Materials Research Laboratory

Monday, January 20, 2025

• • All Day

  Martin Luther King Jr. Day

  • Other

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester

  • Other
• • 11:15 am
  • B102 CLSL

  Materials Seminar - Dr. Monica Ohnsorg, University of Colorado Boulder, “Bottlebrush Polymers to Deliver Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients and Support 3D Cell Culture”

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • B102 CLSL

  Materials Seminar - Prof. Jia Niu, Boston College, “Advancing Precision Biomacromolecules and Mimetics: Synthetic and Evolutionary Strategies”,

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, January 23, 2025

• • 1:00 - 4:00 pm
  • 1205 W Clark St. Urbana

  Practical Quantum Computing with PennyLane Workshop

  • Conference/Workshop

Friday, January 24, 2025

• • 1:10 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "When details matter: learning coarse-grained physics from first principles"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, January 27, 2025

• • 3:00 pm
  • 2240 DCL

  I-MRSEC Students and Postdocs Training on Science Posters - Dr. Natasha Mamaril

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102

  Prof. Roel Tempelaar, Northwestern University, "Steering Spin–valley Polarizations through Phonons and Photons"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, January 31, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Pat Clancy, McMaster University

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 3, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Daniel Agterberg, University of Wisconsin

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • TBD

  Prof. Weixin Tang, University of Chicago, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Mihir Bhaskar, Amazon Web Services

  Speaker: Mihir Bhaskar, Research Lead at AWS Center for Quantum Networking, Amazon Web Services

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Anastasiya Osher, Anderson Group

  Speaker: Anastasiya Osher, Anderson Group

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: "The renaissance of general relativity"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 7, 2025

• • 10:00 am
  • 280 MRL

  MRSEC Seminar: Prof. Jiun-Haw Chu (University of Washington)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Chloe Kim, Chitambar/Leditzky Group

  Speaker: Chloe Kim, Chitambar/Leditzky Group

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: "Intertwined Orders and the Physics of High Temperature Superconductors"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 14, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Ben Feldman, Stanford University

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Edo Waks, University of Maryland

  Speaker: Edo Waks, Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor and Associate Director of Quantum Technology Center University of Maryland

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Will Huie, Covey Group

  Speaker: Will Huie, Covey Group

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: "Building the Cathedral of Quantum Mechanics"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 21, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Stephen Wilson, University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 24, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Xiaoyu Zhang, Northwestern University, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: William Oliver, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Speaker: William Oliver, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Megan Robertson, University of Houston, (host: Damien Guironnet)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Photo-switchable radicals as reporter spins for quantum sensing," Lakshmy Ajayakumar, Backlund Group

  Speaker: Lakshmy Ajayakumar, Backlund Group

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Jocelyn Bell Burnell (University of Oxford). Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 27, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Brandon Greene, University of California, Santa Barbara, "title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Ed Barnes, Virginia Tech

  Speaker: Ed Barnes, Professor of Physics, Virginia Tech

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Justin Notestein, Northwestern University, (co-hosts: Chris Rao, Paul Kenis)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Rajesh, Clark/Draper Group

  Speaker: Rajesh, Clark/Draper Group

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Janet Conrad (MIT), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 6, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Elizabeth Biddinger, CUNY, (host: Paul Kenis)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 7, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Nathan Keim, Pennsylvania State University

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Angel Rubio, Flatiron Institute

  Speaker: Angel Rubio, Research Scientist and Co-Director of Initiative for Computational Catalysis Flatiron Institute

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Emerging Leaders Seminar: Dr. Karen Mulfort, Argonne National Laboratory, (TBD) (I)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Lintao Li, Covey Group

  Speaker: Lintao Li, Covey Group

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 13, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Mark Swihart, University at Buffalo, "A Non-equilibrium Flame Aerosol Process to Create High-entropy Nanomaterials" (co-hosts: Hong Yang, Paul Kenis)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 14, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Erica Carlson, Purdue University

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, March 15, 2025

• • 1:00 pm

  Spring Vacation Begins

  • Other

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 24, 2025

• • 7:00 am

  Instruction resumes

  • Other
• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Ben Wieder, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Saclay

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Richard Averitt, University of California, San Diego

  Speaker: Richard Averitt, Professor, University of California, San Diego

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Frans Pretorius (Princeton), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 28, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Hae-Young Kee, University of Toronto

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 31, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Yueqing Chang, Rutgers University

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin

  Speaker: Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Emerging Leaders Seminar: Professor Xavier Roy, Columbia University, (TBD) (I)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Samantha Isaac, Kwiat Group

  Speaker: Samantha Isaac, Kwiat Group

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 3, 2025

• • 3:30 pm
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Distinguished Inorganic Lecture: Professor Franc Meyer, University of Göttingen, (TBD) (I)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Daniel Shoemaker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 7, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Eun Ah Kim, Cornell University

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Bill Fefferman, University of Chicago

  Speaker: Bill Fefferman, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. James Moon, University of Michigan, "Engineering Strategies to Modulate the Immune System" (host: Joon Kong)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Xiaochuan (David) Ding, Clark Group

  Speaker: Xiaochuan (David) Ding, Clark Group

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Andreas Hoecker (CERN), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 11, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Edoardo Baldini, University of Texas, Austin

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 14, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Trithep Devakul, Stanford University

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 7:00 pm
  • B102 CLSL

  2025 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: Professor James Mayer, Yale University, TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Javad Shabani, New York University

  Speaker: Javad Shabani, Associate Professor of Physics and Director of the Center of Quantum Information Physics, New York University

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sijin Li, Cornell University, "An Integrated Synthetic Biology Pipeline to Understand and Harness Plant Specialized Metabolism" (host: Huimin Zhao)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  2025 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: Professor James Mayer, Yale University, TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Randy Owen, Kou Group

  Speaker: Randy Owen, Kou Group

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Marin Soljacic (MIT), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 21, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Gil Rafael, California Institute of Technology

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Sara Mouradian, University of Washington

  Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washinton

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Ashwith Prabhu, Goldshmidt Group

  Speaker: Ashwith Prabhu, Goldshmidt Group

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Ben Hooberman (UIUC), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 25, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Nandini Trivedi, The Ohio State University

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Alexandre Bourassa, Google Quantum AI

  Speaker: Alexandre Bourassa, Senior Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Joao Soares, University of Alberta , (host: Baron Peters)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Professor Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran, University of Minnesota, (TBD) (I)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 1, 2025

• • 3:30 pm
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Distinguished Inorganic Lecture: Professor Jonas Peter, California Institute of Technology, (TBD) (I)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 2, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Despina Louca, University of Virginia

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102

  2025 Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor Emily A. Carter, Princeton University, TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Srinivasan Arunachalam, IBM

  Speaker: Srinivasan Arunachalam, Senior Research Scientist, IBM

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Emily Davidson, Princeton University, (host: Ying Diao)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Professor Alexandra Velian, University of Washington, (TBD) (I)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

• • All Day

  Instruction Ends

  • Other
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 8, 2025

• • All Day

  Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect

  • Other

Friday, May 9, 2025

• • All Day

  Final Exams Begin

  • Other

Saturday, May 17, 2025

• • 8:30 am

  Commencement

  • Ceremony/Service

Sunday, May 18, 2025

• • 9:30 - 11:00 am
  • Krannert in Tryon Festival Theatre

  ChBE 2025 Spring Convocation Ceremony

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Illini Union - room ABC

  ChBE Spring 2025 Convocation Reception

  • Reception/Open House

Monday, May 19, 2025

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1

  • Other

Monday, May 26, 2025

• • All Day

  Memorial Day Holiday

  • Other

Monday, June 16, 2025

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2

  • Other

Thursday, June 19, 2025

• • All Day

  Juneteenth

  • Ceremony/Service

Friday, July 4, 2025

• • All Day

  Independence Day

  • Other

Monday, November 10, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Jeffery W. Kelly, Scripps Research Institute, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium