Grainger College of Engineering, All Events

Sunday, November 17, 2024

- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center for Computer Science
Illinois CS Girls Who Code Club
- Meeting
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center for Computer Science
Illinois CS Sunday Coding Studio
- Meeting
- 2:30 pm
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
Circus Embodiments: From Science to Spirituality
- Conference/Workshop

Monday, November 18, 2024

- All Day
- Illini Union Room 335 (3rd floor, north side of the building, door is next to the vending machines)
FREE student professional headshot!
- Informational
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- ECEB 5070
Final Exam: Thomas Reboli
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
- Siebel 3401
THEORY SEMINAR: Jamie Tucker-Foltz, "Sampling tree-weighted balanced graph partitions in polynomial time"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: "Implications of band topology on strongly correlated phases: nonlocal moments and Mott semimetals"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- 4070 ECEB
ECE – 590 I POWER & ENERGY SYSTEMS SEMINAR
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Michael Loui, "My Career in Computing: From Complexity Theory to Education Research"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Campus Instructional Facility 2035
AE 590 Seminar speaker: Erasmo Pinero/A Look Back at V/STOL Pioneers, and What Can We Learn from Them: Case Studies.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Pushing Atoms by Picometers in Low Dimensional Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 1310 Yeh Student Center
Predictive maintenance modelling and optimization for manufacturing systems | Phuc Do | Structural Engineering Seminar Series
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 464
Theoretical Minimum Seminar: "Topology and Condensed Matter"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- Beckman Institute Room 2269
2025 Community-Academic Scholars Student Information Session

During the info session we will discuss the program and application process, share a couple of past projects, talk about how scholars will be matched with research projects, and three 2024 scholars will share their experience in the program.
- Informational
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- 220 Talbot Laboratory
ANS Outreach Meeting
- Social/Informal Event
- 6:30 - 8:30 pm
- 220 Talbot Laboratory
WiN ANS GSAC Friendsgiving
- Social/Informal Event

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

- 10:00 am
- 208 MRL
Final Defense: "Battery interfaces in the face of machine learning and AI"
- Other
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Making and measuring quantum matters - some new spins," Yong Chen, Purdue University

Speaker: Yong Chen, Professor, Purdue University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
FGI Webinar: Liner Systems for Heap Leach Pads/Piles

This presentation will include bottom liner system design and slope analyses at different stages of construction and operation of heap leach pads. It will also include geomembrane selection, process quality control, and construction and operation troubleshooting of heap leach pads. 1.0 PDH
- Professional Development
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- Beckman 4369 - Side Conference Room
Prelim Exam: YiRang Shin
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Cynthia Reinhart-King, Vanderbilt University, "The Mechanometabolism of Metastatic Cell Migration: The Role of Energetics and Cellular Force in Driving Motion" (host: Leckband)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 2100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building, 1206 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Xiaoyuan Lou

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
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar - "A structural-ionizable lipid for enhanced cuboplex gene delivery"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar - "Biomimetic Membranes: Integrating Polymer-Peptide Block Copolymers Within Phospholipid Bilayers"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Vanishing interfaces: clean and contaminated
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

- All Day
- Illini Union Room 335 (3rd floor, north side of the building, door is next to the vending machines)
FREE student professional headshot!
- Informational
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- CSL 368
Prelim Exam: Raj Velicheti
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Itamar Allali (Brown University) "Constraints on Light Species from DESI 2024: Neutrinos, Dark Radiation, and the Hubble Tension"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- Everitt Laboratory 2310
Distinguished BIOE 500 Seminar Speaker - Pinaki Sarder
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 - 4:00 pm
- 1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science
Director of Graduate Studies Office Hours
- Ceremony/Service
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science
Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies
- Meeting
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: "Dark-Matter Challenges of the Solid State"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Coordinated Science Laboratory, 1308 W Main St, Urbana IL 61801
Shivan Mittal, University of Texas-Austin -"How does connectivity in random circuits affect convergence to Haar Measure"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 1002 Grainger Auditorium, ECEB
ECE Explorations (200): Milwaukee Tool: A Technology Company
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:00 - 8:00 pm
- Credo | 360 Pine Street, San Francisco
Grainger Engineering Regional Event

Join us in San Francisco in November!
- Reception/Open House

Thursday, November 21, 2024

- 11:00 am
- 114 TB
SE 290 - Justin Aronson
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
Physics Careers Seminar: "The Traveling Salesman Solution"
- Lecture
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- HMNTL 1000
Final Exam: Weihua Shi
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Rui Wang, University of California Berkeley, "Theory for Inhomogeneous Polyelectrolytes and Its Applications to Biomacromolecules" (hosts: Sing, Diao)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Engineering Materials with Enhanced Performance: a Metallurgist's Perspective
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 - 5:00 pm
- CSL 221
Prelim Exam: Akhil Bhimaraju
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "Excitations in oxides: from bits to qubits"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Modeling, Realization and Control of Living Creatures, Machines and Materials
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- ECEB Atrium
WECE with Therapy Dogs
- Social/Informal Event
- 5:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Undergraduate Physics Seminar: "Winter Spaces and Quantum Error Correction," Tushar Mohan
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:30 - 7:30 pm
- 200 South Wacker Drive, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606
After Hours in Chicago
- Social/Informal Event
- 7:00 - 8:00 pm
- Ceramic's Basement
WiN x WIMATSE Clay Event
- Other

Friday, November 22, 2024

- 10:00 - 10:50 am
- 2311 NCEL - Yeh Center
Biofilm Engineering for Environmental Sustainability

In this presentation, I will discuss our recent work on biofilm biology-informed biofilm engineering, specifically, exploring interactions between biofilms and environmental contaminants such as nitrate, arsenic, and plastic in aquatic environments.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Room 464
High Energy Physics Seminar - Qianshu Lu (Institute for Advanced Study) - "The Quality/Cosmology Tension for a Post-Inflation QCD Axion"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- CEEB 1017
PhD Final Defense – Anshu Abhinav
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 pm
- 2320 Digital Computer Lab
Collins Scholars Sessions
- Conference/Workshop
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Journeys in quantum magnets, from nodal lines to chiral stripes"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- CSL Studio 1232
ROBOTICS SEMINAR: Siyi Xu, "Electrical actuation and control of soft fluidic robots: towards wearable and implantable soft robotic systems for daily purposes"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Towards Code-Aware Code Models
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory Room 3218
PhD Final Defense – Josiane Jello
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 23, 2024

- 8:30 am
Fall break begins
- Ceremony/Service