Engineering Seminars Test Calendar 2.10

Gather in the Atrium
Recurring

10:00 - 10:30 am 11/1/2022

Center atrium during fall and winter months

Join Director Nadya Mason and your colleagues this fall for informal conversation and coffee in the Beckman Atrium. This Gather in the Atrium Series will be from 10-10:30 a.m. every Tuesday through the fall semester.

Social/Informal Event

IQUIST Seminar, Alexander Muller-Hermes, November 1 at 11am in 190 Engineering Sciences Building

IQUIST Seminar: "Fault-tolerant Coding for Quantum Communication," presented by Alexander Müller-Hermes, University of Oslo

11:00 - 11:50 am 11/1/2022

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

Speaker: Dr. Alexander Müller-Hermes, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo

Seminar/Symposium

CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Delia Milliron, The University of Texas at Austin (Diao), "Switchable Optical Materials from Metal Oxide Nanocrystals"

2:00 pm 11/1/2022

116 Roger Adams Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Chem 515 Literature Seminars: Shounak Nath, UIUC "The Family of Phosphatetrahedranes" and Yusuff Moshood, UIUC, "Quadruple Bonds Involving Main Group Elements"

3:30 pm 11/1/2022

Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/copyright.html

Astronomy Colloquium "The Supermassive Black Hole - Galaxy Connection"

3:45 pm 11/1/2022

Kaler Classroon, Astronomy Building

Seminar/Symposium

CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Jamie Berry, "Iridium Catalyzed C-H Borylation"

4:00 pm 11/1/2022

RAL 116

Seminar/Symposium

"Oligodendrocytes and Myelin in Models of Neurodegeneration," by Franca Cambi, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, Interim ACOS R&D Pittsburgh VA

4:00 pm 11/1/2022

Beckman Institute 5602

The seminar will focus on the biology of oligodendrocytes and myelin and their role in maintaining axonal and neuronal health in models of neurodegeneration. We will present data on acute and chronic neurodegeneration post trauma and chronic degenerative diseases.

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Student Seminar: Isabelle Lakis/Whitaker Lab

4:00 pm 11/1/2022

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

Seminar/Symposium

Multi-Physics Modeling for Future Propulsion and Power Systems: high-pressure phase separation and plasma assisted ignition

4:00 pm 11/1/2022

4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

Seminar/Symposium

Physics French Club
Recurring

5:30 - 6:30 pm

Loomis Lab 276 and Espresso Royale

Social/Informal Event

Owl Night 2022 - Kennekuk Environmental Education Center

5:30 - 8:30 pm 11/1/2022

Kennekuk Environmental Education Center, Vermilion County, Illinois

Come out to the Kennekuk Environmental Education Center (north of Danville, Illinois) for the University of Illinois’s 2022 Owl Night. Discover the Northern Saw-whet Owl and learn about research on the migration and behavior of Saw-whets in Illinois. November 1, 2022 Kennekuk Environmental Education Center 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. *An additional Owl Night is being held No

Informational

Magna Campus Events on November 2

All Day 11/2/2022

Various locations in ECEB throughout the day

Informational

Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar: Dr. Jayakrishnan Nandakumar, University of Michigan

12:00 pm 11/2/2022

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Dr. Jayakrishnan Nandakumar, University of Michigan: "The story of human telomerase recruitment to the telomere: from the beginning to the end"

Seminar/Symposium

Yoga at Beckman
Recurring

12:00 pm 11/2/2022

5269 Beckman Institute (fifth-floor tower room)

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for restorative yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. Class will not be held on 11/23 . All are welcome bring your own mat!

Health/Fitness

Huaxun Fan (Zhang lab) - Develop optigenetic systems to control target protein activity in neurons

4:00 pm 11/2/2022

Room 116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Sonya Kumar Bharathkar (Stadtmueller lab) - "Studying the effects of chimeric secretory antibodies on Clostridiodes difficile antigens"

4:00 pm 11/2/2022

Room 116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Physics Colloquium: Asher Berlin (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), Title: "Discovering the Dark Universe with Superconductors"

4:00 pm 5:00pm 11/2/2022

Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

Lecture

Trick or Research

4:00 - 6:00 pm 11/2/2022

Siebel Center for Computer Science, Atrium

Reception/Open House

Rivian Tech Talk

5:30 - 7:00 pm 11/2/2022

MEB 2100

Informational

HMNTL LECTURE: Van der Waals epitaxy of III-nitrides for liftoff and integration of thin films and devices

11:00 am 11/3/2022

HMNTL 1000 (Seminar Room)

Lecture

Van der Waals epitaxy of Ill-nitrides for liftoff and integration of thin films and devices

11:00 am 11/3/2022

1000 Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Lab

Seminar/Symposium

CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Riley Carter, UIUC, "Going with the Grain: Bringing N2 Fixation to Cereals"

12:00 pm 11/3/2022

163 Noyes Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Bootstrapping Quantum Extremal Surfaces

1:00 pm 11/3/2022

Room 222 Loomis

Seminar/Symposium

CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Emily Pentzer, Texas A&M University (Rogers), "Interfacial Polymerizations in Pickering Emulsions to Architect Hybrid Materials"

2:00 pm 11/3/2022

116 Roger Adams Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Chem 585 Literature Seminar: Brittany Prempin, UIUC, "Synthetic Polymers Digital Polymers for Data Storage Applications" and Seth Croslow, UIUC, "Magnetically Controllable Microrobots for Targeted Cell Delivery"

3:30 pm 11/3/2022

Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

Chem 585 Literature Seminar: Brittany Prempin, UIUC, "Synthetic Polymers Digital Polymers for Data Storage Applications" and Seth Croslow, UIUC, "Magnetically Controllable Microbots for Targeted Cell Delivery"

3:30 pm 11/3/2022

Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Marvin Whiteley, Georgia Institute of Technology -- "Using bacterial human infection transcriptomes to guide pre-clinical model development"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/3/2022

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

Seminar/Symposium

Dr. Andrew Zahrt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Reinventing Discovery and Optimization in Synthetic Organic Chemistry Using Data Science, Automated Experimentation, and Applied Quantum Chemistry"

4:00 pm 11/3/2022

116 RAL

Lecture

GRADSWE & SWE GRADUATE MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

5:00 - 6:00 pm 11/3/2022

HSL3019

Informational

Postdoc Social Lunches
Recurring

12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/4/2022

Faculty/Staff/Postdoc Lounge - Siebel Center Room 4401

Meeting

Analysis, Model Reduction and Control of Time-Periodic Fluid Flows

12:00 pm 11/4/2022

3100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

Seminar/Symposium

Kayla Nguyen, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Condensed Matter Seminar - "Uncovering Chirality of Skyrmions in Polycrystalline B20 FeGe on Si"

1:00 pm 11/4/2022

ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

Biological Physics (iPoLS) Seminar: Martin Gruebele (UIUC) "Protein dynamics in cells "

2:00 pm 11/4/2022

Beckman Institute

Lecture

Biological Physics (iPoLS) Seminar: Martin Gruebele

2:00 pm 11/4/2022

Beckman Institute Room 3269 (3rd Floor Tower Room)

Dr. Gruebele will discuss research from wide-field fluorescence imaging to Minflux, geared to look at dynamics of protein-protein and protein-RNA interactions in cells ranging from culture to live animals, as well as models of the cytoplasm from all-atom to coarse-grained to whole cell to interpret dynamical data.

Seminar/Symposium

Office Hours with Department Head Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:00 - 3:00 pm 11/4/2022

Other

Mr. Abdur-Rahman (AR) Siddiqui, UIUC Title: Recycling and Repurposing Optical Drives for Scientific Applications

4:00 pm 11/4/2022

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Ms. Yanqi Tan, UIUC Title: Nanopore long-read sequencing: A comprehensive insight into cancer genomes

4:00 pm 11/4/2022

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Beak-Pines Organic Area Allerton Conference

All Day 11/5/2022

Allerton Park, Monticello, IL

Conference/Workshop

Dissertation Travel Grant Applications Due

All Day 11/6/2022

Other

Masters Project Travel Grant

All Day 11/6/2022

Other

Masters Defense by Tyler Stewart

11:00 am 11/7/2022

S-509 Turner Hall

Lecture

Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: Numerical analysis of spin singlet topological superconductivity in the attractive Rashba Hubbard model

12:00 pm 11/7/2022

190 ESB

Seminar/Symposium

Masters Defense by George C. Balto

12:00 pm 11/7/2022

N-120 Turner Hall

Lecture

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Felicity Hsu / Smith-Bolton Lab

12:00 - 12:30 pm 11/7/2022

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

"The role of Myc in Drosophila wing imaginal disc regeneration." Smith-Bolton Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Neha Chetlangia / S Prasanth Lab

12:30 - 1:00 pm 11/7/2022

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

"The Role of ORCA in heterochromatin organization" S Prasanth Lab

Seminar/Symposium

AE 590 Seminar: Novel Composite Structures Design Using Topology Optimization

4:00 - 5:00 pm 11/7/2022

CIF 2035

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE: Andrew Buechler (Martinis lab) - Human Colon Cell Migration and Socialization Induced by Small Extracellular Nucleotides

10:00 am 11/8/2022

419 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE: Kisurb Choe (Sweedler lab) - Modification of substrate specificity of thioesterase, reductase, and desaturase by MALDI-ToF-MS analysis of microbial colonies

1:00 pm 11/8/2022

room 419 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Mingkuan Lyu, UIUC, Final Defense, "Methods and Applications of Using DNA-Cleaving DNAzymes to Cleave Double-Stranded DNA”

3:00 pm 11/8/2022

B124 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Professor Nate Szymczak, University of Michigan, "Moving Beyond the Metal: Assisted Small Molecule Activation" (I)

3:30 pm 11/8/2022

Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

Physics French Club
Recurring

5:30 - 6:30 pm

Loomis Lab 276 and Espresso Royale

Social/Informal Event

Owl Night 2022 - Salt Fork Center, Homer Lake

5:30 - 8:30 pm 11/8/2022

Salt Fork Center, Homer Lake, Illinois

Come out to the Salt Fork Center at Homer Lake for the University of Illinois’s 2022 Owl Night. Discover the Northern Saw-whet Owl and learn about research on the migration and behavior of Saw-whets in Illinois. November 8, 2022 Salt Fork Center 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Informational

Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar: Career Development Seminar - Dr. Evangeline Pianfetti, Illinois Extension, College of ACES, UIUC

12:00 pm 11/9/2022

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

"Illini Science Policy Program: Using your knowledge and expertise at the intersection of policy and public service," Dr. Evangeline Pianfetti, UIUC

Seminar/Symposium

Yoga at Beckman
Recurring

12:00 pm 11/9/2022

5269 Beckman Institute (fifth-floor tower room)

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for restorative yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. Class will not be held on 11/23 . All are welcome bring your own mat!

Health/Fitness

Investment Banking Employer Showcase

12:00 - 4:00 pm 11/9/2022

Informational

CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Matthew Cloyd, UIUC, "Utilizing Near-Infrared Light Quantum Effects to Measure the Fingerprint Mid-Infrared Region"

2:00 pm 11/9/2022

CLSL B102

Seminar/Symposium

CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Romans Grant, UIUC, "Resolving the Structural Adaptation and Resulting Bioactivity Challenge of Cyclic Peptides by Multi-Scale Molecular Dynamics Methods"

2:00 pm 11/9/2022

CLSL B102

Seminar/Symposium

Thesis Defense: "Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy Studies of Epitaxially-Grown van der Waals Ferromagnets"

2:00 pm 11/9/2022

276 Loomis

Lecture

FINAL DEFENSE: Santanu Ghosh (Shapiro lab) - "A Novel Mechanism of Necrotic Cell Death in ERα-positive Cancers"

3:00 pm 11/9/2022

419 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Physics Colloquium: James Aguirre (University of Pennsylvania), Title: The Universe in (Low-res) 4-D: How “Line Intensity Mapping” Probes Cosmic Evolution

4:00 pm 5:00pm 11/9/2022

Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

Lecture

CEE Student Chat for Prospective Students

5:30 - 6:30 pm 11/9/2022

Learn about our undergraduate program and student life at UIUC directly from current CEE students in this virtual session.

Informational

Masters Defense by Gabriella L. Jukkala

9:00 am 11/10/2022

N-527 Turner Hall

Lecture

Beckman Graduate Fellow Open House

11:00 am - 12:00 pm 11/10/2022

Beckman 5602 and TCBG neighborhood on the third floor

Exhibition

What still challenges us to detect microplastics and nanoplastics in the environment?

12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/10/2022

Nanoplastics are hard to characterize and analyze due to matrix, additive, and size interference with analytical instruments.

Seminar/Symposium

CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Philippe Sautet, UCLA (Mironenko), "Evolution of Catalytic Active Sites During Reaction"

2:00 pm 11/10/2022

116 Roger Adams Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Brown University Chemistry’s Graduate Ambassador Award Lecture: Mr. Stephen Kocheril (BS, '16, UIUC Chemistry), Brown University: “Photoelectron Imaging of Laser Vaporized Cryogenically-Cooled Atomic Cluster Anions"

2:00 pm 11/10/2022

Chem Annex 1024

Alumnus Stephen Kocheril (BS, Chemistry, '16) is the recipient of Brown University Chemistry's Graduate Ambassador Award, which is given annually to graduate students who have demonstrated excellence in teaching, research, and service. Reception immediately following in Chem Annex 1025.

Seminar/Symposium

Professor Zachary K. Wickens, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Selective Synthesis Using Light and Electricity"

4:00 pm 11/10/2022

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. David Baltrus, University of Arizona -- "Developing phage-derived bacteriocins as strain specific agricultural antibacterials"

4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/10/2022

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

Seminar/Symposium

Last day for GRAD to drop a POT B course via Self-Service

All Day 11/11/2022

Other

Last day for GRAD to withdraw from the current term without a grade of W

All Day 11/11/2022

Other

Last day for GRAD to elect credit-no-credit option for a semester course or to change from credit-no-credit option to a regular grade

All Day 11/11/2022

Other

Last day for GRAD to drop a semester course without a grade of W and without approval

All Day 11/11/2022

Other

Last day to take final exam for December doctoral degree

All Day 11/11/2022

Other

Postdoc Social Lunches
Recurring

12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/11/2022

Faculty/Staff/Postdoc Lounge - Siebel Center Room 4401

Meeting

CANCELLED - Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Leifu Chang (Purdue University), "Structure and mechanism of type V CRISPR-Cas12 effectors"

12:00 pm 11/11/2022

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

Seminar/Symposium

A High-Order Meshless Method for Solving Multiphysics Problems in Complex Domains

12:00 pm 11/11/2022

4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

Seminar/Symposium

Mark Eriksson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Condensed Matter Seminar - "Quantum computing using electron spins in silicon"

1:00 pm 11/11/2022

190 ESB

Seminar/Symposium

Biological Physics (iPoLS) Seminar: Ido Golding (UIUC) "Viral Decision Making: Fall Update"

2:00 pm 11/11/2022

Beckman Institute 2269

Lecture

Thesis Defense: Janhavi A. Kolhe / Brian Freeman Lab: "Establishing an Hsp90 Physical Interactome"

2:00 pm 11/11/2022

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Biological Physics (iPoLS) Seminar: Ido Golding

2:00 pm 11/11/2022

Beckman Institute Room 3269 (3rd Floor Tower Room)

In Dr. Golding's seminar last year, he described how bacteriophage lambda measures the number of coinfecting viruses and uses this value to assess the abundance of potential hosts and decide whether to become dormant. In this seminar, Dr. Golding will present several recent updates to his team's work.

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE, Katherine Stawiasz, UIUC, "Thermoset Materials Fabricated via Frontal Polymerization: Material Properties and Photoinitiation Approaches", Advisor: Jeffrey Moore

3:00 pm 11/11/2022

Beckman 4269 4th Floor Tower Room

Seminar/Symposium

Ms. Alexis Miller, UIUC Title: Energy-efficient Advancements in Smart Windows

4:00 pm 11/11/2022

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Mr. Amos Shiau, UIUC Title: Microanalytical Techniques: Applications In Nuclear Forensics

4:00 pm 11/11/2022

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

ECE Seminar: Dr. Matthew Hicks

10:00 - 11:00 am 11/14/2022

B02 Coordinated Science Laboratory Auditorium

Seminar/Symposium

Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: Moiréology of Multilayer Graphene with a superlattice potential

12:00 pm 11/14/2022

Seminar/Symposium

Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Hailun Zhu / Li Lab

12:00 - 12:30 pm 11/14/2022

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

"Temporal patterning mechanisms in the Drosophila medulla neuroblasts." Li Lab

Seminar/Symposium

3M Lecture, 3M rep: Dr. Mike Wendland, "Porous Materials Research in the Modern Business World: Application Driven Materials Development"

4:00 pm 11/14/2022

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

AE 590 Seminar: Control Barrier Functions under Input Constraints and Uncertainty with Applications to Spacecraft Control

4:00 - 5:00 pm 11/14/2022

CIF 2035

Seminar/Symposium

3M Lecture, Professor Oren Scherman, University of Cambridge, "Dynamic Supramolecular Materials: Imparting Function through Molecular Level Understanding"

5:00 pm 11/14/2022

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Tech Talk: CME Group

6:00 pm 11/14/2022

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Informational

CME Group Innovation Center Tech Talk

6:00 pm 11/14/2022

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Informational

Deadline: SS Radhakrishnan Scholarship

All Day 11/15/2022

Other

Gather in the Atrium
Recurring

10:00 - 10:30 am 11/15/2022

Center atrium during fall and winter months

Join Director Nadya Mason and your colleagues this fall for informal conversation and coffee in the Beckman Atrium. This Gather in the Atrium Series will be from 10-10:30 a.m. every Tuesday through the fall semester.