Grainger College of Engineering, All Events

Sunday, October 26, 2025

Mandatory Pre-registration Advising
Recurring

All Day

100H-1 Talbot Lab
- Informational
ANS Climbing Event

2:00 pm

Urbana Boulders
- Social/Informal Event

Monday, October 27, 2025

Mandatory Pre-registration Advising
Recurring

All Day

100H-1 Talbot Lab
- Informational
Theory Seminar: Dr. Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury, "Towards a Theory of Equilibrium in Data Markets."

10:00 - 11:00 am

3401 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Defense of Ali Ebrahimpour Boroojeny

10:30 am
- Other
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Sukbum Chung (University of Seoul), "Spin transport signature of ferroelectric fluctuation"

12:00 - 1:00 pm

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium
COLLOQUIUM: Hadi Meidani, "Learning the Physical World: Neural Models for Data, Simulation, and Design"

3:30 pm

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
- Seminar/Symposium
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Michael Gallis - Exascale Molecular-Level Simulations of Gas Flows

4:00 - 5:00 pm

CIF 2035
- Seminar/Symposium
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium, Thomas A. Read Lecture - "Advancements in Chiplet & Advanced Packaging Technology including Co-Packaged Optics"

4:00 pm

100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
- Seminar/Symposium
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214

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

6:00 - 7:00 pm

Loomis Laboratory 144
- Social/Informal Event
ANS YouTube Equipment Testing

6:00 - 7:00 pm

135 Talbot Laboratory
- Social/Informal Event

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Mandatory Pre-registration Advising
Recurring

All Day

100H-1 Talbot Lab
- Informational
Coffee, Donuts, and More… for the Campus Community Fund Drive!

8:30 - 10:00 am

Everitt Lab (between the front doors and the atrium)
- Social/Informal Event
Computing Startup Seminar Series: PhD Student Startup Panel

11:00 am - 12:15 pm

0216 Siebel Center (with refreshments!)
- Seminar/Symposium
INVITED LECTURE: Scalable Quantum Information Processing with Photonic and CMOS-Integrated Artificial Atoms

11:00 am

Holonyak Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory (HMNTL), Room 1000, Auditorium
- Lecture
IQUIST Seminar: "Point Defects in Crystals: Trapped Atoms for Quantum Technologies," Kai-Mei Fu, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington

11:00 - 11:50 am

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Kai-Mei Fu, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Defense of Pritom Saha Akash

1:00 pm
- Other
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley (host: Deborah Leckband) "Macromolecules: Friend or Foe?"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Final Defense of Jinyang Li

2:30 pm

Siebel Center 3102
- Other
Phase-Change Heat and Mass Transfer: From Insights to Enabling Technologies

4:00 pm

4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
- Seminar/Symposium
Soft Materials Seminar

4:00 pm

100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
- Seminar/Symposium
Soft Materials Seminar - "Storable Prepreg for On-Orbit Composites Manufacturing"

4:00 pm

100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
- Seminar/Symposium
ACDIS: Seminar Series - Masters in Global Studies Information Session

5:00 pm

Coble Hall, Conference Room 108 -- 801 S. Wright Street
- Seminar/Symposium
ANS CAD Workshop

5:00 - 6:30 pm

220 Talbot Laboratory
- Social/Informal Event
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214
- Community Service

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Mandatory Pre-registration Advising
Recurring

All Day

100H-1 Talbot Lab
- Informational
2025 BERD Conference: Turning Data into Discovery - Advancing Health through Biostatistics

9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Beckman Institute, Tower Room 2269

Please join us for this half day conference, with an optional deep dive workshop on quantitative research design in the afternoon.
- Conference/Workshop
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Takahiro Tanaka (Yukawa Institute, Kyoto University) "Evolution of super-radiant axion clouds"

11:00 am

Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
- Seminar/Symposium
BIOE Seminar Series: Professor Amy Wagoner Johnson

12:00 - 12:50 pm

Everitt 1306
- Seminar/Symposium
GradSWE Lunch: From Chaos to Clarity - Research Data Management Basics

12:00 - 1:00 pm

Everitt Laboratory, Room 1103
- Professional Development
Final Defense of Wenxuan Bao

1:15 pm
- Other
Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Dr. Shuang Zhao, "Physics-based differentiable and inverse rendering."

3:30 pm

1304 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium "Chirality Meets Quantum"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium
ECE Explorations: Lean Manufacturing and Practical Problem Solving at Rivian

5:00 - 6:00 pm

ECEB 1002
- Seminar/Symposium
Peer Mentoring Center
Recurring

6:00 - 8:00 pm

Siebel 1214
- Community Service

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Mandatory Pre-registration Advising
Recurring

All Day

100H-1 Talbot Lab
- Informational
Prelim Exam: Yi Zhou

8:30 - 10:30 am

ECEB 5086
- Seminar/Symposium
Engineering in Residence Seminar (SE 290) - Jeremy Ward

11:00 am

114 Transportation Building
- Lecture
Final Defense of Aditya Prakash

12:00 pm

CSL 141
- Other
TEC Academics Open Office Hour

12:30 - 1:30 pm

1038 CIF
- Other
ANS Professor Andruczyk Interview

2:00 - 5:00 pm

135 Talbot Laboratory
- Other
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Yaakov Nahmias, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (host: CHBE/IGB/BioE) "Bionic Human Organoids & Fundamental Mechanisms of Disease"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Computer Vision Seminar Series: Dr. Hermann Blum, "Robotic Scene Understanding in the Era of Foundation Models."

3:00 pm
- Seminar/Symposium
Semiconductor Engineering Minor at Grainger Info Session

3:00 pm

Seminar Room 1000, HMNTL
- Ceremony/Service
TEC Programs Office Hours
Recurring

3:30 - 4:30 pm

1038 CIF
- Other
CS CARES Coffee Social
Recurring

4:00 - 5:30 pm

4401 Siebel School
- Social/Informal Event
CS Compiler Seminar: Dr. Charith Mendis, "Agile and evolvable software construction in the era of rapidly evolving hardware accelerator designs."

4:00 - 5:00 pm

3102 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
Hard Materials Seminar - "Chemo-mechanical Coupling Studies of La0.5Sr0.5MO3 and LiCoO2"

4:00 pm

100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
- Seminar/Symposium
Hard Materials Seminar - "Photo-ionic Effects in PrxCe1-xO2-δ (PCO) Thin Films"

4:00 pm

100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
- Seminar/Symposium
McKinley Stress Management Peers @ IDEA Lab: Thriving Thursday-Resilience

4:15 - 5:15 pm

IDEA Lab, Basement of Grainger Library
- Health/Fitness
ANS Illinois Energy Prof Meeting

5:00 - 6:00 pm

220 Talbot Laboratory
- Social/Informal Event
Qualcomm Global SoC Technology, Summer 2026 MS/PhD Internships Virtual Session

5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Informational
Undergraduate Physics Seminar: "Quantum Position Verification: How Quantum Mechanics can Securely Confirm Someone's Location", Vanessa Zhang

5:00 pm

Loomis 464
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 31, 2025

Mandatory Pre-registration Advising
Recurring

All Day

100H-1 Talbot Lab
- Informational
Last day to withdraw* and receive a 40% refund of tuition.

All Day
- Other
No refund of tuition is available after this date.

All Day
- Other
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Yunbei Xu

10:00 - 10:50 am

1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
- Seminar/Symposium
High Energy Physics Seminar - Aurora Ireland (Stanford) "A Classical-to-Quantum Transition for Inflationary Perturbations"

11:00 am

Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
- Seminar/Symposium
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Quantum geometry and response functions: the Bures metric and beyond"

1:00 pm

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium
Robotics Seminar: Alexander Smith and Neeloy Chakraborty

1:00 pm

1232 Coordinated Science Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
Recurring

2:15 - 3:00 pm

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
- Other

Saturday, November 1, 2025

Extreme Matter: Physics at a Trillion Degrees Exploring the hottest, densest state of matter ever produced — and the detectors that can survive it.

10:15 am 11:30am

141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics

When lead nuclei collide at near light speed in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, they create the hottest matter in the universe, the Quark-Gluon Plasma, a state that existed moments after the Big Bang. University of Illinois researchers developed radiation-hard detectors to study how this plasma forms and evolves, advancing the quest to recreate matter from the dawn of time.
- Lecture