Siebel School Master Calendar

Monday, May 5, 2025

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  • 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
  • Heritage Hall in the IHotel & Conference Center in Champaign, Illinois

  10th Anniversary Celebration of the Health Care Engineering Systems Center

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Sarah Sterman, "Designing for Ways and Whys: Transforming Process into a Material for Creative Reflection"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • Siebel 3401

  Theory Seminar: Euiwoong Lee, "Theory and applications of complete Min-CSPs: A case study in Correlation Clustering"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2124 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Halil Kilicoglu, "Enhancing Rigor and Integrity of Biomedical Research using Natural Language Processing"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Preslav Nakov, “ Towards Truly Open, Language-Specific, Safe, Factual, and Specialized Large Language Models”

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

• • 10:30 am
  • Siebel Center 201 N Goodwin Ave- Room 3401

  Chengpeng Wang- Title: Neuro-Symbolic Static Analysis for Reliable Software Systems

  • Lecture
• • 10:30 am
  • Siebel Center 201 N Goodwin Ave- Room 3401

  Chengpeng Wang- Title: Neuro-Symbolic Static Analysis for Reliable Software Systems

  • Lecture
• • 3:00 - 4:00 pm

  Let’s Chat about iCAN (online): Dr. Tiffani Williams, iCAN Director

  • Informational

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

• • 10:00 am
  • Siebel Center 4124

  Final Defense of Xudong Sun

  • Other
• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Fengyuan Zhu, "Navigating the Future of Extended Reality: Overcoming Barriers and Unleashing Potential in Cross-Device Integration"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 1:00 pm

  Webinar | Next Generation Multi-View Video Delivery Systems for AR/VR End Devices

  Join us for the next Research Initiatives Webinar for an overview of Illinois Grainger Engineering's advancements in AR/VR research.

  • Webinar
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Ilan Shomorony, "An Information Theory for Out-of-Order Information: Applications in DNA Data Storage and Genomics"

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  • 3:30 pm
  • Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 0216

  Haoqi Zhang "Computational Ecosystems: Tech-enabled Communities to Advance Human Values"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies

  • Meeting

Thursday, May 8, 2025

• • 3:00 pm

  Special Seminar: Noman Bashir, "Rethinking Systems Design for Reliable and Sustainable Computing in a Constrained World"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 9, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm

  iCAN Q&A Event (online) - Registration Required

  • Informational
• • 12:30 - 1:30 pm
  • Siebel 4401

  Postdoc Social Lunch

  Welcome to our new Postdocs, and welcome back to returning Postdocs! We are resuming weekly lunch meetings with Professor Mohammed El-Kebir. They will be held every Friday from 12:30-1:30pm in the Faculty/Staff Lounge on the 4th floor (SC 4401), barring campus holidays and breaks. Pizza will be served at every meeting!

  • Meeting
• • 1:00 pm

  Final Defense of Zhe Xu

  • Other
• • 4:00 - 8:00 pm
  • Analog Wind Library, 129 N Race St. Urbana, IL

  Mind in Vitro featured in Art of Science show: "Aerenchyma"

  • Exhibition