Materials Research Laboratory

Friday, September 17, 2021

- 11:00 am
- TBA
QSQM PI Business Meeting
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

- 11:00 am
IQUIST seminar: "Resolving starlight: a quantum perspective"
Speaker: Mankei Tsang, Nat U Singapore
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
Physics Collloquium: "EIC physics from Lattice QCD: The proton mass and spin decompositions"
- Lecture

Thursday, September 23, 2021

- 4:00 pm
- Virtual Event via Zoom (link will be provided at later time)
Professor Shanteri Singh, University of Oklahoma, "Utilizing Aromatic Prenyltransferases for the Late-stage Diversification of Natural Products"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 24, 2021

- 1:00 pm
- via Zoom
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Possible discovery of Pines' Demon in Sr2RuO4"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

- 11:00 am
IQUIST seminar: James Bartusek
Speaker: James Bartusek (UC Berkeley)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Michael Toney, University of Colorado, Boulder, "Insights into Battery Operation and Degradation through X-ray Scattering" (host: Diao)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- TBA
QSQM Junior Research Hour
- Meeting

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Friday, October 1, 2021

- 1:00 pm
- via Zoom
Condensed Matter Seminar - Erez Berg, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 4, 2021

- 4:00 pm
- Virtual Event via Zoom
Prof. Xin Zhang, Pennsylvania State University, "Chemical Biology of Protein Aggregation in Membraneless Organelles and the Stressed Proteome"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

- 11:00 am
IQUIST seminar: Stephanie Wehner
Speaker: Stephanie Wehner, QuTech and TU Delft
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 8, 2021

- 11:00 am
- Illinois: Room 190 ESB, 1101 W Springfield, Urbana | Stanford: Room 335 in the McCullough Bldg
QSQM Research Symposium: "Strange metals"
Speakers: Philip Phillips (Illinois) and Peter Abbamonte (Illinois)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- via Zoom
Condensed Matter Seminar - Lu Li, University of Michigan
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

- 11:00 am
IQUIST seminar: Lindsay LeBlanc
Speaker: Lindsay LeBlanc, University of Alberta
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

- 2:00 pm
Prof. Anastassia Alexandrova, University of California Los Angeles, " Dynamic catalytic interfaces: ensembles of multiple metastable states break the rules of catalysis"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 14, 2021

- 12:00 pm
- RAL 116
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Noah Haskin, UIUC, Title TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 15, 2021

- 11:00 am
- TBA
QSQM PI Business Meeting
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- via Zoom
Condensed Matter Seminar - Andrea Young, University of California Santa Barbara
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 18, 2021

- All Day
QSQM DOE Virtual PI Meeting
- Meeting

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

- All Day
QSQM DOE Virtual PI Meeting
- Meeting
- 8:30 am
IQUIST seminar: Christian Schimpf
Speaker: Christian Schimpf
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

- 2:00 pm
Prof. David Masiello, University of Washington, TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 21, 2021

- 12:00 pm
- RAL 116
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Mayuresh Gadgil, UIUC, Title TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Lily Cheung, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Spying on Sugar Transporters: Kinetic Studies of Biomolecular Sensors" (host: Shukla)
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 22, 2021

- 1:00 pm
- via Zoom
Condensed Matter Seminar - Andrea Damascelli, University of British Columbia
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 25, 2021

- 1:15 pm
FINAL DEFENSE, Mr. Bijal Bankim Patel, "Self-Assembly and Additive Manufacturing of Bottlebrush Block Copolymer Photonic Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

- 8:30 am
IQUIST seminar: Danna Freedman
Speaker: Danna Freedman
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Arnab Mukherjee, University of California Santa Barbara, "Biomolecular Imaging with Magnetic Resonance" (host: Schroeder)
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 28, 2021

- 9:00 am
- 279 Davenport Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Whitney Sinclair, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- RAL 116
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Thomas Pires, UIUC, Title TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 29, 2021

- 1:00 pm
- via Zoom
Condensed Matter Seminar - Ilija Zeljkovic, Boston College
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 1, 2021

- 1:00 pm
- TBA
FINAL DEFENSE, Mr. Hao Yu, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

- 11:00 am
IQUIST seminar: Christian Schaffner
Speaker: Christian Schaffner, U Amsterdam
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 4, 2021

Friday, November 5, 2021

- 1:00 pm
- via Zoom
Condensed Matter Seminar - Jukka Ilmari Vayrynen, Purdue University
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 9, 2021

- 11:00 am
IQUIST seminar: Andrew Jordan
Speaker: Andrew Jordan, Chapman/Rochester
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Friday, November 12, 2021

- 11:00 am
- Illinois: 190 ESB, 1101 W. Springfield, Urbana | Stanford: Room 335 in the McCullough Bldg
QSQM Research Symposium: "Twisted Bilayer Graphene (TBLG)"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- via Zoom
Condensed Matter Seminar - Raquel Queiroz, Columbia University
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

- 11:00 am
IQUIST seminar: Cindy Regal
Speaker: Cindy Regal, JILA/University of Colorado
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Lisa Hall, The Ohio State University, "Coarse-Grained Modeling of Ion Transport through Block Copolymers" (host: Sing)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- TBD
Distinguished Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry: Professor Philip Power, University of California - Davis, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

- 2:00 pm
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: David Durden, UIUC, TBA
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- CLSL B102
Chem 545 Literature Seminar: Lakshmy Ajayakumar, UIUC, TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Friday, November 19, 2021

- 11:00 am
- TBA
QSQM PI Business Meeting
- Meeting
- 1:00 pm
- via Zoom
Condensed Matter Seminar - Seamus Davis, Cornell University
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 20, 2021

- All Day
Thanksgiving Break Begins
- Other

Thursday, November 25, 2021

- All Day
Thanksgiving Day
- Other

Friday, November 26, 2021

- All Day
Day After Thanksgiving - Designated Holiday
- Other

Monday, November 29, 2021

- All Day
Instruction resumes
- Other

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

- 11:00 am
IQUIST seminar: Ana Asenjo Garcia
Speaker: Ana Asenjo Garcia, University of Columbia
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- contact cbowser@illinois.edu
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Carlos Aguilar, University of Michigan (host: Harley)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- TBA
QSQM Junior Research Hour
- Meeting

Thursday, December 2, 2021

- 12:00 pm
- RAL 116
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Christopher Rakowski, UIUC, Title TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Rafael Verduzco, Rice University, "Molecular Engineering and Processing of Covalent Organic Frameworks" (host: Guironnet)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Prof. Daniel Suess, MIT, TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

- 11:00 am
IQUIST all-hands meeting
- Meeting
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Dr. Gregg Beckham, "Development of Chemical Recycling Approaches for Waste Plastics" (host: Peters)
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

- All Day
Last Day of Instruction, Fall Semester
- Other

Thursday, December 9, 2021

- All Day
Reading Day - IT No Change Period in effect
- Other

Friday, December 10, 2021

- 8:30 am
Final Exams Begin
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, December 13, 2021

- All Day
- TBA
QSQM Science Advisory Committee Meeting (tentative)
- Meeting

Friday, December 17, 2021

- 11:00 am
- TBA
QSQM PI Business Meeting
- Meeting

Monday, December 20, 2021

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Winter Session
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, December 24, 2021

- All Day
Gift Day
Half gift day from President/Chancellor (a.m.), half excused day (p.m.)
- Other

Monday, December 27, 2021

- All Day
Christmas Holiday (observed)
- Other

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

- All Day
Day after Christmas - Designated Holiday
- Other

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

- All Day
Gift day
- Other

Thursday, December 30, 2021

- All Day
Gift day
- Other

Friday, December 31, 2021

- All Day
Gift day
- Other

Monday, January 3, 2022

- All Day
New Year's Day (observed)
- Other

Friday, January 14, 2022

- All Day
Final Exams - Winter Session
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, January 17, 2022

- All Day
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Other

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester
- Other

Saturday, March 12, 2022

- 1:00 pm
Spring Vacation Begins
- Other

Monday, March 21, 2022

- 7:00 am
Instruction resumes
- Other

Thursday, March 31, 2022

- 3:30 - 4:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Suslick-Sessler Lecture: Professor Thomas Mallouk, U. Penn., TBA
- Lecture

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

- 3:30 - 4:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Professor Ken Karlin, Johns Hopkins, TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

- 3:30 - 4:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Professor David Goldberg, Johns Hopkins, TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

- All Day
Instruction Ends
- Other

Thursday, May 5, 2022

- All Day
Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect
- Other

Friday, May 6, 2022

- All Day
Final Exams Begin
- Other
- 4:00 pm
Flygare Memorial Lecture, Prof. Naomi Halas, Rice University, TBA
- Lecture

Saturday, May 14, 2022

- 8:30 am
Commencement
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, May 16, 2022

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1
- Other

Monday, May 30, 2022

- All Day
Memorial Day Holiday
- Other

Monday, June 13, 2022

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2
- Other

Friday, June 17, 2022

- All Day
Juneteenth
- Ceremony/Service