Materials Research Laboratory

Monday, April 28, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Special Condensed Matter Special Seminar - "Tracing light: on Linear and Nonlinear Terahertz Polaritonics in Quantum Paraelectrics"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Special Biological Physics Seminar- "Chaotic worms: from the dynamics of animal behavior towards a physics of complex, evolved systems"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

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

Speaker: Alexandre Bourassa, Senior Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Subroto Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore), Electron hydrodynamics: "Strong violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law and vortical effects"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Professor Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran, University of Minnesota, (TBD) (I)
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Towards remote entanglement schemes with trapped ions", Jianlong Lin, Goldschmidt/DeMarco Group

Speaker: Jianlong Lin, Goldschmidt/DeMarco Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Fahad Mahmood (UIUC), "Seeing the World in a Grain of Sand, and Eternity in a Picosecond – Urbana style!"
- 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 - "Bonds and Bands"
- 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

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

- 9:00 am
- 1306 Everitt Laboratory
FINAL DEFENSE, Kyle Benjamin Timmer, "Development of Multicompartment Biomaterials to Modulate Cellular Environments for Improved Tendon-to-Bone Rotator Cuff Repair"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Overview of learning and Testing Stabilizer States", Srinivasan Arunachalam, IBM

Speaker: Srinivasan Arunachalam, IBM
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Emily Davidson, Princeton University, (host: Ying Diao)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
"Molecular Catalysts go Nano: Installing Active Sites on Clusters and Nanosheets", Professor Alexandra Velian, University of Washington
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

- All Day
Instruction Ends
- Other
- 2:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Special Seminar - "Quantum Computation using Majorana-Based Topological Qubits"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 8, 2025

- All Day
Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect
- Other

Friday, May 9, 2025

- All Day
Final Exams Begin
- Other
- 1:00 pm
- Supercon 1002
Condensed Matter Special Seminar - Michael Manley (Oak Ridge), "Phason Dominated Thermal Conductivity in an Incommensurate Crystal""
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 12, 2025

- 10:00 am
- 161 Noyes Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Anaira Roman Santiago, "Understanding Molecular Level Interactions and Design of Selective Electrochemical Processes for Wastewater Treatment"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
"Low-valent Nickel and Palladium Compounds Relevant to Cross-coupling Catalysis", Sagnik Chakrabarti, T.S. Piper Award for Outstanding Inorganic PhD Thesis
- Ceremony/Service

Thursday, May 15, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Ultralong-lived spins in silicon carbide", Cyrus Zeledon, University of Chicago

Speaker: Cyrus Zeledon, University of Chicago
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 CHEM ANNEX
"SERS Investigations of Additive Interactions at Cu Surfaces", Gavin Lindsay, Walter Klemperer Award for Outstanding Materials PhD thesis
- Ceremony/Service
- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
"Toward the sustainable production of ammonia by integration of electrochemistry with light energy and nanostructured catalysts", Rachel Nixon, Walter Klemperer Award for Outstanding Materials PhD thesis
- Ceremony/Service

Saturday, May 17, 2025

- 8:30 am
Commencement
- Ceremony/Service

Sunday, May 18, 2025

- 9:30 - 11:00 am
- Krannert in Tryon Festival Theatre
ChBE 2025 Spring Convocation Ceremony
- Ceremony/Service
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Illini Union - room ABC
ChBE 2025 Spring Convocation Reception
- Reception/Open House

Monday, May 19, 2025

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1
- Other

Monday, May 26, 2025

- All Day
Memorial Day Holiday
- Other