Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Join the University of Illinois-FGI for a Live Online Course and Certification Exam on Manufacturing, Fabrication, and Installation QA/QC for Geosynthetics February 4-18, 2025.

Professional Development

Direct Digital Manufacturing of Multi-material Structures

Time: 4:00 pm 2/4/2025
Location: 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

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NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Jean-charles Stinville

Time: 4:00 - 4:50 pm 2/4/2025
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

Time: 4:00 pm 2/4/2025
Location: 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

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Soft Materials Seminar - "Exploring Entangled Polymer Behavior through Single-Molecule Experiments and Recovery Rheology"

Time: 4:00 pm 2/4/2025
Location: 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

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Teaching Special Seminar: Tamara Nelson-Fromm, "Designing Computing Education for the Arts and Sciences"

Time: 9:00 am 2/5/2025

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Prelim Exam: T.G. Roberts

Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 2/5/2025
Location: ECEB 5070

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Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Cliff Will (University of Florida & Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris) "Hierarchical Triple Systems in Newtonian and post-Newtonian gravity - or - Adventures of a general relativist in a 3-body world"

Time: 12:00 pm 2/5/2025
Location: Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

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BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Chi Hwan Lee

Time: 12:00 - 12:50 pm 2/5/2025
Location: Everitt Room 2310

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University of Illinois-FGI Online CQA Course & Certification Exam

Recurring

Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm 2/5/2025

Join the University of Illinois-FGI for a Live Online Course and Certification Exam on Manufacturing, Fabrication, and Installation QA/QC for Geosynthetics February 4-18, 2025.

Professional Development

PILOT Seminar: Xudong Sun, "Improving Reliability of Modern Cloud Systems with Verification in the Loop"

Time: 3:00 pm 2/5/2025
Location: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

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Physics Colloquium: Watson Lecture "The renaissance of general relativity"

Time: 4:00 pm 2/5/2025
Location: Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

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IQUIST Seminar: Mihir Bhaskar, CEO, Co-founder, Lightsynq

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 2/6/2025
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Mihir Bhaskar, CEO & Co-founder, Lightsynq

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SE 290 - Mike Loquercio

Time: 11:00 am 2/6/2025
Location: 1310 DCL

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Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: "Quantum reference frames, corrections to semiclassical gravity, and the generalised second law"

Time: 1:00 pm 2/6/2025
Location: LLP 464

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PhD Final Defense – Angshuman C. Baruah

Time: 1:00 pm 2/6/2025
Location: CEEB Room 3310

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Prelim Exam: Archit Patke

Time: 1:00 - 3:00 pm 2/6/2025
Location: CSL

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Kent Seminar: Alireza Talebpour, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm 2/6/2025
Location: ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866

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AE Seminar Speaker: Enrico Zucchelli - Crafting Probability Distributions for Space Domain Awareness

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/6/2025
Location: CIF 2018

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Hard Materials Seminar - "Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of precipitate morphologies at dislocations under irradiation"

Time: 4:00 pm 2/6/2025
Location: 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

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Hard Materials Seminar - "Large Angle Rocking Beam Electron Diffraction For Chirality Determination"

Time: 4:00 pm 2/6/2025
Location: 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

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IMMERSE Seminar: Steven Gao, Qinjun Jiang, Jeffrey Liu, Bakshree Mishra, Yihan Pang, Rahul Singh, "ILLIXR: An End-to-End Systems Research Approach to Enable the Era of Immersive Computing"

Time: 4:00 pm 2/6/2025
Location: Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 2405

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ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Shivakumar Raman

Time: 10:00 - 10:50 am 2/7/2025
Location: 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801

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Professor Shiva Raman, wearing a red tie and blazer

Plasma Catalysis: A Promising Avenue for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

Time: 10:00 - 10:50 am 2/7/2025
Location: 2311 NCEL - Yeh Center

This lecture will delve into scaling up of a plasma catalysis system and critical aspects of GHG mitigation through plasma catalysis such as: exploring catalyst formulation, reaction mechanisms, byproduct selectivity, and addressing existing challenges and future research directions.

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High Energy Physics Seminar - The Higgs, Flavor and the Path to New Physics

Time: 11:00 am 2/7/2025
Location: Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

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Condensed Matter Seminar - "Neutron Scattering as a Probe of Magnetic Quantum Materials"

Time: 1:00 pm 2/7/2025
Location: ESB 190

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Robotics Seminar: Girish Krishnan, "Will Soft Robots Survive the Axe?"

Time: 1:00 pm 2/7/2025
Location: Room 1232

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Physics Careers Seminar: "You’re Hired! A View From the Other Side"

Time: 2:00 pm 2/7/2025
Location: 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

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Teaching Special Seminar: Daniel Gonzalez Cedre, "The Role of Language in Discrete Math"

Time: 9:00 am 2/10/2025

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Final Exam: Usman Syed

Time: 1:00 - 3:00 pm 2/10/2025
Location: CSL 301

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AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Steven Chesley - Asteroid orbit determination problems for the DART planetary defense demonstration

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/10/2025
Location: CIF 2035

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Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Modeling and measuring the linear viscoelasticity of vitrimer melts"

Time: 4:00 pm 2/10/2025
Location: 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

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Parametric modeling and computational analysis of complex engineering structures | Emily Johnson | Structural Engineering Seminar Series

Time: 4:00 pm 2/10/2025
Location: 1310 Newmark

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Teaching Special Seminar: James Perretta, "Feedback Loops: Strategies for Creating Adaptive & Engaging Learning Environments"

Time: 9:00 am 2/11/2025

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IQUIST Seminar: Fernando Granha Jeronimo, Assistant Professor, Siebel School of Computing & Data Science, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 2/11/2025
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Fernando Granha Jeronimo

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University of Illinois-FGI Online CQA Course & Certification Exam

Recurring

Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm 2/11/2025

Join the University of Illinois-FGI for a Live Online Course and Certification Exam on Manufacturing, Fabrication, and Installation QA/QC for Geosynthetics February 4-18, 2025.

Professional Development

Mechanical computing in adaptive materials: From neuromorphic intelligence to parallel information processing

Time: 4:00 pm 2/11/2025
Location: 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

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NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Dr. Ross Radel

Time: 4:00 - 4:50 pm 2/11/2025
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 - "Electrolytes and electrochemical systems for energy and sustainability"

Time: 4:00 pm 2/11/2025
Location: 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

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BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Andrew Webb, Ph.D

Time: 12:00 pm 2/12/2025
Location: Everitt Room 2310

Ceremony/Service

University of Illinois-FGI Online CQA Course & Certification Exam

Recurring

Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm 2/12/2025

Join the University of Illinois-FGI for a Live Online Course and Certification Exam on Manufacturing, Fabrication, and Installation QA/QC for Geosynthetics February 4-18, 2025.

Professional Development

Physics Colloquium: "Intertwined Orders and the Physics of High Temperature Superconductors"

Time: 4:00 pm 2/12/2025
Location: Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

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PILOT Seminar: Chulin Xie, "Improving Trustworthiness in Foundation Models: Assessing, Mitigating, and Analyzing ML Risks"

Time: 9:30 am 2/13/2025

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PhD Final Defense – Aradhana Agarwal

Time: 10:00 am 2/13/2025
Location: CEEB 3012

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SE 290 - Peter Kim

Time: 11:00 am 2/13/2025
Location: 1310 DCL

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Final Exam: Yongzhou Chen

Time: 2:00 - 4:00 pm 2/13/2025
Location: CSL 301

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Kent Seminar: Jeff Roesler, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm 2/13/2025
Location: ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866

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Hard Materials Seminar - "Enabling Perovskite Semiconductors for a Brighter, Safer, and Efficient World"

Time: 4:00 pm 2/13/2025
Location: 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

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IMMERSE Seminar: Shayan Shayesteh, "Enhancing Human-Robot Collaboration in Construction Through Immersive and Intelligent User Interfaces"

Time: 4:00 pm 2/13/2025
Location: Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 2405

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The onset and evolution of the Darrieus-Landau instability in flames within closed vessels

Time: 4:00 pm 2/13/2025
Location: 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

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Teaching Special Seminar: Anna Evtushenko, "The Networks Class and the Value of Interdisciplinary Courses"

Time: 9:00 am 2/14/2025

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Gunnar Martinsson "Randomization in computational linear algebra"

Time: 11:00 am 2/14/2025
Location: Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 4124

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High Energy Physics Seminar - Tanner Trickle, Tabletop to Telescope: Unraveling the Mystery of Dark Matter

Time: 11:00 am 2/14/2025
Location: 464 Loomis

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Condensed Matter Seminar - "Intertwined magnetism, correlations and topology in semiconductor moiré lattices"

Time: 1:00 pm 2/14/2025
Location: ESB 190

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Final Exam: Mitchell David

Time: 1:00 - 3:00 pm 2/14/2025
Location: ECEB 5070

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Theory Seminar: Vishnu Narayan, "Fair Division via Quantile Shares"

Time: 11:00 am 2/17/2025
Location: Siebel 3401

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AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Nina Vaidya - "Moonshots" Via Extreme Engineering

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/17/2025
Location: CIF 2035

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Condensed Matter Seminar - Naren Manjunath, "What's inside a parameterized family?"

Time: 4:00 pm 2/17/2025
Location: ESB 190

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Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - Birnbaum Lecture - "Artificial Life, Self-replication, Exponential growth, Directed evolution, Nano-Architecture, DNA Activated NanoMachines"

Time: 4:00 pm 2/17/2025
Location: 0027/1025 Campus Instructional Facility, 1405 W. Springfield Ave

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IQUIST Seminar: "Simulatability and Testability of Quantum States through an Algebraic Lens", Dr. Mehrdad Tahmasbi, Future Faculty Fellow and Postdoctoral researcher, Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 2/18/2025
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: "Simulatability and Testability of Quantum States through an Algebraic Lens", Dr. Mehrdad Tahmasbi, Future Faculty Fellow and Postdoctoral researcher, Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Prelim Exam: Gerasimos Gerogiannis

Time: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 2/18/2025
Location: ECEB 5070

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University of Illinois-FGI Online CQA Course & Certification Exam

Recurring

Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm 2/18/2025

Join the University of Illinois-FGI for a Live Online Course and Certification Exam on Manufacturing, Fabrication, and Installation QA/QC for Geosynthetics February 4-18, 2025.

Professional Development

NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - David L. Luxat

Time: 4:00 - 4:50 pm 2/18/2025
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.