Materials Research Laboratory

Instruction Ends

Time: All Day 5/1/2024

Other

Professor Lisa Fredin, Lehigh University, "Untangling Photodriven Mechanisms using Computation"

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm 5/1/2024
Location: CLSL B-102

Seminar/Symposium

Physics Colloquium: Theoretical Physics and Artificial Intelligence

Time: 4:00 pm 5/1/2024

Lecture

Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect

Time: All Day 5/2/2024

Other

Professor Jesus Velazquez, University of California - Davis, "Development of Structure-Function Correlations in 2D and 3D Metal Sulfide Electrocatalysts to Guide the Selective Conversion of CO2 and CO to Alcohols" (M)

Time: 3:30 pm 5/2/2024
Location: Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

Final Exams Begin

Time: All Day 5/3/2024

Other

FINAL DEFENSE: Claire Schmit "SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF TRANSITION METAL MALONDIALDIMINATES" Advisor: Professor Gregory Girolami

Time: 10:00 am 5/7/2024
Location: RAL 171

Seminar/Symposium

2024 T.S. Piper Inorganic Thesis Award: Joe Lastowski, "Challenging Long-Held Views in Chemistry: Surprising New Discoveries about Chemical Bonds" and Daniel Hu, "Development of Organometallic Nickel Complexes with Oxygenase-type Reactivity" (I)

Time: 3:30 pm 5/7/2024
Location: Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE, Paola Baldaguez Medina "Harnessing Redox Electro-Sorbents and Reactive Separations for Efficient PFAS Remediation in Water Systems""

Time: 1:00 pm 5/8/2024
Location: 274 Materials Science building

Seminar/Symposium

QSQM Junior Research Hour: "Probing energy Relaxation in the correlated metal Sr2RuO4 via THz 2D coherent spectroscopy,"Dr. David Barbalas, HRL laboratories

Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm 5/8/2024
Location: UIUC: 190 Engineering Sciences Room | SLAC: 130 McCullough Building

Speaker: Dr. David Barbalas, HRL laboratories

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE: Mahima Unnikrishnan, "Implications of Nanoparticle-Protein Interactions on Protein Assembly and Conformation". Advisors: Professor Martin Gruebele and Professor Catherine Murphy

Time: 2:30 pm 5/8/2024
Location: RAL 171

Seminar/Symposium

2024 Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor Theodore Goodson III, University of Michigan, "Nonlinear Optical and Time-Resolved Properties of Novel Organic Materials"

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 5/8/2024
Location: 1024 Chem Annex

Seminar/Symposium

2024 Klemperer Award for Outstanding Materials Chemistry Ph.D. Thesis, Qi Hua "Understanding and Controlling the Reactivity of Oxygen Reduction and Methanol Oxidation Electrocatalysts" and Falon Kalutantirige "Morphogenesis-Morphology-Function Relationships of Irregular Nanomaterials Using Advanced Electron Microscopy and Graph Theory"(M)

Time: 3:30 pm 5/9/2024
Location: 1024 Chem Annex

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE, David Potts, "Engineering Intrapore Environments to Tune Rates and Selectivities for Liquid Phase Catalysis over Zeolites"

Time: 9:00 am 5/10/2024
Location: 1092 Lincoln Hall

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE: Saman Fatima "Design and Engineering of Conformationally Switchable Artificial Metalloproteins (swArMs)", Advisor: Professor Lisa Olshansky

Time: 11:00 am 5/10/2024
Location: Noyes Lab 163

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE, Ohsung Kwon, "Influence of Solvation and Microenvironment on Alkene Epoxidation with Hydrogen Peroxide within Titanium Silicates"

Time: 12:30 pm 5/10/2024
Location: 161 Noyes Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Commencement

Time: 8:30 am 5/11/2024

Ceremony/Service

ChBE 2024 Spring Convocation Ceremony

Time: 9:00 - 10:30 am 5/12/2024
Location: Smith Memorial Hall – 805 South Matthews Avenue, Urbana

Ceremony/Service

ChBE Spring 2024 Convocation Reception

Time: 10:30 am - 12:30 pm 5/12/2024
Location: Centennial Plaza (between Noyes Lab and the Chem Annex)

Ceremony/Service

First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1

Time: All Day 5/13/2024

Other

Prof. Brian Rosen, Tel Aviv University, "Bridging Materials Science and Chemical Engineering: Exploiting Diagrams for Catalyst Design"

Time: 9:00 am 5/15/2024
Location: 165 Noyes Lab

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE: Joe Lastowski "TRANSITION METAL AND ACTINIDE COMPLEXES WITH UNSYMMETRICAL ALKYL CHELATES". Advisor: Professor Gregory Girolami

Time: 10:00 am 5/16/2024
Location: RAL 171

Seminar/Symposium

The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Kinetic magnetism in Hubbard models

Time: 12:00 pm 5/20/2024
Location: ESB 3110

Seminar/Symposium

QSQM Junior Research Hour: "Magnetostructural Phases Transformations in Ni50Mn50-xInx Shape Memory Alloys," Brian Blankenau, UIUC

Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm 5/22/2024
Location: UIUC: 2008 Superconductivity Room | SLAC: 130 McCullough Building

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE, Aashutosh Boob, "'Computational Tools for Engineering Functionally Improved Genetic Components and Cellular Factories""

Time: 10:00 am 5/24/2024
Location: 217 Noyes Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Memorial Day Holiday

Time: All Day 5/27/2024

Other

Special Seminar: "A universal quantum processor with ancilla-based readout for optical clock qubits," Ran Finkelstein, CalTech

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 5/28/2024
Location: 2008 Superconductivity Room

"A universal quantum processor with ancilla-based readout for optical clock qubits," Ran Finkelstein, CalTech

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE, Melanie Brunet Torres, "DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF TOOLS TO VISUALIZE AND ASSESS THE ROLES OF SPECIFIC BIOMOLECULES IN CELLS"

Time: 11:00 am 5/29/2024
Location: 117 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium