Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Monday, October 20, 2025

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  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 seminar: Cheol Park - Multifunctional Structural Materials for Sustainable Aviation and Space Exploration in Extreme Aerospace Environments

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

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "A View From the Interface: Particle Incorpation During Crystallization"

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

  Re-imagining Human Health Monitoring through Structural Vibrations with Physics-Informed Machine Learning | Yiwen Dong | Structural Engineering Seminar Series

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

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

  Computing Startup Seminar Series: Svetlana Vranic-Sowers

  • 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 trajectories and stochastic excursions of thermal machines," Gabriel Landi, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester

  Speaker: Gabriel Landi, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester

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

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Ariel Furst, MIT (host: Paul Kenis)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  Breaking waves: the dynamics of droplets and the effects of surfactants

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

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Prof. Indrajit Charit

  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
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  Soft Materials Seminar - "How biophysical properties of endosomal membranes affect the endosomal escape"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 7:00 pm

  M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering Leadership Informational Webinar

  • Webinar

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

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

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Jay Kalinani (UIUC) "Towards end-to-end modelling of jets from binary neutron star mergers"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Jason Xinyi Liu, "Robotic Language Grounding"

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

  Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Dr. Pedro Lopes, "Integrating Interactive Devices with the User's Body."

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

  The Physics Colloquium McMillan Award: Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in twisted MoTe₂: discovery and recent advances

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 23, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 114 Transportation Building

  Engineering in Residence Seminar (SE 290) - Jeff Lee

  • Lecture
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm

  FGI Webinar: Ballasting and Protection of Exposed and Covered Geomembrane Lining Systems

  Exposed and covered geomembrane liner systems are subjected to wind uplift, hydrostatic uplift, gas generation and erosive / external forces that need to be assessed for long term resistance to site and environmental conditions but that are not often addressed during the design and construction phase.

  • Professional Development
• • 1:00 - 2:00 pm
  • Loomis 464

  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Jinwei Chu (U Chicago), "A new approach to small black holes in string theory"

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

  Kent Seminar: Giorgio Rizzoni, The Ohio State University

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

  CS Compiler Seminar: Adharsh Kamath and Jai Arora

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

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Emulating 2D Materials with Spin Waves"

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

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Irradiation Response of Dilute Ni–Zr Alloys: Insights into Phase Stability"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • 163 Noyes Lab

  "The Realities of a Practicing Data Scientist", Alix Schmidt, Sr Data Scientist Dow Chemical, Core R&D Information Research

  • Informational

Friday, October 24, 2025

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

  ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Spyros Reveliotis

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

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Oz Amram (Fermilab) "AI, Anomaly Detection and the Search for the Unknown at CMS"

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

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Mikael Backlund, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium