Engineering Seminars Test Calendar 2.10

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Lab Renovation Celebration Breakfast

9:00 - 11:00 am

Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

Join us to celebrate several renovations and upgrades at the Beckman Institute. Remarks will begin at 9:20 a.m. in the Beckman garden, weather permitting.
- Festival/Celebration
Yoga at Beckman

12:00 pm

Beckman Institute Room 1005

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and this date will be held in Beckman room 1005. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
- Health/Fitness

Thursday, June 4, 2026

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

Thesis Defense: "Using Tracer of Large-Scale Structure to Constrain Nonlinear Clustering and Galaxy Astrophysics"

12:00 pm

236 Loomis
- Lecture
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

The Bill Gropp Workshop
Recurring

9:00 am

Siebel 2405

Join us to celebrate the distinguished career of Professor Bill Gropp in this two-day workshop. Registration includes talks, panels, an opening reception and a banquet.
- Conference/Workshop
Thesis Defense: "Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Strain-Engineered and Strongly Correlated Two-Dimensional Materials"

11:00 am

276 Loomis
- Lecture
The Utpal Banerjee Distinguished Lecture in High Performance Computing: William "Bill" Gropp: An HPC Journey

3:00 pm

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or Zoom
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

The Bill Gropp Workshop
Recurring

9:00 am

Siebel 2405

Join us to celebrate the distinguished career of Professor Bill Gropp in this two-day workshop. Registration includes talks, panels, an opening reception and a banquet.
- Conference/Workshop
Gather in the Garden

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

Wednesday, June 10, 2026

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

Friday, June 12, 2026

Final Defense Ching Hsiu Chung, "Redox-Mediated Electrochemical Recovery of Platinum Group Metals and Homogeneous Catalysts"

10:00 am 03/06/2026

1024 Chem Annex
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Defense Zhenyang Jia "Mechanistic Studies of Plasmonic-Polymeric Hybrid Nanostructures by Single-Particle Imaging""

1:00 pm 03/06/2026

1024 Chem Annex
- Seminar/Symposium
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

1:00 - 2:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Monday, June 15, 2026

Thesis Defense

10:00 am

236 Loomis
- Lecture
Thesis Defense: "Synthetic Dirac Mass: Nonlinearity, Orbitals, and Fractional Charge"

10:00 am

2043 LuMEB
- Lecture
Thesis Defense: "Physical Drivers of Fire Weather Conditions in the Southeastern U.S. for Prescribed Burning"

12:00 pm 04/10/2026

2049 Natural History Building
- Lecture

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Thesis Defense: "Equation of State and Initial-State Effects of Strongly Interacting Matter from Neutron Stars to Heavy-Ion Collisions"

1:00 pm

464 Loomis
- Lecture

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Thesis Defense

10:00 am

236 Loomis
- Lecture
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
Collage With Us

2:00 - 4:00 pm

Beckman Institute Center Atrium
- Social/Informal Event

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Thesis Defense

9:30 am

236 Loomis
- Lecture

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Thesis Defense

9:00 am

236 Loomis
- Lecture
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

Tuesday, July 7, 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

Thursday, July 9, 2026

Thesis Defense

10:00 am

236 Loomis
- Lecture

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Thesis Defense

12:00 pm

276 Loomis
- Lecture

Thursday, July 23, 2026

Thesis Defense

10:00 am

464 Loomis
- Lecture

Tuesday, August 4, 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

Thursday, August 6, 2026

Student Research Celebration

3:00 - 5:00 pm

Atrium of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

Join Beckman to celebrate its 2025 graduate fellows, as well as 2026 recipients of the Beckman Institute Undergraduate Fellowship, Thomas and Margaret Huang Award for Graduate Research and Erik Haferkamp Memorial Award for Undergraduate Research.
- Festival/Celebration

Friday, August 7, 2026

Thesis Defense

2:00 pm

276 Loomis
- Lecture

Thursday, August 20, 2026

Thesis Defense

12:30 pm

236 Loomis
- Lecture

Tuesday, September 1, 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

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Prof. Nick Jackson, UIUC, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium
Jessica Derham - (Kalsotra Lab) - "Dynamic Expression of a Splicing Factor Promotes Cell Migration and Proliferation Following Drug-Induced, Acute Liver Injury".

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
Abigail Spaulding (Shapiro Lab) - "Chemotherapy-induced cell stress facilitates NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity of breast cancer cells”

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 3, 2026

Professor Mei Shen, UIUC, TBD

3:30 pm

1024 Chem Annex
- Seminar/Symposium
Tenure Talk: Professor Mei Shen, "TBA"

3:30 pm

1024 Chem Annex
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 4, 2026

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Juan Du (Northwestern University) - "TBA"

12:00 pm
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 11, 2026

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Cheng-Ming Chiang (UT Southwestern Medical Center) - "TBA"

12:00 pm

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

Monday, September 14, 2026

C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Melanie Sanford, University of Michigan, "Title TBA"

4:00 pm

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

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Melanie Sanford, University of Michigan, "Title TBA"

4:00 pm

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

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Prof. Dayne Swearer, Northwestern University, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 18, 2026

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Chang Cui (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - "TBA"

12:00 pm

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

Monday, September 21, 2026

R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor Robert J. Phipps, University of Cambridge, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Free professional portraits at Beckman

8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Fifth floor tower room at the Beckman Institute

Beckman community members are invited to stop by the fifth floor tower room to have a professional portrait taken. First come, first served, with no need to register in advance.
- Other
R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor Robert J. Phipps, University of Cambridge, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium