Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

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- 10:30 am - 12:30 pm 1/16/2025
- CSL 301 & Zoom
Final Exam: Jiarui Sun
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 1/20/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - Campus Holiday
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm 1/21/2025
FGI Webinar: MSE Walls – The good, the bad and the ugly – A look at three MSE wall failures and the lessons learned

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
- 4:00 pm 1/21/2025
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
FARAWAY, SO CLOSE: HIGH RESOLUTION INVESTIGATIONS OF BOILING HEAT TRANSFER, FROM CRYONGENIC FLUIDS TO HIGH-PRESSURE WATER.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 1/21/2025
- 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar - "Molecular design of polymer networks: from skin-inspired electronics to uncovering fundamental physics"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm 1/21/2025
- 2035 Campus Instructional Facility
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Prof. Aditi Verma

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 1/22/2025
Teaching Special Seminar: Konstantinos Ameranis, "Consistency, Empathy, Knowledge: Instructor Qualities, Why and How"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 1/22/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: TBA
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm 1/22/2025
- CIF 4039
AE Seminar Speaker Aaron Berliner: Space Bioprocess Engineering for an Offworld Biomanufactory
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 1/23/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "Genetically encodable self-assembling biomaterials by design"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:00 am 1/24/2025
Teaching Special Seminar: Harsha Tirumala, "A Holistic Approach to Teaching CS Theory"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 - 10:50 am 1/24/2025
- 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Negin Golrezaei
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 1/24/2025
- 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
Physics Careers Seminar: "Life After PhD"
- Lecture
- 1:10 pm 1/24/2025
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "When details matter: learning coarse-grained physics from first principles"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:15 - 4:15 pm 1/24/2025
- HMNTL 2003
Prelim Exam: Nikita Duggar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 1/27/2025
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Meng Jiang, "Lessons Learned from Enhancing Knowledge and Reasoning for (Large) Language Models"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 1/27/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Mixed-Dimensional Heterostructures for Electronic and Energy Technologies"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 1/27/2025
- 1310 Yeh Student Center, Newmark Civil Engineering Building, 205 N Mathews Ave
Molecular computation for bioengineering | Anna Tarakanova | Structural Engineering Seminar Series
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm 1/27/2025
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Diana Gonzalez - Mavis Program Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 1/28/2025
- 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 1/28/2025
- 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm 1/28/2025
- 2035 Campus Instructional Facility
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Prof. Stephanie Diem

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 1/29/2025
Teaching Special Seminar: Ram Kesavan, "My Teaching Experience & Scholarship"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 1/29/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: TBA
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 1/30/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 1/30/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 - 10:50 am 1/31/2025
- 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Spandan Mishra
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm 1/31/2025
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - Pat Clancy, McMaster University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 2/3/2025
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Daniel Agterberg, University of Wisconsin
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 2/3/2025
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online
Distinguished Lecture: Ryan O'Donnell
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 2/3/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Stabilization of Non-Aqueous Pickering Emulsions and their use for Encapsulation of Water-Sensitive Liquids"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/3/2025
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Raffaele Russo - Liquid Hydrogen Powered VTOL Aircraft
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:00 am 2/4/2025
Teaching Special Seminar: Emily Fox
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am 2/4/2025
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: Mihir Bhaskar, Amazon Web Services

Speaker: Mihir Bhaskar, Research Lead at AWS Center for Quantum Networking, Amazon Web Services
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:30 pm 2/4/2025
University of Illinois-FGI Online CQA Course & Certification Exam

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
- 4:00 pm 2/4/2025
- 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 2/4/2025
- 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:00 am 2/5/2025
Teaching Special Seminar: Tamara Nelson-Fromm
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 2/5/2025
- ECEB 5070
Prelim Exam: T.G. Roberts
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:30 pm 2/5/2025
University of Illinois-FGI Online CQA Course & Certification Exam

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
- 4:00 pm 2/5/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: "The renaissance of general relativity"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 2/6/2025
- 1310 DCL
SE 290 - Jason Lee
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm 2/6/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 2/6/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 2/7/2025
- 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
Physics Careers Seminar: ""
- Lecture
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm 2/10/2025
- CSL 301
Final Exam: Usman Syed
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 2/10/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Modeling and measuring the linear viscoelasticity of vitrimer melts"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:00 am 2/11/2025
Teaching Special Seminar: James Perretta
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:30 pm 2/11/2025
University of Illinois-FGI Online CQA Course & Certification Exam

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
- 4:00 pm 2/11/2025
- 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar - "Electrolytes and electrochemical systems for energy and sustainability"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm 2/11/2025
- 2035 Campus Instructional Facility
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Dr. Ross Radel

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 - 1:30 pm 2/12/2025
University of Illinois-FGI Online CQA Course & Certification Exam

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
- 4:00 pm 2/12/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: "Intertwined Orders and the Physics of High Temperature Superconductors"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 2/13/2025
- 1310 DCL
SE 290 - Peter Kim
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm 2/13/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "Enabling Perovskite Semiconductors for a Brighter, Safer, and Efficient World"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm 2/14/2025
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - Ben Feldman, Stanford University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 2/17/2025
- 0027/1025 Campus Instructional Facility, 1405 W. Springfield Ave
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - Birnbaum Lecture
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am 2/18/2025
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: Edo Waks, University of Maryland

Speaker: Edo Waks, Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor and Associate Director of Quantum Technology Center University of Maryland
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:30 pm 2/18/2025
University of Illinois-FGI Online CQA Course & Certification Exam

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
- 4:00 pm 2/18/2025
- 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm 2/18/2025
- 2035 Campus Instructional Facility
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - David L. Luxat

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
- 4:00 pm 2/19/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: "Building the Cathedral of Quantum Mechanics"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 2/20/2025
- 1310 DCL
SE 290 - Mike Loquercio
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm 2/20/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - No Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/20/2025
- 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium
TBA
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm 2/21/2025
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - Stephen Wilson, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 2/24/2025
- HMNTL 2003
Prelim Exam: Jingxing Gao
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 2/24/2025
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Kojiro Sho, "Unveiling Urban Visitation Dynamics and Non-linear Relationships with the Built Environment Using Mobile Big Data"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 2/24/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Materials-Driven Strategies for Translational Bioelectrical Interfaces"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/24/2025
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Niccoli Scalice - Deployable Satellite Structures at AFRL’s Space Vehicles Directorate
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am 2/25/2025
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: William Oliver, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Speaker: William Oliver, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 2/25/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Megan Robertson, University of Houston, (host: Damien Guironnet)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 2/25/2025
- 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 2/25/2025
- 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 2/26/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Jocelyn Bell Burnell (University of Oxford). Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 2/27/2025
- 1310 DCL
SE 290 - Vicki VanBlaricum
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm 2/27/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 2/27/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/3/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/3/2025
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker Adrian Lozano Duran - Building-block flow model: An ML-based general-purpose closure model for large eddy simulation
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am 3/4/2025
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: Ed Barnes, Virginia Tech

Speaker: Ed Barnes, Professor of Physics, Virginia Tech
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 3/4/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Justin Notestein, Northwestern University, (co-hosts: Chris Rao, Paul Kenis)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/4/2025
- 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/4/2025
- 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm 3/4/2025
- 2035 Campus Instructional Facility
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Michael G. Houts

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
- 2:00 3/5/2025
- Material Sciences Building, 1304 W Green St, Urbana - Room 119
Thriving as a Graduate Student Series - "Cultivating a Strong and Productive Relationship with Your Advisor"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/5/2025
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Janet Conrad (MIT), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:00 - 11:00 am 3/6/2025
- Beckman Institute 2369-Side Conference Room
Final Exam: Junrui Ni
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 3/6/2025
- 1310 DCL
SE 290 - Mari Kay Scott
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm 3/6/2025
- LLP 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Jonathan Scorce, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm 3/6/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Elizabeth Biddinger, CUNY, (host: Paul Kenis)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/6/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/6/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/6/2025
- 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium
Graduate Town Hall*
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm 3/7/2025
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - Nathan Keim, Pennsylvania State University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/10/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Bioelectronics to Probe Brain-Body Physiology"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/10/2025
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Marcus Hermann
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am 3/11/2025
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: Angel Rubio, Flatiron Institute

Speaker: Angel Rubio, Research Scientist and Co-Director of Initiative for Computational Catalysis Flatiron Institute
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/11/2025
- 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 3/11/2025
- 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium