General Events

Shai Bel, PhD Azrieli Faculty of Medicine; Bar-Ilan University “Partners in Slime: Host-Microbiota Interactions in the Gut Mucus Layer”

Excited to share our Spring 2026 CAII seminar: GPU Programming with Triton! An 8‑week, hands‑on series moving from NumPy to high‑performance Triton kernels, including Flash Attention. Tuesdays 3–5 PM, Feb 17–Apr 7 at UIUC. Taught by Priyam Mazumdar. Hybrid format.

Joel Waldfogel will present "AI and the quantity and quality of creative products: have LLMs boosted creation of valuable books?" as part of the AImpact Speaker Series.

Your grant went through peer review, but didn’t get funded. Now what? This session will address how to respond to the reviewers’ comments, interpret critiques, and use feedback from reviewers or mentors to improve your grant proposal.

Excited to share our Spring 2026 CAII seminar: GPU Programming with Triton! An 8‑week, hands‑on series moving from NumPy to high‑performance Triton kernels, including Flash Attention. Tuesdays 3–5 PM, Feb 17–Apr 7 at UIUC. Taught by Priyam Mazumdar. Hybrid format.

Illinois' Georgia Malandraki and Brad Sutton will present, "Multimodal Approaches to Understanding Swallowing Control and Developing Plasticity Based Interventions for Dysphagia."

Excited to share our Spring 2026 CAII seminar: GPU Programming with Triton! An 8‑week, hands‑on series moving from NumPy to high‑performance Triton kernels, including Flash Attention. Tuesdays 3–5 PM, Feb 17–Apr 7 at UIUC. Taught by Priyam Mazumdar. Hybrid format.

Excited to share our Spring 2026 CAII seminar: GPU Programming with Triton! An 8‑week, hands‑on series moving from NumPy to high‑performance Triton kernels, including Flash Attention. Tuesdays 3–5 PM, Feb 17–Apr 7 at UIUC. Taught by Priyam Mazumdar. Hybrid format.

Oraya Zinder, PhD Candidate Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois

Join a roundtable discussion with doctoral students from the Institute of Communications Research about fandom’s interaction with the media. Not only will it explore themes from The Wiz and the Ebert Symposium keynote speech, but it will also expand to all types of media. Moderated by Cait Coker, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Illinois.

Excited to share our Spring 2026 CAII seminar: GPU Programming with Triton! An 8‑week, hands‑on series moving from NumPy to high‑performance Triton kernels, including Flash Attention. Tuesdays 3–5 PM, Feb 17–Apr 7 at UIUC. Taught by Priyam Mazumdar. Hybrid format.

Dr. Alfred L. Martin, Jr, Chair of the Department of Cinematic Arts at University of Miami, will be the keynote speaker at this year's Ebert Symposium. As a part of the Ebert Symposium’s theme, “Onscreen Fantasies/IRL Illusions: Fandom, Parasocial Relationships, and the Media,” Martin will discuss the role of audiences in the curation of and the cultural meaning of cinema.

Excited to share our Spring 2026 CAII seminar: GPU Programming with Triton! An 8‑week, hands‑on series moving from NumPy to high‑performance Triton kernels, including Flash Attention. Tuesdays 3–5 PM, Feb 17–Apr 7 at UIUC. Taught by Priyam Mazumdar. Hybrid format.

Join Carle's Bruce Damon and Dr. Christina Laukaitis for a seminar on, "Mechanistic biomarkers of knee function in hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome."

Alex Moehring will present "Designing Human-AI Collaboration: A Sufficient Statistic Approach" as part of the AImpact Speaker Series.

Csaba Forro, PhD and Daniel Wang, PhD, Group Leaders at Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago "Towards Mapping Inflammation in Real Time" "Spatiotemporal Molecular Profiling of Inflammation with Microengineered Devices"

Join us as our seniors present their honors theses.

Join the Neuromusculoskeletal Seminar Series for a talk by Illinois' Mariana Kersh, "Clinical biomechanics: applications in orthopedics and rehabilitation."