Grainger College of Engineering, All Events

Friday, November 13, 2026

• Prelim Exam: Aiden Jung

  Time

  9:00 - 11:00 am

  Location

  Electrical and Computer Engineering Building Rm 5086

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Prelim Exam: Mihir Kavishwar

  Time

  9:00 - 11:00 am

  Location

  Coordinated Science Laboratory 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Air Pollution, Extreme Weather, and the Urban Exposome: Advancing Exposure Science with AI and Precision Health

  Time

  10:00 - 10:30 am

  Location

  2311 NCEL - Yeh Center

  This talk will focus on modern exposure science approaches to characterize exposures to air pollution, natural disasters, and urban exposome as well as to incorporate them in health research to understand potential biological mechanisms.

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• Final Exam: Evan Widloski

  Time

  10:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  Electrical and Computer Engineering Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Instructional Seminar Series, Dr. Kevin Lin, "Reimagining CS Education: Agentic Engineering, Authentic Assessment, and Human-Centered Design for Learner Agency."

  Time

  10:00 am

  Location

  2405 Siebel Center

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• ISE Seminar Series - Dr. Jackie Cha

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Human-Robot Collaborations in Surgery: Measuring Skills, Demands, and Safety

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• 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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Machine Learning Seminar: Dr. Lisha Chen, "Preference-Guided Model Steering to Explore Trade-offs on the Pareto Front."

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  1302 Siebel Center

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Ph.D. Final Defense – Ernesto Pérez-Claros

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  Newmark 3350

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, November 14, 2026

• Saturday Physics for Everyone: The Whispers of the Dark Universe

  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. This is an in-person lecture series. Breakfast will be served at 9:45am and the lecture begins at 10:15am.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, November 16, 2026

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar, Ruben Verresen (U Chicago), "Intrinsically Gapless Topological Matter"

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Prelim Exam: Akshay Naik

  Time

  3:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  DCL 3211

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Sedina Tsikata - Stability and Time-Resolved Dynamics of Fluctuations in Magnetized Electric Propulsion Plasmas

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

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

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

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

  Speaker: Huan Zhao

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Alumnus DAIS Seminar: Prof. Yu Meng, "Beyond Brute-Force Compute: Training Light and Thinking Deep for LLM Reasoning."

  Time

  2:00 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• 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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Adapting to Cracks: Learning from the Dynamic Structure of Mineralized Tissues and Cells

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  2079 Natural History Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Soft Materials Seminar - "Design, Fabrication and Mechanical Testing of Photo-Patterned Semi-Crystalline Materials"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Soft Materials Seminar - "Synthesis and Characterization of Polycatenated DNA Crystals"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, November 18, 2026

• IQUIST Special Seminar: "Quantum Science and Technology with Ultracold Strontium," Julio T. Barreiro, University of California San Diego

  Time

  10:00 - 11:00 am

  Location

  Supercon 1002

  Speaker: Julio Barreiro

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Roman Berenes (UIUC) - "Black Hole Perturbations: Gravitational Waves and Tidal Response"

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

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

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• COLLOQUIUM: Phuong Cao, "Dependable AI Systems on Supercomputers: Measuring GPU Failures and Preempting Attacks"

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• 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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, November 19, 2026

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Amanda Marciel, Rice University (Host: Prof. Simon Rogers) "Influence of Block Length and Tacticity on Polyampholyte Conformation and Phase Behavior"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hard Materials Seminar - "Developing a High-Throughput Test Method for Corrosion in Bio-Feedstocks"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Mechanics of bubble bursting in dilute oil-in-water emulsions

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  2079 Natural History Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Nonlinear viscoelastic friction reduction in the infinite length journal bearing

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  1002 Grainger Auditorium

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, November 20, 2026

• ISE Seminar Series - Justin Goodson

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

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• Condensed Matter Seminar - "Nonconventional magnets: from materials to devices"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, November 23, 2026

• Prelim Exam: Shuen Wu

  Time

  3:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Electrical and Computer Engineering Building Rm 5086

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, November 24, 2026

• Final Exam: John Pan

  Time

  9:00 - 11:00 am

  Location

  Coordinated Science Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, November 30, 2026

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

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• 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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, December 1, 2026

• Final Exam: Alex Zhang

  Time

  9:00 - 11:00 am

  Location

  Electrical and Computer Engineering Building Room 5070

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• IQUIST Seminar: Charlotte Bottcher, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Charlotte Bottcher

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Energetic Materials Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  2005 Mechanical Engineering Building (JDP)

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Final Exam: Charlotte Hu

  Time

  2:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  Electrical and Computer Engineering Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, December 2, 2026

• BIOE Seminar Series: Associate Professor Hao Wang, PhD

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Final Exam: Jooyoung Hong

  Time

  12:00 - 2:00 pm

  Location

  Electrical and Computer Engineering Building Room 5070

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Final Exam: Navid Elahi

  Time

  2:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  Electrical and Computer Engineering Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Prelim Exam: Nachuan Wang

  Time

  4:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  Coordinated Science Laboratory 221

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Brian Fields (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis: the Rise of the Elements in the Early Universe"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, December 3, 2026

• Final Exam: Hyungyo Kim

  Time

  3:00 - 5:00 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• RF Signal Processing in Silicon: From Sub-THz Beamforming to Ultra-Broadband Spectrum Sensing

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  1002 Grainger Auditorium

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, December 4, 2026

• Prelim Exam: Ankan Dastider

  Time

  9:00 - 11:00 am

  Location

  Nick Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Laboratory Rm 3005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• IQUIST Special Seminar: "Organic Molecules and Ultracold Atoms for a Hybrid Network," Jonathan Hood, Purdue University

  Time

  10:00 - 11:00 am

  Location

  Supercon 1002

  Speaker: Jonathan Hood

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Prelim Exam: Wang-Chien Chen

  Time

  10:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  Electrical and Computer Engineering Building Rm 5086

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• ISE Seminar Series - Jingwei Zhang

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Moving Lifelines: Fixed Sites or Mobile Fleets for Volunteer-Enabled Emergency Medical Device Delivery?

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Sheng Ran, Washington University

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Prelim Exam: Gonzalo Nunez Munoz

  Time

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  Electrical and Computer Engineering Building Rm 5086

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Prelim Exam: Vignesh Sundaresha

  Time

  2:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  Coordinated Science Laboratory 221

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, December 5, 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. This is an in-person lecture series. Breakfast will be served at 9:45am and the lecture begins at 10:15am.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, December 7, 2026

• Prelim Exam: Tahsin Shameem

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Electrical and Computer Engineering Building Rm 5086

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar, Shiwei Zhang

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Ivan Bermejo-Moreno - Large-eddy simulation of transonic buffet with wind-tunnel confinement effects

  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, December 8, 2026

• Final Exam: Yan Miao

  Time

  2:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  Coordinated Science Laboratory B02

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Jason Hayward

  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.

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• 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, December 9, 2026

• The Physics Colloquium: Doug Natelson (Rice University) "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, December 11, 2026

• Prelim Exam: Yuqi Xue

  Time

  2:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  Coordinated Science Laboratory 221

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Prelim Exam: Jerry Wang

  Time

  4:30 - 6:30 pm

  Location

  Coordinated Science Laboratory 216

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, December 16, 2026

• Final Exam: Mingrui Liu

  Time

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute, Room 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, January 20, 2027

• COLLOQUIUM: Yilun Du

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  • Seminar/Symposium