Urbana Campus Research Calendar (OVCRI)
Sunday, November 9, 2025
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All DayMain Library Room 346The ancient poet Sappho coined "sweetbitter" in one of her most evocative verses, still striking us to the heart nearly three millennia later. As with so many ancient figures, the poet is more legend than person today, her story told and retold even as her poetry continues to enchant and move. This exhibit will be on display through mid-August 2026.
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All DayKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignWith over 100 prints on display—including works by Rembrandt, Goya, and Dürer—"Imagination, Faith, and Desire" is extraordinary for the significance of the works and the exceptionally high quality of the impressions, the excellence of which rivals the holdings at many major museums. On view September 25, 2025, through February 28, 2026.
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1:30 pmSpurlock Museum of World Cultures, 1059 W California Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Inspired and informed by the groundbreaking Turnaway Study, conducted by Dr. Diana Greene Foster, a 2023 MacArthur Fellow and researcher at the UCSF, this play uses the words and experiences of real people to bust myths and reduce abortion stigma. Drama, humor, and audience participation make it an engaging and thought-provoking theatrical event.
Monday, November 10, 2025
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All DayMain Library Room 346
The ancient poet Sappho coined "sweetbitter" in one of her most evocative verses, still striking us to the heart nearly three millennia later. As with so many ancient figures, the poet is more legend than person today, her story told and retold even as her poetry continues to enchant and move. This exhibit will be on display through mid-August 2026.
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All DayKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
With over 100 prints on display—including works by Rembrandt, Goya, and Dürer—"Imagination, Faith, and Desire" is extraordinary for the significance of the works and the exceptionally high quality of the impressions, the excellence of which rivals the holdings at many major museums. On view September 25, 2025, through February 28, 2026.
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12:00 pmSunset Studio 1050, Siebel Center for Design, 1208 S. 4th St., Champaign -
1:00 - 3:00 pm
This workshop will give you hands-on experience using TorchGeo for geospatial deep learning. TorchGeo is a PyTorch domain library, similar to torchvision, providing datasets, samplers, transforms, and pre-trained models specific to geospatial data.
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1:00 pmRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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1:00 pmSunset Studio 1050, Siebel Center for Design, 1208 S. 4th St., Champaign
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5:00 - 5:50 pm2055 LUMEB
Speaker: Arthur Parzygnat (MIT)
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
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All DayMain Library Room 346
The ancient poet Sappho coined "sweetbitter" in one of her most evocative verses, still striking us to the heart nearly three millennia later. As with so many ancient figures, the poet is more legend than person today, her story told and retold even as her poetry continues to enchant and move. This exhibit will be on display through mid-August 2026.
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All DayKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
With over 100 prints on display—including works by Rembrandt, Goya, and Dürer—"Imagination, Faith, and Desire" is extraordinary for the significance of the works and the exceptionally high quality of the impressions, the excellence of which rivals the holdings at many major museums. On view September 25, 2025, through February 28, 2026.
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9:00 - 11:00 amMain Library Orange Room, or via Zoom
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10:00 am
Speaker: Swati Patel (Oregon State University) Title: Persistence and Elimination of Structured Populations Under Pulsed Control
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
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11:00 - 11:50 amAltgeld Hall 145
Speaker: Mikhail Gabdullin (UIUC) Title: Primes with small primitive roots
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Nicholas Wu, PhD Department of Biochemistry; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “Deciphering antibody sequences”
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1:00 pm 2:00 pm
Anna Liss Jacobsen, Assistant Professor, UI Library will highlight the University Library's Systematic Reviews and Evidence Synthesis Service.
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1:00 - 1:50 pmAltgeld Hall 147
Speaker: Anton Bernshteyn (UCLA) Title. Complexity of local problems on grids
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3:00 pm1005 Forbes Natural History Building, 1816 S Oak Street, Champaign -
5:00 pmLucy Ellis Lounge -- room 1080, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics BuildingThis talk follows the remarkable afterlife of a lie: the accusation that the Jews of Brussels desecrated the Eucharistic Host in 1370. From its thin medieval traces, the story grew into a grand civic myth, told through paintings, processions, and stained glass, that came to define Brussels' religious and urban identity for centuries.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
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All DayMain Library Room 346
The ancient poet Sappho coined "sweetbitter" in one of her most evocative verses, still striking us to the heart nearly three millennia later. As with so many ancient figures, the poet is more legend than person today, her story told and retold even as her poetry continues to enchant and move. This exhibit will be on display through mid-August 2026.
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All DayKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
With over 100 prints on display—including works by Rembrandt, Goya, and Dürer—"Imagination, Faith, and Desire" is extraordinary for the significance of the works and the exceptionally high quality of the impressions, the excellence of which rivals the holdings at many major museums. On view September 25, 2025, through February 28, 2026.
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Santiago Vargas-Daniels, Anderson Group
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
"Mapping RNA Biology Across Dimension" Diptatanu Das, PhD Candidate Department of Biochemistry, School of Molecular & Cellular Biology
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12:00 pmBeckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower
Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
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3:00 - 5:00 pmMain Library, Room 34 -
3:00 - 5:00 pmMain Library Room 346 — 1408 W. Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801Gillen D’Arcy Wood will speak about his new book, "The Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans' Decline".
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5:00 - 7:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, 210Join us for a festive reception to celebrate five new books published this year! The authors will each offer brief remarks and there will be an informal Q&A about the research and writing process. All are welcome!
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5:00 pmIn-Person Location TBA
Reading group and informal research talks on mathematical biology, with an emphasis on the use of dynamical systems techniques to explore models in population biology and collective behavior.
Thursday, November 13, 2025
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All DayMain Library Room 346
The ancient poet Sappho coined "sweetbitter" in one of her most evocative verses, still striking us to the heart nearly three millennia later. As with so many ancient figures, the poet is more legend than person today, her story told and retold even as her poetry continues to enchant and move. This exhibit will be on display through mid-August 2026.
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All DayKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
With over 100 prints on display—including works by Rembrandt, Goya, and Dürer—"Imagination, Faith, and Desire" is extraordinary for the significance of the works and the exceptionally high quality of the impressions, the excellence of which rivals the holdings at many major museums. On view September 25, 2025, through February 28, 2026.
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSLAssociate Professor, Department of Cancer Biology
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12:00 - 1:30 pmLevis Faculty Center Room 208
In contrast to the moral panics about the ways that AI chatbots may be shrinking people’s social worlds by replacing human-to-human interaction, there is an incredible optimism in some corners that AI will radically open up the social world to include animals, enhancing or enabling new forms of interspecies communication.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm
A detailed quantification and comparative analysis of carbon emissions for three landfill final cover systems: (i) soil-only cover; (ii) soil-geosynthetic cover; and (iii) an engineered turf cover are presented. 1.0 PDH
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
"Web Hosting" David Slater, CNRG Associate Director of High Performance Computing
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12:00 - 1:00 pmMain Library Room 146 or via Zoom.School of Integrative Biology graduate student Vivian Cheng will discuss her research using genetics, ancient DNA, and historical archives to understand the effects of climate change and colonialism on narwhals. November 13 |12pm till 1 pm (CST) | Main Library Room 146 or Zoom
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12:00 - 1:00 pmJoin us on Zoom (registration link below) or at the University Archives (146 Main Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana)School of Integrative Biology graduate student Vivian Cheng will discuss her research using genetics, ancient DNA, and historical archives to understand the effects of climate change and colonialism on narwhals.
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12:30 - 1:30 pm428 Mumford Hall
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1:00 pmTBA
Speaker: Chadi Saad-Roy (University of British Columbia) Title: Modelling the ecology and evolution of post-infection mortality
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1:00 - 3:00 pm
This workshop, presented by Zoe Ryan from NVIDIA, will give you hands-on experience accelerating Python codes with NVIDIA GPUs. The workshop will focus on CuPy, NVIDIA RAPIDS, and NVIDIA Warp.
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3:30 - 5:00 pm230 Davenport Hall -
4:00 - 5:00 pmSiebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405Screens now mediate much of our daily life. My research asks how we can build effective virtual worlds--from games to virtual reality to AI-enhanced immersive systems. In this talk, I'll share key findings from my work on virtual identities, virtual reality, audiovisual feedback, AI, and games, and discuss emerging directions for this research.
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6:00 - 7:00 pmThe Literary, 122 N Neil St, Champaign, IL
Friday, November 14, 2025
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All DayMain Library Room 346
The ancient poet Sappho coined "sweetbitter" in one of her most evocative verses, still striking us to the heart nearly three millennia later. As with so many ancient figures, the poet is more legend than person today, her story told and retold even as her poetry continues to enchant and move. This exhibit will be on display through mid-August 2026.
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All DayKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
With over 100 prints on display—including works by Rembrandt, Goya, and Dürer—"Imagination, Faith, and Desire" is extraordinary for the significance of the works and the exceptionally high quality of the impressions, the excellence of which rivals the holdings at many major museums. On view September 25, 2025, through February 28, 2026.
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9:00 am - 12:00 pmMain Library Orange Room, or via Zoom
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 - 1:00 pmLatzer Hall, University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright Street, ChampaignFriday Forum + Conversation Café: In the Deep End by Jameel Bridgewater Time: November 14 at 12 PM Location: University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign
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12:00 pmBeckman Institute Room 5602
Connect with other researchers to discuss and share your experience with human participant research and recruitment. Register by November 3rd for a provided lunch.
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2:30 - 3:30 pmIllini Rooms | Illini Union | 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801
Saturday, November 15, 2025
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All DayMain Library Room 346
The ancient poet Sappho coined "sweetbitter" in one of her most evocative verses, still striking us to the heart nearly three millennia later. As with so many ancient figures, the poet is more legend than person today, her story told and retold even as her poetry continues to enchant and move. This exhibit will be on display through mid-August 2026.
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All DayKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
With over 100 prints on display—including works by Rembrandt, Goya, and Dürer—"Imagination, Faith, and Desire" is extraordinary for the significance of the works and the exceptionally high quality of the impressions, the excellence of which rivals the holdings at many major museums. On view September 25, 2025, through February 28, 2026.
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All DayKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignKrannert Art Museum will be closed for an electrical upgrade on Saturday, November 15. The museum will reopen on Tuesday, November 18, at 10 am. Visit kam.illinois.edu to plan your next visit.