Grainger College of Engineering, All Events

Sunday, May 4, 2025

• • 8:30 am

  WYSE Employment Oppertunies

  • Ceremony/Service
• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational

Monday, May 5, 2025

• • 8:30 am

  WYSE Employment Oppertunies

  • Ceremony/Service
• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• 

  • 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
  • Heritage Hall in the IHotel & Conference Center in Champaign, Illinois

  10th Anniversary Celebration of the Health Care Engineering Systems Center

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • CSL 301

  Prelim Exam: Kaiwen Cao

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Sarah Sterman, "Designing for Ways and Whys: Transforming Process into a Material for Creative Reflection"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • Siebel 3401

  Theory Seminar: Euiwoong Lee, "Theory and applications of complete Min-CSPs: A case study in Correlation Clustering"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2124 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Halil Kilicoglu, "Enhancing Rigor and Integrity of Biomedical Research using Natural Language Processing"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Preslav Nakov, “ Towards Truly Open, Language-Specific, Safe, Factual, and Specialized Large Language Models”

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - Racheff student awardees

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

• • 8:30 am

  WYSE Employment Oppertunies

  • Ceremony/Service
• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • 9:00 am
  • 1306 Everitt Laboratory

  FINAL DEFENSE, Kyle Benjamin Timmer, "Development of Multicompartment Biomaterials to Modulate Cellular Environments for Improved Tendon-to-Bone Rotator Cuff Repair"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:30 am
  • Siebel Center 201 N Goodwin Ave- Room 3401

  Chengpeng Wang- Title: Neuro-Symbolic Static Analysis for Reliable Software Systems

  • Lecture
• • 10:30 am
  • Siebel Center 201 N Goodwin Ave- Room 3401

  Chengpeng Wang- Title: Neuro-Symbolic Static Analysis for Reliable Software Systems

  • Lecture
• 

  • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: "Overview of learning and Testing Stabilizer States", Srinivasan Arunachalam, IBM

  Speaker: Srinivasan Arunachalam, IBM

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
  • 4039 Campus Instructional Facility (CIF)

  NPRE Undergraduate Seminar Series: Senior Design Presentations

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • Main Library, Room 146, 1408 W Gregory Dr, Champaign, IL 61820

  Women in Science Lecture Series: Jennifer Hain Teper

  This lecture series highlights the important innovations and contributions of women in sciences here at the University of Illinois, and centers the importance of documenting women scientists and engineers to create a diverse and inclusive archival record.

  • Lecture
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Emily Davidson, Princeton University, (host: Ying Diao)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 - 4:00 pm

  Let’s Chat about iCAN (online): Dr. Tiffani Williams, iCAN Director

  • Informational
• • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 2035 Campus Instructional Facility

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Senior Design Presentations

  Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar - Electrical actuation and control of soft fluidic robots: towards wearable and implantable soft robotic systems for daily purposes

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

• • 8:30 am

  WYSE Employment Oppertunies

  • Ceremony/Service
• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
  • 210 Engineering Hall

  WIE Final Exam Goodie Bag

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
  • 210 Engineering Hall, 1308 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801

  Women in Engineering Final Exam Goodie Bags

  Stop by and pick up a final exam goodie bag to finish off the semester!

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 10:00 am
  • Siebel Center 4124

  Final Defense of Xudong Sun

  • Other
• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Fengyuan Zhu, "Navigating the Future of Extended Reality: Overcoming Barriers and Unleashing Potential in Cross-Device Integration"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • Grainger Library - Grainger Commons 233/235

  Final Defense - PhD - Ananthan Nambiar

  • Other
• 

  • 1:00 pm

  Webinar | Next Generation Multi-View Video Delivery Systems for AR/VR End Devices

  Join us for the next Research Initiatives Webinar for an overview of Illinois Grainger Engineering's advancements in AR/VR research.

  • Webinar
• • 2:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Special Seminar - "Quantum Computation using Majorana-Based Topological Qubits"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Ilan Shomorony, "An Information Theory for Out-of-Order Information: Applications in DNA Data Storage and Genomics"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 3:30 pm
  • Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 0216

  Haoqi Zhang "Computational Ecosystems: Tech-enabled Communities to Advance Human Values"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies

  • Meeting
• • 5:00 pm
  • ECEB, Room 1002 Grainger Auditorium

  Canceled: ECE Explorations (200) - No Class - Reading Day Week

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 8, 2025

• • 8:30 am

  WYSE Employment Oppertunies

  • Ceremony/Service
• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • All Day

  Last day to withdraw* or drop** a course without petitioning the Graduate College.

  • Other
• 

  • 12:00 - 3:00 pm
  • 220 Talbot Lab

  NPRE Student Aprechiation!

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 3:00 pm

  Special Seminar: Noman Bashir, "Rethinking Systems Design for Reliable and Sustainable Computing in a Constrained World"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • 220 Talbot Lounge

  ANS Finals Goodie Bag Pickup

  • Social/Informal Event

Friday, May 9, 2025

• • 8:30 am

  WYSE Employment Oppertunies

  • Ceremony/Service
• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm

  iCAN Q&A Event (online) - Registration Required

  • Informational
• • 1:00 pm
  • Supercon 1002

  Condensed Matter Special Seminar - Michael Manley (Oak Ridge), "Phason Dominated Thermal Conductivity in an Incommensurate Crystal""

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm

  Final Defense of Zhe Xu

  • Other
• • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
  • NCSA-2000

  Prelim Exam: Tingkai Liu

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, May 10, 2025

• • 8:30 am

  WYSE Employment Oppertunies

  • Ceremony/Service
• • All Day

  Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)

  • Informational