Featured Lectures

CS @ ILLINOIS has two named lecture series. The Donald B. Gillies Memorial Lecture honors the memory of a renowned CS faculty member. The Robert Mueller-Thuns Lecture honors the memory of a graduate who died at a young age, but whom always strove for excellence.

Distinguished Lecture Series

The CS @ ILLINOIS Distinguished Lecture Series brings prominent leaders and experts to campus to share their ideas and promote conversations about important challenges and topics in the discipline. 

Fall 2017 Speakers

Date
(Link to Calendar)		 Speaker Lecture Title
9/11


Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University

 How Computer Science Informs Modern Auction Design
9/18


Aude Oliva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 Mapping the Spatio-Temporal Dyanmics of Vision in the Human Brain
9/25


Ben Raphael, Princeton University

 Computational Problems in Cancer Genomics
10/9


Eva Tardos, Cornell University

  
10/16


Leslie Kaelbling, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 Intelligent Robots in an Uncertain World
10/30


Andrew Zeller, Saarland University

  
11/6
Alex Aiken, Stanford University		  
11/13


Maneulo Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University

  
11/27


Laura Haas, IBM Research