Seminars and Colloquia Archive

  • SoReMo Hosts Initial Spring ’24 Forum

    SoReMo Hosts Initial Spring ’24 Forum

    The SoReMo Forum is returning next week. Attend the first Forum of the semester this from 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m Tuesday, February 6, at RE 102. Our Fellows will expose their initial project presentations, and members of the audience will have the opportunity to engage with them.

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  • ChBE Spring 2024 Seminar Series: AI in Genomics and Precision Health

    ChBE Spring 2024 Seminar Series: AI in Genomics and Precision Health

    The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering presents its spring 2024 seminar series featuring guest speaker Aly Azeem Khan, assistant professor at the University of Chicago, who will give a presentation on “Artificial Intelligence Genomics and Precision Health.” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, February 14, from 3:15–4:30 p.m. in room 108 of Perlstein Hall.

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  • Great Problems, Great Minds Seminar Series: Caribbean Science-Policy Interfaces—A Case Study of the Grenada National Ecosystem Assessment

    Great Problems, Great Minds Seminar Series: Caribbean Science-Policy Interfaces—A Case Study of the Grenada National Ecosystem Assessment

    Join the Social Sciences Colloquium at the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event featuring guest speaker Natalie Boodram, a senior technical officer at the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI), who will give a presentation on “Caribbean Science-Policy Interfaces—A Case Study of the Grenada National Ecosystem Assessment.” This seminar will take place on Wednesday, January 31, from 5–6:15 p.m. over Zoom.

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  • FDSN Seminar Series — Food Science: An R&D Overview

    FDSN Seminar Series — Food Science: An R&D Overview

    Attend the FDSN Seminar Series titled "Food Science: An R&D Overview," featuring Duey Fimreite, research & development manager at South Chicago Packing LLC. The talk will be Thursday, February 1, 2024, at 12:30–1:45 p.m. at the Robert A. Pritzker Science Center Auditorium, room 111.

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  • ChBE Spring 2024 Seminar Series: Alex D. Nikolov – Dielectric Polarization Electricity Harvesting From Photon Energy

    ChBE Spring 2024 Seminar Series: Alex D. Nikolov – Dielectric Polarization Electricity Harvesting From Photon Energy

    The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering presents its spring seminar series featuring guest speaker Alex D. Nikolov, a research professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology, who will give a presentation on “Dielectric Polarization Electricity Harvesting From Photon Energy.” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, January 24, 2024, from 3:15–4:30 p.m. in room 108 of Perlstein Hall.

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  • Great Problems Great Minds Seminar: Achieving Green Space Equity: Projects, policies, and Systems Change

    Great Problems Great Minds Seminar: Achieving Green Space Equity: Projects, policies, and Systems Change

    Join the Social Sciences Colloquium at the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event featuring guest speaker Alessandro Rigolon, an associate professor in the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah, who will give a presentation on “Achieving Green Space Equity: Projects, policies, and Systems Change.” This seminar will take place on Wednesday, January 24, from 5–6:15 p.m. over Zoom.

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  • Great Problems Great Minds Seminar Tomorrow: New Approaches to the Exploration of the Spatial and the Temporal Patterns of Crime

    Great Problems Great Minds Seminar Tomorrow: New Approaches to the Exploration of the Spatial and the Temporal Patterns of Crime

    Join the Social Sciences Colloquium at the Department of Social Sciences for a seminar tomorrow "New Approaches to the Exploration of the Spatial and the Temporal Patterns of Crime" as part of the Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series featuring guest speaker Naru Shiode, a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and Geographic Information Science at Kingston University, January 17, from 5-6:15 p.m. via Zoom.

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  • Attend Free Seminar ‘Intro To Merger and Acquisition (Part One)’ February 1 at the Kaplan Institute

    Attend Free Seminar ‘Intro To Merger and Acquisition (Part One)’ February 1 at the Kaplan Institute

    Join us for a deep dive on entrepreneurship through acquisition (ETA), hot on the agendas at Stanford, Wharton, Chicago, MIT, and more. We'll decode the acquisition process for Small Business Enterprises (SBEs) under $200 million in revenue, exploring the market and strategies for nabbing these companies, especially with the retirement of baby boomers.

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  • ‘Chicago’s Modern Mayors’ With Associate Professor Daniel Bliss

    ‘Chicago’s Modern Mayors’ With Associate Professor Daniel Bliss

    Associate Professor of Political Science Daniel Bliss recently co-authored a chapter in the upcoming book Chicago’s Modern Mayors. Professor Bliss will also be speaking on a panel alongside his co-author Kari Lyderson of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, formerly the Washington Post’s Bureau Chief in Chicago. Come support in-person or virtually on Tuesday, January 9, 2024 at the Harold Washington Library at 6 p.m.

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  • MMAE Seminar Series: ‘Advancing the Versatility of Legged Robots and Assistive Devices,’ Presented by Dr. Patrick Wensing

    MMAE Seminar Series: ‘Advancing the Versatility of Legged Robots and Assistive Devices,’ Presented by Dr. Patrick Wensing

    The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents the Spring 2024 seminar series featuring guest speaker, Dr. Patrick Wensing, who will give a presentation on “Advancing the Versatility of Legged Robots and Assistive Devices.” This seminar will take place on Wednesday, February 7, 2024 in the auditorium (room 104) of the John T. Rettaliata Engineering Center from 3:30–4:30 p.m. This event is open to all graduate students and faculty.

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