Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Monday, June 29, 2026

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  Final Exam: Yicong Dong

  9:00 - 11:00 am

  Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Lab 3005

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  PhD Final Defense – Subhrangsu Saha

  11:00 am

  Newmark 2311

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  PhD Final Defense – Yi-Chia Chang

  1:00 pm

  CEEB 2012 (Conference Room)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

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  Final Exam: Leah Espenhahn

  9:00 - 11:00 am

  HMNTL 1000

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  PhD Final Defense – Shirin Qiam

  9:00 am

  Newmark 1311

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Final Exam: Xinan Chen

  2:00 - 4:00 pm

  Coordinated Science Laboratory 301

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

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  Final Exam: Yuqi Li

  10:00 am - 12:00 pm

  ZOOM

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  PhD Final Defense – Weiheng Zhong

  10:00 am

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, July 2, 2026

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  Final Defense of Ye, Joshua, "How Rhodotorula toruloides uses difficult substrates to yield biofuels"

  11:00 am

  612 IGB (Institute for Genomic Biology)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, July 6, 2026

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  PhD Final Defense – Xiaokai Yang

  9:00 am

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Final Exam: Mick Gardner

  10:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Beckman 4269, 4th floor tower room

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  PhD Final Defense – Sebastian Pozo Ocampo

  2:00 pm

  CEEB 2015

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Final Defense of Ebin Joseph, "Expanding fatty alcohol production in Yarrowia lipolytica"

  3:00 pm

  612 IGB (Institute for Genomic Biology)

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Final Exam: Chihun Song

  5:00 - 7:00 pm

  Coordinated Science Laboratory 301

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, July 7, 2026

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  Prelim Exam: Masa Sakakura

  9:00 - 11:00 am

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

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  Final Exam: Samhita Marri

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  CSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, July 9, 2026

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  PhD Final Defense – Travis A. Shoemaker

  9:00 am

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, July 10, 2026

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  PhD Final Defense – Dylan Centella Raef

  1:00 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Prelim Exam: Yuanbo Zhang

  3:00 - 5:00 pm

  Beckman Institute

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

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  Final Defense of Wesley Harrison, "Development of New-to-Nature Enzyme Chemistries with Photobiocatalysis"

  3:00 pm

  1092 Lincoln hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, July 17, 2026

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  Prelim Exam: Ziyang Xu

  3:00 - 5:00 pm

  Beckman 2169 or Zoom

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

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  Prelim Exam: Dimitrios Gotsis

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  Beckman 4369

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

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  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Raj Kishor Joshi (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center) "Interior magnetic field dynamics in Magnetars"

  11:00 am

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, August 10, 2026

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  Prelim Exam: Xiaodong Ye

  10:00 am - 12:00 pm

  MNTL 2003

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

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  Final Exam: Weiman Yan

  3:00 - 5:00 pm

  Coordinated Science Laboratory 419

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, August 28, 2026

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  Orit Peleg, University of Colorado Boulder

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 3, 2026

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  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Varong Pavarajarn, Chulalongkorn University (Host: Prof. Chris Rao)

  2:00 pm

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 10, 2026

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  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. David Gracias, Johns Hopkins University (Host: Prof. Hyun Joon Kong) "Physical Intelligence at the Interface of Biology and Engineering"

  2:00 pm

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 17, 2026

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  SE290 - John Thelan

  11:00 am

  1310 DCL

  • Lecture
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  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Janani Sampath, University of Florida (Host: Prof. Charles Sing)

  2:00 pm

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

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  Parr Lecture in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Prof. Yong Wang, Washington State University (host: Prof. Chris Rao/CHBE)

  2:00 pm

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 24, 2026

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  SE290 - Robert DuBois

  11:00 am

  1310 DCL

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

  2:00 pm

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 1, 2026

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  SE290 - John Thorse

  11:00 am

  1310 DCL

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

  2:00 pm

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  TBA

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  1002 Grainger Auditorium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 2, 2026

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  Abhishek Battacharjee, Yale University

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

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

  2:00 pm

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 8, 2026

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  SE290 - Cory Kniepp

  11:00 am

  1310 DCL

  • Lecture
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  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Hongliang Xin, Virginia Tech (Host: Prof. Alex Mironenko)

  2:00 pm

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

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

  2:00 pm

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  TBA

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  1002 Grainger Auditorium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 15, 2026

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  SE290 - Conrad Tucker

  11:00 am

  1310 DCL

  • Lecture

Friday, October 16, 2026

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  Jason MacLean, University of Chicago

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 22, 2026

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  SE290 - Jason Lee

  11:00 am

  1310 DCL

  • Lecture

Friday, October 23, 2026

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  Rhonda Dzakpasu, Georgetown

  4:15 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

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

  2:00 pm

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 29, 2026

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  SE290 - Michael Manfredo

  11:00 am

  1310 DCL

  • Lecture
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  TBA

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  1002 Grainger Auditorium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

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  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sujit Datta, California Institute of Technology (Host: Prof. Ying Diao)

  2:00 pm

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 5, 2026

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  SE290 - Phil Ryan

  11:00 am

  1310 DCL

  • Lecture

Thursday, November 12, 2026

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  SE290 - Jeff Lee

  11:00 am

  1310 DCL

  • Lecture

Tuesday, November 17, 2026

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  CHBE 565-Thomas J. Hanratty Lecture, Prof. Timothy P. Lodge, University of Minnesota (Host: Prof. Alexa Kuenstler)

  2:00 pm

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 19, 2026

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  SE290 - Lindsay Winn

  11:00 am

  1310 DCL

  • Lecture
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  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Amanda Marciel, Rice University (Host: Prof. Simon Rogers)

  2:00 pm

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 3, 2026

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  SE290 - Gayle Landuyt

  11:00 am

  1310 DCL

  • Lecture