Engineering Seminars Test Calendar 2.10

Thursday, March 5, 2026

AE seminar Speaker Anabel de Val: Bayesian Learning of Thermochemical Models for Hypersonic Flows

10:00 - 11:00 am

CIF 2035
- Seminar/Symposium
Visit with Therapy Dog K9 ROSIE

10:30 - 11:15 am

Beckman Institute Center Atrium
- Social/Informal Event
Emily Nash CHEM 575 Seminar: "The Search for Broad-spectrum Antivenom Therapeutics to Treat Snake Bites"

12:00 pm

217 Noyes Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Julian Bowes CHEM 575 Seminar: "Leveraging Transition Metal Catalysis in the Body"

12:00 pm
- Seminar/Symposium
CCIL CRTEC Featured Speaker

1:00 pm

Beckman Room 1005

Presentation by Paul Weavers from Vision
- Seminar/Symposium
IQUIST Special Seminar: Hong-Ye Hu, Harvard Quantum Initiative (HQI) Fellow, Harvard University

1:00 - 2:00 pm

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

Speaker: Hong-Ye Hu, Harvard Quantum Initiative (HQI) Fellow, Harvard University
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Dr. Mike Reynolds, Shell (Host: Prof. Paul Kenis), "Catalysis and Its Role in Building a Hydrogen Economy"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Defense: Akshita Gopal (Wu Lab) - "Accelerating Vaccine Design Through Antibody Discovery and High-Throughput Immunofocused Antigen Engineering"

3:00 pm

274 MSB
- Seminar/Symposium
Amgen Lecture: Dr. Joshua Gladfelder, Amgen, "Scaling Pyrophoric Chemistry: Safety Characterization and Mechanistic Insights from the Use of Trimethylaluminum in Tavneos Production"

4:00 - 4:30 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event
Microbiology Seminar: Rasika Harshey, University of Texas: "Nucleolus-like Organization of ribosomal RNA loci in E. coli"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Amgen Lecture: Professor Virginia W. Cornish, Columbia University, "Expanding the Synthetic Capabilities of Yeast"

4:30 - 5:30 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Tik Tok Tech Talk

6:30 pm

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
- Informational

Friday, March 6, 2026

Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Andrew Oberst (University of Washington) - "Dying to Get Noticed: Immune Responses to Apoptotic and Necroptotic Cells

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Defense of Jerry Rong, "THIN FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANE WITH BOTTLEBRUSH POLYMERS AS CHANNELS FOR CHEMICAL TRANSPORT"

1:00 pm

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, March 9, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Ran Yang / Brieher Lab

12:00 pm

Charles G. Miller Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Nayana Shah (Washington University in St. Louis), "Reimagining two-channel Kondo physics: fermions to bosons and back in a consistent way"

12:00 - 1:00 pm

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Morteza Lahijanian - Scalable Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Complex Goals

4:00 - 5:00 pm

CIF 2035
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Ying Li, Hong Kong University, "Profiling RNA Localization: Developing New Chemical Tools for Functional Exploration"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 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
IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Information on Quantum Matter," Dafei Jin, University of Notre Dame

11:00 - 11:50 am

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

Speaker: Dafei Jin, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Notre Dame
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Carl Denard, University of Florida (Host: Prof. Huimin Zhao) "Engineering and Leveraging the Yeast Secretion Pathway to Reprogram Bond-forming, Bond-cleaving Enzymes and to Model Human Diseases"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Literature Seminar, "Dynamics and Coordinating Residues Define Mononuclear Non-Heme Iron Enzyme Function", Arden Clauss

3:30 pm 12/02/2025

Chemistry Annex, Room 1024
- Ceremony/Service
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
Talbot Distinguished Lecture: Towards certification by analysis: Enabling technologies for industry ready large eddy simulation of complex turbulent flows

4:00 pm

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
"Understanding Individual Variation in Cortical Dynamics: A Computational Approach," by Matthew Singh, Dept. of Statistics, University of Illinois; Beckman Institute

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Katie Whalen / Freeman 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
Prof. Randall Goldsmith, UW Madison, "Photonic Approaches for Single-Molecule Sensing and Spectroscopy"

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium
Ashley Holahan (Shapiro Lab) - "SMIRIB-Induced Death in Uterine Endometrial Cancer Cells: Functional and Transcriptomic Analysis"

4:00 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium: Jainendra Jain (The Pennsylvania State University) “absolutely mindboggling! weirder than we ever thought.”

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium
Alex Mortenson (Tajkhorshid Lab) - “In silico characterization of the efflux susceptibility of novel Gram-negative antibiotics.”

4:30 pm

116 RAL
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Gizem Ozturk CHEM 575 Seminar: "Targeting Cancer Cell Surface Glycans"

12:00 pm

217 Noyes Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Owen Young CHEM 575 Seminar: "Unnatural Amino Acids in Antimicrobial Peptides to Combat Drug-Resistant Bacteria"

12:00 pm

217 Noyes Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Hee Jeung Oh, Penn State University (host: Prof. Alexa Kuenstler) "Molecular Scale Engineering of Polymer Membranes for Energy, Environment and Health"

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
CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event
Fuson Student Talks: Jeff Chen: "Investigating Members of a Multi-iron Enzyme Family That Catalyze Diverse Peptide Modifications"; Nick Wade: "Boronic Ester Design Enables Rapid Secondary B-Alkyl Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Anthony Vecchiarelli, University of Michigan -- "Yes! Bacteria have organelles! How are they organized?"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Thermofluids and Nanoengineering for Grand Challenges within Water, Air and Energy

4:00 pm

119 Material Science Engineering Building
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 13, 2026

Condensed Matter Seminar - Katja Nowack, 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

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

SPRING BREAK - NO SEMINAR

4:00 pm

Beckman Institute 1005
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 18, 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
Prof. Jacob Olshansky, Amherst College, "Harnessing spin polarization in photoexcited quantum dots"

2:00 - 3:00 pm

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