Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Monday, September 21, 2026

• Prelim Exam: Jiachen Tu

  Time

  9:00 - 11:00 am

  Location

  Beckman Institute

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Theory Seminar Series: Hanwen Zhang, "Minimum Star Partitions of Simple Polygones in Polynomial Time."

  Time

  10:00 am

  Location

  3403 Siebel Center

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Panelist Discussion: Non-Aerospace Industry Career Opportunities - Violet Allmandinger, Alberto Davila, and Fabian Dettenrieder

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AI-Augmented Shape Sensing and Assembly Optimization for Prefabricated Bridge Construction | Sung-Han Sim | CEE 595 S - Structural Engineering Seminar Series

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  1310 Yeh Student Center

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Discovery"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

• Prelim Exam: Mohamed Aly

  Time

  10:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  Coordinated Science Laboratory B02

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• IQUIST Seminar: "Tackling Heterogeneity for Practical Quantum Systems," Kate Smith, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Northwestern University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Speaker: Kate Smith, Northwestern University

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Parr Lecture in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Prof. Yong Wang, Washington State University (host: Prof. Chris Rao/CHBE) "From Catalytic Insights to Transformative Technologies"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CAP Seminar Series: Dr. Nandita Vijaykumar, "Architecting Efficient and Scalable Systems for Physical Intelligence and Visual Computing."

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or Zoom

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Mechanics of Growth and Growth of Mechanics

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  2079 Natural History Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series -Areg Danagoulian

  Time

  4:00 - 4:50 pm

  Location

  1306 Everitt Laboratory

  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

  

• Soft Materials Seminar - "Electrical Soft Sensing, Actuation, and Control: Towards Wearable Soft Robotic Interfaces for Human-Guided Autonomy"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño (Wake Forest University) "Resonance-Driven Flux Modifications in Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals"

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• BIOE Seminar Series: Associate Professor Saurabh Gupta

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Human-Computer Interaction Talk Series: Dr. Shm Garanganao Almeda, "The Design of Technology by, and for, Artistic Worlds."

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  0216 Siebel Center

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Philip Phillips (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Solving the Mott Problem"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, September 24, 2026

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Wenyu Huang, Iowa State University (Host: Prof. Hong Yang)

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 (Optional) Seminar Speaker: Dongho Lee

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Coordinated Science Lab B02

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hard Materials Seminar - "Monolithic 3D Integration of Silicon Transistors"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hard Materials Seminar - "Optimizing a chemo-mechanically governed microstructure for lithium-sulfur solid-state batteries"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, September 25, 2026

• High Energy Physics Seminar - Hersh Singh (FNAL)

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• ISE Seminar Series - Seyed Mohammad Nourbakhsh

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  1310 Digital Computer Laboratory, 1304 W. Springfield Ave, Urbana

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - "Unified theories of transport in solids: from crystals to glasses, and from diffusion to viscous hydrodynamics"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Dean Pospisil, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  4:15 pm

  Location

  4100 LuMEB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, September 28, 2026

• Prelim Exam: Anubhav Bose

  Time

  9:30 - 11:30 am

  Location

  Electrical and Computer Engineering Building Room 5070

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Pallab Goswami (Northwestern)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Kevin Li - Interactional Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics: From Measurements to Multi-Fidelity Modeling

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Arnab Banerjee, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Speaker: Arnab Banerjee

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microchannel Evaporators Don't Care About Your Dissertation: Lessons from Two Decades of Two-Phase Flow Research

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  2079 Natural History Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Giuseppe Ficarra (Università della Calabria)

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• BIOE Seminar Series: Founder Professor & Director James M. Rehg, PhD

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Human-Computer Interaction Talk Series: Dr. Yung-Ju (Stanley) Chang, "Building Intelligence Around Limited Human Attention: Our Research Trajectory Toward Attention-Aware Agentic System."

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  0216 Siebel Center

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Geoff Greene (University of Tennessee) "The Neutron Lifetime, Why do we keep measuring it? & Why do we keep getting it “wrong”?"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Optional Seminar Speaker: Ken Jacobs - Artemis II Launch and Mission Overview

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 3039

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 1, 2026

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sapna Sarupria, University of Minnesota (Host: Prof. Baron Peters) "Molecular Design of Excipient Formulations for Stable Biologics"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hard Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 2, 2026

• High Energy Physics Seminar - Louis Hamaide (Johannes Gutenberg Universitat)

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• ISE Seminar Series - Christos Alexandros Psomas

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  1310 Digital Computer Laboratory, 1304 W. Springfield Ave, Urbana

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Andre Schleife, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Abhishek Bhattacharjee, Princeton University

  Time

  4:15 pm

  Location

  4100 LuMEB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, October 5, 2026

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Jaewon Kim

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• COLLOQUIUM: Hao Wang, "Bayesian Deep Learning: From Reliable Neural Networks to Interpretable Foundation Models"

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Inseok Hwang - Toward Trustworthy Human-aware Cyber-Physical-Human Systems (CPHS)

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Bone Response to Mechanical Loading: The Influence of Genetics

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Ceren Dag, Assistant Professor of Physics, Indiana University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Speaker: Ceren Dag

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Brandon C. Bukowski, Johns Hopkins University (Host: Elizabeth Bickel Rogers)

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Anurag Maan

  Time

  4:00 - 4:50 pm

  Location

  1306 Everitt Laboratory

  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

  

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Paul Duffell (Purdue University) "Binary Accretion"

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• BIOE Seminar Series: Assistant Professor Yuxiong Wang

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Amazing Longevity of Moore’s Law - 65 Years and Going Strong

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  HMNTL 1000

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Alessandra Buonanno (Albert Einstein Institute) "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 8, 2026

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Kelsey Hatzell, Princeton University (Host: Prof. Theresa Schoetz)

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hard Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hard Materials Seminar - "4D-STEM Nanodiffraction Analysis of Amorphous AlOₓ in Josephson Junctions"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 9, 2026

• The Life and Science of Anthony Leggett. A Conference and Memorial in honor of Tony J. Leggett

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Loomis 464 & ESB 190 (TBC)

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• ISE Seminar Series - Stephanie Gil

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  1310 Digital Computer Lab 1304 W Springfield Urbana, IL 61801

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, October 10, 2026

• The Life and Science of Anthony Leggett. A Conference and Memorial in honor of Tony J. Leggett

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Loomis 464 & ESB 190 (TBC)

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Sunday, October 11, 2026

• The Life and Science of Anthony Leggett. A Conference and Memorial in honor of Tony J. Leggett

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Loomis 464 & ESB 190 (TBC)

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, October 12, 2026

• COLLOQUIUM: Yilun Du

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Steve Ulrich

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Hong Tang, Llewellyn West Jones Jr. Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yale University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Anıl Zenginoğlu (University of Maryland)

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• BIOE Seminar Series: Jackson Family Distinguished Professor He (Helen) Huang

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Andrea Young (University of California Santa Barbara) "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 15, 2026

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Michael Karp - Receptivity of Shock Waves to Flow Perturbations

  Time

  12:30 - 1:30 pm

  Location

  CIF 3031

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Hongliang Xin, Virginia Tech (Host: Prof. Alex Mironenko) "The New Alchemy of Scientific Discovery: From Electrons to AI Agents"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hard Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hard Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Non-equilibrium Dynamics in Biological Living Matter: From Confluent Tissues to Bacterial Aggregates

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 16, 2026

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Peter Hirschfeld, University of Florida

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Jason MacLean, University of Chicago

  Time

  4:15 pm

  Location

  4100 LuMEB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, October 19, 2026

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Jacopo Gliozzi

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Final Defense of Destiny Gray "TBA"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  165 Noyes Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Mark Messner - Smarter Materials Modeling with AI, Physics, and Large Data

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites in Heavy Civil Infrastructure| Gregg Blaszak & Eric O. Johnson | CEE 595 S - Structural Engineering Seminar Series

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  1310 Yeh Student Center

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Where Curiosity Leads: Science, Leadership, and Building the Foundations of Discovery"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Niklas Mueller, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Speaker: Niklas Mueller

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Xu Wu

  Time

  4:00 - 4:50 pm

  Location

  1306 Everitt Laboratory

  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

  

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

• Human-Computer Interaction Talk Series: Michelle Jensen, "Starting Where Students Are: Learning & Integrating Computer Security."

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  0216 Siebel Center

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Peter Abbamonte (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Title"

  Time

  4:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 22, 2026

• Hard Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 23, 2026

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Nirmal Ghimire, University of Notre Dame

  Time

  8:30 am

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• High Energy Physics Seminar - Ting Cheng (FNAL)

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, October 26, 2026

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Andreas Gleis (Rutgers)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: H.S. Udaykumar (Uday)

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Local structure in Novel Ferroelectrics: Insights from Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Modeling Full-Scale Vortex-Induced and Rain-Wind-Induced Stay Cable Vibrations | Delong Zuo | CEE 595 S - Structural Engineering Seminar Series

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  1310 Yeh Student Center

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Hannah Manetsch, Senior AMO Physicist, Oratomic

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

  190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Speaker: Hannah Manetsch

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

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

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Christopher Ritter

  Time

  4:00 - 4:50 pm

  Location

  1306 Everitt Laboratory

  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

  

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Soft Materials Seminar - "Cryo-EM of C. lytica Cells, Vesicles and their Functionalizations"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Aditya Vijaykumar (University of Chicago)

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium