Grainger College of Engineering, All Events

Thursday, April 3, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- All Day
- 100H-1 Talbot Laboratory
Mandatory Pre-registration Advising for UG
- Other
- 8:00 am
- Siebel Center 3102
Final Defense of Qingyun Wang
- Other
- 11:00 am
Final Defense of Yubin Ge
- Other
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- ECEB 5070
Prelim Exam: Priyash Barya
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 1310 DCL
SE 290 - Jim Haran
- Lecture
- 11:00 am
Special Seminar: Subigya Nepal, "Leveraging Digital Behavioral Signals for AI-powered Mental Health Assessment, Prediction, and Intervention"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:10 am
- Zoom
PhD Final Defense – Tong Liu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:30 am
- Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
TikTok PhD Tech Talk
- Informational
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 2169-Side Conference Room
Prelim Exam: Yuning Zhao
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- HMNTL 1000
Final Exam: Kevin Pikul
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "Designing and Probing Electronic Correlations in Two Dimensional Quantum Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium
Intercellular Communication: Can It Be Mediated by Electromagnetics?
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- Coble Hall, Conference Room 108 -- 801 S. Wright Street
ACDIS: Seminar Series Dr. Charles "Gus" Potter, Sandia National Laboratories
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 7:00 pm
- ECEB 3015
IEEE LTspice Workshop
- Conference/Workshop
- 5:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Undergraduate Physics Seminar: Dhruv Srivastava
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:45 pm 7:00 pm
- Room 1232 CSL Studio
Cybersecurity Info Session
- Informational

Friday, April 4, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- All Day
- 100H-1 Talbot Laboratory
Mandatory Pre-registration Advising for UG
- Other
- 8:00 am
- CEEB 3017
PhD Final Defense – Denissa Sari Darmawi Purba
- Seminar/Symposium
- All Day
- 100H-1 Talbot Laboratory
Engineering Open House
- Informational
- 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
- 9:00 am 4:00 pm
- various buildings throughout campus
103rd Engineering Open House (EOH)

EOH is the nation’s largest student-run STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fair, where participants have the opportunity to showcase independent engineering projects and innovations. EOH 2025 features over 200 exhibits, including 10 student startups, and 14 special events such as rocket launches, student-engineered cars, and escape rooms.
- Exhibition
- All Day
- Bardeen and Engineering Quads
Engineering Open House 2025

The Age of Innovation. Experience exciting exhibits and competitions during Engineering Open House 2025!
- Exhibition
- 9:00 am
- Siebel Center 4124
Final Defense of Jinghao Jia
- Other
- 9:00 - 11:00 am
- HMNTL 3005
Final Exam: Hanwool Lee
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:30 am
- Newmark Quade Conference Room
PhD Final Defense – Hossein Kabir
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
- 312 Engineering Hall - 1308 W. Green St, Urbana
EOH Alumni Open House 2025

Stop by Engineering Hall to relax, enjoy refreshments, and connect with members of Engineering Student Alumni Ambassadors (ESAA).
- Social/Informal Event
- 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
- 312 Engineering Hall
EOH: Grainger Engineering Alumni Hospitality Suite
- Social/Informal Event
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Final Exam (Dissertation Defense) Igor Dubinsky, Ph.D. Candidate
- Other
- All Day
- --
WiN EOH Booth!
- Social/Informal Event
- 12:00 - 2:00 pm
- ECEB 5070
Final Exam: Robert Kaufman
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Discovery and Defects in Optical and Chiral Quantum Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 - 2:30 pm
- 4025 Campus Instructional Facilty
EXPANDING THE NUCLEAR ENERGY WORKFORCE: A Panel Discussion
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Siebel Center 2124
Final Defense of Supawit Chockchowwat
- Other
- 3:00 pm
Final Defense of Brandon Theodorou
- Other
- 3:00 - 5:00 pm
- TBD
Final Exam: Shuo Liu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- Newmark 2218
PhD Final Defense – Omobolaji Lawal
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:30 - 5:45 pm
- 217 Noyes Laboratory and 170 Noyes Laboratory (505 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801)
CHBE Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Reception
- Meeting

Saturday, April 5, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- All Day
- 100H-1 Talbot Laboratory
Engineering Open House
- Informational
- All Day
- Grainger Engineering Campus
Engineering Open House: The Age of Innovation
- Reception/Open House
- 9:00 am 4:00 pm
- various buildings throughout campus
103rd Engineering Open House (EOH)

EOH is the nation’s largest student-run STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fair, where participants have the opportunity to showcase independent engineering projects and innovations. EOH 2025 features over 200 exhibits, including 10 student startups, and 14 special events such as rocket launches, student-engineered cars, and escape rooms.
- Exhibition
- All Day
- Bardeen and Engineering Quads
Engineering Open House 2025

The Age of Innovation. Experience exciting exhibits and competitions during Engineering Open House 2025!
- Exhibition
- All Day
- --
WiN EOH Booth!
- Social/Informal Event

Sunday, April 6, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- All Day
- --
WiN EOH Booth!
- Social/Informal Event
- All Day
Last day for GRADS to add name to May degree list. Must use Web Self-Service.
- Other

Monday, April 7, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- 8:30 am
- Siebel Center 3401
Final Defense of Aniket Murhekar
- Other
- 9:00 am
- 117 RAL
FINAL DEFENSE, Dejuante Walker, "Modeling Transport and Dynamics in Redox Active Polymer Solutions for Flow Battery Applications"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
- Siebel Center 3102
Final Defense of Bill Tao
- Other
- 10:00 am
Special Seminar: Jiayuan Mao, "Learning, Reasoning, and Planning with Neuro-Symbolic Concepts"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Hydro-Systems Laboratory, Room CEE 3019
PhD Final Defense – Zahra Heydari
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Eun Ah Kim, Cornell University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:30 pm
- Everitt 1103
Final Defense - PhD - Shraddha Shirguppe
- Other
- 2:00 pm
- Siebel Center 3102
Final Defense of Zikun Liu
- Other
- 3:00 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
Lecture by Chulhong Kim, Ph.D.
- Lecture
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Xin Bing, "Learning Large Softmax Mixtures with Warm Start EM"
- 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
- 1310 Newmark
Assessment & Repair of Fire Damage | Ray Drexler | Structural Engineering Seminar Series
- 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
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- Everitt 2101
ANS Outreach Meeting
- Social/Informal Event

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- 9:00 am
- Siebel Center 4124
Final Defense of Margie Ruffin
- Other
- 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
- Siebel Center for Computer Science Atrium
Deloitte Lobby Day
- Informational
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- CSL 141
Prelim Exam: Mahmoud Khalil
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "On the Extended Church-Turing Thesis, Quantum Mechanics, and Beyond, Bill Fefferman, University of Chicago

Speaker: Bill Fefferman, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- ECEB 5070
Prelim Exam: Temitope Amuda
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
FGI Webinar: Geosynthetic Covers to Reduce Leachate Generation and Costs

This webinar will describe the use of cover systems over wastes and leachate lagoons to reduce leachate generation and costs. In particular, if rain/clean water falls on wastes or a leachate lagoon, it becomes contaminated and must be treated. Covering wastes or a lagoon prevents fresh water from becoming leachate thus dramatically reducing the cost and amount of water tha
- Professional Development
- 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
- 3:00 pm
- 164 Noyes Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Victoria Kriuchkovskaia, "HYDROGEL PLATFORM TO INVESTIGATE PROGRESSION OF DRUG-RESISTANT GLIOBLASTOMA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Laboratory X-ray measurements in solid mechanics: any new insights?
- 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

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- 9:30 am
- Siebel Center 2124
Final Defense of Shubhang Kulkarni
- Other
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- MNTL 1000
Final Exam: Zhuoran Han
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
Special Seminar: Kazuki Irie
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
Ampliar el Acceso a los Alimentos: Compras de Comestibles en Línea para las Comunidades Rurales de Bajos Ingresos

Las compras de alimentos en línea pueden mejorar el acceso a los alimentos en las comunidades rurales. Descubra cómo este enfoque puede contribuir a mejorar la salud y la nutrición de las poblaciones desatendidas y aprenda cómo las soluciones innovadoras pueden fomentar el acceso equitativo a los alimentos y mejorar el bienestar de la comunidad.
- Informational
- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
- NCSA 1030
Extracting Mechanisms of Cell Cross Talk in Pancreatic Cancer Using Big Data

This event is part of the Cancer Center at Illinois Seminar Series. Coffee and light snacks will be provided.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Final Exam: Hanchen Ye
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:30 - 3:30 pm
- 4269 Beckman Institute
Prelim Exam: Mick Gardner
- 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
- 3:00 pm
- 1027 Lincoln Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Dongyu Fan, "3D Tracking of Solute Dynamics in Heterogeneous Polymer Networks"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center 3102
Final Defense of David Smith
- Other
- 3:00 pm
- CEEB 3017
PhD Final Defense – Jenni Nugent
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online
Distinguished Lecture: James Mickens, "Allow Me To Transfer Part Of My Genius To You While Still Keeping Some Of It For Myself So That I Can Defeat You If Necessary"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
Final Defense of Suyu Ge
- Other
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science
Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies
- Meeting
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman 4269 and zoom
Final Defense - PhD - Jaena Park
- Other
- 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

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- 8:00 am
- Newmark Quade Conference Room
PhD Final Defense – Jesus Osorio
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:00 am
- CEEB 3019
PhD Final Defense – Mahmoud A. Mahrous
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- ECEB 5070
Final Exam: Charles Ross
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 2269
Dysregulated RAS Signaling in Cancer and Developmental Disorders: New Therapeutic Opportunities and Insights

This event is part of the Cancer Center at Illinois Seminar Series. Coffee and light snacks will be provided.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Siebel Center 3102
Final Defense of David Zheng
- Other
- 11:00 am
- 1310 DCL
SE 290 - Edward Hightower
- Lecture
- 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
- 220 Talbot Lab
WiN General Meeting
- Social/Informal Event
- 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
- 2:00 - 5:30 pm Reception Following
- Civil and Environmental Engineering Building, Room 1017
Keeping Urbana-Champaign Resilient Together: A Dialogue Between Community Leaders, Civil & Environmental Engineers, and Scientists
- 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
- 5:00 pm
- Coble Hall, Conference Room 108 -- 801 S. Wright Street
ACDIS: Seminar Series -Katie Brown
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 11, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- 7:30 am - 6:00 pm
- ECEB 3002
Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI)
- Conference/Workshop
- All Day
- Civil and Environmental Engineering Building and Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory
30th Environmental Engineering & Science Annual Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium
- All Day
- ECE Building
Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI)
- Conference/Workshop
- 10:00 am
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Nayeong Kim, "INTEGRATION OF REDOX-ELECTROSORPTION AND REDOX-ELECTRODIALYSIS FOR WATER REMEDIATION, WASTE VALORIZATION, AND ORGANIC SPECIES SEPARATIONS""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 - 10:50 am
- 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Manxi Wu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 464 Loomis
High Energy Physics Seminar - Qianshu Lu (IAS) "The Quality/Cosmology Tension for a Post-Inflation QCD Axion"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
Physics Careers Seminar: ""
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Nonlinear Coupled Magnonics"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other
- 4:00 pm
Final Defense of Zhuolin Yang
- Other

Saturday, April 12, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- All Day
- Illini Union Ballroom
NESD Application Deadline!
- Informational
- 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Electrical Computer and Engineering Building, 306 N Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801
World Quantum Day Celebration
- Reception/Open House
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Room 1013, ECE Building, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61820
Saturday Engineering for Everyone: Quantum Steampunk - The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow
- Lecture
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Room 1013, ECE Building, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61820
Saturday Engineering for Everyone: Quantum Steampunk - The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow
- Lecture
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Room 1013, ECE Building, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61820
Saturday Engineering for Everyone: Quantum Steampunk - The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow, Nicole Yunger Halper, University of Maryland

Speaker: Nicole Yunger Halpern, University of Maryland
- Lecture
- 12:00 - 2:00 pm
- Wildfire Tysons at Tysons Galleria
Regional Event near Washington, DC
- Social/Informal Event
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 4039 Campus Instructional Facility, 1405 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Women in Engineering Admitted Student Luncheon: Illini Fest
- Social/Informal Event
- 1:00 - 6:00 pm
- Main Quad
ANS Sustaina - palooza
- Social/Informal Event

Sunday, April 13, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event

Monday, April 14, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Trithep Devakul, Stanford University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE Special Seminar - Priti Balchandani
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Zoom
PhD Final Defense – Junren Wang
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Rex (Zhitao) Ying
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center
Rex Ying "A Riemannian Geometry Perspective on Foundation Models"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Warren Dixon - Assured Autonomy for Uncertain and Data Intermittent Systems
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 0216 Siebel Center for Computing and Data Science
Graduate Student Townhall: Focus for students in Research Programs (CS MS & PhD)
- Meeting
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Entrepreneurship at Illinois: Cultivating a Pillar of Competitive Advantage"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- 0216 Siebel Center for Computing and Data Science
Graduate Student Townhall: Students in Coursework Programs (MCS and MS Bioinformatics)
- Meeting

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- 8:30 am
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
World Quantum Day
- Ceremony/Service
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: Babek Saradjeh, Professor of Physics, Indiana University

Speaker: Babek Saradjeh, Professor of Physics, Indiana University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- B02 CSL Auditorum & Zoom
Seah Kim ECE Faculty Candidate Seminar
- 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
- 3:00 - 5:00 pm
- CSL 141
Prelim Exam: Seo Taek Kong
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Designing Redox-Flow Batteries for Renewable Energy Storage and CO2 Capture
- 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

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- 8:30 am
- 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
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 4369
Prelim Exam: Wen Jin
- 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
- 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
- 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 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

Thursday, April 17, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- 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
- 1:00 pm
- LLP 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Vladimir Narovlansky, Princeton
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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 - "Spectroscopic investigation of electrocatalytic mechanisms across length scales: Probing surface kinetics and diffusion"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 1002 Grainger Auditorium
TBA
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- Coble Hall, Conference Room 108 -- 801 S. Wright Street
ACDIS: Seminar Series Susan Caskey, Sandia National Laboratories
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:00 pm
- I Hotel and Conference Center
ECE Student Awards and Recognition Banquet
- Festival/Celebration

Friday, April 18, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- All Day
Last day to withdraw* or drop** a course without a grade of "W".
- Other
- 10:00 - 10:50 am
- 2311 NCEL - Yeh Center
Human-Driven Evolution in Wastewater Treatment Bioreactors
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 - 10:50 am
- 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Zhaosong Lu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 464 Loomis
High Energy Physics Seminar - Heliudsen Bernardo (Brown)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other
- 3:00 - 4:30 pm
- 210 Engineering Hall, 1308 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801
Women in Engineering Coffee Chat

Join us over coffee and snacks to connect with women engineering students!
- Social/Informal Event

Saturday, April 19, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- 7:30 pm
- Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
Quantum Voyages
- Ceremony/Service

Sunday, April 20, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- All Day
Undergraduate Research Week (URW)
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, April 21, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- All Day
Undergraduate Research Week (URW)
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
- TBD
Smitha’s book launch: Two Revolutions: Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Physics
- Festival/Celebration
- 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 - What does Meryl Streep and Heartbreak Hotel have to do with Computational Methods in Nonlinear Mechanics and Control?
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Understanding the Impact of Grain Boundary Inclination on Grain Growth using Modeling and Simulation and Experiments"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- ECEB 5086
Prelim Exam: Derek Chaw
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- 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: "Engineering (Useful) Trapped-Ion Quantum Technologies", Sara Mouradian, University of Washington

Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion
Title: The X-59: A High-Speed Journey from Finite Element Models to Aeroservoelasticity
- 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
- 6:00 - 8:00 pm
- Flatstick Pub - South Lake Union
Save the Date: Seattle Alumni Reception
- Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- All Day
Undergraduate Research Week (URW)
- Ceremony/Service
- 8:30 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Avery Tishue (UIUC)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
- NCSA Auditorium
Alumni Award for Distinguished Service Recipients Panel Discussion

Meet the 2025 class of Alumni Award for Distinguished Service Recipients!
- Other
- 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
- Coordinated Science Laboratory, 1308 W Main St, Auditorium (B02)
Seminar with Advanced Packaging Speaker Ganesh Subbarayan
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:05 pm
- 2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion
Data-driven, Physics-based Modeling of Strongly Nonlinear Mechanical Structures
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online
Distinguished Lecture: Jason Cong
- 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: Ben Hooberman (UIUC), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
ECE Explorations (200): Virtual Research Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 24, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- 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
- 3:30 - 5:30 pm
- ECEB 5070
Prelim Exam: Erkan Bayram
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "On-Demand Control of Single-Molecule Chemistry through Vibrational Characterization and Manipulation"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 25, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- All Day
Undergraduate Research Week (URW)
- Ceremony/Service
- 9:30 - 11:30 am
- CSL 301
Prelim Exam: Neeloy Chakraborty
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 - 10:50 am
- 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Christian Kroer
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 464 Loomis
High Energy Physics Seminar - Ben Hooberman (UIUC)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- HMNTL 1000
Prelim Exam: Brendan Wolan
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other

Saturday, April 26, 2025

- All Day
Undergraduate Research Week (URW)
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, April 28, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Special Condensed Matter Seminar - Zhanybek Alpichshev, IST Austria
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Umang Mathur
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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
- 1310 Newmark
Current Trends in Performance Based Wind and Seismic Design for Tall Buildings | Jeff Dragovich | Structural Engineering Seminar Series
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "From large to small: Nanoscale Processes in Energy Storage Systems"
- 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
- 4:00 pm
- 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar - DEI
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:50 pm
- 2036 Campus Instructional Facility, 1405 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Women in Engineering Social Craft

Join Women in Engineering to de-stress and socialize over arts & crafts!
- Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

- 8:30 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Lizhong Zhang (Flatiron Institute)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 5602
Postpartum Breast Cancer: Etiology, Ideology & Interception

This event is part of the Cancer Center at Illinois Seminar Series. Coffee and light snacks will be provided.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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: Fahad Mahmood (UIUC), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
ECE Explorations (200): Virtual Research Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 1, 2025

- All Day
- TBA
50 Years of the Morrill Engineering Program (MEP)
- Festival/Celebration
- 9:00 - 11:00 am
- ECEB TBA
Prelim Exam: Zhongmin Zhu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- ECEB 5086
Prelim Exam: Sangrui Luo
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 1310 DCL
SE 290 - Aakrit Vaish
- Lecture
- All Day
50 Years of the Morrill Engineering Program
- Festival/Celebration
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - no seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- HMNTL 2003
Prelim Exam: He Lin Zhao
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium
TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 2, 2025

- 8:30 am - 6:00 pm
- Illini Union- Room 314 A & B
2nd Annual ISE Student Conference
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 pm
- 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
Physics Careers Seminar: ""
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - Despina Louca, University of Virginia
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other

Saturday, May 3, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Room 1013, ECE Building, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61820
Saturday Engineering for Everyone: How engineering was pivotal to fight the COVID-19 pandemic
- Lecture

Monday, May 5, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Preslav Nakov
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - Racheff student awardees
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: Srinivasan Arunachalam, IBM

Speaker: Srinivasan Arunachalam, Senior Research Scientist, IBM
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Main Library, Room 146, 1408 W Gregory Dr, Champaign, IL 61820
Women in Science Lecture Series: Jennifer Hain Teper

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
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Emily Davidson, Princeton University, (host: Ying Diao)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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 - "Improving Erosion Resistance of Polydicyclopentadiene for Low Earth Orbit Applications"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

- All Day
Instruction Ends
- Other
- 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
- 210 Engineering Hall, 1308 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801
Women in Engineering Final Exam Goodie Bags

Stop by and pick up a final exam goodie bag to finish off the semester!
- Social/Informal Event
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Ilan Shomorony, "An Information Theory for Out-of-Order Information: Applications in DNA Data Storage and Genomics"
- 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: Geraldine Cochran (Ohio State University), "Leveraging Familial Capital to Improve Graduate Students Experiences"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- ECEB, Room 1002 Grainger Auditorium
Canceled: ECE Explorations (200) - No Class - Reading Day Week
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 8, 2025

- All Day
Last day to withdraw* or drop** a course without petitioning the Graduate College.
- Other
- All Day
Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect
- Other

Friday, May 9, 2025

- All Day
Final Exams Begin
- Other
- 1:00 pm
Final Defense of Zhe Xu
- Other
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other

Monday, May 12, 2025

- All Day
Non-degree students should register for FS summer online courses by this date to avoid delay in logins
- Other
- 10:00 am
- 161 Noyes Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Anaira Roman Santiago, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- MNTL 2003
Prelim Exam: Erin Raftery
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
- NCSA 1030
Obesity and Cancer: Creating Niches for Metastasis

This event is part of the Cancer Center at Illinois Seminar Series. Coffee and light snacks will be provided.
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 16, 2025

- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other

Saturday, May 17, 2025

- 8:30 am
Commencement
- Ceremony/Service

Sunday, May 18, 2025

- All Day
Last day to cancel registration in order to receive a full refund of tuition and fees for Summer 2025 FS/Full Semester courses (Except for S2/Summer Session II courses).
- Other
- 9:00 - 11:30 am
- CIF Auditorium, Room 1025
AE Commencement Celebration 2025
- Social/Informal Event
- 9:30 - 11:00 am
- Krannert in Tryon Festival Theatre
ChBE 2025 Spring Convocation Ceremony
- Ceremony/Service
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Illini Union - room ABC
ChBE 2025 Spring Convocation Reception
- Reception/Open House

Monday, May 19, 2025

Friday, May 23, 2025

- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other

Friday, May 30, 2025

- All Day
Last day to withdraw* and receive an 90% refund of tuition for Summer 2025 FS courses.
- Other
- All Day
Official 10th day. Deadline to reduce course credit and to drop one or more, but not all courses, and receive a 100% refund of tuition and fees for the dropped Summer 2025 FS courses course(s). (Please click here for more information)
- Other
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other

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