Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Monday, September 29, 2025

- 10:00 am
- 3401 Siebel Center
Theory Seminar: Dr. Leonardo Nagami Coregliano, "Tamer regularity lemmas and PAC learning theory."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Paul Goldbart (Stony Brook U.), "Random proximity measurements in quantum fluids and the hidden organization they induce"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
- 0216 Siebel Center
Computing Startup Seminar Series: Prof. Ranjitha Kumar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Studying multipartite entanglement through the lens of symmetries," Felix Leditzky, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Jeffrey Lopez, Northwestern University, "Identifying Electrolyte Reaction Mechanisms at Battery Electrodes Toward PFAS-Free Electrolytes" (host: Theresa Schoetz)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 1306 Everitt Laboratory
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Dr. Matthew Szott

Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 0027/1025 Campus Instructional Facility, 1405 Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - SPEED INTERCHANGE

Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Progress in Gas (CO2) Injection Processes for Energy & Sustainability: Current and Future Challenges
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar - "Shelf-stable Thermoset Resins with Encapsulated Catalyst Microparticles for 3D Printing with Frontal Polymerization"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Josu Aurrekoetxea (MIT) "Scalar fields around black hole binaries in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- MRL 1002
Condensed Matter Special Seminar - "Exploring electronic band structure and collective excitations in quantum materials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 - 4:00 pm
- ESB 190
MRSEC All-Hands Meeting
- Meeting
- 3:30 pm
- 1304 Siebel Center
Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Dr. Mashfiqui Rabbi, "Computational Interventions for Behavior Change."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Charles P. Slichter Memorial Colloquium - "Negotiations with Nature - What Happens When a Physicist Tries to be a Chemist."
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 2, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:20 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center
AImpact Center Seminar: Dr. Kate Donahue, "Opportunities and Challenges in Human-AI Systems."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 114 Transportation Building
Engineering in Residence Seminar (SE 290) - Dave Adams
- Lecture
- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Xuchen Cao (UIUC), "One Sided Black Holes in DSSYK Model: An Algebraic Approach"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Karthik Shekhar, University of California Berkeley (host: Diwakar Shukla) "Multiscale dynamics of neuronal bioelectricity"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
Kent Seminar: Nenad Milkjkovic, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- Beckman 2169 & Zoom
Prelim Exam: Yike Wang
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- Illinois Center for Transportation (ICT) Classroom and Zoom
PhD Final Defense – Syed Faizan Husain
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
Automotive Aerodynamics: Form does not always follow Function
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
Computer Vision Seminar Series: Dr. Zhengyuan Yang, "Post-Training for Long-Horizon Multimodal Reasoning."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 3102 Siebel Center
CS Compiler Seminar: Yifan Zhao, "Neptune: Advanced ML Operator Fusion for Locality and Parallelism on GPUs."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 1002 Grainger Auditorium
Deep Blue Phosphorescent OLEDs: Can Organics Live Long Enough at High Energies to be Useful?
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "Screening of Candidate Materials for Ammonia Synthesis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "Solution Processable Ordered Defect Compound Semiconductors for High-Performance Electronics"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 3, 2025

- 10:00 - 10:50 am
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Ali A. Malik
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Strain induced magnetism and superconductivity in Heusler membranes"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
Robotics Seminar: Dr. Dinesh Jayaraman, "Engineering Better Robot Learners: Exploration and Exploitation
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center
Systems Research Mini Workshop: Dr. Jing Liu, "Transparently Enhancing Applications through Operating System Architectures and Mechanisms."
- Conference/Workshop
- 3:00 - 4:00 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center
Systems Research Mini Workshop: Xiangpeng Hao, "LiquidCache: Efficient Pushdown Caching for Cloud-Native Data Analytics."
- Conference/Workshop
- 3:30 pm
- 222/276 Loomis
WGMPA Physics Careers Alumni Panel
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center
Systems Research Mini Workshop: Ao Li, "[Fray: An Efficient General-Purpose Concurrency Testing Platform for the JVM]."
- Conference/Workshop

Monday, October 6, 2025

- 10:00 am
- 3401 Siebel Center
Theory Seminar: Soumik Ghosh, "Peaked quantum advantage using error correction."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Zohar Nussinov (WashU), "Inhomogeneous phases and glasses- a many-body perspective"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Derek Attig - Networking Strategies for Graduate Students.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 1310 Yeh Student Center, 205 N Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL
Scarce data approaches to transfer knowledge across disparate domains: a study in extrapolation via machine learning | Stephanie G. Paal | Structural Engineering Seminar Series
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
- 0216 Siebel Center
Computing Startup Seminar Series: Vijay Chander
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum computing and simulation with multimode superconducting random-access memories," Srivatsan Chakram, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University

Speaker: Srivatsan Chakram, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB Lab 3110
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Bruno Uchoa (University of Oklahoma), "Quantum geometry in flat bands"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Dr. Shailendra Bordawekar, AbbVie (host: Paul Kenis)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center
CAP Seminar: Dr. Brandon Reagen, "Towards Practical Cryptographic Computing."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 1306 Everitt Laboratory
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Prof. Ling-Jian Meng

Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Polarization of Thermal Emission from Micro/Nanostructured Materials
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar - "Toward computationally-guided design of frontally-polymerized materials with self-organizing capabilities: Linking molecular thermodynamics to emergent behavior"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- 280 MRL
Final Defense - Jarom Sederholm, SUSTAINABLE BATTERY ENGINEERING: SINGLE-STEP BATTERY RECYCLING, BATTERY MODELING, AND BATTERY ELECTROLYTE ANALYSIS
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
- Siebel Center 2405
Physics-guided mmWave/sub-THz Wireless Systems: From Energy-Aware PHY Layer to Exotic Beam Shaping
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Hao-Jui Kuan (UIUC) "Tidal resonance: Nonlinearities revealed by numerical relativity"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1304 Siebel Center
Human-Computer Interaction Lightning Talks
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium Eric Kuo (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) “Developing the Skills and Mindsets for Future Success Through Physics Education”
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 9, 2025

- 11:00 am
- 114 Transportation Building
Engineering in Residence Seminar (SE 290) - Deborah Mrazek
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Erin Ratcliff, Georgia Institute of Technology (host: Ying Diao) "Soft PhotoElectroChemical Systems for Energy Conversion and Storage"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
Kent Seminar: Paulo Pereirinha, Polytechnic of Coimbra / INESC Coimbra
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 2244 Siebel Center
Computer Vision Seminar Series: Jieneng Chen, "Towards Generative Worlds for Deeper Reasoning and Informed Embodiment."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 3102 Siebel Center
CS Compiler Seminar: Arya Vohra & Leo Seojun Lee, "Mind the Abstraction Gap: Bringing Equality Saturation to Real-World ML Compilers."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 3102 Siebel Center
CS Compiler Seminar: Avaljot Singh, "Automated Verification of Soundness of DNN Certifiers."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "Oxygen Stoichiometry Insights in Fe-Doped SrTiO₃ from Chemical Capacitance"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "Synthesis and optical quantum memory characterization of α-Eu(IO3)3, β-Eu(IO3)3, and NaEu(IO3)4"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center
IMMERSE Seminar Series: Dr. Katryna Starks, "The PLAYlab: Games and Interactive Research for Social Good."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 7:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE590 Seminar: Toward predictive models for gas phase phenomena in hypersonic flows
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 10, 2025

- 10:00 - 10:50 am
- 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Mohsen Jafari
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
High Energy Physics Seminar - Xiaojun Yao (University of Washington) "Quantum Computing of Real-Time Correlators in 2+1D SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Observation of constructive interference at the edge of quantum ergodicity"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
Robotics Seminar: Dr. Farshid Alambeigi, "Surgineering Using Intelligent and Flexible Robotic Systems."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Rong Ma (Harvard University) "Modern Nonlinear Embedding Methods Unpacked: Empowering Biological Discoveries with Statistical Insights"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 13, 2025

- 8:30 am
PhD Final Defense – Ruolin Zhang
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 - 11:00 am
- 3401 Siebel Center
Theory Seminar: Nikhil Shagrithaya, "Probabilistic Guarantees to Explicit Constructions: Local Properties of Linear Codes."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Yin-Chen He (Stonybrook), "A Fuzzy Sphere Journey: from 3D Ising to Chern-Simons-matter CFT "
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Dean Pospisil, "Understanding Neural Representations and Inferring How They Are Generated"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Tamer Zaki - Turbulence From an Observer Perspective
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "The Search for Accurate Predictors of Grain Growth"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
- 0216 Siebel Center
Computing Startup Seminar Series: Sudip Chakrabarti
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Broadband quantum-limited amplification and near-ultrastrong nonlinear light-matter coupling with superconducting circuits", Kevin O'Brien, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Speaker: Kevin O'Brien, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 3110
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - Darius Shi (Stanford)), "Chiral superconductivity from non-Abelian anyon fluids"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Nitash Balsara, University of California, Berkeley "Movement of Polymer Molecules under Electric Fields and Relevance to Rechargeable Batteries" (host: Damien Guironnet)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Laboratory of Physics, Room 141
ChBE/NPRE Presents-Prof. Jospeh D. Smith, Missouri University of Science and Technology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 141 Loomis Laboratory Of Physics
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Prof. Joseph D. Smith

Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Printer 3D Microelectronics: Process Development, Materials Science, and Devices Applications
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar - "Peptide-polymer amphiphiles meet lipid membranes: A morphological analysis of thermally actuated dynamic hybrid systems"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar - "Recyclable by Design: Additive Manufacturing of Thermosets via Frontal Polymerization"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

- 9:00 am
- HMNTL 1000
Vacuum Science and Thin Film Deposition

Wednesday, October 15 9am - 4pm » Day 1 - Vacuum Science » Vacuum Fundamentals » Vacuum Pumps » Pressure Measurement » Vacuum System Characterization » Cleaning for Vacuum Service Thursday, October 16 9am - 4pm » Day 2 - Thin Film Deposition » Electron Beam Evaporation » Sputtering by DC, Pulsed Dc, RF and HiPIMS » Atomic Layer Deposition/Atomic Layer Etch
- Informational
- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame) "Interpreting the observables and multi messenger signals of r-process nucleosynthesis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Ruhi Sarikaya
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1304 Siebel Center
Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Ali Cem Kaynak, "Usability Problems in the digital application process for subsidized student loans in Germany."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium Peter Abbamonte (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) "Conformal Invariance in Strange Metals" TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 16, 2025

- 9:00 am
- HMNTL 1000
Vacuum Science and Thin Film Deposition

Wednesday, October 15 9am - 4pm » Day 1 - Vacuum Science » Vacuum Fundamentals » Vacuum Pumps » Pressure Measurement » Vacuum System Characterization » Cleaning for Vacuum Service Thursday, October 16 9am - 4pm » Day 2 - Thin Film Deposition » Electron Beam Evaporation » Sputtering by DC, Pulsed Dc, RF and HiPIMS » Atomic Layer Deposition/Atomic Layer Etch
- Informational
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Coordinated Science Lab 239
Prelim Exam: Rajalaxmi Rajagopalan
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 114 Transportation Building
Engineering in Residence Seminar (SE 290) - Toni Baumann
- Lecture
- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Pratik Rath (UC Berkeley), "A Black Hole Airy Tail"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- Beckman 3169
Prelim Exam: Mingrui Liu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
Kent Seminar: Marta Gonzalez, University of California, Berkeley
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "Plastic Localization Behavior in Ferritic-Martensitic Steels"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "Three-dimensional Fourier Transform Infrared Microscope"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 17, 2025

- 9:00 am
- 3100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Interfacial Stress Balances Across Scales: Thin-Film Stability and Pulmonary Surfactant
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 - 10:50 am
- 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Myrtede Alfred
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 4124 Siebel Center
DAIS Distinguished Alumni Seminar: Dr. Jiaming Shen, "Identifying and Incentivizing Grounded Natural Language Generation.""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
High Energy Physics Seminar - Robert McGehee (University of Minnesota)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:30 am
- Newmark 2312
PhD Final Defense – Binxin Fu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Atom-by-atom characterization of 2D materials with electron ptychography"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Jamie Williamson (Scripps Research) “Structure and Dynamic Analysis of Bacterial Ribosome Assembly in Cells.”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
MiV Seminar: Arvind Ramanathan, Argonne National Lab - "Autonomous Laboratory for Accelerating Biotherapeutic Discovery"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 20, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 seminar: Cheol Park - Multifunctional Structural Materials for Sustainable Aviation and Space Exploration in Extreme Aerospace Environments
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "A View From the Interface: Particle Incorpation During Crystallization"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 1310 Yeh Student Center, 205 N Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL
Re-imagining Human Health Monitoring through Structural Vibrations with Physics-Informed Machine Learning | Yiwen Dong | Structural Engineering Seminar Series
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
- 0216 Siebel Center
Computing Startup Seminar Series: Svetlana Vranic-Sowers
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum trajectories and stochastic excursions of thermal machines," Gabriel Landi, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester

Speaker: Gabriel Landi, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ariel Furst, MIT (host: Paul Kenis)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Breaking waves: the dynamics of droplets and the effects of surfactants
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 1306 Everitt Laboratory
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Prof. Indrajit Charit

Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar - "How biophysical properties of endosomal membranes affect the endosomal escape"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 7:00 pm
M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering Leadership Informational Webinar
- Webinar

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Jay Kalinani (UIUC)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Jason Xinyi Liu, "Robotic Language Grounding"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1304 Siebel Center
Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Dr. Pedro Lopes, "Integrating Interactive Devices with the User's Body."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium McMillan Award: Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in twisted MoTe₂: discovery and recent advances
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 23, 2025

- 11:00 am
- 114 Transportation Building
Engineering in Residence Seminar (SE 290) - Jeff Lee
- Lecture
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
FGI Webinar: Ballasting and Protection of Exposed and Covered Geomembrane Lining Systems

Exposed and covered geomembrane liner systems are subjected to wind uplift, hydrostatic uplift, gas generation and erosive / external forces that need to be assessed for long term resistance to site and environmental conditions but that are not often addressed during the design and construction phase.
- Professional Development
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
Kent Seminar: Giorgio Rizzoni, The Ohio State University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "Emulating 2D Materials with Spin Waves"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "Irradiation Response of Dilute Ni–Zr Alloys: Insights into Phase Stability"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- 163 Noyes Lab
"The Realities of a Practicing Data Scientist", Alix Schmidt, Sr Data Scientist Dow Chemical, Core R&D Information Research
- Informational

Friday, October 24, 2025

- 10:00 - 10:50 am
- 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Spyros Reveliotis
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
High Energy Physics Seminar - Oz Amram (Fermilab) "AI, Anomaly Detection and the Search for the Unknown at CMS"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 27, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Sukbum Chung (University of Seoul)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Hadi Meidani
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Michael Gallis - Exascale Molecular-Level Simulations of Gas Flows
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium, Thomas A. Read Lecture - "Advancements in Chiplet & Advanced Packaging Technology including Co-Packaged Optics"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Point Defects in Crystals: Trapped Atoms for Quantum Technologies," Kai-Mei Fu, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington

Speaker: Kai-Mei Fu, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley (host: Deborah Leckband)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar - "Storable Prepreg for On-Orbit Composites Manufacturing"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Isaac Legred (UIUC)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium "Chirality Meets Quantum"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 30, 2025

- 8:30 - 10:30 am
- ECEB 5086
Prelim Exam: Yi Zhou
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 114 Transportation Building
Engineering in Residence Seminar (SE 290) - Jeremy Ward
- Lecture
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
Kent Seminar: Zhibin Chen, New York University Shanghai
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 31, 2025

- 10:00 - 10:50 am
- 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Yunbei Xu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
High Energy Physics Seminar - Aurora Ireland (Stanford) "A Classical-to-Quantum Transition for Inflationary Perturbations"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - Barry Bradlyn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium