Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

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- 11:00 am 3/13/2025
- 1310 DCL
SE 290 - Stephanie Ziegle
- Lecture
- 12:00 - 2:00 pm 3/13/2025
Final Exam: Justin Wasserman
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 3/13/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Mark Swihart, University at Buffalo, "A Non-equilibrium Flame Aerosol Process to Create High-entropy Nanomaterials" (co-hosts: Hong Yang, Paul Kenis)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm 3/13/2025
- ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
Kent Seminar: Michael Levin, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/13/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "Defect Chemistry of Y2+xRu2-xO7-δ Pyrochlore: An Acid-Stable Catalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER)"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/13/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "Attempts to Stabilize the Cathode-Electrolyte Interface in Solid-State Batteries"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/13/2025
- 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium
Meta-imaging of Textures and Tissues
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 - 10:50 am 3/14/2025
- 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Hamid Norasi and Susan Hallbeck
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 3/14/2025
- LLP 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Special Seminar: "TQFT gravity and ensemble holography"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm 3/14/2025
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Universal Features of Emergent Electronic Fractals in Quantum Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm 12:00 PM 3/14/2025
- CSL Studio Room 1232
Robotics Seminar: Dave Cappelleri, "Microrobotics to Agricultural Robots: Robots at Different Length-Scales Interacting with the Environment"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/17/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - Spring Break
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/18/2025
- 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar - Spring Break
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/19/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/20/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - Spring Break
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 3/24/2025
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Ben Wieder, "Topological Superconductor Hierarchies from Superconducting Space Groups and Charge-Resolved Topology"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 3/24/2025
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Makoto Yamada
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/24/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - No Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/24/2025
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Auditorium
Soo Distinguished Lecture: Evaporation Peculiarities: Photomolecular Effect and Evaporative Refrigeration Effect
- Seminar/Symposium
- 8:00 - 10:00 am 3/25/2025
- HMNTL 1000
Final Exam: Amr Ghoname
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 3/25/2025
- HMNTL Conference room 1000
Student Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am 3/25/2025
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Towards properties-on-demand in quantum materials", Richard Averitt, University of California, San Diego

Speaker: Richard Averitt, Professor, University of California, San Diego
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/25/2025
- 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar - TMS, no seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/25/2025
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Meshless Continuum Modeling of Dry and Wet Granular Media
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm 3/25/2025
- 2035 Campus Instructional Facility
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Arif Masud

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
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 3/26/2025
- ECEB 5070
Prelim Exam: Stephen Messing
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 3/26/2025
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Biwei Dai (Princeton, IAS)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 3/26/2025
- NCSA auditorium and online
The Utpal Banerjee Distinguished Lecture in High Performance Computing: Charles Leiserson, "Setting a Course for Post-Moore Software Performance"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/26/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: "Open Questions on the Dynamics of Black Holes"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:00 - 11:00 am 3/27/2025
- ECEB 5070
Final Exam: Juhitha Konduru
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 3/27/2025
- 1310 DCL
SE 290 - Gene Kiesel
- Lecture
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm 3/27/2025
- ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
Kent Seminar: Gabor Orosz, University of Michigan
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/27/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/27/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "Investigating the Effects of Local Environment on Nitrogen Vacancies in High Entropy Metal Nitrides"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/27/2025
- 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium
High Performance Integrated Photonics based on Thin Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:00 - 11:00 am 3/28/2025
- ECEB 5070
Final Exam: Sasha Yamada
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 - 10:50 am 3/28/2025
- 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Luze Xu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 3/28/2025
- CSL 114
Final Exam: Vishal Rana
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm 3/28/2025
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Kitaev spin model, disguised Ising chain, and beyond"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm 3/28/2025
- HMNTL 1000
Final Exam: Yu-Chieh Chiu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 3/31/2025
- 117 RAL
FINAL DEFENSE, Jeff Xu, , "Workflows and automated platforms for nanocrystal synthesis, purification, and characterization"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 3/31/2025
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - "Ab-Initio Downfolding for Strongly Correlated Systems: Benchmarks and Applications"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/31/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "TOPOLOGICAL STATES IN TWISTED BILAYER TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/31/2025
- 1310 Newmark
Rapid damage assessment in structures using cepstral features | Raimondo Betti | Structural Engineering Seminar Series
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/31/2025
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Henry Sodano - Precipitation Printing Towards Diverse Materials, Mechanical Tailoring and Functional Devices
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:00 8:00 p.m. 3/31/2025
- 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
- 11:00 - 11:50 am 4/1/2025
- 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
- 4:00 pm 4/1/2025
- 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/1/2025
- 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/1/2025
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
The Brain in Motion: Measurements of Brain Mechanical Behavior in Vivo by MR Imaging
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm 4/1/2025
- 2035 Campus Instructional Facility
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Dr. Andrew Shone

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
- 12:00 pm 4/2/2025
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Marc Favata (Montclair State University)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 4/2/2025
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online
Distinguished Lecture: Masashi Sugiyama, "Towards Reliable Machine Learning from Imperfect Training Data"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/2/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: TBA
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 4/3/2025
- ECEB 5070
Prelim Exam: Priyash Barya
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 4/3/2025
- 1310 DCL
SE 290 - Jim Haran
- Lecture
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm 4/3/2025
- ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
Kent Seminar: Alexandre Alahi, EPFL Switzerland
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/3/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/3/2025
- 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium
Intercellular Communication: Can It Be Mediated by Electromagnetics?
- Seminar/Symposium
- All Day 4/4/2025
- Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 AND Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801
CHBE/OXE UG Research Symposium and Scholarship Awards Ceremony
- Meeting
- 9:00 - 11:00 am 4/4/2025
- HMNTL 3005
Final Exam: Hanwool Lee
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 2:00 pm 4/4/2025
- ECEB 5070
Final Exam: Robert Kaufman
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm 4/4/2025
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - Daniel Shoemaker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:00 am 4/7/2025
- 117 RAL
FINAL DEFENSE, Dejuante Walker, "Modeling Transport and Dynamics in Redox Active Polymer Solutions for Flow Battery Applications"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/7/2025
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Eun Ah Kim, Cornell University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 4/7/2025
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Xin Bing, "Learning Large Softmax Mixtures with Warm Start EM"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/7/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - no colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/7/2025
- 1310 Newmark
Assessment & Repair of Fire Damage | Ray Drexler | Structural Engineering Seminar Series
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/7/2025
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker Jason Patrick: Self-healing and Self-sensing in Structural Composites
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 4/8/2025
- ECEB 5070
Prelim Exam: Temitope Amuda
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am 4/8/2025
- 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
- 2:00 pm 4/8/2025
- 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
- 4:00 pm 4/8/2025
- 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar - MRS, no seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm 4/8/2025
- 2035 Campus Instructional Facility
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Suneet Singh

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
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 4/9/2025
- MNTL 1000
Final Exam: Zhuoran Han
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 4/9/2025
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online
Distinguished Lecture: James Mickens
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/9/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Andreas Hoecker (CERN), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 4/10/2025
- ECEB 5070
Final Exam: Charles Ross
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 4/10/2025
- 1310 DCL
SE 290 - Edward Hightower
- Lecture
- 1:30 - 3:30 pm 4/10/2025
- ECEB & Zoom
Final Exam: Haotian Chen
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm 4/10/2025
- ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
Kent Seminar: Bo Zou, University of Illinois Chicago
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 5:30 pm Reception Following 4/10/2025
- Civil and Environmental Engineering Building, Room 1017
Environmental Engineering & Science Symposium 30th Anniversary Special Event
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/10/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - Spring MRS, no colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/10/2025
- 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium
TBA
- Seminar/Symposium
- All Day 4/11/2025
- Civil and Environmental Engineering Building and Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory
30th Environmental Engineering & Science Annual Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 4/11/2025
- 464 Loomis
High Energy Physics Seminar - Qianshu Lu (IAS)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/11/2025
- 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
Physics Careers Seminar: ""
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm 4/11/2025
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - Edoardo Baldini, University of Texas, Austin
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/14/2025
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Trithep Devakul, Stanford University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 4/14/2025
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Rex (Zhitao) Ying
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/14/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/14/2025
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Warren Dixon - Assured Autonomy for Uncertain and Data Intermittent Systems
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am 4/15/2025
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: Javad Shabani, New York University

Speaker: Javad Shabani, Associate Professor of Physics and Director of the Center of Quantum Information Physics, New York University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 4/15/2025
- 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
- 4:00 pm 4/15/2025
- 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm 4/15/2025
- 2035 Campus Instructional Facility
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Dr. Jhansi Kandasamy

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
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 4/16/2025
- Beckman Institute 4369
Prelim Exam: Wen Jin
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 4/16/2025
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Halil Kilicoglu, "Enhancing Rigor and Integrity of Biomedical Research using Natural Language Processing"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/16/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Marin Soljacic (MIT), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium
- 8:00 am - 4:15 pm 4/17/2025
- I Hotel and Conference Center
2025 Illinois Structural Engineering Conference
- Conference/Workshop