Research Seminars @ Illinois

Howard Gritton, PhD Department of Comparative Biosciences; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “Cortical oscillations and neural timing: how attention enhances hearing in complex environments”

Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

"Confocal Imaging Simplified: Faster Acquisition, Easier Operation, More Results - an Introduction to Nikon Spinning Disk Confocal" Luke Summey Bioscience Sales Specialist - Nikon Instruments Inc.

In "THE LIFECYCLE OF WRITING SUBJECTS: On Generative AI and the Future of Writing," Lauren M.E. Goodlad (Distinguished Professor at Rutgers) introduces generative AI in light of its concentrated political economy, long history of anthropomorphized machine “intelligence,”

Memes, Monsters, and the Digital Grotesque, this talk theorizes memes through the politics of monstrosity and the grotesque, showing how digital infrastructures privilege rapid, affective forms of expression that operate as a language of the unspeakable.

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Molecular & Integrative Physiology

Curious to explore the relationship between people, places, institutions? Join us for a gentle introduction to network analysis! This workshop will introduce key concepts, explore common tools used to create networks, and consider examples in research across the humanities.

Speaker: Dr. Jack Birkin

Railroads, researchers, government laboratories, and industry leaders are using sensors, field deployments, algorithms, and signal processing to assist and prioritize decisions associated with operations. Railroad field inspections and data collection in real-time can assist to save costs, increase safety, and to inform decision prioritization. A new framework of decisions

Please join us for an event in the Timbuktu Talks series with Aly Drame, a professor of history at Dominican University. His lecture will call attention to the need to better reframe the rise and development of Islam in the wider Senegambia, considering the role played by the Mandinka Muslim settlements in the Middle Casamance in this process through intermarriage...

Ismael M. Montana (Northern Illinois University) will give a lecture titled "Ahmad b. al-Qāḍī al-Timbuktāwī: Pilgrimage, Intellectual Exchange, and Condemnation of the Enslaved Religion of the Blacks of Tunis.

Assistant Professor Michael T. Rizzo is the February speaker in the First Friday Psychology-Beckman Colloquium Series, a monthly event designed to bring together members of the Department of Psychology, Beckman Institute, and beyond for engaging, cross-area conversations.

Speaker: Bryan Clark, Associate Professor of Physics, UIUC

Join us for a hybrid CEAPS Brown Bag talk titled “Tales of Asian Boys’ Love: Translanguaging and Transmediality of Romance in Selected Japanese, Thai, and Filipino Series” with Cheeno Marlo M. Sayuno (Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Information Sciences and Associate Professor at University of the Philippines Los Baños).

Guodong Pang (Rice) will talk about stochastic epidemic models.

Guodong Pang (Rice) will talk about "Ergodic risk-sensitive control of diffusions."

Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

Part 4 of the 5-Part CQA Series will summarize third-party geosynthetic materials and installation inspection practices that ensure quality installation and workmanship that meet and/or exceed project permitting requirements, and final acceptance in accordance with the plans and specifications. The process that will be presented ensures that clients receive a defendable as

Carle's Suguna Pappu and Beckman's Deana McDonagh will present.

A lecture in the Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age series featuring Brett Robinson(University of Notre Dame). Drawing on thinkers such as Wendell Berry, Paul Kingsnorth, and James Carey—as well as emerging experiments in digital fasting and community-building.

Attend a screening of the newly-released documentary film, Against the Current at Spurlock Museum on Wednesday, February 11, 2026 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. In the film Kyla, a high school senior and community organizer in Chicago, journeys across the state of Illinois in search of ways that Black people have resisted oppression across time.

Join the Center for Children's Books for an engaging discussion on book challenges in Illinois schools. Leah Gregory (Illinois Heartland Library System) and Vicki Pietrus (Niles West High School) will discuss how Illinois school libraries have been impacted by the rise of book challenges and bans, including the climate in the state.

Associate Professor, Dept. of Molecular & Integrative Physiology