Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
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10:00 am - 5:00 pm1st floor, Illini Rooms ABC; 2nd floor rooms and ballroom; 3rd floor ballroom -
11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236 -
12:00 - 1:30 pmPart 4 of the 5-Part CQA Series will summarize third-party geosynthetic materials and installation inspection practices that ensure quality installation and workmanship that meet and/or exceed project permitting requirements, and final acceptance in accordance with the plans and specifications. The process that will be presented ensures that clients receive a defendable as
Thursday, February 12, 2026
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11:00 am - 12:15 pm4045 School of Information Sciences
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 - 1:00 pm2312 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory -
2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
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4:00 pm119 Material Science Engineering Building
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Friday, February 13, 2026
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10:00 - 10:50 amRoom 1310 Digital Computer Laboratory 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
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10:00 - 10:50 amNewmark Lab - Yeh Center Rm 2311
Coral larval settlement is a critical factor in reef restoration strategies. However, it is also a highly selective process governed by the integration of multiple environmental cues. Identifying and controlling these cues will help to maximize restoration outcomes in degraded coral reef ecosystems.
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1:00 - 2:00 pm190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Sam Garratt, Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University
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2:00 - 3:15 pm1214 Siebel Center
Monday, February 16, 2026
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm3401 Siebel Center
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
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4:00 pmNathan M. Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Daniel Shoemaker, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC
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12:00 - 1:30 pm
Part 5 of the 5-Part CQA Series will focus on activities that owners and operators should perform to maintain their liner system after installation. Best practices for locating the leakage source, determining an appropriate action leakage rate, and conducting electrical leak surveys also will be discussed.
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4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional FacilityLectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
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4:00 pm100 Material Science Engineering Building
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 - 12:50 pmEveritt 2310 -
4:00 - 5:00 pmLoomis Lab 141
Thursday, February 19, 2026
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12:00 pm2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion
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2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
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4:00 pm119 Material Science Engineering Building
Friday, February 20, 2026
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10:00 - 10:50 amRoom 1310 Digital Computer Laboratory 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Monday, February 23, 2026
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Qian Xu, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology
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4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional FacilityLectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Thursday, February 26, 2026
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11:30 amHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
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1:00 - 2:00 pm190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Ethan Lake, Miller Fellow, University of California - Berkeley
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Friday, February 27, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Monday, March 2, 2026
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Rahul Trivedi, Research Group Leader, Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
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4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional Facility
Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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The Physics Colloquium: Rafael Fernandes "Altermagnetism: an unconventional quantum state of matter"
4:00 - 5:00 pmLoomis Lab 141
Thursday, March 5, 2026
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11:00 am - 12:15 pm4045 School of Information Sciences
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1:00 - 2:00 pm190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Hong-Ye Hu, Harvard Quantum Initiative (HQI) Fellow, Harvard University
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2:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
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2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
Friday, March 6, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Monday, March 9, 2026
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12:00 - 1:00 pmESB 190
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Dafei Jin, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Notre Dame
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2:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
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4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional Facility
Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
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4:00 pm119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Thursday, March 12, 2026
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2:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
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2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
Friday, March 13, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Monday, March 23, 2026
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12:00 - 1:00 pmESB 190
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3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
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4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional Facility
Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 - 12:50 pmEveritt 2310
Thursday, March 26, 2026
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2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
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4:00 - 5:00 pm1002 Grainger Auditorium
Friday, March 27, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Monday, March 30, 2026
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm3401 Siebel Center
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
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6:00 pm 8:00 p.m.Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Henry Yuen, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
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4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional FacilityLectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
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4:00 - 5:00 pmLoomis Lab 141
Thursday, April 2, 2026
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2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
Friday, April 3, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Monday, April 6, 2026
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Zheshen Zhang, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan
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4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional FacilityLectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Thursday, April 9, 2026
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11:00 am - 12:15 pm4045 School of Information Sciences
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2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
Friday, April 10, 2026
Monday, April 13, 2026
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
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4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional FacilityLectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 - 12:50 pmEveritt 2310
Thursday, April 16, 2026
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2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
Friday, April 17, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Monday, April 20, 2026
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12:00 - 1:00 pmESB 190
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Yuan Ping, Associate Professor of Physics, UW-Madison
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4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional Facility
Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Thursday, April 23, 2026
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2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
Friday, April 24, 2026
Monday, April 27, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 - 1:00 pmESB 190
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Kater Murch, Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley
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4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional Facility
Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 - 12:50 pmEveritt 2310
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4:00 - 5:00 pmLoomis Lab 141
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Friday, May 1, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Monday, May 4, 2026
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Lawrence Cheuk, Assistant Professor of Physics, Princeton University
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4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional Facility
Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
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4:00 - 5:00 pmLoomis Lab 141
Friday, May 8, 2026
Thursday, May 14, 2026
Sunday, May 17, 2026
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9:30 11:00 amKrannert Center for the Performing Arts, Tryon Festival Theatre, 500 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 -
11:00 1:00 p.m.Illini Union - room ABC, 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801