College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Monday, April 29, 2024

- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- HMNTL 2003
Prelim Examination: Jack Huang
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Siebel 3401
Parallel Derandomization for Chernoff-like Concentrations
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- 3310 NCEL Yeh Center
Agriculture and Food Systems in India: A Wicked Problem

Overall, the talk will highlight the need for a holistic approach to co-design agricultural and environmental policies to mitigate the existing paradoxical challenges posed by modern-day food systems.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
CANCELED! The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Solving the Mott Problem
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 - 4:00 pm
- Beckman 3269 3rd Floor Tower Room
Biological Physics / iPoLS / STC-QCB Seminar: Luke Chao (Harvard University) ""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- Beckman 3269
STC-QCB Seminar: Luke Chao (Harvard University) "Ultrastructural regulation of the mitochondrial inner-membrane"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online
Distinguished Lecture: Eduard Hovy, "The Future of LLM NLP"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
CANCELLED: AE590 Seminar: Pushing the Limits of Hall Thrusters to Enable Next Generation Space Exploration
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - Racheff student awardees
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Sensing of Two-Dimensional Magnetism," Chunhui Du, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Speaker: Chunhui Du, Assistant Professor, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- HMNTL 3003
Prelim Exam: Han Lee
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar, Prof. Priya Shah, University of California, Davis (Shukla) "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: Integrating Virology and Engineering to Drive Discovery"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Prelim Exam: Jeongmin Park
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 4102
Alex Hoover "Plinko: Single-Server PIR with Efficient Updates via Invertible PRFs"
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 3039 Campus Instructional Facility, 1405 W. Springfield Avenue, Urbana, IL
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Senior Design Presentations

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 - "Visualization of white adipose tissue microenvironment with whole mount tissue immunofluorescence imaging"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Thermal Systems Engineering for Desalination and Resource Recovery
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- HMNTL 3003
Prelim Exam: Stasiu Chyczewski
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Tom Baumgarte (Bowdoin College) "Capture of primordial black holes by neutron stars"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
Physics Colloquium: Theoretical Physics and Artificial Intelligence
- Lecture

Friday, May 3, 2024

- 9:00 - 11:00 am
- CSL 114
Prelim Exam: Hieu Hoang
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- CSL 368
Prelim Exam: Adarsh Muthuveeru-Subramaniam
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- HMNTL 3003
Prelim Exam: Hanwool Lee
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- HMNTL 2003
Prelim Exam: Weinan Liu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 1302
Quinn Burke "Towards Scalable Integrity Mechanisms for Trusted Cloud Storage Systems"
- Lecture

Saturday, May 4, 2024

- 11:00 am
- Room 464
PIKIMO Speaker Henry Lamm
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Room 464
PIKIMO Speaker Katelin Schutz "CHIME is secretly an axion experiment"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 6, 2024

- 10:00 am
Special Seminar: Ge (Tiffany) Wang, "Designing for Autonomy in Data-Driven AI Systems"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- CSL 243 and Zoom
Final Exam: Husnain Mubarik
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

- 8:00 am
- 1311 NCEL
PhD Final Defense for Joe Gamez
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- CSL 141
Final Exam: Yuhong Li
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

- 10:00 - 11:00 am
- Room 2240 Digital Computer Lab (1304 W. Springfield Ave, Urbana)
Human-In-The-Loop and Healthcare Simulations
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Campus Instructional Facility 3025, or via Zoom
Scientific Machine Learning for Fluid Dynamics
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 274 Materials Science building
FINAL DEFENSE, Paola Baldaguez Medina "Harnessing Redox Electro-Sorbents and Reactive Separations for Efficient PFAS Remediation in Water Systems""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- ECEB 5070
Prelim Exam: Juhitha Konduru
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science RM 2407
Prelim Exam: Junda (Simon) Yu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online
Distinguished Lecture: Sanjit Seshia, "Towards Verified AI-Based Autonomy"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 9, 2024

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
FGI Webinar: Remote Sensing for Cover Integrity or Methane Emissions

This webinar will describe the use of drones to detect methane emissions from landfills. Detecting methane emissions is important for reducing greenhouse gases and climate change. In particular, this webinar will describe the use of advanced drone technology for methane emissions monitoring and how it may benefit the geomembrane industry. 1.0 PDH
- Professional Development