Engineering Seminar

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

• • 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

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

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Dr. Shailendra Bordawekar, AbbVie (host: Paul Kenis)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • 280 MRL

  Final Defense - Jarom Sederholm, SUSTAINABLE BATTERY ENGINEERING: SINGLE-STEP BATTERY RECYCLING, BATTERY MODELING, AND BATTERY ELECTROLYTE ANALYSIS

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 9, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL

  Emma Guo CHEM 575 Seminar "CRISPR - inspired Strategies for RNA - Protein Interactome Investigation"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL

  Frank Zhang CHEM 575 Seminar: Bioremediation 3.0: A Brave New Paradigm

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Erin Ratcliff, Georgia Institute of Technology (host: Ying Diao) "Soft PhotoElectroChemical Systems for Energy Conversion and Storage"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Nitash Balsara, University of California, Berkeley "Movement of Polymer Molecules under Electric Fields and Relevance to Rechargeable Batteries" (host: Damien Guironnet)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Laboratory of Physics, Room 141

  ChBE/NPRE Presents-Prof. Jospeh D. Smith, Missouri University of Science and Technology

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 16, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL

  Johnny Bajko CHEM 575 Seminar "Expanding Proximity Proteomics: From nanometer-Scale Mapping to Multicellular Interfaces"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL

  Natalie King CHEM 575 Seminar "Engineering Diazotrophs: Harnessing Bacteria for Sustainable Nitrogen Supply in Cereal Crops"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ariel Furst, MIT (host: Paul Kenis)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 7:00 pm

  M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering Leadership Informational Webinar

  • Webinar

Thursday, October 23, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • 163 Noyes Lab

  "The Realities of a Practicing Data Scientist", Alix Schmidt, Sr Data Scientist Dow Chemical, Core R&D Information Research

  • Informational

Saturday, October 25, 2025

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  • 10:15 am   11:15pm
  • 141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics

  Spooky Action and Beyond: The Power and Promise of Quantum Entanglement

  In this talk, we’ll explore what entanglement is, how to create, shape, and detect it, and how we're learning to harness it for revolutionary technologies. We’ll also learn why it deeply troubled some of the greatest minds in science.

  • Lecture

Monday, October 27, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Amy Weeks, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "New Enzyme Chemistry to Decipher Post-translational Modification Function"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley (host: Deborah Leckband)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 30, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL

  Kinshuk Malik CHEM 575 Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL

  Rowan Glover CHEM 575 Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 1, 2025

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  • 10:15 am   11:30am
  • 141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics

  Extreme Matter: Physics at a Trillion Degrees Exploring the hottest, densest state of matter ever produced — and the detectors that can survive it.

  When lead nuclei collide at near light speed in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, they create the hottest matter in the universe, the Quark-Gluon Plasma, a state that existed moments after the Big Bang. University of Illinois researchers developed radiation-hard detectors to study how this plasma forms and evolves, advancing the quest to recreate matter from the dawn of time.

  • Lecture