Engineering Seminars Test Calendar 2.10

Northern Trust Fall 2023 Learning Series

Recurring

Time: All Day 9/26/2023 - 10/4/2023

Informational

Lobby Day: Palantir

Time: 11:00 am - 3:00 pm 10/2/2023
Location: Lobby of Siebel Center for Computer Science

Informational

Palantir Corporate Day

Time: 11:00 am - 3:00 pm 10/2/2023
Location: Lobby of Siebel Center for Computer Science

Professional Development

Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Texture-induced spin-orbit coupling and skyrmion-electron bound states in a Néel antiferromagnet

Time: 12:00 pm 10/2/2023
Location: ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

Biological Physics / iPoLS / STC-QCB Seminar: Sara Rouhanifard (Northeastern University) "Developing tools for single-molecule sequencing and imaging of RNA modifications"

Time: 1:30 pm 10/2/2023
Location: 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).

Lecture

AE590 Seminar: Resilient Multi-Agent Coordination: From Theory to Practice

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 10/2/2023
Location: CIF 3039

Seminar/Symposium

Professor Bartosz A. Grzybowski, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, "Synthesis Planning, Mechanism Prediction and Discovery of New Reactions Using Computers"

Time: 4:00 pm 10/2/2023
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Gather in the Garden

Time: 10:00 - 10:30 am 10/3/2023
Location: 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

Mueller Water Products Lobby Day

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

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 10/3/2023
Location: 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? "

Time: 3:45 pm 10/3/2023
Location: 134 Astronomy

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 p.m. 10/3/2023
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 4:00 pm 10/3/2023
Location: Beckman Institute 1005

Seminar/Symposium

Yoga at Beckman

Time: 12:00 pm 10/4/2023
Location: 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"

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm 10/4/2023
Location: CLSL B102

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 4:00 pm 10/4/2023
Location: 116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 4:00 pm 10/4/2023
Location: Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

Lecture

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

Time: 4:00 pm 10/4/2023
Location: 116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Optiver Event

Time: All Day 10/5/2023
Location: Siebel Center for Computer Science Building

Informational

New-to-Beckman tour

Time: 10:00 am 10/5/2023
Location: 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.

Informational

Optiver Corporate Day

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

Time: 1:00 pm 10/5/2023
Location: 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)

Time: 2:00 pm 10/5/2023
Location: 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

Ceremony/Service

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

Time: 2:00 pm 10/5/2023
Location: Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 3:00 pm 10/5/2023
Location: Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 4:00 pm 10/5/2023
Location: Charles D. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 4:00 pm 10/5/2023
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Industry Meet Up with Northrop Grumman

Time: 5:30 - 7:00 pm 10/5/2023
Location: CIF 1025

Informational

Optiver Tech Talk

Time: 6:00 pm 10/5/2023
Location: 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"

Time: 12:00 pm 10/6/2023
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 12:00 pm 10/6/2023
Location: 1000 Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Lab, 208 N. Wright Street, Urbana

Seminar/Symposium

On Printing Complex Fluids: from nozzles to lasers

Time: 12:00 pm 10/6/2023
Location: 3100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 1:00 pm 10/6/2023
Location: ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 4:00 pm 10/6/2023
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 4:00 pm 10/6/2023
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Deadline

Time: 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

Time: 11:00 am 10/9/2023
Location: 1000 Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Lab, 208 N. Wright Street, Urbana

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 12:00 pm 10/9/2023
Location: B102 CLSL (Charles Miller Auditorium)

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.

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

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 10/9/2023
Location: Campus Instructional Facility 3039

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 4:00 pm 10/9/2023
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 5:00 pm 10/9/2023
Location: 116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 5:00 pm 10/9/2023
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Industry Meet Up with Scaled Composites

Time: 5:30 - 7:00 pm 10/9/2023
Location: CIF 2039

Informational

Gather in the Garden

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

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 10/10/2023
Location: 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)

Time: 3:30 pm 10/10/2023
Location: Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

"Planet Formation Insights from Debris Disk Dust and Gas"

Time: 3:45 pm 10/10/2023
Location: 134 Astronomy

Seminar/Symposium

Embracing Collisions with Flexible Aerial Robots

Time: 4:00 pm 10/10/2023
Location: 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

Seminar/Symposium

Graduate School Prep for NRES

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

"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

Time: 4:00 pm 10/10/2023
Location: Beckman Institute 1005

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 12:00 pm 10/11/2023
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

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

Seminar/Symposium

Yoga at Beckman

Time: 12:00 pm 10/11/2023
Location: 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: "Characterization and Performance of SPIDER’s 280 GHz Telescopes and Second Flight"

Time: 2:00 pm 10/11/2023
Location: 464 Loomis

Lecture

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

Time: 3:30 pm 10/11/2023
Location: 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"

Time: 4:00 pm 10/11/2023
Location: 116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 4:00 pm 10/11/2023
Location: Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

Lecture

Anduril Corporate Day

Time: 11:00 am - 3:00 pm 10/12/2023
Location: Lobby of Siebel Center for Computer Science

Professional Development

[HUG] Mentoring Lunch

Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm 10/12/2023
Location: ECEB 3020

Meeting

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

Time: 1:00 pm 10/12/2023
Location: Loomis Room 464

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 4:00 pm 10/12/2023
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 12:00 pm 10/13/2023
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

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

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

Time: 1:00 pm 10/13/2023
Location: ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 4:00 pm 10/13/2023
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 4:00 pm 10/13/2023
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Two Sigma PhD Fellowship - Application Deadline

Time: All Day 10/16/2023

Other

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

Time: 12:00 - 12:30 pm 10/16/2023
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

Regulation of the guanine nucleotide exchange factor XPLN by phosphorylation

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 12:00 pm 10/16/2023
Location: ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 3:30 pm 10/16/2023
Location: NCSA Auditorium and online

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 10/16/2023
Location: CIF 3039

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 4:00 pm 10/16/2023
Location: 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Gather in the Garden

Time: 10:00 am 10/17/2023
Location: 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

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 10/17/2023
Location: 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)

Time: 3:30 pm 10/17/2023
Location: Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 3:45 pm 10/17/2023
Location: 134 Astronomy

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 4:00 pm 10/17/2023
Location: 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

Ceremony/Service

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

Time: 4:00 pm 10/17/2023
Location: Beckman Institute 1005

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 12:00 pm 10/18/2023
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

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

Seminar/Symposium

Yoga at Beckman

Time: 12:00 pm 10/18/2023
Location: 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

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

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm 10/18/2023
Location: CLSL B-102

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 4:00 pm 10/18/2023
Location: 116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 4:00 pm 10/18/2023
Location: Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

Lecture

ECE Career Explorations - Capital One

Time: 5:00 - 5:50 pm 10/18/2023
Location: Grainger Auditorium, ECEB

Informational

Cookie Collab

Time: 3:00 pm 10/19/2023
Location: 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.