Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Monday, October 6, 2025

• • 10:00 am
  • 3401 Siebel Center

  Theory Seminar: Soumik Ghosh, "Peaked quantum advantage using error correction."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Zohar Nussinov (WashU), "Inhomogeneous phases and glasses- a many-body perspective"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Derek Attig - Networking Strategies for Graduate Students.

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 1310 Yeh Student Center, 205 N Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL

  Scarce data approaches to transfer knowledge across disparate domains: a study in extrapolation via machine learning | Stephanie G. Paal | Structural Engineering Seminar Series

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
  • 0216 Siebel Center

  Computing Startup Seminar Series: Vijay Chander

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

  IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum computing and simulation with multimode superconducting random-access memories," Srivatsan Chakram, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University

  Speaker: Srivatsan Chakram, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB Lab 3110

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Bruno Uchoa (University of Oklahoma), "Quantum geometry in flat bands"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Dr. Shailendra Bordawekar, AbbVie (host: Paul Kenis)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center

  CAP Seminar: Dr. Brandon Reagen, "Towards Practical Cryptographic Computing."

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 1306 Everitt Laboratory

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Prof. Ling-Jian Meng

  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

  Polarization of Thermal Emission from Micro/Nanostructured Materials

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

  Soft Materials Seminar - "Toward computationally-guided design of frontally-polymerized materials with self-organizing capabilities: Linking molecular thermodynamics to emergent behavior"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • 280 MRL

  Final Defense - Jarom Sederholm, SUSTAINABLE BATTERY ENGINEERING: SINGLE-STEP BATTERY RECYCLING, BATTERY MODELING, AND BATTERY ELECTROLYTE ANALYSIS

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am
  • Siebel Center 2405

  Physics-guided mmWave/sub-THz Wireless Systems: From Energy-Aware PHY Layer to Exotic Beam Shaping

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Hao-Jui Kuan (UIUC) "Tidal resonance: Nonlinearities revealed by numerical relativity"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • 1304 Siebel Center

  Human-Computer Interaction Lightning Talks

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium Eric Kuo (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) “Developing the Skills and Mindsets for Future Success Through Physics Education”

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 9, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 114 Transportation Building

  Engineering in Residence Seminar (SE 290) - Deborah Mrazek

  • Lecture
• • 2:00 pm
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Erin Ratcliff, Georgia Institute of Technology (host: Ying Diao) "Soft PhotoElectroChemical Systems for Energy Conversion and Storage"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866

  Kent Seminar: Paulo Pereirinha, Polytechnic of Coimbra / INESC Coimbra

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 2244 Siebel Center

  Computer Vision Seminar Series: Jieneng Chen, "Towards Generative Worlds for Deeper Reasoning and Informed Embodiment."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 3102 Siebel Center

  CS Compiler Seminar: Arya Vohra & Leo Seojun Lee, "Mind the Abstraction Gap: Bringing Equality Saturation to Real-World ML Compilers."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 3102 Siebel Center

  CS Compiler Seminar: Avaljot Singh, "Automated Verification of Soundness of DNN Certifiers."

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

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Oxygen Stoichiometry Insights in Fe-Doped SrTiO₃ from Chemical Capacitance"

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

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Synthesis and optical quantum memory characterization of α-Eu(IO3)3, β-Eu(IO3)3, and NaEu(IO3)4"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center

  IMMERSE Seminar Series: Dr. Katryna Starks, "The PLAYlab: Games and Interactive Research for Social Good."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 - 7:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE590 Seminar: Toward predictive models for gas phase phenomena in hypersonic flows

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 10, 2025

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

  ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Mohsen Jafari

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Xiaojun Yao (University of Washington) "Quantum Computing of Real-Time Correlators in 2+1D SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory"

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

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Observation of constructive interference at the edge of quantum ergodicity"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm

  Robotics Seminar: Dr. Farshid Alambeigi, "Surgineering Using Intelligent and Flexible Robotic Systems."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).

  STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Rong Ma (Harvard University) "Modern Nonlinear Embedding Methods Unpacked: Empowering Biological Discoveries with Statistical Insights"

  • Seminar/Symposium