Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

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- 8:00 am 3/31/2025
- CEEB 1017
PhD Final Defense – Adam Sibal
- 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
- 1:00 pm 3/31/2025
- Newmark 3350
PhD Final Defense – Yun-Chi Yu
- 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
- 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
- 11:00 am 4/2/2025
- 321 Gregory Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Vanessa DaSilva, "Selective Deconstruction of Polyethylene to Propylene via Isomerization/Metathesis and 1-hexene Isomerization Studies"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/2/2025
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Marc Favata (Montclair State University) "Topics in testing GR"
- 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
- 3:30 pm 4/2/2025
- Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 0216
Mina Lee "Writing with AI: Capturing Its Influence, Designing Its Future"
- 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
Special Seminar: Subigya Nepal
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:10 am 4/3/2025
- Zoom
PhD Final Defense – Tong Liu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm 4/3/2025
- ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
Kent Seminar: Alexandre Alahi, EPFL Switzerland
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm 4/3/2025
- Beckman Institute 2169-Side Conference Room
Prelim Exam: Yuning Zhao
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/3/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "Designing and Probing Electronic Correlations in Two Dimensional Quantum Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/3/2025
- 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium
Intercellular Communication: Can It Be Mediated by Electromagnetics?
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm 4/3/2025
- HMNTL 1000
Final Exam: Kevin Pikul
- Seminar/Symposium
- 8:00 am 4/4/2025
- CEEB 3017
PhD Final Defense – Denissa Sari Darmawi Purba
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:00 - 11:00 am 4/4/2025
- HMNTL 3005
Final Exam: Hanwool Lee
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:30 am 4/4/2025
- Newmark Quade Conference Room
PhD Final Defense – Hossein Kabir
- 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 - "Discovery and Defects in Optical and Chiral Quantum Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm 4/4/2025
- Newmark 2218
PhD Final Defense – Omobolaji Lawal
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 - 5:00 pm 4/4/2025
- TBD
Final Exam: Shuo Liu
- 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
- 11:00 am 4/7/2025
- Hydro-Systems Laboratory, Room CEE 3019
PhD Final Defense – Zahra Heydari
- 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
- 3:00 pm 4/8/2025
- 164 Noyes Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Victoria Kriuchkovskaia, "HYDROGEL PLATFORM TO INVESTIGATE PROGRESSION OF DRUG-RESISTANT GLIOBLASTOMA"
- 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 pm 4/8/2025
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Laboratory X-ray measurements in solid mechanics: any new insights?
- 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
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm 4/9/2025
Final Exam: Hanchen Ye
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:30 - 3:30 pm 4/9/2025
- 4269 Beckman Institute
Prelim Exam: Mick Gardner
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm 4/9/2025
- 1027 Lincoln Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Dongyu Fan, "3D Tracking of Solute Dynamics in Heterogeneous Polymer Networks"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm 4/9/2025
- CEEB 3017
PhD Final Defense – Jenni Nugent
- 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
- 8:00 am 4/10/2025
- Newmark Quade Conference Room
PhD Final Defense – Jesus Osorio
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:00 am 4/10/2025
- CEEB 3019
PhD Final Defense – Mahmoud A. Mahrous
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 4/10/2025
- ECEB 5070
Final Exam: Charles Ross
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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
Keeping Urbana-Champaign Resilient Together: A Dialogue Between Community Leaders, Civil & Environmental Engineers, and Scientists
- 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
- 10:00 am 4/11/2025
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Nayeong Kim, "INTEGRATION OF REDOX-ELECTROSORPTION AND REDOX-ELECTRODIALYSIS FOR WATER REMEDIATION, WASTE VALORIZATION, AND ORGANIC SPECIES SEPARATIONS""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 - 10:50 am 4/11/2025
- 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Manxi Wu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 4/11/2025
- 464 Loomis
High Energy Physics Seminar - Qianshu Lu (IAS)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm 4/11/2025
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Nonlinear Coupled Magnonics"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/11/2025
- 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
MiV Seminar: Jakob Arend - "Full-stack support for high-performance neural experimentation"
- 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
- 2:00 pm 4/14/2025
- Zoom
PhD Final Defense – Junren Wang
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 4/14/2025
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Rex (Zhitao) Ying
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 4/14/2025
- 2405 Siebel Center
Rex Ying "A Riemannian Geometry Perspective on Foundation Models"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/14/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Entrepreneurship at Illinois: Cultivating a Pillar of Competitive Advantage"
- 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
- 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
- 3:00 - 5:00 pm 4/15/2025
- CSL 141
Prelim Exam: Seo Taek Kong
- 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 pm 4/15/2025
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Designing Redox-Flow Batteries for Renewable Energy Storage and CO2 Capture
- 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
- 3:00 - 5:00 pm 4/16/2025
- Beckman Institute 5369
Prelim Exam: Ruiyang Zhao
- 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
- 1:00 pm 4/17/2025
- LLP 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Vladimir Narovlansky, Princeton
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm 4/17/2025
- ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
Kent Seminar: Mani Golparvar-Fard, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/17/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/17/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "Spectroscopic investigation of electrocatalytic mechanisms across length scales: Probing surface kinetics and diffusion"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/17/2025
- 1002 Grainger Auditorium
TBA
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 - 10:50 am 4/18/2025
- 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Zhaosong Lu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 - 10:50 am 4/18/2025
- 2311 NCEL - Yeh Center
Human-Driven Evolution in Wastewater Treatment Bioreactors
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am 4/18/2025
- 464 Loomis
High Energy Physics Seminar - Heliudsen Bernardo (Brown)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/18/2025
- 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
MiV Seminar: Xiaotian Zhang - topic TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/21/2025
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Gil Rafael, California Institute of Technology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/21/2025
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Understanding the Impact of Grain Boundary Inclination on Grain Growth using Modeling and Simulation and Experiments"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/21/2025
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: John Junkins - What does Meryl Streep and Heartbreak Hotel have to do with Computational Methods in Nonlinear Mechanics and Control?
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/21/2025
- 1611 Titan Drive Rantoul, IL 61866
Kent Seminar Distinguished Lecture: Yinhai Wang, University of Washington
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am 4/22/2025
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Engineering (Useful) Trapped-Ion Quantum Technologies", Sara Mouradian, University of Washington

Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm 4/22/2025
- 2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion
Title: The X-59: A High-Speed Journey from Finite Element Models to Aeroservoelasticity
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4/22/2025
- 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar - "Cross-shaped patch formation on gold stellated octahedron templates with structural change"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm 4/22/2025
- 2035 Campus Instructional Facility
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Michael Tonks

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
- 12:05 pm 4/23/2025
- 2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion
Data-driven, Physics-based Modeling of Strongly Nonlinear Mechanical Structures
- Seminar/Symposium