Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Friday, April 4, 2025

• • All Day
  • U of I campus

  Engineering Open House

  • Exhibition
• • 12:00 - 2:00 pm
  • ECEB 5070

  Final Exam: Robert Kaufman

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

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Discovery and Defects in Optical and Chiral Quantum Materials"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 - 5:00 pm
  • TBD

  Final Exam: Shuo Liu

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 pm
  • Newmark 2218

  PhD Final Defense – Omobolaji Lawal

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • ESB Lab 3110

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Shivaji Sondhi (Oxford), "Towards a theory of quantum games"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:30 - 5:45 pm
  • 217 Noyes Laboratory and 170 Noyes Laboratory (505 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801)

  CHBE Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Reception

  • Meeting

Saturday, April 5, 2025

• • All Day
  • U of I campus

  Engineering Open House

  • Exhibition

Monday, April 7, 2025

• • 9:00 am
  • 117 RAL

  FINAL DEFENSE, Dejuante Walker, "Modeling Transport and Dynamics in Redox Active Polymer Solutions for Flow Battery Applications"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Jiayuan Mao, "Learning, Reasoning, and Planning with Neuro-Symbolic Concepts"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • Hydro-Systems Laboratory, Room CEE 3019

  PhD Final Defense – Zahra Heydari

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • Siebel 3401

  Theory Seminar: Billy Jin, "Advice-Augmented Algorithms for Online Matching and Resource Allocation"

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

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Eun Ah Kim, Cornell University

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Xin Bing, "Learning Large Softmax Mixtures with Warm Start EM"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker Jason Patrick: Self-healing and Self-sensing in Structural Composites

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 1310 Newmark

  Assessment & Repair of Fire Damage | Ray Drexler | Structural Engineering Seminar Series

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

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - no colloquium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • CSL 141

  Prelim Exam: Mahmoud Khalil

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

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

  IQUIST Seminar: "On the Extended Church-Turing Thesis, Quantum Mechanics, and Beyond, Bill Fefferman, University of Chicago

  Speaker: Bill Fefferman, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • ECEB 5070

  Prelim Exam: Temitope Amuda

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

  FGI Webinar: Geosynthetic Covers to Reduce Leachate Generation and Costs

  This webinar will describe the use of cover systems over wastes and leachate lagoons to reduce leachate generation and costs. In particular, if rain/clean water falls on wastes or a leachate lagoon, it becomes contaminated and must be treated. Covering wastes or a lagoon prevents fresh water from becoming leachate thus dramatically reducing the cost and amount of water tha

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

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. James Moon, University of Michigan, "Engineering Strategies to Modulate the Immune System" (host: Joon Kong)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 pm
  • 217 Noyes Lab

  FINAL DEFENSE, Victoria Kriuchkovskaia, "HYDROGEL PLATFORM TO INVESTIGATE PROGRESSION OF DRUG-RESISTANT GLIOBLASTOMA"

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

  Laboratory X-ray measurements in solid mechanics: any new insights?

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 2035 Campus Instructional Facility

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Suneet Singh

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

  Soft Materials Seminar - MRS, no seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • MNTL 1000

  Final Exam: Zhuoran Han

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Kazuki Irie, "Rethinking Memory & Learning, from Artificial to Natural Intelligence and Back"

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

  Final Exam: Hanchen Ye

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:30 - 3:30 pm
  • 4269 Beckman Institute

  Prelim Exam: Mick Gardner

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 pm
  • 1027 Lincoln Hall

  FINAL DEFENSE, Dongyu Fan, "3D Tracking of Solute Dynamics in Heterogeneous Polymer Networks"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 pm
  • CEEB 3017

  PhD Final Defense – Jenni Nugent

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

  Distinguished Lecture: James Mickens, "Allow Me To Transfer Part Of My Genius To You While Still Keeping Some Of It For Myself So That I Can Defeat You If Necessary"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Andreas Hoecker (CERN), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

• • 8:00 am
  • Newmark Quade Conference Room

  PhD Final Defense – Jesus Osorio

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 9:00 am
  • CEEB 3019

  PhD Final Defense – Mahmoud A. Mahrous

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am
  • 319 Gregory Hall

  FINAL DEFENSE, Tianhao Xu, "Harnessing AI/ML for Advancing Synthetic Biology"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • ECEB 5070

  Final Exam: Charles Ross

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Edward Hightower

  • Lecture
• • 1:30 - 3:30 pm
  • ECEB & Zoom

  Final Exam: Haotian Chen

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 2:00 - 5:30 pm   Reception Following
  • Civil and Environmental Engineering Building, Room 1017

  Keeping Urbana-Champaign Resilient Together: A Dialogue Between Community Leaders, Civil & Environmental Engineers, and Scientists

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

  Kent Seminar: Bo Zou, University of Illinois Chicago

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

  Hard Materials Seminar - Spring MRS, no colloquium

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

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 11, 2025

• 

  • All Day
  • Civil and Environmental Engineering Building and Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory

  30th Environmental Engineering & Science Annual Symposium

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  FINAL DEFENSE, Nayeong Kim, "INTEGRATION OF REDOX-ELECTROSORPTION AND REDOX-ELECTRODIALYSIS FOR WATER REMEDIATION, WASTE VALORIZATION, AND ORGANIC SPECIES SEPARATIONS""

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

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

  ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Manxi Wu

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • CSL B02

  Final Exam: Kayvon Mazooji

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 464 Loomis

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Qianshu Lu (IAS) "The Quality/Cosmology Tension for a Post-Inflation QCD Axion"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Physics Careers Seminar: ""

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Nonlinear Coupled Magnonics"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • 117 RAL

  FINAL DEFENSE, Devinda Wijewardena, "INSIGHTS INTO BACK-STEPS AND CARGO DOMAIN ROTATIONS OF KINESIN MOTILITY WITH MINFLUX"

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

  MiV Seminar: Jakob Arend - "Full-stack support for high-performance neural experimentation"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, April 12, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Room 1013, ECE Building, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61820

  Saturday Engineering for Everyone: Quantum Steampunk - The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow, Nicole Yunger Halper, University of Maryland

  Speaker: Nicole Yunger Halpern, University of Maryland

  • Lecture

Monday, April 14, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Trithep Devakul, Stanford University

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • Zoom

  PhD Final Defense – Junren Wang

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Rex (Zhitao) Ying, "A Riemannian Geometry Perspective on Foundation Models"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center

  Rex Ying "A Riemannian Geometry Perspective on Foundation Models"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Warren Dixon - Assured Autonomy for Uncertain and Data Intermittent Systems

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

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Entrepreneurship at Illinois: Cultivating a Pillar of Competitive Advantage"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

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

  IQUIST Seminar: Babek Saradjeh, Professor of Physics, Indiana University

  Speaker: Babek Saradjeh, Professor of Physics, Indiana University

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

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sijin Li, Cornell University, "An Integrated Synthetic Biology Pipeline to Understand and Harness Plant Specialized Metabolism" (host: Huimin Zhao)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CSL 141

  Prelim Exam: Seo Taek Kong

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

  Designing Redox-Flow Batteries for Renewable Energy Storage and CO2 Capture

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 2035 Campus Instructional Facility

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Dr. Jhansi Kandasamy

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

  Soft Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Beckman Institute 4369

  Prelim Exam: Wen Jin

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Ariane Dekker (University of Chicago) "Dark matter insights from the smallest galaxies"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Beckman Institute 5369

  Prelim Exam: Ruiyang Zhao

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Halil Kilicoglu, "Enhancing Rigor and Integrity of Biomedical Research using Natural Language Processing"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Marin Soljacic (MIT), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 17, 2025

• • 8:00 am - 4:15 pm
  • I Hotel and Conference Center

  2025 Illinois Structural Engineering Conference

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 9:00 - 11:00 am
  • John Deere Pavilion, Mechanical Engineering Lab

  Final Exam: Amartya Purushottam

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Physics Careers Seminar: "Anderson Group Careers in Physics Panel"

  • Lecture
• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Kevin Quaid

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • LLP 464

  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Vladimir Narovlansky, Princeton

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

  Kent Seminar: Mani Golparvar-Fard, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • 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 - "Spectroscopic investigation of electrocatalytic mechanisms across length scales: Probing surface kinetics and diffusion"

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

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 18, 2025

• • 10:00 - 10:50 am
  • 2311 NCEL - Yeh Center

  Human-Driven Evolution in Wastewater Treatment Bioreactors

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

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

  ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Zhaosong Lu

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 464 Loomis

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Heliudsen Bernardo (Brown)

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

  MiV Seminar: Xiaotian Zhang - topic TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 21, 2025

• • All Day
  • HMNTL Conference room 1000

  UAAT/UIUC - semiconductors + quantum international exchange

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Gil Rafael, California Institute of Technology

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Xinwei Shen

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

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: John Junkins - What does Meryl Streep and Heartbreak Hotel have to do with Computational Methods in Nonlinear Mechanics and Control?

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

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Understanding the Impact of Grain Boundary Inclination on Grain Growth using Modeling and Simulation and Experiments"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 301 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL

  Kent Seminar Distinguished Lecture: Yinhai Wang, University of Washington

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 6:00 pm
  • ECEB 5086

  Prelim Exam: Derek Chaw

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

• • All Day
  • HMNTL Conference room 1000

  UAAT/UIUC - semiconductors + quantum international exchange

  • Ceremony/Service
• 

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

  IQUIST Seminar: "Engineering (Useful) Trapped-Ion Quantum Technologies", Sara Mouradian, University of Washington

  Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washington

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion

  Title: The X-59: A High-Speed Journey from Finite Element Models to Aeroservoelasticity

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 2035 Campus Instructional Facility

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Michael Tonks

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

  Soft Materials Seminar - "Cross-shaped patch formation on gold stellated octahedron templates with structural change"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

• • 8:30 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Avery Tishue (UIUC)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:05 pm
  • 2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion

  Data-driven, Physics-based Modeling of Strongly Nonlinear Mechanical Structures

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

  Distinguished Lecture: Jason Cong, "Efficient LLMs: From Model Innovation to Customized Acceleration"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Ben Hooberman (UIUC), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 24, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • HMNTL Conference room 1000

  Professor Zlatan Aksamija

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Alan Landmann

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • LLP 464

  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Chis Akers, University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 3:30 - 5:30 pm
  • ECEB 5070

  Prelim Exam: Erkan Bayram

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

  Hard Materials Seminar - "On-Demand Control of Single-Molecule Chemistry through Vibrational Characterization and Manipulation"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 25, 2025

• • 9:30 - 11:30 am
  • CSL 301

  Prelim Exam: Neeloy Chakraborty

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

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

  ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Christian Kroer

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 464 Loomis

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Ben Hooberman (UIUC)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Physics Careers Seminar: ""

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Nandini Trivedi, The Ohio State University

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

  Prelim Exam: Brendan Wolan

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 28, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Special Condensed Matter Seminar - Zhanybek Alpichshev, IST Austria

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Umang Mathur

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

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker Mykel Kochenderfer: Automated Decision Making for Safety Critical Applications

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 1310 Newmark

  Current Trends in Performance Based Wind and Seismic Design for Tall Buildings | Jeff Dragovich | Structural Engineering Seminar Series

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

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "From large to small: Nanoscale Processes in Energy Storage Systems"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

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

  IQUIST Seminar: Alexandre Bourassa, Google Quantum AI

  Speaker: Alexandre Bourassa, Senior Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI

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

  Soft Materials Seminar - DEI

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

• • 8:30 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Lizhong Zhang (Flatiron Institute)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Fahad Mahmood (UIUC), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 1, 2025

• • 9:00 - 11:00 am
  • ECEB TBA

  Prelim Exam: Zhongmin Zhu

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • ECEB 5086

  Prelim Exam: Sangrui Luo

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Aakrit Vaish

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

  Kent Seminar: John Hourdos, Federal Highway Administration

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

  Hard Materials Seminar - no seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 6:00 pm
  • HMNTL 2003

  Prelim Exam: He Lin Zhao

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

  TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 2, 2025

• 

  • 8:30 am - 6:00 pm
  • Illini Union- Room 314 A & B

  2nd Annual ISE Student Conference

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 12:00 pm
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Physics Careers Seminar: ""

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Despina Louca, University of Virginia

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

  MiV Seminar: Ki Yun Lee and Saeduur Rahman - topic TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 5, 2025

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Preslav Nakov

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

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - Racheff student awardees

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

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

  IQUIST Seminar: Srinivasan Arunachalam, IBM

  Speaker: Srinivasan Arunachalam, Senior Research Scientist, IBM

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

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Emily Davidson, Princeton University, (host: Ying Diao)

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

  Soft Materials Seminar -

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

  Soft Materials Seminar - "Improving Erosion Resistance of Polydicyclopentadiene for Low Earth Orbit Applications"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Ilan Shomorony, "An Information Theory for Out-of-Order Information: Applications in DNA Data Storage and Genomics"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Geraldine Cochran (Ohio State University), "Leveraging Familial Capital to Improve Graduate Students Experiences"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 9, 2025

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

  MiV Seminar: Shriya Srinivasan, Harvard University - "Unlocking the Gut's Brain with Ingestible Bioelectronics"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 12, 2025

• • 10:00 am
  • 161 Noyes Lab

  FINAL DEFENSE, Anaira Roman Santiago, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • MNTL 2003

  Prelim Exam: Erin Raftery

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 16, 2025

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

  MiV Seminar: Hyegi Min

  • Seminar/Symposium

Sunday, May 18, 2025

• • 9:30 - 11:00 am
  • Krannert in Tryon Festival Theatre

  ChBE 2025 Spring Convocation Ceremony

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Illini Union - room ABC

  ChBE 2025 Spring Convocation Reception

  • Reception/Open House

Thursday, June 5, 2025

• • 1:30 pm
  • 307 Gregory Hall

  FINAL DEFENSE, James Griebler, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, June 12, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • 307 Gregory Hall

  FINAL DEFENSE, Rachel Gaines "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, July 14, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Thursday, July 17, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Friday, July 18, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Saturday, July 19, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Sunday, July 20, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Monday, July 21, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop
• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  16th ANCRiSST Workshop and 4th ZHITU Symposium

  • Conference/Workshop

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop
• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  16th ANCRiSST Workshop and 4th ZHITU Symposium

  • Conference/Workshop

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Thursday, July 24, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Friday, July 25, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Saturday, July 26, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Sunday, July 27, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Monday, July 28, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Thursday, July 31, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop

Friday, August 1, 2025

• • All Day
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  14th Asia-Pacific-Europe Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS2025)

  • Conference/Workshop