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Friday, September 11, 2026

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Cheng-Ming Chiang (UT Southwestern Medical Center) - "Phospho-BRD4 IDR-Targeting Compounds as Antiviral and Anticancer Agents"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 2:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  • Other

  

Monday, September 14, 2026

• C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Melanie Sanford, University of Michigan, "New Synthetic Methods for C–F Bond Formation: From Fundamental Science to Applications"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Roger Adams Lab, 600 S Mathews Ave, Room 116

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

• Gather in the Garden

  Time

  10:00 - 10:30 am

  Location

  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: "From Logical Spectroscopy to Hardware-Aware qLDPC Compilation," Jong Yeon Lee, Assistant Professor of Physics, UIUC

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Jong Yeon Lee

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Seminar Speakers: Professors Miriam Freedman, Chemistry and Jerry Harrington, Meteorology: Penn State University

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:20 pm

  Location

  2079 NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• What Remains: Postcolonial Legacies of the Anatomical and Anthropological Sciences

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  Sabrina Agarwal, PhD Department of Anthropology; University of California, Berkeley "What Remains: Postcolonial Legacies of the Anatomical and Anthropological Sciences"

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Seminar on Seminars, Professor Kenneth Suslick, University of Illinois

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Seminar on Seminars, Professor Kenneth Suslick, University of Illinois

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  1024 CHEM ANNEX

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Tracking the Grist and Flakes of Planetesimals with Dust Polarization

  Time

  3:30 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Astronomy Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Melanie Sanford, University of Michigan, "Synthesis, Reactivity, and Catalytic Relevance of High Valent Transition Metal Organometallic Complexes"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Roger Adams Lab, 600 S Mathews Ave, Room 116

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• On Jumping

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  2079 Natural History Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

• Final Defense of Genesis Rios-Adorno "Engineering Regenerative Multiphasic Biomaterials for Musculoskeletal Injury Repair""

  Time

  10:00 am

  Location

  3217 Everitt Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• BIOE Seminar Series: Postdoctoral Associate Natalia Gonzalez Medina & Graduate Student Sun Woong Hur

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Sample Preparation Techniques for Optical Microscope

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  “Sample Preparation Techniques for Optical Microscope” Dr. Kingsley Boateng Assistant Director of Bioscience Research Microscopy Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Final Exam: Michael Molter

  Time

  12:30 - 2:30 pm

  Location

  Coordinated Science Laboratory 419

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Prof. Dayne Swearer, Northwestern University, "Catalytic Chemistry Far from Equilibrium"

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Prelim Exam: Pedro Oliveira Da Silva

  Time

  3:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Electrical and Computer Engineering Building Rm 5086

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Jen-Chieh Peng (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Helicity of Relic Neutrinos and the Inverse Tritium Beta Decay"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, September 17, 2026

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Janani Sampath, University of Florida (Host: Prof. Charles Sing) "Investigating Reactive Transport Pathways in Anion Exchange Membranes to Guide Polymer Design"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Cookie Collab

  Time

  3:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  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, September 18, 2026

• Angela Thomas, Final Defense, UIUC, "Exploiting Viral proteins for Directed Evolution Studies and Therapeutics"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  Roger Adams Laboratory, 600 S. Mathews Ave, Room 419

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Angela Thomas, Final Defense, UIUC, "Exploiting Viral proteins for Directed Evolution Studies and Therapeutics"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  Roger Adams Labortatory, 600 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL, Room 419

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Hong Jin (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - "Translation beyond Initiation, Elongation and Termination"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - "Spatiotemporal Engineering of Quantum Materials Far from Equilibrium"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 2:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  • Other

  

• A Conversation on the Modern University, the Mind, and Well-Being With Venerable Pomnyun Sunim (법륜스님)

  Time

  5:00 - 7:00 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Rooms A, B, & C at 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, IL 61801

  Join us for a timely dialogue with Venerable Pomnyun Sunim on the critical challenges facing today’s universities and communities.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, September 21, 2026

• Prelim Exam: Jiachen Tu

  Time

  9:00 - 11:00 am

  Location

  Beckman Institute

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Jaewon Kim

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor Robert J. Phipps, University of Cambridge, "Harnessing Non-covalent Interactions to Address Selectivity Challenges in Transition Metal Catalysis"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

• Free professional portraits at Beckman

  Time

  8:30 am - 5:00 pm

  Location

  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

  

• Gather in the Garden

  Time

  10:00 - 10:30 am

  Location

  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

  

• Prelim Exam: Mohamed Aly

  Time

  10:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  Coordinated Science Laboratory B02

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• IQUIST Seminar: "Tackling Heterogeneity for Practical Quantum Systems," Kate Smith, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Northwestern University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Kate Smith, Nothwestern University

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Seminar Speaker: Assistant Professor, Elizabeth Maroon-University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:20 pm

  Location

  2079 NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• High Throughput Gene Delivery Technologies for Applied Microbiology and Engineered Cell Therapies

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  Cullen Buie, PhD Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Biological Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology “High Throughput Gene Delivery Technologies for Applied Microbiology and Engineered Cell Therapies”

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Parr Lecture in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Prof. Yong Wang, Washington State University (host: Prof. Chris Rao/CHBE) "From Catalytic Insights to Transformative Technologies"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Better Together: Combining the Strengths of Rubin, Euclid, and Roman for Time-domain Science and Cosmology

  Time

  3:30 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Astronomy Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Materials Seminar, "Tailoring the Shape and Surface Coating of Gold Nanostructures for Targeted Drug Delivery and Advanced Metamaterials", Professor Marie-Christine Daniel, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chemistry Annex

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Materials Seminar, TBD, Professor Marie Christine Daniel, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor Robert J. Phipps, University of Cambridge, "Harnessing Non-covalent Interactions to Address Selectivity Challenges in Radical Chemistry"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño (Wake Forest University) "Resonance-Driven Flux Modifications in Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals"

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Approaches to Live Cell Imaging with Leica Microsystems

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  “Approaches to Live Cell Imaging with Leica Microsystems” Harold Vo, Confocal Sales Specialist, Leica Microsystems Josh Andrew, Account Manager, Thomas Scientific

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• BIOE Seminar Series: Associate Professor Saurabh Gupta

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Prof. Hsing-Ta Chen, University of Notre Dame, "Navigating Various Disorders and Dynamics in Strongly Coupled Light-Matter Systems"

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Philip Phillips (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Solving the Mott Problem"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, September 24, 2026

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Wenyu Huang, Iowa State University (Host: Prof. Hong Yang)

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Chemistry at Illinois Alumni Dinner

  Registration

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  Time

  5:00 - 8:00 pm   Central Time

  Location

  Lincoln Park Zoo

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Friday, September 25, 2026

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. C. Shan Xu (Yale) - "Enhanced FIB-SEM: A High-Resolution 3D Imaging Platform for Biology"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Michele Simoncelli, Columbia University

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 2:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  • Other

  

• Kyle Abo, UIUC, Final Defense, "Chemical Synthesis Towards the Development of Novel Anticancer Compounds Derived from Natural Products and Existing Drugs"

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, September 28, 2026

• Prelim Exam: Anubhav Bose

  Time

  9:30 - 11:30 am

  Location

  Electrical and Computer Engineering Building Room 5070

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Pallab Goswami (Northwestern)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Prof. Lauren Rajakovich, University of Washington, "Microbial Chemistry in Anoxic Host Environments"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

• Gather in the Garden

  Time

  10:00 - 10:30 am

  Location

  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: Arnab Banerjee, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Arnab Banerjee

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Seminar Speaker: Assistant Professor, Troy Zaremba-Mississippi State University

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:20 pm

  Location

  2079 NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Unusual Enzyme Reactions in Natural Product Biosynthesis

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  David Gottlieb Memorial Lecture Ikuro Abe, PhD Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo Professor, Institute of Natural Medicine, University of Toyama "Unusual Enzyme Reactions in Natural Product Biosynthesis"

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Do Rocky Exoplanets Retain Their Atmospheres?

  Time

  3:30 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  NCSA Auditorium

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Inorganic Seminar, “Modeling Nitric Oxide Signaling and Copper and Lewis Acid Sites”, Professor Timothy Warren, Johns Hopkins University

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  1024 CHEM ANNEX

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Ashley Hartwig CHEM 535 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Giuseppe Ficarra (Università della Calabria)

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• BIOE Seminar Series: Founder Professor & Director James M. Rehg, PhD

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Getting reliable quantitative images with Huygens: from Deconvolution and restoration to image analysis

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  “Getting reliable quantitative images with Huygens: from Deconvolution and restoration to image analysis” Melvin Le Bihan Scientific Consultant Scientific Volume Imaging BV

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Prof. Martin Mosquera, Montana State University, "Theory of Extended Bose-Hubbard Systems and Two-Dimensional Materials"

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Geoff Greene (University of Tennessee) "The Neutron Lifetime, Why do we keep measuring it? & Why do we keep getting it “wrong”?"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Terrestrial Worlds of Other Stars

  Time

  7:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Lincoln Hall Theater

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 1, 2026

• Erin Swanson CHEM 575 Seminar: "Engineering viral antigens to modulate humoral immunodominance"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  163 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Krishna Bharadwaj CHEM 575 Seminar: "Programming Peptide Coacervates for Intracellular Delivery of Therapeutics"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  163 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sapna Sarupria, University of Minnesota (Host: Prof. Baron Peters) "Molecular Design of Excipient Formulations for Stable Biologics"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• After Hours in Chicago - Fall 2026

  Time

  5:30 - 7:30 pm

  Location

  200 South Wacker Drive, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606

  An informal career reception in Chicago for CS and ECE students and companies to connect, network, and socialize!

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Friday, October 2, 2026

• Coffee, Donuts & More for CCFD

  Time

  8:30 - 11:15 am

  Location

  Everitt Lab Near Atrium

  • Social/Informal Event

  

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Yan Zhang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - "Coming in from the Cold: A New Avenue for Exploring Post-Transcriptional Regulation"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Andre Schleife, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• First Friday Psychology-Beckman Colloquium Series

  Time

  3:00 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Auditorium

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Alumni and Graduate Awards

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Saturday, October 3, 2026

• ChBE Homecoming Tailgate

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Gies Memorial Stadium and surrounding area

  • Sporting Event

  

• Chemistry at Illinois Tailgate

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Grange Grove

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Ceren Dag, Assistant Professor of Physics, Indiana University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Ceren Dag

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Seminar Speaker: CliMAS Research Scientist, Brian Jewett

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:20 pm

  Location

  2079 NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• One Health Perspectives of Antimicrobial Resistance

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  Paul Plummer, PhD Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine; University of Tennessee “One Health Perspectives of Antimicrobial Resistance”

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Brandon C. Bukowski, Johns Hopkins University (Host: Elizabeth Bickel Rogers)

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Erika Huang CHEM 535 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Paul Duffell (Purdue University) "Binary Accretion"

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• BIOE Seminar Series: Assistant Professor Yuxiong Wang

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Prof. Yelena Simine, McGill University, TBD

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Alessandra Buonanno (Albert Einstein Institute) "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 8, 2026

• Giuliana Judge CHEM 575 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  163 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Sneha Jayaram CHEM 575 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  163 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Kelsey Hatzell, Princeton University (Host: Prof. Theresa Schoetz)

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 9, 2026

• The Life and Science of Anthony Leggett. A Conference and Memorial in honor of Tony J. Leggett

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Loomis 464 & ESB 190 (TBC)

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 2:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  • Other

  

Saturday, October 10, 2026

• The Life and Science of Anthony Leggett. A Conference and Memorial in honor of Tony J. Leggett

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Loomis 464 & ESB 190 (TBC)

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Balthazor-Senter Symposium of Frontiers in Organic Chemistry - Speakers: Prof. Connor Coley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Prof. Betsy Parkinson (Purdue University), Prof. Kevin Brown (Indiana University), Prof. Quentin Michaudel (Texas A&M), Prof. Tianning Diao (New York University).

  Time

  8:00 am - 5:30 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Sunday, October 11, 2026

• The Life and Science of Anthony Leggett. A Conference and Memorial in honor of Tony J. Leggett

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Loomis 464 & ESB 190 (TBC)

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• World of Genomics

  Time

  10:00 am - 4:00 pm

  Location

  Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, 5700 S. DuSable Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Il 60637

  Join us for the interactive, hands-on science experience that is World of Genomics, featuring multiple stations focused on specific aspects of science!

  • Festival/Celebration

  

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Hong Tang, Llewellyn West Jones Jr. Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yale University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Seminar Speaker: Distinguished Alumnus-Fanglin Yang, NOAA

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:20 pm

  Location

  2079 NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Sal Shin CHEM 535 Seminar " Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Anıl Zenginoğlu (University of Maryland)

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• BIOE Seminar Series: Jackson Family Distinguished Professor He (Helen) Huang

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Andrea Young (University of California Santa Barbara) "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 15, 2026

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Hongliang Xin, Virginia Tech (Host: Prof. Alex Mironenko) "The New Alchemy of Scientific Discovery: From Electrons to AI Agents"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Cookie Collab

  Time

  3:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  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

  

• Inorganic Seminar, 'Molecular Strategies for Assembling and Disassembling Polymer Networks and using them in Medical Devices', Professor Matthew Becker, Duke University

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  1024 CHEM ANNEX

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Materials Seminar, TBD, Professor Matthew Becker, Duke University

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 16, 2026

• Coffee, Donuts & More for CCFD

  Time

  8:30 - 11:15 am

  Location

  Everitt Lab Near Atrium

  • Social/Informal Event

  

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Sam Sternberg (Columbia University) - "RNA-guided and RNA-templated antiviral immunity"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Peter Hirschfeld, University of Florida

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 2:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  • Other

  

Monday, October 19, 2026

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Jacopo Gliozzi

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Final Defense of Destiny Gray "TBA"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  165 Noyes Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• BMS Lecture: Dr. Lucas Hernandez, BMS, "Title: TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• BMS Lecture: Professor Thomas Maimone, University of California, Berkeley, "Title: TBD"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Niklas Mueller, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Niklas Mueller

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Seminar Speaker: CliMAS Graduate Student, Wenhan Tang

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:20 pm

  Location

  2079 NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Inorganic Seminar, 'Cartography with Clusters: Mapping Surface Science Mechanisms with Atomic Precision', Professor Josh Buss, University of Michigan

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Relativistic Stellar Explosions: The Landscape Revealed by Wide-field, High-cadence Optical Surveys

  Time

  3:30 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Astronomy Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Joshua Pack CHEM 535 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

• Where Science Meets Society: How Outreach Brings the IGB Motto to Materiality

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  “Where Science Meets Society: How Outreach Brings the IGB Motto to Materiality” Dan Urban Assistant Director of Outreach Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Prof. Michael Wasielewski, Northwestern University, TBD

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Peter Abbamonte (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Title"

  Time

  4:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 22, 2026

• Hannah King CHEM 575 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  163 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Shuaiqi Yuan CHEM 575 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  163 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• 2026 Distinguished Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry, Professor Polly Arnold, University of California Berkley, TBD

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• 2026 Distinguished Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry, Professor Polly Arnold, University of California Berkley, TBD

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Step Through the Artemis 2

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  Time

  5:30 - 7:30 pm

  Location

  Campus Instructional Facility

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 23, 2026

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Nirmal Ghimire, University of Notre Dame

  Time

  8:30 am

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, October 24, 2026

• Pregame Pancake Breakfast

  Time

  10:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  Location TBD

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Monday, October 26, 2026

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Andreas Gleis (Rutgers)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Professor Nicholas L. Truex, University of South Carolina, "Title: TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Hannah Manetsch, Senior AMO Physicist, Oratomic

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Hannah Manetsch

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Seminar Speaker-Turco Lecturer: Professor Maria Molina, University of Maryland

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:20 pm

  Location

  2079 NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ting Xu, University of California Berkeley, (Host: Prof. Deborah Leckband)

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Inorganic Seminar, TBD, Professor Timothy Johstone, University of California Santa Cruz

  Time

  3:30 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Inorganic Seminar, TBD, Professor Timothy Johstone, University of California Santa Cruz

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Aiden Parente CHEM 535 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Aditya Vijaykumar (University of Chicago)

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• BIOE Seminar Series: Chair & Professor Robin Queen

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Final Exam: Gabriel Muniz Negron

  Time

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  Electrical and Computer Engineering Building Room 5070

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Prof. Saumya Saurabh, New York University, TBD

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Bob Bernstein (FermiLab) "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 29, 2026

• Danielle Otero CHEM 575 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  163 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Kellen Sharpe CHEM 575 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  163 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Final Defense - Katrine Dailey (Wu Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  124 Burrill Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 30, 2026

• Coffee, Donuts & More for CCFD

  Time

  8:30 - 11:15 am

  Location

  Everitt Lab Near Atrium

  • Social/Informal Event

  

• 2026 iSchool Research Showcase

  Time

  12:00 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  Illini Union, Illini Rooms B & C

  The iSchool Research Showcase shares human-centered, interdisciplinary research through a keynote speech and a series of short presentations and posters by School of Information Sciences faculty, staff, and graduate students. All are invited to attend. Refreshments will be served.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Tom Cooper (Baylor College of Medicine) - "Mechanistic insights of RNA toxicity and disrupted RNA processing from modeling Myotonic Dystrophy in mice"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Jiwoong Park, University of Chicago

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium