Engineering Seminars Test Calendar 2.10

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

TBD, Dr. Spencer Walse, Research Chemist, United States Department of Agriculture

12:00 pm

W109 Turner Hall
- 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
CHEM 545 Practice Seminars

2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 pm

Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Thesis Defense: "Dynamic Weakening and Trained Memory in Avalanche Dynamics: From High-Entropy Alloys to Neurons and Spin Systems"

2:00 pm

3110 ESB
- Lecture
FINAL DEFENSE: Zhengyi Bian "From Purification, Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Carbon Dots to Synthesis Modeling and AI-assisted Spectral Data Extraction" Advisor: Stephan Link

3:30 pm

Everett Lab 3100
- Seminar/Symposium
Kade Fellow: Dipta Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "Developing a novel mouse model for studying chronic metabolic dysfunction and alcohol associated liver disease (MetALD)"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium "Gravitational Wave Detection in Space"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium
'Fola Adesanya (Kalsotra Lab) - "“Elucidating the molecular basis of cardiac mitochondria and bioenergetic defects in myotonic dystrophy type I”

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 13, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Jovan Kamcev, University of Michigan (host: Xiao Su) "Controlling the Selectivity of Charged Polymer Membranes"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, “Photocatalytic Degradation of Forever Chemicals”, Julia Koldobskiy

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, "Soft by Nature, Smart by Design: Tuning the Properties of PEDOT:PSS- based Conductive Hydrogels for Future Bioelectronics", Sonam Rani

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event
Data-driven polymeric constitutive equations: Can GENERIC help machine-learning discover?

4:00 pm

4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Justin Lessler, University of North Carolina -- "Will there be a warning for the next pandemic?"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

5:00 - 7:00 pm CST

ECEB 4072
- Conference/Workshop

Friday, November 14, 2025

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Brenda Bass (University of Utah) - "Discriminationg self and nonself dsRNA during antiviral defense"

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Defense Jiankai Ge "Kinetic Modeling Frameworks for the Chemical Recycling of Polyolefins"

12:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Human Participants Research Lunch and Learn

12:00 pm

Beckman Institute Room 5602

Connect with other researchers to discuss and share your experience with human participant research and recruitment. Register by November 3rd for a provided lunch.
- Seminar/Symposium
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Floquet and cavity electrodynamics of integrated quantum materials"

1:00 pm

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium
STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Rohit Pappu (Washington University) "Complex phase behaviors of RNA binding proteins."

2:00 pm

3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
- Seminar/Symposium
Thesis Defense: "Electric and Thermoelectric Properties of Antiferromagnetic Metals"

3:00 pm

236 Loomis
- Lecture
Literature Seminar, "Innovative Techniques in Mixed Gas Detection: Exploring Multi-Resonant and Dual Differential Strategies for Photoacoustic Spectroscopy", Maxwell Andren

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium
Turbulent hotspots in compression ramps and channel flows

4:00 pm

4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 17, 2025

Visit with Therapy Dog FERGUS

10:30 - 11:30 am

Beckman Institute East Atrium
- Social/Informal Event
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Tyler Ellison (Purdue), "Universal quantum computation with group surface codes"

12:00 - 1:00 pm

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Zengmin Cong / K. Prasanth Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Maruthi Akella - Learning and Coordination for Aerospace Autonomy

4:00 - 5:00 pm

CIF 2035
- Seminar/Symposium
C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Gregory C. Fu, California Institute of Technology, "Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions: A Radical Alternative to Sn1 and Sn2 Reactions, Part I: Nickel-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions""

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

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
IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Computing Enhanced Sensing," Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:00 - 11:50 am

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Literature Seminar, "Redox Flexibility in Bismuth Catalysis", Cayden Jasek

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Literature Seminar, "Synthetic Approaches Toward High-Entropy Metallic Nanoparticles for Catalytic Applications", Jon Haidet

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
JWST Reveals the Atmospheres of Sub-Neptune Exoplanets

3:45 - 4:45 pm

134 Astronomy Building
- Seminar/Symposium
C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Gregory C. Fu, California Institute of Technology: "Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions: A Radical Alternative to Sn1 and Sn2 Reactions, Part II: Photoinduced, Copper-Catalyzed Reactions"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Living knots and noisy flocks: physics of unruly active matter

4:00 pm

4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Student Seminar: Michael Bochert/Golding Lab and Lindsey Grady/Hatoum-Aslan

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
NO SEMINAR: 2025 SfN Annual Conference in San Diego

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute ATRIUM
- Seminar/Symposium
Visa Tech Talk

5:30 pm

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
- Informational

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Final Defense: Yanheng Chen (Chen Lab) - "The role of CagA in the pathogenicity of H. pylori infection"

10:00 am

419 RAL (Rose Room)
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Ting Wang / Washington University

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
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Eliza Asani, UIUC, "Machine Learning for Thermodynamically-Consistent Equations of State"

2:00 - 2:30 pm

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Omkar Chaudhari, UIUC, "Plasmon–Hydron Resonance Leads to Quantum Friction and Electron Cooling"

2:30 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
Dabich Fellow: Xinyi Dai (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium McMillan Award: Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effects in Rhombohedral Graphene.

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium
Emma Thames (Stadtmueller Lab) - “Exploring the antiviral functions and engineering potential of avian and mammalian Immunoglobulin A”

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 20, 2025

Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Andrea Dei (U.Chicago), "On the string theory of a single NS5-brane"

1:10 - 2:00 pm

Loomis 464
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Aleksandra Vojvodic, University of Pennsylvania (host: Alex Mironenko)

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
Materials Literature Seminar, "Autonomously Reinforced Double Network Hydrogels: Making Strides Towards Artificial Tissues", Faith Kern

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, "Probing Mobility Factors in Organic Semiconductors with Machine Learning Predictive Analysis", Justine You

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Jacob Allen, Health and Kinesiology/UIUC -- "From Fermentation to Function: Harnessing Microbial Amino Acid Metabolism in Fermented Foods to Enhance Human Immunity"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
The continuum physics of polymer solutions: chaos, instabilities, and recent progress

4:00 pm

4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

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
NO SEMINAR: UIUC Thanksgiving Break

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute ATRIUM
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

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, November 27, 2025

CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event

Monday, December 1, 2025

Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Yiming Wu (Stanford)

12:00 - 1:00 pm

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Purnam Ghosh / Belmont Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Humayra Oishi / S. Prasanth Lab

12:30 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Jason Rabinovitch - High-speed Compressible Flows and Space Exploration!

4:00 - 5:00 pm

CIF 2035
- Seminar/Symposium
Professor Brett P. Fors, Cornell University, "Development and Applications of Cationic and Radical Polymerization Processes"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

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 Thursday 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
Inorganic Literature Seminar, TBD, Adrienne Kanihan

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Literature Seminar, TBD, Katy Knecht

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Answering Cosmological Questions with Low-mass Galaxies

3:45 - 4:45 pm

134 Astronomy Building
- Seminar/Symposium
Jose Luis Llera Munoz CHEM 535 Seminar

4:00 pm

Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave, 116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
"Molecular Determinants of Prion Disease; A Guide to Therapeutic Development?" by James A. Mastrianni, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology, Director, Center for Comprehensive Care and Research on Memory Disorders, Director, Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry Program, Helen McLoraine Neuroscientist of the Brain Research Foundation, The University of Chicago

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: *ZOOM* Dr. Eneda Toska / John Hopkins University

12:00 pm

ZOOM
- 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
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Miko Miwa, UIUC, " Pushing the Limits of Liquid-State NMR with Dynamic Nuclear Polarization"

2:00 - 2:30 pm

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Matthew Too, UIUC, "Quantum Chemical Calculations on Quantum Processors"

2:30 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
Evan Hebner (Leckband) - "TBA"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium Bonnie Fleming (Fermi Lab) TBD

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium
Owen Ouyang (Wu Lab) - 'TBA"

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 4, 2025

Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Divij Gupta (UIUC)

1:00 - 2:00 pm

Loomis 464
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Mark Blenner, University of Delaware (host: Chris Rao)

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Chetan Prasad

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Emma Robinson

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Helen Nguyen, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department/UIUC -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Friday, December 5, 2025

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Monday, December 8, 2025

Visit with Therapy Dog FERGUS

10:30 - 11:30 am

Beckman Institute East Atrium
- Social/Informal Event
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Seth Musser (University of Maryland), "Minimal order, maximal insight"

12:00 - 1:00 pm

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Faizan Rashid / Sokac Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Gabriella Seyler / Belmont Lab

12:30 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Christina (Tina) K. Kim, Princeton University, "Molecular Recorders for Activity-Dependent Protein Tagging in the Brain"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

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
IQUIST Seminar: Liang Jiang, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

11:00 - 11:50 am

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Liang Jiang, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Brandon DeKosky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (host: Huimin Zhao) "Scalable Approaches to Study and Engineer Immune Receptors"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Literature Seminar, TBD, Andrew Norris

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Lynda Steen CHEM 535 Seminar

4:00 pm

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

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

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
Thesis Defense: ""

3:00 pm

236 Loomis
- Lecture
Mock Interview Seminar, Dr. Matthew Boudreau, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, "Title:TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium “Programmable optical clocks for quantum metrology”

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Dilshan Kuttikanda Vidanelage

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Trent Papenmeier

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event

Friday, December 12, 2025

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other
Fall 2025 Beckman Institute Town Hall

2:30 pm

Beckman Institute, Room 1005

Director Steve Maren will provide updates, and you'll hear from our strategic planning facilitator, Stephen Kemp. After the town hall, stay for an hour of conversation and treats at our Cookie Collab!
- Informational

Monday, December 15, 2025

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Tejus Sreelal / Li Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

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

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: *ZOOM* Dr. Bas Van Steensel / Netherlands Cancer Institute

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

Thursday, December 18, 2025

CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event

Friday, December 19, 2025

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Saturday, December 20, 2025

ChBE 2025 Winter Convocation

10:00 - 11:00 am

Lincoln Hall, 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801
- Ceremony/Service
ChBE 2025 Winter Convocation Reception

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Latzer Hall in the University of Illinois YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
- Reception/Open House

Friday, December 26, 2025

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Friday, January 2, 2026

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Friday, January 9, 2026

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Thursday, January 15, 2026

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

Friday, January 16, 2026

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Thursday, January 22, 2026

Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Jeffery W. Kelly, Scripps Research Institute, "The Scientific Origins of Drugs that Slow Neurodegeneration and the Pharmacological Future of Treating Dementias"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, January 23, 2026

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Monday, January 26, 2026

AE 590 Seminar Speaker Ricardo Vinuesa: Improving turbulence control through explainable deep learning

4:00 - 5:00 pm

CIF 2035
- Ceremony/Service
Aldrich Lecture: Professor Ohyun Kwon, University of California, Los Angeles, "Title:TBD"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: New Student Presentations

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Thursday, January 29, 2026

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

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

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 Thursday of the month from 9:30-10 a.m.
- Informational
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

Prof. Lukas Muechler, Penn State, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 5, 2026

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Andrea Graham, Princeton University -- "TBA"

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

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Monday, February 9, 2026

Professor Chi P. Ting, Brandeis University, "title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

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: Career Development / Dr. Bing Yang / Purdue University

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- 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

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

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

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

Thursday, February 19, 2026

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Wenlin Zhang, Dartmouth College (host: Charles Sing)

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

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Monday, February 23, 2026

Marvel & Voorhees Postdoc Symposium: Speakers TBD

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

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

Friday, February 27, 2026

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Tuesday, March 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 Thursday of the month from 9:30-10 a.m.
- Informational
Microbiology Student Seminar: Zachary Davis/Brooke Lab and Will Wightkin/Blanke Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Thursday, March 5, 2026

Amgen Lecture: Professor Virginia Cornish, Columbia University, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Thomas Bernhardt, Harvard University - "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Friday, March 6, 2026

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: Keegan Schoeller/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Gabriela Shipman/Brooke Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Prof. Randall Goldsmith, UW Madison, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 12, 2026

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Hee Jeung Oh, Penn State University (host: Charles Sing)

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
Fuson Student Talks: "Speakers TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Anthony Vecchiarelli, University of Michigan -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Prof. Jacob Olshansky, Amherst College, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: Rodrigo Arana Garrido/Mera Lab and Gracious Donkor/Slauch Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Thursday, March 26, 2026

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Chen Chen, Louisiana State University -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Monday, March 30, 2026

CHBE 121 Poster Session

6:00 pm 8:00 p.m.

Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Microbiology Student Seminar: Abagail Long/Mera Lab and Lance Pollitz/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

TBD, Professor Teri W. Odom, Northwestern University

2:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 2, 2026

AbbVie Lecture: Professor Robert R. Knowles, Princeton University, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Lanying Zeng, Texas A & M University -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Monday, April 6, 2026

Genentech Lecture: Professor Jim Wells, University of California, San Francisco, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 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 Thursday of the month from 9:30-10 a.m.
- Informational
Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Yumi Iwadate/Slauch Lab and Thomas Cowell/Whitaker Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Long Cai / Caltech

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Marissa Weichman, Princeton, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 9, 2026

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Alison Kell, University of New Mexico -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Friday, April 10, 2026

ChBE/OXE Undergraduate Research Symposium

12:00 - 4:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center, Room 300
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Reception

4:30 - 6:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center, Room 300
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, April 13, 2026

Organic Syntheses Lecture: Professor Michael Krische, University of Texas at Austin, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Inorganic Seminar, TBD, Professor Raúl Hernandez Sanchez, Rice University

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Caroline Oldstone-Jackson/Heath Lab and Changyi Zhang/Whitaker Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Prof. Andres Montoya Castillo, CU Boulder, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 16, 2026

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. Adam Deutschbauer, University of California - Berkeley -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Anne Carpenter / Broad Institute

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Tian Lan, U Penn, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 23, 2026

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Mauricio Pontes, Penn State University -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Friday, April 24, 2026

TBD, Professor Henry White, The University of Utah

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 27, 2026

Inorganic Seminar, 2026 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: TBD, Professor Christophe Copéret, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, TBD

5:00 pm

TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

2026 Emerging Contaminants in the Environment Conference (ECEC26)
Recurring

All Day

I Hotel and Conference Center, 1900 S. First St., Champaign IL
- Conference/Workshop
Inorganic Seminar, 2026 John C. Bailar, Jr. Speaker, TBD, Professor Christophe Copéret, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, TBD

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

2026 Emerging Contaminants in the Environment Conference (ECEC26)
Recurring

All Day

I Hotel and Conference Center, 1900 S. First St., Champaign IL
- Conference/Workshop
Prof. Tom Truskett, University of Michigan, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 30, 2026

Lilly Lecture: Professor Lutz Ackermann, University of Göttingen, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Courtney Ellison, University of Georgia -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Friday, May 1, 2026

TBD, Professor Robert Lazenby, Florida State University

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 4, 2026

3M Lecture: Professor Brent S. Sumerlin, University of Florida, "Title: TBD"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 5, 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 Thursday of the month from 9:30-10 a.m.
- Informational

Friday, May 8, 2026

GF Smith Lecture, TBD, Professor Joseph Wang, University of California San Diego

4:00 pm

RAL116
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Piper Inorganic Thesis Award, TBD

3:30 pm

1024 CHEM ANNEX
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 14, 2026

Klemperer Materials Thesis Award Seminar, TBD

3:30 pm

1024 CHEM ANNEX
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, May 15, 2026

TBD, Professor David Issadore, University of Pennsylvania

4:00 pm

RAL 116
- Seminar/Symposium

Sunday, May 17, 2026

CHBE 2026 Spring Convocation Ceremony

9:30 11:00 am

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Tryon Festival Theatre, 500 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
- Ceremony/Service
ChBE 2026 Spring Convocation Reception

11:00 1:00 p.m.

Illini Union - room ABC, 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801
- Reception/Open House

Thursday, May 21, 2026

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

Tuesday, June 2, 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 Thursday of the month from 9:30-10 a.m.
- Informational

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 Thursday of the month from 9:30-10 a.m.
- Informational

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 Thursday of the month from 9:30-10 a.m.
- Informational

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 Thursday of the month from 9:30-10 a.m.
- Informational