Engineering Seminars Test Calendar 2.10

Join your colleagues this fall 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.

Social/Informal Event

Mueller Water Products Lobby Day

10:00 am - 3:00 pm 10/3/2023

Electrical and Computer Engineering Building (ECEB) Atrium/Lobby

Informational

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Sensing at meV Energy-Scales for Dark Matter Searches", Noah Kurinsky, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

11:00 - 11:50 am 10/3/2023

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

Speaker: Noah Kurinsky, Staff Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

"What in the Galaxy is Scattering Cosmic Rays? "

3:45 pm 10/3/2023

134 Astronomy

Seminar/Symposium

"Unwinding the role of mRNA helicase MOV10 in brain," by Stephanie Ceman, Professor, Dept of Cell and Developmental Biology, Neuroscience Program

4:00 pm 10/3/2023

Beckman Institute 1005

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Glen Cronan/Kuzminov Lab and Elizabeth Rowland/Kieffer Lab

4:00 pm 5:00 p.m. 10/3/2023

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Yoga at Beckman

12:00 pm 10/4/2023

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

Professor Valeria Molinero, University of Utah, "The Most Potent Snow Makers"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 10/4/2023

CLSL B102

Seminar/Symposium

Musarrat Jabeen (Shapiro) - "Targeting cancer by hyperactivating unfolded protein response”

4:00 pm 10/4/2023

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Westcott Biosciences Fellow Kaylee Kuzelka (Nair) - "Structure Based Engineering of a Broad Scope Carbon-Directed S-adenosylmethionine Dependent α –Keto Acid Methyl Transferase"

4:00 pm 10/4/2023

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Physics Colloquium: "Unveiling the nature of dark matter with small-scale cosmic structure"

4:00 pm 10/4/2023

Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

Lecture

Optiver Event

All Day 10/5/2023

Siebel Center for Computer Science Building

Informational

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.

Informational

Optiver Corporate Day

10:00 am - 2:00 pm 10/5/2023

Lobby of Siebel Center for Computer Science

Professional Development

FINAL DEFENSE: Qianqiao (Heather) Liu (Stadtmueller lab) - The structures of secretory IgA in complex with human and bacterial Fc receptors and functional implications for mucosal host-pathogen interactions

1:00 pm 10/5/2023

419 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Valeria Molinero, University of Utah, "Towards the Elucidation of the Mechanisms of Synthesis of Zeolites Using Data Science and Molecular Simulations" (Peters)

2:00 pm 10/5/2023

116 Roger Adams Laboratory

Ceremony/Service

Dow Alum Seminar Student Q&A session with Dr. Tim Moneypenny

2:00 pm 10/5/2023

Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

Dr.Tim Moneypenny, Dow Alum Seminar, "Industrial Synthesis of Emulsion Polymers" (M)

3:00 pm 10/5/2023

Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

Professor Betsy Parkinson, Purdue University, "Utilizing Biocatalysis and Synthetic Chemistry to Access New Natural Products"

4:00 pm 10/5/2023

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Vineet Menachery, University of Texas Medical Branch -- "Using reverse genetics to probe SARS-CoV-2 infection and pathogenesis"

4:00 pm 10/5/2023

Charles D. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Industry Meet Up with Northrop Grumman

5:30 - 7:00 pm 10/5/2023

CIF 1025

Informational

Optiver Tech Talk

6:00 pm 10/5/2023

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Informational

Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Yubin Zhou, Texas A&M University, "Optogenetic engineering of calcium channels and immune cells with tailored function"

12:00 pm 10/6/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

On Printing Complex Fluids: from nozzles to lasers

12:00 pm 10/6/2023

3100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

Seminar/Symposium

HMNTL Invited Seminar with ECE Distinguished Alumnus Dr. Joy Laskar: On the Development of mmW Wireless Products where 5G meets IoT

12:00 pm 10/6/2023

1000 Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Lab, 208 N. Wright Street, Urbana

Seminar/Symposium

Condensed Matter Seminar - "Reversible Fluxon Logic and Related Single-Flux-Quantum Computing Technology"

1:00 pm 10/6/2023

ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

Ms. Morgan Conrady, UIUC Title: Forensic Analysis of Gunshot Residue

4:00 pm 10/6/2023

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Ms. Kristin Martin, UIUC Title: Acoustofluidics for Bioanalytical Applications

4:00 pm 10/6/2023

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Deadline

All Day 10/8/2023

Other

HMNTL Invited Seminar with ECE Distinguished Alumnus Dr. Aaron Thean: Towards Chips that Rewire Themselves? How Novel Material-System Co-Design can Enable Them

11:00 am 10/9/2023

1000 Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Lab, 208 N. Wright Street, Urbana

Seminar/Symposium

Photo of Professor Venki Ramakrishnan. He's standing in front of a lab window and is wearing blue, button-down shirt and glasses.

Biochemistry-IGB Seminar: Venki Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology; Cambridge, UK, "Initiation of Translation by the Ribosome"

12:00 pm 10/9/2023

B102 CLSL (Charles Miller Auditorium)

Seminar/Symposium

Lilly Lecture: Dr. Adriana Jemison, "Process Improvements for the Highly Convergent Synthesis of a Complex Small Molecule API"

4:00 pm 10/9/2023

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

AE590 Seminar: Tonghun Lee Fundamental Physics of Mach 7+ Hypersonic Propulsion

4:00 - 5:00 pm 10/9/2023

Campus Instructional Facility 3039

Seminar/Symposium

Lilly Lecture: Professor Hagan Bayley, University of Oxford, "Engineered Nanopores: from Gene Sequencing to Organ Repair"

5:00 pm 10/9/2023

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Lilly Lecture: Professor Hagan Bayley, University of Oxford, "Gene Sequencing to Organ Repair"

5:00 pm 10/9/2023

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Industry Meet Up with Scaled Composites

5:30 - 7:00 pm 10/9/2023

CIF 2039

Informational

Gather in the Garden

10:00 - 10:30 am 10/10/2023

Beckman West Garden

Join your colleagues this fall 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.

Social/Informal Event

IQUIST Seminar: "Atom-Field interactions in Nanoscale Quantum Optical Systems," Kanu Sinha, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University

11:00 - 11:50 am 10/10/2023

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

Speaker: Kanu Sinha, Assistant Professor, School of Electrical, Energy and Computer Engineering, Arizona State University

Seminar/Symposium

Professor Shabnam Hematian, University of North Carolina - Greensboro, "Unconventional Approaches for Mediating Redox Reactions" (I)

3:30 pm 10/10/2023

Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

"Planet Formation Insights from Debris Disk Dust and Gas"

3:45 pm 10/10/2023

134 Astronomy

Seminar/Symposium

"Love, death, and cochlear implants," by Robert C. Froemke, PhD, Skirball Foundation Professor of Genetics, Department of Otolaryngology and Neuroscience/Physiology, NYU Neuroscience Institute, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

4:00 pm 10/10/2023

Beckman Institute 1005

Seminar/Symposium

Embracing Collisions with Flexible Aerial Robots

4:00 pm 10/10/2023

4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

Seminar/Symposium

Graduate School Prep for NRES

4:00 - 5:00 pm 10/10/2023

W-121 Turner Hall

Preparing to apply to graduate school should begin early. Learn what you can be doing NOW to position yourself for success after completing your undergraduate degree.

Informational

Yoga at Beckman

12:00 pm 10/11/2023

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

Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar: Dr. Ankur Saxena, UAB Heersink School of Medicine

12:00 pm 10/11/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

"From Neurons to Neuroblastoma and Back Again: Stem Cell and Cancer Differentiation In Vivo"

Seminar/Symposium

Thesis Defense: "Characterization and Performance of SPIDER’s 280 GHz Telescopes and Second Flight"

2:00 pm 10/11/2023

464 Loomis

Lecture

DLS: Bonnie Dorr, "NLP Applications: Challenges, Risks, and Opportunities in the age of Chat GPT"

3:30 pm 10/11/2023

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

Seminar/Symposium

Carter Fellow: Huaxun Fan (Zhang ) - "In vivo optogenetic modulation of ERK/AKT signaling pathway in neurons and development of synthetic neurocomputer"

4:00 pm 10/11/2023

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Physics Colloquium: "Optical dissection of rhythmic behaviors in a worm"

4:00 pm 10/11/2023

Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

Lecture

Anduril Corporate Day

11:00 am - 3:00 pm 10/12/2023

Lobby of Siebel Center for Computer Science

Professional Development

Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Thermodynamics of Near Extremal Black Holes in AdS(5).

1:00 pm 10/12/2023

Loomis Room 464

Seminar/Symposium

[HUG] Mentoring Lunch

1:00 - 2:00 pm 10/12/2023

ECEB 3020

Meeting

Professor Luke Lavis, Janelia Research Campus, HHMI, "Designing Brighter Dyes for Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy and Beyond"

4:00 pm 10/12/2023

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Picture of Dr. Ron Kopito. He has short, grey hair. He is wearing a blue hoodie and smiling.

Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Ron Kopito, Stanford University, "Regulation of the ribosome-translocon interaction by the ubiquitin like protein UFM1”

12:00 pm 10/13/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Condensed Matter Seminar - "Ultrafast many-body dynamics and control of a driven quantum chain"

1:00 pm 10/13/2023

ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

Mr. Conrad Milton, UIUC Title: Live Cell Imaging with Electron Microscopy

4:00 pm 10/13/2023

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Mr. Blake Mirman, UIUC Title: Analysis of pigments in visual relics using Raman and XRF spectroscopy

4:00 pm 10/13/2023

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Two Sigma PhD Fellowship - Application Deadline

All Day 10/16/2023

Other

Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: A New Picture of Quantum Dynamics and A New Kind of Tensor Network

12:00 pm 10/16/2023

ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Jesus Moreno Castillo/Chen Lab

12:00 - 12:30 pm 10/16/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

Regulation of the guanine nucleotide exchange factor XPLN by phosphorylation

Seminar/Symposium

The Utpal Banerjee Distinguished Lecture in High Performance Computing: Jack Dongarra, "An Overview of High Performance Computing and Future Requirements"

3:30 pm 10/16/2023

NCSA Auditorium and online

Seminar/Symposium

CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Joshua Berger, "Catalytic Formation of Ammonia from Dinitrogen"

4:00 pm 10/16/2023

116 Roger Adams Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

AE590 Seminar: Simulation and modeling of particle-laden turbulent compressible flows

4:00 - 5:00 pm 10/16/2023

CIF 3039

Seminar/Symposium

Gather in the Garden

10:00 am 10/17/2023

Beckman West Garden

Join your colleagues this fall 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.

Social/Informal Event

IQUIST Seminar: "Ultrafast Quantum Nanophotonics," Alireza Marandi, Caltech

11:00 - 11:50 am 10/17/2023

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

Speaker: Alireza Marandi, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering & Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology

Seminar/Symposium

Professor Jose Goicoechea, Indiana University, "The Cyaphide Ion: A New Building Block for Chemical Synthesis", (I)

3:30 pm 10/17/2023

Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

"Demystifying the Dark Side of the Universe Using Secondary Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies"

3:45 pm 10/17/2023

134 Astronomy

Seminar/Symposium

"Mapping the contribution of astrocytes to brain computation and outputs," by Thomas Papouin, PhD, Department of Neuroscience, Washington University in St Louis

4:00 pm 10/17/2023

Beckman Institute 1005

Seminar/Symposium

Computer Modeling of Growth, Remodeling, and Failure of Ascending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm

4:00 pm 10/17/2023

4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

Ceremony/Service

Yoga at Beckman

12:00 pm 10/18/2023

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

Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar: Dr. Hee-Sun Han, UIUC Department of Chemistry

12:00 pm 10/18/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

Nano- and Micro-technologies for data-driven systems biology

Seminar/Symposium

Thomas Cowell, University of Illionis Urbana-Champaign, "Double Emulsion Droplet Microfluidics and High-Throughput Measurements of Single Viruses"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 10/18/2023

CLSL B-102

Seminar/Symposium

Chris Hawk (Jin) - "Conserved DRG factors maintain efficient translation elongation by remodeling the ribosome”

4:00 pm 10/18/2023

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Physics Colloquium: "Quantum acoustics: Quantum mechanics with sound"

4:00 pm 10/18/2023

Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

Lecture

ECE Career Explorations - Capital One

5:00 - 5:50 pm 10/18/2023

Grainger Auditorium, ECEB

Informational

Cookie Collab

3:00 pm 10/19/2023

Atrium

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