Grainger College of Engineering, All Events

Monday, October 13, 2025

• • All Day
  • 100H-1 Talbot Lab

  Mandatory Pre-registration Advising

  • Informational
• • 8:30 am

  PhD Final Defense – Ruolin Zhang

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 - 11:00 am
  • 3401 Siebel Center

  Theory Seminar: Nikhil Shagrithaya, "Probabilistic Guarantees to Explicit Constructions: Local Properties of Linear Codes."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Yin-Chen He (Stonybrook), "A Fuzzy Sphere Journey: from 3D Ising to Chern-Simons-matter CFT "

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 1038 CIF

  TEC Programs Office Hours

  • Other
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Dean Pospisil, "Understanding Neural Representations and Inferring How They Are Generated"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Tamer Zaki - Turbulence From an Observer Perspective

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

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "The Search for Accurate Predictors of Grain Growth"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 - 8:00 pm
  • Siebel 1214, Thomas M Siebel Center for Computer Science, 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Peer Mentoring Center

  PMC is a place to help undergraduate students succeed in and outside the classroom.

  • Community Service
• • 6:00 - 7:00 pm
  • Sidney Lu 2055

  ANS General Meeting

  • Social/Informal Event

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

• • All Day
  • 100H-1 Talbot Lab

  Mandatory Pre-registration Advising

  • Informational
• • 9:00 am
  • 135 Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Illinois Energy Prof Filming

  • Other
• • 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
  • 0216 Siebel Center

  Computing Startup Seminar Series: Sudip Chakrabarti

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

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

  IQUIST Seminar: "Broadband quantum-limited amplification and near-ultrastrong nonlinear light-matter coupling with superconducting circuits", Kevin O'Brien, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Speaker: Kevin O'Brien, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB 3110

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - Darius Shi (Stanford)), "Chiral superconductivity from non-Abelian anyon fluids"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:30 - 1:30 pm
  • 1038 CIF

  TEC Academics Open Office Hour

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

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Nitash Balsara, University of California, Berkeley "Movement of Polymer Molecules under Electric Fields and Relevance to Rechargeable Batteries" (host: Damien Guironnet)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Laboratory of Physics, Room 141

  ChBE/NPRE Presents-Prof. Joseph D. Smith, Missouri University of Science and Technology

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 141 Loomis Laboratory Of Physics

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Prof. Joseph D. Smith

  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
  • 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  Printer 3D Microelectronics: Process Development, Materials Science, and Devices Applications

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

  Soft Materials Seminar - "Peptide-polymer amphiphiles meet lipid membranes: A morphological analysis of thermally actuated dynamic hybrid systems"

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

  Soft Materials Seminar - "Recyclable by Design: Additive Manufacturing of Thermosets via Frontal Polymerization"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
  • Coble Hall, Conference Room 108 -- 801 S. Wright Street

  ACDIS: Seminar Series - Andrew Nelson, Sandia National Laboratory - Principal Member of Technical Staff

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
  • Coble Hall, Conference Room 108 -- 801 S. Wright Street

  ACDIS: Seminar Series - Deli Yang, Jeremiah Sullivan Fellowship Awardee, PhD program in Political Scienc

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

  ANS Project Development Meeting

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 5:00 - 8:00 pm
  • Siebel 1214, Thomas M Siebel Center for Computer Science, 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Peer Mentoring Center

  • Community Service

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

• • All Day
  • 100H-1 Talbot Lab

  Mandatory Pre-registration Advising

  • Informational
• • 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
  • HMNTL 1000

  Vacuum Science and Thin Film Deposition

  • Informational
• • 9:30 am

  Final Defense of Yuan Shen

  • Other
• • 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
  • Main Quad

  WiN Flower Sale

  • Community Service
• • 11:00 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame) "Interpreting the observables and multi messenger signals of r-process nucleosynthesis"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
  • Everitt 1306

  BIOE Seminar Series: Assistant Professor Boxuan Zhao

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 1038 CIF

  TEC Programs Office Hours

  • Other
• • 1:00 - 2:00 pm

  IDEA Institute Meeting

  • Meeting
• 

  • 2:00 - 4:00 pm
  • Grainger Engineering Library and Information Center, Basement

  Therapy Horses @ Grainger Library

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Ruhi Sarikaya, "Path to Artificial General Intelligence: Past, Present, and Future"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • 1304 Siebel Center

  Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Ali Cem Kaynak, "Usability Problems in the digital application process for subsidized student loans in Germany."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium Peter Abbamonte (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) "Conformal Invariance in Strange Metals"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • ECEB 1002

  ECE Explorations: Milwaukee Tool

  Learn about Milwaukee Tool and the disruptive technologies being used to develop smart tools.

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm   CST
  • ECEB 2017

  IEEE General Meeting

  • Meeting
• • 5:30 - 7:30 pm
  • CIF 2039

  CB&I Information Session

  • Informational
• • 6:00 - 8:00 pm
  • Siebel 1214, Thomas M Siebel Center for Computer Science, 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Peer Mentoring Center

  • Community Service

Thursday, October 16, 2025

• • All Day
  • 100H-1 Talbot Lab

  Mandatory Pre-registration Advising

  • Informational
• • 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
  • HMNTL 1000

  Vacuum Science and Thin Film Deposition

  • Informational
• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Coordinated Science Lab 239

  Prelim Exam: Rajalaxmi Rajagopalan

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 114 Transportation Building

  Engineering in Residence Seminar (SE 290) - Toni Baumann

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 - 2:00 pm
  • Loomis 464

  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Pratik Rath (UC Berkeley), "A Black Hole Airy Tail"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
  • Beckman 3169

  Prelim Exam: Mingrui Liu

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 - 4:30 pm
  • 1038 CIF

  TEC Programs Office Hours

  • Other
• • 4:00 - 5:30 pm
  • 4401 Siebel School

  CS CARES Coffee Social

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Plastic Localization Behavior in Ferritic-Martensitic Steels"

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

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Three-dimensional Fourier Transform Infrared Microscope"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:15 - 5:15 pm
  • IDEA Lab, Basement of Grainger Library

  McKinley Stress Management Peers @ IDEA Lab: Thriving Thursday-Learning New Things

  • Health/Fitness
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • 220 Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Letter of Rec Workshop

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 5:00 - 7:00 pm   CST
  • ECEB 2017

  IEEE Digital Design & FPGA Workshop Series

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • CIF 3039

  The Artemis Program – NASA’s Return to the Moon

  • Lecture
• • 5:00 pm
  • Loomis 464

  Undergraduate Physics Seminar: "Quantum Position Verification: How Quantum Mechanics can Securely Confirm Someone's Location", Vanessa Zhang

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 7:00 - 8:30 pm
  • 3025 Campus Instructional Facilty

  Patents and Trademarks Info Night

  Take advantage of this opportunity to get FREE patent and trademark assistance!

  • Conference/Workshop

Friday, October 17, 2025

• • All Day
  • 100H-1 Talbot Lab

  Mandatory Pre-registration Advising

  • Informational
• • 5:00 - 7:00 pm   CST
  • ECEB 2017

  IEEE Digital Design & FPGA Workshop Series

  • Conference/Workshop
• • All Day

  Deadline for ALL to drop semester course via Student Self-Service.

  • Other
• • All Day

  Last day to withdraw* and receive a 50% refund of tuition.

  • Other
• • 9:00 am
  • 3100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  Interfacial Stress Balances Across Scales: Thin-Film Stability and Pulmonary Surfactant

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 10:00 - 10:50 am
  • 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801

  ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Myrtede Alfred

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 4124 Siebel Center

  DAIS Distinguished Alumni Seminar: Dr. Jiaming Shen, "Identifying and Incentivizing Grounded Natural Language Generation.""

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Robert McGehee (University of Minnesota)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:30 am
  • Newmark 2312

  PhD Final Defense – Binxin Fu

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:45 am - 1:00 pm
  • Engineering Quad

  BIOE Bags & Hot Dogs for CCFD on the Quad

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 1038 CIF

  TEC Programs Office Hours

  • Other
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Atom-by-atom characterization of 2D materials with electron ptychography"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).

  STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Jamie Williamson (Scripps Research) “Structure and Dynamic Analysis of Bacterial Ribosome Assembly in Cells.”

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other
• • 3:00 - 5:00 pm
  • University Research Park

  Caterpillar Site Visit

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • 220 Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Bingo Night

  • Social/Informal Event

Saturday, October 18, 2025

• • All Day
  • 100H-1 Talbot Lab

  Mandatory Pre-registration Advising

  • Informational
• • 5:00 - 7:00 pm   CST
  • ECEB 2017

  IEEE Digital Design & FPGA Workshop Series

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets

  Science at the Market: Carl Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  • Community Service
• • 9:30 - 10:30 am

  Cancer Research Advocacy Group Online Seminar

  Save the date for a webinar focused on navigating mental health during a cancer diagnosis.

  • Webinar
• • 6:00 - 7:00 pm
  • Red Gate Woods near Chicago

  ANS CP-1 Nature Walk

  • Social/Informal Event