Grainger College of Engineering, All Events

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin

  Speaker: Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • Beckman 4269 and zoom

  Final Defense - PhD - Hannah Kimmel

  • Other
• • 4:00 pm
  • 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

• • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
  • Everitt Room 2310

  BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Jeff Gore

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

  Distinguished Lecture: Masashi Sugiyama

  • 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
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm

  ECE Explorations (200): Virtual Research Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 3, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • ECEB 5070

  Prelim Exam: Priyash Barya

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Jim Haran

  • Lecture
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium

  Intercellular Communication: Can It Be Mediated by Electromagnetics?

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2025

• • All Day
  • Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  CHBE/OXE UG Research Symposium and Scholarship Awards Ceremony

  • Meeting
• • All Day
  • Grainger Engineering Campus

  Engineering Open House: The Age of Innovation

  • Reception/Open House
• • All Day

  Last day to withdraw* and receive a 40% refund of tuition.

  • Other
• • All Day

  No refund of tuition is available after this date.

  • Other
• • 12:00 - 2:00 pm
  • ECEB 5070

  Final Exam: Robert Kaufman

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Daniel Shoemaker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, April 5, 2025

• • All Day
  • Grainger Engineering Campus

  Engineering Open House: The Age of Innovation

  • Reception/Open House

Sunday, April 6, 2025

• • All Day

  Last day for GRADS to add name to May degree list. Must use Web Self-Service.

  • Other

Monday, April 7, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Eun Ah Kim, Cornell University

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker Jason Patrick: Self-healing and Self-sensing in Structural Composites

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - no colloquium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Bill Fefferman, University of Chicago

  Speaker: Bill Fefferman, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. James Moon, University of Michigan, "Engineering Strategies to Modulate the Immune System" (host: Joon Kong)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 2035 Campus Instructional Facility

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Suneet Singh

  Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar - MRS, no seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

• • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
  • Everitt Room 2310

  BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Gargi Maheshwari

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:30 - 4:00 pm
  • Reception in CSL 154 at 2:30pm followed by Seminar in B02 at 3:00pm

  Seminar with Speaker Yi Ren

  • 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
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Andreas Hoecker (CERN), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm

  ECE Explorations (200): Virtual Research Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Edward Hightower

  • Lecture
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • Main Library, Room 146, 1408 W Gregory Dr, Champaign, IL 61820

  Women in Science Lecture Series: Dr. Taiye Winful

  This lecture series highlights the important innovations and contributions of women in sciences here at the University of Illinois, and centers the importance of documenting women scientists and engineers to create a diverse and inclusive archival record.

  • Lecture
• • 1:30 - 3:30 pm
  • ECEB & Zoom

  Final Exam: Haotian Chen

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar - Spring MRS, no colloquium

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 11, 2025

• • All Day
  • ECE Building

  Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI)

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 12:00 pm
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Physics Careers Seminar: ""

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Edoardo Baldini, University of Texas, Austin

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, April 12, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • ECE Building, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61820

  Saturday Engineering for Everyone: Nicole Yunger Halpern, University of Maryland

  • Lecture
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 4039 Campus Instructional Facility, 1405 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  WIE Admitted Student Luncheon: Illini Fest

  • Social/Informal Event

Monday, April 14, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Trithep Devakul, Stanford University

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Rex (Zhitao) Ying

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Warren Dixon

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Javad Shabani, New York University

  Speaker: Javad Shabani, Associate Professor of Physics and Director of the Center of Quantum Information Physics, New York University

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sijin Li, Cornell University, "An Integrated Synthetic Biology Pipeline to Understand and Harness Plant Specialized Metabolism" (host: Huimin Zhao)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 2035 Campus Instructional Facility

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Dr. Jhansi Kandasamy

  Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

• • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
  • Everitt Room 2310

  BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Rajib Saha

  • 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
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Marin Soljacic (MIT), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm

  ECE Explorations (200): Virtual Research Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 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

  WIE "Ask Me Anything" Virtual Session with WIE Ambassadors

  • Social/Informal Event

Thursday, April 17, 2025

• • 8:00 am - 4:15 pm
  • I Hotel and Conference Center

  2025 Illinois Structural Engineering Conference

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 11:00 am
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Physics Careers Seminar: "Anderson Group Careers in Physics Panel"

  • Lecture
• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Kevin Quaid

  • Lecture
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 18, 2025

• • All Day

  Last day to withdraw* or drop** a course without a grade of "W".

  • Other
• • 3:00 - 4:30 pm
  • 210 Engineering Hall, 1308 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801

  WIE Coffee Chat

  Join us over coffee and snacks to connect with women engineering students!

  • Social/Informal Event

Sunday, April 20, 2025

• • All Day

  Undergraduate Research Week (URW)

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, April 21, 2025

• • All Day

  Undergraduate Research Week (URW)

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Gil Rafael, California Institute of Technology

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: John Junkins

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

• • All Day

  Undergraduate Research Week (URW)

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Sara Mouradian, University of Washington

  Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washinton

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 2035 Campus Instructional Facility

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Michael Tonks

  Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar - "Cross-shaped patch formation on gold stellated octahedron templates with structural change"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

• • All Day

  Undergraduate Research Week (URW)

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies

  • Meeting
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Ben Hooberman (UIUC), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm

  ECE Explorations (200): Virtual Research Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 24, 2025

• • All Day

  Undergraduate Research Week (URW)

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
  • Illini Union (1401 W Green St, Urbana)

  Undergraduate Research Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Alan Landmann

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • LLP 464

  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Chis Akers, University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 25, 2025

• • All Day

  Undergraduate Research Week (URW)

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 12:00 pm
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Physics Careers Seminar: ""

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Nandini Trivedi, The Ohio State University

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, April 26, 2025

• • All Day

  Undergraduate Research Week (URW)

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, April 28, 2025

• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker Mykel Kochenderfer: Automated Decision Making for Safety Critical Applications

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Alexandre Bourassa, Google Quantum AI

  Speaker: Alexandre Bourassa, Senior Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Joao Soares, University of Alberta , (host: Baron Peters)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar - DEI

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

• • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
  • Everitt Room 2310

  BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Xin Yu

  • 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
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm

  ECE Explorations (200): Virtual Research Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium