Materials Research Laboratory

IQUIST Seminar: "Probing Topology and Correlation by Milli-Kelvin Microwave Microscopy", Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin

11:00 - 11:50 am 4/1/2025

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

Speaker: Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE, Vanessa DaSilva, "Selective Deconstruction of Polyethylene to Propylene via Isomerization/Metathesis and 1-hexene Isomerization Studies"

11:00 am 4/2/2025

321 Gregory Hall

Seminar/Symposium

IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Towards Low SWaP Mobile Platforms for Quantum Communication Systems", Samantha Isaac, Kwiat Group

11:00 - 11:50 am 4/2/2025

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

Speaker: Samantha Isaac, Kwiat Group

Seminar/Symposium

CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Laura Bickart, UIUC, "Stimuli-responsive Hydrogels for Drug Release Applications in Wound Healing"

12:00 pm 4/3/2025

Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 217

Seminar/Symposium

Distinguished Inorganic Lecture: Professor Franc Meyer, University of Göttingen, "Inspired by Nitrogenase: Dihydride Complexes for the H2-Releasing Reductive Activation of Challenging Substrates"

3:30 pm 4/3/2025

1024 Chem Annex

Seminar/Symposium

Engineering Open House
Recurring

All Day 4/4/2025 - 4/5/2025

U of I campus

Exhibition

FINAL DEFENSE, Howard Weatherspoon , "NUCLEATION AND GROWTH: MODELS FOR FACETED AND LAYERED MATERIALS"

11:00 am 4/4/2025

157 Noyes Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Condensed Matter Seminar - "Discovery and Defects in Optical and Chiral Quantum Materials"

1:00 pm 4/4/2025

ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Shivaji Sondhi (Oxford), "Towards a theory of quantum games"

4:00 pm 4/4/2025

ESB Lab 3110

Seminar/Symposium

CHBE Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Reception

4:30 - 5:45 pm 4/4/2025

217 Noyes Laboratory and 170 Noyes Laboratory (505 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801)

Meeting

FINAL DEFENSE, Dejuante Walker, "Modeling Transport and Dynamics in Redox Active Polymer Solutions for Flow Battery Applications"

9:00 am 4/7/2025

117 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Eun Ah Kim, "Non-Abelian anyons on synthetic platforms"

12:00 pm 4/7/2025

ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

IQUIST Seminar: "On the Extended Church-Turing Thesis, Quantum Mechanics, and Beyond, Bill Fefferman, University of Chicago

11:00 - 11:50 am 4/8/2025

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

Speaker: Bill Fefferman, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

Seminar/Symposium

Prakriti Das, Final Defense, UIUC, "DNAzymes for Sequence-Dependent Peptide Lysine Acylation"

1:00 pm 4/8/2025

171 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. James Moon, University of Michigan, "Engineering Strategies to Modulate the Immune System" (host: Joon Kong)

2:00 pm 4/8/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE, Victoria Kriuchkovskaia, "HYDROGEL PLATFORM TO INVESTIGATE PROGRESSION OF DRUG-RESISTANT GLIOBLASTOMA"

3:00 pm 4/8/2025

217 Noyes Lab

Seminar/Symposium

IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Classical Post-processing on Unitary Block Optimization Scheme for Better VQE Optimization", Xiaochuan (David) Ding, Clark Group

11:00 - 11:50 am 4/9/2025

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

Speaker: Xiaochuan (David) Ding, Clark Group

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE, Dongyu Fan, "3D Tracking of Solute Dynamics in Heterogeneous Polymer Networks"

3:00 pm 4/9/2025

1027 Lincoln Hall

Seminar/Symposium

Physics Colloquium: Andreas Hoecker (CERN), "Physics at the high-energy frontier — Deciphering the Higgs sector"

4:00 pm 4/9/2025

Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE, Tianhao Xu, "Harnessing AI/ML for Advancing Synthetic Biology"

10:00 am 4/10/2025

319 Gregory Hall

Seminar/Symposium

CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Guthrie Stroh, UIUC, "A sticky situation: Molecular glues that modulate GPCRs"

12:00 pm 4/10/2025

Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 217

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE, Nayeong Kim, "INTEGRATION OF REDOX-ELECTROSORPTION AND REDOX-ELECTRODIALYSIS FOR WATER REMEDIATION, WASTE VALORIZATION, AND ORGANIC SPECIES SEPARATIONS""

10:00 am 4/11/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Condensed Matter Seminar - "Nonlinear Coupled Magnonics"

1:00 pm 4/11/2025

ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE, Devinda Wijewardena, "INSIGHTS INTO BACK-STEPS AND CARGO DOMAIN ROTATIONS OF KINESIN MOTILITY WITH MINFLUX"

1:00 pm 4/11/2025

117 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

World Quantum Day Celebration

10:00 am - 1:00 pm 4/12/2025

Electrical Computer and Engineering Building, 306 N Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801

Reception/Open House

Saturday Engineering for Everyone: Quantum Steampunk - The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow

11:00 am - 12:00 pm 4/12/2025

Room 1013, ECE Building, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61820

Lecture

Saturday Engineering for Everyone: Quantum Steampunk - The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow, Nicole Yunger Halper, University of Maryland

11:00 am - 12:00 pm 4/12/2025

Room 1013, ECE Building, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61820

Speaker: Nicole Yunger Halpern, University of Maryland

Lecture

Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Trithep Devakul (Stanford University), "Emergent phases of interacting electrons in dispersive bands with Berry curvature."

12:00 pm 4/14/2025

ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

2025 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: Professor James Mayer, Yale University, "Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions of Molecules and Materials: PCET stoichiometry, thermochemistry, and kinetics for molecules and materials: from slow to ultrafast"

7:15 pm 4/14/2025

B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

Special Biological Physics Seminar-Hyun Youk "Slowed or Suspended Lives of Cells"

10:00 am 4/15/2025

The Rhondale Tso Seminar Room Loomis 236

Seminar/Symposium

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sijin Li, Cornell University, "An Integrated Synthetic Biology Pipeline to Understand and Harness Plant Specialized Metabolism" (host: Huimin Zhao)

2:00 pm 4/15/2025

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

2025 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: Professor James Mayer, Yale University, "Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions of Molecules and Materials; Re-examining Linear Free Energy Relationships for molecules and materials: complexities and opportunities"

3:30 pm 4/15/2025

1024 Chem Annex

Seminar/Symposium

IQUIST Special Seminar: "Light, Silicon, and Steel: PsiQuantum's Path to Utility-Scale, Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing, Aaron Fluitt, Senior Director of Technology Partnerships, PsiQuantum

10:00 - 10:50 am 4/16/2025

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

Speaker: Aaron Fluitt, Senior Director of Technology Partnerships, PsiQuantum

Seminar/Symposium

IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Andreev Bound State Spectroscopy using circuit-QED techniques", Randy Owen, Kou Group

11:00 - 11:50 am 4/16/2025

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

Speaker: Randy Owen, Kou Group

Seminar/Symposium

Prof. Hang Ren, University of Texas at Austin, "Correlative Electrochemical Imaging of Activity and Selectivity at Complex Electrochemical Interfaces"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 4/16/2025

Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium

Seminar/Symposium

Fractional Chern Insulators Workshop - 2025
Recurring

9:30 am - 6:00 pm 4/18/2025 - 4/19/2025

ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Gil Rafael (California Institute of Technology), "Self-correcting GKP qubit and gates in a driven-dissipative circuit"

12:00 pm 4/21/2025

ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

Special Biological Physics Seminar- "Single molecules, imaging, tracking, and the diffraction limit for finite photons."

10:00 am 4/22/2025

The Rhondale Tso Seminar Room Loomis 236

Seminar/Symposium

IQUIST Seminar: "Engineering (Useful) Trapped-Ion Quantum Technologies", Sara Mouradian, University of Washington

11:00 - 11:50 am 4/22/2025

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

Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washington

Seminar/Symposium

CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Jack D'Amelio , UIUC, "Capturing Crystallinity over Length and Time Scales"

3:00 - 3:30 pm 4/22/2025

Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium

Seminar/Symposium

Emerging Leaders Seminar: Professor Xavier Roy, Columbia University, "Quantum complexity in simple materials"

3:30 pm 4/22/2025

1024 Chem Annex

Seminar/Symposium

IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Ashwith Prabhu, Goldshmidt Group - Canceled

11:00 - 11:50 am 4/23/2025

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

Speaker: Ashwith Prabhu, Goldshmidt Group

Seminar/Symposium

Prof. Daniel Tabor, Texas A&M University, "Accelerating the Computational Design of Functional Organic Molecules and Polymers"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 4/23/2025

Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium

Seminar/Symposium

Physics Colloquium: Ben Hooberman (UIUC), "Tackling climate change with particle physics"

4:00 pm 4/23/2025

Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

Seminar/Symposium

Materials Chemistry Seminar, "Molecular Approaches to Advancing 2D Conductive MOFs for Tailored Properties and Applications", Dr. Jihye Park, University of Colorado Boulder

3:30 pm 4/24/2025

Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

Condensed Matter Seminar - "Detection of anyon braiding through pump-probe spectroscopy"

1:00 pm 4/25/2025

ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

Materials Chemistry Seminar, Designed Synthesis and Assembly of Inorganic Nanomaterials for Hydrogen Production and Utilization, Prof. Taeghwan Hyeon (Seoul National University, South Korea)

2:00 pm 4/25/2025

1024 CHEM ANNEX

Seminar/Symposium

Special Condensed Matter Special Seminar - "Tracing light: on Linear and Nonlinear Terahertz Polaritonics in Quantum Paraelectrics"

12:00 pm 4/28/2025

ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

Special Biological Physics Seminar- "Chaotic worms: from the dynamics of animal behavior towards a physics of complex, evolved systems"

1:00 - 3:00 pm 4/28/2025

Loomis 464

Seminar/Symposium

IQUIST Seminar: "Below Threshold Quantum Error Correction", Alexandre Bourassa, Google Quantum AI

11:00 - 11:50 am 4/29/2025

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

Speaker: Alexandre Bourassa, Senior Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI

Seminar/Symposium

Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Subroto Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore), Electron hydrodynamics: "Strong violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law and vortical effects"

1:00 pm 4/29/2025

ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

Professor Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran, University of Minnesota, (TBD) (I)

3:30 pm 4/29/2025

1024 Chem Annex

Seminar/Symposium

IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Towards remote entanglement schemes with trapped ions", Jianlong Lin, Goldschmidt/DeMarco Group

11:00 - 11:50 am 4/30/2025

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

Speaker: Jianlong Lin, Goldschmidt/DeMarco Group

Seminar/Symposium

Physics Colloquium: Fahad Mahmood (UIUC), "Seeing the World in a Grain of Sand, and Eternity in a Picosecond – Urbana style!"

4:00 pm 4/30/2025

Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

Seminar/Symposium

Materials Research Laboratory

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