Materials Research Laboratory

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
- 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

- 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

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

- 11:00 am
- 321 Gregory Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Vanessa DaSilva, "Selective Deconstruction of Polyethylene to Propylene via Isomerization/Metathesis and 1-hexene Isomerization Studies"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 3, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 217
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Laura Bickart, UIUC, "Stimuli-responsive Hydrogels for Drug Release Applications in Wound Healing"
- 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

Friday, April 4, 2025

- All Day
- U of I campus
Engineering Open House
- Exhibition
- 11:00 am
- 157 Noyes Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Howard Weatherspoon , "NUCLEATION AND GROWTH: MODELS FOR FACETED AND LAYERED MATERIALS"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Discovery and Defects in Optical and Chiral Quantum Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- ESB Lab 3110
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Shivaji Sondhi (Oxford), "Towards a theory of quantum games"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:30 - 5:45 pm
- 217 Noyes Laboratory and 170 Noyes Laboratory (505 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801)
CHBE Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Reception
- Meeting

Saturday, April 5, 2025

- All Day
- U of I campus
Engineering Open House
- Exhibition

Monday, April 7, 2025

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "On the Extended Church-Turing Thesis, Quantum Mechanics, and Beyond, Bill Fefferman, University of Chicago

Speaker: Bill Fefferman, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 171 Roger Adams Lab
Prakriti Das, Final Defense, UIUC, "DNAzymes for Sequence-Dependent Peptide Lysine Acylation"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. James Moon, University of Michigan, "Engineering Strategies to Modulate the Immune System" (host: Joon Kong)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Victoria Kriuchkovskaia, "HYDROGEL PLATFORM TO INVESTIGATE PROGRESSION OF DRUG-RESISTANT GLIOBLASTOMA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Classical Post-processing on Unitary Block Optimization Scheme for Better VQE Optimization", Xiaochuan (David) Ding, Clark Group

Speaker: Xiaochuan (David) Ding, Clark Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- 1027 Lincoln Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Dongyu Fan, "3D Tracking of Solute Dynamics in Heterogeneous Polymer Networks"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Andreas Hoecker (CERN), "Physics at the high-energy frontier — Deciphering the Higgs sector"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

- 10:00 am
- 319 Gregory Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Tianhao Xu, "Harnessing AI/ML for Advancing Synthetic Biology"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 217
CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Guthrie Stroh, UIUC, "A sticky situation: Molecular glues that modulate GPCRs"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 11, 2025

- 10:00 am
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Nayeong Kim, "INTEGRATION OF REDOX-ELECTROSORPTION AND REDOX-ELECTRODIALYSIS FOR WATER REMEDIATION, WASTE VALORIZATION, AND ORGANIC SPECIES SEPARATIONS""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Nonlinear Coupled Magnonics"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 117 RAL
FINAL DEFENSE, Devinda Wijewardena, "INSIGHTS INTO BACK-STEPS AND CARGO DOMAIN ROTATIONS OF KINESIN MOTILITY WITH MINFLUX"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, April 12, 2025

- 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Electrical Computer and Engineering Building, 306 N Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801
World Quantum Day Celebration
- Reception/Open House
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Room 1013, ECE Building, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61820
Saturday Engineering for Everyone: Quantum Steampunk - The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow
- Lecture
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Room 1013, ECE Building, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61820
Saturday Engineering for Everyone: Quantum Steampunk - The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow, Nicole Yunger Halper, University of Maryland

Speaker: Nicole Yunger Halpern, University of Maryland
- Lecture

Monday, April 14, 2025

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

- 10:00 am
- The Rhondale Tso Seminar Room Loomis 236
Special Biological Physics Seminar-Hyun Youk
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Floquet Topology and Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Quantum Matter", Babek Saradjeh, Professor of Physics, Indiana University

Speaker: "Floquet Topology and Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Quantum Matter," Babek Saradjeh, Professor of Physics, Indiana University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sijin Li, Cornell University, "An Integrated Synthetic Biology Pipeline to Understand and Harness Plant Specialized Metabolism" (host: Huimin Zhao)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
2025 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: Professor James Mayer, Yale University, "Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions of Molecules and Materials; Re-examining Linear Free Energy Relationships for molecules and materials: complexities and opportunities"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

- 10:00 - 10:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Special Seminar: "Light, Silicon, and Steel: PsiQuantum's Path to Utility-Scale, Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing, Aaron Fluitt, Senior Director of Technology Partnerships, PsiQuantum

Speaker: Aaron Fluitt, Senior Director of Technology Partnerships, PsiQuantum
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Andreev Bound State Spectroscopy using circuit-QED techniques", Randy Owen, Kou Group

Speaker: Randy Owen, Kou Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
Prof. Hang Ren, University of Texas at Austin, "Correlative Electrochemical Imaging of Activity and Selectivity at Complex Electrochemical Interfaces"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Marin Soljacic (MIT), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 21, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Gil Rafael, California Institute of Technology
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Engineering (Useful) Trapped-Ion Quantum Technologies", Sara Mouradian, University of Washington

Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Emerging Leaders Seminar: Professor Xavier Roy, Columbia University, "Quantum complexity in simple materials"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Ashwith Prabhu, Goldshmidt Group

Speaker: Ashwith Prabhu, Goldshmidt Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
Prof. Daniel Tabor, Texas A&M University, "Accelerating the Computational Design of Functional Organic Molecules and Polymers"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Ben Hooberman (UIUC), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 24, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Materials Chemistry Seminar, "Molecular Approaches to Advancing 2D Conductive MOFs for Tailored Properties and Applications", Dr. Jihye Park, University of Colorado Boulder
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 25, 2025

Monday, April 28, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Special Condensed Matter Seminar - Zhanybek Alpichshev, IST Austria
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: Alexandre Bourassa, Google Quantum AI

Speaker: Alexandre Bourassa, Senior Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Professor Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran, University of Minnesota, (TBD) (I)
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Fahad Mahmood (UIUC), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 1, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Distinguished Inorganic Lecture: Professor Jonas Peter, California Institute of Technology, (TBD) (I)
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 2, 2025

- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - Despina Louca, University of Virginia
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102
2025 Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor Emily A. Carter, Princeton University, "Carbon Dioxide Conversion for a Sustainable Future: Research and Policy"
- Lecture