Engineering Seminars Test Calendar 2.10

Monday, December 2, 2024

- 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
- 1:00 pm
- 1002 Supercon
Thesis Defense: "Searching for New Physics with Fermilab's Proton Beam"
- Lecture
- 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
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Vanessa Reyes Lopez, UIUC, "Studies Into Psilocybin: The Potential of Hallucinogens for Depression"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

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

Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Coffee Connections will take place every other Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
- Social/Informal Event
- 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
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Professor Jonathan Rittle, University of California, Berkeley, “ Discovery of Manganese-Dependent Monooxygenases” (I)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
Where the Planets Grow: Revealing the Properties of Young Protostellar Disks
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Nathan Gehrke, UIUC, "Recent Advances in Orally Bioavailable Cyclic Peptides"
- 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 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"The Origins of Neurons & Brains: from Deciphering Convergent Evolution at Single-Cell Resolution to Periodic Systems of Neurons," by Leonid L. Moroz, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience, Dept of Neuroscience, College of Medicine, University of Florida
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- ECEB Atrium
URSA Poster Symposium
- Reception/Open House

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 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminar: Kenneth Poss
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Guest Seminar: Dr. Kenneth Poss, Duke University/Snigdha Mathure
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower
Yoga at Beckman

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall 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
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Subhashis Natua (Kalsotra Lab) - "The Role of Nuclear Poly(A) Binding Protein in Cardiac Maturation and Function"
- Ceremony/Service

Thursday, December 5, 2024

- 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 pm
- 163 Noyes Laboratory
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Justin Ahrens, UIUC, "The Development of PDE4 inhibitors to study Alcoholic Liver Disease"
- 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
- 2:00 pm
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Lawrence Wang (Shapiro Lab) - "Estrogen-Receptor-a-Positive Breast and Ovarian Cancer: THerapy and Meachanisms"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Chem 515 Literature Seminar: Joanna Vo, UIUC, "Catalysts for the Depolymerization of ATRP-Synthesized Polymethacrylates" 585 Literature Seminar: Tathagata Chatterjee, UIUC, "MXing Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution with MXenes" (M)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Christopher Gaulke, UIUC/Pathobiology - "Interrogating crosstalk between gut microbes and gastrointestinal cancers"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, December 6, 2024

- 9:00 am
Director's Coffee Hour with Steve Maren
- Social/Informal Event
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Kai Zhang (University of Illinois)- "Harnessing Light to Uncover Intracellular and Intercellular Communication in Learning, Memory, and Cell Death"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Quantum or Not? Decoding Spin Dynamics in Magnetic Insulators"
- 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 Hang Ren, The University of Texas at Austin, "Unveiling the Complexity and Heterogeneity of Electrochemical Interfaces"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, December 7, 2024

- 9:00 am
- ECEB
FIRST Lego League Qualifiers
- Other

Sunday, December 8, 2024

- 11:00 am
- ECEB 3002
HKN Initiation
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, December 9, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- Beckman Institute Room 2269 (2nd Floor Tower Room)
Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar Series: Dr. Andrea Shafer

Dr. Andrea Shafer, Duke University, will lecture on "Individual Differences in Cognitive Aging; Transitioning from the Academic to Industry Approach to Research."
- Lecture
- 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
- 6:00 - 8:00 pm
- Channing-Murray foundation, 1209 W Oregon St, Urbana, IL 61801
Chiaroscuro: <Hidden | Variable> - A Culminating Event Where the Arts Meet Physics
- Exhibition

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

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

Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Coffee Connections will take place every other Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
- Social/Informal Event
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - "Criticality in quantum ferroelectric metals"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Chem 515 Literature Seminars: Gwen Paule, UIUC, "Metal Complexes as mediators for Electrocatalytic PCET" Riley Stein, UIUC, "Exploring CuA Site Chemistry: A New Twist on an Old Site" (I)
- Ceremony/Service
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
Binary Black Hole Formation: A Multimessenger, Multiband Puzzle
- 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 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student/Postdoc Seminar: Mireille Farjo/Brooke Lab and Inoka Menikpurage/Kuzminov Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

- 10:15 am
- 3110 ESB
Thesis Defense: "Applications of Modular Inclusions in Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Gravity"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Andrew Riley/Brieher Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower
Yoga at Beckman

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall 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
- Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B-102
Prof. Scott K. Cushing, California Institute of Technology, "When do Ultrafast Processes Matter? From Batteries to Strong Localization in Solar Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: "A new approach to measuring neutrino mass"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 12, 2024

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- B02 CSL Auditorum & Zoom
Ertugrul Cubukcu Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Beckman Institute, Room 5602
Fall 2024 Beckman Institute Town Hall

Director Maren will provide updates on planning for a spring showcase, strategic planning, new Beckman faculty and staff, and more. After the town hall, stay for an hour of conversation and treats!
- Informational
- 2:30 pm
- 612 IGB
FINAL DEFENSE: Stanley Bram, "COMBATTING PATHOGENS THROUGH DIRECTED EVOLUTION, SINGLE-CELL SEQUENCING, AND SYNTHETIC IMMUNOLOGY" Advisor: Angad Mehta
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- Beckman Insitute, 5602
Holiday Cookie Collab a la mode

Join members of the Beckman community for coffee and cookies in the Beckman Insitute 5602. Come at 2 pm for the Fall 2024 Beckman Town Hall. Director Maren will provide updates on planning for a spring showcase, strategic planning, new Beckman faculty and staff, and more.
- Social/Informal Event
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Chem 585 Literature Seminars: Sindy Liu, UIUC (TBD), Sohini Mandal, UIUC "Heterostructures of 2D Materials with Diverse Dimensionalities for Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity" (M)
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, December 13, 2024

- 9:00 am
Director's Coffee Hour with Steve Maren
- Social/Informal Event

Monday, December 16, 2024

- 2:00 pm
- 161 Noyes Laboratory
Chiyoung Ahn, Final Defense, UIUC, "Enhancing Chemoselectivity and Predicting Site-Selectivity in Manganese Catalyzed C-H Oxidation"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

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

Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Coffee Connections will take place every other Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
- Social/Informal Event
- 10:00 am
- 1000 MNTL
Thesis Defense: "MS-Scale Temporal Coding in the Thalamus Predicted by Whisker Dispersive Vibrational Tranduction"
- Lecture

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

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

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall 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

Thursday, December 19, 2024

- 2:00 pm
- 464 Loomis
Thesis Defense: ""
- Lecture

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