Advith's Calendar

Monday, August 17, 2026

• Neuroscience Program's Upcoming Fall Seminar Series

  Time

  8:30 am

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

• Final Defense of Changhyun Hwang, "Autonomous experimentation for AI-driven discovery of functional molecules""

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  2045 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

• Final Defense of Tiara Torres-Flores, "Iterative Synthesis of Precise Conjugated Oligomers for Understanding Assembly and Photostability"

  Time

  10:00 am

  Location

  3269 Beckman

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Final Exam: Weiman Yan

  Time

  3:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Coordinated Science Laboratory 419

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, August 20, 2026

• Final Defense of Song Yin, "Integrating Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Machine Learning for Mechanistic Understanding and Rational Design"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

• IQUIST Town Hall: IQUIST Director Elizabeth Goldschmidt

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Elizabeth Goldschmidt

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Seminar Speaker: CliMAS Interim Department Head, Professor Nicole Riemer

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:20 pm

  Location

  2079 NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Finding Cures: Journey from Software Engineering to Entrepreneurship

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  Fox Family Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lecture "Finding Cures: Journey from Software Engineering to Entrepreneurship" Abhishek Pandey, PhD Interim CEO/CTO of ASERTI Pharma

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Schewe Research Seminar - Itay Goldstein

  Time

  2:00 - 3:20 pm

  Location

  3007 BIF

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series -Rizwan Uddin and Mohan Sankaran

  Time

  4:00 - 4:50 pm

  Location

  1306 Everitt Laboratory

  Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

• TBD with Dr. James Santiago

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  W109 - Turner Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, August 27, 2026

• Leader-Driven Collusion

  Time

  2:00 - 3:20 pm

  Location

  317 David Kinley Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, August 28, 2026

• EEB Colloquium: Becky Fuller, EEB, "Welcome/Organization/Coffee"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Urbana-Style Condensed Matter, Condensed, a mini-symposium

  Time

  1:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190 & Supercon 2nd Floor

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Mikkel Plagborg-Moller (University of Chicago)

  Time

  2:00 - 3:20 pm

  Location

  317 David Kinley Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, August 31, 2026

• Ben Marx (Georgia State)

  Time

  2:00 - 3:20 pm

  Location

  317 David Kinley Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker Max Li: Distributionally Robust Optimization and Applications to Air Traffic Management

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Connecting dynamic processes in covalent adaptable polymer networks from monomer-scale to bulk"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

• Entomology Colloquium - Kasey Fowler-Finn, Professor, St. Louis University

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• IQUIST Seminar: "Amorphous Defects and Superconducting Control of Scaled Quantum Systems," Bradley Christensen, Physicist, Northrop Grumman

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Bradley Christensen

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Seminar Speaker: CliMAS Professor Kelvin Droegemeier

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:20 pm

  Location

  2079 NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Nutritional Regulation of the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis - Implications for Stress and Cancer Resilience

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  IGB Seminar - Faculty Spotlight Lecture "Nutritional Regulation of the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis - Implications for Stress and Cancer Resilience" Brett Loman, PhD Department of Animal Science; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CBPP Research Seminar - Sherry Li

  Time

  2:00 - 3:20 pm

  Location

  3007 BIF

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Measuring the physical properties of dark matter with strong gravitational lensing

  Time

  3:30 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Astronomy Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Fuson Student Talks: Morgan Gugger, UIUC, "Development of a Sulfa Drug/DHFR Inhibitor Combination for Pseudomonas aeruginosa"; Faith Kern, UIUC, "Pendant Activation: Governed by Interactions Between Mechanophores and Glassy Polymer Networks", Dongchen Ouyang, UIUC, "Chemoinformatic Optimization of the Copper-Bis(Oxazoline)-Catalyzed, Enantioselective Synthesis of Saturated N-Heterocycles"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• NSP Faculty Mixer

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

• BIOE Seminar Series: Assistant Professor Wenzhen Yuan

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• TBD with Dr. Alvaro Hernandez

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  W109 - Turner Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Mingdou Zhao (UC Berkeley)

  Time

  2:00 - 3:20 pm

  Location

  317 David Kinley Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Prof. Nick Jackson, UIUC, "AI-Driven Quantum Mechanical Design of Soft Materials"

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  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".

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Teresa Pegan, UIUC EEB Department, "Evolutionary Consequences of Seasonal Migration"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Abigail Spaulding (Shapiro Lab) - "Chemotherapy-induced cell stress facilitates NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity of breast cancer cells”

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, September 3, 2026

• ABE Graduate Seminar | Backward Design

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Agricultural Engineering Sciences Building - Room 208

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Varong Pavarajarn, Chulalongkorn University (Host: Prof. Chris Rao) "When Industry Asks "How?", Scientists Ask "Why?": Molecular Interactions Behind Carbon Capture and Surface-Controlled Chemical Transformations"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Schewe Research Seminar - Nicolae Garleanu

  Time

  2:00 - 3:20 pm

  Location

  3007 BIF

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Shanjun Li (Stanford)

  Time

  2:00 - 3:20 pm

  Location

  317 David Kinley Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Professor Mei Shen, UIUC, TBD

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  1024 Chem Annex

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Tenure Talk: Professor Mei Shen, "TBA"

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  1024 Chem Annex

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Thomas Niehaus, University of Minnesota -- "Identification of breakdown pathways for the universal damaged metabolite S-(2-succino) cysteine"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, September 4, 2026

• EEB Colloquium: Becky Fuller and Julian Catchen, EEB, "Grad Handbook - New Students Only"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Chang Cui (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - "Mechanism, Structure and Inhibitor Design of Human Ribonucleotide Reductase"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - "The quantum valley Hall effect and topological valleytronics"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Peter Hansen (University of North Carolina)

  Time

  2:00 - 3:30 pm

  Location

  317 David Kinley Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• GGIS Distinguished Alumna Award Reception & Colloquium | Arrianna Planey (PhD '20)

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, August 31, 2026

• Ben Marx (Georgia State)

  Time

  2:00 - 3:20 pm

  Location

  317 David Kinley Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker Max Li: Distributionally Robust Optimization and Applications to Air Traffic Management

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Connecting dynamic processes in covalent adaptable polymer networks from monomer-scale to bulk"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

• Entomology Colloquium - Kasey Fowler-Finn, Professor, St. Louis University

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• IQUIST Seminar: "Amorphous Defects and Superconducting Control of Scaled Quantum Systems," Bradley Christensen, Physicist, Northrop Grumman

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Bradley Christensen

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Seminar Speaker: CliMAS Professor Kelvin Droegemeier

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:20 pm

  Location

  2079 NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Nutritional Regulation of the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis - Implications for Stress and Cancer Resilience

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  IGB Seminar - Faculty Spotlight Lecture "Nutritional Regulation of the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis - Implications for Stress and Cancer Resilience" Brett Loman, PhD Department of Animal Science; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CBPP Research Seminar - Sherry Li

  Time

  2:00 - 3:20 pm

  Location

  3007 BIF

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Measuring the physical properties of dark matter with strong gravitational lensing

  Time

  3:30 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Astronomy Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Fuson Student Talks: Morgan Gugger, UIUC, "Development of a Sulfa Drug/DHFR Inhibitor Combination for Pseudomonas aeruginosa"; Faith Kern, UIUC, "Pendant Activation: Governed by Interactions Between Mechanophores and Glassy Polymer Networks", Dongchen Ouyang, UIUC, "Chemoinformatic Optimization of the Copper-Bis(Oxazoline)-Catalyzed, Enantioselective Synthesis of Saturated N-Heterocycles"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• NSP Faculty Mixer

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

• BIOE Seminar Series: Assistant Professor Wenzhen Yuan

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• TBD with Dr. Alvaro Hernandez

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  W109 - Turner Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Mingdou Zhao (UC Berkeley)

  Time

  2:00 - 3:20 pm

  Location

  317 David Kinley Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Prof. Nick Jackson, UIUC, "AI-Driven Quantum Mechanical Design of Soft Materials"

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  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".

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Teresa Pegan, UIUC EEB Department, "Evolutionary Consequences of Seasonal Migration"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Abigail Spaulding (Shapiro Lab) - "Chemotherapy-induced cell stress facilitates NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity of breast cancer cells”

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, September 3, 2026

• ABE Graduate Seminar | Backward Design

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Agricultural Engineering Sciences Building - Room 208

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Varong Pavarajarn, Chulalongkorn University (Host: Prof. Chris Rao) "When Industry Asks "How?", Scientists Ask "Why?": Molecular Interactions Behind Carbon Capture and Surface-Controlled Chemical Transformations"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Schewe Research Seminar - Nicolae Garleanu

  Time

  2:00 - 3:20 pm

  Location

  3007 BIF

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Shanjun Li (Stanford)

  Time

  2:00 - 3:20 pm

  Location

  317 David Kinley Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Professor Mei Shen, UIUC, TBD

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  1024 Chem Annex

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Tenure Talk: Professor Mei Shen, "TBA"

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  1024 Chem Annex

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Thomas Niehaus, University of Minnesota -- "Identification of breakdown pathways for the universal damaged metabolite S-(2-succino) cysteine"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, September 4, 2026

• EEB Colloquium: Becky Fuller and Julian Catchen, EEB, "Grad Handbook - New Students Only"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Chang Cui (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - "Mechanism, Structure and Inhibitor Design of Human Ribonucleotide Reductase"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - "The quantum valley Hall effect and topological valleytronics"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Peter Hansen (University of North Carolina)

  Time

  2:00 - 3:30 pm

  Location

  317 David Kinley Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• GGIS Distinguished Alumna Award Reception & Colloquium | Arrianna Planey (PhD '20)

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

• Entomology Colloquium - Rebecca Carranza, Wilfred Tang and Jaden Rankin, Grad Students, Suarez Lab, UIUC

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• IQUIST Seminar: "A unifying tool for stabilizer codes beyond the qubit model", Lane Gunderman, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois - Chicago

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Lane Gunderman

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Biology by Design: From Directed Evolution to Autonomous Experimentation

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  IGB Seminar - Director's Office "Biology by Design: From Directed Evolution to Autonomous Experimentation" Huimin Zhao, PhD Steven L. Miller Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Bioengineering; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• "Topological Brain Maps and the Shape of Thought," by Marty Sereno, Emeritus Professor Psychology, San Diego State University Adjunct Professor Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

• BIOE Seminar Series: Associate Professor Jacob P. Covey

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Sara Ruane, Field Museum of Natural History, "Museums Collections as a Backbone for Contemporary Science"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, September 10, 2026

• ABE Graduate Seminar | University Ethics and Compliance

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Agricultural Engineering Sciences Building - Room 208

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. David Gracias, Johns Hopkins University (Host: Prof. Hyun Joon Kong) "Physical Intelligence at the Interface of Biology and Engineering"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• ECON PhD Seminar - Sebastiao Oliveira

  Time

  2:00 - 3:20 pm

  Location

  3007 BIF

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Materials Seminar, "Electron Videography of Soft, Biological, and Energy Matter at the Nanoscale", Professor Qian Chen, University of Illinois

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  1024 CHEM ANNEX

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Materials Seminar, TBD, Professor Qian Chen, University of Illinois

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Houra Merrikh, Vanderbilt University -- "Regulation of replication restart after conflicts with transcription"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, September 11, 2026

• EEB Colloquium: Dr. Milton Tan, INHS, "Something Fishy"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• 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

  

• GGIS Colloquium | Summer Research Open Mic!

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

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

• Entomology Colloquium - Dylan Schultz, Postdoc, Doremus Lab, UIUC

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

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

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:20 pm

  Location

  2079 NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Internal PhD Seminar - Divij Kohli

  Time

  2:00 - 3:20 pm

  Location

  3007 BIF

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

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

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  1024 CHEM ANNEX

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

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

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • 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

  

• "Neural mechanisms of group living," by Aubrey M. Kelly, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience Program, Emory University

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Taek K. Kim

  Time

  4:00 - 4:50 pm

  Location

  1306 Everitt Laboratory

  Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

• Final Defense of Genesis Rios-Adorno "TBA"

  Time

  10:00 am

  Location

  3217 Everitt Lab

  • 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

  

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Joseph Walker, University of Illinois Chicago, "Herbarium RNA as a Source of Evolutionary Insights"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, September 17, 2026

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Janani Sampath, University of Florida (Host: Prof. Charles Sing)

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Schewe Research Seminar - José-Luis Peydró

  Time

  2:00 - 3:20 pm

  Location

  3007 BIF

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Nidia Sequeira Trovao, Pathobiology/University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign -- "The Genetic Traceability of Viral Pathogens Across the One Health Spectrum"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, September 18, 2026

• Angela Thomas, Final Defense, UIUC, "Title TBA"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Sandage Symposium: Advancing Advertising Together

  Time

  9:30 am - 5:30 pm

  Location

  Illini Union

  The Sandage Symposium brings together industry experts, researchers, and students who are shaping the future of advertising.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Hong Jin (Univeristy 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 - Shuolong Yang, University of Chicago

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• GGIS Colloquium | David Isern, School of Architecture

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• 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

• 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

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

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:20 pm

  Location

  2079 NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CBPP Research Seminar - Ishan Nath

  Time

  2:00 - 3:20 pm

  Location

  3007 BIF

  • 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

  

• Materials Seminar, TBD, 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

  

• "Mechanisms of monogamy: Neural and genomic foundations of social memory and attachment in prairie voles," Kimberly Long, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series -Areg Danagoulian

  Time

  4:00 - 4:50 pm

  Location

  1306 Everitt Laboratory

  Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

  • 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)

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • 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, TBD

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Emma Thames (Stadtmueller Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Tracey Tuberville, University of Georgia Savannah River Ecology Lab, "Conservation Takeaways from Stalking North America’s Tortoises"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • 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

  

• Internal PhD Seminar - Yucheng Zhou

  Time

  2:00 - 3:20 pm

  Location

  3007 BIF

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Michael Gray, University of Alabama -- "How oral streptococci respond to the antimicrobial oxidants found in saliva"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, September 25, 2026

• EEB Colloquium: Josh Gibson, Beckman Institute Microscopy Suite, "Close Encounters of the Microscopic Kind: A Tour of Beckman's Microscopy Suite"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium