The Grainger College of Engineering

Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Monday, December 2, 2024

- 10:00 am
- Siebel 3401
THEORY SEMINAR: Michael A. Forbes, "Approximating Transcendence Degree in Medium Characteristic"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: "Unconventional discontinuous transitions in a 2D system with spin and valley degrees of freedom"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Jim Coder Transonic, Natural-Laminar-Flow Technology for Next-Generation Aircraft
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
No Colloquium - MRS symposium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 1310 Yeh Student Center
Realizing Architecture Through Structure | Matt Streid | Structural Engineering Seminar Series
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

- 8:00 am
- Location: CEEB (Hydro) 3019, or Zoom
PhD Final Defense – Xinchang “Cathy” Li
- Conference/Workshop
- 11:00 am
- 2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Dynamics, Control and Cognition cluster at NSF but were afraid to ask
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Algebras, CSPs, and Quantum Computing," Hamoon Mousavi, University of California, Berkeley

Speaker: Hamoon Mousavi, Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 - 5:00 pm
- 208 N Wright St, Urbana, IL
Prelim Exam: Yulin He
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Fragility in Large-scale Dynamics: From Shear-flow transition to Anderson Localization to Large Networks
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 2100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building, 1206 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Matt Caplan

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 - No Seminar (MRS)
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- MRL 280
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - "Doping a fractional quantum anomalous Hall insulator"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Juan Estrada (Fermilab) "Searching for Dark Matter, one electron at a time"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 5, 2024

- 11:00 am
- 114 TB
SE 290 - Jim McMahon
- Lecture
- 11:00 am
- 2045 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
The role of friction interfaces in engineering structures
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- MRL 280
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - "Interaction-induced topological electronic crystals: theory and phenomenology"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 2:00 pm
- ECEB 5070
Prelim Exam: Hsinju Chen
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- Loomis Room 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: "More is different: a path from integrability to quantum chaos"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - no seminar, MRS
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, December 6, 2024

- 10:00 - 10:50 am
- 2311 NCEL - Yeh Center
Assessing the Impact of Marine Aerosols on Cloud Dynamics in the Southeast Atlantic: Insights from a Chemical Transport Model
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- ECEB
Final Exam: Qi Jian Lim
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 - 10:50 am
- 2310 EVRT - 1406 W Green St, Urbana IL 61801
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Corey Schimpf
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Quantum or Not? Decoding Spin Dynamics in Magnetic Insulators"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, December 9, 2024

- 9:00 am
Teaching Special Seminar: Linh Nguyen
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: "Quantum circuit as a lens into quantum phases and phase transitions"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 1310 Yeh Student Center
A Novel Technique for Self-Centering Shear Keys in Highway Bridges | José Wilches | Structural Engineering Seminar Series
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- CEEB 1017
PhD Final Defense – Rini Jasmine Gladstone
- Conference/Workshop
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Betar Gallant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Interplays of Composition and Function in the Interphases of Metal Anodes" (host: Schoetz)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Integrating Multi-scale Modeling and Control Theory in Biomedical Therapeutic Systems
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 2100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building, 1206 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Ben Lindley

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 -
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Elisa Novitski (University of Washington)
- Ceremony/Service

Thursday, December 12, 2024

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
FGI Webinar: Stress Based Flow Failure Assessment for Dams and Embankments with Examples

This presentation will discuss a procedure to assess whether a liquefied strength or liquefied strength ratio should be applied to a zone(s) along a potential failure surface in a static or dynamic stability analysis to assess the flow failure potential of dams and embankments. 1.0 PDH
- Professional Development
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- ECEB
Prelim Exam: Zixuan Tian
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- HMNTL Conference room 1000
"Titanium-sapphire-on-insulator for next generation on-chip laser technology"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, December 16, 2024

- 8:00 am
- CEEB 1017
PhD Final Defense – Cocou Davis Ruben Aza-Gnandji
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- CSL 301 & Zoom
Final Exam: Hongyu Shen
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, December 21, 2024

- 10:00 - 11:00 am
- Lincoln Hall, 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801
ChBE 2024 Winter Convocation
- Ceremony/Service
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Latzer Hall in the University of Illinois YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
ChBE 2024 Winter Convocation Reception
- Reception/Open House

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Urbana, IL 61801

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