Materials Research Laboratory

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

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 4/1/2025
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin

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

Time: 11:00 am 4/2/2025
Location: 321 Gregory Hall

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

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 4/2/2025
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Samantha Isaac, Kwiat Group

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

Time: 12:00 pm 4/3/2025
Location: Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 217

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

Time: 3:30 pm 4/3/2025
Location: 1024 Chem Annex

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Engineering Open House

Recurring

Time: All Day 4/4/2025 - 4/5/2025
Location: U of I campus

Exhibition

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

Time: 11:00 am 4/4/2025
Location: 157 Noyes Lab

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

Time: 1:00 pm 4/4/2025
Location: ESB 190

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

Time: 4:00 pm 4/4/2025
Location: ESB Lab 3110

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CHBE Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Reception

Time: 4:30 - 5:45 pm 4/4/2025
Location: 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"

Time: 9:00 am 4/7/2025
Location: 117 RAL

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

Time: 12:00 pm 4/7/2025
Location: ESB 190

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

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 4/8/2025
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Bill Fefferman, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

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

Time: 1:00 pm 4/8/2025
Location: 171 Roger Adams Lab

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

Time: 2:00 pm 4/8/2025
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

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

Time: 3:00 pm 4/8/2025
Location: 217 Noyes Lab

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

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 4/9/2025
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Xiaochuan (David) Ding, Clark Group

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

Time: 3:00 pm 4/9/2025
Location: 1027 Lincoln Hall

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

Time: 4:00 pm 4/9/2025
Location: Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

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

Time: 10:00 am 4/10/2025
Location: 319 Gregory Hall

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

Time: 12:00 pm 4/10/2025
Location: Noyes Laboratory, 505 S Mathews Ave, Room 217

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

Time: 10:00 am 4/11/2025
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

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Condensed Matter Seminar - "Nonlinear Coupled Magnonics"

Time: 1:00 pm 4/11/2025
Location: ESB 190

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

Time: 1:00 pm 4/11/2025
Location: 117 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

World Quantum Day Celebration

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

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

Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm 4/12/2025
Location: 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."

Time: 12:00 pm 4/14/2025
Location: ESB 190

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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"

Time: 7:15 pm 4/14/2025
Location: B102 CLSL

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

Time: 10:00 am 4/15/2025
Location: The Rhondale Tso Seminar Room Loomis 236

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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)

Time: 2:00 pm 4/15/2025
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

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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"

Time: 3:30 pm 4/15/2025
Location: 1024 Chem Annex

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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

Time: 10:00 - 10:50 am 4/16/2025
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

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

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

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 4/16/2025
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Randy Owen, Kou Group

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

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm 4/16/2025
Location: Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium

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Fractional Chern Insulators Workshop - 2025

Recurring

Time: 9:30 am - 6:00 pm 4/18/2025 - 4/19/2025
Location: ESB 190

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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"

Time: 12:00 pm 4/21/2025
Location: ESB 190

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

Time: 10:00 am 4/22/2025
Location: The Rhondale Tso Seminar Room Loomis 236

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

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 4/22/2025
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washington

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

Time: 3:00 - 3:30 pm 4/22/2025
Location: 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"

Time: 3:30 pm 4/22/2025
Location: 1024 Chem Annex

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

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 4/23/2025
Location: 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"

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm 4/23/2025
Location: Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium

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

Time: 4:00 pm 4/23/2025
Location: Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

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

Time: 3:30 pm 4/24/2025
Location: Chem Annex 1024

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

Time: 1:00 pm 4/25/2025
Location: ESB 190

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

Time: 2:00 pm 4/25/2025
Location: 1024 CHEM ANNEX

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

Time: 12:00 pm 4/28/2025
Location: ESB 190

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

Time: 1:00 - 3:00 pm 4/28/2025
Location: Loomis 464

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

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 4/29/2025
Location: 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"

Time: 1:00 pm 4/29/2025
Location: ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

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

Time: 3:30 pm 4/29/2025
Location: 1024 Chem Annex

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

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 4/30/2025
Location: 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!"

Time: 4:00 pm 4/30/2025
Location: Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

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