Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Monday, March 31, 2025

- 8:00 am
- CEEB 1017
PhD Final Defense – Adam Sibal
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 117 RAL
FINAL DEFENSE, Jeff Xu, , "Workflows and automated platforms for nanocrystal synthesis, purification, and characterization"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - "Ab-Initio Downfolding for Strongly Correlated Systems: Benchmarks and Applications"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- Newmark 3350
PhD Final Defense – Yun-Chi Yu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Final Exam: Emerson Sie
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Henry Sodano - Precipitation Printing Towards Diverse Materials, Mechanical Tailoring and Functional Devices
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "TOPOLOGICAL STATES IN TWISTED BILAYER TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 1310 Newmark
Rapid damage assessment in structures using cepstral features | Raimondo Betti | Structural Engineering Seminar Series
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:00 8:00 p.m.
- Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center located at 601 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.
CHBE 121 Poster Session

Please join students and faculty at the annual ChBE 121 Poster Session. This event will take place from 6-8 p.m. at the Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. Students in small teams review and prepare a poster describing an Industrial Safety Incident. The posters include details such as an event timeline and immediate and long-term impacts.
- Informational

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Probing Topology and Correlation by Milli-Kelvin Microwave Microscopy", Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin

Speaker: Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 2035 Campus Instructional Facility
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Dr. Andrew Shone

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
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
The Brain in Motion: Measurements of Brain Mechanical Behavior in Vivo by MR Imaging
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

- 10:00 am
Special Seminar: Amir Yazdanbakhsh, "Co-design for Intelligence: Rethinking Abstractions for Scalable and Adaptive Systems"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 321 Gregory Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Vanessa DaSilva, "Selective Deconstruction of Polyethylene to Propylene via Isomerization/Metathesis and 1-hexene Isomerization Studies"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Marc Favata (Montclair State University) "Topics in testing GR"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online
Distinguished Lecture: Masashi Sugiyama, "Towards Reliable Machine Learning from Imperfect Training Data"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 0216
Mina Lee "Writing with AI: Capturing Its Influence, Designing Its Future"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 3, 2025

- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- ECEB 5070
Prelim Exam: Priyash Barya
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 1310 DCL
SE 290 - Jim Haran
- Lecture
- 11:00 am
Special Seminar: Subigya Nepal, "Leveraging Digital Behavioral Signals for AI-powered Mental Health Assessment, Prediction, and Intervention"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:10 am
- Zoom
PhD Final Defense – Tong Liu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
Kent Seminar: Alexandre Alahi, EPFL Switzerland
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 2169-Side Conference Room
Prelim Exam: Yuning Zhao
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- HMNTL 1000
Final Exam: Kevin Pikul
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "Designing and Probing Electronic Correlations in Two Dimensional Quantum Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium
Intercellular Communication: Can It Be Mediated by Electromagnetics?
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2025

- 8:00 am
- CEEB 3017
PhD Final Defense – Denissa Sari Darmawi Purba
- Seminar/Symposium
- All Day
- U of I campus
Engineering Open House
- Exhibition
- 9:00 - 11:00 am
- HMNTL 3005
Final Exam: Hanwool Lee
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:30 am
- Newmark Quade Conference Room
PhD Final Defense – Hossein Kabir
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 - 10:50 am
- 2311 NCEL - Yeh Center
Tracking the spread of antimicrobial resistance and opportunistic pathogens in the environment
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 157 Noyes Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Howard Weatherspoon , "NUCLEATION AND GROWTH: MODELS FOR FACETED AND LAYERED MATERIALS"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 2:00 pm
- ECEB 5070
Final Exam: Robert Kaufman
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Discovery and Defects in Optical and Chiral Quantum Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 - 5:00 pm
- TBD
Final Exam: Shuo Liu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- Newmark 2218
PhD Final Defense – Omobolaji Lawal
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- ESB Lab 3110
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Shivaji Sondhi (Oxford), "Towards a theory of quantum games"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:30 - 5:45 pm
- 217 Noyes Laboratory and 170 Noyes Laboratory (505 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801)
CHBE Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Reception
- Meeting

Saturday, April 5, 2025

- All Day
- U of I campus
Engineering Open House
- Exhibition