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The Illini Center welcomes Dean Rashid Bashir and The Grainger College of Engineering for the inaugural Conversations with Grainger Engineering Faculty event featuring Dr. Gang Wang!

The Conversations with Grainger Engineering Faculty series will bring faculty members to Chicago to share their research and engage in focused discussions with Grainger Engineering constituents during a lunch hour at the Illini Center. For the inaugural event, lunch will be provided.

The first event features Dr. Gang Wang of the Computer Science Department presenting Understanding Deepfake-based Social Engineering: from Users' Perspectives

Deepfake techniques (or broadly, deep generative models) have significantly improved our ability to synthesize media content such as images, videos, audio, and text. However, there is an increasing concern that this ability is also abused by adversaries to generate deceptive content for manipulating public opinions and running social engineering attacks. In this talk, Dr. Wang will discuss his recent collaborative work to investigate this deepfake threat, from users’ perspectives. The goal is to better understand how likely online users would be persuaded by deepfake content in social engineering scenarios and whether and how users’ behaviors change when they are made aware of this threat. They are also exploring what defenses can help to prevent or mitigate harms from deepfake-based attacks.

For information on future events and the College of Engineering, visit: https://grainger.illinois.edu/news/calendars/special

The Illini Center welcomes The Chicago Farmers and speaker Dr. Gary Schnitkey, Soybean Industry Endowed Chair in Agricultural Strategy within the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Schnitkey will discuss Farmland Returns and Prices in the "New Normal”: After high prices in 2021 and 2022, commodity prices appear to be approaching lower, more historical levels. Production costs are declining somewhat after reaching record levels. Moreover, interest rates will be higher than in recent years. How will this impact farmland returns and prices? Schnitkey will share his views.

For more information on The Chicago Farmers and upcoming events, visit: https://chicagofarmers.org/meetinginfo.php?id=121&ts=1692379132

The Illini Center welcomes back The Chicago Farmers for their April luncheon on Land Values!

Russell Hiatt, President of the Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, and Luke Worrell, President of the Realtors Land Institute will present findings as shared at the recent ISPMRA annual meeting in Bloomington, IL. They will also take a look at what next year may bring.

For more information on The Chicago Farmers and their future events, visit chicagofarmers.org.

The Illini Center welcomes The Chicago Farmers for the March Luncheon, where Pat Dumstorff will be discussing sustainability through soil!

Trace Genomics has pioneered and productized the analysis of the soil microbiome using high definition genomic sequencing. Actionable insights Trace delivers to farmers and agronomists include guidance on optimal pathogen management as well as advanced management of phosphorus and nitrogen. Farmers are using these insights to only place products where they are needed to maximize yield and minimize waste and the negative environmental impact that comes with it. Pat Dumstorff, Trace Genomics' VP of Product Management and Marketing, will explain how it all works and walk through a few real-world examples.
Trace Genomics website: www.tracegenomics.com

The Illini Center and Illinois College of Law would like to thank Illinois Supreme Court Justice Mary Kay O'Brien for her keynote address at the Women Lead WITH Illinois Law 2023 Summit!

The Women Lead WITH Illinois Law Summit aims to gather the members of our community for a day of content intended to inspire and empower women to embrace positions of leadership in the law, to create meaningful connections, and to support each other's personal and professional goals.

For more information on the Illinois College of Law, and upcoming events, please visit https://law.illinois.edu/ .

Welcome back Chicago Farmers! We are excited to host your February luncheon with Bill Jackson, Executive Director of the Discovery Partners Institute.

For information on the Chicago Farmers and future meetings, visit:
https://chicagofarmers.org/meetinginfo.php?id=118&ts=1673836699

The Illini Center welcomes Director Josep Torrellas and his team from the ACE Center for Evolvable Computing for the ACE Center Kickoff Meeting!

The goal of the ACE Center is to devise novel technologies for scalable distributed computing that will improve the performance and the energy efficiency of diverse applications by 100x over the expected computer systems of 2030. For more information, visit https://acecenter.grainger.illinois.edu/ .

The Illini Center welcomes The Chicago Farmers!

Eliza Fournier, Urban Farm Director of the College of Lake County's Lakeshore campus, will discuss her personal experiences over the past two decades in urban agriculture in Chicago, and facilitate a discussion on future opportunities in the city and beyond!

For more information on The Chicago Farmers and their future events, visit https://chicagofarmers.org/ .

The holiday season is upon us!

From all of us at the Illini Center, we wish you peace, joy, and a wonderful holiday season! We are so thankful for you, Illini! 🧡💙

The Illini Center welcomes the Grainger College of Engineering Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center for the QLA Meets QIT II Workshop!

This year's workshop focuses on current trends in quantum information theory. In particular, on quantum channels and decoherence, quantum error correction, and Hamiltonian complexity. For more information, visit

QLA Meets QIT II Over many decades various mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists, and engineers have made amazing connections and links between quantitative linear algebra (QLA) and quantum information theory (QIT). Quantitative linear algebra lies at the intersection of topics such as discrepancy

The Illini Center welcomes back Shield ILLINOIS this week! Shield ILLINOIS is a screening testing program infrastructure that deploys the University of Illinois' innovative saliva test across the state. To find out more, visit https://www.uillinois.edu/shield.

SHIELD - University of Illinois System SHIELD Illinois is the University of Illinois System’s initiative to make our innovative covidSHIELD saliva-based COVID-19 test available to K-12 schools, colleges and universities, companies and the public across the state of Illinois.

The Illini Center Welcomes LCPC 2022!

The Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC) has been, since its founding in 1988, a leading venue for research on parallel languages and compilers and many related topics related to parallel computing, including parallelizing compilers, parallel programming models, runtime systems, and tools with a diverse domain of application. The wide scope of the workshop is unique in that it spans the spectrum from foundational principles to practical experience and from early ideas to polished results. LCPC encourages submissions that go outside its original scope of scientific computing to diverse areas that are enabled or enhanced by the power of parallel systems such as mobile computing, big data, relevant aspects of machine learning, data centers, cognitive computing, etc.

For more information, visit publish.illinois.edu/lcpc2022atillinois/.

The Illini Center welcomes PACT 2022!
The 31st International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques will be held at the Illini Center and Discovery Partners Institute through October 12th. PACT is a long-running and unique conference at the intersection of classical parallel architectures and compilers that brings together researchers from architecture, compilers, programming languages, and applications to present and discuss their latest research results. For more information, visit pact22.cs.illinois.edu.

The Illini Center welcomes the Inter-University Program for Latino Research and the UIC Mellon Fellows Program this week!

The IUPLR/UIC Mellon Fellows Program is a dissertation completion fellowship hosted at the University of Illinois-Chicago that seeks to foster, mentor, and professionalize a national cohort of Humanities doctoral students focusing on Latino Studies in order to maximize effective progress to complete the PhD, increase job-market readiness, build community, and impart a sustainable, healthy writing practice.

For more information, visit https://mfp.lals.uic.edu/ and https://iuplr.org/ .

IUPLR – Inter-University Program for Latino Research The Department seeks a scholar of Latinx literature and expressive culture. We welcome applicants whose research focuses on any single literary genre, period, geographical region, or linguistic tradition encompassed by Latinx cultural experience, as well as those whose work spans multiple genres, me...

The Illini Center welcomes the Corporate & Securities Litigation Workshop!

Hosted by the University of Illinois College of Law, this annual workshop brings together scholars focused on corporate and securities litigation to present their scholarly works.

For more information on the College of Law and future events, visit law.illinois.edu.

The Illini Center welcomes the Extension Disaster Education Network for their Religious and Cultural Literacy and Competency in Disasters: 2-Day Workshop!

EDEN is a collaborative multi-state effort by Cooperative Extension Services across the country to improve the delivery of services to citizens affected by disasters. EDEN's mission is to reduce the impact of disasters through research-based education. For more information, visit extensiondisaster.net.

Room with a view!

Today, the Illini Center welcomes the Gies Young Alumni Committee for a reunion in the Quad Boardroom! The GYAC serves Gies Business by strengthening connections with young alumni.

For more information on the GYAC and other opportunities to connect with Gies College of Business alumni, visit https://giesbusiness.illinois.edu/alumni.

The Illini Center welcomes the Illinois Agricultural Leadership Foundation for the GROWMARK Global Challenges Seminar!

This seminar examines pressing challenges that present opportunities for leadership throughout the world. Included in this seminar is a look at how science, technology, and the environment are impacting the future. Specific emphasis is placed on the challenges of making safe and affordable food a global reality, and the role of the multinational corporation as a global business and philanthropic partner. Participants also look at the role of the compassionate individual on the world stage.

For more information, visit https://agleadership.org/.

The Illini Center welcomes Shield ILLINOIS for the Shield Field Academy this week! Shield ILLINOIS is a screening testing program infrastructure that deploys the University of Illinois' innovative saliva test across the state. To find out more, visit https://www.uillinois.edu/shield.

The Illini Center welcomes the Commodity & Energy Markets Association for CEMA 2022!

The 2022 Annual Meeting features key note speakers, Panos Kouvelis (Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis) and K. Geert Rouwenhorst (Yale School of Management, Yale University). For more information about CEMA, visit cem-a.org.

The Illini Center welcomes the College of Media for the Brand Hub Bootcamp Retreat!

For more information on the Illinois Brand Hub, and upcoming events, visit https://brandhub.illinois.edu/.

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