Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Final Exam: Pin-Chiao Huang

Time: 2:00 - 4:00 pm 1/2/2025
Location: HMNTL 2003

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PhD Final Defense – Sarang S. Bhagwat

Time: 10:00 am 1/9/2025
Location: Civil and Environmental Engineering Building Room 3019

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Final Exam: Jiarui Sun

Time: 10:30 am - 12:30 pm 1/16/2025
Location: CSL 301 & Zoom

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PhD Final Defense – Guanghao Zhai

Time: 7:30 am 1/17/2025
Location: Room 2218 NCEL

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Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - Campus Holiday

Time: 4:00 pm 1/20/2025
Location: 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

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FGI Webinar: MSE Walls – The good, the bad and the ugly – A look at three MSE wall failures and the lessons learned

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm 1/21/2025

This presentation will review three very different MSE wall failures; one failure involves the construction of a two stage MSE, another is related to cold weather construction, and the last is related to design issues. 1.0 PDH

Professional Development

FARAWAY, SO CLOSE: HIGH RESOLUTION INVESTIGATIONS OF BOILING HEAT TRANSFER, FROM CRYONGENIC FLUIDS TO HIGH-PRESSURE WATER.

Time: 4:00 pm 1/21/2025
Location: 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

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NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Prof. Aditi Verma

Time: 4:00 - 4:50 pm 1/21/2025
Location: 2035 Campus Instructional Facility

Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

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Soft Materials Seminar - "Molecular design of polymer networks: from skin-inspired electronics to uncovering fundamental physics"

Time: 4:00 pm 1/21/2025
Location: 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

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Teaching Special Seminar: Konstantinos Ameranis, "Consistency, Empathy, Knowledge: Instructor Qualities, Why and How"

Time: 9:00 am 1/22/2025

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AE Seminar Speaker Aaron Berliner: Space Bioprocess Engineering for an Offworld Biomanufactory

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 1/22/2025
Location: CIF 4039

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Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium

Time: 4:00 pm 1/22/2025
Location: Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

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Kent Seminar: Yanfeng Ouyang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm 1/23/2025
Location: ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866

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Hard Materials Seminar - "Genetically encodable self-assembling biomaterials by design"

Time: 4:00 pm 1/23/2025
Location: 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

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Teaching Special Seminar: Harsha Tirumala, "A Holistic Approach to Teaching CS Theory"

Time: 9:00 am 1/24/2025

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ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Negin Golrezaei

Time: 10:00 - 10:50 am 1/24/2025
Location: 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801

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Physics Careers Seminar: "Life After PhD"

Time: 12:00 pm 1/24/2025
Location: 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

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Condensed Matter Seminar - "When details matter: learning coarse-grained physics from first principles"

Time: 1:00 pm 1/24/2025
Location: ESB 190

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Prelim Exam: Nikita Duggar

Time: 2:15 - 4:15 pm 1/24/2025
Location: HMNTL 2003

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THEORY SEMINAR: Arash Rafiey, "Approximability and In-approximability of H-coloring"

Time: 11:00 am 1/27/2025
Location: Siebel 3401

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COLLOQUIUM: Meng Jiang, "Lessons Learned from Enhancing Knowledge and Reasoning for (Large) Language Models"

Time: 3:30 pm 1/27/2025
Location: HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

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AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Diana Gonzalez - Mavis Program Seminar

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 1/27/2025
Location: CIF 2035

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Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Mixed-Dimensional Heterostructures for Electronic and Energy Technologies"

Time: 4:00 pm 1/27/2025
Location: 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

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Molecular computation for bioengineering | Anna Tarakanova | Structural Engineering Seminar Series

Time: 4:00 pm 1/27/2025
Location: 1310 Yeh Student Center, Newmark Civil Engineering Building, 205 N Mathews Ave

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IQUIST Seminar: Hadiseh Alaeian, Purdue University

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 1/28/2025
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Hadiseh Alaeian, Assistant Professor, Purdue University

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PILOT Seminar: Paul Krogmeier, "Learning Symbolic Concepts and Domain-specific Languages"

Time: 1:00 pm 1/28/2025
Location: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

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NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Prof. Stephanie Diem

Time: 4:00 - 4:50 pm 1/28/2025
Location: 2035 Campus Instructional Facility

Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.