• 2024-02-17 - Speakers: Abe Clements Abstract: In this talk, he will present an overview of the importance of cyber security in national security and how Sandia applies cyber security at every layer of the computing stack from atoms to the cloud.  It will cover examples of the hard problems we are working to solve ranging from automated system understanding to...
  • 2024-01-19 - Irene Lusztig: (Director/Producer/Editor) A feminist filmmaker, archival researcher, educator, and amateur seamstress. She works in a space of delicate mediation between people, their pasts, and the present-tense spaces and landscapes where unresolved histories bloom and erupt. Often beginning with rigorous research in archives, her work brings...
  • Event Type : Lecture Sponsor: European Union Center; Program in Arms Control & Domestic & International Security Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Valentino Benjamin Valentino is a Professor of Government at Dartmouth College and Chair of the Department of Government. His research interests include the causes and...
  • The Global Impacts of the War in Ukraine: Family and War Wednesday, January 25, 2023 | 12:00 pm CT | 306 Coble Hall and via Zoom Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees with RSVP For a PDF poster, click here Speaker: Dr. Elena Kopteva, Visiting Research Scientist, Physics, Illinois Scholar at Risk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign This talk is...
  • 2022 Jeremiah D. Sullivan Lecture: "The Growing Danger of Nuclear Weapons and How We Can Reduce It” presented by Professor Frederick Lamb on Thursday May 5th, 2022 from 6-7pm in Loomis Room 144. Click here for PDF flyer. This lecture will be available on Zoom https://illinois....
  • Join ACDIS and Sandia National Laboratories' joint seminar series on security.  This Thursday April 7, 2022 at 6pm virtually on Zoom, Dr. Clifford Singer will present, "Climate Change and Security in Europe" Abstract: A comparatively simple integrated assessment model is used to examine economic impacts of an EU commitment in 2021 to achieving zero net CO 2...
  • Teach-in: The Military Situation in Ukraine and its Implications for Nuclear Security and Safety Thursday, March 31, 2022 | 4:00pm-5:30pm CDT For a PDF poster, click here Speakers: Professor Nicholas Grossman, Political Science. Professor Tomasz Kozlowski, NPRE. Professor Frederick Lamb, Physics...
  • Join ACDIS and Sandia National Laboratories' joint seminar series on security.  This Thursday March 24, 2022 at 6pm virtually on Zoom, Dr. Kiran Lakkaraju and Dr. Andrew Reddie will present, "Experimental Wargaming Methods for Studying Deterrence in Hypothetical Escalation Scenarios." Abstract: Wargames are increasingly being developed...
  • Click here for PDF The Program in Arms Control & Domestic and International Security (ACDIS) is an interdisciplinary venture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that facilitates objective research, academics, and outreach about international security issues within the academic and policymaking communities. ACDIS integrates insights generated by...
  • COLLEGE PARK, MD, February 9, 2022 — The capabilities of US systems intended to defend against the nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that North Korea may have or could obtain are currently low and will likely continue to be low for the next 15 years, according to a new technical ...
  • Certain courses from the Undergraduate Certificate in Global Security have been retired from the University's course catalog and thus the Certificate course list. Any student to previously complete a retired course is still eligible to use it towards the certificate. Legacy Course List: CHLH/ENVS/PATH 474: Principles of Epidemiology CS 460/ECE 419: Security Laboratory AE...
  • The National Acadamies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is holding an online open session of the Committee on Risk Analysis Methods for Nuclear War & Nuclear Terrorism on April 21 and 23 from 1:00pm to 5:00pm EST. More information about the study can be found here....
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  • Read full story to view a video recording of ACDIS Core Faculty Member Dr. Frederick Lamb giving a talk about the vulnerability of near-earth space.
  • Speaker: Colleen Murphy, Professor of Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Just war theory offers ethical guidance on how and why war should be fought. It provides criteria to distinguish just from unjust wars. International humanitarian law offers guidance on legal and illegal conduct in war, and the crime of aggression defines when...