Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Monday, March 24, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Ben Wieder, "Topological Superconductor Hierarchies from Superconducting Space Groups and Charge-Resolved Topology"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Makoto Yamada, "Approximating the 1-Wasserstein Distance: Applications in Self-Supervised Learning and Beyond"
- 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
- 4:00 pm
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Auditorium
Soo Distinguished Lecture: Evaporation Peculiarities: Photomolecular Effect and Evaporative Refrigeration Effect
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

- 8:00 - 10:00 am
- HMNTL 1000
Final Exam: Amr Ghoname
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Towards properties-on-demand in quantum materials", Richard Averitt, University of California, San Diego

Speaker: Richard Averitt, Professor, University of California, San Diego
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- HMNTL Conference room 1000
Student Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- CEEB 3017
PhD Final Defense — Yifei Zong
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Wei Ku, "Universal low-temperature fluctuation of unconventional superconductors revealed"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Meshless Continuum Modeling of Dry and Wet Granular Media
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 2035 Campus Instructional Facility
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Arif Masud

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 - TMS, no seminar
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- ECEB 5070
Prelim Exam: Stephen Messing
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Biwei Dai (Princeton, IAS) “Deep Generative Models for Bayesian Inference in Astrophysics”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- NCSA auditorium and online
The Utpal Banerjee Distinguished Lecture in High Performance Computing: Charles Leiserson, "Setting a Course for Post-Moore Software Performance"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: "Open Questions on the Dynamics of Black Holes"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 27, 2025

- 9:00 - 11:00 am
- ECEB 5070
Final Exam: Juhitha Konduru
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 1310 DCL
SE 290 - Gene Kiesel
- Lecture
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
Kent Seminar: Gabor Orosz, University of Michigan
- 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 - "Investigating the Effects of Local Environment on Nitrogen Vacancies in High Entropy Metal Nitrides"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium
High Performance Integrated Photonics based on Thin Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN)
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 28, 2025

- 9:00 - 11:00 am
- ECEB 5070
Final Exam: Sasha Yamada
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 - 10:50 am
- 2311 NCEL - Yeh Center
Enhancing Struvite Recovery Systems through Top-Down Machine Learning Based Prediction Models

Phosphorus (P) recovery through struvite crystallization in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is essential for sustainable nutrient management. However, facilities like the Nine Springs Wastewater Treatment Plant (NS WWTP) face inefficiencies in P removal, excessive chemical usage, and inconsistent nutrient recovery, leading to higher costs and operational challenges.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- CSL 114
Final Exam: Vishal Rana
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 - 10:50 am
- 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Luze Xu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Kitaev spin model, disguised Ising chain, and beyond"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- HMNTL 1000
Final Exam: Yu-Chieh Chiu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
MiV Seminar: Frithjof Gressman and Ivan Raikov "Efficient multi-objective optimization of neural dynamical systems through joint learning of objectives, constraints and sensitivities"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 31, 2025

- 8:00 am
- CEEB 1017
PhD Final Defense – Adam Sibal
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 117 RAL
FINAL DEFENSE, Jeff Xu, , "Workflows and automated platforms for nanocrystal synthesis, purification, and characterization"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - "Ab-Initio Downfolding for Strongly Correlated Systems: Benchmarks and Applications"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- Newmark 3350
PhD Final Defense – Yun-Chi Yu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Henry Sodano - Precipitation Printing Towards Diverse Materials, Mechanical Tailoring and Functional Devices
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "TOPOLOGICAL STATES IN TWISTED BILAYER TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 1310 Newmark
Rapid damage assessment in structures using cepstral features | Raimondo Betti | Structural Engineering Seminar Series
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:00 8:00 p.m.
- Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center located at 601 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.
CHBE 121 Poster Session

Please join students and faculty at the annual ChBE 121 Poster Session. This event will take place from 6-8 p.m. at the Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. Students in small teams review and prepare a poster describing an Industrial Safety Incident. The posters include details such as an event timeline and immediate and long-term impacts.
- Informational

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Probing Topology and Correlation by Milli-Kelvin Microwave Microscopy", Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin

Speaker: Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 2035 Campus Instructional Facility
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Dr. Andrew Shone

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
- 4:00 pm
- 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
The Brain in Motion: Measurements of Brain Mechanical Behavior in Vivo by MR Imaging
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Marc Favata (Montclair State University)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online
Distinguished Lecture: Masashi Sugiyama, "Towards Reliable Machine Learning from Imperfect Training Data"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 0216
Mina Lee "Writing with AI: Capturing Its Influence, Designing Its Future"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 3, 2025

- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- ECEB 5070
Prelim Exam: Priyash Barya
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 1310 DCL
SE 290 - Jim Haran
- Lecture
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
Kent Seminar: Alexandre Alahi, EPFL Switzerland
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium
Intercellular Communication: Can It Be Mediated by Electromagnetics?
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2025

- All Day
- Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 AND Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801
CHBE/OXE UG Research Symposium and Scholarship Awards Ceremony
- Meeting
- 9:00 - 11:00 am
- HMNTL 3005
Final Exam: Hanwool Lee
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:30 am
- Newmark Quade Conference Room
PhD Final Defense – Hossein Kabir
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 2:00 pm
- ECEB 5070
Final Exam: Robert Kaufman
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - Daniel Shoemaker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- Newmark 2218
PhD Final Defense – Omobolaji Lawal
- Seminar/Symposium

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
- 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

- 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
- 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
- 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
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online
Distinguished Lecture: James Mickens
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Andreas Hoecker (CERN), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

- 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 - 10:50 am
- 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Manxi Wu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 464 Loomis
High Energy Physics Seminar - Qianshu Lu (IAS)
- 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

Monday, April 14, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Trithep Devakul, Stanford University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Rex (Zhitao) Ying
- 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
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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

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
- 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
- 1611 Titan Drive Rantoul, IL 61866
Kent Seminar Distinguished Lecture: Yinhai Wang, University of Washington
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

- 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

- 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
- 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
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 25, 2025

- 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

Monday, April 28, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Special Condensed Matter Seminar - Zhanybek Alpichshev, IST Austria
- 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

- 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

- 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

Monday, May 5, 2025

- 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

- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Geraldine Cochran (Ohio State University), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 12, 2025

- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- MNTL 2003
Prelim Exam: Erin Raftery
- 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 Spring 2025 Convocation Reception
- Reception/Open House