Grainger College of Engineering, All Events

Monday, September 14, 2026

• Theory Seminar Series: Stephen Arndt, "Approximation Algorithms for Matroid-Intersection Coloring with Applications to Rota's Basis Conjecture."

  Time

  10:00 am

  Location

  3403 Siebel Center

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Understanding and Mitigating Defects in Two-Dimensional Semiconductors"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Intelligent additive manufacturing: from multi-physics modeling to AI-driven prediction and diagnostics | Wentao Yan | CEE 595 S - Structural Engineering Seminar Series

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  1310 Yeh Student Center

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: "From Logical Spectroscopy to Hardware-Aware qLDPC Compilation," Jong Yeon Lee, Assistant Professor of Physics, UIUC

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Jong Yeon Lee

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Taek K. (TK) Kim

  Time

  4:00 - 4:50 pm

  Location

  1306 Everitt Laboratory

  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

  

• On Jumping

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  2079 Natural History Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Soft Materials Seminar - "High-fidelity Optical Recording of Bioelectric Potentials using Polymer Optical Anisotropy"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Soft Materials Seminar - "Mapping the Substrate Specificity Landscape of Sugar Transporters through High-Throughput Mutational Screening"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

• Final Defense of Genesis Rios-Adorno "Engineering Regenerative Multiphasic Biomaterials for Musculoskeletal Injury Repair""

  Time

  10:00 am

  Location

  3217 Everitt Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• BIOE Seminar Series: Postdoctoral Associate Natalia Gonzalez Medina & Graduate Student Sun Woong Hur

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Final Exam: Michael Molter

  Time

  12:30 - 2:30 pm

  Location

  Coordinated Science Laboratory 419

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Prelim Exam: Pedro Oliveira Da Silva

  Time

  3:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Electrical and Computer Engineering Building Rm 5086

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Jen-Chieh Peng (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Helicity of Relic Neutrinos and the Inverse Tritium Beta Decay"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, September 17, 2026

• PhD Final Defense – Ricardo Dorado

  Time

  11:30 am

  Location

  CEEB 3012

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Janani Sampath, University of Florida (Host: Prof. Charles Sing) "Investigating Reactive Transport Pathways in Anion Exchange Membranes to Guide Polymer Design"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Global Convergence of Gradient EM for Over-Parameterized Gaussian Mixtures

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  1002 Grainger Auditorium

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hard Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hard Materials Seminar - "Thermal Annealing of Sapphire Substrates for Epitaxial Al Growth by Molecular Beam Epitaxy"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, September 18, 2026

• Condensed Matter Seminar - "Spatiotemporal Engineering of Quantum Materials Far from Equilibrium"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Machine Learning Seminar: Dr. Dravyansh Sharma, "New Frontiers for Data-driven Algorithm Design."

  Time

  2:00 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, September 19, 2026

• Saturday Physics for Everyone: Video Games and the Computational Physics That Makes Them Work

  Time

  9:45 - 11:30 am

  Location

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

  Join the Physics Department for this fall's Saturday Physics for Everyone on Saturday, the 19th. This in-person lecture series starts with Eric Shaffer. Breakfast will be served at 9:45am and the lecture begins at 10:15am.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, September 21, 2026

• Prelim Exam: Jiachen Tu

  Time

  9:00 - 11:00 am

  Location

  Beckman Institute

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Theory Seminar Series: Hanwen Zhang, "Minimum Star Partitions of Simple Polygones in Polynomial Time."

  Time

  10:00 am

  Location

  3403 Siebel Center

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Jaewon Kim

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Panelist Discussion: Non-Aerospace Industry Career Opportunities - Violet Allmandinger, Alberto Davila, and Fabian Dettenrieder

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Discovery"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

• Prelim Exam: Mohamed Aly

  Time

  10:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  Coordinated Science Laboratory B02

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• IQUIST Seminar: "Tackling Heterogeneity for Practical Quantum Systems," Kate Smith, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Northwestern University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Kate Smith, Northwestern University

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Parr Lecture in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Prof. Yong Wang, Washington State University (host: Prof. Chris Rao/CHBE) "From Catalytic Insights to Transformative Technologies"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Mechanics of Growth and Growth of Mechanics

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  2079 Natural History Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series -Areg Danagoulian

  Time

  4:00 - 4:50 pm

  Location

  1306 Everitt Laboratory

  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

  

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño (Wake Forest University) "Resonance-Driven Flux Modifications in Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals"

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• BIOE Seminar Series: Associate Professor Saurabh Gupta

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Human-Computer Interaction Talk Series: Dr. Shm Garanganao Almeda, "The Design of Technology by, and for, Artistic Worlds."

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  0216 Siebel Center

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Philip Phillips (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Solving the Mott Problem"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, September 24, 2026

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Wenyu Huang, Iowa State University (Host: Prof. Hong Yang)

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 (Optional) Seminar Speaker: Dongho Lee

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Coordinated Science Lab B02

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hard Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hard Materials Seminar - "Monolithic 3D Integration of Silicon Transistors"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, September 25, 2026

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Michele Simoncelli, Columbia University

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, September 28, 2026

• Prelim Exam: Anubhav Bose

  Time

  9:30 - 11:30 am

  Location

  Electrical and Computer Engineering Building Room 5070

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Pallab Goswami (Northwestern)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Kevin Li - Interactional Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics: From Measurements to Multi-Fidelity Modeling

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Arnab Banerjee, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Arnab Banerjee

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Giuseppe Ficarra (Università della Calabria)

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• BIOE Seminar Series: Founder Professor & Director James M. Rehg, PhD

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Geoff Greene (University of Tennessee) "The Neutron Lifetime, Why do we keep measuring it? & Why do we keep getting it “wrong”?"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 1, 2026

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sapna Sarupria, University of Minnesota (Host: Prof. Baron Peters) "Molecular Design of Excipient Formulations for Stable Biologics"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hard Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 2, 2026

• ISE Seminar Series - Christos Alexandros Psomas

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Andre Schleife, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, October 3, 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

  Join the Physics Department for this fall's Saturday Physics for Everyone on Saturday, the 19th. This in-person lecture series starts with Eric Shaffer. Breakfast will be served at 9:45am and the lecture begins at 10:15am.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, October 5, 2026

• COLLOQUIUM: Hao Wang, "Bayesian Deep Learning: From Reliable Neural Networks to Interpretable Foundation Models"

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Inseok Hwang - Toward Trustworthy Human-aware Cyber-Physical-Human Systems (CPHS)

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Ceren Dag, Assistant Professor of Physics, Indiana University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Ceren Dag

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Brandon C. Bukowski, Johns Hopkins University (Host: Elizabeth Bickel Rogers)

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Anurag Mann

  Time

  4:00 - 4:50 pm

  Location

  1306 Everitt Laboratory

  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

  

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Paul Duffell (Purdue University) "Binary Accretion"

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• BIOE Seminar Series: Assistant Professor Yuxiong Wang

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Alessandra Buonanno (Albert Einstein Institute) "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 8, 2026

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Kelsey Hatzell, Princeton University (Host: Prof. Theresa Schoetz)

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hard Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hard Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 9, 2026

• The Life and Science of Anthony Leggett. A Conference and Memorial in honor of Tony J. Leggett

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Loomis 464 & ESB 190 (TBC)

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• ISE Seminar Series - Stephanie Gil

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  1310 Digital Computer Lab 1304 W Springfield Urbana, IL 61801

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, October 10, 2026

• The Life and Science of Anthony Leggett. A Conference and Memorial in honor of Tony J. Leggett

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Loomis 464 & ESB 190 (TBC)

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Sunday, October 11, 2026

• The Life and Science of Anthony Leggett. A Conference and Memorial in honor of Tony J. Leggett

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Loomis 464 & ESB 190 (TBC)

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, October 12, 2026

• COLLOQUIUM: Yilun Du

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Steve Ulrich

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Hong Tang, Llewellyn West Jones Jr. Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yale University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Anıl Zenginoğlu (University of Maryland)

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• BIOE Seminar Series: Jackson Family Distinguished Professor He (Helen) Huang

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Andrea Young (University of California Santa Barbara) "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 15, 2026

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Michael Karp - Receptivity of Shock Waves to Flow Perturbations

  Time

  12:30 - 1:30 pm

  Location

  CIF 3031

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Hongliang Xin, Virginia Tech (Host: Prof. Alex Mironenko) "The New Alchemy of Scientific Discovery: From Electrons to AI Agents"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hard Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hard Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 16, 2026

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Peter Hirschfeld, University of Florida

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Special Seminar - Avi Loeb (Harvard University) "Searching for Extraterrestrial Technological Artifacts Near Earth: Are There Packages in Our Mailbox?"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab Room 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, October 17, 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

  Join the Physics Department for this fall's Saturday Physics for Everyone on Saturday, the 19th. This in-person lecture series starts with Eric Shaffer. Breakfast will be served at 9:45am and the lecture begins at 10:15am.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, October 19, 2026

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Jacopo Gliozzi

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Final Defense of Destiny Gray "TBA"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  165 Noyes Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

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

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• 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

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Tuesday, October 20, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: 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

  Speaker: Niklas Mueller

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Xu Wu

  Time

  4:00 - 4:50 pm

  Location

  1306 Everitt Laboratory

  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

  

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

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

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  0216 Siebel Center

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Peter Abbamonte (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Title"

  Time

  4:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 22, 2026

• Hard Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Step Through the Artemis 2

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  Time

  5:30 - 7:30 pm

  Location

  Campus Instructional Facility

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 23, 2026

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Nirmal Ghimire, University of Notre Dame

  Time

  8:30 am

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium