Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Monday, February 3, 2025

• • 8:00 am
  • CEEB 3012

  PhD Final Defense – Jaeik Lee

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 9:00 am

  Teaching Special Seminar: Yining Liu, "Teaching Discrete Structures at Scale"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - "Microscopic models for non-relativistic spin-splitting"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

  Distinguished Lecture: Ryan O'Donnell, "Wake Up Babe, New Probability Just Dropped"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 3:30 - 4:30 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  IQUIST Seminar | Siebel School Distinguished Lecture Series: Ryan O'Donnell, Carnegie Mellon University

  Speaker: Ryan O'Donnell

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Raffaele Russo - Liquid Hydrogen Powered VTOL Aircraft

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - CANCELED

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

• • 9:00 am

  Teaching Special Seminar: Emily Fox, "On Motivation: My Experiences Teaching a Growing Algorithms Course at UTD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:30 pm

  University of Illinois-FGI Online CQA Course & Certification Exam

  Join the University of Illinois-FGI for a Live Online Course and Certification Exam on Manufacturing, Fabrication, and Installation QA/QC for Geosynthetics February 4-18, 2025.

  • Professional Development
• • 4:00 pm
  • 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  Direct Digital Manufacturing of Multi-material Structures

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 2035 Campus Instructional Facility

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Jean-charles Stinville

  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
  • 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar - "Exploring Entangled Polymer Behavior through Single-Molecule Experiments and Recovery Rheology"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

• • 9:00 am

  Teaching Special Seminar: Tamara Nelson-Fromm, "Designing Computing Education for the Arts and Sciences"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • ECEB 5070

  Prelim Exam: T.G. Roberts

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Cliff Will (University of Florida & Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris) "Hierarchical Triple Systems in Newtonian and post-Newtonian gravity - or - Adventures of a general relativist in a 3-body world"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:30 pm

  University of Illinois-FGI Online CQA Course & Certification Exam

  Join the University of Illinois-FGI for a Live Online Course and Certification Exam on Manufacturing, Fabrication, and Installation QA/QC for Geosynthetics February 4-18, 2025.

  • Professional Development
• • 3:00 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  PILOT Seminar: Xudong Sun, "Improving Reliability of Modern Cloud Systems with Verification in the Loop"

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

  Physics Colloquium: Watson Lecture "The renaissance of general relativity"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 6, 2025

• 

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

  IQUIST Seminar: Mihir Bhaskar, CEO, Co-founder, Lightsynq

  Speaker: Mihir Bhaskar, CEO & Co-founder, Lightsynq

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Mike Loquercio

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • LLP 464

  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: "Quantum reference frames, corrections to semiclassical gravity, and the generalised second law"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • CEEB Room 3310

  PhD Final Defense – Angshuman C. Baruah

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
  • CSL

  Prelim Exam: Archit Patke

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866

  Kent Seminar: Alireza Talebpour, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2018

  AE Seminar Speaker: Enrico Zucchelli - Crafting Probability Distributions for Space Domain Awareness

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of precipitate morphologies at dislocations under irradiation"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Large Angle Rocking Beam Electron Diffraction For Chirality Determination"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 2405

  IMMERSE Seminar: Steven Gao, Qinjun Jiang, Jeffrey Liu, Bakshree Mishra, Yihan Pang, Rahul Singh, "ILLIXR: An End-to-End Systems Research Approach to Enable the Era of Immersive Computing"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 7, 2025

• 

  • 10:00 - 10:50 am
  • 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801

  ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Shivakumar Raman

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 - 10:50 am
  • 2311 NCEL - Yeh Center

  Plasma Catalysis: A Promising Avenue for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

  This lecture will delve into scaling up of a plasma catalysis system and critical aspects of GHG mitigation through plasma catalysis such as: exploring catalyst formulation, reaction mechanisms, byproduct selectivity, and addressing existing challenges and future research directions.

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  High Energy Physics Seminar - The Higgs, Flavor and the Path to New Physics

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Neutron Scattering as a Probe of Magnetic Quantum Materials"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • Room 1232

  Robotics Seminar: Girish Krishnan, "Will Soft Robots Survive the Axe?"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Physics Careers Seminar: "You’re Hired! A View From the Other Side"

  • Lecture

Monday, February 10, 2025

• • 9:00 am

  Teaching Special Seminar: Daniel Gonzalez Cedre, "The Role of Language in Discrete Math"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
  • CSL 301

  Final Exam: Usman Syed

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Steven Chesley - Asteroid orbit determination problems for the DART planetary defense demonstration

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Modeling and measuring the linear viscoelasticity of vitrimer melts"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 1310 Newmark

  Parametric modeling and computational analysis of complex engineering structures | Emily Johnson | Structural Engineering Seminar Series

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

• • 9:00 am

  Teaching Special Seminar: James Perretta, "Feedback Loops: Strategies for Creating Adaptive & Engaging Learning Environments"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

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

  IQUIST Seminar: Fernando Granha Jeronimo, Assistant Professor, Siebel School of Computing & Data Science, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

  Speaker: Fernando Granha Jeronimo

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:30 pm

  University of Illinois-FGI Online CQA Course & Certification Exam

  Join the University of Illinois-FGI for a Live Online Course and Certification Exam on Manufacturing, Fabrication, and Installation QA/QC for Geosynthetics February 4-18, 2025.

  • Professional Development
• • 4:00 pm
  • 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  Mechanical computing in adaptive materials: From neuromorphic intelligence to parallel information processing

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 2035 Campus Instructional Facility

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Dr. Ross Radel

  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
  • 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar - "Electrolytes and electrochemical systems for energy and sustainability"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:30 pm

  University of Illinois-FGI Online CQA Course & Certification Exam

  Join the University of Illinois-FGI for a Live Online Course and Certification Exam on Manufacturing, Fabrication, and Installation QA/QC for Geosynthetics February 4-18, 2025.

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

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 13, 2025

• • 9:30 am

  PILOT Seminar: Chulin Xie, "Improving Trustworthiness in Foundation Models: Assessing, Mitigating, and Analyzing ML Risks"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am
  • CEEB 3012

  PhD Final Defense – Aradhana Agarwal

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Peter Kim

  • Lecture
• • 2:00 - 4:00 pm
  • CSL 301

  Final Exam: Yongzhou Chen

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866

  Kent Seminar: Jeff Roesler, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Enabling Perovskite Semiconductors for a Brighter, Safer, and Efficient World"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 2405

  IMMERSE Seminar: Shayan Shayesteh, "Enhancing Human-Robot Collaboration in Construction Through Immersive and Intelligent User Interfaces"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  The onset and evolution of the Darrieus-Landau instability in flames within closed vessels

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 14, 2025

• • 9:00 am

  Teaching Special Seminar: Anna Evtushenko

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 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
  • Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 4124

  Gunnar Martinsson "Randomization in computational linear algebra"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 464 Loomis

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Tanner Trickle, Tabletop to Telescope: Unraveling the Mystery of Dark Matter

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Intertwined magnetism, correlations and topology in semiconductor moiré lattices"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
  • ECEB 5070

  Final Exam: Mitchell David

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 17, 2025

• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Nina Vaidya - "Moonshots" Via Extreme Engineering

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 0027/1025 Campus Instructional Facility, 1405 W. Springfield Ave

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - Birnbaum Lecture - "Artificial Life, Self-replication, Exponential growth, Directed evolution, Nano-Architecture, DNA Activated NanoMachines"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • ECEB 5070

  Prelim Exam: Gerasimos Gerogiannis

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:30 pm

  University of Illinois-FGI Online CQA Course & Certification Exam

  Join the University of Illinois-FGI for a Live Online Course and Certification Exam on Manufacturing, Fabrication, and Installation QA/QC for Geosynthetics February 4-18, 2025.

  • Professional Development
• • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 2035 Campus Instructional Facility

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - David L. Luxat

  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
  • 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar - "Signatures of competing interactions and environmental conditions in supramolecular polymer solutions and gels"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Lydia Bieri (University of Michigan) "Gravitational Memory Effects and Electromagnetic Analogues"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 4:00 pm
  • TBD

  Final Exam: Abigail Berg

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

  Physics Colloquium: "Building the Cathedral of Quantum Mechanics"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 20, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Jeremy Ward

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • LLP 464

  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: "Thoughts on asymptotic renormalization"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866

  Kent Seminar: Sayan Mitra, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  Aerodynamic Design and Analysis of a 20 MW VSVP Horizontal-axis Wind Turbine

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar - No Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium

  Toward a Systems Theory for Human-Centered Trustworthy Agentic AI

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 21, 2025

• • 10:00 am
  • Newmark 1311

  PhD Final Defense - Saipraneeth Devunuri

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Searching for materials with dual structural and magnetic frustration"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 24, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • HMNTL 2003

  Prelim Exam: Jingxing Gao

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Physics - The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: Jaewon Kim, Berkeley

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Kojiro Sho, "Unveiling Urban Visitation Dynamics and Non-linear Relationships with the Built Environment Using Mobile Big Data"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Niccoli Scalice - Deployable Satellite Structures at AFRL’s Space Vehicles Directorate

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Materials-Driven Strategies for Translational Bioelectrical Interfaces"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

• 

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

  IQUIST Seminar: Joel Yang, Research Scientist, Engineering Quantum Systems Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Speaker: Joel Yang, Research Scientist, Engineering Quantum Systems Group, 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, "Enabling Polyolefin Circularity through Melt Functionalization and Upcycling" (host: Damien Guironnet)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  Autonomous Systems: Research, Real-World Applications and Effective Industry-Academia Partnerships

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 2035 Campus Instructional Facility

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Marie Charpagne

  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
  • 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar - "Controlled Crystallization of Terephthalic Acid Using Reactive Additives"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

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

  Physics Colloquium: "The discovery of pulsars – a grad student’s tale"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 4039

  Seminar Speaker: Carina Li - High-Temperature Multifunctional Structural Materials for Aerospace Applications

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 27, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Vicki VanBlaricum

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm

  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Molly Kaplan, University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866

  Kent Seminar: Sean Qian, Carnegie Mellon University

  • 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
• • 4:00 pm
  • 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  Manipulating Spectral Energy Flux in Turbulent Flows: Applications and Implications Across Scales

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 28, 2025

• 

  • 10:00 - 10:50 am
  • 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801

  ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Albert Berahas

  • Seminar/Symposium