Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Monday, October 13, 2025

• • 8:30 am

  PhD Final Defense – Ruolin Zhang

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 - 11:00 am
  • 3401 Siebel Center

  Theory Seminar: Nikhil Shagrithaya, "Probabilistic Guarantees to Explicit Constructions: Local Properties of Linear Codes."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Yin-Chen He (Stonybrook), "A Fuzzy Sphere Journey: from 3D Ising to Chern-Simons-matter CFT "

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Dean Pospisil, "Understanding Neural Representations and Inferring How They Are Generated"

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

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Tamer Zaki - Turbulence From an Observer Perspective

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

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "The Search for Accurate Predictors of Grain Growth"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
  • 0216 Siebel Center

  Computing Startup Seminar Series: Sudip Chakrabarti

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

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

  IQUIST Seminar: "Broadband quantum-limited amplification and near-ultrastrong nonlinear light-matter coupling with superconducting circuits", Kevin O'Brien, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Speaker: Kevin O'Brien, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB 3110

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - Darius Shi (Stanford)), "Chiral superconductivity from non-Abelian anyon fluids"

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

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Nitash Balsara, University of California, Berkeley "Movement of Polymer Molecules under Electric Fields and Relevance to Rechargeable Batteries" (host: Damien Guironnet)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Laboratory of Physics, Room 141

  ChBE/NPRE Presents-Prof. Jospeh D. Smith, Missouri University of Science and Technology

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 141 Loomis Laboratory Of Physics

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Prof. Joseph D. Smith

  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

  Printer 3D Microelectronics: Process Development, Materials Science, and Devices Applications

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

  Soft Materials Seminar - "Peptide-polymer amphiphiles meet lipid membranes: A morphological analysis of thermally actuated dynamic hybrid systems"

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

  Soft Materials Seminar - "Recyclable by Design: Additive Manufacturing of Thermosets via Frontal Polymerization"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

• • 9:00 am
  • HMNTL 1000

  Vacuum Science and Thin Film Deposition

  Wednesday, October 15 9am - 4pm » Day 1 - Vacuum Science » Vacuum Fundamentals » Vacuum Pumps » Pressure Measurement » Vacuum System Characterization » Cleaning for Vacuum Service Thursday, October 16 9am - 4pm » Day 2 - Thin Film Deposition » Electron Beam Evaporation » Sputtering by DC, Pulsed Dc, RF and HiPIMS » Atomic Layer Deposition/Atomic Layer Etch

  • Informational
• • 11:00 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame) "Interpreting the observables and multi messenger signals of r-process nucleosynthesis"

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Ruhi Sarikaya

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • 1304 Siebel Center

  Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Ali Cem Kaynak, "Usability Problems in the digital application process for subsidized student loans in Germany."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium Peter Abbamonte (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) "Conformal Invariance in Strange Metals" TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 16, 2025

• • 9:00 am
  • HMNTL 1000

  Vacuum Science and Thin Film Deposition

  Wednesday, October 15 9am - 4pm » Day 1 - Vacuum Science » Vacuum Fundamentals » Vacuum Pumps » Pressure Measurement » Vacuum System Characterization » Cleaning for Vacuum Service Thursday, October 16 9am - 4pm » Day 2 - Thin Film Deposition » Electron Beam Evaporation » Sputtering by DC, Pulsed Dc, RF and HiPIMS » Atomic Layer Deposition/Atomic Layer Etch

  • Informational
• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Coordinated Science Lab 239

  Prelim Exam: Rajalaxmi Rajagopalan

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 114 Transportation Building

  Engineering in Residence Seminar (SE 290) - Toni Baumann

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 - 2:00 pm
  • Loomis 464

  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Pratik Rath (UC Berkeley), "A Black Hole Airy Tail"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
  • Beckman 3169

  Prelim Exam: Mingrui Liu

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

  Kent Seminar: Marta Gonzalez, University of California, Berkeley

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

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Plastic Localization Behavior in Ferritic-Martensitic Steels"

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

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Three-dimensional Fourier Transform Infrared Microscope"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 17, 2025

• • 9:00 am
  • 3100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  Interfacial Stress Balances Across Scales: Thin-Film Stability and Pulmonary Surfactant

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

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

  ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Myrtede Alfred

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 4124 Siebel Center

  DAIS Distinguished Alumni Seminar: Dr. Jiaming Shen, "Identifying and Incentivizing Grounded Natural Language Generation.""

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Robert McGehee (University of Minnesota)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:30 am
  • Newmark 2312

  PhD Final Defense – Binxin Fu

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

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Atom-by-atom characterization of 2D materials with electron ptychography"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).

  STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Jamie Williamson (Scripps Research) “Structure and Dynamic Analysis of Bacterial Ribosome Assembly in Cells.”

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  MiV Seminar: Arvind Ramanathan, Argonne National Lab - "Autonomous Laboratory for Accelerating Biotherapeutic Discovery"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 20, 2025

• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 seminar: Cheol Park - Multifunctional Structural Materials for Sustainable Aviation and Space Exploration in Extreme Aerospace Environments

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

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "A View From the Interface: Particle Incorpation During Crystallization"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 1310 Yeh Student Center, 205 N Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL

  Re-imagining Human Health Monitoring through Structural Vibrations with Physics-Informed Machine Learning | Yiwen Dong | Structural Engineering Seminar Series

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
  • 0216 Siebel Center

  Computing Startup Seminar Series: Svetlana Vranic-Sowers

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

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

  IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum trajectories and stochastic excursions of thermal machines," Gabriel Landi, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester

  Speaker: Gabriel Landi, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester

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

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ariel Furst, MIT (host: Paul Kenis)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  Breaking waves: the dynamics of droplets and the effects of surfactants

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 1306 Everitt Laboratory

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Prof. Indrajit Charit

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

  Soft Materials Seminar - "How biophysical properties of endosomal membranes affect the endosomal escape"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 7:00 pm

  M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering Leadership Informational Webinar

  • Webinar

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Jay Kalinani (UIUC)

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Jason Xinyi Liu, "Robotic Language Grounding"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • 1304 Siebel Center

  Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Dr. Pedro Lopes, "Integrating Interactive Devices with the User's Body."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium McMillan Award: Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in twisted MoTe₂: discovery and recent advances

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 23, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 114 Transportation Building

  Engineering in Residence Seminar (SE 290) - Jeff Lee

  • Lecture
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm

  FGI Webinar: Ballasting and Protection of Exposed and Covered Geomembrane Lining Systems

  Exposed and covered geomembrane liner systems are subjected to wind uplift, hydrostatic uplift, gas generation and erosive / external forces that need to be assessed for long term resistance to site and environmental conditions but that are not often addressed during the design and construction phase.

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

  Kent Seminar: Giorgio Rizzoni, The Ohio State University

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

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Emulating 2D Materials with Spin Waves"

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

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Irradiation Response of Dilute Ni–Zr Alloys: Insights into Phase Stability"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • 163 Noyes Lab

  "The Realities of a Practicing Data Scientist", Alix Schmidt, Sr Data Scientist Dow Chemical, Core R&D Information Research

  • Informational

Friday, October 24, 2025

• 

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

  ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Spyros Reveliotis

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Oz Amram (Fermilab) "AI, Anomaly Detection and the Search for the Unknown at CMS"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 27, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Sukbum Chung (University of Seoul)

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Hadi Meidani

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

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Michael Gallis - Exascale Molecular-Level Simulations of Gas Flows

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

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium, Thomas A. Read Lecture - "Advancements in Chiplet & Advanced Packaging Technology including Co-Packaged Optics"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

• 

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

  IQUIST Seminar: "Point Defects in Crystals: Trapped Atoms for Quantum Technologies," Kai-Mei Fu, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington

  Speaker: Kai-Mei Fu, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington

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

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley (host: Deborah Leckband)

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

  Soft Materials Seminar

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

  Soft Materials Seminar - "Storable Prepreg for On-Orbit Composites Manufacturing"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Isaac Legred (UIUC)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium "Chirality Meets Quantum"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 30, 2025

• • 8:30 - 10:30 am
  • ECEB 5086

  Prelim Exam: Yi Zhou

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 114 Transportation Building

  Engineering in Residence Seminar (SE 290) - Jeremy Ward

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

  Kent Seminar: Zhibin Chen, New York University Shanghai

  • 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

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 31, 2025

• 

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

  ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Yunbei Xu

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Aurora Ireland (Stanford) "A Classical-to-Quantum Transition for Inflationary Perturbations"

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

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Barry Bradlyn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 3, 2025

• • 9:00 - 11:00 am
  • CSL 141

  Final Exam: Hieu Hoang

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Yves Kwan (Dallas)

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

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: James Bauer - Hazards and Thresholds: The Anatomy of Planetary Defense

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

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 1310 Yeh Student Center, 205 N Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL

  Octree Discretizations, Neural Geometric Representations, and Immersed Approaches for Scalable PDE Solvers | Baskar Ganapathysubramanian | Structural Engineering Seminar Series

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

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

  IQUIST Seminar: Wolfgang Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

  Speaker: Wolfgang Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB Lab 3110

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - Eytan Grosfield (Ben Gurion University, Israel), "Shining Light on Bose-Hubbard Models: From Equilibrium Theory to Exotic Steady States"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
  • CSL 419

  Prelim Exam: Weiman Yan

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Takahiro Tanaka (Yukawa Institute, Kyoto University)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium Smitha Vishveshwara (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 6, 2025

• • 9:00 - 11:00 am
  • CSL 301

  Prelim Exam: Andre Schreiber

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 114 Transportation Building

  Engineering in Residence Seminar (SE 290) - Jeff Mikulina

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 - 2:00 pm
  • Loomis 464

  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Luca Delacrétaz (U.Chicago)

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

  Kent Seminar: Stefan Tongur, Electreon

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

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Plasma Assisted Surface Modification of Cathode Materials for High Voltage Lithium-ion Batteries"

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

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Structural characterization of interfacial liquid at Cu-aqueous electrolyte interfaces"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 7, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Reza Ebadi (University of Maryland)

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

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Haidan Wen, Argonne National Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).

  STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Jeff Nivala (University of Washington) “TBA”

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 10, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Olexei Motrunich (CalTech)

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Nihar Shah

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

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Romar Frazier

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 seminar speaker: Romar Frazier - Introduction to the Blended Wing Body Aircraft and the Propulsion Design Concept Decisions

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

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • CSL B02

  Final Exam: Mohamed Younis

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

  IQUIST Seminar: Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

  Speaker: Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

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

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Justin Notestein, Northwestern University, (co-hosts: Chris Rao, Paul Kenis)

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

  Soft Materials Seminar

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

  Soft Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Alex Drlica Wagner (U. Chicago/FNAL)

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Rachel Adler

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium Neil Cornish (Montana State University) TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 13, 2025

• • 8:00 - 10:00 am

  Final Exam: Qi Jian Lim

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 114 Transportation Building

  Engineering in Residence Seminar (SE 290) - Vicki L. VanBlaricum

  • Lecture
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm

  FGI Webinar: Carbon Emissions Quantification and Sustainability Aspects of Landfill Final Cover Systems

  A detailed quantification and comparative analysis of carbon emissions for three landfill final cover systems: (i) soil-only cover; (ii) soil-geosynthetic cover; and (iii) an engineered turf cover are presented. 1.0 PDH

  • Professional Development
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Jovan Kamcev, University of Michigan (host: Xiao Su)

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

  Kent Seminar: David Nguyen, Jacobs Industries

  • 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

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 14, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - James McIver, Columbia University

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).

  STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Rohit Pappu (Washington University) "Complex phase behaviors of RNA binding proteins."

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 17, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Tyler Ellison (Purdue)

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Dave Zhao, "Representation Learning in Computational Genomics"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Maruthi Akella - Learning and Coordination for Aerospace Autonomy

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 1310 Yeh Student Center, 205 N Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL

  Hongyi Xiao | Structural Engineering Seminar Series

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

• • 8:30 - 10:30 am
  • CSL 419

  Prelim Exam: Ram Krishna

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

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

  IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Computing Enhanced Sensing," Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Speaker: Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 1306 Everitt Laboratory

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Prof. Raymond Cao

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

  Soft Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Richard Feder (University of California, Berkeley)

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

  Prelim Exam: Siyuan Wang

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium McMillan Award: Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effects in Rhombohedral Graphene

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 20, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 114 Transportation Building

  Engineering in Residence Seminar (SE 290) - Jason Lee - Presentation & Communication Skills Discussion

  • Lecture
• • 1:10 - 2:00 pm
  • Loomis 464

  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Andrea Dei (U.Chicago)

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

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Aleksandra Vojvodic, University of Pennsylvania (host: Alex Mironenko)

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

  Kent Seminar: Dominik Karbowski, Argonne National Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 - 5:00 pm
  • MNTL 2003

  Final Exam: Shengyan Liu

  • 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 - "Assessing Mediated Electron Transfer Processes in Energy Storage Materials for Redox-Flow Batteries via Automated Electrochemistry Platform"

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

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 21, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  MiV Seminar: Cunjiang Yu, University of Illinois - "Title TBD" - Nov 21, 2025

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, December 1, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Yiming Wu (Stanford)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Jason Rabinovitch - High-speed Compressible Flows and Space Exploration!

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 1310 Yeh Student Center, 205 N Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL

  Multiphysics modeling for structural polyurethane foams: from foam filling and curing to nonlinear viscoelastic deformations and 30 years of aging | Rekha Rao | Structural Engineering Seminar Series

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

• • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 1306 Everitt Laboratory

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Prof. Todd Allen

  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, December 3, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar -

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium Bonnie Fleming (Fermi Lab) TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 4, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 114 Transportation Building

  Engineering in Residence Seminar (SE 290) - Jason Lee- Presentation & Communication Skills Workshop

  • Lecture
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Mark Blenner, University of Delaware (host: Chris Rao)

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

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, December 5, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Kevin Langhoff (MIT)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  MiV Seminar: Anthony Jack, Case Western Rerserve University - "Ethics of biologically inspired AI - what is most likely to go wrong?"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, December 8, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Veit Elser (Cornell)

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

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

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

  IQUIST Seminar: Liang Jiang, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

  Speaker: Liang Jiang, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

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

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Brandon DeKosky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (host: Huimin Zhao)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium Adam Kaufman (CU Boulder) TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, December 20, 2025

• • 10:00 - 11:00 am
  • Lincoln Hall, 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801

  ChBE 2025 Winter Convocation

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Latzer Hall in the University of Illinois YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820

  ChBE 2025 Winter Convocation Reception

  • Reception/Open House

Thursday, February 19, 2026

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Wenlin Zhang, Dartmouth College (host: Charles Sing)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 12, 2026

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Hee Jeung Oh, Penn State University (host: Charles Sing)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 27, 2026

• • 4:00 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  MiV Seminar: Vickie Webster-Wood, Carnegie-Mellon University - Title TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 3, 2026

• • 4:00 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  MiV Seminar: Kon-Well Wang, University of Michigan - Title TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 10, 2026

• • 12:00 - 4:00 pm
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

  ChBE/OXE Undergraduate Research Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:30 - 6:00 pm
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

  CHBE Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Reception

  • Ceremony/Service

Friday, April 17, 2026

• • 8:30 am
  • 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  MiV Seminar: L. Mahadevan, Harvard - Title TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 1, 2026

• • 4:00 pm

  MiV Seminar: Rob Wood, Harvard - Title TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium