Materials Research Laboratory

Saturday, April 19, 2025

- 9:30 am - 6:00 pm
- ESB 190
Fractional Chern Insulators Workshop - 2025
- 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), "Self-correcting GKP qubit and gates in a driven-dissipative circuit"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

- 10:00 am
- The Rhondale Tso Seminar Room Loomis 236
Special Biological Physics Seminar- "Single molecules, imaging, tracking, and the diffraction limit for finite photons."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Engineering (Useful) Trapped-Ion Quantum Technologies", Sara Mouradian, University of Washington

Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 - 3:30 pm
- Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Jack D'Amelio , UIUC, "Capturing Crystallinity over Length and Time Scales"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Emerging Leaders Seminar: Professor Xavier Roy, Columbia University, "Quantum complexity in simple materials"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
Prof. Daniel Tabor, Texas A&M University, "Accelerating the Computational Design of Functional Organic Molecules and Polymers"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 24, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Materials Chemistry Seminar, "Molecular Approaches to Advancing 2D Conductive MOFs for Tailored Properties and Applications", Dr. Jihye Park, University of Colorado Boulder
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 25, 2025

Monday, April 28, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Special Condensed Matter Special Seminar - "Tracing light: on Linear and Nonlinear Terahertz Polaritonics in Quantum Paraelectrics"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Special Biological Physics Seminar- "Chaotic worms: from the dynamics of animal behavior towards a physics of complex, evolved systems"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Below Threshold Quantum Error Correction", Alexandre Bourassa, Google Quantum AI

Speaker: Alexandre Bourassa, Senior Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Professor Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran, University of Minnesota, (TBD) (I)
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Jianlong Lin, Goldschmidt/DeMarco Group

Speaker: Jianlong Lin, Goldschmidt/DeMarco Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Fahad Mahmood (UIUC), Title 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, "Carbon Dioxide Conversion for a Sustainable Future: Research and Policy"
- Lecture

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

- 9:00 am
- 1306 Everitt Laboratory
FINAL DEFENSE, Kyle Benjamin Timmer, "Development of Multicompartment Biomaterials to Modulate Cellular Environments for Improved Tendon-to-Bone Rotator Cuff Repair"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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: Geraldine Cochran (Ohio State University), "Leveraging Familial Capital to Improve Graduate Students Experiences"
- 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

Monday, May 12, 2025

- 10:00 am
- 161 Noyes Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Anaira Roman Santiago, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
T.S. Piper Award for Outstanding Inorganic PhD Thesis
- Ceremony/Service

Thursday, May 15, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Walter Klemperer Award for Outstanding Materials PhD thesis
- Ceremony/Service

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 2025 Spring 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

Thursday, June 5, 2025

- 1:30 pm
- 307 Gregory Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, James Griebler, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, June 12, 2025

- 1:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Rachel Gaines "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

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, August 25, 2025

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

Thursday, August 28, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Tenure Seminar: Prof. Angad Mehta, UIUC, "Synthetic Biology for Evolutionary Studies and Human Health"
- Seminar/Symposium

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

Saturday, November 22, 2025

- 8:30 am
Fall break begins
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, December 1, 2025

- All Day
Instruction resumes
- Other

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

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

Thursday, December 11, 2025

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

Friday, December 12, 2025

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

Monday, December 22, 2025

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

Friday, January 16, 2026

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

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

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

Saturday, March 14, 2026

- 1:00 pm
Spring Vacation Begins
- Other

Monday, March 23, 2026

- 7:00 am
Instruction resumes
- Other