Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

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
- 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

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
- 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

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

- 9:00 am
- HMNTL 1000
Vacuum Science and Thin Film Deposition

Wednesday, October 15 9am - 4pm » Day 1 - Vacuum Science » Vacuum Fundamentals » Vacuum Pumps » Pressure Measurement » Vacuum System Characterization » Cleaning for Vacuum Service Thursday, October 16 9am - 4pm » Day 2 - Thin Film Deposition » Electron Beam Evaporation » Sputtering by DC, Pulsed Dc, RF and HiPIMS » Atomic Layer Deposition/Atomic Layer Etch
- Informational
- 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
- 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

Thursday, October 16, 2025

- 9:00 am
- HMNTL 1000
Vacuum Science and Thin Film Deposition

Wednesday, October 15 9am - 4pm » Day 1 - Vacuum Science » Vacuum Fundamentals » Vacuum Pumps » Pressure Measurement » Vacuum System Characterization » Cleaning for Vacuum Service Thursday, October 16 9am - 4pm » Day 2 - Thin Film Deposition » Electron Beam Evaporation » Sputtering by DC, Pulsed Dc, RF and HiPIMS » Atomic Layer Deposition/Atomic Layer Etch
- 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
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
Kent Seminar: Marta Gonzalez, University of California, Berkeley
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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

Friday, October 17, 2025

- 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
- 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
- 4:00 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
MiV Seminar: Arvind Ramanathan, Argonne National Lab - "Autonomous Laboratory for Accelerating Biotherapeutic Discovery"
- Seminar/Symposium