Engineering Seminars Test Calendar 2.10

Monday, March 3, 2025

- 11:00 am
- ESB Lab 3110
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Avalanche Dynamics in Interdependent Networks and Beyond
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Tejus Sreelal/Li Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 317 Gregory Hall
Yue Yu, Final Defense, UIUC, "Genome Mining for Natural Product Biosynthesis."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker Adrian Lozano Duran - Building-block flow model: An ML-based general-purpose closure model for large eddy simulation
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Amgen Lecture, Amgen rep: Dr. Heather Johnson, "Continuous Manufacturing and Biocatalysis to Enable the Process Development of a Key Intermediate""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Amgen Lecture w/Professor Jeffrey W. Bode, ETH Zurich, "Synthetic Biologics"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum controls and error mitigation from geometric space curves", Ed Barnes, Professor of Physics and Moore Faculty Fellow, Virginia Tech University

Speaker: Ed Barnes, Professor of Physics and Moore Faculty Fellow, Virginia Tech - "Quantum control and error mitigation from geometric space curves",
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 - 4:00 pm
- CIF 2018
Seminar Speaker: Minduli Wijayatunga - Cosmic Janitors and Space Miners: Tools for Autonomous Trajectory Design and Guidance in Rendezvous and Proximity Operation Missions
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chemistry Annex
CHEM 515 Literature Seminar: "Catalytic Intermediates in Directed C-H Functionalization by First-Row Transition Metals", Tiana Huynh, University of Illinois - U/C
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
Cosmology from DESI's First Year of Large-Scale Structure Measurements
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Mechanics and Myocytes: Engineered Models of the Cardiac Syncytium and Myotendinous Junction
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Suvanthee Gunasekera/Martinez Lab and Lindsey Grady/Hatoum-Aslan Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Neurogenomic mechanisms of psychiatric and substance use disorders," by Seth A. Ament, PhD, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- 1 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign, IL 61820
ISTC Webinar | University-Community research response to COVID-19 amplified water insecurities on the Navajo Nation
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Sua Myong
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower
Yoga at Beckman

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
- Health/Fitness
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- Material Sciences Building, 1304 W Green St, Urbana - Room 119
Thriving as a Graduate Student Series - "Cultivating a Strong and Productive Relationship with Your Advisor"

This presentation by Alexis Thompson will explore strategies for PhD and Master's students to cultivate a strong and productive relationship with their thesis advisor, focusing on clear communication, aligning expectations, and proactively seeking guidance for research and career development. This event is for Grainger Engineering graduate students, including ChBE.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Ashley Holahan (Shapiro Lab) - "A Small Molecule That Targets Oncogene mRNA Stability & Kills Uterine Cancer Cells"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: “Nu-e or not Nu-e? And other fundamental questions"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:30 pm
- 116 RAL
Emma Thames (Stadtmueller Lab) - "Exploring the role of avian and mammalian Immunoglobulin A in anti-viral immune responses."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:30 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
Capital One Tech Talk
- Informational

Thursday, March 6, 2025

- 9:00 1:00 pm
- Beckman Institute Auditorium
Integrative Imaging, explained
- Informational
- 12:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Laboratory
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Blake Levy, UIUC, "A New Approach to Male Birth Control: Small-molecule, Nonhormonal Contraceptives."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- LLP 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: "Gravitational constraints, modular flow, and the information theory of UV divergences"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Elizabeth Biddinger, CUNY, "Electro-organic Reactions for Sustainable Applications" (host: Paul Kenis)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 1015 ECEB
Financial Focus: Education, Tools, and Strategies to Secure Your Future
- Professional Development
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Marvel/Voorhees Postdoc Symposium: Dr. Bidhan De, "Directed Endosymbiosis to Investigate Plastid Evolution and Application"; Dr. Chandrashekhar Padhi, "Discovery of Novel Macrocyclic RiPPs Modified by Three Different Metalloenzymes"; Dr. Zhenchuang Xu, "Recyclable High-Performance Thermosets with Generation Invariant Material Properties"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 7, 2025

- 9:00 am
- Beckman Institute, Room 4269 (4th floor tower room)
Beckman Institute's Mission-Critical Work Discussion
- Ceremony/Service
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Memory and Plasticity in Amorphous Solids"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ Department Head Nancy Amato
- Other

Monday, March 10, 2025

- 10:00 - 10:30 am
- Beckman Institute Center Atrium
Gather in the Garden

All are welcome to join our weekly 10-10:30 a.m. Tuesday gather in the atrium sessions. Please feel free to bring your own favorite beverage and enjoy the company!
- Social/Informal Event
- 10:00 am
- 280 MRL
Thesis Defense: "Floquet-Bloch Manipulation of Correlated Topological Materials"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - "Bootstrapping thermal equilibrium"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Ran Yang/Brieher Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Journal Club for Dr. Gavis
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Journal Club for Dr. Gavis
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Marcus Hermann - Modeling phase interfaces undergoing atomization in turbulent flows using Large Eddy Simulation
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Bristol Myers Squibb Lecture, Dr. William P. Gallagher, BMS, "Adventures in the Synthesis of a Complex Pharmaceutical Candidate Enabled by Novel Reactions"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Bristol Myers Squibb Lecture w/Professor Brian Blagg, University of Notre Dame, "Turning Lemons Into Lemonade: Rediscovery of Hsp90 Inhibitors"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

- 10:00 - 10:30 am
- Beckman Institute Center Atrium
Gather in the Garden

All are welcome to join our weekly 10-10:30 a.m. Tuesday gather in the atrium sessions. Please feel free to bring your own favorite beverage and enjoy the company!
- Social/Informal Event
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Approximate Unitary k-Designs from Shallow, Low-Communication Circuits", Nicholas LaRacuente, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University - Bloomington

Speaker: Nicholas LaRacuente, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University - Bloomington
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Emerging Leaders Seminar: Dr. Karen Mulfort, Argonne National Laboratory, "Directional Photoinduced Charge Transfer and Accumulation Using Copper Photosensitizers"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
Discoveries of Interstellar PAHs from Cold Clouds to the Solar System
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Sierra Bedwell/Heath-Whitaker Labs and Michael Bochert/Golding Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Microglia regulating brain functions in development and degeneration," by Dr. Ukpong Eyo, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, University of Virginia School of Medicine.
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

- 10:00 am
- 280 MRL
Thesis Defense: "Nonlinear THz Emission Spectroscopy of Spin and Charge Dynamics in Correlated Materials"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower
Yoga at Beckman

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
- Health/Fitness
- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
- ISTC 131
ISTC Hybrid Seminar | Commercialization of Industrial Carbon Capture Technology @ Mitico
- Ceremony/Service
- 1:30 pm
- English Building 160
FINAL DEFENSE: Nafisa Ibrahim "Systematic Study of Redox-Active Polymers for Energy Storage: Exploring Structural Modulation, Electrolyte Interactions and Programmable Degradation" Advisor: Joaquin Rodriguez-Lopez
- Ceremony/Service
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
Prof. Brett McGuire, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Evolution of Aromatic Chemistry in the Interstellar Medium"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Dabich Fellow: Jessica Derham (Kalsotra Lab) - "The Role of ESRP2 in Drug Induced Liver Injury"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Qianjin Jiang (Shapiro Lab) - “A Small Molecule Targeting mRNA-protein Interactions Induces an Interferon Response and Triggers Apoptosis in Lethal MYC-driven Small Cell Lung Cancer”.
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 13, 2025

- 9:00 am
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Kaylee Kuzelka (Nair Lab) - "Structural Analysis Via X-Ray Crystallography of an Engineered Carbon Methlytransfersae, A Phytoxic Phosphonate and its Modifying Enzyme, and a Chimeric Tyrosinase"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Laboratory
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Ceilia Leso, UIUC, "Environmental Spies: Genetically Encoded Plant Biosensors and their Applications"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Mark Swihart, University at Buffalo, "A Non-equilibrium Flame Aerosol Process to Create High-entropy Nanomaterials" (co-hosts: Hong Yang, Paul Kenis)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Fuson Student Talks: Youran Luo, UIUC, "Investigation of Lanthionine Synthase-Catalyzed Thio-Michael Addition"; Matthew Albritton, UIUC, "Development and Mechanistic Investigation of an Aqueous, Indium-Catalyzed Allylation of Native Carbohydrates Using Allylboronate Esters"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Dante Ricci, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: "Molecular microbiology in the nation’s service: interdisciplinary R&D at a DoE national lab"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:30 - 7:30 pm
- 200 South Wacker Drive, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606
After Hours in Chicago
- Social/Informal Event

Friday, March 14, 2025

- 9:00 am
- Director's office
Director's Coffee Hour with Steve Maren

Beckman Director Steve Maren will be hosting a weekly Director’s Coffee Hour at 9 a.m. on Fridays at one of the nearby coffee shops (the Daily Byte or Espresso Royale) until the Beckman Café reopens. It's a great opportunity to get to know your new director and for him to get to know you and your research. Steve's buying! Please contact Stacy for details on meeting Steve
- Social/Informal Event
- 11:00 am
- LLP 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Special Seminar: "TQFT gravity and ensemble holography"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ben Warlick -"What Happens Next?"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Universal Features of Emergent Electronic Fractals in Quantum Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ Department Head Nancy Amato
- Other
- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
Professor Chibueze Amanchukwu, University of Chicago, "Innovating in – and learning from – battery science to address challenges in electrochemistry"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

- 10:00 - 10:30 am
- Beckman Institute Center Atrium
Gather in the Garden

All are welcome to join our weekly 10-10:30 a.m. Tuesday gather in the atrium sessions. Please feel free to bring your own favorite beverage and enjoy the company!
- Social/Informal Event
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
No Seminar March 18, 2025 - UIUC SPRING BREAK (March 15-23, 2025)
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower
Yoga at Beckman

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
- Health/Fitness
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
ISTC Webinar | US Public Perceptions of Carbon Capture and Removal in the Context of Green Industrial Development
- Conference/Workshop
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 20, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 217
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Harshika Varadhan, UIUC, "Title TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 24, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Ben Wieder, "Topological Superconductor Hierarchies from Superconducting Space Groups and Charge-Resolved Topology"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Sihang Zhou/VanBortle Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Auditorium
Soo Distinguished Lecture: Evaporation Peculiarities: Photomolecular Effect and Evaporative Refrigeration Effect
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

- 10:00 - 10:30 am
- Beckman Institute Center Atrium
Gather in the Garden

All are welcome to join our weekly 10-10:30 a.m. Tuesday gather in the atrium sessions. Please feel free to bring your own favorite beverage and enjoy the company!
- Social/Informal Event
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Towards properties-on-demand in quantum materials", Richard Averitt, University of California, San Diego

Speaker: Richard Averitt, Professor, University of California, San Diego
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 - 4:30 pm
- NCSA Auditorium
New Frontiers in Transient Astrophysics: Gravitational-Wave Multi-Messenger Sources and R-process Nucleosynthesis
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Gene x Environment Interactions in Neurological Diseases," by Candice Brinkmeyer-Langford, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Texas A&M Health Science Center, School of Public Health
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Anubhav Basu/Vanderpool Lab and Saika Hossain/Imlay Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Brian Plosky
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower
Yoga at Beckman

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
- Health/Fitness
- 3:30 pm
- NCSA auditorium and online
The Utpal Banerjee Distinguished Lecture in High Performance Computing: Charles Leiserson
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Akshita Gopal (Wu Lab) - "Characterization of Antibodies Against Influenza H3N2 Hemagglutinin Stem."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: "Open Questions on the Dynamics of Black Holes"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Yujia Ji (Stadtmueller Lab) - "The cartilaginous fish Immunoglobulin M provides insights into polymeric antibody assembly and evolution"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 27, 2025

- 9:00 am
- 236 Loomis
Thesis Defense: "Testing General Relativity and Cosmology with Gravitational Waves: Polarizations, Propagation Speeds, and Backgrounds"
- Lecture
- 3:00 pm
- Atrium
Cookie Collab and celebration of Marni Boppart and Ying Diao, Presidential Early Career Award recipients

Join other members of the Beckman community for coffee and cookies in the Beckman Atrium. The Cookie Collab is scheduled for 3 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month.
- Social/Informal Event
- 3:00 - 4:30 pm
- John Deere Pavillion (MEL 2005)
International Coffee & Tea Hours
- Social/Informal Event
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Lyle Simmons, University of Michigan: " Genome instability caused by persistent RNA-DNA hybrid formation"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 28, 2025

- 9:00 am
- Director's office
Director's Coffee Hour with Steve Maren

Beckman Director Steve Maren will be hosting a weekly Director’s Coffee Hour at 9 a.m. on Fridays at one of the nearby coffee shops (the Daily Byte or Espresso Royale) until the Beckman Café reopens. It's a great opportunity to get to know your new director and for him to get to know you and your research. Steve's buying! Please contact Stacy for details on meeting Steve
- Social/Informal Event
- 10:00 am
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Gilberto Padron (Sanfilippo Lab) - "Shear flow modulates oxidative nutrient stress in Pseudomonas aeruginosa."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Kitaev spin model, disguised Ising chain, and beyond"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 31, 2025

- 11:00 am
- 117 RAL
FINAL DEFENSE, Jeff Xu, , "Workflows and automated platforms for nanocrystal synthesis, purification, and characterization"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - "Ab-Initio Downfolding for Strongly Correlated Systems: Benchmarks and Applications"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Henry Sodano - Precipitation Printing Towards Diverse Materials, Mechanical Tailoring and Functional Devices
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Novartis Lecture: Dr. Raundi E. Quevedo, Novartis, "Scientific Vignettes: Molecular Glues for Drug Discovery"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Novartis Lecture: Professor Donna Blackmond, Scripps Research Institute, "Models for the Origin of Biological Homochirality"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:00 8:00 p.m.
- Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center located at 601 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.
CHBE 121 Poster Session

Please join students and faculty at the annual ChBE 121 Poster Session. This event will take place from 6-8 p.m. at the Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. Students in small teams review and prepare a poster describing an Industrial Safety Incident. The posters include details such as an event timeline and immediate and long-term impacts.
- Informational

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

- 10:00 - 10:30 am
- Beckman Institute Center Atrium
Gather in the Garden

All are welcome to join our weekly 10-10:30 a.m. Tuesday gather in the atrium sessions. Please feel free to bring your own favorite beverage and enjoy the company!
- Social/Informal Event
- 10:00 am - 1:00 pm 1:00 pm
- Beckman Institute Auditorium
Molecular Science and Engineering, explained
- Informational
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Probing Topology and Correlation by Milli-Kelvin Microwave Microscopy", Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin

Speaker: Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Hippocampal engrams regulating fear memory," by Steve Maren, Director, Beckman Institute; Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Junya Li/Martinez Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

- 10:00 am
- 280 MRL
Thesis Defense: "Beyond Linear Responses: Exploring Magnetic Materials through Nonlinear Terahertz Spectroscopy"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower
Yoga at Beckman

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
- Health/Fitness
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online
Distinguished Lecture: Masashi Sugiyama, "Towards Reliable Machine Learning from Imperfect Training Data"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Diptatanu Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "Dysregulated RNA splicing impairs protein localization and function in alcohol-associated human liver disease."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
'Fola Adesanya (Kalsotra Lab) - “Elucidating the Molecular Basis for Cardiac Mitochondrial and Bioenergetics Defects in Type I Myotonic Dystrophy (DM1)”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 3, 2025

- 10:00 am
- MRI Exhibit
New-to-Beckman tour

Come find out more about the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology! Learn about the barrier-busting interdisciplinary research facility and community of innovation. First Thursday of the month from 10-10:30 a.m.
- Informational
- 11:30 am
- Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
TikTok PhD Tech Talk
- Informational
- 12:00 pm
- Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 217
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Laura Bickart, UIUC, "TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Distinguished Inorganic Lecture: Professor Franc Meyer, University of Göttingen, "Inspired by Nitrogenase: Dihydride Complexes for the H2-Releasing Reductive Activation of Challenging Substrates"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Stephen Kissler, University of Colorado - Boulder - "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2025

- All Day
- Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 AND Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801
CHBE/OXE UG Research Symposium and Scholarship Awards Ceremony
- Meeting
- 9:00 am
- Director's office
Director's Coffee Hour with Steve Maren

Beckman Director Steve Maren will be hosting a weekly Director’s Coffee Hour at 9 a.m. on Fridays at one of the nearby coffee shops (the Daily Byte or Espresso Royale) until the Beckman Café reopens. It's a great opportunity to get to know your new director and for him to get to know you and your research. Steve's buying! Please contact Stacy for details on meeting Steve
- Social/Informal Event
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Lars Dietrich (Columbia University) - "Bacterial biofilms, pigments and javelins"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - Daniel Shoemaker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 1024 Chemistry Annex
Thesis Defense: ""
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
Professor Maral Mousavi, University of Southern California, "Integrated Electrochemical Sensors for On-body and At-home Measurements"
- Seminar/Symposium