Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

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  SP26 BIOE Pop-Up Shop

  Recurring

  All Day

  • Other
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  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Domenica Garzon and Carlos Nikolas Cruz Camacho (UIUC, ICASU Fellows))

  11:00 am

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Utilizing Vibrational Contrast: A New Real-time Label-free Imaging Platform for Studying Living Cells

  11:00 am

  HMNTL 1000

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Final Exam: Erkan Bayram

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  ECEB 5070

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Human-Computer Interaction Talk Series: Qianou (Christina) Ma, "Future-Proof Developers: Optimizing and Training for Human-AI Collaboration in Programming."

  3:30 - 4:30 pm

  0216 Siebel Center

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  The Physics Colloquium: The Hans Frauenfelder Colloquium - Peter Wolynes (Rice University) "Energy Landscapes FromGlasses to the Intelligence of Biomolecules"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 7, 2026

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  SP26 BIOE Pop-Up Shop

  Recurring

  All Day

  • Other

Friday, May 8, 2026

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  SP26 BIOE Pop-Up Shop

  Recurring

  All Day

  • Other
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  PhD Final Defense – Yicen Liu

  9:00 am

  CEEB 3017

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Computer Vision Seminar Series: Shuyang (Kevin) Sun, "D4RT: Teaching AI to see the world in four dimensions."

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  MiV Seminar: Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania - "Tunable matter—a unifying paradigm for complex collective biological function"

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, May 9, 2026

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  SP26 BIOE Pop-Up Shop

  Recurring

  All Day

  • Other

Sunday, May 10, 2026

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  SP26 BIOE Pop-Up Shop

  Recurring

  All Day

  • Other

Monday, May 11, 2026

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  SP26 BIOE Pop-Up Shop

  Recurring

  All Day

  • Other

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

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  SP26 BIOE Pop-Up Shop

  Recurring

  All Day

  • Other
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  Prelim Exam: Hyungyo Kim

  8:30 - 10:30 am

  Online

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Prelim Exam: Mosbah Aouad

  9:00 - 11:00 am

  CSL 239

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Prelim Exam: Josh Akin

  12:00 - 2:00 pm

  HMNTL 1000

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Final Exam: Aditya Ravi

  2:00 - 4:00 pm

  CSL 301

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

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  SP26 BIOE Pop-Up Shop

  Recurring

  All Day

  • Other

Thursday, May 14, 2026

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  SP26 BIOE Pop-Up Shop

  Recurring

  All Day

  • Other
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  Final Defense of Haisu Kang, COARSE-GRAINED MODELING OF BOTTLEBRUSH POLYMERS IN SOLUTION AND MELTS

  10:00 am   03/06/2026

  100 Noyes Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Prelim Exam: Ameya Anjarlekar

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  CSL 141

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Prelim Exam: Milind Vaddiraju

  2:00 - 4:00 pm

  ECEB 5086

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 15, 2026

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  Prelim Exam: Mohamed Selim

  12:00 - 2:00 pm

  CSL B02

  • Seminar/Symposium

Sunday, May 17, 2026

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  CHBE 2026 Spring Convocation Ceremony

  9:30   11:00 am

  Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Tryon Festival Theatre, 500 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  • Ceremony/Service
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  ChBE 2026 Spring Convocation Reception

  11:00   1:00 p.m.

  Illini Union - room ABC, 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801

  • Reception/Open House

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

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  Final Exam: Neeloy Chakraborty

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  CSL 301

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

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  Final Defense - PhD - Eliot Bethke

  11:00 am

  Everitt 1103 and via zoom

  • Other

Thursday, May 28, 2026

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  Final Defense - PhD - James Evans

  10:00 am

  Beckman 3169 and zoom

  • Other
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  Final Defense - PhD - Neeraj Wagh

  10:00 am

  Via Zoom

  • Other

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

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  Final Defense Joo Hun "John", TBA

  2:00 pm   03/06/2026

  1024 Chem Annex

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, June 12, 2026

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  Final Defense Ching Hsiu Chung, TBA

  10:00 am   03/06/2026

  1024 Chem Annex

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

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  Final Defense - PhD - Michael Nelappana

  2:00 pm

  Beckman 3269 and zoom

  • Other

Monday, June 29, 2026

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  Final Exam: Yicong Dong

  9:00 - 11:00 am

  Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Lab 3005

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

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  Final Exam: Samhita Marri

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  CSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, August 28, 2026

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  Orit Peleg, University of Colorado Boulder

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 2, 2026

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  Abhishek Battacharjee, Yale University

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 16, 2026

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  Jason MacLean, University of Chicago

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 23, 2026

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  Rhonda Dzakpasu, Georgetown

  4:15 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium