Seminars and Colloquia Archive

  • FDSN Seminar Series: ‘Product Development and Innovation in Dairy’

    FDSN Seminar Series: ‘Product Development and Innovation in Dairy’

    The Department of Food Science and Nutrition presents its spring 2024 seminar series featuring guest speaker Pratistha Banerjee, product manager for Darigold, who will give a presentation on “Product Development and Innovation in Dairy.” This seminar will take place on Thursday, April 11, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. over Zoom.

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  • FDSN Seminar Series: ‘Human Factor in Food Safety Research: Decode the Decision-Making in Food Handling’

    FDSN Seminar Series: ‘Human Factor in Food Safety Research: Decode the Decision-Making in Food Handling’

    The Department of Food Science and Nutrition presents its spring 2024 seminar series featuring guest speaker Betty Feng, associate professor and extension specialist at Purdue University, who will give a presentation on “Human Factor in Food Safety Research: Decode the Decision-Making in Food Handling.” This seminar will take place on Thursday, April  4, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in room 111 of the Pritzker Science Center.

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  • MMAE Seminar Series: ‘Optimality and Guarantees in Robotic Exploration’

    MMAE Seminar Series: ‘Optimality and Guarantees in Robotic Exploration’

    The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents their spring 2024 seminar series featuring guest speaker Ian Abraham, Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering with courtesy appointment in the Computer Science Department at Yale University, who will present “Optimality and Guarantees in Robotic Exploration.” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, from 3:30–4:30 p.m. in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center.

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  • Great Problems, Great Minds Seminar Series: ‘Innovative Infrastructure Finance in the U.S. State and Local Governments’

    Great Problems, Great Minds Seminar Series: ‘Innovative Infrastructure Finance in the U.S. State and Local Governments’

    Join the Social Sciences Colloquium at the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event featuring guest speaker Can Chen, an associate professor in the Department of Public Management and Policy at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. This seminar will take place on Wednesday, April 3, from 5–6:15 p.m. over Zoom.

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  • FDSN Seminar Series: ‘Human Factor in Food Safety Research: Decode the Decision-Making in Food Handling’

    FDSN Seminar Series: ‘Human Factor in Food Safety Research: Decode the Decision-Making in Food Handling’

    The Department of Food Science and Nutrition presents its spring 2024 seminar series featuring guest speaker Betty Feng, associate professor and extension specialist at Purdue University, who will give a presentation on “Human Factor in Food Safety Research: Decode the Decision-Making in Food Handling.” This seminar will take place on Thursday, April  4, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in room 111 of the Pritzker Science Center.

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  • Networked Systems Tech Talk: “SCinet: The World’s Fastest Temporary Network!”, presented by Angie Asmus (Colorado State University) and Jason Zurawski (LBNL and ESnet)

    Networked Systems Tech Talk: “SCinet: The World’s Fastest Temporary Network!”, presented by Angie Asmus (Colorado State University) and Jason Zurawski (LBNL and ESnet)

    The Department of Computer Science invites anybody at Illinois Tech and any other university and research institution to an online talk Friday, March 29, 2024, at 1-2 p.m. titled "SCinet: The World's Fastest Temporary Network!" The lecture will be presented by Angie Asmus, the Director of Network & Telecommunications at Colorado State University, and Jason Zurawski, Science Engagement Engineer with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet).

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  • Michael J. Sandel Awarded 2023 Roy C. Palmer Prize for Book ‘Democracy’s Discontent,’ Will Give Lecture at Chicago-Kent Campus on Tuesday, April 2

    Michael J. Sandel Awarded 2023 Roy C. Palmer Prize for Book ‘Democracy’s Discontent,’ Will Give Lecture at Chicago-Kent Campus on Tuesday, April 2

    The 2023 Roy C. Palmer Prize on Democracy, Civil Liberties, and the Rule of Law has been awarded to Michael J. Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, for his book, Democracy’s Discontent: A New Edition for Our Perilous Times (Harvard University Press 2022). Professor Sandel will visit Chicago-Kent on Tuesday, April 2, to deliver the 2023 Roy C. Palmer lecture. The public lecture is scheduled to begin at 10:45 a.m.

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  • ECE Research Seminar: ‘Adventures and Lessons in Wireless Systems Design,’ Featuring Dr. Kenneth Zdunek

    ECE Research Seminar: ‘Adventures and Lessons in Wireless Systems Design,’ Featuring Dr. Kenneth Zdunek

    The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is delighted to announce that Dr. Kenneth Zdunek, a distinguished speaker renowned for his contributions to the analysis, research, and design of wireless networks and systems, will be joining us on Friday, April 5, 2024. The event will take place in Siegel Hall room 118 at 3 p.m. Dr. Zdunek, who obtained his Ph.D. in 1991, is widely recognized as both an inventor and a leader in the field. Currently serving as the Chief Technology Officer of Roberson and Associates, a technology and management consulting company that originated from Illinois Tech in 2008, he also holds the position of Research Professor in the ECE Department.

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  • 2024 Ralph Peck Lecture: ‘Novel Treatments and Cure of Diabetes — Engineering Challenges and Successes’

    2024 Ralph Peck Lecture: ‘Novel Treatments and Cure of Diabetes — Engineering Challenges and Successes’

    Members of the Illinois Tech community and friends are invited to attend the Ralph Peck Lecture, which will be presented by Ali Cinar, Hyosung S. R. Cho Endowed Chair in Engineering and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in the McCormick Tribune Campus Center’s Auditorium beginning at 3:15 p.m., with a reception immediately following at 4:30 p.m. in the McCormick Tribune Campus Center's Pritzker Club. Dr. Cinar will present a lecture titled, “Novel Treatments and Cure of Diabetes—Engineering Challenges and Successes.”

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  • 2024 Robert W. Lyczkowski Lecture: ‘Computational Fluid Dynamics on Advanced Computing Technologies’

    2024 Robert W. Lyczkowski Lecture: ‘Computational Fluid Dynamics on Advanced Computing Technologies’

    Members of the Illinois Tech community and friends are invited to attend the Robert W. Lyczkowski Lecture, which will be presented by Madhava Syamlal, Founder and CEO of QubitSolve Inc. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in the McCormick Tribune Campus Center’s Auditorium beginning at 3:15 p.m., with a reception immediately following at 4:30 p.m. in the McCormick Tribune Campus Center's Pritzker Club. With his many years of service in the U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Lab, Syamlal will present a lecture titled, “Computational Fluid Dynamics on Advanced Computing Technologies.”

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