Engineering Seminars Test Calendar 2.10

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Gather in the Garden
Recurring

10:00 - 10:30 am

Beckman Institute Center Atrium

Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Gather in the Garden will take place every Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
- Social/Informal Event
Chemical Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar, Dr. Steven D. Knutson, Princeton University, "Chemical Tools for Biological Discovery: From Profiling RNA Modifications to Spatial Mapping of Cancer Interactomes"

4:00 pm

Roger Adams Lab, 600 S Mathews Ave., Room 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Analytical Chem Faculty Candidate, Dr. Ashley Arcidiacono, University of Chicago, "Spin Valley Control of MoS2 via Surface Functionalization"

11:15 am
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Department Head Introduction

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Yoga at Beckman
Recurring

12:00 pm

Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
- Health/Fitness

Thursday, January 22, 2026

Friday, January 23, 2026

Inorganic Chem Faculty Candidate, Dr. Heechan Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Molecular Design Across the Periodic Table: From Organic Fluorophores to Main-Group Magnetic Materials"

11:15 am

Noyes Lab 217
- Seminar/Symposium
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Brenda Bass (University of Utah) - "Discriminating self and nonself dsRNA during antiviral defense"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Monday, January 26, 2026

AE Seminar Speaker James Scoggins

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

CIF 2018
- Seminar/Symposium
AE 590 Seminar Speaker Ricardo Vinuesa: Improving turbulence control through explainable deep learning

4:00 - 5:00 pm

CIF 2035
- Seminar/Symposium
Aldrich Lecture: Professor Ohyun Kwon, University of California, Los Angeles, "Synthesis Through C–C Bond Scission"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Gather in the Garden
Recurring

10:00 - 10:30 am

Beckman Institute Center Atrium

Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Gather in the Garden will take place every Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
- Social/Informal Event
Design of Architected Materials

4:00 pm

100 Material Science Engineering Building
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminar: New Student Presentations

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Saireet Misra / Belmont Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Yoga at Beckman
Recurring

12:00 pm

Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
- Health/Fitness
The Physics Colloquium: Wolfgang Pfaff "Spooky action at a moderate distance: Remote entanglement in superconducting quantum networks"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, January 29, 2026

AE Seminar Speaker Bruno Dias - From Meteoroids to Spacecraft: Multiphysics Modeling of Hypersonic Entry

10:00 - 11:00 am

CIF 2035
- Seminar/Symposium
Analytical Chem Faculty Candidate, Dr. Liwei Zheng, Stanford University, "Single-Molecule Peptide Sequencing via Reverse Translation of Peptides into DNA"

11:15 am

Burrill 124
- Seminar/Symposium
Farewell open house for Stacy Olson

2:30 - 4:30 pm

1227 Beckman Institute

Stacy Olson, who has been assisting Beckman's director since 2017, is leaving Beckman. Please stop by for an informal open house and light refreshments.
- Social/Informal Event
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Matthew Cabeen, Oklahoma State University -- "Careful control for costly competition: a “two-key” mechanism for pyocin regulation in P. aeruginosa"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, January 30, 2026

Dr. Matthew Du, University of Chicago, "Discovering Emergent Phenomena in Many-Body Systems: From Polaritonic Chemistry to Nonequilibrium AI"

11:15 am - 12:15 pm

217 Noyes
- Seminar/Symposium
Biochemistry Seminar: Juan Du (Northwestern) - "TBA"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Monday, February 2, 2026

Analytical Chem Faculty Candidate, Dr. Stephanie Zhang, Harvard University, "Chemical Systems at the Limits of Biological Complexity"

11:15 am

Noyes Lab 217
- Seminar/Symposium
AE 590 seminar speaker: Thomas Kurfess - Next Generation Cybersecure Platforms Enabling the Democratization of Advanced Manufacturing

4:00 - 5:00 pm

CIF 2035
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

New-to-Beckman tour

9:30 am

MRI Exhibit

Come find out more about the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology! Learn about the barrier-busting interdisciplinary research facility and community of innovation. First Tuesday of the month from 9:30-10 a.m.
- Informational
Gather in the Garden
Recurring

10:00 - 10:30 am

Beckman Institute Center Atrium

Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Gather in the Garden will take place every Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
- Social/Informal Event
Analytical Chem Faculty Candidate, Dr. Madeline Cooke, University of California Irvine, "Analysis of the atmosphere: The importance of a multi-faceted analytical approach"

11:15 am

Noyes Lab 217
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminars: Brooke Ebner/Slauch Lab and Jessica Hertig/Imlay Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Faculty Search Candidate

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Yoga at Beckman
Recurring

12:00 pm

Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
- Health/Fitness
Jingyang Zhang, Final Defense, UIUC, "Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Sannamycins and the Development of TMC-95A Derivatives"

2:00 pm
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Lukas Muechler, Penn State, "Strong Correlations and Topological Transitions in Chemical Reactions"

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium: Tova Holmes "Muon Colliders: the Next Generation of Particle Accelerators"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium
Yiran Zheng (Chen Lab) - "TBA"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
Seung Jun Lee (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 5, 2026

Planet Formation and Evolution Through a Statistical Lens

3:45 - 4:45 pm

Astronomy Building
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Andrea Graham, Princeton University -- "Where the Wild Things Are: Naturalizing mouse models for immunology & beyond"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 6, 2026

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Monday, February 9, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Faculty Search Candidate

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Cheol Park - Multifunctional Structural Materials for Sustainable Aviation and Space Exploration in Extreme Aerospace Environments

4:00 - 5:00 pm

CIF 2035
- Seminar/Symposium
Professor Chi P. Ting, Brandeis University, "Chemical and Biocatalytic Synthesis of Natural Products"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Gather in the Garden
Recurring

10:00 - 10:30 am

Beckman Institute Center Atrium

Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Gather in the Garden will take place every Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
- Social/Informal Event
The Corporate Connection Spring After Hours

3:00 - 6:00 pm

Siebel Center for Computer Science Atrium
- Other
Microbiology Student Seminar: Aniritha Ramalingam Balasubramanian/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Sierra Bedwell/Heath Lab & Whitaker Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Faculty Search Candidate

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Yoga at Beckman
Recurring

12:00 pm

Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
- Health/Fitness
The Physics Colloquium: Krishna Rajagopal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) TBD

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium
Yujia Ji (Stadtmueller) - "TBA"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
Rebecca Tang (Huang Lab) - "TBA"

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 12, 2026

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. John Schroggins, University of Texas Southwestern -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 13, 2026

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Andrew Jones (Duke University) - "TBA"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 16, 2026

Professor Junqi Li, Iowa State University, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Gather in the Garden
Recurring

10:00 - 10:30 am

Beckman Institute Center Atrium

Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Gather in the Garden will take place every Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
- Social/Informal Event
Microbiology Student Seminar: Abigail Finn/Whitaker Lab and Yishue Jiang/Sirk Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Faculty Search Candidate

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Yoga at Beckman
Recurring

12:00 pm

Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
- Health/Fitness
Qianjin Jiang (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium: Subir Sachdev "Detecting a quantum spin liquid in the cuprate superconductors"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 19, 2026

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Wenlin Zhang, Dartmouth College (host: Charles Sing) "Effects of Conformational and Orientational Ordering in Polymer Crystal Nucleation"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Cookie Collab

3:00 pm

Atrium

Join other members of the Beckman community for coffee and cookies in the Beckman Atrium. The Cookie Collab is scheduled for 3 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month.
- Social/Informal Event
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Maria Hadjifrangiskou, Vanderbilt University -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 20, 2026

Condensed Matter Seminar - James McIver, Columbia University

1:00 pm

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Monday, February 23, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Diptika Raut / Li Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Katie Whalen / Freeman Lab

12:30 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Marvel & Voorhees Postdoc Symposium: Dr. Jenny Van Natta: "Title TBD"; Dr. Shaofeng Huang: "Title TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Gather in the Garden
Recurring

10:00 - 10:30 am

Beckman Institute Center Atrium

Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Gather in the Garden will take place every Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
- Social/Informal Event
Microbiology Student Seminar: Courtney Hill/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Suhail Chhakara/Kuzminov Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Oraya Zinder / S Prasanth Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Yoga at Beckman
Recurring

12:00 pm

Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
- Health/Fitness
Jessica Derham - (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium: Mark Saffman (University of Wisconsin) TBD

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium
Wenkan Liu (Wu Lab) - "TBA"

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 26, 2026

Microbiology Seminar: "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 27, 2026

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Yang Hai (University of California Santa Barbara) - "Natral product discovery, biosynthesis, and biocatalysis."

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Condensed Matter Seminar - Ankit Disa, Cornell University

1:00 pm

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

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