Grainger College of Engineering, All Events

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- All Day
Apply to be an ESTAR: DEADLINE April 25
- Informational
- All Day
Nuclear Waste Dialogue (NuWaDi) Consortium: a Nuclear Story and Coloring Book Competition
- Ceremony/Service
- 10:00 - 10:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Special Seminar: "Light, Silicon, and Steel: PsiQuantum's Path to Utility-Scale, Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing, Aaron Fluitt, Senior Director of Technology Partnerships, PsiQuantum

Speaker: Aaron Fluitt, Senior Director of Technology Partnerships, PsiQuantum
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 4369
Prelim Exam: Wen Jin
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
Special Seminar: Rainer Engelken, "Harnessing Neural Dynamics: Principled Algorithms for Efficient AI and Large-Scale Computational Neuroscience"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Ariane Dekker (University of Chicago) "Dark matter insights from the smallest galaxies"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Rajib Saha Ph.D.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
Mind-Body Techniques: Strategies for Better Sleep

Quality sleep is an essential component of physical and mental well-being. Mind-body practices can be utilized to promote and improve sleep quality. This presentation will provide an overview of sleep biology, the importance of sleep routines, and specific mind-body strategies to enhance sleep.
- Informational
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- HMNTL 3003
Prelim Exam: Furkan Sahbaz
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:30 pm
- NCSA Auditorium
Dave Patterson & Andy Konwinski, "Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 - 5:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 5369
Prelim Exam: Ruiyang Zhao
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Halil Kilicoglu, "Enhancing Rigor and Integrity of Biomedical Research using Natural Language Processing"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science
Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies
- Meeting
- 4:00 pm
- NCSA Auditorium
Fireside Chat with Andy Konwinski and Pete Sonsini: "My Journey From Research to Startup"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
ECE Explorations (200): Virtual Research Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:30 pm
- Second Floor Ballroom Illini Union 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801
NPRE 2025 Honors Banquet
- Ceremony/Service
- 5:30 - 9:00 pm
- Illini Union Ballroom, 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801
NPRE/ANS Student Chapter 2024 Honors Banquet
- Social/Informal Event
- 7:00 - 8:00 pm
Women in Engineering "Ask Me Anything" Virtual Session with WIE Ambassadors
- Social/Informal Event