Engineering Seminars Test Calendar 2.10

New-to-Beckman tour

Time: 10:00 - 10:30 am 6/1/2023
Location: Meet in the Illinois MRI Exhibit (off of the first-floor East Atrium)

New and seasoned employees alike will learn something new about the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology on this half-hour tour, offered the first Thursday of every month at 10 a.m. Before you know it, you'll be navigating the building and discussing Beckman's research like a pro! Tours are led by Lexie Kesler, Beckman's outreach specialist.

Informational

Last day for GRAD to drop a S1 (4 week) course without a grade of W and without approval

Time: All Day 6/2/2023

Other

Last day for GRAD to elect credit-no-credit option for a S1 (4 week) course or to change from credit-no-credit option to a regular grade

Time: All Day 6/2/2023

Other

Ms. Sara Bell, UIUC Final Defense : Neurochemical Detection in Small Volumes by MALDI-Mass Spectrometry

Time: 9:00 am 6/2/2023
Location: 271 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Jazmin Aguilar-Romero, UIUC, Final Defense, "Development of Acid-Amplifying Polymers for Drug Delivery Applications."

Time: 10:00 am 6/2/2023
Location: 217 Noyes Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Illinois Computer Science Summer Teaching Workshop

Recurring

Time: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm 10:00 am to 12:00 pm and from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm 6/5/2023 - 6/6/2023

Conference/Workshop

Gather in the Garden

Time: 10:00 - 10:30 am 6/6/2023
Location: Beckman West Garden

Join Director Nadya Mason and your colleagues this summer for informal conversation and coffee in the Beckman West Garden. This Gather in the Garden Series will be from 10-10:30 a.m. every Tuesday through the end of July.

Social/Informal Event

Doctoral Defense by Evan Salcido

Time: 8:00 am 6/7/2023
Location: N-120 Turner Hall

Pluralistic valuations of nature: Mixed-methods research with communities around protected areas in Alaska

Other

Thesis Defense: "Gravitational Wave Ringdown as a Probe to Test General Relativity"

Time: 1:00 pm 6/7/2023
Location: 222 Loomis

Lecture

Thesis Defense: "Integrated Nonlinear Photonic Circuits for Mediating and Detecting Photon-Photon Interactions"

Time: 1:00 pm 6/8/2023
Location: 276 Loomis

Lecture

Last day for GRAD to add or drop a S1 (4 week) course with approval (a W is recorded)

Time: All Day 6/9/2023

Other

Last day to cancel POT 1 Independent Study, S2 (8 week), and S2A (4 week) registration via College Office (if not registered for courses in any other summer terms)

Time: All Day 6/9/2023

Other

S1 (4 week) Instruction Ends

Time: All Day 6/9/2023

Other

Master's Defense by Melissa Boman

Time: 10:00 am 6/9/2023
Location: N-120 Turner Hall

Improving the suitability of artificial roosts as a management tool for imperiled bat species

Other

Deadline: Siebel Scholars Program

Time: All Day 6/11/2023

Other

Last day to cancel POT 1 Independent Study, S2 (8 week), and S2A (4 week) registration via Self-Service (if not registered for courses in any other summer terms)

Time: All Day 6/11/2023

Other

S2 (8 week) and S2A (4 week) Instruction Begins

Time: All Day 6/12/2023

Other

Gather in the Garden

Time: 10:00 - 10:30 am 6/13/2023
Location: Beckman West Garden

Join Director Nadya Mason and your colleagues this summer for informal conversation and coffee in the Beckman West Garden. This Gather in the Garden Series will be from 10-10:30 a.m. every Tuesday through the end of July.

Social/Informal Event

Thesis Defense: "Crystalline Topological Phases: Bulk-Boundary Correspondence, Geometric Response, Entanglement, and Non-Hermitian Skin Effect"

Time: 1:30 pm 6/13/2023
Location: 276 Loomis

Lecture

FINAL DEFENSE, Stephen Cotty , "ENGINEERING REDOX-MEDIATED ELECTROCHEMICAL SEPARATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE PROCESS INTENSIFICATION IN CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING""

Time: 9:00 am 6/14/2023
Location: 217 Noyes Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Doctoral Defense by Ai Chen

Time: 8:00 am 6/15/2023
Location: W-121 Turner Hall

Effects of Functional Group-Specific Complexation and Adsorption of Phytic Acid on its Degradation by Phytase

Other

Master's Defense by John Bieber

Time: 11:00 am 6/15/2023
Location: N-527 Turner Hall

Spatial ecology, habitat use, and angling vulnerability in Muskies in Shabbona Lake: implications for management of a recreational fishery

Other

Cookie Collab

Time: 3:00 - 4:00 pm 6/15/2023
Location: Beckman Institute Atrium

Join Beckman Director Nadya Mason and other members of the Beckman community for coffee and cookies in the Beckman Atrium. The Cookie Collab is scheduled for 3 p.m. the third Thursday of each month.

Social/Informal Event

Yielding dynamics in capillary suspensions: the importance of local and semi-local structures

Time: 4:00 pm 6/15/2023
Location: 3100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

Seminar/Symposium

Master's Defense by Shrivani Kalita

Time: 7:50 am 6/16/2023
Location: W-203 Turner Hall

Effects of pCO2 on Hydroxyapatite Formation and its Stability: Implications for Understanding Phosphorus Availability in Calcareous Soil

Ceremony/Service

Deadline for GRAD to submit form to elect to audit a S2A (4 week) course

Time: All Day 6/16/2023

Other

Last day for GRAD to add a S2A (4 week) course via Self-Service

Time: All Day 6/16/2023

Other

Last day for GRAD to drop a S2A (4 week) course for refund if reducing assessment range (if not registered for courses in any other summer terms)

Time: All Day 6/16/2023

Other

Juneteenth (all campus holiday)

Time: All Day 6/19/2023

Other

Gather in the Garden

Time: 10:00 - 10:30 am 6/20/2023
Location: Beckman West Garden

Join Director Nadya Mason and your colleagues this summer for informal conversation and coffee in the Beckman West Garden. This Gather in the Garden Series will be from 10-10:30 a.m. every Tuesday through the end of July.

Social/Informal Event

Amanda East, UIUC, Final Defense, "Optimization of Small Molecule Chemical Tools for In Vivo Imaging"

Time: 2:00 pm 6/20/2023
Location: B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Deadline for GRAD to submit form to elect to audit a S2 (8 week) course

Time: All Day 6/21/2023

Other

Deadline to submit form to elect in absentia registration for the current term

Time: All Day 6/21/2023

Other

Last day for GRAD to add a POT 1 Independent Study or S2 (8 week) course via Self-Service

Time: All Day 6/21/2023

Other

Last day for GRAD to drop a POT 1 Independent Study or S2 (8 week) course for refund if reducing assessment range (if not registered for courses in any other summer terms)

Time: All Day 6/21/2023

Other

FINAL DEFENSE, Raylin Chen, "Structure and Solvation Control of Redox-Metallopolymers for Electrochemically-mediated Ion Separations"

Time: 10:00 am 6/21/2023
Location: 24 Burrill Hall

Seminar/Symposium

Thesis Defense: "Geometry-Charge Responses in Topological Phases of Matter"

Time: 11:00 am 6/22/2023
Location: 276 Loomis

Lecture

Final Thesis Defense: Yunshu Song / Stubbs Lab: "Unique and intertwined functions of AUTS2 isoforms in brain development and behavior"

Time: 1:00 pm 6/22/2023

Seminar/Symposium

Last day for GRAD to drop a S2A (4 week) course via Self-Service

Time: All Day 6/23/2023

Other

Last day for GRAD to drop a SF (12 week) course via Self-Service

Time: All Day 6/23/2023

Other

Thesis Defense: "Search for Doubly-Charmed Baryons in CDF Data"

Time: 9:00 am 6/23/2023
Location: 222 Loomis

Lecture

ChBE seminar- Dr. Rebecca Welbourn, ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, UK “Expanding the Physical Chemist’s Toolbox for a Greener Future: Neutron Reflectometry” (Xiao Su Host)

Time: 2:00 pm 6/23/2023
Location: 124 Burrill Hall

Seminar/Symposium

Master's Defense by Emily Sunnucks

Time: 10:00 am 6/26/2023
Location: Forbes 1005

eDNA Detection and Overwintering Habitat Modeling for the Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake in a Southwestern Mesic Prairie.

Other

Ian Rinehart, UIUC, Final Defense, "Applying Machine Learning to Enantioselectivity and Yield Prediction"

Time: 11:00 am 6/26/2023
Location: 433 Roger Adams Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Doctoral Defense by Caitlin Bloomer

Time: 10:00 am 6/27/2023
Location: 101 Geo. Survey Conference Room, Natural Resources Building

Where the Crawdads Sing: Examining biogeographic patterns of burrowing crayfish through diet and habitat use

Other

FINAL DEFENSE: Sophie McClain, UIUC, "Interaction of Alpha-Synuclein with Nanoscale Systems that Mimic Synaptic Vesicles", Advisor: Catherine Murphy

Time: 10:00 am 6/27/2023
Location: RAL 171

Seminar/Symposium

Gather in the Garden

Time: 10:00 - 10:30 am 6/27/2023
Location: Beckman West Garden

Join Director Nadya Mason and your colleagues this summer for informal conversation and coffee in the Beckman West Garden. This Gather in the Garden Series will be from 10-10:30 a.m. every Tuesday through the end of July.

Social/Informal Event

Thesis Defense: "Beyond 'Flipping the Classroom': Behavioral, Cognitive, and Socio-Emotional Aspects of Learning in College Physics"

Time: 10:00 am 6/27/2023
Location: 276 Loomis

Lecture

CLIMB Seminar : Dr. Yang Liu

Time: 11:00 am 6/27/2023
Location: Beckman Institute Room 4269- 4th Floor Tower Room

Cancer arises from the multi-step accumulation of genetic and epigenetic alterations. Understanding the interplay between genomics and epigenomics at all stages of malignant transformation is essential for developing personalized strategies to improve cancer detection, prevention, and treatment.