Grainger College of Engineering, All Events

Sunday, March 23, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event

Monday, March 24, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 7:00 am

  Instruction resumes

  • Other
• • 10:00 - 11:00 am
  • B02 CSL Auditorum & Zoom

  Baharan Mirzasoleiman Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Ben Wieder, "Topological Superconductor Hierarchies from Superconducting Space Groups and Charge-Resolved Topology"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm

  Final Defense of Jianing Zhou

  • Other
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Makoto Yamada, "Approximating the 1-Wasserstein Distance: Applications in Self-Supervised Learning and Beyond"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - No Colloquium

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Auditorium

  Soo Distinguished Lecture: Evaporation Peculiarities: Photomolecular Effect and Evaporative Refrigeration Effect

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Everitt 2101

  ANS General Meeting

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 5:30 - 6:30 pm
  • 101A Talbot Lab

  WiN Week: Constellation Speaker

  • Social/Informal Event

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 8:00 - 10:00 am
  • HMNTL 1000

  Final Exam: Amr Ghoname

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: "Towards properties-on-demand in quantum materials", Richard Averitt, University of California, San Diego

  Speaker: Richard Averitt, Professor, University of California, San Diego

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
  • Everitt Room 2310

  BIOE Special Seminar - Dr. Stephanie Willerth Ph.D, P.Eng, FCSSE, FBSE

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • Siebel Center 4407

  Final Defense of Liia Butler

  • Other
• • 1:00 pm
  • CEEB 3017

  PhD Final Defense — Yifei Zong

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Wei Ku, "Universal low-temperature fluctuation of unconventional superconductors revealed"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • CSL469B

  Final Defense of Tzu-Bin Yan

  • Other
• • 4:00 pm
  • 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  Meshless Continuum Modeling of Dry and Wet Granular Media

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 2035 Campus Instructional Facility

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Arif Masud

  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 - TMS, no seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 7:00 pm   8:00 pm
  • Bevier Hall, Room 180

  Blink Systems Speaker Event – ECE Innovators in Robotics & Accessibility

  Valuable insights for ECE students interested in robotics, AI-driven manufacturing, and biomedical innovation.

  • Lecture

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 8:30 am - 12:00 pm

  UIUC/TAU Joint Virtual Workshop on Engineering and Medicine

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • ECEB 5070

  Prelim Exam: Stephen Messing

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Shirley Xue, "Reimagining Wearable Sensing for Health"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois

  Food For Thought: Fahad Mahmood and Peter Fritzsche

  • Lecture
• • 12:00 pm
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Biwei Dai (Princeton, IAS) “Deep Generative Models for Bayesian Inference in Astrophysics”

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
  • Everitt Room 2310

  BIOE 500 Distinguished Seminar Series - Savas Tay

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 12:00 pm

  Boosting Immunity: The Benefits of Physical Activity

  Discover how physical activity strengthens your body's natural defenses. Explore how staying active boosts your immune system, prevents chronic illnesses, and promotes overall well-being. This session is perfect for anyone looking to enhance their health and vitality through movement.

  • Informational
• • 3:30 pm
  • NCSA auditorium and online

  The Utpal Banerjee Distinguished Lecture in High Performance Computing: Charles Leiserson, "Setting a Course for Post-Moore Software Performance"

  • 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
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: "Open Questions on the Dynamics of Black Holes"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
  • 1002 Grainger Auditorium, ECEB

  ECE Explorations (200): ECE Student Advancement Committee (ECESAC) Town Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 5:30 - 7:30 pm
  • Noyes 157

  WiN Week: Prof. Roy Paint

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 6:00 - 7:00 pm
  • 220 Talbot Lounge

  ANS Conference Info Sessions

  • Other

Thursday, March 27, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 8:30 am - 12:00 pm

  UIUC/TAU Joint Virtual Workshop on Engineering and Medicine

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 9:00 - 11:00 am
  • ECEB 5070

  Final Exam: Juhitha Konduru

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Gene Kiesel

  • Lecture
• • 11:30 am
  • Siebel Center 3102

  Final Defense of Kathleen Isenegger

  • Other
• • 3:00 - 4:30 pm
  • John Deere Pavilion (MEL 2005), 105 South Mathews Avenue , Urbana, IL 61801

  International Coffee & Tea Hour (EISP x WIE)

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 3:00 - 4:30 pm
  • John Deere Pavillion (MEL 2005)

  International Coffee & Tea Hours

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Investigating the Effects of Local Environment on Nitrogen Vacancies in High Entropy Metal Nitrides"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium

  High Performance Integrated Photonics based on Thin Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
  • Coble Hall, Conference Room 108 -- 801 S. Wright Street

  ACDIS: Seminar Series -Amanda Hurley

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:30 - 6:30 pm
  • 220 Talbot Lab

  WiN Elections

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 6:00 pm
  • Campus Instructional Facility

  Illinois Design Challenge 2025

  • Other
• • 7:00 - 8:00 pm
  • 220 Talbot Lounge

  ANS Conference Info Sessions

  • Other

Friday, March 28, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 6:00 pm
  • Campus Instructional Facility

  Illinois Design Challenge 2025

  • Other
• • 9:00 - 11:00 am
  • ECEB 5070

  Final Exam: Sasha Yamada

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 - 10:50 am
  • 2311 NCEL - Yeh Center

  Enhancing Struvite Recovery Systems through Top-Down Machine Learning Based Prediction Models

  Phosphorus (P) recovery through struvite crystallization in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is essential for sustainable nutrient management. However, facilities like the Nine Springs Wastewater Treatment Plant (NS WWTP) face inefficiencies in P removal, excessive chemical usage, and inconsistent nutrient recovery, leading to higher costs and operational challenges.

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • CSL 114

  Final Exam: Vishal Rana

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 10:00 - 10:50 am
  • 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801

  ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Luze Xu

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Kitaev spin model, disguised Ising chain, and beyond"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 - 2:00 pm
  • 3002 Electrical and Computer Engineering Building, 306 N Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801

  Women in Engineering Admitted Student Luncheon

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 2:00 pm

  Final Defense of Fan Wu

  • Other
• • 2:00 - 4:00 pm
  • HMNTL 1000

  Final Exam: Yu-Chieh Chiu

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:15 - 3:00 pm
  • Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

  Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

  • Other

Saturday, March 29, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
  • Talbot Laboratory

  ANS Shadow an Engineer

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 6:00 pm
  • Campus Instructional Facility

  Illinois Design Challenge 2025

  • Other
• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Lobby, ECE Building, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61820

  Saturday Engineering for Everyone: Women in Engineering Fair

  • Reception/Open House
• • All Day
  • 220 Talbot Lounge

  ANS Elections 2025-2026 Board Deadline

  • Social/Informal Event