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Contact name: Elena Romanova
Contact email: romanova@illinois.edu

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

Contact name: Kelly Powderly
Contact email: powderl2@illinois.edu

YoungAh Park, Professor, School of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, will lecture on "Work Stress, Well-Being and Safety."

Those who register by Monday, Nov. 27, will be provided pizza.

Abstract:

Empirical research has repeatedly shown that work stress adversely affects employees’ well-being, health, and their capability to perform their job effectively and safely. Among the numerous work stressors impacting employees, I will highlight several prevalent and emerging factors that require attention to improve the well-being and safety of employees in today’s environment. These include blurred work-nonwork life boundaries due to the use of information and communication technology, workplace incivility, and insufficient recovery from work stress. Subsequently, I will present various workplace prevention and intervention strategies recommended in the existing literature.

Contact name: Mollie Stevens
Contact email: mollie@illinois.edu
Contact phone: 217-333-3287

Catherine Applegate will speak at the Beckman Institute's Director's Seminar at noon Thursday, November 30. The seminar will be held at Beckman Institute, room 1005.

Lunch will be provided to attendees who have registered in advance.

Contact name: Sharlene Denos
Contact email: denos@illinois.edu

Mark Anastasio, Department of Bioengineering, UIUC, will lecture on "Objective assessment of biomedical imaging technologies in the age of deep learning."

It is widely accepted that the assessment and refinement of biomedical imaging technologies should be performed by objective, i.e., task-based, measures of image quality (IQ).  However, the objective evaluation of deep learning-based image formation technologies remains largely lacking, despite the breakneck speed at which they are being developed. As such, there is an ever-growing collection of methods whose utility and trustworthiness remains largely unknown.  Moreover, such methods have the capability to ‘hallucinate’ false structures, which is of significant concern in medical imaging applications. In this work, we report studies in which the performance of deep a learning-based image restoration method is objectively assessed. The performance of the ideal observer (IO) and common linear numerical observers are quantified, and detection efficiencies are computed to assess the potential impact of deep learning on signal detection performance in this application. The numerical results indicate that, in the cases considered, the application of a deep image formation network can result in a loss of task-relevant information in the image, despite improvement in traditional computer-vision metrics. We also demonstrate that traditional and objective IQ measures can vary in opposite ways as a function of network depth. In a second study, we assess the quality of synthetic images produced by deep generative models and demonstrate how traditional IQ measures used in the field of computer vision can be inadequate. These results highlight the need for the objective evaluation of IQ for deep learning technologies for biomedical imaging and may suggest future avenues for improving the effectiveness of biomedical imaging applications.  

Contact name: Jeanne N'Diaye
Contact email: jndiaye@illinois.edu

Two graduate students will present their research at the final Beckman Graduate Student Seminar of the fall semester: Hao Yang and Rachel Nixon. The event takes place Wednesday, December 6, 2023, at noon in 5602 Beckman Institute. 

Lunch will be provided to registered participants.

Contact name: Elena Romanova
Contact email: romanova@illinois.edu

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

Contact name: Margaret Browne Huntt
Contact email: mbrowne@illinois.edu

Join the Beckman Institute and Cancer Center at Illinois for a viewing of Tale of Two Labs. Popcorn will be provided.

Contact name: Lexie Kesler
Contact email: lkesler@illinois.edu

Come find out more about the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology! Learn about the barrier-busting interdisciplinary research facility and community of innovation. Tours will be offered the first Thursday of the month from 10-10:30 a.m.  Register here.

Contact name: Stacy Olson
Contact email: srolson@illinois.edu
Contact phone: 217-244-8373

Beckman Institute Interim Director Cathy Murphy will share updates about the director search, new faculty and staff, the evolution of Beckman working groups to communities, and more. If you have a question you'd like Director Murphy to answer, please submit it in advance via this form: https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/857477652.

Contact name: Mollie Stevens
Contact email: mollie@illinois.edu
Contact phone: 217-244-2603

Join your colleagues this fall for informal conversation and coffee in the Beckman Center Atrium.

This Gather in the Atrium Series will be from 10-10:30 a.m. every Tuesday.

Contact name: Elena Romanova
Contact email: romanova@illinois.edu

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

Contact name: Mollie Stevens
Contact email: mollie@illinois.edu
Contact phone: 217-244-2603

Join your colleagues this fall for informal conversation and coffee in the Beckman Center Atrium.

This Gather in the Atrium Series will be from 10-10:30 a.m. every Tuesday.

Contact name: Mollie Stevens
Contact email: mollie@illinois.edu
Contact phone: 12172442603

Join members of the Beckman community for a special winter edition of coffee and treats in the Beckman Atrium.