The Grainger College of Engineering

Grainger College of Engineering, All Events

Sunday, April 13, 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

Monday, April 14, 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
- 10:00 am
Special Seminar: Ananya Bhattarcharjee, "Adaptive Narrative Interventions for Supporting Wellbeing"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
Special Seminar: Rishabh Iyer, "Performance Interfaces for Systems Software and Hardware"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Siebel 3401
THEORY SEMINAR: Kabir Tomer, "Towards (Quantum) Cryptography from #P-hardness"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Trithep Devakul (Stanford University), "Emergent phases of interacting electrons in dispersive bands with Berry curvature."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE Special Seminar - Priti Balchandani
- Seminar/Symposium
- All Day
Nuclear Waste Dialogue (NuWaDi) Consortium: a Nuclear Story and Coloring Book Competition
- Ceremony/Service
- 2:00 pm
- Zoom
PhD Final Defense – Junren Wang
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Rex (Zhitao) Ying, "A Riemannian Geometry Perspective on Foundation Models"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center
Rex Ying "A Riemannian Geometry Perspective on Foundation Models"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Warren Dixon - Lyapunov-based Deep Learning Methods
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 0216 Siebel Center for Computing and Data Science
Graduate Student Townhall: Focus for students in Research Programs (CS MS & PhD)
- Meeting
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Entrepreneurship at Illinois: Cultivating a Pillar of Competitive Advantage"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- Everitt 2101
ANS Board Elections
- Social/Informal Event
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- 0216 Siebel Center for Computing and Data Science
Graduate Student Townhall: Students in Coursework Programs (MCS and MS Bioinformatics)
- Meeting

Tuesday, April 15, 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
- 8:30 am
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
World Quantum Day
- Ceremony/Service
- 10:00 am
- The Rhondale Tso Seminar Room Loomis 236
Special Biological Physics Seminar-Hyun Youk "Slowed or Suspended Lives of Cells"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
Special Seminar: Yasra Chandio, "System Signals to Felt Experience: Designing Human-Centered Mixed Reality"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Floquet Topology and Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Quantum Matter", Babak Seradjeh, Professor of Physics, Indiana University

Speaker: "Floquet Topology and Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Quantum Matter", Babak Seradjeh, Professor of Physics, Indiana University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- B02 CSL Auditorum & Zoom
Seah Kim ECE Faculty Candidate Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- 4039 Campus Instructional Facility (CIF)
NPRE Undergraduate Seminar Series: Jhansi Kandasamy
- Ceremony/Service
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sijin Li, Cornell University, "An Integrated Synthetic Biology Pipeline to Understand and Harness Plant Specialized Metabolism" (host: Huimin Zhao)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 - 5:00 pm
- CSL 141
Prelim Exam: Seo Taek Kong
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Designing Redox-Flow Batteries for Renewable Energy Storage and CO2 Capture
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 2035 Campus Instructional Facility
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Dr. Jhansi Kandasamy

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 - "Accelerated Design of Epoxy-Based Nanocomposites"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- 220 Talbot Lounge
ANS Project Development Meeting
- Social/Informal Event
- 5:30 - 7:30 pm
- Campus Instructional Facility 0035
Information Session with Boeing
- Informational

Wednesday, April 16, 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
- 10:00 - 10:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Special Seminar: "Light, Silicon, and Steel: PsiQuantum's Path to Utility-Scale, Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing, Aaron Fluitt, Senior Director of Technology Partnerships, PsiQuantum

Speaker: Aaron Fluitt, Senior Director of Technology Partnerships, PsiQuantum
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 4369
Prelim Exam: Wen Jin
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
Special Seminar: Rainer Engelken, "Harnessing Neural Dynamics: Principled Algorithms for Efficient AI and Large-Scale Computational Neuroscience"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Ariane Dekker (University of Chicago) "Dark matter insights from the smallest galaxies"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- Everitt Room 2310
BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Rajib Saha Ph.D.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
Mind-Body Techniques: Strategies for Better Sleep

Quality sleep is an essential component of physical and mental well-being. Mind-body practices can be utilized to promote and improve sleep quality. This presentation will provide an overview of sleep biology, the importance of sleep routines, and specific mind-body strategies to enhance sleep.
- Informational
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- HMNTL 3003
Prelim Exam: Furkan Sahbaz
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:30 pm
- NCSA Auditorium
Dave Patterson & Andy Konwinski, "Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 - 5:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 5369
Prelim Exam: Ruiyang Zhao
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Halil Kilicoglu, "Enhancing Rigor and Integrity of Biomedical Research using Natural Language Processing"
- 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
- NCSA Auditorium
Fireside Chat with Andy Konwinski and Pete Sonsini: "My Journey From Research to Startup"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
ECE Explorations (200): Virtual Research Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:30 pm
- Second Floor Ballroom Illini Union 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801
NPRE 2025 Honors Banquet
- Ceremony/Service
- 5:30 - 9:00 pm
- Illini Union Ballroom, 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801
NPRE/ANS Student Chapter 2024 Honors Banquet
- Social/Informal Event
- 7:00 - 8:00 pm
Women in Engineering "Ask Me Anything" Virtual Session with WIE Ambassadors
- Social/Informal Event

Thursday, April 17, 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
- 8:00 am - 4:15 pm
- I Hotel and Conference Center
2025 Illinois Structural Engineering Conference
- Conference/Workshop
- 9:00 - 11:00 am
- John Deere Pavilion, Mechanical Engineering Lab
Final Exam: Amartya Purushottam
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- B02 CSL Auditorum & Zoom
Nishil Talati - ECE Faculty Candidate Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
Physics Careers Seminar: "Anderson Group Careers in Physics Panel"
- Lecture
- 11:00 am
- 1310 DCL
SE 290 - Kevin Quaid
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- LLP 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Vladimir Narovlansky, Princeton
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
Special Seminar: Yichun He, "Advancing Molecular and Functional Understandings of Cells with Multimodal AI"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "Determination of the Magnetic Phase Diagram in 2D Magnet Fe5-xGeTe2 using Cryogenic Lorentz 4D-STEM"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "Spectroscopic investigation of electrocatalytic mechanisms across length scales: Probing surface kinetics and diffusion"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
Investigations in unsteady fluid-structure-control interactions
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- DCL Atrium
ISE Student Celebration & Shark Tank Challenge
- Social/Informal Event
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 1002 Grainger Auditorium
Quantum Low-Density Parity-Check Code Constructions and Decoders
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- Coble Hall, Conference Room 108 -- 801 S. Wright Street
ACDIS: Seminar Series Susan Caskey, Sandia National Laboratories
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- Location TBD
ANS: Presentation from Dr. Garrison
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Undergraduate Physics Seminar: "Student Perceptions of Group Dynamics in Introductory Physics Labs", Caitlin Mamaril

Caitlin is a senior in physics doing physics education research with Dr. Katie Ansell.Her research focuses on group dynamics in introductory physics labs. Her research interests also include understanding attitudes towards STEM, investigating the effect of perceived academic ability on social hierarchies, and studying how academic culture affects student retention.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:00 pm
- I Hotel and Conference Center
ECE Student Awards and Recognition Banquet
- Festival/Celebration
- 6:00 pm
- Alice Campbell Alumni Center
MatSE Awards Ceremony
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, April 18, 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
Last day to withdraw* or drop** a course without a grade of "W".
- Other
- 10:00 - 10:50 am
- 2311 NCEL - Yeh Center
Human-Driven Evolution in Wastewater Treatment Bioreactors
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 - 10:50 am
- 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Zhaosong Lu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
High Energy Physics Seminar - Heliudsen Bernardo (Brown) "Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity: Causality constraints, anomalies, and neutrinos."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other
- 3:00 - 4:30 pm
- 210 Engineering Hall, 1308 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801
Women in Engineering Coffee Chat

Join us over coffee and snacks to connect with women engineering students!
- Social/Informal Event
- 3:00 - 4:30 pm
- 210 Engineering Hall
Women in Engineering Coffee Chat
- Social/Informal Event

Saturday, April 19, 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
- 6:30 pm
- ARC
ANS Ultimate Frisbee with SPS
- Social/Informal Event
- 7:30 pm
- Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
Quantum Voyages
- Ceremony/Service

The Grainger College of Engineering

University of Illinois

306 Engineering Hall MC 266

1308 West Green Street

Urbana, IL 61801

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