Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Monday, April 7, 2025

- 9:00 am
- 117 RAL
FINAL DEFENSE, Dejuante Walker, "Modeling Transport and Dynamics in Redox Active Polymer Solutions for Flow Battery Applications"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
Special Seminar: Jiayuan Mao, "Learning, Reasoning, and Planning with Neuro-Symbolic Concepts"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Hydro-Systems Laboratory, Room CEE 3019
PhD Final Defense – Zahra Heydari
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Siebel 3401
Theory Seminar: Billy Jin, "Advice-Augmented Algorithms for Online Matching and Resource Allocation"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Eun Ah Kim, "Non-Abelian anyons on synthetic platforms"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Xin Bing, "Learning Large Softmax Mixtures with Warm Start EM"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker Jason Patrick: Self-healing and Self-sensing in Structural Composites
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 1310 Newmark
Assessment & Repair of Fire Damage | Ray Drexler | Structural Engineering Seminar Series
- 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

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- CSL 141
Prelim Exam: Mahmoud Khalil
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "On the Extended Church-Turing Thesis, Quantum Mechanics, and Beyond, Bill Fefferman, University of Chicago

Speaker: Bill Fefferman, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- ECEB 5070
Prelim Exam: Temitope Amuda
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
FGI Webinar: Geosynthetic Covers to Reduce Leachate Generation and Costs

This webinar will describe the use of cover systems over wastes and leachate lagoons to reduce leachate generation and costs. In particular, if rain/clean water falls on wastes or a leachate lagoon, it becomes contaminated and must be treated. Covering wastes or a lagoon prevents fresh water from becoming leachate thus dramatically reducing the cost and amount of water tha
- Professional Development
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. James Moon, University of Michigan, "Engineering Strategies to Modulate the Immune System" (host: Joon Kong)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Victoria Kriuchkovskaia, "HYDROGEL PLATFORM TO INVESTIGATE PROGRESSION OF DRUG-RESISTANT GLIOBLASTOMA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Laboratory X-ray measurements in solid mechanics: any new insights?
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 2035 Campus Instructional Facility
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Suneet Singh

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 - MRS, no seminar
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- MNTL 1000
Final Exam: Zhuoran Han
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
Special Seminar: Kazuki Irie, "Rethinking Memory & Learning, from Artificial to Natural Intelligence and Back"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Final Exam: Hanchen Ye
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:30 - 3:30 pm
- 4269 Beckman Institute
Prelim Exam: Mick Gardner
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- 1027 Lincoln Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Dongyu Fan, "3D Tracking of Solute Dynamics in Heterogeneous Polymer Networks"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- CEEB 3017
PhD Final Defense – Jenni Nugent
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online
Distinguished Lecture: James Mickens, "Allow Me To Transfer Part Of My Genius To You While Still Keeping Some Of It For Myself So That I Can Defeat You If Necessary"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Andreas Hoecker (CERN), "Physics at the high-energy frontier — Deciphering the Higgs sector"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

- 8:00 am
- Newmark Quade Conference Room
PhD Final Defense – Jesus Osorio
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:00 am
- CEEB 3019
PhD Final Defense – Mahmoud A. Mahrous
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
- 319 Gregory Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Tianhao Xu, "Harnessing AI/ML for Advancing Synthetic Biology"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- ECEB 5070
Final Exam: Charles Ross
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 1310 DCL
SE 290 - Edward Hightower
- Lecture
- 1:30 - 3:30 pm
- ECEB & Zoom
Final Exam: Haotian Chen
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 5:30 pm Reception Following
- Civil and Environmental Engineering Building, Room 1017
Keeping Urbana-Champaign Resilient Together: A Dialogue Between Community Leaders, Civil & Environmental Engineers, and Scientists
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
Kent Seminar: Bo Zou, University of Illinois Chicago
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Siebel 3102
CS Compiler Seminar: Abdul Rafae Noor, "MISAAL: Synthesis-Based Automatic Generation of Efficient and Retargetable Semantics-Driven Optimizations"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium
From Strings to Cells: The Evolution of Power Electronics for Home Energy Systems
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - Spring MRS, no colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 11, 2025

- All Day
- Civil and Environmental Engineering Building and Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory
30th Environmental Engineering & Science Annual Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
FINAL DEFENSE, Nayeong Kim, "INTEGRATION OF REDOX-ELECTROSORPTION AND REDOX-ELECTRODIALYSIS FOR WATER REMEDIATION, WASTE VALORIZATION, AND ORGANIC SPECIES SEPARATIONS""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 - 10:50 am
- 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Manxi Wu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- CSL B02
Final Exam: Kayvon Mazooji
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 464 Loomis
High Energy Physics Seminar - Qianshu Lu (IAS) "The Quality/Cosmology Tension for a Post-Inflation QCD Axion"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Nonlinear Coupled Magnonics"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 117 RAL
FINAL DEFENSE, Devinda Wijewardena, "INSIGHTS INTO BACK-STEPS AND CARGO DOMAIN ROTATIONS OF KINESIN MOTILITY WITH MINFLUX"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
MiV Seminar: Jakob Arend - "Full-stack support for high-performance neural experimentation"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, April 12, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Room 1013, ECE Building, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61820
Saturday Engineering for Everyone: Quantum Steampunk - The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow, Nicole Yunger Halper, University of Maryland

Speaker: Nicole Yunger Halpern, University of Maryland
- Lecture