Grainger College of Engineering, All Events

Monday, October 13, 2025

- 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

- 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. Jospeh 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

- 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
- 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" TBD
- 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

Thursday, October 16, 2025

- 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 - 5:00 pm
- 4401 Siebel School
CS CARES Coffee Social
- Social/Informal Event
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 3102 Siebel Center
CS Compiler Seminar: Marvin Massey, "LLM-Vectorizer: LLM-Based Verified Loop Vectorizer."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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
- CIF 3039
The Artemis Program – NASA’s Return to the Moon
- Lecture
- 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
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

Saturday, October 18, 2025

- 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