Materials Research Laboratory

Friday, April 3, 2026

Visiting Candidate, Qian Xu
Recurring

All Day

AJL-ICMT
- Other
Condensed Matter Seminar - **CANCELLED**

1:00 pm

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium
Nohemy Celis, Final Defense, UIUC, "Molecular Prosthetics for CFTR: Restoring Anion Secretion to Cystic Fibrosis Airway and Intestinal Epithelia"

3:00 pm

B102 Chemical Life Sciences Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 6, 2026

Final Defense of Neil Tran, "Elucidating Reactivity of Atomically Dispersed Catalysts via Multiscale Modeling: Active Sites, Reaction Mechanisms, and Fluid-Modulated Kinetics"

8:00 - 10:00 am

165 Noyes
- Seminar/Symposium
Monthly MRSEC Grad students and Postdocs Meeting

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

MRL 280

Monthly MRSEC Grad students and Postdocs meeting.
- Social/Informal Event
The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, John McGreevy (UC San Diego), "Entanglement Bootstrap and Conformal Field Theory"

12:00 - 1:00 pm

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

IQUIST Seminar: "Entanglement-Enhanced Quantum Measurements and Sensing," Zheshen Zhang, University of Michigan

11:00 - 11:50 am

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

Speaker: Zheshen Zhang, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan
- Seminar/Symposium
MRSEC: Real Talk- Meeting Prof. Yuanwei Li

12:00 pm

MRL 208

Join our Real Talk series to explore career paths and the choices that shape them!
- Professional Development
Final Defense of Rajarshi Samajdar, CONFORMATION GOVERNS NANOSCALE ELECTRON TRANSPORT IN BIOMOLECULES AND SYNTHETIC ORGANICS

1:00 - 3:00 pm

217 Noyes
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Seminar, "Visualizing Reactive Intermediates: Radical and High-Valent Chemistry Across Biological and Synthetic Catalysis", Professor Shiliang Tian, Purdue University

3:30 pm 12/02/2025

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Final Defense of Haowei Long, Low-Temperature Anion Exchange Membrane Ammonia Electrolysis for Hydrogen Production

9:00 am 03/06/2026

117 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Quantum Channel Masking," Anna Honeycutt, Chitambar Group

11:00 - 11:50 am

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

Speaker: Anna Honeycutt, Chitambar Group
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Marissa Weichman, Princeton, "New Experimental Platforms for Molecular Polaritonics"

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium: The Klaus Schulten Lecture - Elizabeth Villa "Discovering Chimallivirus biology with in-cell cryo-EM"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 9, 2026

Final Defense of Sonji Lamichhane, "SCREENING AND IMAGING TOOLS FOR DETECTING MAMMALIAN CELL DIFFERENTIATION AND ALGAL BACTERIAL INTERACTION"

9:00 am 03/06/2026

433 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Daniel Greenan, Final Defense, UIUC, "Fine Tuning the Properties of Amphotericin B as a Molecular Prosthetic and as an Antifungal"

9:30 am

Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 217
- Seminar/Symposium
FINAL DEFENSE: Sreelekshmi Venu, "Optical Control of Surface-Adsorbate Interactions". Advisor: Professor Prashant Jain

12:00 pm

RAL 171
- Seminar/Symposium
Riley Carter, Final Defense, UIUC, "Bioinformatics-guided Discovery of New Natural Product Biosynthetic Strategies"

1:00 pm
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Todd Squires, University of California, Santa Barbara, (Host: Prof. Baron Peters) "Driving Particles and Fluids Using Chemical Fluxes"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 10, 2026

Alec Murray, Final Defense, UIUC, “A Prosthetic Reaction”

10:00 am

157 Noyes Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
ChBE/OXE Undergraduate Research Symposium

12:00 - 4:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center, Room 300
- Seminar/Symposium
Condensed Matter Seminar - "From quantized transport to advanced sensing: a dual perspective on topological light"

1:00 pm

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium
I-MRSEC Seminar with Dr. Stephan Lany, National Laboratory of Rockies

3:00 pm

MRL 280

Seminar title: First-Principes Materials Science for Hydrogen Generation, Topological Semimetals and Microelectronics. Speaker: Dr. Stephan Lany, National Laboratory of the Rockies, Golden, CO
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Reception

4:30 - 6:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center, Room 300
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, April 13, 2026

The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Elio Koenig-Tarasevich (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "1D Fractional Quantum (Anomalous) Hall -- Superconductor heterostructures"

12:00 - 1:00 pm

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Inorganic Seminar, "Macrocyclic templates facilitating strong and weak interactions", Professor Raúl Hernandez Sanchez, Rice University

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Sujeet Bhalerao, Leditzky Group

11:00 - 11:50 am

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

Speaker: Sujeet Bhalerao, Leditzky Group
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Andres Montoya Castillo, CU Boulder, "Deciphering & Controlling the Mechanisms of Energy Flow Across Materials"

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium: Harold Hwang (Stanford University) “Superconductivity in layered nickelates”

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 16, 2026

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Styliana Avraamidou, University of Wisconsin (Host: Prof. Paul Kenis) "Systems Engineering Approaches for the Electrification of the Chemical Industry"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Cookies & Coffee Hour

2:30 - 3:30 pm

MRL 280

Cookies & Coffee Hour by I-MRSEC & IQUIST.
- Social/Informal Event
Materials Seminar, "Interfaces as Architects of Emergent Matter", Professor Sarah King, University of Chicago

3:30 pm 12/02/2025

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 17, 2026

Condensed Matter Seminar - "A new topological monolayer"

1:00 pm

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 20, 2026

The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Ivar Martin

12:00 - 1:00 pm

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

IQUIST Seminar: "First-Principles Theory for Excited-State Kinetics and Optical Readout of Quantum Defects," Yuan Ping, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

11:00 - 11:50 am

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

Speaker: Yuan Ping, Associate Professor of Physics, UW-Madison
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Secure Protocols for Lossy Quantum Position Verification", Shuen Wu, Chitambar Group

11:00 - 11:50 am

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

Speaker: Shuen Wu, Chitambar Group
- Seminar/Symposium
Mentoring Workshop - Inclusive Mentoring

12:00 pm 02/02/2026

Supercon 2008

These mentoring workshop series will prepare you with best practices for impactful guidance, effective communication and professional development.
- Professional Development
Prof. Tianquan Lian, U Penn, "Electrochemical Control of Static and Ultrafast Electrode-Induction Effects: From Electrochemical Stark Effect to Plasmon-driven Mode-selective Adsorbate Excitation"

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium: Hyun Youk (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Self-organization capacity of living systems"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 23, 2026

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Siddarth Krishna, University of Wisconsin (Host: Prof. Elizabeth Rogers) "Tuning the Dynamic Structure and Reactivity of Metal-Zeolites for Sustainable Catalytic Chemistries"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Seminar, "Structuring functional materials across scales with polymers and electrochemistry", Professor Joerg Werner, Boston University

3:30 pm 12/02/2025

1024 CHEM ANNEX
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. Christina (Tina) Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Identification of Protein (Mis)Folding Modulators Through Directed Evolution"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 24, 2026

Condensed Matter Seminar - Venkat Chandrasekhar, Northwestern University

1:00 pm

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 27, 2026

Biological Physics Seminar: Minsu Kim (Emory University) ""

11:00 am

Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
- Lecture
The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Vojtech Vlcek (University of California, SB), "Theoretical Spectroscopy for Driven Systems"

12:00 - 1:00 pm

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Seminar, 2026 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: Understanding Catalysis, one Atom at a Time, Professor Christophe Copéret, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

5:00 pm

CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

IQUIST Seminar: "Surface Engineering for Electron-on-Neon Quantum Computing Platforms," Kater Murch, Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley

11:00 - 11:50 am

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

Speaker: Kater Murch, Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley
- Seminar/Symposium
MRSEC: Real Talk- Career Panel Discussion!

11:30 am

Supercon 2008

Please join our Real Talk series- Career Panel Discussion. Learning from the experts who have been on many hiring committees.
- Professional Development

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Prof. Tom Truskett, University of Michigan, TBD

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium: James Kakalios (University of Minnesota) “THE PHYSICS OF SUPERHEROES”

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 1, 2026

Condensed Matter Seminar - Dhalia Klein, University of Chicago

1:00 pm

ESB 190TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 4, 2026

Monthly MRSEC Grad students and Postdocs Meeting

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

MRL 280

Monthly MRSEC Grad students and Postdocs meeting.
- Social/Informal Event

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

IQUIST Seminar: Lawrence Cheuk, Assistant Professor of Physics, Princeton University

11:00 - 11:50 am

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

Speaker: Lawrence Cheuk, Assistant Professor of Physics, Princeton University
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Instruction Ends

All Day
- Other
The Physics Colloquium: The Hans Frauenfelder Colloquium - Peter Wolynes (Rice University) TBD

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 7, 2026

Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect

All Day
- Other

Friday, May 8, 2026

Final Exams Begin

All Day
- Other

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Piper Inorganic Thesis Award, TBD

3:30 pm

1024 CHEM ANNEX
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 14, 2026

Final Defense of Haisu Kang, TBA

10:00 am 03/06/2026

TBA
- Seminar/Symposium
Cookies & Coffee Hour

2:30 - 3:30 pm

MRL 280

Cookies & Coffee Hour by I-MRSEC & IQUIST.
- Ceremony/Service
Klemperer Materials Thesis Award Seminar, TBD

3:30 pm

1024 CHEM ANNEX
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, May 15, 2026

FINAL DEFENSE: Luke Westawker "Probing the Photochemistry and Properties of Nickel and Palladium Complexes”. Advisor: Professor Liviu Mirica

2:00 pm

B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, May 16, 2026

Commencement

8:30 am

Memorial Stadium
- Ceremony/Service

Sunday, May 17, 2026

CHBE 2026 Spring Convocation Ceremony

9:30 11:00 am

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Tryon Festival Theatre, 500 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
- Ceremony/Service
ChBE 2026 Spring Convocation Reception

11:00 1:00 p.m.

Illini Union - room ABC, 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801
- Reception/Open House