Materials Research Laboratory

Monday, September 1, 2025

- All Day
Labor Day
- Other

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Digital Quantum Simulation of Spin Transport", Yi-Ting Lee, Schleife Group

Speaker: Yi-Ting Lee, Schleife Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Special Seminar - "Nonequilibrium Probes of Hidden Neutral Modes in the Flatland"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 4, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ryan Poling-Skutvik, University of Rhode Island (host: Simon Rogers) "The Yield Transition: can we define, and can we design?"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 8, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Jaewon Kim, Berkeley/UIUC, "Linear Magnetoresistance from Glassy Orders"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Thomas M. Makris, North Carolina State University, "Demystifying the Chemical Logic of Pathogenic Folate Biosynthesis by Dimetal Enzymes"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum science and technology with rare earth ions and nano-photonics", Andrei Faraon, William L. Valentine Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Speaker: Andrei Faraon, William L. Valentine Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- Chemical Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B102 Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Mayuresh Gadgil, Final Defense, UIUC, "Characterizing Peptide-Modifying Enzyme Activity in RiPP Biosynthesis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Emerging Leaders Seminar: “Organometallic Strategies for Modifying Biomolecules", Professor Alex Spokoyny, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Voltage Tunable Superconducting qubit with Sn based hybrid nanowire Josephson junction," Amrita Purkayastha, Kou Group

Speaker: Amrita Purakayastha, Kou Group
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 11, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- CANCELLED
CANCELLED: CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Joao Soares, University of Alberta (host: Baron Peters)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 CHEM ANNEX
“Seminar on Seminars”, Professor Ken Suslick
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 12, 2025

- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "The evolution of the electronic structure in going from the cuprate (La2CuO4,LaNiO2 ;3d9) to the high formal valence state Nickelates (La4Ni3O10; 3d6/3d7)"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 15, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Jeroen van den Brink (Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden), "Topological surface superconductivity in PtBi2"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- Noyes Lab, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 163
Austin Woodard, Final Defense, UIUC, "Biosynthetic and Bioinformatic Investigation of Ripps with Radical Sam-Installed Crosslinks"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Building better superconducting qubits", Angela Kou, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois

Speaker: Angela Kou, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 CHEM ANNEX
Inorganic Seminar, "Organometallic Single-Molecule Magnets Containing Radicals and Bismuth", Professor Selvan Demir, Michigan State University
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Autonomous stabilization of remote entanglement in a cascaded quantum network," Kaushik Singirikonda, Pfaff Group

Speaker: Kaushik Singirikonda, Pfaff Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
Prof. Peter Nordlander, Rice University, "Plasmon-Enhanced Photocatalysis for Green Chemistry"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 18, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Daeyeon Lee, University of Pennsylvania (host: Kong) "AI‑Driven Microfluidic Foundry: Bridging Discovery to Scalable Functional Particles"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Materials Seminar, "Hybrid Bronzes", Professor Adam Jaffe, University of Notre Dame
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 19, 2025

- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Atomic-level Engineering of Topological Quantum States: Flat-Band Ladders and High-Order Weyl Superconductors"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 3269 (3rd Floor Tower Room)
Biological Physics - IPoLS - STC-QCB Seminar: Wei Min (Columbia University) "Lighting up chemical bonds for biomedicine"
- Lecture

Monday, September 22, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Kai Sun (U. Michigan), "Flat Bands, Topology, and Fractionalization: Similarities and Differences Between Fractional States in Flat Chern Bands and Landau Levels"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "New opportunities in quantum simulation with ultrapolar molecules," Zoe Yan, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Chicago

Zoe Yan, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Chicago
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Operation of a high frequency, phase slip qubit," Cheeranjeev Purmessur, Kou Group

Talk Title: "Operation of a high frequency, phase slip qubit" Speaker: Cheeranjeev Purmessur, Kou Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium The "Golden Dome": An Assessment of the Science and the Consequences
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 25, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
Gawon Lee CHEM 575 Seminar - "Targeting DNA Methylation: Epigenetic Drugs in Cancer and Beyond"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
Yifei Ge CHEM 575 Seminar - Non-natural Radical Reactions Catalyzed by Thiamine (ThDP) Dependent Enzymes
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:30 - 3:30 pm
- MRL 280
Cookies & Coffee Hour with I-MRSEC and IQUIST

Cookies, coffee and networking on 9/25/25 at 2:30pm in MRL 280!
- Social/Informal Event

Friday, September 26, 2025

- 1:30 - 3:30 pm
- Noyes Laboratory
ChBE Unit Operations Lab - Open House/Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
- Ceremony/Service
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Beckman Room 3269 (Tower Room)
Prof. Luthey-Schulten, UIUC, "4D Simulations of a Growing and Dividing Minimal Cell"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:30 - 7:00 pm
- 2079 Natural History Building (NHB) and 2nd Floor Atrium NHB
ChBE Alumni and Graduate Awards Ceremony and Reception
- Ceremony/Service

Saturday, September 27, 2025

- All Day
- Near Memorial Stadium (TBD)
ChBE Homecoming Tailgate
- Sporting Event

Monday, September 29, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Paul Goldbart (Stony Brook U.), "Random proximity measurements in quantum fluids and the hidden organization they induce"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Studying multipartite entanglement through the lens of symmetries," Felix Leditzky, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Jeffrey Lopez, Northwestern University, "Identifying Electrolyte Reaction Mechanisms at Battery Electrodes Toward PFAS-Free Electrolytes" (host: Theresa Schoetz)
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Xinan Chen, Chitambar Group

Speaker: Xinan Chen, Chitambar Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00
- CLSL B102
Prof. Prashant Jain, UIUC, "Lights, Computer, Action!"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- ESB 190
MRSEC All-Hands Meeting

MRSEC All Hands Meeting on Wednesday, October 1st @ 3pm in 190 ESB. The purpose of this meeting is to update the current status of the MRSEC, what is new, and what to expect in the near future. Hope to see you there.
- Meeting
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium The Charles P. Slichter Memorial Colloquium - "Negotiations with Nature - What Happens When a Physicist Tries to be a Chemist."
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 2, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Karthik Shekhar, University of California Berkeley (host: Diwakar Shukla) "Multiscale dynamics of neuronal bioelectricity"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 3, 2025

- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Strain induced magnetism and superconductivity in Heusler membranes"
- Seminar/Symposium