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
RecurringAll Day 9/26/2024 - 5/23/2025Main Library Room 346RBML’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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8:30 am 10/9/2024 - 9/24/2025O’Leary Learning Center, College of Education -
12:00 pm 2/3/2025Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL -
12:30 - 1:30 pm 2/3/2025426 Mumford Hall -
1:00 pm 2/3/2025Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236 -
3:30 pm 2/3/2025HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online -
3:30 - 4:30 pm 2/3/20252405 Siebel Center for Computer ScienceSpeaker: Ryan O'Donnell
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4:00 pm 2/3/2025116 Roger Adams Lab -
4:00 pm 2/3/2025B102 CLSL -
4:00 pm 2/3/2025100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/3/2025CIF 2035 -
2:00 pm 2/4/2025815 Psychology -
2:00 - 2:50 pm 2/4/20252101 Everitt HallNeeladri Maitra (UIUC) talks about "Scale-free spatial random graphs: local behavior and some deviation problems."
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3:00 pm 2/4/20251005 Forbes Natural History Building, 1816 S Oak Street, Champaign -
4:00 pm 2/4/20254100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building -
4:00 - 4:50 pm 2/4/20252035 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 2/4/2025116 Roger Adams Lab -
12:00 pm 2/5/2025Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236 -
12:00 pm 2/5/2025612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology"From Neuronal Detail to Tissue Scale: Imaging Neuronal with Confocal and Large Field Microscopy in Core Facilities" Sehong Kang, Graduate Research Assistant, Beckman Institute, Mechanical Science & Engineering
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 2/5/2025Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102 -
3:00 - 4:00 pm 2/5/2025LLS Building (1207 W. Oregon St., Urbana), Room 133 -
4:00 pm 2/5/2025Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/5/2025Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
9:00 am - 5:00 pm 2/6/2025 - 2/7/2025Beckman Institute Room 2269 (2nd Floor Tower Room)Researchers from the University of Illinois, Inha University, and Ewha Women’s University are invited to present their work on AI-Based Assistive Technology for Communication, Inclusive Design for Digital Accessibility, and related topics of research
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11:00 am 2/6/2025Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL -
11:00 - 11:50 am 2/6/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Mihir Bhaskar, CEO & Co-founder, Lightsynq
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm 2/6/2025347 Altgeld Hall -
2:00 - 3:00 pm 2/6/2025ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866 -
4:00 pm 2/6/2025Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 2405 -

AE Seminar Speaker: Enrico Zucchelli - Crafting Probability Distributions for Space Domain Awareness
4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/6/2025CIF 2018 -
10:00 - 10:50 am 2/7/20251310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801 -
10:00 - 10:50 am 2/7/20252311 NCEL - Yeh CenterThis lecture will delve into scaling up of a plasma catalysis system and critical aspects of GHG mitigation through plasma catalysis such as: exploring catalyst formulation, reaction mechanisms, byproduct selectivity, and addressing existing challenges and future research directions.
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11:00 am 2/7/2025Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236 -
12:00 pm 2/7/2025306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820) -
1:00 pm 2/7/2025ESB 190 -
2:00 - 7:00 pm 2/7/2025Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) Room 4036 and 4039 (1405 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801) -
3:00 pm 2/7/2025W-109 Turner Hall -
3:00 pm 2/7/20252049 Natural History BuildingOn February 7, the Geography Graduate Student Association (GGSA) and the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science (GGIS) will host Dr. Charmaine Chua (Global Studies, UC Santa Barbara) to deliver a talk titled The Logistics Counter-revolution: Fast Circulation, Slow Violence, and the Transpacific Empire of Circulation. This will be a hybrid event.
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12:00 pm 2/10/2025Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL -
1:00 pm 2/10/2025Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236 -
3:00 - 4:00 pm 2/10/2025Altgeld Hall 243SPG seminar: Susan Tolman
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4:00 pm 2/10/2025100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/10/2025CIF 2035 -
5:00 - 6:30 pm 2/10/2025Salaam MENA Cultural CenterHRI Social Movements Reading Group invites you to join us Mon Feb 10, 5-6:30 PM at Salaam Center to discuss what Sudanese organizers have called “counter-revolutionary war” in Sudan. Readings focus on history, political economic interests, and revolutionary movements leading to the current moment. Open to all, food provided. Sponsored by CU Muslim Action Committee (MAC) and GEO. RSVP to join email list and access readings: bit.ly/READMOVEMENTSHRI Social Movements Reading Group invites you to join us Mon Feb 10, 5-6:30 PM at Salaam Center to discuss what Sudanese organizers have called “counter-revolutionary war” in Sudan.
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All Day 2/11/2025 - 2/20/2025Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St.)The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, Ukrainian Students Association, and Spurlock Museum invite you to visit Unissued Diplomas in the Central Core Gallery at Spurlock.
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11:00 - 11:50 am 2/11/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Fernando Granha Jeronimo
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm 2/11/2025Main Library 314Are you having trouble organizing all of your sources but don’t know where to start? A citation manager can help you store your files, create citations, and insert formatted citations into papers.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/11/2025Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) 612 Conference Center -
12:00 pm 2/11/2025612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic BiologyJennifer Guerriero, PhD Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Breast Cancer Program, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center; Harvard Immunology, Harvard Medical School "Harnessing macrophages in advanced breast cancer to combat drug-resistance"
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3:00 pm 2/11/20251005 Forbes Natural History Building, 1816 S Oak Street, Champaign -
3:45 - 4:45 pm 2/11/2025134 Astronomy Building -
4:00 pm 5:00 pm 2/11/2025Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 pm 2/11/20254100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building -
4:00 - 4:50 pm 2/11/20252035 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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11:00 am - 12:00 pm 2/12/2025CITL Innovation Studio, Armory 172We have all sat through presentations that were boring, confusing, and drab. How do you communicate your message most succinctly? What visuals will captivate and inform your audience the best? Is it only about your slide design or are there other techniques that leave a lasting impression?
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12:00 pm 2/12/20255602 Beckman Institute and on ZoomJoin entomology graduate student Elizabeth Bello as she presents how environmental scanning electron microscopy and other microscopy techniques can be used to visualize and analyze brochosomes, which are multifunctional insect-derived nanoparticles.
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12:00 pm 2/12/2025Charles G. Miller Auditorium -
12:00 pm 2/12/2025612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology"Testing Puncture Mechanism using 3D printing materials" Jules Chabain, Graduate Student - Evolution, Ecology and Behavior
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1:00 - 2:00 pm 2/12/2025NCSA 1030Enhanced Proton Therapy Using Real-Time Dose and Range Monitoring: Ion therapy offers superior dose conformality, increased biological effectiveness, and improved sparing of healthy tissues compared to traditional X-ray therapy. However, its widespread adoption faces challenges. This talk explores innovative solutions for range verification and adaptive treatment.
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4:00 pm 2/12/2025Levis Faculty Center, Room 422 or LivestreamAlthough its usefulness as such a metric is debatable, the notion of accuracy itself still organizes much of the thinking about AI. In an analysis of FORDISC, a database of skull measurements used to identify human remains, Iris Clever demonstrates how a focus on accuracy might struggle to account for the entwined relationship between humanity, science, and technology.
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4:00 pm 2/12/2025Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/12/2025Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
2:00 - 3:00 pm 2/13/2025ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866 -
4:00 pm 2/13/2025116 Roger Adams Lab -
4:00 pm 2/13/20254100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building -
4:00 pm 2/13/2025Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 2405 -
6:00 - 7:30 pm 2/13/2025The University YMCA | Latzer Hall (1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820)Join us for a discussion on global collaboration and period poverty as we come together to watch the trailer for the compelling documentary Uman Tok.
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11:00 am 2/14/2025464 Loomis -
11:00 am 2/14/2025Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 4124 -
12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/14/2025Loomis Laboratory - 1110 West Green Street, Urbana - RM 236 (Rhondale Tso Seminar Room)Speaker: Dr. Laurent Loinard