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IEI Event Calendar

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Monday, September 26, 2022

- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Dr. Soumitra Athavale, California Institute of Technology, "Tales in Molecular Evolution: From Chiral Symmetry Breaking to New-to-Nature Biocatalysis"
- Lecture

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

- 7:30 pm
- Colwell Playhouse
Chicago Immigrant Orchestra
- Performance

Thursday, September 29, 2022

- 12:00 pm
- 163 Noyes Lab
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Nora Liu, UIUC, "Design and Application of Fluorescent Amino Acids (FlAAs)"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Michelle O'Malley, University of California Santa Barbara (Zhao), "Unlocking the Biotech Potential of Anaerobic Gut Fungi"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 30, 2022

- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Jingyang Zhang, "Light-mediated Enzymatic Catalysis in Organic Synthesis"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, October 1, 2022

- 7:30 pm
- Foellinger Great Hall
Champaign-Urbana Symphony: The Beauty of Brahms
- Performance
- 7:30 pm
- Tryon Festival Theatre
Why Not Theatre: Prince Hamlet
- Performance

Tuesday, October 4, 2022

- 1:00 pm
- NL 353
FINAL DEFENSE, Xiuyi (Terry) Qin, UIUC, "Anharmonic vibrational many-body theory for molecules and extended systems", Advisor: Professor So Hirata
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 6, 2022

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Chris Paolucci, University of Virginia (Flaherty), "Using Computational Modeling to Address Challenges in the Synthesis and Stability of Catalysts"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Eli Lilly Lecture: Eli Lilly rep: Dr. Alonso Arguelles, "Process Development for a Small Molecule Oncolytic"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Eli Lilly Lecture: Professor Yoshiaki Nakao, Kyoto University, "C–H and C–X Functionalization by Cooperative Catalysis"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 7, 2022

- 12:00 pm
- iHotel Quad Room, 1900 First Street, Champaign
KAM Council Fall Luncheon and Lecture

Maureen Warren will present a talk titled, “What Can We Learn About the Fake News of today from KAM’s Exhibition, Fake News & Lying Pictures?” Reservation and advance payment is required.
- Reception/Open House
- 7:30 pm
- Studio Theatre
Alfredo Rodriguez Trio
- Performance
- 9:30 pm
- Studio Theatre
Alfredo Rodriguez Trio
- Performance

Saturday, October 8, 2022

- 7:30 pm
- Studio Theatre
Alfredo Rodriguez Trio
- Performance
- 7:30 pm
- Foellinger Great Hall
Jupiter String Quartet
- Performance
- 9:30 pm
- Studio Theatre
Alfredo Rodriguez Trio
- Performance

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Kayla Landers, Title TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

- 7:30 pm
October Dance Live Stream
- Performance

Thursday, October 13, 2022

- 12:00 pm
- 163 Noyes Lab
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Daniel Greenan, UIUC, Title TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Tagbo Niepa, University of Pittsburgh (Harley), "Nanocultures: Controlled Microbial Communities in Sessile Drops"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Genentech Lecture: Genentech rep: Dr. Jason Zbieg, "Targeting Transcription Factors for the Treatment of Cancer"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Genentech Lecture: Professor Eiji Yashima, Nagoya University, "Helical Polymers and Foldamers for the Development of Unique Chiral Materials "
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:00 - 8:00 pm
- Krannert Art Museum, Main Level, Cafe, 500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, Illinois 61820
SPEAK Café

Speak Café stands for Song, Poetry, Expression, Art, and Knowledge. It is an open-mic coffeehouse at Krannert Art Museum.
- Performance
- 7:30 pm
- Colwell Playhouse
October Dance
- Performance

Friday, October 14, 2022

- 4:30 pm
- 3rd Floor Levis Faculty Center
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering "Graduate and Alumni Awards Ceremony"
- Ceremony/Service
- 7:30 pm
- Colwell Playhouse
October Dance
- Performance

Saturday, October 15, 2022

- 9:00 - 11:00 am
- Grange Grove
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering "Alumni and Friends Homecoming Tailgate"
- Social/Informal Event
- 7:30 pm
- Colwell Playhouse
October Dance
- Performance

Monday, October 17, 2022

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Jennifer Bridwell-Rabb, University of Michigan, "Design Principles for Metalloprotein Chemistry"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

- 12:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Joanna Kula
- Lecture

Thursday, October 20, 2022

- 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
- School of Art & Design, Lower Level, Room 15, 408 E. Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL, 61820
Symposium | Early Modern Global Political Art (Session 1)

Featuring emerging scholarship on the art of this period against the backdrop of the exhibition Fake News & Lying Pictures: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic, Krannert Art Museum hosts a symposium on Early Modern Global Political Art.
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 pm
- 163 Noyes Lab
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Citlali Gutierrez, UIUC, Title TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
AbbVie Lecture: AbbVie rep: Dr. Ryan Phelan, "Development of High-Throughput Experimentation for Biocatalytic Reaction Development"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
AbbVie Lecture: Professor Stefan Matile, University of Geneva, "Translational Supramolecular Chemistry"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- Stage 5
Krannert Uncorked: Champaign-Urbana Folk and Roots Festival
- Performance
- 5:30 pm
- Krannert Art Museum, Lower Level, Auditorium (KAM 62), 500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, Illinois 61820
Liza Oliver | An Economy of Sentiment: The Shared Language of Abolitionists and the West India Interest in Late Eighteenth-century British Print Culture

Join us for the first keynote lecture in the Early Modern Global Political Art symposium by scholar Liza Oliver. This talk considers how spectatorial sympathy, a governing principle of eighteenth-century British art and literature, was deployed by opposing sides of the debate on Britain’s slave trade in the decades preceding its abolition.
- Lecture

Friday, October 21, 2022

- 9:30 am - 4:00 pm
- Siebel Center for Design, Classroom 1002, 1208 S. Fourth St., Champaign, Illinois
Symposium | Early Modern Global Political Art (Session 2)

Featuring emerging scholarship on the art of this period against the backdrop of the exhibition Fake News & Lying Pictures: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic, Krannert Art Museum hosts a symposium on Early Modern Global Political Art.
- Conference/Workshop
- 7:30 pm
- Foellinger Great Hall
Circa: Sacre
- Performance

Saturday, October 22, 2022

Sunday, October 23, 2022

- 3:00 pm
- Foellinger Great Hall, Salon-Style
Sunday Salon: Vision Duo
- Performance

Monday, October 24, 2022

- 10:00 am
- TBA
FINAL DEFENSE, Matthew Wade , "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
R.C. Fuson Lecture, Professor Abigail G. Doyle, Princeton University, "Title: TBD"

Reception immediately following in the 'A' Atrium of CLSL.
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

- 3:00 pm
- 124 Burrill Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Meng Zhang , "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
R.C. Fuson Lecture, Professor Abigail G. Doyle, Princeton University, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 7:30 pm
- Tryon Festival Theatre
A Little Night Music
- Performance

Thursday, October 27, 2022

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. A. Shoji Hall, Johns Hopkins University (Kenis), "Atomic-scale Insights into Electrocatalyst Structure and Function"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 28, 2022

- 7:30 pm
- Tryon Festival Theatre
A Little Night Music
- Performance

Saturday, October 29, 2022

- 2:00 pm
- Tryon Festival Theatre
A Little Night Music
- Performance
- 2:00 pm
- Krannert Art Museum, Lower Level, Auditorium (KAM 62), 500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, Illinois 61820
Sudden Sound Concert: Mai Sugimoto Quartet

Presented in collaboration with the CU Jazz Festival, the Chicago-based Mai Sugimoto will be leading an improvising quartet, playing alto saxophone and flute, with Fred Jackson Jr. on alto saxophone and soprano saxophone; Ethan Philion on bass; and Isaiah Spencer on drums.
- Performance
- 7:30 pm
- Foellinger Great Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Performance

Monday, October 31, 2022

- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Hyeju Jeon, Title TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Delia Milliron, The University of Texas at Austin (Diao), "Switchable Optical Materials from Metal Oxide Nanocrystals"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Jamie Berry, Title TBD
- Religious/Cultural

Thursday, November 3, 2022

- 12:00 pm
- 163 Noyes Lab
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Riley Carter, UIUC, Title TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Emily Pentzer, Texas A&M University (Rogers), "Interfacial Polymerizations in Pickering Emulsions to Architect Hybrid Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Dr. Andrew Zahrt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "TBA"
- Lecture
- 7:30 pm
- Colwell Playhouse
Urinetown: The Musical
- Performance

Friday, November 4, 2022

- 7:30 pm
- Colwell Playhouse
Urinetown: The Musical
- Performance

Saturday, November 5, 2022

- All Day
- Allerton Park, Monticello, IL
Beak-Pines Organic Area Allerton Conference
- Conference/Workshop
- 2:00 pm
- Studio Theatre
The Revolutionists: A Comedy, A Quartet, A Revolutionary Dream Fugue, A True Story
- Performance
- 7:30 pm
- Tryon Festival Theatre
Meredith Monk: Cellular Songs
- Performance
- 7:30 pm
- Studio Theatre
The Revolutionists: A Comedy, A Quartet, A Revolutionary Dream Fugue, A True Story
- Performance
- 7:30 pm
- Colwell Playhouse
Urinetown: The Musical
- Performance

Tuesday, November 8, 2022

- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Oliver Pichardo Peguero, Title TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 7:30 pm
- Foellinger Great Hall
Jupiter String Quartet with Kenneth Olsen, Cello
- Performance
- 7:30 pm
- Studio Theatre
The Revolutionists: A Comedy, A Quartet, A Revolutionary Dream Fugue, A True Story
- Performance

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

- 7:30 pm
- Studio Theatre
The Revolutionists: A Comedy, A Quartet, A Revolutionary Dream Fugue, A True Story
- Performance
- 7:30 pm
- Colwell Playhouse
Urinetown: The Musical
- Performance

Thursday, November 10, 2022

- 2:00 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Brown University Chemistry’s Graduate Ambassador Award Lecture: Mr. Stephen Kocheril (BS, '16, UIUC Chemistry), Brown University: “Photoelectron Imaging of Cryogenically Cooled Anions”

Alumnus Stephen Kocheril (BS, Chemistry, '16) is the recipient of Brown University Chemistry's Graduate Ambassador Award, which is given annually to graduate students who have demonstrated excellence in teaching, research, and service. Reception immediately following in Chem Annex 1025.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Philippe Sautet, UCLA (Mironenko)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Zachary K. Wickens, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:00 - 8:00 pm
- Krannert Art Museum, Main Level, Cafe, 500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, Illinois 61820
SPEAK Café

Speak Café stands for Song, Poetry, Expression, Art, and Knowledge. It is an open-mic coffeehouse at Krannert Art Museum.
- Performance
- 7:30 pm
- Studio Theatre
The Revolutionists: A Comedy, A Quartet, A Revolutionary Dream Fugue, A True Story
- Performance
- 7:30 pm
- Colwell Playhouse
Urinetown: The Musical
- Performance

Friday, November 11, 2022

- 7:30 pm
- Studio Theatre
The Revolutionists: A Comedy, A Quartet, A Revolutionary Dream Fugue, A True Story
- Performance
- 7:30 pm
- Colwell Playhouse
Urinetown: The Musical
- Performance

Saturday, November 12, 2022

- 2:00 pm
- Studio Theatre
The Revolutionists: A Comedy, A Quartet, A Revolutionary Dream Fugue, A True Story
- Performance
- 7:30 pm
- Foellinger Great Hall
Sinfonia Da Camera
- Performance
- 7:30 pm
- Tryon Festival Theatre
Siti Company: The Medium
- Performance
- 7:30 pm
- Colwell Playhouse
Urinetown: The Musical
- Performance

Monday, November 14, 2022

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
3M Lecture, 3M rep: Dr. Mike Wendland, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
3M Lecture, Professor Oren Scherman, University of Cambridge, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Dylan Brandt, Title TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

- 7:30 pm
- Colwell Playhouse
Zakir Hussain, Tabla And Niladri Kumar, Sitar
- Performance

Saturday, November 19, 2022

- 1:00 pm
Thanksgiving Break Begins
- Other

Monday, November 28, 2022

- All Day
Instruction resumes
- Other

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

- 4:00 pm
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Kyle Abo, Title TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 1, 2022

- 10:00 am - 8:00 pm
- 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign - Lower Level, Auditorium (KAM 62)
2022 Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art: Being & Belonging

Visual AIDS announces Being & Belonging, a program of seven short videos highlighting under-told stories of HIV and AIDS from the perspective of artists living with HIV across the world.
- Exhibition
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Craig M. Crews: Yale University, "PROTACs and Targeted Protein Degradation: A New Therapeutic Modality"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 7:30 pm
- Tryon Festival Theatre
The Nutcracker
- Performance

Friday, December 2, 2022

- 10:00 am - 8:00 pm
- 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign - Lower Level, Auditorium (KAM 62)
2022 Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art: Being & Belonging

Visual AIDS announces Being & Belonging, a program of seven short videos highlighting under-told stories of HIV and AIDS from the perspective of artists living with HIV across the world.
- Exhibition
- 7:30 pm
- Tryon Festival Theatre
The Nutcracker
- Performance

Saturday, December 3, 2022

- 10:00 am - 8:00 pm
- 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign - Lower Level, Auditorium (KAM 62)
2022 Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art: Being & Belonging

Visual AIDS announces Being & Belonging, a program of seven short videos highlighting under-told stories of HIV and AIDS from the perspective of artists living with HIV across the world.
- Exhibition
- 2:00 pm
- Tryon Festival Theatre
The Nutcracker
- Performance
- 7:30 pm
- Tryon Festival Theatre
The Nutcracker
- Performance