Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Saturday, April 19, 2025

- 9:30 am - 6:00 pm
- ESB 190
Fractional Chern Insulators Workshop - 2025
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 21, 2025

- All Day
- HMNTL Conference room 1000
UAAT/UIUC - semiconductors + quantum international exchange
- Ceremony/Service
- 10:00 am
Special Seminar: Nishil Talati, "Co-Design for the AI Era: From Traditional Systems to Generative AI"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Gil Rafael (California Institute of Technology), "Self-correcting GKP qubit and gates in a driven-dissipative circuit"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
Special Careers Event: "A Conversation with Poet Laureate and Engineer Richard Blanco"
- Lecture
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Xinwei Shen, "Distributional Learning: From Methodology to Applications"
- 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
- 301 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL
Kent Seminar Distinguished Lecture: Yinhai Wang, University of Washington
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- ECEB 5086
Prelim Exam: Derek Chaw
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

- All Day
- HMNTL Conference room 1000
UAAT/UIUC - semiconductors + quantum international exchange
- Ceremony/Service
- 9:00 am
- Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, Room 3350
PhD Final Defense – Paul Gharzouzi
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
- The Rhondale Tso Seminar Room Loomis 236
Special Biological Physics Seminar- "Single molecules, imaging, tracking, and the diffraction limit for finite photons."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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
Title: The X-59: A High-Speed Journey from Finite Element Models to Aeroservoelasticity
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- TBD
Prelim Exam: Shubhang Bhatnagar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Mechanics of glioma cells and T cells in brain tissue
- 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

- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- ECEB 5070
Prelim Exam: Anuj Maheshwari
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Avery Tishue (UIUC) "Fundamental Physics with kSZ Tomography"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 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, "Efficient LLMs: From Model Innovation to Customized Acceleration"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 24, 2025

- 10:00 - 11:00 am
- 3019 CEEB-Hydro
The Evolution of Biofuels Policy From 2005 to the Present and What the Next 20 Years May Bring
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- HMNTL Conference room 1000
Charge Transport in Doped Conjugated Polymers for Organic Electronics
- 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
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Aerodynamic Design and Analysis of a 20 MW VSVP Horizontal-axis Wind Turbine
- 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

- 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
- 12:00 pm
- 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
Physics Careers Seminar: ""
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Detection of anyon braiding through pump-probe spectroscopy"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- HMNTL 1000
Prelim Exam: Brendan Wolan
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 28, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Special Condensed Matter Special Seminar - "Tracing light: on Linear and Nonlinear Terahertz Polaritonics in Quantum Paraelectrics"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Special Biological Physics Seminar- "Chaotic worms: from the dynamics of animal behavior towards a physics of complex, evolved systems"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Umang Mathur, “ Equivalences for Causal Concurrency”
- 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

- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- CSL 141
Prelim Exam: Rakibul Islam
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Below Threshold Quantum Error Correction", Alexandre Bourassa, Google Quantum AI

Speaker: Alexandre Bourassa, Senior Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 - 2:30 pm
- ECEB 5070
Prelim Exam: Gabriel Muniz Negron
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
A Soft Material Paradigm To Address Energy-Water Nexus Challenges
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar - "MatSE Community Town Hall"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Lizhong Zhang (Flatiron Institute) "Modeling Black Hole Accretion with Radiation GRMHD: A Parameter Survey and Connection to Observations"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Fahad Mahmood (UIUC), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 7:00 pm
- CSL 141
Prelim Exam: Abhi Kamboj
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 1, 2025

- 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
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
Kent Seminar: John Hourdos, Federal Highway Administration
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium
Architectures and Topologies for High-Frequency, High-Density Power Conversion
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - no seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Harnessing Fluid Mechanics for Single-Cell Manipulation in Personalized Medicine
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- HMNTL 2003
Prelim Exam: He Lin Zhao
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 2, 2025

- 8:30 am - 6:00 pm
- Illini Union- Room 103 and 104
2nd Annual ISE Student Conference
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 pm
- 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
Physics Careers Seminar: ""
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- 2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion
Physics-Guided Machine Learning for Acoustic and Spectral Imaging
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - Despina Louca, University of Virginia
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
MiV Seminar: Ki Yun Lee and Saeduur Rahman - topic TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 5, 2025

- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- CSL 301
Prelim Exam: Kaiwen Cao
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
Special Seminar: Sarah Sterman
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Preslav Nakov, “ Towards Truly Open, Language-Specific, Safe, Factual, and Specialized Large Language Models”
- 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

- 9:00 am
- 1306 Everitt Laboratory
FINAL DEFENSE, Kyle Benjamin Timmer, "Development of Multicompartment Biomaterials to Modulate Cellular Environments for Improved Tendon-to-Bone Rotator Cuff Repair"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

- 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 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Geraldine Cochran (Ohio State University), "Leveraging Familial Capital to Improve Graduate Students Experiences"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 12, 2025

- 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
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Masooda Bashir
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
FGI Webinar: Geomembranes for Produced Water and Brine Containment

This FGI webinar will focus on the applications of geomembranes for containment of produced water and brine liquids in earth lined ponds, pits, reservoirs, and above ground tanks. Key topics will include today’s best practices in subgrade preparation, geomembrane selection, geomembrane installations, including thermal wedge and extrusion welding, and CQA.
- Professional Development

Friday, May 16, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
MiV Seminar: Hyegi Min
- 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 2025 Spring Convocation Reception
- Reception/Open House

Thursday, June 5, 2025

- 1:30 pm
- 307 Gregory Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, James Griebler, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, June 12, 2025

- 1:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Rachel Gaines "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, July 14, 2025

- All Day
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)
- Conference/Workshop

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

- All Day
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)
- Conference/Workshop

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

- All Day
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)
- Conference/Workshop

Thursday, July 17, 2025

- All Day
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)
- Conference/Workshop

Friday, July 18, 2025

- All Day
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)
- Conference/Workshop

Saturday, July 19, 2025

- All Day
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)
- Conference/Workshop

Sunday, July 20, 2025

- All Day
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)
- Conference/Workshop

Monday, July 21, 2025

- All Day
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)
- Conference/Workshop
- All Day
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
16th ANCRiSST Workshop and 4th ZHITU Symposium
- Conference/Workshop

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

- All Day
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)
- Conference/Workshop
- All Day
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
16th ANCRiSST Workshop and 4th ZHITU Symposium
- Conference/Workshop

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

- All Day
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)
- Conference/Workshop

Thursday, July 24, 2025

- All Day
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)
- Conference/Workshop

Friday, July 25, 2025

- All Day
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)
- Conference/Workshop

Saturday, July 26, 2025

- All Day
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)
- Conference/Workshop

Sunday, July 27, 2025

- All Day
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)
- Conference/Workshop

Monday, July 28, 2025

- All Day
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)
- Conference/Workshop

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

- All Day
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)
- Conference/Workshop

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

- All Day
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)
- Conference/Workshop

Thursday, July 31, 2025

- All Day
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)
- Conference/Workshop

Friday, August 1, 2025

- All Day
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)
- Conference/Workshop

Friday, August 29, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
MiV Seminar: Shriya Srinivasan, Harvard University - "Unlocking the Gut's Brain with Ingestible Bioelectronics"
- Seminar/Symposium