The Grainger College of Engineering

Grainger College of Engineering, All Events

Sunday, April 20, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- 8:30 am
- 100H-1 Talbot Laboratory
Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)
- Informational
- All Day
Apply to be an ESTAR: DEADLINE April 25
- Informational
- 8:30 am
WYSE Employment Oppertunies
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
Nuclear Waste Dialogue (NuWaDi) Consortium: a Nuclear Story and Coloring Book Competition
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
Undergraduate Research Week (URW)
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, April 21, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- 8:30 am
- 100H-1 Talbot Laboratory
Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)
- Informational
- All Day
Apply to be an ESTAR: DEADLINE April 25
- Informational
- 8:30 am
WYSE Employment Oppertunies
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
Nuclear Waste Dialogue (NuWaDi) Consortium: a Nuclear Story and Coloring Book Competition
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
Undergraduate Research Week (URW)
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)
- Informational
- All Day
DEALINE- Apply to be an ESTAR
- Informational
- All Day
- TBD
Smitha’s book launch: Two Revolutions: Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Physics
- Festival/Celebration
- 10:00 am
Special Seminar: Nishil Talati, "Co-Design for the AI Era: From Traditional Systems to Generative AI"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
THEORY SEMINAR: Robert Wang, "Spectral Sparsification by Deterministic Discrepancy"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
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"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
Special Careers Event: "A Conversation with Poet Laureate and Engineer Richard Blanco"
- Lecture
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Xinwei Shen, "Distributional Learning: From Methodology to Applications"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: John Junkins - What does Meryl Streep and Heartbreak Hotel have to do with Computational Methods in Nonlinear Mechanics and Control?
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Understanding the Impact of Grain Boundary Inclination on Grain Growth using Modeling and Simulation and Experiments"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- ECEB 5086
Prelim Exam: Derek Chaw
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 220 Talbot Lab
WiN Coffee Chat w/ Prof. Brooks
- Social/Informal Event
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- Everitt 2101
ANS Outreach Meeting
- Social/Informal Event
- 5:00 - 7:00 pm
- Illini Union, South Lounge, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana
Luminous: An Evening of Poetry & Prose With National Poet-Engineer Richard Blanco and Physicist-Artist Smitha Vishveshwara

A book reading & signing featuring two art-science creators, with special guests. Richard Blanco, national poet laureate, will read from "Homeland of My Body." Artist-Physicist Smitha Vishveshwara will read from "Two Revolutions: Einstein’s Relativity and Quantum Physics." Books available for purchase. Light refreshments served. Free and open to all.
- Other

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- 8:30 am
- 100H-1 Talbot Laboratory
Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)
- Informational
- All Day
Apply to be an ESTAR: DEADLINE April 25
- Informational
- 8:30 am
WYSE Employment Oppertunies
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
Nuclear Waste Dialogue (NuWaDi) Consortium: a Nuclear Story and Coloring Book Competition
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
Undergraduate Research Week (URW)
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)
- Informational
- All Day
DEALINE- Apply to be an ESTAR
- Informational
- 9:00 am
- Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, Room 3350
PhD Final Defense – Paul Gharzouzi
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
- The Rhondale Tso Seminar Room Loomis 236
Special Biological Physics Seminar- "Single molecules, imaging, tracking, and the diffraction limit for finite photons."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Engineering (Useful) Trapped-Ion Quantum Technologies", Sara Mouradian, University of Washington

Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- 4039 Campus Instructional Facility (CIF)
NPRE Undergraduate Seminar Series: Constellation-Kristin McCoskey, Joseph Serio, Dr. Dave Sikorski
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
Title: The X-59: A High-Speed Journey from Finite Element Models to Aeroservoelasticity
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:30 - 3:30 pm
- 220 Talbot Lab
Drop In Info Session: Constellation-Kristin McCoskey, Joseph Serio, Dr. Dave Sikorski
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- TBD
Prelim Exam: Shubhang Bhatnagar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- Illini Union A, B, C and South Lounge
ISUR Research Expo
- Other
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Mechanics of glioma cells and T cells in brain tissue
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 2035 Campus Instructional Facility
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Michael Tonks

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 - "Cross-shaped patch formation on gold stellated octahedron templates with structural change"
- Seminar/Symposium
- All Day
ACDIS: Deadlime! Summer 2025 Jeremiah Sullivan Graduate Award
- Informational
- All Day
ACDIS: Deadlime! Summer 2025 Jeremiah Sullivan Undergraduate Award
- Informational
- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- 220 Talbot Lounge
ANS Project Development Meeting
- Social/Informal Event
- 6:00 - 8:00 pm
- Flatstick Pub - South Lake Union
ECE Seattle Alumni Reception
- Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- 8:30 am
- 100H-1 Talbot Laboratory
Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)
- Informational
- All Day
Apply to be an ESTAR: DEADLINE April 25
- Informational
- 8:30 am
WYSE Employment Oppertunies
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
Nuclear Waste Dialogue (NuWaDi) Consortium: a Nuclear Story and Coloring Book Competition
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
Undergraduate Research Week (URW)
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)
- Informational
- All Day
DEALINE- Apply to be an ESTAR
- Informational
- All Day
ACDIS: Deadlime! Summer 2025 Jeremiah Sullivan Graduate Award
- Informational
- 10:00 am
- NCSA Auditorium
Alumni Award for Distinguished Service Recipients Panel Discussion

Meet the 2025 class of Alumni Award for Distinguished Service Recipients!
- Other
- 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
- Coordinated Science Laboratory, 1308 W Main St, Auditorium (B02)
Seminar with Advanced Packaging Speaker Ganesh Subbarayan
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- ECEB 5070
Prelim Exam: Anuj Maheshwari
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Avery Tishue (UIUC) "Fundamental Physics with kSZ Tomography"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion
Data-driven, Physics-based Modeling of Strongly Nonlinear Mechanical Structures
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online
Distinguished Lecture: Jason Cong, "Efficient LLMs: From Model Innovation to Customized Acceleration"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science
Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies
- Meeting
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Ben Hooberman (UIUC), "Tackling climate change with particle physics"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
ECE Explorations (200): Virtual Research Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 24, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- 8:30 am
- 100H-1 Talbot Laboratory
Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)
- Informational
- All Day
Apply to be an ESTAR: DEADLINE April 25
- Informational
- 8:30 am
WYSE Employment Oppertunies
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
Nuclear Waste Dialogue (NuWaDi) Consortium: a Nuclear Story and Coloring Book Competition
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
Undergraduate Research Week (URW)
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)
- Informational
- All Day
DEALINE- Apply to be an ESTAR
- Informational
- All Day
ACDIS: Deadlime! Summer 2025 Jeremiah Sullivan Graduate Award
- Informational
- 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Illini Union (1401 W Green St, Urbana)
Undergraduate Research Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 - 11:00 am
- 3019 CEEB-Hydro
The Evolution of Biofuels Policy From 2005 to the Present and What the Next 20 Years May Bring
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- HMNTL 1000
INVITED LECTURE: Charge Transport in Doped Conjugated Polymers for Organic Electronics
- Lecture
- 11:00 am
- 1310 DCL
SE 290 - Alan Landmann
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- LLP 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Chis Akers (University of Colorado, Boulder), "On the reconstruction map in JT gravity"
- Ceremony/Service
- 3:30 - 5:30 pm
- ECEB 5070
Prelim Exam: Erkan Bayram
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Aerodynamic Design and Analysis of a 20 MW VSVP Horizontal-axis Wind Turbine
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "On-Demand Control of Single-Molecule Chemistry through Vibrational Characterization and Manipulation"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 7:00 pm
- ECEB 3015
IEEE FPGA Workshop
- Conference/Workshop
- 5:30 pm
- Campus Instructional Facility, Room 2018.
Acoustics@UIUC Student Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 25, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Talbot Laboratory
ANS Shadow an Engineer
- Social/Informal Event
- 8:30 am
- 100H-1 Talbot Laboratory
Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)
- Informational
- All Day
Apply to be an ESTAR: DEADLINE April 25
- Informational
- 8:30 am
WYSE Employment Oppertunies
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
Nuclear Waste Dialogue (NuWaDi) Consortium: a Nuclear Story and Coloring Book Competition
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
Undergraduate Research Week (URW)
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)
- Informational
- All Day
DEALINE- Apply to be an ESTAR
- Informational
- All Day
ACDIS: Deadlime! Summer 2025 Jeremiah Sullivan Graduate Award
- Informational
- 9:30 - 11:30 am
- CSL 301
Prelim Exam: Neeloy Chakraborty
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 - 10:50 am
- 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Christian Kroer
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- CSL B02
IEEE Solid State Circuits Distinguished Lecture
- Lecture
- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
Distinguished Alumni Panel and Lunch

Join us for pizza and a Q&A with distinguished school alumni!
- Informational
- 12:00 pm
- 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
Physics Careers Seminar: "One Way to Not Be a Physicist"
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Detection of anyon braiding through pump-probe spectroscopy"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- HMNTL 1000
Prelim Exam: Brendan Wolan
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other
- 6:00 pm
- Illini Union, Illini Room
2025 Celebration of Excellence

This event honors Siebel School of Computing and Data Science students, faculty, staff, and alumni for their outstanding accomplishments of the past year.
- Ceremony/Service

Saturday, April 26, 2025

- 8:30 am
- 100H-1 Talbot Laboratory
Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)
- Informational
- 8:30 am
WYSE Employment Oppertunies
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
Nuclear Waste Dialogue (NuWaDi) Consortium: a Nuclear Story and Coloring Book Competition
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
Undergraduate Research Week (URW)
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
Apply for positions with World Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE)
- Informational
- All Day
ACDIS: Deadlime! Summer 2025 Jeremiah Sullivan Graduate Award
- Informational

The Grainger College of Engineering

University of Illinois

306 Engineering Hall MC 266

1308 West Green Street

Urbana, IL 61801

engineering@illinois.edu