Grainger College of Engineering, All Events

Sunday, October 18, 2026

• Cozad and TE 498 Spring TA Applications Due

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

• 2026 Ashby Prize in Computational Science Hackathon

  Recurring

  Time

  8:30 am - 5:00 pm

  Location

  National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Monday, October 19, 2026

• Cozad and TE 498 Spring TA Applications Due

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

• Final Exam: Erin Raftery

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  HMNTL 1000

• Final Exam: Tope Amuda

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Electrical and Computer Engineering Building Room 5070

• Landuyt Center Academics Open Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  1038 CIF

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Jacopo Gliozzi, "Long-range toric code: finite-temperature topological order in two dimensions"

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

• Prelim Exam: Shengkun Cui

  Time

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  Coordinated Science Laboratory 239

• Final Defense of Destiny Gray "TBA"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  165 Noyes Lab

• COLLOQUIUM: Yoav Artzi, "Sparks of New Pre-Training"

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Mark Messner - Smarter Materials Modeling with AI, Physics, and Large Data

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

• Ballard Seminar Series

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  3081 ECE Building

• Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites in Heavy Civil Infrastructure| Gregg Blaszak & Eric O. Johnson | CEE 595 S - Structural Engineering Seminar Series

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  1310 Yeh Student Center

• Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Where Curiosity Leads: Science, Leadership, and Building the Foundations of Discovery"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

• Cozad and TE 498 Spring TA Applications Due

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

• Grainger Engineering Tech Startup Challenge @ The Chicago Venture Summit

  Time

  8:30 am

  Location

  167 North Green St., Fulton Market District, Chicago, IL

• PhD Final Defense – Charbel Beaino

  Time

  8:30 am

• IQUIST Seminar: "Benchmarking quantum simulation at scale", Niklas Mueller, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

• Prelim Exam: Karim Elmeligy

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Coordinated Science Laboratory B02

• Making Network Knowledge First-Class: A Neurosymbolic Approach to Network Management

  Time

  2:00 - 3:15 pm

  Location

  Room 2405, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

• Electroactive Energetic Materials - Structure and Response

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  2079 Natural History Building

• Final Defense of Akash Kothari

  Time

  4:00 pm

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Xu Wu

  Time

  4:00 - 4:50 pm

  Location

  1306 Everitt Laboratory

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

• Soft Materials Seminar - "Elucidating the Role of Alpha-Helices in Improving Ionic Conductivity Through Modulation of Side Chains and Tertiary Structure"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214

• Graduate Programs Overview Information Session

  Time

  7:00 pm   CST

  Location

  Online

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

• Cozad and TE 498 Spring TA Applications Due

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Moritz Muenchmeyer (University of Wisconsin - Madison) "KSZ velocity reconstruction and AI-augmented BAO reconstruction"

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

• Global Physical Activity Observatories Workshop

  Recurring

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

• PhD Final Defense – Manho Park

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  Hydrosystems Laboratory Room 3019

• Decision & Control Seminar: Prof. Ersin Das

  Time

  3:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  CSL B02

• Human-Computer Interaction Talk Series: Michelle Jensen, "Starting Where Students Are: Learning & Integrating Computer Security."

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  0216 Siebel Center

• The Physics Colloquium: Peter Abbamonte (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "A Peculiar Connection Between Quantum Entanglement and Wave Function Geometry in Matter"

  Time

  4:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

• ECE Explorations: Subgrid Solutions Panel

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  1002 ECEB (Grainger Auditorium)

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214

• M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering Leadership Informational Webinar

  Time

  7:00 - 8:00 pm

Thursday, October 22, 2026

• Cozad and TE 498 Spring TA Applications Due

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

• Global Physical Activity Observatories Workshop

  Recurring

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

• Cubist Lobby Day

  Time

  11:00 am - 3:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel Center for Computer Science Atrium

• Landuyt Center Academics Open Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  1038 CIF

• SE290 - Jason Lee

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  1310 DCL

• Let’s Chat about iCAN (online): Soha Huq (iCAN and MCS alum)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

• Hard Materials Seminar - "Mechanism-Driven AI for Alloy Design: From Uncertainty-aware Physics-based ML Prediction of Plasticity to LLM-guided Symbolic Regression"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214

• Step Through the Artemis 2

  Register now!

  Time

  5:30 - 7:30 pm

  Location

  Campus Instructional Facility

Friday, October 23, 2026

• Cozad and TE 498 Spring TA Applications Due

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

• High Energy Physics Seminar - Ting Cheng (FNAL) "Ultralight Dark Matter Imprints on Astrophysical Neutrinos" 

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

• ISE Seminar Series - Marcos M. Vasconcelos

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  1310 Digital Computer Laboratory, 1304 W. Springfield Ave, Urbana

• Condensed Matter Seminar - "Exploring the Emerging World of Altermagnets"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

• Director of Graduate Studies Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science

• Alumni Spotlight with Kendra Sharp

  Time

  1:30 - 2:30 pm

  Location

  Arnold O. and Mabel M. Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology room 1005

• Caterpillar Site Visit

  Time

  3:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  University Research Park

• Cleared for Takeoff: Recent Alumni Panel Session

  Time

  3:30 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Campus Instructional Facility

Saturday, October 24, 2026

• Cozad and TE 498 Spring TA Applications Due

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

• Science at the Market: Graduates in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (GEEB)

  Time

  8:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets

• Pregame Pancake Breakfast

  Time

  10:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  Seibel Center for Design

• ANS President Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  220 Talbot Laboratory

Sunday, October 25, 2026

• Cozad and TE 498 Spring TA Applications Due

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

Monday, October 26, 2026

• Final Defense of Sara Aghajanzadeh

  Time

  9:30 am

  Location

  SC 3102

• Landuyt Center Academics Open Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  1038 CIF

• PhD Final Defense – Rahul Dev Kundu

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) 4036

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Andreas Gleis (Rutgers)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: H.S. Udaykumar (Uday) - The thermomechanics of shock-to-detonation transition in condensed phase energetic materials

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

• Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Local structure in Novel Ferroelectrics: Insights from Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

• Modeling Full-Scale Vortex-Induced and Rain-Wind-Induced Stay Cable Vibrations | Delong Zuo | CEE 595 S - Structural Engineering Seminar Series

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  1310 Yeh Student Center

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

• Sustainability & Resiliency Day

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  I-Hotel

• IQUIST Seminar: Hannah Manetsch, Senior AMO Physicist, Oratomic

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

• Prelim Exam: Tianyi Liu

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Coordinated Science Laboratory 239

• Zip Lobby Day

  Time

  11:00 am - 3:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel Center for Computer Science Atrium

• IDEA Institute Meeting

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  Everitt Labs 1103

• Decision & Control Seminar: Prof. Eduardo Sontag

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CSL B02

• MechSE Distinguished Seminar: Scaling the Microscale: The Rise of Extreme Microfluids

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  NCSA Auditorium, 1205 West Clark Street, Urbana

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Christopher Ritter

  Time

  4:00 - 4:50 pm

  Location

  1306 Everitt Laboratory

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

• Soft Materials Seminar - "Cryo-EM of C. lytica Cells, Vesicles and their Functionalizations"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

• Let’s Chat about iCAN (online): Soha Huq (iCAN and MCS alum)

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214

• Tech Talk: Apple Software Team

  Time

  6:30 - 7:30 pm

  Location

  1002 ECEB (Grainger Auditiorium)

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

• Railroad Environmental Conference

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  I-Hotel

• SHPE 2026 Annual Convention

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Indianapolis, IN

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Aditya Vijaykumar (University of Chicago) " Astrophysics insights from the population of compact binaries"

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

• Final Exam: Jack Huang

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Nick Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Laboratory Rm 1000

• BIOE Seminar Series: Chair & Professor Robin Queen, PhD, FACSM, FIOR, FASB, FAIMBE, FBMES

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

• Causal modeling webinar series: Causal inference, structural equation modeling, and mediation analysis

  Time

  12:00 - 3:30 pm

• Final Exam: Gabriel Muniz Negron

  Time

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  Electrical and Computer Engineering Building Room 5070

• CSL 75th Distinguished Lecture: "Some theoretical results about responses to inputs and transients in systems biology"

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  CSL Auditorium (B02)

• The Physics Colloquium: Gordon Baym (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Why must photons exist?: from Einstein to Bohr, Hanbury Brown-Twiss and Hong-Ou-Mandel interference"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

• ECE Explorations: Mental Health Forum

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  1002 ECEB (Grainger Auditorium)

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214

Thursday, October 29, 2026

• Railroad Environmental Conference

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  I-Hotel

• SHPE 2026 Annual Convention

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Indianapolis, IN

• PhD Final Defense ⎯ Yifan Cheng

  Time

  8:00 am

  Location

  CEEB 3019

• Final Exam: Jianlong Lin

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis 464

• SE290 - Michael Manfredo

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  1310 DCL

• Hard Materials Seminar - "Chirality-Induced Spin Selectivity in Conjugated Polymers"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

• Hard Materials Seminar - "Computational Design and Experimental Synthesis of Cu-doped Intermetallic Single-Atom Alloys"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

• TBA

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  1002 Grainger Auditorium

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214

Friday, October 30, 2026

• SHPE 2026 Annual Convention

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Indianapolis, IN

• Coffee, Donuts & More for CCFD

  Time

  8:30 - 11:15 am

  Location

  Everitt Lab Near Atrium

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

  Time

  All Day

• No refund of tuition is available after this date.

  Time

  All Day

• High Energy Physics Seminar - Vincent Lee (UC San Diego) "The Dark Dimension, Revisited"

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

• Physics Careers Seminar

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

• Condensed Matter Seminar - "More Magic with 2D Crystals"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

• Director of Graduate Studies Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science

• Prelim Exam: Raj Majumder

  Time

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  Electrical and Computer Engineering Building Rm 5086

• PhD Final Defense – Maria Florencia Bianco

  Time

  1:30 pm

  Location

  Newmark 3310 (Classroom)

Saturday, October 31, 2026

• SHPE 2026 Annual Convention

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Indianapolis, IN

• Science at the Market: UIUC Computer Science Department

  Time

  8:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets

• Saturday Physics for Everyone

  Time

  9:45 - 11:30 am

  Location

  Lobby - Loomis Laboratory Of Physics 1110 W Green St Urbana, IL 61801-3003 United States

• ANS President Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  220 Talbot Laboratory

Sunday, November 1, 2026

• Application Deadline - ILEE Dual Degree

  Time

  All Day

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

  Time

  All Day

Monday, November 2, 2026

• Landuyt Center Academics Open Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  1038 CIF

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Shuo Liu (Princeton)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

• AI Builder Meet-Up

  Time

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  2406 Siebel Center for Computer Science

• Final Exam: Razan Baltaji

  Time

  2:00 - 4:00 pm

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Nora Ayanian

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

• Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Reinventing batteries for a sustainable future"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

• Final Exam: Kara Maurer

  Time

  10:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  Electrical and Computer Engineering Building Room 5070

• IQUIST Seminar: Chong Wang, Research Faculty, Perimeter Institute

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

• CCIL-CI MED Symposium: Design Controls and Risk Management (Session II)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

• Unasked Questions: Research Challenges in Data Centers That Break the Silos

  Time

  12:00 - 1:30 pm

  Location

  Discovery Partners Institute 200 S. Wacker Dr. 20th Floor, Chicago, IL

• Final Defense of Nerla Jean-Louis

  Time

  1:00 pm

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sujit Datta, California Institute of Technology (Host: Prof. Ying Diao)

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

• Final Defense of Rajarshi Haldar

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel Center 3124

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Tim Lach

  Time

  4:00 - 4:50 pm

  Location

  1306 Everitt Laboratory

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Tim Lach

  Time

  4:00 - 4:50 pm

  Location

  1306 Everitt Laboratory

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214

• RTX Information Session

  Time

  5:30 - 7:30 pm

  Location

  Campus Instructional Facility

• Salesforce Tech Talk

  Time

  6:00 pm

  Location

  2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

• Final Exam: T.G. Roberts

  Time

  9:30 - 11:30 am

  Location

  Electrical and Computer Engineering Building Room 3002

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Hannah Sousa-Fronenberg (KICP/University of Chicago)

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

• BIOE Seminar Series: Graduate Students Rita Huan-Ting Peng & Xin Wang

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

• Fall Research Initiatives Webinar | Biomaterials-Based Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines

  Time

  1:00 - 2:00 pm

• Prelim Exam: Jiawei Li

  Time

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  Coordinated Science Laboratory 238

• Dean's Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Tsu-Jae Liu

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  National Center for Supercomputing Applications

• The Physics Colloquium McMillan Award: Patrick Ledwith (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Strong Correlations in Topological Bands"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

• ECE Explorations: Town Hall

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  1002 ECEB (Grainger Auditorium)

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214

• WIE Social Craft

  Time

  5:00 - 7:00 pm

  Location

  210 Engineering Hall

• Final Defense of Zhichen Zeng

  Time

  6:00 pm

Thursday, November 5, 2026

• WE26 National Conference

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Boston, MA

• SE290 - Phil Ryan

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  1310 DCL

• Navigating the IRB with Community Research Collaborators

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Lorenzo Vergari, Nuclear, Plasma, & Radiological Engineering-Illinois

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

• Hard Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

• Hard Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214

• SocialFuse Fall26

  Time

  5:00 - 7:00 pm

  Location

  Campus Instructional Facility

• Tech Pulse 2030

  Time

  5:00 - 7:00 pm

  Location

  Discovery Partners Institute, 200 South Wacker Drive, 4th Floor Discovery Room, Chicago, IL 60606

Friday, November 6, 2026

• WE26 National Conference

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Boston, MA

• Final Defense of Benjamin Reidys

  Time

  10:00 am

  Location

  CSL 221

• High Energy Physics Seminar - Grant Remmen (Harvard) "Inverse Problem in Effective Field Theory"

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

• ISE Seminar Series - Pratik Parikh

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  1310 Digital Computer Laboratory, 1304 W. Springfield Ave, Urbana

• Director of Graduate Studies Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science

• Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 2:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

Saturday, November 7, 2026

• ANS President Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  220 Talbot Laboratory

Monday, November 9, 2026

• Landuyt Center Academics Open Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  1038 CIF

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Kendrick Lev (Harvard)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

• AE Seminar Speaker: Samuel Coogan - Safe autonomy from fast reachability

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

• Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Towards autonomous in situ synchrotron solidification metallurgy: developing capabilities for rapidly mapping solidification transformation pathways and kinetics"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

• Machine learning applications to support planning and emergency response management for storm surge risk | Alexandros A. Taflanidis | CEE 595 S - Structural Engineering Seminar Series

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  1310 Yeh Student Center

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

• IHSI Community-Academic Scholars program info session: Project submission and mentorship

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:00 pm   noon

• IQUIST Seminar: "Learning Ground State Observables from Quantum Experiments," Kunal Sharma, Senior Research Scientist, IBM

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

• MR Elastography of Complex Brain Mechanical Properties

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  2079 Natural History Building

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Federico Scurti

  Time

  4:00 - 4:50 pm

  Location

  1306 Everitt Laboratory

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214

• International Student Entrepreneurship Workshop

  Time

  5:30 - 7:00 pm

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

• Prelim Exam: Haozhe Si

  Time

  9:00 - 11:00 am

  Location

  Electrical and Computer Engineering Building Rm 5086

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Katie Harrington (Argonne National Laboratory) "The Simons Observatory: Commissioning and Early Observations for the Mid-frequency Small Aperture Telescopes"

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

• BIOE Seminar Series: Assistant Professor Longwei Liu

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

• The Physics Colloquium: Dylan Yost (Colorado State University) "Precision tests of quantum electrodynamics through hydrogen spectroscopy and vacuum birefringence"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

• ECE Explorations: Undergraduate Research Symposium - ECE For All

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  1002 ECEB (Grainger Auditorium)

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214

• Future of work in the age of AI: Leadership, talent and responsible innovation

  Time

  5:30 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Discovery Partners Institute 200 S. Wacker Dr. 20th Floor, Chicago, IL

Thursday, November 12, 2026

• Landuyt Center Academics Open Office Hours

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  1038 CIF

• SE290 - Jeff Lee

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  1310 DCL

• Hard Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214

Friday, November 13, 2026

• Coffee, Donuts & More for CCFD

  Time

  8:30 - 11:15 am

  Location

  Everitt Lab Near Atrium

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

  Time

  All Day

• Final Defense of Elizabeth Koning

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  Siebel Center 4124 or zoom

• Final Defense - PhD - Yi-Hui Lai

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  Everitt 2100 and via zoom

• Prelim Exam: Mihir Kavishwar

  Time

  10:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  Coordinated Science Laboratory B02

• ISE Seminar Series - Dr. Jackie Cha

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  1310 Digital Computer Laboratory, 1304 W. Springfield Ave, Urbana

• Condensed Matter Seminar - "The tenfold way on a finite Hilbert space: topology of entanglement for qubits and fermions"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

• Director of Graduate Studies Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science

• Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 2:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

• WIE Coffee Chat

  Time

  3:00 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  210 Engineering Hall

Saturday, November 14, 2026

• Saturday Physics for Everyone

  Time

  9:45 - 11:30 am

  Location

  Lobby - Loomis Laboratory Of Physics 1110 W Green St Urbana, IL 61801-3003 United States

• ANS President Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  220 Talbot Laboratory

Monday, November 16, 2026

• Landuyt Center Academics Open Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  1038 CIF

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Ruben Verresen (U Chicago)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Sedina Tsikata

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

• Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Wearable ultrasound technology"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214

Tuesday, November 17, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: "Scanning NV Microscopy for Quantum Materials: From Magnetic Imaging to Nanoscale EPR", Huan Zhao, Eugene Wigner Distinguished Staff Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

• CHBE 565-Thomas J. Hanratty Lecture, Prof. Timothy P. Lodge, University of Minnesota (Host: Prof. Alexa Kuenstler) "Spontaneous Fission and Fusion of Block Copolymer Micelles"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

• IDEA Institute Meeting

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  Everitt Labs 1103

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

• 2027 Community-Academic Scholars Student Info Session

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214

Wednesday, November 18, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Roman Berenes (UIUC)

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

• Physics Careers Seminar

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  464 Loomis

• BIOE Seminar Series: Department Chair & Dwight C. and Hildagarde E. Baum Professor Yingxiao Wang

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

• The Physics Colloquium: Ahmet Yildiz (University of California Berkeley) "Stepping dynamics of dynein characterized by MINFLUX"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

• ECE Explorations: Undergraduate Research Symposium - Tech Elective Fair

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  1002 ECEB (Grainger Auditorium)

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214

Thursday, November 19, 2026

• Landuyt Center Academics Open Office Hours

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  1038 CIF

• SE290 - Lindsay Winn

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  1310 DCL

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Amanda Marciel, Rice University (Host: Prof. Simon Rogers)

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

• Hard Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

• Hard Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214

Friday, November 20, 2026

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Riccardo Comin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

• Director of Graduate Studies Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Saturday, November 21, 2026

• ANS President Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  220 Talbot Laboratory

Monday, November 23, 2026

• Landuyt Center Academics Open Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  1038 CIF

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214

Tuesday, November 24, 2026

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214

Wednesday, November 25, 2026

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214

Thursday, November 26, 2026

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214

Friday, November 27, 2026

• Director of Graduate Studies Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science

• Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 2:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

Saturday, November 28, 2026

• ANS President Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  220 Talbot Laboratory

Monday, November 30, 2026

• Landuyt Center Academics Open Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  1038 CIF

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Raquel Pinheiro de Almeida Queiroz (Columbia U.)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

• From Structural Dynamics to Operations: Human–Machine Integration for Civil Infrastructure | Fernando Moreu | CEE 595 S - Structural Engineering Seminar Series

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  1310 Yeh Student Center

• Peer Mentoring Center

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel 1214