Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Friday, May 29, 2026

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  Prelim Exam: Anirudh Choudhary

  3:00 - 5:00 pm

  CSL 301

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

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  Final Defense Joo Hun "John", Controlling Nanocatalyst-Induced Microbubbles to Remove Biofilms via Various Mechanisms

  2:00 pm   03/06/2026

  1024 Chem Annex

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, June 4, 2026

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  Final Defense Peng Lan "Thermal Conductivity and Crystallization Behavior of Permanently and Dynamically Bonded Synthetic Polymers"

  1:00 pm   03/06/2026

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, June 5, 2026

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  In-Situ Architecturing of 3D Microstructural Composites via Additive Manufacturing

  3:00 pm

  3100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, June 8, 2026

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  The Utpal Banerjee Distinguished Lecture in High Performance Computing: William "Bill" Gropp

  3:00 pm

  2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or Zoom

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, June 11, 2026

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  Prelim Exam: Kaiyi Yang

  10:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Electrical and Computer Engineering Building Rm 5070

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  PhD Final Defense – Amit Ojha

  3:00 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, June 12, 2026

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  Final Defense Ching Hsiu Chung, TBA

  10:00 am   03/06/2026

  1024 Chem Annex

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Final Defense Zhenyang Jia "TBA"

  1:00 pm   03/06/2026

  1024 Chem Annex

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Final Exam: Sangrui Luo

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  Electrical and Computer Engineering Building Rm 5070

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

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  Final Defense - PhD - Michael Nelappana

  2:00 pm

  Beckman 3269 and zoom

  • Other

Thursday, June 25, 2026

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  Final Exam: Wen Jin

  10:00 am - 12:00 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, June 29, 2026

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  Final Exam: Yicong Dong

  9:00 - 11:00 am

  Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Lab 3005

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

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  Final Exam: Samhita Marri

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  CSL

  • 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

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

Friday, August 28, 2026

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  Orit Peleg, University of Colorado Boulder

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 17, 2026

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  SE290

  Recurring

  11:00 am

  1310 DCL

  • Lecture

Thursday, September 24, 2026

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  SE290

  Recurring

  11:00 am

  1310 DCL

  • Lecture

Thursday, October 1, 2026

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  SE290

  Recurring

  11:00 am

  1310 DCL

  • Lecture

Friday, October 2, 2026

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  Abhishek Battacharjee, Yale University

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 8, 2026

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  SE290

  Recurring

  11:00 am

  1310 DCL

  • Lecture

Thursday, October 15, 2026

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  SE290

  Recurring

  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

  Recurring

  11:00 am

  1310 DCL

  • Lecture

Friday, October 23, 2026

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  Rhonda Dzakpasu, Georgetown

  4:15 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 29, 2026

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  SE290

  Recurring

  11:00 am

  1310 DCL

  • Lecture

Thursday, November 5, 2026

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  SE290

  Recurring

  11:00 am

  1310 DCL

  • Lecture

Thursday, November 12, 2026

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  SE290

  Recurring

  11:00 am

  1310 DCL

  • Lecture

Thursday, November 19, 2026

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  SE290

  Recurring

  11:00 am

  1310 DCL

  • Lecture

Thursday, November 26, 2026

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  SE290

  Recurring

  11:00 am

  1310 DCL

  • Lecture

Thursday, December 3, 2026

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  SE290

  Recurring

  11:00 am

  1310 DCL

  • Lecture