Training Discovery

Join Director Nadya Mason and your colleagues this fall for informal conversation and coffee in the Beckman atrium. This Gather in the Atrium Series will be from 10-10:30 a.m. every Tuesday through the spring semester. When the nice weather returns in the coming months, we will move these coffee sessions outside to the Beckman west garden.

Join Director Nadya Mason and your colleagues this fall for informal conversation and coffee in the Beckman atrium. This Gather in the Atrium Series will be from 10-10:30 a.m. every Tuesday through the spring semester. When the nice weather returns in the coming months, we will move these coffee sessions outside to the Beckman west garden.

Part of the Un/Doing Event Series In this presentation, Dr. Alaina E. Roberts explores the actions and rhetoric of Black and Native people in Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma) in the nineteenth century. This includes the history of Black slave-owning among the Five Tribes (the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole Nations) and the Reconstruction project the United States enforced in Indian Territory (Oklahoma), which ended with the Black people in this region becoming the only group of former slaves in the world to receive reparations in the form of land. This presentation will make you question the ideas you have about victims and victimizers, oppressed people and oppressors. Dr. Roberts will leave her listeners with a set of questions that encourages them to come to terms with this history and the anti-Black racism that endures in Indian Country and across North America. About the Speaker Alaina E. Robertsis an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, where she studiesthe intersection of Black and Native American life from the Civil War to the modern day. Dr. Roberts is the author ofI've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land, which was awarded theStubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize and the Western History Association's John C. Ewers Award and W. Turrentine Jackson Book Prize. I've Been Here All the While was also a finalist for theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize. Dr. Roberts has written multiple academic essays as well as op-eds and profiles for theWashington Post,TIMEmagazine, andHigh Country News.

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for restorative yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome bring your own mat!

Startup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9-10am on the first Friday of every month.Check back for registration information.

This seminar with curator, writer, and Ethnic Studies scholar Dr. Thea Quiray Tagle will cover different models of working with BIPOC visual artists that challenge the alienating norms behind much art historical scholarship and curatorial practice. Beginning from a case study of curating AFTER LIFE (we survive)--a group show featuring minoritarian artists dealing with different forms of slow violence and climate collapse--during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Quiray Tagle forwards an ethical practice of collaboration between scholars and artists that she dubs "relational curation." Relational curation is grounded in principles of right relation, reciprocity, and accountability, and directly draws from Black feminist thought, Indigenous Studies, and other queer and feminist Ethnic Studies theorists. By thinking together in this seminar, we will dream and discuss ways of working relationally with others, in order to disrupt who and what scholarship, art exhibitions, and art itself are for. ABOUT THE SPEAKER Thea Quiray Tagle, PhD (she/her) is a Filipinx femme curator, writer, and transdisciplinary scholar whose research broadly investigates photography, socially engaged art and site-specific performance; visual cultures of violence and waste; urban planning and the environment; and grassroots responses to political crises and ecological collapse in and across the Pacific. Across her various research and creative projects, a question that drives Thea's work is: how can socially engaged art and performance move us, collectively and individually, to work towards more just and livable futures that are anti-capitalist, feminist, and queer? How can art and performance model practices of right relation with other humans and non-human life, that might impact how we choose to live in the day-to-day? She was the Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Associate in Asian American Studies at UIUC from 2015-2016, and earned a PhD in Ethnic Studies from UC San Diego. Her writing has been published in a variety of outlets including American Quarterly, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Hyperallergic, and BOMB Magazine. She is co-curator of New York Now: Home, the inaugural contemporary photography triennial at the Museum of the City of New York, scheduled to open in March 2023. Dr. Quiray Tagle is the Associate Curator of the Bell Gallery and Brown Arts Institute (BAI) at Brown University. Photo by Dan Paz

Join Director Nadya Mason and your colleagues this fall for informal conversation and coffee in the Beckman atrium. This Gather in the Atrium Series will be from 10-10:30 a.m. every Tuesday through the spring semester. When the nice weather returns in the coming months, we will move these coffee sessions outside to the Beckman west garden.

"NO HARD MATERIALS SEMINAR - MRS MEETING"

Jian Ma, PhD Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology, School of Computer Science; Carnegie Mellon University "Machine learning for spatial genomics"

Abstract TBA

Abstract Nonlinear oscillation is one of the most prolific physical phenomena in the universe. Nonlinear oscillators are capable of useful and strange behavior, such as stochastic resonance, energy localizations, information processing, and chaos. Several aspects of nonlinear oscillators will be discussed in this talk. Adaptive oscillators are capable of learning and storing information in their dynamic states. These plastic states make them ideal candidates for smart systems. Even without adaption, nonlinear oscillators can be used as physical reservoir computers, in which they can be used to replace a neural network. Further, benefits stemming from the complex dynamics of nonlinear oscillators can be unlocked in continuous systems through topology optimization. As a natural extension, music is information that is encoded in vibrations. Music can be studied through the same lens as other vibratory systems, and the tools of nonlinear dynamics can be used to engineer better instruments. About the Speaker Edmon Perkins' research interests include nonlinear/stochastic systems, topology optimization, biomimetic systems, and music. He received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, as well as a BS and MS in Mathematics from the University of Oklahoma. Currently, he advises 2 PhD students and 7 undergraduates. He was awarded an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in Nonlinear Physics (2019), a DARPA Young Faculty Award (2020), an Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship (2019), and the ASME's Haythornthwaite Research Initiation Grant (2017). Host: Professor Gaurav Bahl

Bio pending

Abstract Applying air bubbles to techniques for sanitizing surfaces has been growing rapidly in recent years from complex industrial machines to kitchen appliances. Specifically, air bubbles are proposed as a sustainable solution for cleaning biological surfaces to reduce high rates of foodborne illnesses globally. In the first half of this talk, I will discuss the fundamental source of such cleaning effects by discussing the shear stress exerted on the surface when a bubble bounces, and then slides along a tilted substrate. I will then show how we carry out cleaning experiments on controlled biological surfaces systematically. Our experimental results on bacteria-coated surfaces reveal that the optimum cleaning happens for a tilted surface of ~20. To rationalize this finding, we use numerical analysis and scaling arguments to explain how shear stress is maximized at a mid-value of tilting angles. In the second half of the talk, I will introduce an interesting phenomenon where bubbles of certain size show a backflipping behavior when they collide with a tilted surface. I will explain why bubbles exhibit this counter-intuitive behavior through experimental observations and reduced mathematical modeling. I will then discuss how this backflipping behavior of bubbles can be leveraged to enhance cleaning. Finally, time permitting, I will briefly show how applying sonic waves to bubbles can also enhance cleaning by inducing an infinite bouncing mode in bubbles. About the Speaker Alireza "Navid" Hooshanginejad is a Hibbitt Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Fluid Mechanics at Brown University. Navid received his B.Sc. (2014) in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Iran, and his Ph.D. (2020) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. He has held a visiting Research Associate position at Flatiron Institute (2017), and a postdoctoral position in Biological and Environmental Engineering Department at Cornell University (2020-2022), before joining his current position at Brown University. Navid is an experimentalist and an applied mathematician working in the area of fluid mechanics and soft matter with focus on biological systems, and the environment. His research interests include drops and bubbles, interfacial instabilities, pattern formation, and self-assembly using table-top experiments and mathematical modeling. Navid has been the recipient of the Graduate Teaching Fellowship from the University of Minnesota (2020), and the Best Poster Award from the Gordon Research Conference on Granular Matter (2022). Navid is currently serving on the APS DFD Executive Committee as the Early Career Member-at-Large. Host: Professor Leonardo Chamorro

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for restorative yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome bring your own mat!

The Theory of Quantum Information: Channels, Capacities, and All That Abstract: Information theory offers mathematically precise theory of communication and data storage that guided and fueled the information age. Initially, quantum effects were thought to be an annoying source of noise, but we have since learned that they offer new capabilities and vast opportunities. Quantum information theory seeks to identify, quantify, and ultimately harness these capabilities. A basic resource in this context is a noisy quantum communication channel, and a central goal is to figure out its capacities---what can you do with it? I'll highlight the new and fundamentally quantum aspects that arise here, such as the role of entanglement, ways to quantify it, and bizarre new kinds of synergies between resources. These ideas elucidate the nature of communication in a quantum context, as well as revealing new facets of quantum theory itself. Bio: Graeme Smith received a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Toronto in 2001, an MS and PhD in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 2004 and 2006, respectively. He was a Research Associate in Computer Science at the University of Bristol 2006-2007, and a Postdoc at IBM Research 2007-2010. From 2010-2016 he was a Research Staff Member at IBM Research. Since 2016, he has been an Assistant then Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder where he is also a JILA Fellow and Director of the Center for the Theory of Quantum Matter.

How can you demonstrate the skills you've developed in graduate school effectively in your resume? What makes for a memorable cover letter? In this workshop, you will learn how to incorporate your transferable skills and customize your documents to make the best impression with employers. No registration required. This session will be available in-person at the Graduate College (507 E. Green St.), room 202 and broadcast online at https://go.grad.illinois.edu/eventspace See the full listing of Graduate College workshops at https://go.grad.illinois.edu/workshops *If you require any disability-related accommodations to participate in this workshop more fully, please emailgradsuccess@illinois.edu

Create the "write" habit! Our writing group provides graduate students with dedicated time to make progress on writing in a supportive atmosphere. The writing group provides structured writing, break, and discussion time, with each meeting consisting of a short goal-setting conversation, quiet writing time, and a concluding reflection and wrap-up. You will be working on your own current writing (e.g., thesis, dissertation, manuscript). These groups are ideal for graduate students who are seeking to create or return to a writing routine, make progress and meet deadlines on long-term projects, or jump-start a new writing project.Our writing groups are held every Monday and Friday from 9am-12pm, and we encourage you to attend regularly. We will not meet on campus holidays.This event will be held in a hybrid format: Join us in-person in the Siebel Center for Design (Upper Lobby, Level 1, seehttps://designcenter.illinois.edu/thecenter). Or, join us online. The Zoom link will be in your registration confirmation email.The Writers Workshop will email you a weekly reminder. You only need to register once for the recurring writing group. Please register using your University of Illinois email.

The Writers Workshop will present strategies for revising your writing at the paragraph and sentence levels. This event will be held through Zoom. It is open to current University of Illinois affiliates (students, faculty, and staff). Please register with your University of Illinois email account by 11:59pm CT on March 6, and we will send an email with the Zoom meeting invitation on the morning of the event.

Create the "write" habit! Our writing group provides graduate students with dedicated time to make progress on writing in a supportive atmosphere. The writing group provides structured writing, break, and discussion time, with each meeting consisting of a short goal-setting conversation, quiet writing time, and a concluding reflection and wrap-up. You will be working on your own current writing (e.g., thesis, dissertation, manuscript). These groups are ideal for graduate students who are seeking to create or return to a writing routine, make progress and meet deadlines on long-term projects, or jump-start a new writing project.Our writing groups are held every Monday and Friday from 9am-12pm, and we encourage you to attend regularly. We will not meet on campus holidays.This event will be held in a hybrid format: Join us in-person in the Siebel Center for Design (Upper Lobby, Level 1, seehttps://designcenter.illinois.edu/thecenter). Or, join us online. The Zoom link will be in your registration confirmation email.The Writers Workshop will email you a weekly reminder. You only need to register once for the recurring writing group. Please register using your University of Illinois email.

Preparing for the academic job market? This workshop will review genre expectations for academic cover letters and provide examples from a range of disciplines. We will share strategies for drafting, strengthening, and tailoring your own cover letters. This event will be held through Zoom. It is open to current University of Illinois affiliates (students, faculty, and staff). Please register with your University of Illinois email account by 11:59pm CT on March 21, and we will send a reminder email with the Zoom meeting invitation on the morning of the event.

Create the "write" habit! Our writing group provides graduate students with dedicated time to make progress on writing in a supportive atmosphere. The writing group provides structured writing, break, and discussion time, with each meeting consisting of a short goal-setting conversation, quiet writing time, and a concluding reflection and wrap-up. You will be working on your own current writing (e.g., thesis, dissertation, manuscript). These groups are ideal for graduate students who are seeking to create or return to a writing routine, make progress and meet deadlines on long-term projects, or jump-start a new writing project.Our writing groups are held every Monday and Friday from 9am-12pm, and we encourage you to attend regularly. We will not meet on campus holidays.This event will be held in a hybrid format: Join us in-person in the Siebel Center for Design (Upper Lobby, Level 1, seehttps://designcenter.illinois.edu/thecenter). Or, join us online. The Zoom link will be in your registration confirmation email.The Writers Workshop will email you a weekly reminder. You only need to register once for the recurring writing group. Please register using your University of Illinois email.

Create the "write" habit! Our writing group provides graduate students with dedicated time to make progress on writing in a supportive atmosphere. The writing group provides structured writing, break, and discussion time, with each meeting consisting of a short goal-setting conversation, quiet writing time, and a concluding reflection and wrap-up. You will be working on your own current writing (e.g., thesis, dissertation, manuscript). These groups are ideal for graduate students who are seeking to create or return to a writing routine, make progress and meet deadlines on long-term projects, or jump-start a new writing project.Our writing groups are held every Monday and Friday from 9am-12pm, and we encourage you to attend regularly. We will not meet on campus holidays.This event will be held in a hybrid format: Join us in-person in the Siebel Center for Design (Upper Lobby, Level 1, seehttps://designcenter.illinois.edu/thecenter). Or, join us online. The Zoom link will be in your registration confirmation email.The Writers Workshop will email you a weekly reminder. You only need to register once for the recurring writing group. Please register using your University of Illinois email.