College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Monday, September 26, 2022

- 10:00 am
- 3401 SC
Nutan Limaye "Superpolynomial Lower Bounds Against Low-Depth Algebraic Circuits"
- Ceremony/Service
- 12:00 pm
- 190 ESB
Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: Momentum creates long-range entanglement and quantum anomalies
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 276 Loomis
Physics Careers Seminar: "Introduction to a Career as a Therapeutic Medical Physicist"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- For CS faculty only
Research Short Talk: Craig Zilles & Girish Chowdhary, "Challenges in perceptive navigation for field robots"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar: The Force Partitioning Method: A Data-Enabled Method for Dissecting Vortex Dominated Flows
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:30 pm
- Siebel 2124
CS Compiler Seminar: Tom Chen, "All you need is SLP: systematic control-flow vectorization with SLP"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 7:00 pm
- CIF Monumental Study Steps
DART Mission Watch Seminar and Viewing
- Other

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Coherent Magnonics for Quantum Information Science," presented by Michael E. Flatté, The University of Iowa

Speaker: Michael Flatté, The University of Iowa
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street, Urbana
Materials Science and Engineering - Soft Materials Seminar

“Electron microscopy for biological and soft materials,” by Dr. Kristen Flatt (Research Scientist, MRL)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 1320 Digital Computer Laboratory, 1304 W. Springfield Avenue, Urbana, IL
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Rajesh Ganesan

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

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

- 4:00 pm 5:00pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Nigel Goldenfeld (UIUC, UC San Diego), Title: "Topological scaling laws and the statistical mechanics of evolution"
- Lecture

Thursday, September 29, 2022

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
SE 290 - John White

Contact Julie Murphy for the link to join.
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Michelle O'Malley, University of California Santa Barbara (Zhao), "Unlocking the Biotech Potential of Anaerobic Gut Fungi"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
Prelim Examination: Binghui Wang

Prelim Examination: Binghui Wang, September 29, 2022 @ 3:00 PM, Online, Exam Topic: Full profile inversion of Arecibo ISR topside returns of long pulse transmissions
- Other
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street, Urbana
Materials Science and Engineering - Hard Materials Seminar

“A high-throughput coordination flexibility descriptor to identify solid electrolytes with Li+ sublattice disorder: A computational and experimental study,” by Yu-Ying (Steven) Lin (Perry/Krogstad) “Strain -driven faceting of the graphene-metal interface,” by Mitisha Surana (Tawfick)
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 30, 2022

- 10:00 am
- Zoom
ISE Graduate Seminar - Professor Pinar Keskinocak, William W. George Chair and Professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the co-founder and Director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems at Georgia Institute of Technology

Infectious Disease Modeling, Evaluating Interventions, and Resource Allocation
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
- 3401 SC
Manling Li "Multimedia Event Knowledge Extraction: From Object-Centric to Event-Centric Understanding"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
Modeling barrier islands and fluvial-deltas across time scales: from a moving-boundary approach
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
Robotics Seminar: Nikolay Atanasov "Multi-Robot Metric-Semantic Mapping "
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 2269
Biological Physics (iPoLS) Seminar: Angad Mehta (UIUC) "Synthetic Biology for Evolutionary Studies and Human Health"
- Lecture

Monday, October 3, 2022

- 12:00 pm
- 190 ESB
Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: Babak Seradjeh
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar: Aviation's Grand Challenge: Disrupting technologies for an environmentally sustainable future
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 4, 2022

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Machine-Learning for Complex Many-Body Systems," presented by Sabre Kais, Purdue University

Speaker: Sabre Kais, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- MNTL 2003
Prelim Examination: William North

Prelim Examination: William North, October 4, 2022 @ 1:00 PM, MNTL 2003, Exam Topic: Engineering Semiconductor Laser Mode Properties Through Surface Patterning
- Other
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
2022 Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series: Data-Driven Nonlinear Reduced-Order Modeling for Solid and Fluid Mechanics
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green St., Urbana
Materials Science and Engineering - Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 5, 2022

- 10:00 am
- CSL 301
Final Examination: Huozhi Zhou

Final Examination: Huozhi Zhou, October 5, 2022 @ 10:00 AM, CSL 301, Exam Topic: Interactive Learning in Nonstationary Environments
- Other
- 12:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Astrophysics, Gravitation and Cosmology Seminar - Leah Jenks (University of Chicago) ""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Deirdre Shoemaker (University of Texas at Austin), Title "Brave New World of Numerical Relativity"
- Lecture

Thursday, October 6, 2022

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 151 Loomis
SE 290 - John Burch
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Chris Paolucci, University of Virginia (Flaherty), "Using Computational Modeling to Address Challenges in the Synthesis and Stability of Catalysts"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street, Urbana
Materials Science and Engineering - Hard Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 7, 2022

- 11:00 am
- Room 464
High Energy Phenomenology Seminar: Ian Harris & Hannah Day (UIUC) "The Molecular Migdal Effect" and "Stripping away assumptions to measure the Migdal effect"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 2269
Biological Physics (iPoLS) Seminar: Aleksei Aksimentiev (UIUC) ""
- Lecture

Monday, October 10, 2022

- 12:00 pm
- 190 ESB
Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: Lucas Wagner
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar: Safe and efficient autonomy in the face of uncertainty
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

- 8:00 am
Final Examination: Liuqing Gao

Final Examination: Liuqing Gao, October 11, 2022 @ 8:00 AM, Online, Exam Topic: Advancing Acoustic Devices Towards mmWave
- Other
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: Graeme Smith, University of Colorado Boulder

Speaker: Graeme Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:30 am
Prelim Examination: Theodoros Mamalis

Prelim Examination: Theodoros Mamalis, October 11, 2022 @ 11:00 AM, Online, Exam Topic: Improving algorithmic performance using stochastic learning rates: in-expectation and almost-surely stochastic approximation, and online learning, results and applications
- Other
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street, Urbana
Materials Science and Engineering - Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 1320 Digital Computer Laboratory, 1304 W. Springfield Avenue, Urbana, IL
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Venkattraman Ayyaswamy

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

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

- 12:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Astrophysics, Gravitation and Cosmology Seminar - Philipp Grete () ""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Carlos Herdeiro (Campus de Santiago, Portugal), Title: "How about (not a) black hole?" - Testing the Universality of the black hole and Kerr hypotheses
- Lecture

Thursday, October 13, 2022

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 151 Loomis
SE 290 - Jim Ehrhart
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Tagbo Niepa, University of Pittsburgh (Harley), "Nanocultures: Controlled Microbial Communities in Sessile Drops"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 14, 2022

- 11:00 am
High Energy Phenomenology Seminar: Tom Banks (Rutgers) "Density Matrix of Causal Diamonds and a Finite Model of the Very Early Universe"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - Haim Beidenkopf, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 2269
Biological Physics (iPoLS) Seminar: Rohit Vaidya (UIUC) ""
- Lecture
- 4:30 pm
- 3rd Floor Levis Faculty Center
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering "Graduate and Alumni Awards Ceremony"
- Ceremony/Service

Saturday, October 15, 2022

- 9:00 - 11:00 am
- Grange Grove
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering "Alumni and Friends Homecoming Tailgate"
- Social/Informal Event

Monday, October 17, 2022

- 3:30 pm
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83734238389?pwd=K3ZyRzJJVDRVa0NKM3YyZkdXREVmdz09
Equity & Justice in Computing: David Robertson, "Community-Centered Design: A Cherokee Perspective on Design Thinking"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar - Multi-robot systems for planetary exploration: NASA's Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Explorers
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: Jacob Taylor, Riverlane; The University of Maryland

Speaker: Jacob Taylor, Chief Science Officer, Riverlane; Adjust Professor, The University of Maryland
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street, Urbana
Materials Science and Engineering - Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 1320 Digital Computer Laboratory, 1304 W. Springfield Avenue, Urbana, IL
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Elisabeth Paté-Cornell

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
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Some stories from the Motor City on transportation fuels
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

- All Day
- I Hotel & Conference Center
Traffic Engineering and Safety Conference
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Astrophysics, Gravitation and Cosmology Seminar - Max Isi (Flatiron Institute) ""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Peter Armitage (Johns Hopkins University) Title: On Ising’s Model of Ferromagnetism
- Lecture

Thursday, October 20, 2022

- All Day
- I Hotel & Conference Center
Traffic Engineering and Safety Conference
- Conference/Workshop
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 151 Loomis
SE 290 - Matthew Luallen
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 1002 Grainger Auditorium ECEB
To be announced
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 21, 2022

- 11:00 am
- Room 464
High Energy Phenomenology Seminar: Rachel Nguyen & Diana Forbes (UIUC) ""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 222 Loomis
Physics Careers Seminar
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 2269
Biological Physics (iPoLS) Seminar: Stephen Boppart (UIUC) ""
- Lecture

Monday, October 24, 2022

- 10:00 am
- TBA
FINAL DEFENSE, Matthew Wade , "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- All Day
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: Florian Marquardt, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

Speaker: Florian Marquardt, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: Netanel Lindner
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar: Alberto Aliseda, University of Washington
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

- 3:00 pm
- 124 Burrill Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Meng Zhang , "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street, Urbana
Materials Science and Engineering - Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 1320 Digital Computer Laboratory, 1304 W. Springfield Avenue, Urbana, IL
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Paul Romano

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

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

- 12:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Astrophysics, Gravitation and Cosmology Seminar - Pablo Cano (KU Leuven) ""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: John Simon (Stanford), Title: "Making Fluids and Solids from Microwave Photons"
- Lecture

Thursday, October 27, 2022

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 151 Loomis
SE 290 - Mike Brunetto
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. A. Shoji Hall, Johns Hopkins University (Kenis), "Atomic-scale Insights into Electrocatalyst Structure and Function"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 28, 2022

- 8:30 am
Final Examination: Hyungjoo Seo

Final Examination: Hyungjoo Seo, October 28, 2022 @ 8:30 AM, Online, Exam Topic: Impedance- and Spatial-domain Aliasing in Interference Management Techniques
- Other
- 11:00 am
- ECEB 5070 and Zoom
Final Examination: Steven Blair

Final Examination: Steven Blair, October 28, 2022 @ 11:00 AM, ECEB 5070 & Zoom, Exam Topic: From the Ocean to the Operating Room: Translating Single-Sensor Spectral Imagers to Image-Guided Cancer Surgery
- Other
- 11:00 am
- Room 464
High Energy Phenomenology Seminar: Rodolfo Capdevilla (Fermilab) ""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - Michael Manfra, Purdue University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 2269
Biological Physics (iPoLS) Seminar: Emad Tajkhorshid (UIUC) ""
- Lecture

Monday, October 31, 2022

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar: Sung Hoon Kang, Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: Alexander Müller-Hermes, University of Oslo

Speaker: Dr. Alexander Müller-Hermes, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Delia Milliron, The University of Texas at Austin (Diao), "Switchable Optical Materials from Metal Oxide Nanocrystals"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street, Urbana
Materials Science and Engineering - Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 1320 Digital Computer Laboratory, 1304 W. Springfield Avenue, Urbana, IL
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Syed Bahauddin Alam

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

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

- 4:00 pm 5:00pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Asher Berlin (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), Title: TBA
- Lecture

Thursday, November 3, 2022

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 151 Loomis
SE 290 - Jay Nuttall
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Emily Pentzer, Texas A&M University (Rogers), "Interfacial Polymerizations in Pickering Emulsions to Architect Hybrid Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 4, 2022

- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - Kayla Xuan Thu Nguyen, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 2269
Biological Physics (iPoLS) Seminar: Martin Gruebele (UIUC) ""
- Lecture

Monday, November 7, 2022

- 2:00 pm
- HMNTL 2003
Prelim Examination: Raman Kumar

Prelim Examination: Raman Kumar, November 7, 2022 @ 2:00 PM, HMNTL 2003, Exam Topic: Light Emission and Negative Differential Resistance in Transistor-Injected Quantum Cascade Structures
- Other
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 8, 2022

- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL
Materials Science and Engineering - Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

- 4:00 pm 5:00pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: James Aguirre (University of Pennsylvania), Title: TBA
- Lecture

Thursday, November 10, 2022

- 11:00 am
- 276 Loomis
Physics Careers Seminar
- Lecture
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 151 Loomis
SE 290 - Chris Stiegal
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Philippe Sautet, UCLA (Mironenko)
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 11, 2022

- 1:00 pm
- 190 ESB
Condensed Matter Seminar - Mark Eriksson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 2269
Biological Physics (iPoLS) Seminar: Ido Golding (UIUC) ""
- Lecture

Monday, November 14, 2022

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar: Dimitra Panagou, University of Michigan
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: Markus Aspelmeyer, University of Vienna

Speaker: Markus Aspelmeyer, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street, Urbana
Materials Science and Engineering - Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

- 4:00 pm 5:00pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Markus Aspelmeyer (University of Vienna, Austria), Title: TBA
- Lecture

Thursday, November 17, 2022

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 151 Loomis
SE 290 - Andy Wang
- Lecture
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- TBD
AE590 Seminar
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, November 18, 2022

- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - David Hsieh, California Institute of Technology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 2269
Biological Physics (iPoLS) Seminar: Sangjin Kim (UIUC) ""
- Lecture

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street, Urbana
Materials Science and Engineering - Soft Materials Seminar

"NO SOFT MATERIALS SEMINAR - THANKSGIVING BREAK"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

- 4:00 pm 5:00pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium
- Lecture

Monday, November 28, 2022

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar: P. Chris Pistorius, Carnegie Mellon University - Rescheduled
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: Eilon Poem, Weizmann Institute of Science

Speaker: Eilon Poem, Staff Scientist, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street, Urbana
Materials Science and Engineering - Soft Materials Seminar

"NO SOFT MATERIALS SEMINAR - MRS MEETING"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 1320 Digital Computer Laboratory, 1304 W. Springfield Avenue, Urbana, IL
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series -Ahmad Al Rashdan and Ronald Boring

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