Advith's Calendar

Sunday, June 1, 2025

- All Day
Indiana University Summer Language Workshop
- Conference/Workshop

Monday, June 2, 2025

- 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Summer Teaching Workshop
- Conference/Workshop
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building main foyer, 707 S. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801
Break Program Series: Tastes of Culture
- Social/Informal Event
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
Career Paths in Patents & Intellectual Property: Pros, Cons, and Contingencies - Dr. Effie Zhou, Patent Agent at Mintz
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

- 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Summer Teaching Workshop
- Conference/Workshop
- 1:00 pm
- RAL 419
"Probing Functionalized Interfaces for Carbon Capture Using Spectroelectrochemistry", Abdur-Rahman Siddiqui, Final Defense
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- ECEB 5070
Final Exam: Adarsh Muthuveeru-Subramaniam
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 3:00 pm
- Grainger Engineering Library 1301 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
FULL - WAITLIST ONLY Break Program Series: 3D Printing Workshop
- Conference/Workshop
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- 2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman Visualization Lab Office Hours
- Informational
- 1:00 pm
- N-527 Turner Hall
Thesis Defense | HOLLY COATES
- Other
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- Siebel Center for Design, Classroom 1002
LGBTQ+ Ally Training 101: Introduction to the LGBTQ+ Community
- Professional Development

Thursday, June 5, 2025

- All Day
- 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801
Surrealistic Views of Life- Dr. William Roy
- Exhibition
- 11:00 am
- 1024 Chemistry Annex
Joe Forzano, UIUC, Final Defense, "Development of ALDH1A1-Activated Photosensitizers for Targeted Photodynamic Therapy"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
FGI Webinar: Retaining Wall Global Instability

This webinar will present a case history of a cantilever soldier pile retaining wall with tie-back anchors for a county roadway. 1.0 PDH
- Webinar
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- 2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman Visualization Lab Office Hours
- Informational
- 1:30 pm
- 307 Gregory Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, James Griebler, "Novel Understandings of Yielding in Soft Materials Through Recovery Rheology Techniques""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- ECEB 5070
Final Exam: Krishna Subramani
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, June 6, 2025

- All Day
- 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801
Surrealistic Views of Life- Dr. William Roy
- Exhibition
- All Day
Last day to withdraw* and receive an 80% refund of tuition for Summer 2025 FS courses.
- Other
- 10:00 am
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Chris Hawk (Jin Lab) - "Alleviating Ribosomal Stalls: Functional Characterization of Conserved DRG GTPASES"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- ECEB 5086
Prelim Exam: Kara Maurer
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
- 276 Loomis
Thesis Defense: "Gravitational Operator Algebras and the Role of Noncommutative Conditional Probability in Quantum Geometry"
- Lecture
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other
- 2:30 - 4:30 pm
- CSL 419
Final Exam: Matthew Drallmeier
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, June 7, 2025

- All Day
- 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801
Surrealistic Views of Life- Dr. William Roy
- Exhibition

Sunday, June 8, 2025

- All Day
- 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801
Surrealistic Views of Life- Dr. William Roy
- Exhibition

Monday, June 9, 2025

- All Day
- 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801
Surrealistic Views of Life- Dr. William Roy
- Exhibition
- 9:00 am
- W-223 Turner Hall
Dissertation Defense | DYLAN O'HEARN
- Other
- 9:00 am
- 276 Loomis
Thesis Defense: "Analysis of Tidal Dynamics of Binary Neutron Stars and Properties of Gravitational Collapse Beyond General Relativity"
- Lecture
- 10:00 am
- CLSL B102
"Design, Engineering, & Characterization of a PQQ Containing Artificial Metalloenzyme", Final Defense, Peter Thompson
- Other
- 10:00 am
- Newmark Conference Room 2218
PhD Final Defense – Hyunil Jung
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 2049 Natural History Building and on Zoom
PhD Defense | Evaluating the Influence of Biocontrol Program on the Colorado River Biodiversity with Multi-Source Time Series Imagery
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

- All Day
- 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801
Surrealistic Views of Life- Dr. William Roy
- Exhibition
- 9:00 - 11:00 am
- CSL 419
Final Exam: Shudong Huang
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
- W-121 Turner Hall
Thesis Defense | JOSHUA ANGELL
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

- All Day
- 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801
Surrealistic Views of Life- Dr. William Roy
- Exhibition
- 12:00 - 3:00 pm
- 1001 S Wright Street, University YMCA, Murphy Lounge
Break Program Series: Crochet & Calligraphy at the Y
- Social/Informal Event
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- 2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman Visualization Lab Office Hours
- Informational

Thursday, June 12, 2025

- All Day
- 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801
Surrealistic Views of Life- Dr. William Roy
- Exhibition
- 9:00 am
- N-120 Turner Hall
Thesis Defense | JOSIE HOPPENWORTH
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- 2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman Visualization Lab Office Hours
- Informational
- 1:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Rachel Gaines "Flow Electrooxidation of Glycerol for Industrial-Scale Applications"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Final Exam: YiRang Shin
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:30 pm 7:30 pm
- The Literary, 122 N Neil St, Champaign, IL, 61820
Spurlock Museum Book Club

Spurlock Museum is proud to partner with The Literary to present this new community program. Free books will be provided to the first 13 people that sign up for participation. Between now and April 2026, we've chosen 5 books related to Spurlock exhibits. Stop by Spurlock anytime during open hours to sign up and pick up your free book!
- Social/Informal Event

Friday, June 13, 2025

- All Day
- 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801
Surrealistic Views of Life- Dr. William Roy
- Exhibition
- All Day
Last day to withdraw* and receive a 70% refund of tuition for Summer 2025 FS courses.
- Other
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- ECEB 5070
Prelim Exam: Anjana Jayasanka Samarakoon Samarakoon Perumbuli Arachchige
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 2:00 pm
Understanding Suicide: Strategies for Empathic Risk Assessment
- Professional Development
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- 3217 Everitt Laboratory, 1406 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801
NPRE Special Seminar Series - Ferry Roelofs

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
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other

Saturday, June 14, 2025

- All Day
- 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801
Surrealistic Views of Life- Dr. William Roy
- Exhibition

Sunday, June 15, 2025

- All Day
- 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801
Surrealistic Views of Life- Dr. William Roy
- Exhibition

Monday, June 16, 2025

- All Day
- 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801
Surrealistic Views of Life- Dr. William Roy
- Exhibition
- All Day
2025 Computational Genomics Course Registration Deadline

The annual Computational Genomics Course will be held virtually June 23-27, 2025. Organized by the Mayo Clinic & Illinois Alliance, this one-week intensive course introduces participants to the basics of genomics and the tools and methodologies used to analyze genomic data.
- Other
- All Day
Engineering Destruction: Militarization and the War Economy
- Conference/Workshop
- 8:30 am
French and Italian online summer courses start
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 06/05/2025
- Roger Adams Laboratory, 600 S Mathews Ave, room 419
Alexander Battiste, Final Defense, UIUC, "Discovery and Characterization of a Set of Peptide-Modifying Heme Oxygenase-Like Domain-Containing Oxidases'
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

- All Day
- 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801
Surrealistic Views of Life- Dr. William Roy
- Exhibition
- 10:00 am
- RAL 471
"Nitrogen Cycle Electro-catalysis”, Akhil Paliwal, Final Defense
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
- CLSL B102
“Proteomics and Peptidomics for Investigating Metabolic and Neurological Disorders via Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry”, Final Defense, Yanqi Tan
- Other
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- ECEB
Final Exam: Tanya Veeravalli
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- CSL
Final Exam: Yashaswini Murthy
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

- All Day
- 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801
Surrealistic Views of Life- Dr. William Roy
- Exhibition
- 9:00 am
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Arthur Zou (Leckband Lab) - "Epidermal growth factor receptor is an essential component in E-cadherin force-transduction complexes"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- 2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman Visualization Lab Office Hours
- Informational
- 1:00 pm
- CLSL B102
"Exploring the Cross-Coupling Reactivity of Ni Pyridinophanes Through Static and Transient Spectroscopy", Final Defense, Annika Holm
- Other
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- Siebel Center for Design, Classroom 1002
LGBTQ+ Ally Training 102: Becoming an Ally
- Professional Development
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building Atrium, 707 S. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801
Break Program Series: Language Exchange: Meet, Greet, and Eat!
- Social/Informal Event
- 7:00 pm
- The Literary, 122 N Neil St, Champaign, IL 61820
Preposterous Pollinators

The little-known and less loved insects doing the work that bees and butterflies can't... May Berenbaum will be speaking as part of Pollinator Week. Come out to hear this talk and learn about how awesome pollinators are!
- Social/Informal Event

Thursday, June 19, 2025

- All Day
- 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801
Surrealistic Views of Life- Dr. William Roy
- Exhibition
- 12:00 pm
- 276 Loomis
Thesis Defense: "Multidimensional Fiber Quantum Light Sources and Their Applications"
- Lecture
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- 2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman Visualization Lab Office Hours
- Informational
- 7:00 pm
- 25 O'Clock, 208 W Griggs St Suite 101, Urbana, IL 61801
Pollinator Trivia

Buzz on over for a night of fun and facts at our Pollinator Trivia Night one of a series of events for National Pollinator Week! Join us at 25 O’Clock Brewing Company for four rounds of pollinator-themed trivia (10 questions each). Come for the drinks and stay for the nerdy science trivia. Teams of up to 6, free to play, prizes for the winners.
- Social/Informal Event

Friday, June 20, 2025

- All Day
- 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801
Surrealistic Views of Life- Dr. William Roy
- Exhibition
- All Day
Last day to withdraw* and receive a 60% refund of tuition for Summer 2025 FS courses.
- Other
- 1:30 pm
Statistics Final Defense - ByeongJip Kim "Statistical Inference in Complex Networks: Community Detection, Change Point Detection, Link Prediction, and Network Comparison"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other
- 3:00 pm
- Newmark Quade Conference Room and Zoom
PhD Final Defense – Yoonhwa Jung
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, June 21, 2025

- All Day
- 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801
Surrealistic Views of Life- Dr. William Roy
- Exhibition

Sunday, June 22, 2025

- All Day
- 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801
Surrealistic Views of Life- Dr. William Roy
- Exhibition
- 1:00 pm
- Riggs Beer Company, 1901 S High Cross Rd, Urbana, IL 61802
Science on Tap: Teaching Organic Chemistry Reactions through Classical Animation Techniques

Join us to hear about "Teaching Organic Chemistry Reactions through Classical Animation Techniques" Science on Tap is a monthly seminar series that brings scientists to the public to talk about their research in an informal setting with Jorge Calderin, PhD student from Fratti Lab, Department of Biochemistry
- Lecture

Monday, June 23, 2025

- All Day
- 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801
Surrealistic Views of Life- Dr. William Roy
- Exhibition
- 2:30 pm
- 276 Loomis
Thesis Defense: "Evaluating a Motional Narrowing Method to Measure a Low Temperature 3^He Diffusion Coefficient for a Superfluid nEDM Experiment"
- Lecture

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

- All Day
- 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801
Surrealistic Views of Life- Dr. William Roy
- Exhibition
- 10:00 am
- Everitt 2310 and Zoom
Final Defense - PhD - Natalia Gonzalez Medina
- Other
- All Day
- Bangkok, Thailand
Global Forum on the Ethics of AI
- Conference/Workshop

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

- All Day
- 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801
Surrealistic Views of Life- Dr. William Roy
- Exhibition
- 12:00 - 3:00 pm
- BNAACC 1212 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL 61801
Break Program Series: Sips & Sounds
- Social/Informal Event
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- 2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman Visualization Lab Office Hours
- Informational
- 2:30 - 4:30 pm
- TBD
Final Exam: Weinan Liu
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, June 26, 2025

- All Day
- 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801
Surrealistic Views of Life- Dr. William Roy
- Exhibition
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- 2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman Visualization Lab Office Hours
- Informational
- 1:30 pm
- W-121 Turner Hall
Dissertation Defense | QU ZHOU
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, June 27, 2025

- All Day
- 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801
Surrealistic Views of Life- Dr. William Roy
- Exhibition
- All Day
Deadline for ALL to drop semester course via Student Self-Service.
- Other
- All Day
Last day to withdraw* and receive a 50% refund of tuition for Summer 2025 FS courses.
- Other
- 10:00 am
- CLSL B102
"Detailed Analysis of Ligands on Gold Nanoparticles", Final Defense, Katherine Hatzis
- Other
- 10:00 am
- 1005 Forbes Natural History Building
Dissertation Defense | DEVIN EDMONDS
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
What Is A Hostile Environment? Strategies for Sexual Harassment Intervention and Response
- Professional Development
- 1:00 pm 06/05/2025
- Roger Adams Laboratory, 600 S Mathews Ave, room 419
Karna Terpstra, Final Defense, UIUC, "Development of Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Multi-Purpose Agents for Alzheimer’s Disease"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other

Saturday, June 28, 2025

- All Day
- 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, Illinois 61801
Surrealistic Views of Life- Dr. William Roy
- Exhibition
- All Day
Summer 2025 tuition and fees are due.
- Other

Monday, June 30, 2025

- 11:00 am
- 276 Loomis
Physics Careers Seminar: ""
- Lecture

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

- 1:00 pm
- 236 Loomis
Thesis Defense: "Exploring Tunable Nonlinearities for Phase-Sensitive Systems"
- Lecture
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- HMNTL 2003
Final Exam: Yulin He
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- 419 Roger Adams Lab
Sungjong Lee, UIUC, Final Defense, "Title TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- 2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman Visualization Lab Office Hours
- Informational
- 2:00 - 5:00 pm
- Illini Grove, Urbana Illinois https://campusrec.illinois.edu/facilities/outdoor/illini-grove/grove-map
Break Program Series: Summer Fun at Illini Grove!
- Social/Informal Event

Thursday, July 3, 2025

- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- 2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman Visualization Lab Office Hours
- Informational
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- MNTL 1000
Final Exam: Stasiu Chyczewski
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, July 4, 2025

- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other