Test Master Calendar (OCR)

Sunday, November 1, 2026

• Application Deadline - ILEE Dual Degree

  Time

  All Day

  Grainger Engineering undergrads - consider a dual degree! Your primary degree + the ILEE degree.

  • Other

  

Monday, November 2, 2026

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Shuo Liu (Princeton)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Inorganic Seminar, 2026 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: TBD, Professor Alison Butler, University of California Santa Barbara

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Nora Ayanian

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Inorganic Seminar, 2026 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: TBD, Professor Alison Butler, University of California Santa Barbara

  Time

  5:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Inorganic Seminar, 2026 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: TBD, Professor Alison Butler, University of California Santa Barbara

  Time

  5:00 pm

  Location

  B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Chong Wang, Research Faculty, Perimeter Institute

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Chong Wang

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Seminar Speaker: Dr. Robert Fajber, McGill University

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:20 pm

  Location

  2079 NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• CCIL-CI MED Symposium: Design Controls and Risk Management (Session II)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Design controls and risk management aren't just compliance tools for FDA. They are fundamental approaches to developing safer, more robust products that attract investors, funding agencies, and industry partners. In this two-part, virtual symposium series, learn how implementing both processes early, and throughout your development stages—strengthens your research, creates

  • Webinar

  

• Inorganic Seminar, 2026 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: TBD, Professor Alison Butler, University of California Santa Barbara

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Inorganic Seminar, 2026 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: TBD, Professor Alison Butler, University of California Santa Barbara

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Inorganic Seminar, 2026 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: TBD, Professor Alison Butler, University of California Santa Barbara

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Jiayue Yang/Whitaker Lab and Simrandeep Singh/Imlay Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Tim Lach

  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

  

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Tim Lach

  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

  

• SfN Preview Poster Night

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute Atrium

  • Exhibition

  

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

• Flu Shot Clinic at the College of Education

  Time

  10:00 am - 2:00 pm

  Location

  North Lobby

  • Community Service

  

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Hannah Fronenberg (KICP/University of Chicago)

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• BIOE Seminar Series: Graduate Students Rita Huan-Ting Peng & Xin Wang

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• TBD with Dr. Daniel Sweeney

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  W109 - Turner Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Charlie Dixon, Final Defense, UIUC, "Title TBA"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Jenny Heppert, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, “Are you my microbe? What insect-killing nematodes and their bacteria can teach us about symbiosis?”

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Subhashis Natua (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium McMillan Award: Patrick Ledwith (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Seung Jun Lee (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, November 5, 2026

• Food For Thought | Fahad Mahmood and Aleksei Aksimentiev

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

• SE290 - Phil Ryan

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  1310 DCL

  • Lecture

  

• Natalie Shkolnik CHEM 575 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  163 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. Andrew Dillin (University of California Berkeley ) - "TBA"

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  180 Bevier Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hard Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hard Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Seminar: "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Sophie Mazure CHEM 535 Seminar "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, November 6, 2026

• EEB Colloquium: Dr. Akane Hatsuda, EEB Postdoc Talk, "Brain Metabolism and Honey Bee Aggression"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• First Friday Breakfast - November

  Time

  9:00 - 10:00 am

  Location

  EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive

  Startup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9 to 10 a.m. on the first Friday of every month. 

  • Social/Informal Event

  

• Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. Navdeep Chandel (Northwestern University) - " Mitochondrial signaling in physiology and disease"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Thaís Trevisan, São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo (Brazil)

  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

  

• First Friday Psychology-Beckman Colloquium Series

  Time

  3:00 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Auditorium

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, November 7, 2026

• 38th Annual Beak-Pines Organic Area Allerton Conference

  Time

  8:00 am

  Location

  Allerton Park, Monticello, IL

  • Conference/Workshop

  

• ANS President Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  220 Talbot Laboratory

  • Other

  

• ISVMA Alumni Reception

  Time

  5:00 pm

  Location

  Empire Burgers and Brew

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Monday, November 9, 2026

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Kendrick Lev (Harvard)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE Seminar Speaker: Samuel Coogan - Safe autonomy from fast reachability

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology, Professor Christopher J. Chang, Princeton University, "Title: TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology, Professor Christopher J. Chang, Princeton University, "Title: TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Kunal Sharma, Senior Research Scientist, IBM

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Kunal Sharma

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Seminar Speaker: Dr. Anantha Aiyyer, North Carolina University

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:20 pm

  Location

  2079 NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• 2026 Emerging Leader in Inorganic Chemistry Speaker/ACS DIC John C. Bailar Coordination Chemistry Award, TBD, Professor Henry La Pierre, Georgia Tech University

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• 2026 Emerging Leader in Inorganic Chemistry Speaker/ACS DIC John C. Bailar Coordination Chemistry Award, TBD, Professor Henry La Pierre, Georgia Tech University

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• "Illuminating neurochemical signaling with non-genetically encoded sensors," by Natsumi Komatsi, Bioengineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Brooke Ebner/Slauch Lab and Lindsey Grady/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Federico Scurti

  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

  

• Paige Drury CHEM 535 Seminar "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• International Student Entrepreneurship Workshop

  Time

  5:30 - 7:00 pm

  Immigration attorney Matthew Meltzer of Meltzer Hellrung, LLC, who specializes in employment-based immigration and works with entrepreneurs and companies, will share practical guidance and answer student questions. Whether you already have a startup, are exploring an idea, or simply want to understand your options for pursuing entrepreneurship in the U.S., this workshop is

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Katie Harrington (Argonne National Laboratory)

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• BIOE Seminar Series: Assistant Professor Longwei Liu

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• TBD with a UIUC Grad Postdoc

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  W109 - Turner Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Ashley Holahan (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• PEEC Exit Seminar - Lauren Otolski, UIUC PEEC, "The Effects of Wood and Soil Nutrients on Tropical Wood Decomposition"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Dylan Yost (Colorado State University) "Precision tests of quantum electrodynamics through hydrogen spectroscopy and vacuum birefringence"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, November 12, 2026

• Landuyt Center Academics Open Office Hours

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  1038 CIF

  • Other

  

• SE290 - Jeff Lee

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  1310 DCL

  • Lecture

  

• Webinar: Cultural Heritage in Crisis

  Time

  11:00 am

  • Webinar

  

• Hard Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Benjamin Good, Stanford University -- "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, November 13, 2026

• Coffee, Donuts & More for CCFD

  Time

  8:30 - 11:15 am

  Location

  Everitt Lab Near Atrium

  • Social/Informal Event

  

• EEB Colloquium: Emily Laub, Bell Lab, "Variation in Stickleback Social Networks Across Ecotypes"

  Time

  9:00 - 9:20 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• EEB Colloquium: Francis Dihn, Bell Lab, "Population Structure of the Canadian Maritimes' Sticklebacks"

  Time

  9:20 - 9:40 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Lucas Meirelles (Harvard/Mass General) - "Dynamic Host-Pathogen Co-Adaptation in Chronic Airway Infections”

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Data + AI User Group - November

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive

  Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, November 13 from noon to 1 p.m for their monthly meetup.

  • Conference/Workshop

  

• Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 2:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  • Other

  

Saturday, November 14, 2026

• Saturday Physics for Everyone

  Time

  9:45 - 11:30 am

  Location

  Lobby - Loomis Laboratory Of Physics 1110 W Green St Urbana, IL 61801-3003 United States

  Join the Physics Department for this fall's Saturday Physics for Everyone on Saturday, the 19th. This in-person lecture series starts with Eric Shaffer. Breakfast will be served at 9:45am and the lecture begins at 10:15am.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• NO SEMINAR: Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in Washington, DC

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• ANS President Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  220 Talbot Laboratory

  • Other

  

Monday, November 16, 2026

• Landuyt Center Academics Open Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  1038 CIF

  • Other

  

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Ruben Verresen (U Chicago)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Sedina Tsikata

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CIF 2035

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, November 17, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Huan Zhao, Wigner Distinguished Staff Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Huan Zhao

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Seminar Speaker: Professor Robert Pincus, Columbia University

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:20 pm

  Location

  2079 NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Saika Hossain/Imlay and Yishuo Jiang/Sirk Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Soft Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, November 18, 2026

• Physics Careers Seminar

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  464 Loomis

  • Lecture

  

• BIOE Seminar Series: Dwight C. and Hildagarde E. Baum Chair & Professor Yingxiao Wang

  Time

  12:00 - 12:50 pm

  Location

  Everitt 2310

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• TBD with Dr. Jose Franco

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  W109 - Turner Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Iris Holmes, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, "Quantifying the Impact of Reporting Bias on Inferences about Zoonotic Pathogen Ecology and Evolution"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Xinyi Dai (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Yujia Ji (Stadtmueller) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, November 19, 2026

• Landuyt Center Academics Open Office Hours

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  1038 CIF

  • Other

  

• SE290 - Lindsay Winn

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  1310 DCL

  • Lecture

  

• Hard Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Hard Materials Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Mohammed Kaplan, University of Chicago -- "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, November 20, 2026

• EEB Colloquium: EEB Community: Discussion of AI in Science

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Champaign Blockchain Meetup - November

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign

  This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.

  • Conference/Workshop

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Riccardo Comin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Professor Yangguang Ou, University of Vermont, Analytical Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  RAL 116

  • Ceremony/Service

  

• Professor Yangguang Ou, University of Vermont, Analytical Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  RAL 116

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Saturday, November 21, 2026

• Fall break begins

  Time

  8:30 am

  Location

  Swanlund Administration Building

  • Ceremony/Service

  

• Thanksgiving Break - No Classes / No Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• ANS President Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  220 Talbot Laboratory

  • Other

  

Monday, November 23, 2026

• Landuyt Center Academics Open Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  1038 CIF

  • Other

  

Friday, November 27, 2026

• Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 2:00 pm

  Location

  Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  • Other

  

Saturday, November 28, 2026

• ANS President Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  220 Talbot Laboratory

  • Other

  

Monday, November 30, 2026

• Instruction resumes

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  I-Hotel

  • Other

  

• Landuyt Center Academics Open Office Hours

  Recurring

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  1038 CIF

  • Other

  

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Raquel Pinheiro de Almeida Queiroz (Columbia U.)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Thomas Trzupek, Final Defense, UIUC, "TBD"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium