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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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.
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Interested in free and openly licensed textbooks (OER) for your students? Come and learn where to find them, how to create them, and how and when to apply for a grant of up to $10,000 from the Library to make OER.
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A series of discussions on Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice by Bill Fletcher Jr. and Fernando Gapasin will take place Oct 7, 14, and 21.
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Speaker: Joseph Heremans, Scientist, Argonne National Laboraotry
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Against a backdrop of massive structural shifts in the economic balance of power within the Indian Ocean basin, Zanzibar Was a Country explores the crossed history of struggles for citizenship in Oman and Zanzibar after the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution, including the failure of electoral democracy in Zanzibar, long distance Zanzibar nationalism, the negotiation of the...
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Professor Jamie L. Jones (English) will talk about her scholarly work over lunch at this event for residents of the Honors LLC, Innovation LLC, and Sustainability LLC.
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Paul Sternberg, PhD Bren Professor of Biology in the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering; California Institute of Technology "Neural computation of semiochemicals in nematode sex and diapause" IGB Seminar - Gene Networks in Neural and Developmental Plasticity Research Theme
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Participants will dive into AI's multimodal capabilities, discovering how it can generate compelling ideas through conversation, craft vivid imagery, and enhance accessibility. The workshop will cover tools and techniques for integrating AI into various stages of the storytelling process—from brainstorming and character development to world-building and narrative design.
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Prof. Paul Braun will provide an overview of the current state-of-the-art batteries being used in electric vehicles and other transportation systems and then discuss what the future may bring, with an emphasis on how innovations in materials science and engineering are making possible these advances.
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Jeff Kuan (TAMU) talks about "Universal Asymptotics through Orthogonal Polynomial Duality."
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Mediaspace (mediaspace.illinois.edu) is a YouTube-like service that allows U of I people to post and share videos, and you can use it to promote your research, for teaching, or outreach.
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Lectures 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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This session will cover conceptual design, storytelling techniques, and scriptwriting. Our goal is to set a strong foundation to help researchers understand communication in this popular, innovative format. We will have four subsequent sessions that go into more depth, but this first workshop is paramount to getting started!
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Lecture by Dr. Jennifer T. Bernhard, Department Head and Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. This is a hybrid event and will take place in the University Archives (146 Main Library) or you can register for the Zoom link.
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"Round Table Discussion" - Dr. Glenn Fried, Director of the Core Facilities - Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Topic: Core Facilities
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This interactive 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.
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Kesav Krishnan (UVic) talks about "Uniqueness and CLT for the ground state Disordered Monomer-Dimer Model on Z^d."
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This webinar will explore how geosynthetics can contribute to sustainability efforts in North America (the US and Canada) and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to achieve the UN’s sustainability goals. We will present both practical and theoretical insights, showcasing how geosynthetics can effectively reduce CO2 emissions and generate carbon credits in these regions.
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An overview of urban warming across scales — from city to regional to global — using multiple lines of evidence, including satellite observations, in situ measurements, and numerical modeling.
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Join visiting Fulbright researcher Rozafa Berisha for a talk exploring how young women from low-income backgrounds navigate hope and disappointment in a deindustrializing town in north Kosovo.
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The Robotics Seminar @ Illinois is hosting Prof. Kaiyu Hang for a virtual seminar.
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Dr. Rabin Bhattarai (Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) is this week's seminar speaker.
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Please join us for a lecture by J. David Velleman, the Miller Research Professor in Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University.
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Please join us for a lecture by J. David Velleman, the Miller Research Professor in Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. In “A Method for Metaethics,” Velleman considers the question “What turns a fact into a reason for acting?” but he doesn’t answer the question; rather, he proposes a method for finding the answer.
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Research regarding Artificial Intelligence is expanding but comes with methodological hurdles. This presentation will focus on the use of qualitative interviews and methods to understand people’s interactions with and perceptions toward AI. It will highlight key methodological challenges as well as outline strategies for addressing them.
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Join us for our interactive, hands-on science experience "World of Genomics: Discover Everyday DNA" featuring multiple stations focused on specific aspects of science!
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A series of discussions on Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice by Bill Fletcher Jr. and Fernando Gapasin will take place Oct 7, 14, and 21.
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From 1918 to 1922 as many as 40,000 Jews were killed in the pogroms of the Russian Civil War. The mass violence in Ukraine was part of a global phenomenon of ethnic and racial violence, which also included the Armenian genocide. This book talk examines the Yiddish and Russian literary response to the pogroms and the relief effort, exploring both the poetry of...
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Speaker: Tzu Chieh Wei, Professor, Stony Brook University
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Aaron Wright, PhD Schofield Endowed Chair in Biomedical Science; Department of Biology;Baylor University "Phenotype-Based Profiling of Environmental and Host-Associated Microbiomes" IGB Seminar - Microbiome Metabolic Engineering Research Theme
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An overview of key technologies that constitute the Stellaris platform, multiphoton microscopy and tunable spectral detection with our DIVE systems, and recent advances in our STED systems with Ken Calderone.
