OCR Event Manager - Master Calendar

Final Defense of Song Yin, "Integrating Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Machine Learning for Mechanistic Understanding and Rational Design"

Time: 1:00 pm 8/20/2026
Location: TBD

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Google DeepMind's Anand Rangarajan Talk + Q&A

Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm 8/24/2026
Location: Siebel 2124

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IQUIST Town Hall: IQUIST Director Elizabeth Goldschmidt

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 8/25/2026
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

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Seminar Speaker: CliMAS Interim Department Head, Professor Nicole Riemer

Time: 11:00 am - 12:20 pm 8/25/2026
Location: 2079 NHB

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Finding Cures: Journey from Software Engineering to Entrepreneurship

Time: 12:00 pm 8/25/2026
Location: 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

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NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series -Rizwan Uddin and Mohan Sankaran

Time: 4:00 - 4:50 pm 8/25/2026
Location: 1306 Everitt Laboratory

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TBD with Dr. James Santiago

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm 8/26/2026
Location: W109 - Turner Hall

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Leader-Driven Collusion

Time: 2:00 - 3:20 pm 8/27/2026
Location: 317 David Kinley Hall

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Urbana-Style Condensed Matter, Condensed, a mini-symposium

Time: 1:00 - 5:00 pm 8/28/2026
Location: ESB 190 & Supercon 2nd Floor

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AE 590 Seminar Speaker Max Li: Distributionally Robust Optimization and Applications to Air Traffic Management

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 8/31/2026
Location: CIF 2035

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IQUIST Seminar: "Amorphous Defects and Superconducting Control of Scaled Quantum Systems," Bradley Christensen, Physicist, Northrop Grumman

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 9/1/2026
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

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Seminar Speaker: CliMAS Professor Kelvin Droegemeier

Time: 11:00 am - 12:20 pm 9/1/2026
Location: 2079 NHB

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Nutritional Regulation of the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis - Implications for Stress and Cancer Resilience

Time: 12:00 pm 9/1/2026
Location: 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

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INHS Seminar | Conservation, extra crispy: How to conserve wildlife in the Pyrocene

Time: 3:00 pm 9/1/2026
Location: Forbes Natural History Building

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Measuring the physical properties of dark matter with strong gravitational lensing

Time: 3:30 - 5:00 pm 9/1/2026
Location: Astronomy Building

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Fuson Student Talks: Morgan Gugger, UIUC, "Development of a Sulfa Drug/DHFR Inhibitor Combination for Pseudomonas aeruginosa"; Faith Kern, UIUC, "Pendant Activation: Governed by Interactions Between Mechanophores and Glassy Polymer Networks", Dongchen Ouyang, UIUC, "Chemoinformatic Optimization of the Copper-Bis(Oxazoline)-Catalyzed, Enantioselective Synthesis of Saturated N-Heterocycles"

Time: 4:00 pm 9/1/2026
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

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NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Patrick Poole

Time: 4:00 - 4:50 pm 9/1/2026
Location: 1306 Everitt Laboratory

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BIOE Seminar Series: Assistant Professor Wenzhen Yuan

Time: 12:00 - 12:50 pm 9/2/2026
Location: Everitt 2310

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TBD with Dr. Alvaro Hernandez

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm 9/2/2026
Location: W109 - Turner Hall

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Prof. Nick Jackson, UIUC, "AI-Driven Quantum Mechanical Design of Soft Materials"

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm 9/2/2026
Location: CLSL B102

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Jessica Derham - (Kalsotra Lab) - "Dynamic Expression of a Splicing Factor Promotes Cell Migration and Proliferation Following Drug-Induced, Acute Liver Injury".

Time: 4:00 pm 9/2/2026
Location: 116 RAL

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PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Teresa Pegan, UIUC EEB Department, "Evolutionary Consequences of Seasonal Migration"

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 9/2/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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Abigail Spaulding (Shapiro Lab) - "Chemotherapy-induced cell stress facilitates NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity of breast cancer cells”

Time: 4:30 pm 9/2/2026
Location: 116 RAL

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CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Varong Pavarajarn, Chulalongkorn University (Host: Prof. Chris Rao) "When Industry Asks "How?", Scientists Ask "Why?": Molecular Interactions Behind Carbon Capture and Surface-Controlled Chemical Transformations"

Time: 2:00 pm 9/3/2026
Location: 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

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Shanjun Li (Stanford)

Time: 2:00 - 3:20 pm 9/3/2026
Location: 317 David Kinley Hall

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Professor Mei Shen, UIUC, TBD

Time: 3:30 pm 9/3/2026
Location: 1024 Chem Annex

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Tenure Talk: Professor Mei Shen, "TBA"

Time: 3:30 pm 9/3/2026
Location: 1024 Chem Annex

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Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Thomas Niehaus, University of Minnesota -- "Identification of breakdown pathways for the universal damaged metabolite S-(2-succino) cysteine"

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 9/3/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Chang Cui (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - "Mechanism, Structure and Inhibitor Design of Human Ribonucleotide Reductase"

Time: 12:00 pm 9/4/2026
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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Condensed Matter Seminar - "The quantum valley Hall effect and topological valleytronics"

Time: 1:00 pm 9/4/2026
Location: ESB 190

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IQUIST Seminar: "A unifying tool for stabilizer codes beyond the qubit model", Lane Gunderman, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois - Chicago

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 9/8/2026
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

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Seminar Speaker: CliMAS Graduate Student, Keiko Kircher

Time: 11:00 am - 12:20 pm 9/8/2026
Location: 2079 NHB

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Biology by Design: From Directed Evolution to Autonomous Experimentation

Time: 12:00 pm 9/8/2026
Location: 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

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NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Sung-Jin Park

Time: 4:00 - 4:50 pm 9/8/2026
Location: 1306 Everitt Laboratory

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BIOE Seminar Series: Associate Professor Jacob P. Covey

Time: 12:00 - 12:50 pm 9/9/2026
Location: Everitt 2310

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PEEC Seminar - Dr. Sara Ruane, Field Museum of Natural History, "Museums Collections as a Backbone for Contemporary Science"

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 9/9/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. David Gracias, Johns Hopkins University (Host: Prof. Hyun Joon Kong) "Physical Intelligence at the Interface of Biology and Engineering"

Time: 2:00 pm 9/10/2026
Location: 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

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Materials Seminar, "Electron Videography of Soft, Biological, and Energy Matter at the Nanoscale", Professor Qian Chen, University of Illinois

Time: 3:30 pm 9/10/2026
Location: 1024 CHEM ANNEX

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Materials Seminar, TBD, Professor Qian Chen, University of Illinois

Time: 3:30 pm 9/10/2026
Location: Chem Annex 1024

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Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Houra Merrikh, Vanderbilt University -- "Regulation of replication restart after conflicts with transcription"

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 9/10/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Cheng-Ming Chiang (UT Southwestern Medical Center) - "Phospho-BRD4 IDR-Targeting Compounds as Antiviral and Anticancer Agents"

Time: 12:00 pm 9/11/2026
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Melanie Sanford, University of Michigan, "New Synthetic Methods for C–F Bond Formation: From Fundamental Science to Applications"

Time: 4:00 pm 9/14/2026
Location: Roger Adams Lab, 600 S Mathews Ave, Room 116

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C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Melanie Sanford, University of Michigan, "New Synthetic Methods for C–F Bond Formation: From Fundamental Science to Applications"

Time: 4:00 pm 9/14/2026
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

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IQUIST Seminar: Jong Yeon Lee, Assistant Professor of Physics, UIUC

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 9/15/2026
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

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Seminar Speakers: Professors Jerry Harrington, Meteorology and Miriam Freedman, Chemistry-Penn State University

Time: 11:00 am - 12:20 pm 9/15/2026
Location: 2079 NHB

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Seminar on Seminars, Professor Kenneth Suslick, University of Illinois

Time: 3:30 pm 9/15/2026
Location: 1024 CHEM ANNEX

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Seminar on Seminars, Professor Kenneth Suslick, University of Illinois

Time: 3:30 pm 9/15/2026
Location: Chem Annex 1024

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C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Melanie Sanford, University of Michigan, "Synthesis, Reactivity, and Catalytic Relevance of High Valent Transition Metal Organometallic Complexes"

Time: 4:00 pm 9/15/2026
Location: Roger Adams Lab, 600 S Mathews Ave, Room 116

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C.S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Melanie Sanford, University of Michigan, "Synthesis, Reactivity, and Catalytic Relevance of High Valent Transition Metal Organometallic Complexes"

Time: 4:00 pm 9/15/2026
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

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NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Taek K. Kim

Time: 4:00 - 4:50 pm 9/15/2026
Location: 1306 Everitt Laboratory

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Final Defense of Genesis Rios-Adorno "TBA"

Time: 10:00 am 9/16/2026
Location: 3217 Everitt Lab

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Prof. Dayne Swearer, Northwestern University, "Catalytic Chemistry Far from Equilibrium"

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm 9/16/2026
Location: CLSL B102

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PEEC Seminar - Dr. Joseph Walker, University of Illinois Chicago, "Herbarium RNA as a Source of Evolutionary Insights"

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 9/16/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Janani Sampath, University of Florida (Host: Prof. Charles Sing)

Time: 2:00 pm 9/17/2026
Location: 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

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Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Nidia Sequeira Trovao, Pathobiology/University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign -- "The Genetic Traceability of Viral Pathogens Across the One Health Spectrum"

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 9/17/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Angela Thomas, Final Defense, UIUC, "Exploiting Viral proteins for Directed Evolution Studies and Therapeutics"

Time: 9:00 am 9/18/2026
Location: Roger Adams Laboratory, 600 S. Mathews Ave, Room 419

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Angela Thomas, Final Defense, UIUC, "Title TBA"

Time: 9:00 am 9/18/2026
Location: Roger Adams Labortatory, 600 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL, Room 419

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Hong Jin (Univeristy of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - "Translation beyond Initiation, Elongation and Termination"

Time: 12:00 pm 9/18/2026
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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Condensed Matter Seminar - Shuolong Yang, University of Chicago

Time: 1:00 pm 9/18/2026
Location: ESB 190

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A Conversation on the Modern University, the Mind, and Well-Being With Venerable Pomnyun Sunim (법륜스님)

Time: 5:00 - 7:00 pm 9/18/2026
Location: Illini Union Rooms A, B, & C at 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, IL 61801

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R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor Robert J. Phipps, University of Cambridge, "Harnessing Non-covalent Interactions to Address Selectivity Challenges in Transition Metal Catalysis"

Time: 4:00 pm 9/21/2026
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

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R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor Robert J. Phipps, University of Cambridge, "Harnessing Non-covalent Interactions to Address Selectivity Challenges in Transition Metal Catalysis"

Time: 4:00 pm 9/21/2026
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

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IQUIST Seminar: Kate Smith, Assistant Professor Computer Science, Northwestern University

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 9/22/2026
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

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Seminar Speaker: Assistant Professor, Elizabeth Maroon-University of Wisconsin-Madison

Time: 11:00 am - 12:20 pm 9/22/2026
Location: 2079 NHB

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Parr Lecture in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Prof. Yong Wang, Washington State University (host: Prof. Chris Rao/CHBE) "From Catalytic Insights to Transformative Technologies"

Time: 2:00 pm 9/22/2026
Location: 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

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Materials Seminar, TBD, Professor Marie Christine Daniel, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Time: 3:30 pm 9/22/2026
Location: Chemistry Annex

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Materials Seminar, TBD, Professor Marie Christine Daniel, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Time: 3:30 pm 9/22/2026
Location: Chem Annex 1024

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NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series -Areg Danagoulian

Time: 4:00 - 4:50 pm 9/22/2026
Location: 1306 Everitt Laboratory

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R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor Robert J. Phipps, University of Cambridge, "Harnessing Non-covalent Interactions to Address Selectivity Challenges in Radical Chemistry"

Time: 4:00 pm 9/22/2026
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

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R.C. Fuson Lecture: Professor Robert J. Phipps, University of Cambridge, "Harnessing Non-covalent Interactions to Address Selectivity Challenges in Radical Chemistry"

Time: 4:00 pm 9/22/2026
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

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BIOE Seminar Series: Associate Professor Saurabh Gupta

Time: 12:00 - 12:50 pm 9/23/2026
Location: Everitt 2310

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Prof. Hsing-Ta Chen, University of Notre Dame, "Navigating Various Disorders and Dynamics in Strongly Coupled Light-Matter Systems"

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm 9/23/2026
Location: CLSL B102

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Emma Thames (Stadtmueller Lab) - "TBA"

Time: 4:00 pm 9/23/2026
Location: 116 RAL

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PEEC Seminar - Dr. Tracey Tuberville, University of Georgia Savannah River Ecology Lab, "Conservation Takeaways from Stalking North America’s Tortoises"

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 9/23/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Wenyu Huang, Iowa State University (Host: Prof. Hong Yang)

Time: 2:00 pm 9/24/2026
Location: 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

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Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Michael Gray, University of Alabama -- "How oral streptococci respond to the antimicrobial oxidants found in saliva"

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 9/24/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. C. Shan Xu (Yale) - "Enhanced FIB-SEM: A High-Resolution 3D Imaging Platform for Biology"

Time: 12:00 pm 9/25/2026
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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Condensed Matter Seminar - Michele Simoncelli, Columbia University

Time: 1:00 pm 9/25/2026
Location: ESB 190

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Kyle Abo, UIUC, Final Defense, "Chemical Synthesis Towards the Development of Novel Anticancer Compounds Derived from Natural Products and Existing Drugs"

Time: 3:00 pm 9/25/2026
Location: B102 CLSL

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AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Kevin Li - Interactional Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics: From Measurements to Multi-Fidelity Modeling

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 9/28/2026
Location: CIF 2035

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Prof. Lauren Rajakovich, University of Washington, "Microbial Chemistry in Anoxic Host Environments"

Time: 4:00 pm 9/28/2026
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

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IQUIST Seminar: Arnab Banerjee, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 9/29/2026
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

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Seminar Speaker: Assistant Professor, Troy Zaremba-Mississippi State University

Time: 11:00 am - 12:20 pm 9/29/2026
Location: 2079 NHB

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Unusual Enzyme Reactions in Natural Product Biosynthesis

Time: 12:00 pm 9/29/2026
Location: 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

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INHS Seminar | Disease Dynamics Atop the Avian Food Chain

Time: 3:00 pm 9/29/2026
Location: Forbes Natural History Building

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Ashley Hartwig CHEM 535 Seminar: "Title TBD"

Time: 4:00 pm 9/29/2026
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

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BIOE Seminar Series: Director & Founder Professor Jim Rehg

Time: 12:00 - 12:50 pm 9/30/2026
Location: Everitt 2310

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Prof. Martin Mosquera, Montana State University, "Theory of Extended Bose-Hubbard Systems and Two-Dimensional Materials"

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm 9/30/2026
Location: CLSL B102

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PEEC Seminar - Dr. Sunanda Prabhu-Gaunkar, University of Chicago, "Where Science Meets Story: Engaging Audiences Through the Arts"

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 9/30/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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Erin Swanson CHEM 575 Seminar: "Title TBD"

Time: 12:00 pm 10/1/2026
Location: 163 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave.

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Krishna Bharadwaj CHEM 575 Seminar: "Title TBD"

Time: 12:00 pm 10/1/2026
Location: 163 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave.

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CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sapna Sarupria, University of Minnesota (Host: Prof. Baron Peters) "Molecular Design of Excipient Formulations for Stable Biologics"

Time: 2:00 pm 10/1/2026
Location: 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Yan Zhang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - "TBA"

Time: 12:00 pm 10/2/2026
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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Condensed Matter Seminar - Andre Schleife, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Time: 1:00 pm 10/2/2026
Location: ESB 190

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IQUIST Seminar: Ceren Dag, Assistant Professor of Physics, Indiana University

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 10/6/2026
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

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CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Brandon C. Bukowski, Johns Hopkins University (Host: Elizabeth Bickel Rogers)

Time: 2:00 pm 10/6/2026
Location: 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

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Erika Huang CHEM 535 Seminar: "Title TBD"

Time: 4:00 pm 10/6/2026
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

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NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Rajesh Maingi

Time: 4:00 - 4:50 pm 10/6/2026
Location: 1306 Everitt Laboratory

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BIOE Seminar Series: Assistant Professor Yuxiong Wang

Time: 12:00 - 12:50 pm 10/7/2026
Location: Everitt 2310

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TBD with Ms. Alyssa Hartman

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm 10/7/2026
Location: W109 - Turner Hall

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