Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Monday, March 10, 2025

• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • BI 4269

  Final Exam: Jenna Cario

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Chang Xiao, "Bridging the Physical-Digital Divide with Tangible, Ambient and Context-Aware Interaction"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - "Bootstrapping thermal equilibrium"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Marcus Hermann - Modeling phase interfaces undergoing atomization in turbulent flows using Large Eddy Simulation

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Bioelectronics to Probe Brain-Body Physiology"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 1310 Newmark

  Shape Memory Alloy Structures: Modeling, Simulation, and Experiments | Chad Landis | Structural Engineering Seminar Series

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

• 

  • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: "Approximate Unitary k-Designs from Shallow, Low-Communication Circuits", Nicholas LaRacuente, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University - Bloomington

  Speaker: Nicholas LaRacuente, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University - Bloomington

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 2035 Campus Instructional Facility

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Christian Petrie

  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 - "Factors affecting endocytosis of cargo bound to metabolically engineered cells"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar - "Interfacial liquid structure at heterogeneous interfaces"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Eve Vavagiakis (Duke University) "A new generation of millimeter and submillimeter observations for cosmology and astrophysics"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 13, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Stephanie Ziegle

  • Lecture
• • 12:00 - 2:00 pm

  Final Exam: Justin Wasserman

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Mark Swihart, University at Buffalo, "A Non-equilibrium Flame Aerosol Process to Create High-entropy Nanomaterials" (co-hosts: Hong Yang, Paul Kenis)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866

  Kent Seminar: Michael Levin, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Attempts to Stabilize the Cathode-Electrolyte Interface in Solid-State Batteries"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Defect Chemistry of Y2+xRu2-xO7-δ Pyrochlore: An Acid-Stable Catalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER)"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium

  Meta-imaging of Textures and Tissues

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 14, 2025

• 

  • 10:00 - 10:50 am
  • 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801

  ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Hamid Norasi and Susan Hallbeck

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • LLP 464

  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Special Seminar: "TQFT gravity and ensemble holography"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Universal Features of Emergent Electronic Fractals in Quantum Materials"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 17, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - Spring Break

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar - Spring Break

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 20, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar - Spring Break

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 24, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Ben Wieder, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Saclay

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Makoto Yamada

  • 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
• • 4:00 pm
  • National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Auditorium

  Soo Distinguished Lecture: Evaporation Peculiarities: Photomolecular Effect and Evaporative Refrigeration Effect

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

• • 8:00 - 10:00 am
  • HMNTL 1000

  Final Exam: Amr Ghoname

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: "Towards properties-on-demand in quantum materials", Richard Averitt, University of California, San Diego

  Speaker: Richard Averitt, Professor, University of California, San Diego

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 2035 Campus Instructional Facility

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Arif Masud

  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 - TMS, no seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • ECEB 5070

  Prelim Exam: Stephen Messing

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Biwei Dai (Princeton, IAS)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • NCSA auditorium and online

  The Utpal Banerjee Distinguished Lecture in High Performance Computing: Charles Leiserson

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: "Open Questions on the Dynamics of Black Holes"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 27, 2025

• • 9:00 - 11:00 am
  • ECEB 5070

  Final Exam: Juhitha Konduru

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Gene Kiesel

  • Lecture
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866

  Kent Seminar: Gabor Orosz, University of Michigan

  • 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 - "Investigating the Effects of Local Environment on Nitrogen Vacancies in High Entropy Metal Nitrides"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium

  High Performance Integrated Photonics based on Thin Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 28, 2025

• • 9:00 - 11:00 am
  • ECEB 5070

  Final Exam: Sasha Yamada

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • CSL 114

  Final Exam: Vishal Rana

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 10:00 - 10:50 am
  • 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801

  ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Luze Xu

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Kitaev spin model, disguised Ising chain, and beyond"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 4:00 pm
  • HMNTL 1000

  Final Exam: Yu-Chieh Chiu

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 31, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 117 RAL

  FINAL DEFENSE, Jeff Xu, , "Workflows and automated platforms for nanocrystal synthesis, purification, and characterization"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - "Ab-Initio Downfolding for Strongly Correlated Systems: Benchmarks and Applications"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Henry Sodano - Precipitation Printing Towards Diverse Materials, Mechanical Tailoring and Functional Devices

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "TOPOLOGICAL STATES IN TWISTED BILAYER TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 1310 Newmark

  Rapid damage assessment in structures using cepstral features | Raimondo Betti | Structural Engineering Seminar Series

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 6:00   8:00 p.m.
  • Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center located at 601 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.

  CHBE 121 Poster Session

  Please join students and faculty at the annual ChBE 121 Poster Session. This event will take place from 6-8 p.m. at the Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. Students in small teams review and prepare a poster describing an Industrial Safety Incident. The posters include details such as an event timeline and immediate and long-term impacts.

  • Informational

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin

  Speaker: Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin

  • 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

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Marc Favata (Montclair State University)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

  Distinguished Lecture: Masashi Sugiyama, "Towards Reliable Machine Learning from Imperfect Training Data"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 3, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • ECEB 5070

  Prelim Exam: Priyash Barya

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Jim Haran

  • Lecture
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866

  Kent Seminar: Alexandre Alahi, EPFL Switzerland

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium

  Intercellular Communication: Can It Be Mediated by Electromagnetics?

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2025

• • All Day
  • Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 AND Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801

  CHBE/OXE UG Research Symposium and Scholarship Awards Ceremony

  • Meeting
• • 9:00 - 11:00 am
  • HMNTL 3005

  Final Exam: Hanwool Lee

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 2:00 pm
  • ECEB 5070

  Final Exam: Robert Kaufman

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Daniel Shoemaker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 7, 2025

• • 9:00 am
  • 117 RAL

  FINAL DEFENSE, Dejuante Walker, "Modeling Transport and Dynamics in Redox Active Polymer Solutions for Flow Battery Applications"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Eun Ah Kim, Cornell University

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Xin Bing

  • 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

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: 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
• • 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
• • 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

• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • MNTL 1000

  Final Exam: Zhuoran Han

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

  Distinguished Lecture: James Mickens

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Andreas Hoecker (CERN), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • ECEB 5070

  Final Exam: Charles Ross

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Edward Hightower

  • 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

  Environmental Engineering & Science Symposium 30th Anniversary Special Event

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866

  Kent Seminar: Bo Zou, University of Illinois Chicago

  • 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

Friday, April 11, 2025

• 

  • All Day
  • Civil and Environmental Engineering Building and Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory

  30th Environmental Engineering & Science Annual Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 464 Loomis

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Qianshu Lu (IAS)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Physics Careers Seminar: ""

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Edoardo Baldini, University of Texas, Austin

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 14, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Trithep Devakul, Stanford University

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Rex (Zhitao) Ying

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

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Javad Shabani, New York University

  Speaker: Javad Shabani, Associate Professor of Physics and Director of the Center of Quantum Information Physics, New York University

  • 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
• 

  • 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

• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Beckman Institute 4369

  Prelim Exam: Wen Jin

  • 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 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Marin Soljacic (MIT), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 17, 2025

• • 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
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866

  Kent Seminar: Mani Golparvar-Fard, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • 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

Monday, April 21, 2025

• • All Day
  • HMNTL Conference room 1000

  UAAT/UIUC - semiconductors + quantum international exhange

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 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 - 5:00 pm
  • 1611 Titan Drive Rantoul, IL 61866

  Kent Seminar Distinguished Lecture: Yinhai Wang, University of Washington

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

• 

  • 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

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

• • 12:05 pm
  • 2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion

  Data-driven, Physics-based Modeling of Strongly Nonlinear Mechanical Structures

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Ben Hooberman (UIUC), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 24, 2025

• • 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

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 25, 2025

• • 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

Monday, April 28, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Special Condensed Matter Seminar - Zhanybek Alpichshev, IST Austria

  • 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
  • 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
• • 4:00 pm
  • 1310 Newmark

  Jeff Dragovich | Structural Engineering Seminar Series

  • 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

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Fahad Mahmood (UIUC), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 1, 2025

• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • ECEB 5086

  Prelim Exam: Sangrui Luo

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Aakrit Vaish

  • Lecture
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866

  Kent Seminar: John Hourdos, Federal Highway Administration

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 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

• • 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

Monday, May 5, 2025

• • 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
• • 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

• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Geraldine Cochran (Ohio State University), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 12, 2025

• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • MNTL 2003

  Prelim Exam: Erin Raftery

  • Seminar/Symposium

Sunday, May 18, 2025

• • 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 Spring 2025 Convocation Reception

  • Reception/Open House