Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

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• • 11:00 am    10/1/2025
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Josu Aurrekoetxea (MIT) "Scalar fields around black hole binaries in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm    10/1/2025
  • MRL 1002

  Condensed Matter Special Seminar - "Exploring electronic band structure and collective excitations in quantum materials"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 - 4:00 pm    10/1/2025
  • ESB 190

  MRSEC All-Hands Meeting

  • Meeting
• • 3:30 pm    10/1/2025
  • 1304 Siebel Center

  Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Dr. Mashfiqui Rabbi, "Computational Interventions for Behavior Change."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm    10/1/2025
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Charles P. Slichter Memorial Colloquium - "Negotiations with Nature - What Happens When a Physicist Tries to be a Chemist."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am    10/2/2025
  • 114 Transportation Building

  Engineering in Residence Seminar (SE 290) - Dave Adams

  • Lecture
• • 11:00 am - 12:20 pm    10/2/2025
  • 2405 Siebel Center

  AImpact Center Seminar: Dr. Kate Donahue, "Opportunities and Challenges in Human-AI Systems."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 - 2:00 pm    10/2/2025
  • Loomis 464

  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Xuchen Cao (UIUC), "One Sided Black Holes in DSSYK Model: An Algebraic Approach"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm    10/2/2025
  • 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
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm    10/2/2025
  • ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866

  Kent Seminar: Nenad Milkjkovic, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 4:00 pm    10/2/2025
  • Beckman 2169 & Zoom

  Prelim Exam: Yike Wang

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm    10/2/2025
  • Illinois Center for Transportation (ICT) Classroom and Zoom

  PhD Final Defense – Syed Faizan Husain

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

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Solution Processable Ordered Defect Compound Semiconductors for High-Performance Electronics"

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

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Screening of Candidate Materials for Ammonia Synthesis"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/2/2025

  Automotive Aerodynamics: Form does not always follow Function

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/2/2025

  Computer Vision Seminar Series: Dr. Zhengyuan Yang, "Post-Training for Long-Horizon Multimodal Reasoning."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm    10/2/2025
  • 1002 Grainger Auditorium

  Deep Blue Phosphorescent OLEDs: Can Organics Live Long Enough at High Energies to be Useful?

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm    10/2/2025
  • 3102 Siebel Center

  CS Compiler Seminar: Yifan Zhao, "Neptune: Advanced ML Operator Fusion for Locality and Parallelism on GPUs."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 - 10:50 am    10/3/2025

  ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Ali A. Malik

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm    10/3/2025
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Strain induced magnetism and superconductivity in Heusler membranes"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm    10/3/2025

  Robotics Seminar: Dr. Dinesh Jayaraman, "Engineering Better Robot Learners: Exploration and Exploitation

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm    10/3/2025
  • 2405 Siebel Center

  Systems Research Mini Workshop: Dr. Jing Liu, "Transparently Enhancing Applications through Operating System Architectures and Mechanisms."

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 3:00 - 4:00 pm    10/3/2025
  • 2405 Siebel Center

  Systems Research Mini Workshop: Xiangpeng Hao, "LiquidCache: Efficient Pushdown Caching for Cloud-Native Data Analytics."

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 3:30 pm    10/3/2025
  • 222/276 Loomis

  WGMPA Physics Careers Alumni Panel

  • Lecture
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm    10/3/2025
  • 2405 Siebel Center

  Systems Research Mini Workshop: Ao Li, "[Fray: An Efficient General-Purpose Concurrency Testing Platform for the JVM]."

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 10:00 am    10/6/2025
  • 3401 Siebel Center

  Theory Seminar: Soumik Ghosh, "Peaked quantum advantage using error correction."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm    10/6/2025
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Zohar Nussinov (WashU), "Inhomogeneous phases and glasses- a many-body perspective"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/6/2025
  • 1310 Yeh Student Center, 205 N Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL

  Scarce data approaches to transfer knowledge across disparate domains: a study in extrapolation via machine learning | Stephanie G. Paal | Structural Engineering Seminar Series

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm    10/6/2025
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Derek Attig - Networking Strategies for Graduate Students.

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  • 11:00 - 11:50 am    10/7/2025
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum computing and simulation with multimode superconducting random-access memories," Srivatsan Chakram, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University

  Speaker: Srivatsan Chakram, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am - 12:15 pm    10/7/2025
  • 0216 Siebel Center

  Computing Startup Seminar Series: Vijay Chander

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm    10/7/2025
  • ESB Lab 3110

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Bruno Uchoa (University of Oklahoma), "Quantum geometry in flat bands"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm    10/7/2025
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

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

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/7/2025
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar - "Toward computationally-guided design of frontally-polymerized materials with self-organizing capabilities: Linking molecular thermodynamics to emergent behavior"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/7/2025
  • 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  Polarization of Thermal Emission from Micro/Nanostructured Materials

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/7/2025
  • 2405 Siebel Center

  CAP Seminar: Dr. Brandon Reagen, "Towards Practical Cryptographic Computing."

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  • 4:00 - 4:50 pm    10/7/2025
  • 1306 Everitt Laboratory

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Prof. Ling-Jian Meng

  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    10/8/2025
  • Siebel Center 2405

  Physics-guided mmWave/sub-THz Wireless Systems: From Energy-Aware PHY Layer to Exotic Beam Shaping

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm    10/8/2025
  • 280 MRL

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

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am    10/8/2025
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Hao-Jui Kuan (UIUC) "Tidal resonance: Nonlinearities revealed by numerical relativity"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm    10/8/2025
  • 1304 Siebel Center

  Human-Computer Interaction Lightning Talks

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm    10/8/2025
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium Eric Kuo (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) “Developing the Skills and Mindsets for Future Success Through Physics Education”

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am    10/9/2025
  • 114 Transportation Building

  Engineering in Residence Seminar (SE 290) - Deborah Mrazek

  • Lecture
• • 2:00 pm    10/9/2025
  • 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
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm    10/9/2025
  • ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866

  Kent Seminar: Paulo Pereirinha, Polytechnic of Coimbra / INESC Coimbra

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/9/2025
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Oxygen Stoichiometry Insights in Fe-Doped SrTiO₃ from Chemical Capacitance"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/9/2025
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Synthesis and optical quantum memory characterization of α-Eu(IO3)3, β-Eu(IO3)3, and NaEu(IO3)4"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/9/2025
  • 2405 Siebel Center

  IMMERSE Seminar Series: Dr. Katryna Starks, "The PLAYlab: Games and Interactive Research for Social Good."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/9/2025
  • 2244 Siebel Center

  Computer Vision Seminar Series: Jieneng Chen, "Towards Generative Worlds for Deeper Reasoning and Informed Embodiment."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm    10/9/2025
  • 3102 Siebel Center

  CS Compiler Seminar: Avaljot Singh, "Automated Verification of Soundness of DNN Certifiers."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm    10/9/2025
  • 3102 Siebel Center

  CS Compiler Seminar: Arya Vohra & Leo Seojun Lee, "Mind the Abstraction Gap: Bringing Equality Saturation to Real-World ML Compilers."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 - 7:00 pm    10/9/2025
  • CIF 2035

  AE590 Seminar: Toward predictive models for gas phase phenomena in hypersonic flows

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  • 10:00 - 10:50 am    10/10/2025
  • 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801

  ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Mohsen Jafari

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am    10/10/2025
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Xiaojun Yao (University of Washington) "Quantum Computing of Real-Time Correlators in 2+1D SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm    10/10/2025
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Observation of constructive interference at the edge of quantum ergodicity"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm    10/10/2025

  Robotics Seminar: Dr. Farshid Alambeigi, "Surgineering Using Intelligent and Flexible Robotic Systems."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm    10/10/2025
  • 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).

  STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Rong Ma (Harvard University) "Modern Nonlinear Embedding Methods Unpacked: Empowering Biological Discoveries with Statistical Insights"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/10/2025
  • 1214 Siebel Center

  Systems Research Seminar Series: Dr. Bogdan "Bo" Stoica, "Bug finding at the mechanism level."

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 8:30 am    10/13/2025

  PhD Final Defense – Ruolin Zhang

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 - 11:00 am    10/13/2025
  • 3401 Siebel Center

  Theory Seminar: Nikhil Shagrithaya, "Probabilistic Guarantees to Explicit Constructions: Local Properties of Linear Codes."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm    10/13/2025
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Yin-Chen He (Stonybrook), "A Fuzzy Sphere Journey: from 3D Ising to Chern-Simons-matter CFT "

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm    10/13/2025
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Dean Pospisil, "Understanding Neural Representations and Inferring How They Are Generated"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/13/2025
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "The Search for Accurate Predictors of Grain Growth"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm    10/13/2025
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Tamer Zaki - Turbulence From an Observer Perspective

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  • 11:00 - 11:50 am    10/14/2025
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: "Broadband quantum-limited amplification and near-ultrastrong nonlinear light-matter coupling with superconducting circuits", Kevin O'Brien, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Speaker: Kevin O'Brien, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am - 12:15 pm    10/14/2025
  • 0216 Siebel Center

  Computing Startup Seminar Series: Sudip Chakrabarti

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm    10/14/2025
  • ESB 3110

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - Darius Shi (Stanford)), "Chiral superconductivity from non-Abelian anyon fluids"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm    10/14/2025
  • 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    10/14/2025
  • Loomis Laboratory of Physics, Room 141

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

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/14/2025
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar - "Peptide-polymer amphiphiles meet lipid membranes: A morphological analysis of thermally actuated dynamic hybrid systems"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/14/2025
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar - "Recyclable by Design: Additive Manufacturing of Thermosets via Frontal Polymerization"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/14/2025
  • 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  Printer 3D Microelectronics: Process Development, Materials Science, and Devices Applications

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  • 4:00 - 4:50 pm    10/14/2025
  • 141 Loomis Laboratory Of Physics

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Prof. Joseph D. Smith

  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
• • 9:00 am    10/15/2025 - 10/16/2025
  • HMNTL 1000

  Vacuum Science and Thin Film Deposition

  Wednesday, October 15 9am - 4pm » Day 1 - Vacuum Science » Vacuum Fundamentals » Vacuum Pumps » Pressure Measurement » Vacuum System Characterization » Cleaning for Vacuum Service Thursday, October 16 9am - 4pm » Day 2 - Thin Film Deposition » Electron Beam Evaporation » Sputtering by DC, Pulsed Dc, RF and HiPIMS » Atomic Layer Deposition/Atomic Layer Etch

  • Informational
• • 11:00 am    10/15/2025
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame) "Interpreting the observables and multi messenger signals of r-process nucleosynthesis"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm    10/15/2025
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Ruhi Sarikaya, "Path to Artificial General Intelligence: Past, Present, and Future"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm    10/15/2025
  • 1304 Siebel Center

  Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Ali Cem Kaynak, "Usability Problems in the digital application process for subsidized student loans in Germany."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm    10/15/2025
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium Peter Abbamonte (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) "Conformal Invariance in Strange Metals"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm    10/16/2025
  • Coordinated Science Lab 239

  Prelim Exam: Rajalaxmi Rajagopalan

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am    10/16/2025
  • 114 Transportation Building

  Engineering in Residence Seminar (SE 290) - Toni Baumann

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 - 2:00 pm    10/16/2025
  • Loomis 464

  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Pratik Rath (UC Berkeley), "A Black Hole Airy Tail"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 - 3:00 pm    10/16/2025
  • Beckman 3169

  Prelim Exam: Mingrui Liu

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm    10/16/2025
  • ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866

  Kent Seminar: Marta Gonzalez, University of California, Berkeley

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/16/2025
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Three-dimensional Fourier Transform Infrared Microscope"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/16/2025
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Plastic Localization Behavior in Ferritic-Martensitic Steels"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 9:00 am    10/17/2025
  • 3100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  Interfacial Stress Balances Across Scales: Thin-Film Stability and Pulmonary Surfactant

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  • 10:00 - 10:50 am    10/17/2025
  • 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801

  ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Myrtede Alfred

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am    10/17/2025
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Robert McGehee (University of Minnesota)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am    10/17/2025
  • 4124 Siebel Center

  DAIS Distinguished Alumni Seminar: Dr. Jiaming Shen, "Identifying and Incentivizing Grounded Natural Language Generation.""

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:30 am    10/17/2025
  • Newmark 2312

  PhD Final Defense – Binxin Fu

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm    10/17/2025
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Atom-by-atom characterization of 2D materials with electron ptychography"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm    10/17/2025
  • 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).

  STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Jamie Williamson (Scripps Research) “Structure and Dynamic Analysis of Bacterial Ribosome Assembly in Cells.”

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/17/2025
  • 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  MiV Seminar: Arvind Ramanathan, Argonne National Lab - "Autonomous Laboratory for Accelerating Biotherapeutic Discovery"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/20/2025
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "A View From the Interface: Particle Incorpation During Crystallization"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/20/2025
  • 1310 Yeh Student Center, 205 N Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL

  Re-imagining Human Health Monitoring through Structural Vibrations with Physics-Informed Machine Learning | Yiwen Dong | Structural Engineering Seminar Series

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm    10/20/2025
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 seminar: Cheol Park - Multifunctional Structural Materials for Sustainable Aviation and Space Exploration in Extreme Aerospace Environments

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  • 11:00 - 11:50 am    10/21/2025
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum trajectories and stochastic excursions of thermal machines," Gabriel Landi, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester

  Speaker: Gabriel Landi, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am - 12:15 pm    10/21/2025
  • 0216 Siebel Center

  Computing Startup Seminar Series: Svetlana Vranic-Sowers

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm    10/21/2025
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

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

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm    10/21/2025
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar - "How biophysical properties of endosomal membranes affect the endosomal escape"

  • Seminar/Symposium