College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Monday, September 20, 2021

- 12:30 pm
- Only for CS faculty
Faculty Short Talks: Dakshita Khurana, "Quantum Cryptoplexity" & David Forsyth, "Ground truth free computer vision"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center
COLLOQUIUM: Han Zhao, "Invariant Representation Learning for Domain Generalization"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Talbot 103
AE 590 Seminar: Advances in resolvent-based modeling of turbulent flows
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

- 11:00 am
IQUIST seminar: "Resolving starlight: a quantum perspective"
Speaker: Mankei Tsang, Nat U Singapore
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building
MatSE Soft Materials Seminar
“Ion transport in Spiropyran-based polymeric materials,” by Chen Chen (Braun) “Automated digital microfluidics for high-throughput electrochemical characterization,” by Hung Nguyen (Schroeder)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - My Voice, My Story - Workshop 1 of 3
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
- 2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion and https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83471268533?pwd=b3FPUWJ6MFV4dEkwYnpZUmcxRndjdz09 Passcode: 731186
Thermal and thermoelectric properties of topologically non-trivial crystals
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

- 3:30 pm
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/87073078942?pwd=TWdVTWxFenByVTEwNFBGemZxRzd4UT09
COLLOQUIUM: Michael Muneses, "Bringing Computer Science to Incarcerated People: Working with EJP"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
Physics Collloquium: "EIC physics from Lattice QCD: The proton mass and spin decompositions"
- Lecture

Thursday, September 23, 2021

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- Zoom - Contact SE 290 Instructor, Julie Murphy for link
SE 290 - Matt Goetz
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- Via ZOOM - see description for link
Physics Careers Seminar: "Industrial Research at General Motors Research & Development"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building
MatSE Hard Materials Seminar
"Reaction mechanism of λ-MnO2 with different particle sizes as the cathode material in aqueous zinc-ion batteries," by Zhichu Tang (Chen) “First-Principles Study of Ground and Excited-state Properties in Antiferromagnetic Mn2Au and Cr2Al,” by Kisung Kang (Schleife)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- ECEB 1002 Grainger Auditorium
SiC: Beyond Power Devices
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 24, 2021

- 9:00 - 10:00 am
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/89220493449?pwd=MCtRalp4a09adUovTituZlk5bnhzQT09
Responsible DS + AI Speaker Series: Pardis Emami-Naeini, University of Washington
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/8167899060?pwd=YkZrQ09zODRzL0txRGF5bnhWdmk0UT09
Zhijian Ou "Semi-Supervised Task-Oriented Dialog Systems and Natural Language Labeling"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- via Zoom
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Possible discovery of Pines' Demon in Sr2RuO4"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - My Voice, My Story - Workshop 2 of 3
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

Monday, September 27, 2021

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: "Xiaoqi Sun"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 pm
- Only for CS faculty
Faculty Short Talks: Chris Fletcher, "Open Problems in Microarchitecture Security"& Arindam Banerjee, "Deep Learning, Geometry, and Smoothed Analysis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/85914985304?pwd=aGtYVXE5Slc0L2h5Tjkyd0pHZFhlUT09
COLLOQUIUM: Lynna Gui
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
AE 590 Seminar: Enabling Human Operational Performance for Space Exploration
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

- 11:00 am
IQUIST seminar: James Bartusek
Speaker: James Bartusek (UC Berkeley)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Michael Toney, University of Colorado, Boulder, "Insights into Battery Operation and Degradation through X-ray Scattering" (host: Diao)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 - 4:45 pm
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/89959281193?pwd=alVReHlaS0NYVENUeExBVTJNOEttQT09
Xingjun Ma: "Adversarial, Backdoor and Unlearnable"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building
MatSE Soft Materials Seminar
“Design and preparation of single-chain polypeptides nanoparticles,” by Tianrui Xue
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - My Voice, My Story - Workshop 3 of 3
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
- 2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion and https://illinois.zoom.us/j/86409551093?pwd=RzlaUnJSbTk0SlNJaVhqYllOOHZtdz09 Passcode: 514108
Three-Phase Heat Transfer
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

- 12:00 pm
- Via Zoom
Astrophysics, Gravitation and Cosmology Seminar - Deep Chatterjee (UIUC) "On the Electromagnetic follow-up of Gravitational waves & Gravitational-wave Cosmology"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 1:00 pm
- Register at: http://just-infras.illinois.edu/
Just Infrastructures Speaker Series, Fernanda Viegas + Martin Wattenberg, "Ways of Understanding AI"
- Lecture
- 3:30 pm
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/81089182625?pwd=M1VIMW9SSDVrNkRGdE4zZHlWN3puQT09
COLLOQUIUM: Elahe Soltanaghai
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5.00
TBA
- Lecture

Thursday, September 30, 2021

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- Zoom - Contact SE 290 Instructor, Julie Murphy for link
SE 290 - Mike Brunetto
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
"YUNCHUAN AISINJIORO - SOO DISTINGUISHED LECTURE" : Taylor Bubbles: Faster, Dangerous, Unstable
- Lecture

Friday, October 1, 2021

- 10:00 am
- please contact Lauren Redman for event link
ISE Graduate Seminar Series: Ruta Mehta
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Via ZOOM
High Energy Phenomenology Seminar: Tanner Trickle (Caltech)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- via Zoom
Condensed Matter Seminar - Erez Berg, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 4, 2021

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: "Edwin Huang"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 pm
- Only for CS faculty
Faculty Short Talks: Karrie Karahalios & Tarek Abdelzaher, "Social Info-Dynamics: Towards a Science of Modeling Human Beliefs"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/87244824909?pwd=SWhGZnZjWlJ6MFIzc2FPcUJKeEpaQT09
COLLOQUIUM: Jiayu Zhou, "Advancements in Artificial Intelligence for Neurodegenerative Diseases"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Talbot 103
AE 590 Seminar:
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

- 11:00 am
IQUIST seminar: Stephanie Wehner
Speaker: Stephanie Wehner, QuTech and TU Delft
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 West Springfield Avenue, Urbana
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Dr. Anna Simon
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, October 6, 2021

- 12:00 pm
- Via Zoom
Astrophysics, Gravitation and Cosmology Seminar - Keisuke Inomata (KICP/Chicago)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/81199057762?pwd=SFhOVC9UQzVSMzg3aHhuZG5YU2pJUT09
COLLOQUIUM: Valerie Taylor
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 7, 2021

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- Zoom - Contact SE 290 Instructor, Julie Murphy for link
SE 290 - John Burch
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- ECEB 1002 Grainger Auditorium
The Many Faces of Identity
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 8, 2021

- 1:00 pm
- via Zoom
Condensed Matter Seminar - Lu Li, University of Michigan
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 11, 2021

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: "Scott Jensen"
- Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

- 11:00 am
IQUIST seminar: Lindsay LeBlanc
Speaker: Lindsay LeBlanc, University of Alberta
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 0027/1025 Campus Instructional Facility
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Dr. Thomas Wellock
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, October 13, 2021

- 12:00 pm
- Via Zoom
Astrophysics, Gravitation and Cosmology Seminar - Elisa Ferreira (Sao Paulo/MPA)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 1:00 pm
- Register at: http://just-infras.illinois.edu/
Just Infrastructures Speaker Series, Kit Walsh
- Lecture
- 3:30 pm
- https://illinois.zoom.us/j/86288953503?pwd=a2k5M0E4R2Y2dEt0SmRJSkEwNkJDdz09
DLS: David Patterson
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 14, 2021

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- Zoom - Contact SE 290 Instructor, Julie Murphy for link
SE 290 - Rick Blackwell
- Lecture

Friday, October 15, 2021

- 10:00 am
ISE Graduate Seminar Series: Sonia Martinez
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Via ZOOM
High Energy Phenomenology Seminar: Christina Gao (UIUC)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- via Zoom
Condensed Matter Seminar - Andrea Young, University of California Santa Barbara
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 18, 2021

- 12:30 pm
- Only for CS faculty
Faculty Short Talks: Nan Jiang, "Theoretical Advances in Offline Reinforcement Learning" & Sheldon Jacobson, "Impacting Society: Making the World a Better Place"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Talbot Lab, Room 103
AE590 Seminar: Energy-Based Nonlinear Control of Ocean and Atmospheric Vehicles
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

- 8:30 am
IQUIST seminar: Christian Schimpf
Speaker: Christian Schimpf
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - SPEED Interchange
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, October 20, 2021

- 12:00 pm
- Via Zoom
Astrophysics, Gravitation and Cosmology Seminar - Michi Bauboeck (UIUC)
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 21, 2021

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Lily Cheung, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Spying on Sugar Transporters: Kinetic Studies of Biomolecular Sensors" (host: Shukla)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- ECEB 1002 Grainger Auditorium
To be announced at a later date
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 22, 2021

- 12:00 pm
- Via ZOOM
High Energy Phenomenology Seminar: Pablo Quilez (DESY)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- TBD
Physics Careers Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- via Zoom
Condensed Matter Seminar - Andrea Damascelli, University of British Columbia
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 25, 2021

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

- 8:30 am
IQUIST seminar: Danna Freedman
Speaker: Danna Freedman
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Arnab Mukherjee, University of California Santa Barbara, "Biomolecular Imaging with Magnetic Resonance" (host: Schroeder)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 103 Talbot Laboratory, 104 S Wright St, Urbana, IL
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Dr. Lei Xing
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, October 27, 2021

- 12:00 pm 1:00 pm
- Register at: http://just-infras.illinois.edu/
Just Infrastructures Speaker Series, Shoshana Zuboff
- Lecture

Thursday, October 28, 2021

- 9:00 am
- 279 Davenport Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Whitney Sinclair, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- Zoom - Contact SE 290 Instructor, Julie Murphy for link
SE 290 - Karl Schaulin
- Lecture

Friday, October 29, 2021

- 10:00 am
- please contact Lauren Redman for event link
ISE Graduate Seminar Series: Rich Holden
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- via Zoom
Condensed Matter Seminar - Ilija Zeljkovic, Boston College
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 1, 2021

- 1:00 pm
- TBA
FINAL DEFENSE, Mr. Hao Yu, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar: Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) : A multi-agent robotic mission to peek at the early Universe from the far-side of the Moon
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

- 11:00 am
IQUIST seminar: Christian Schaffner
Speaker: Christian Schaffner, U Amsterdam
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Thomas Weber
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, November 3, 2021

- 12:00 pm
- Via Zoom
Astrophysics, Gravitation and Cosmology Seminar - Tyler Natoli (U. Chicago)
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 4, 2021

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- Zoom - Contact SE 290 Instructor, Julie Murphy for link
SE 290 - Joi Mondisa
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Jennifer Laaser, University of Pittsburgh (host: Sing)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- ECEB 1002 Grainger Auditorium
To be announced at a later date
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 5, 2021

- 10:00 am
- please contact Lauren Redman for event link
ISE Graduate Seminar Series: Mahesh Nagarajan
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- via Zoom
Condensed Matter Seminar - Jukka Ilmari Vayrynen, Purdue University
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 9, 2021

- 11:00 am
IQUIST seminar: Andrew Jordan
Speaker: Andrew Jordan, Chapman/Rochester
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 0027/1025 Campus Instructional Facility
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Dr. Madicken Munk
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, November 10, 2021

- 12:00 pm
- Via Zoom
Astrophysics, Gravitation and Cosmology Seminar - Paul Laplante (Berkeley)
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 11, 2021

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- Zoom - Contact SE 290 Instructor, Julie Murphy for link
SE 290 - Jessica Hannah
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- ECEB 1002 Grainger Auditorium
To be announced at a later date
- Seminar/Symposium