Engineering Seminars Test Calendar 2.10

IEEE Digital Design & FPGA Workshop Series
Recurring

5:00 - 7:00 pm CST 10/16/2025 - 10/23/2025

ECEB 2017

Conference/Workshop

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data, d'Ascoli et al. 2018

The Ongoing Hunt for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

3:45 - 4:45 pm 10/21/2025

134 Astronomy Building

Seminar/Symposium

M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering Leadership Informational Webinar

7:00 pm 10/21/2025

Webinar

Yoga at Beckman
Recurring

12:00 pm 10/22/2025

Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!

Health/Fitness

Prof. Yang Yang, UW Madison, "Bridging Quantum and Classical: An Efficient Framework for Capturing Zero-Point Effects in Hydrogen-Related Chemistry"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 10/22/2025

CLSL B102

Seminar/Symposium

ISTC Webinar | Power Flows: Transmission and Generator Incentives

2:00 - 3:00 pm 10/22/2025

The US electrical grid is experiencing a rapid transition as cheap renewable electricity transforms the energy mix. With these grid changes, new supply is not spatially matched to demand, and the transmission network has become more strained. This talk would discuss how better market integration could thus lower US generation costs.

Webinar

The Physics Colloquium McMillan Award: Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in twisted MoTe₂: discovery and recent advances. Jiaqi Cai (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

4:00 pm 10/22/2025

Loomis Lab 141

Seminar/Symposium

In-person Meeting with Coherent / II-VI Foundation: Funding and Scholarship Opportunities for Faculty and Undergraduate Students in STEM

11:00 am 10/23/2025

Holonyak Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory (HMNTL), Room 1000, Auditorium

Seminar/Symposium

Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Jinwei Chu (U Chicago), "A new approach to small black holes in string theory"

1:00 - 2:00 pm 10/23/2025

Loomis 464

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Arthur Charles-Orszag, University of California - Davis -- "Cellular, molecular mechanisms and evolution of chromosome segregation in the thermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius"

4:00 pm 10/23/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Quantifying Deformation and Fragmentation Threshold of Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Drops

4:00 pm 10/23/2025

Seminar/Symposium

CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm 10/23/2025

4401 Siebel School

Social/Informal Event

"The Realities of a Practicing Data Scientist", Alix Schmidt, Sr Data Scientist Dow Chemical, Core R&D Information Research

5:00 - 6:00 pm 10/23/2025

163 Noyes Lab

Informational

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. John Calarco (University of Toronto) - "Small but mighty: using a tiny worm to shed light on microexon splicing"

12:00 pm 10/24/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Condensed Matter Seminar - Mikael Backlund, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1:00 pm 10/24/2025

ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm 10/24/2025

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

Other

"Charting Cellular Landscapes in Biomedical Research with Multimodal Imaging Mass Spectrometry", Professor Jeff Spraggins, Vanderbilt University

4:00 pm 10/24/2025

RAL116

Seminar/Symposium

Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Sukbum Chung (University of Seoul), "Spin transport signature of ferroelectric fluctuation"

12:00 - 1:00 pm 10/27/2025

ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Neethu Babu / Freeman Lab

12:00 pm 10/27/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium

Seminar/Symposium

Thesis Defense: ""

2:00 pm 10/27/2025

204 Loomis

Lecture

Professor Amy Weeks, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "New Enzyme Chemistry to Decipher Post-translational Modification Function"

4:00 pm 10/27/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Michael Gallis - Exascale Molecular-Level Simulations of Gas Flows

4:00 - 5:00 pm 10/27/2025

CIF 2035

Seminar/Symposium

Gather in the Garden
Recurring

10:00 - 10:30 am 10/28/2025

Beckman Institute Center Atrium

Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Gather in the Garden will take place every Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.

Social/Informal Event

IQUIST Seminar: "Point Defects in Crystals: Trapped Atoms for Quantum Technologies," Kai-Mei Fu, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington

11:00 - 11:50 am 10/28/2025

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Kai-Mei Fu, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington

Seminar/Symposium

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley (host: Deborah Leckband) "Macromolecules: Friend or Foe?"

2:00 pm 10/28/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Icko Iben Jr. Series: The Fates of Stars Orbiting too Close to Massive Black Holes

3:45 - 4:45 pm 10/28/2025

NCSA Auditorium

Seminar/Symposium

NSP DIRECTOR'S SEMINAR: "Breath, space and memory: How nasal respiration shaped the evolution of hippocampal function." by Lucia F. Jacobs, Professor Emerita, Department of Psychology and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley

4:00 pm 10/28/2025

Beckman Institute 1025 - Auditorium

Seminar/Symposium

Phase-Change Heat and Mass Transfer: From Insights to Enabling Technologies

4:00 pm 10/28/2025

4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

Seminar/Symposium

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Jian Feng / State University of New York at Buffalo

12:00 pm 10/29/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Yoga at Beckman
Recurring

12:00 pm 10/29/2025

Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!

Health/Fitness

CHEM 545 Practice Seminars

2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 pm 10/29/2025

Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium

Seminar/Symposium

The Physics Colloquium "Chirality Meets Quantum" Dmitri Kharzeev (State University of New York at Stony Brook)

4:00 - 5:00 pm 10/29/2025

Loomis Lab 141

Seminar/Symposium

Rowan Glover CHEM 575 Seminar: "Preventing the Next Pandemic: The Potential for Broad Spectrum Antivirals through Host-Targeting Therapeutics

12:00 pm 10/30/2025

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL

Seminar/Symposium

Kinshuk Malik CHEM 575 Seminar: "From Poison to Messenger: Cyanide As An Emerging Gasotransmitter"

12:00 pm 10/30/2025

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Brett Loman, Animal Sciences Department/UIUC -- "Improving Stress Resilience Through Diet-Microbiota Interactions: Insights into Gastrointestinal Motility"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 10/30/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm 10/30/2025

4401 Siebel School

Social/Informal Event

Condensed Matter Seminar - Barry Bradlyn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1:00 pm 10/31/2025

ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE: Chloe Litts "Non-Traditional Catalysis by Plasmonic Nanostructures" Advisor: Prashant Jain

2:00 pm 10/31/2025

Roger Adams Lab 419

Seminar/Symposium

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm 10/31/2025

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

Other

Literature Seminar, TBD, Levi Dumpert

4:00 pm 10/31/2025

RAL 116

Seminar/Symposium

Literature Seminar, TBD, Ella Pickell

4:00 pm 10/31/2025

RAL 116

Seminar/Symposium

37th Annual Beak-Pines Organic Area Allerton Conference

8:00 am 11/1/2025

Allerton Park, Monticello, IL

Conference/Workshop

BMS talk w/BMS rep (for grad students & postdocs only), Dr. Deborah S. Mortensen, Bristol Myers Squibb, "Ligand Directed Degradation and Discovery of BMS-986458, a Potential First-in-Class BCL6 Degrader"

11:35 am - 12:30 pm 11/3/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Yves Kwan (Dallas)

12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/3/2025

ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Jenny Cheng / Van Bortle Lab

12:00 pm 11/3/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium

Seminar/Symposium

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Afifa Iqbal / Sokac Lab

12:30 pm 11/3/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium

Seminar/Symposium

Bristol Myers Squibb Lecture, Professor Guangbin Dong, University of Chicago, "Simple-Looking but Non-Obvious Transformations"

4:00 pm 11/3/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

AE 590 Seminar Speaker: James Bauer - Hazards and Thresholds: The Anatomy of Planetary Defense

4:00 - 5:00 pm 11/3/2025

CIF 2035

Seminar/Symposium

New-to-Beckman tour

9:30 am 11/4/2025

MRI Exhibit

Come find out more about the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology! Learn about the barrier-busting interdisciplinary research facility and community of innovation. First Thursday of the month from 9:30-10 a.m.

Informational

Gather in the Garden
Recurring

10:00 - 10:30 am 11/4/2025

Beckman Institute Center Atrium

Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Gather in the Garden will take place every Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.

Social/Informal Event

IQUIST Seminar: Wolfgang Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

11:00 - 11:50 am 11/4/2025

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Wolfgang Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

Seminar/Symposium

Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - Eytan Grosfeld (Ben Gurion University, Israel), "Shining Light on Bose-Hubbard Models: From Equilibrium Theory to Exotic Steady States"

12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/4/2025

ESB Lab 3110

Seminar/Symposium

Inorganic Literature Seminar, MOF-based Photosensitizers as Nanoplatforms for Enhanced Photodynamic Therapy, Husna Azhakath Valappil

3:30 pm 11/4/2025

Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

Inorganic Literature Seminar, Revisiting Zintl Chemistry: The Contemporary Shape of a Traditional Field, Akra Ghosh

3:30 pm 11/4/2025

Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

2025 SfN Preview Poster Night and Reception

4:00 pm 11/4/2025

Beckman Institute ATRIUM

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Student Seminar: Angie Caserio/Metcalf Lab and Simrandeep Singh/Imlay Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/4/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Variational phase-field modeling of fracture: toward second-generation models

4:00 pm 11/4/2025

4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

Seminar/Symposium

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Andrew Dillin / University of California Berkley

12:00 pm 11/5/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Yoga at Beckman
Recurring

12:00 pm 11/5/2025

Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!

Health/Fitness

Thesis Defense: ""

1:00 pm 11/5/2025

464 Loomis

Lecture

Prof. Peng Chen, Cornell University, "Single polymer growth dynamics at single-monomer resolution"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 11/5/2025

Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102

Seminar/Symposium

Akshita Gopal (Wu Lab) - "A deep mutational scanning-based high-throughput platform for epitope masking and immunofocused vaccine antigen design."

4:00 pm 11/5/2025

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

The Physics Colloquium "Quantum Voyages, Cosmic Journeys: Our Shared Stories" (2025 AIP Andrew Gemant Award)Smitha Vishveshwara (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)

4:00 - 5:00 pm 11/5/2025

Loomis Lab 141

Seminar/Symposium

Trick or Research

4:00 - 5:30 pm 11/5/2025

Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science, 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Hosted by the CS STARS, our researchers share their work with students interested in exploring computing and data science research opportunities.

Exhibition

Terry Gao (Huang Lab) - "TBA"

4:30 pm 11/5/2025

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Materials Literature Seminar, TBD, Elizabeth Vrana

3:30 am 11/6/2025

Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

Mahima Rana CHEM 575 Seminar

12:00 pm 11/6/2025

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL

Seminar/Symposium

Nicholas Korosec CHEM 575 Seminar

12:00 pm 11/6/2025

Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL

Seminar/Symposium

Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Luca Delacrétaz (U.Chicago), "Quantum Nonlinear Bosonization of Fermi surfaces"

1:00 - 2:00 pm 11/6/2025

Loomis 464

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Adrienne Antonson, Animal Sciences Department/UIUC -- "TBA"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/6/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm 11/6/2025

4401 Siebel School

Social/Informal Event

Condensed Matter Seminar - Haidan Wen, Argonne National Laboratory

1:00 pm 11/7/2025

ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Jeff Nivala (University of Washington) “TBA”

2:00 pm 11/7/2025

3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).

Seminar/Symposium

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm 11/7/2025

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

Other

Psychology-Beckman Colloquium Series

3:00 pm 11/7/2025

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Please join us for the Friday Psychology-Beckman Colloquium Series, a new monthly event designed to bring together faculty, researchers, postdocs, and students from across the Psychology Department, Beckman Institute, and beyond to engage in lively, interdisciplinary conversations around psychology.

Seminar/Symposium

"Using Operando NMR to Probe Lithium Metal Batteries", Professor Lauren Marbella, Columbia University in the City of New York

4:00 pm 11/7/2025

RAL 116

Seminar/Symposium

East Central Illinois American Chemical Society 10th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference

9:00 am - 5:00 pm 11/8/2025

Illini Union

Conference/Workshop

Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Olexei Motrunich (CalTech)

12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/10/2025

ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Jeffery W. Kelly, Scripps Research Institute, "The Scientific Origins of Drugs that Slow Neurodegeneration and the Pharmacological Future of Treating Dementias"

4:00 pm 11/10/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

AE 590 seminar speaker: Romar Frazier - Introduction to the Blended Wing Body Aircraft and the Propulsion Design Concept Decisions

4:00 - 5:00 pm 11/10/2025

CIF 2035

Seminar/Symposium

Gather in the Garden
Recurring

10:00 - 10:30 am 11/11/2025

Beckman Institute Center Atrium

Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Gather in the Garden will take place every Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.

Social/Informal Event

IQUIST Seminar: Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

11:00 - 11:50 am 11/11/2025

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

Seminar/Symposium

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Justin Notestein, Northwestern University, (co-hosts: Chris Rao, Paul Kenis)

2:00 pm 11/11/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Inorganic Seminar, "Heavy Elements in Nature: From Waste Management to Precision Medicine", Professor Rebecca Abergel, University of California, Berkeley

3:30 pm 11/11/2025

Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

The World of Webb, the Cosmic Circle of Life, and seeing through the Eyes of Einstein

3:45 - 4:45 pm 11/11/2025

134 Astronomy Building

Seminar/Symposium

"Maladaptive reorganization of the human brain in stroke," by Yuan Yang, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Biomedical & Translational Sciences (CI MED), Clinical Imaging (Carle Health), Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences (Northwestern Medicine), Beckman Institute, and Neuroscience Program

4:00 pm 11/11/2025

Beckman Institute 1005

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Student Seminar: Saika Hossain/Imlay Lab and Ezza Khan/Mera Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/11/2025

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Ceremony/Service

Yoga at Beckman
Recurring

12:00 pm 11/12/2025

Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!

Health/Fitness

TBD, Dr. Spencer Walse, Research Chemist, United States Department of Agriculture

12:00 pm 11/12/2025

W109 Turner Hall

Seminar/Symposium

Thesis Defense: ""

2:00 pm 11/12/2025

3110 ESB

Lecture

CHEM 545 Practice Seminars

2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 pm 11/12/2025

Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium

Seminar/Symposium

Kade Fellow: Dipta Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

4:00 pm 11/12/2025

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

The Physics Colloquium "Gravitational Wave Detection in Space" Neil Cornish (Montana State University)

4:00 - 5:00 pm 11/12/2025

Loomis Lab 141

Seminar/Symposium

'Fola Adesanya (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

4:30 pm 11/12/2025

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

New-to-Beckman tour

10:00 am 11/13/2025

MRI Exhibit

Come find out more about the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology! Learn about the barrier-busting interdisciplinary research facility and community of innovation. First Thursday of the month from 10-10:30 a.m.