events Shape the 2024 Presidential Election?

6:00 pm 11/6/2024

1092 Lincoln Hall
- Lecture
PhD Final Defense – Bryce Mazurowski

8:00 am 11/7/2024

Newmark 2310
- Seminar/Symposium
Dr. Shelly Flagel, University of Michigan "Exploiting individual differences to identify the neural mechanisms underlying inhibitory control"

11:00 am 11/7/2024

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Program
- Seminar/Symposium
SE 290 - Dan Donahoe

11:00 am 11/7/2024

114 TB
- Lecture
GGT Seminar: Kaplansky's Conjecture: looking for zero divisors in group rings

11:00 am - 12:00 pm 11/7/2024

347 Altgeld Hall
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Suja Thakali, UIUC, "Development of Oral Therapeutics Targeting the GLP-1 Receptor"

12:00 pm 11/7/2024

163 Noyes Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Speaker Frederick Nyanzu - Digital Financial Services, Financial Inclusion, and Ag-Investment: Evidence from Ghana

12:30 - 1:30 pm 11/7/2024

426 Mumford Hall
- Seminar/Symposium
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Xiaofang Jiang, NIH, "Uncovering Microbial and Phage Enzymes through Genomic Analysis"

2:00 pm 11/7/2024

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
Kent Seminar: Matteo Muratori, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

2:00 - 3:00 pm 11/7/2024

1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
- Seminar/Symposium
Schewe Research Seminar - Bernard Herskovic

2:00 - 3:20 pm 11/7/2024

3007 BIF
- Seminar/Symposium
ESEC Colloquium - Lauren Harrison

3:30 pm 11/7/2024

2079 Natural History Building
- Seminar/Symposium
Professor Chong Liu, University of Chicago, "Controlling Ions for Separation and Manufacturing" (M)

3:30 pm 11/7/2024

1024 Chem Annex
- Seminar/Symposium
Statistics Seminar - Eren Kizildag (Illinois) "Statistical-Computational Trade-Offs in Large-Scale Random Models"

3:30 pm 11/7/2024

119 Materials Science and Engineering Building
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Sarah Cobey, University of Chicago -- "Immune memory, viral evolution, and repeated vaccination against influenza"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/7/2024

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Ceremony/Service
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: William Krueger, UIUC, "Homogenizing Heterogenous Catalysis: Synthetic Applications of Single Atom Catalysis"

4:00 pm 11/7/2024

116 Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
"The Struggle to Govern the Oceans: The Past, Present, and Future of the Law of the Sea"

4:00 pm 11/7/2024

306 Coble Hall
- Lecture
Dr. Angélica Waner (UIUC) Fall 2024 Lecture Series

4:00 - 5:00 pm 11/7/2024

Henry Administration Building 138
- Lecture
Optimizing Software For Dedicated Hardware

4:00 - 5:00 pm 11/7/2024

1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Gregory Harris

10:00 - 10:50 am 11/8/2024

2310 EVRT - 1406 W Green St, Urbana IL 61801
- Seminar/Symposium
Machine learning supporting the operation of nitrogen removal processes: Get ready – the future is near!

10:00 - 10:50 am 11/8/2024

2311 NCEL - Yeh Center

For many decades AI has come with really high expectations and has often failed to deliver, also in the water sector. With the advent of the Googles of this earth, AI has made big inroads in our lives. It turns out that the wastewater field is now ready for this digital revolution too.
- Seminar/Symposium
High Energy Physics Seminar - Jure Zupan (University of Cincinnati) - "Rare muon transitions and searches for new physics"

11:00 am 11/8/2024

Room 464
- Seminar/Symposium
CAPS Seminar: Gravitational wave observations with LIGO and Virgo

12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/8/2024

NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040
- Seminar/Symposium
Ryan Duffy - University of Florida

12:00 pm 11/8/2024

LER 35
- Lecture
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Tetyana Dzyadevych, "Voices of Political Revival in Post-Soviet Russian and Ukrainian Cultural Field"

12:00 pm 11/8/2024

306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture
Modeling the Economics of Modern Options for Mainline Freight Railway Electrification

12:15 pm 11/8/2024

Newmark Civil Engineering Building, 2311 Yeh Center

This seminar reviews traditional obstacles to freight rail electrification, and uses the CURRENT model to demonstrate how new technologies, and strategic operation and implementation approaches, can improve the economics of traditional and intermittent electrification on a case study freight corridor.
- Seminar/Symposium
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Spin dynamics with materials, atoms, and quantum computers: from Heisenberg chains at infinite temperature to triangular lattice antiferromagnets at 20 mK"

1:00 pm 11/8/2024

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium
Robotics Seminar @ Illinois: The Power of Contraction in Control, Learning, and Beyond: Toward Trustworthy Aerospace and Robotic Autonomy

1:00 pm 11/8/2024

CSL Studio 1232

The Robotics Seminar @ Illinois will hold a seminar by U of I Aerospace Prof. Hiro Tsukamoto
- Seminar/Symposium
PhD Final Defense – Sean Matus

1:00 pm 11/8/2024

Natural History Building, Room 2083
- Conference/Workshop
Final Defense - PhD - Jongwon Lim

2:00 pm 11/8/2024

Everitt 1103 and Zoom
- Other
Generating Natural and Effective Unit Test Cases with Large Language Models

2:00 - 3:00 pm 11/8/2024
- Seminar/Symposium
Topics in the application of Bayesian machine learning to causal inference

2:00 - 3:30 pm 11/8/2024

317 David Kinley Hall
- Seminar/Symposium
From Bots to Buddies: Making Conversational Agents More Human-Like via Expert Strategies and Multimodal Commonsense

2:00 - 3:30 pm 11/8/2024

Coordinated Science Laboratory, 1308 West Main St. Urbana, IL 61801, B02 Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
NRES Seminar Series: Tiffany Schriever

3:00 pm 11/8/2024

W-109 Turner Hall

Dr. Tiffany Schriever (Western Michigan University) is this week's seminar speaker.
- Seminar/Symposium
THEORY SEMINAR: Charlie Carlson, "Sampling Colorings with Markov Chains"

10:00 am 11/11/2024

Siebel 3401
- Seminar/Symposium
PhD Final Defense – Samuel Enrique Aguiar

11:00 am 11/11/2024

CEEB 1017
- Conference/Workshop
Speaker Hyungsun Yim - Impact of Extreme Weather Events on the U.S. Domestic Supply Chain of Food Manufacturing

12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/11/2024

426 Mumford Hall
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Humayra Oishi/S. Prasanth Lab

12:00 pm 11/11/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: "Quantum Oscillations from Bosonization"

12:00 pm 11/11/2024

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium
Dr. Margo Monteith: "Is Speaking Up Against Bias Worth It? Confronting Stereotypes and Prejudice has Broad Benefits and Mitigable Social Costs"

12:00 - 1:20 pm 11/11/2024

1002 Lincoln Hall
- Lecture
CS COMPILER SEMINAR: Ajay Brahmakshatriya, "Democratizing High-Performance DSL Development with BuildIt"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 11/11/2024

Room 3124 (Siebel)
- Seminar/Symposium
Education Justice Project: Research Group

3:00 - 4:00 pm 11/11/2024

Zoom
- Seminar/Symposium
COLLOQUIUM: Adrianna Gillman, "Accurate and Efficient Solution Techniques for Helmholtz Problems in Variable Medium"

3:30 pm 11/11/2024

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
- Seminar/Symposium