Grainger College of Engineering, All Events

Sunday, October 5, 2025

- All Day
Silicon Valley Entrepreneurship Workshop | Applications Open

Travel to Silicon Valley and interact with corporate leaders, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurial alumni in various stages of a startup life cycle that share lessons learned about entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership
- Other

Monday, October 6, 2025

- 9:00 am
- Discovery Partners Institute (DPI), 200 S. Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL
Gul Agha Festschrift Symposium

Join us for a symposium honoring the groundbreaking career of Professor Gul Agha.
- Festival/Celebration
- 9:00 - 10:30 am
- 2102 Siebel Center for Computer Science
Sandia Open Office Hours
- Informational
- 10:00 am
- 3401 Siebel Center
Theory Seminar: Soumik Ghosh, "Peaked quantum advantage using error correction."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Zohar Nussinov (WashU), "Inhomogeneous phases and glasses- a many-body perspective"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 1038 CIF
TEC Programs Office Hours
- Other
- 2:00 pm
- Coordinated Science Lab 1308 W Main st, Urbana, 61801 CSL B02
Prof. Ketan Rajawat & Prof. Indranil Saha - AI Research and Education at IIT Kanpur
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Derek Attig - Networking Strategies for Graduate Students.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 1310 Yeh Student Center, 205 N Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL
Scarce data approaches to transfer knowledge across disparate domains: a study in extrapolation via machine learning | Stephanie G. Paal | Structural Engineering Seminar Series
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- Engineering Hall 106B8
ANS Outreach 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

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

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

- 9:00 am
- Discovery Partners Institute (DPI), 200 S. Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL
Gul Agha Festschrift Symposium

Join us for a symposium honoring the groundbreaking career of Professor Gul Agha.
- Festival/Celebration
- 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
- 0216 Siebel Center
Computing Startup Seminar Series: Vijay Chander
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum computing and simulation with multimode superconducting random-access memories," Srivatsan Chakram, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University

Speaker: Srivatsan Chakram, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center for Computer Science Atrium
ServiceNow Lobby Day
- Informational
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB Lab 3110
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Bruno Uchoa (University of Oklahoma), "Quantum geometry in flat bands"
- 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-Dr. Shailendra Bordawekar, AbbVie (host: Paul Kenis)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center
CAP Seminar: Dr. Brandon Reagen, "Towards Practical Cryptographic Computing."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 1306 Everitt Laboratory
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Prof. Ling-Jian Meng

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
Polarization of Thermal Emission from Micro/Nanostructured Materials
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar - "Toward computationally-guided design of frontally-polymerized materials with self-organizing capabilities: Linking molecular thermodynamics to emergent behavior"
- 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 8, 2025

- All Day
- Research Park
Founders Week

Founders Week celebrates our collective entrepreneurial successes and showcases the innovative ecosystem that fosters groundbreaking ventures.
- Festival/Celebration
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- 280 MRL
Final Defense - Jarom Sederholm, SUSTAINABLE BATTERY ENGINEERING: SINGLE-STEP BATTERY RECYCLING, BATTERY MODELING, AND BATTERY ELECTROLYTE ANALYSIS
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
- Siebel Center 2405
Physics-guided mmWave/sub-THz Wireless Systems: From Energy-Aware PHY Layer to Exotic Beam Shaping
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Hao-Jui Kuan (UIUC) "Tidal resonance: Nonlinearities revealed by numerical relativity"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
Final Defense of Aditya Prakash
- Other
- 12:00 - 2:00 pm
- Locations Vary (visit SSIB Master Event Calendar for details)
Read and Resist Kickoff

Intellectual freedom is more than banned books. It's the free flow of ideas and information. Protect freedom to read, create, and express. Borrow a banned book from the Library bookmobile, create resistance art, or visit the cultural center libraries for a chance to win a limited edition Read & Resist tote bag and gift card to the Illini Union bookstore.
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 1038 CIF
TEC Programs Office Hours
- Other
- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
- NCSA 1040
The Cancer Center at Illinois Distinguished Lecture Series Featuring Elaine Fuchs

Please join us for the first Cancer Center at Illinois Distinguished Lecture Series event, featuring University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumna Dr. Elaine Fuchs. Light refreshments will be provided.
- Lecture
- 3:00 pm 4:00pm
- B02 Coordinated Science Laboratory
DCL Seminar: Prof. Emil Saucan
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1304 Siebel Center
Human-Computer Interaction Lightning Talks
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium Eric Kuo (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) “Developing the Skills and Mindsets for Future Success Through Physics Education”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- ECEB 1002
Student Town Hall

Please bring your questions and concerns regarding the undergraduate curriculum, and a panel of faculty and advisors will be available to answer them.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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
- 6:30 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
ServiceNow Tech Talk
- Informational

Thursday, October 9, 2025

- All Day
- Research Park
Founders Week

Founders Week celebrates our collective entrepreneurial successes and showcases the innovative ecosystem that fosters groundbreaking ventures.
- Festival/Celebration
- 8:30 am
- ECEB 1002
ECE Explorations: Milwaukee Tool
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 114 Transportation Building
Engineering in Residence Seminar (SE 290) - Deborah Mrazek
- Lecture
- 12:00 - 2:00 pm
- 135 Talbot Laboratory
ANS Illinois Energy Prof
- Meeting
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- University Archives (room 146, Main Library) or via Zoom (a link will be emailed to you after registration).
Women in Science Lecture
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Erin Ratcliff, Georgia Institute of Technology (host: Ying Diao) "Soft PhotoElectroChemical Systems for Energy Conversion and Storage"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications Auditorium
Student Startup to Top-Tier VC Funded Company
- Informational
- 3:30 - 4:30 pm
- 1038 CIF
TEC Programs Office Hours
- Other
- 4:00 pm
- 2244 Siebel Center
Computer Vision Seminar Series: Jieneng Chen, "Towards Generative Worlds for Deeper Reasoning and Informed Embodiment."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 4401 Siebel School
CS CARES Coffee Social
- Social/Informal Event
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 3102 Siebel Center
CS Compiler Seminar: Arya Vohra & Leo Seojun Lee, "Mind the Abstraction Gap: Bringing Equality Saturation to Real-World ML Compilers."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 3102 Siebel Center
CS Compiler Seminar: Avaljot Singh, "Automated Verification of Soundness of DNN Certifiers."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "Oxygen Stoichiometry Insights in Fe-Doped SrTiO₃ from Chemical Capacitance"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "Synthesis and optical quantum memory characterization of α-Eu(IO3)3, β-Eu(IO3)3, and NaEu(IO3)4"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center
IMMERSE Seminar Series: Dr. Katryna Starks, "The PLAYlab: Games and Interactive Research for Social Good."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:15 - 5:15 pm
- IDEA Lab, Basement of Grainger Library
McKinley Stress Management Peers @ IDEA Lab: Thriving Thursday-Mindfulness
- Health/Fitness
- 4:30 pm
- IUB 514
Goldwater Scholarship Information Sessions & Workshop
- Meeting
- 5:00 - 7:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE590 Seminar: Toward predictive models for gas phase phenomena in hypersonic flows
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- 220 Talbot Laboratory
ANS TikTok Meeting
- Social/Informal Event
- 5:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Undergraduate Physics Seminar: "Inferring Strain of the Lithosphere of Mars with Recordings of Marsquakes", Srishti Gupta
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:00 - 6:30 pm
- 220 Talbot Laboratory
ANS Conversations
- Social/Informal Event

Friday, October 10, 2025

- All Day
- Research Park
Founders Week

Founders Week celebrates our collective entrepreneurial successes and showcases the innovative ecosystem that fosters groundbreaking ventures.
- Festival/Celebration
- All Day
Last day to withdraw* and receive a 60% refund of tuition.
- Other
- 10:00 - 10:50 am
- 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Mohsen Jafari
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
High Energy Physics Seminar - Xiaojun Yao (University of Washington) "Quantum Computing of Real-Time Correlators in 2+1D SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory"
- 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 - "Observation of constructive interference at the edge of quantum ergodicity"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
Robotics Seminar: Dr. Farshid Alambeigi, "Surgineering Using Intelligent and Flexible Robotic Systems."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Rong Ma (Harvard University) "Modern Nonlinear Embedding Methods Unpacked: Empowering Biological Discoveries with Statistical Insights"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm CST
- ECEB 3015
IEEE Trivia Night
- Social/Informal Event
- 7:15 pm
- TBD
WINe Night
- Community Service

Saturday, October 11, 2025

- All Day
- Research Park
Founders Week

Founders Week celebrates our collective entrepreneurial successes and showcases the innovative ecosystem that fosters groundbreaking ventures.
- Festival/Celebration
- 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
Science at the Market: Graduate Students in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (GEEB)
- Community Service