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 -
9:40 am 4/1/2025Beckman Institute, Room 1005 (along with the Beckman Auditorium and Beckman Atrium)
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11:00 - 11:50 am 4/1/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin
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2:00 - 3:20 pm 4/1/2025815 Psychology Building
Demonstrations of perceptual organization processes like grouping, surface completion, figure-ground assignment, and correspondence across time and space, are fascinating not just because of their compelling phenomenology, but because they provide insight into different levels of representation and their functions within the visual cognitive system more generally.
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2:00 - 3:30 pm 4/1/2025317 David Kinley Hall
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3:30 pm 4/1/2025I Hotel & Illinois Conference Center"The Magic of RNA: New Medicines, Immortality, and the Power to Control Evolution" Thomas R. Cech, PhD Nobel Laureate Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute BioFrontiers Institute University of Colorado Boulder I-Hotel and Conference Center Reception and book signing to follow.
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3:30 pm 4/1/2025i Hotel and Conference Center -
4:00 pmBeckman Institute 1005 -
4:00 pm 4/1/20254100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
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4:00 - 4:50 pm 4/1/20252035 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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REEEC New Directions Lecture: Mackenzie Pierce, "Sounds of Survival: Polish Music and the Holocaust"
10:00 am 4/2/2025220 Smith Memorial Hall (805 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801) -
12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/2/2025428 Mumford Hall
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12:00 pm 4/2/2025Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 pm 4/2/2025Charles G. Miller Auditorium
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12:00 pm 01:00pm 4/2/2025Room 306 Coble Hall -
3:30 pm 4/2/2025HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online
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3:30 pm 4/2/2025Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 0216 -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/2/2025Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
11:00 am 4/3/2025Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL -
11:00 am - 12:00 pm 4/3/2025347 Altgeld Hall
Speaker: Andreas Stavrou (Chicago)
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/3/2025National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana, IL -- and Online/Zoom -
12:00 pm 4/3/2025180 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL
"Biocluster" Dan Davidson, CNRG Director of CNRG and Research Computing
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12:00 pm 4/3/2025Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 217
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12:00 pm 4/3/2025Room F, College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign IL 61820
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 4/3/2025ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
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2:30 pm 4/3/2025Beckman Institute Auditorium, 1025Calvin Mackie, founder of STEM NOLA, will give a lecture titled, "Hope in the 21st Century." A kid-friendly reception will follow, as will a preview of the Beckman Institute Open House from 4-6 p.m
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3:00 - 5:00 pm 4/3/2025346 Main Library, 1408 W. Gregory DrThe RBML welcomes Justine Murison, editor of a new critical edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 novel. Murison will discuss the work’s historical and literary contexts, the revolutionary politics with which the novel engages, and the enduring questions it asks about American society. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing. This event is free, and a
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4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/3/2025Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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4:00 pm 4/3/2025Lucy Ellis, LCLB 1080
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4:00 pm 4/3/2025Altgeld 245
Speaker: Tomer Schlank (Chicago)
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/3/20251002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium
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9:00 am - 4:00 pm 4/4/2025Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave
The Beckman Institute Open House is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, April 4, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 5, 2025. It offers a fun, interactive look at the interdisciplinary research happening at the Beckman Institute. It happens at the same time as Engineering Open House each year.
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10:00 - 10:50 am 4/4/20252311 NCEL - Yeh Center
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11:00 am 4/4/2025157 Noyes Lab
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11:00 am - 1:00 pm 4/4/2025Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois
Join us for talks by recent CAS Associates. At 11am Yuguo Chen (Statistics) discusses how statistical network analysis is used to develop methods to account for the complex dependencies in network data; and at noon, Soo Ah Kwon (Asian American Studies) argues for moving beyond simple binaries such as reformist/radical to better understand youth activism.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/4/2025306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright Street
Join us on Friday, April 4th for a Graduate Student Lunch & Learn: Publishing on Gender Related Topics. Please rsvp at https://go.illinois.edu/GradLunchLearn
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/4/2025306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright Street -
12:00 pm 4/4/2025Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL -
12:00 pm 4/4/2025Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois, Room 210
Join us for a talk by recent CAS Associate Soo Ah Kwon (Asian American Studies) on moving beyond simple binaries such as reformist/radical, inside/outside, or status-quo/anti-establishment to better understand youth activism.
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12:00 pm 4/4/2025313 Mumford Hall
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12:00 pm 4/4/2025819 Psychology Building
On average, English speakers utter around 16,000 words per day, most of it in interactions with other people. Yet, the language sciences have predominately approached language as if we use it for monologue. In this talk, Dr. Christiansen will argue that we should view language as being fundamentally collaborative and improvisational, like a game of charades.
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1:00 pm 4/4/2025ESB 190
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1:30 pm 4/4/2025306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign -
1:30 - 2:50 pm 4/4/2025819 Psychology Building
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2:00 pm 4/4/20252049 Natural History Building -
2:00 - 3:30 pm 4/4/2025317 David Kinley Hall
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9:00 am - 3:00 pm 4/5/2025Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave
The Beckman Institute Open House is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, April 4, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 5, 2025. It offers a fun, interactive look at the interdisciplinary research happening at the Beckman Institute. It happens at the same time as Engineering Open House each year.
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Theory Seminar: Billy Jin, "Advice-Augmented Algorithms for Online Matching and Resource Allocation"
11:00 am 4/7/2025Siebel 3401 -
11:30 am - 12:30 pm 4/7/2025325 Temple Buell Hall (611 E. Taft Drive, Champaign)
Work-in-progress talk and paper: “Little Tech on the Prairie" by Matthew Darmour-Paul, PhD candidate in Sociology at Australian National University and tutor in architecture at the University of Sydney. His research explores place-based computational practices and techno-nationalism in the American Midwest.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/7/2025428 Mumford Hall
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2:00 - 3:30 pm 4/7/2025317 David Kinley Hall
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3:30 pm 4/7/2025HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
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4:00 pm 4/7/20251310 Newmark
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/7/2025CIF 2035 -
6:00 pm 4/7/2025Temple Buell Hall Atrium | Plym Auditorium 134Presentation title: Shedd Aquarium’s Experience Evolution Phase 2: Preparing Shedd for the Next Century of Service
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10:00 - 10:45 am 4/8/2025O'Leary Learning Center
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11:00 - 11:50 am 4/8/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Bill Fefferman, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/8/2025
This webinar will describe the use of cover systems over wastes and leachate lagoons to reduce leachate generation and costs. In particular, if rain/clean water falls on wastes or a leachate lagoon, it becomes contaminated and must be treated. Covering wastes or a lagoon prevents fresh water from becoming leachate thus dramatically reducing the cost and amount of water tha
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12:00 pm 4/8/2025612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Owen Ryan, PhD Director of Cell Engineering Research at ADM "An adventure in yeast synthetic biology and industrial biotechnology"
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12:00 pm 4/8/20255602 Beckman Institute and on Zoom
Visual Feast: How the Sausage Gets Made with Jay Cournoyer.
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12:00 pm 4/8/2025English Building 109 (608 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801)Between the late 1920s and mid-1960s, several Jewish social scientists and humanities scholars laid the theoretical groundwork for ethnic and immigration studies in the United States. The concepts these scholars developed – terms such as acculturation, urbanism, assimilation, and cultural pluralism – reshaped the understanding of America as a pluralist society of...
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12:15 - 1:15 pm A reception will follow the lecture. 4/8/202522 Education Building
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1:00 pm 4/8/2025171 Roger Adams Lab
