Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Monday, April 14, 2025

• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Ananya Bhattarcharjee, "Adaptive Narrative Interventions for Supporting Wellbeing"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Rishabh Iyer, "Performance Interfaces for Systems Software and Hardware"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • Siebel 3401

  THEORY SEMINAR: Kabir Tomer, "Towards (Quantum) Cryptography from #P-hardness"

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

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Trithep Devakul (Stanford University), "Emergent phases of interacting electrons in dispersive bands with Berry curvature."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • Zoom

  PhD Final Defense – Junren Wang

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Rex (Zhitao) Ying, "A Riemannian Geometry Perspective on Foundation Models"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center

  Rex Ying "A Riemannian Geometry Perspective on Foundation Models"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Warren Dixon - Lyapunov-based Deep Learning Methods

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

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Entrepreneurship at Illinois: Cultivating a Pillar of Competitive Advantage"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

• • 10:00 am
  • The Rhondale Tso Seminar Room Loomis 236

  Special Biological Physics Seminar-Hyun Youk "Slowed or Suspended Lives of Cells"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Yasra Chandio, "System Signals to Felt Experience: Designing Human-Centered Mixed Reality"

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

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sijin Li, Cornell University, "An Integrated Synthetic Biology Pipeline to Understand and Harness Plant Specialized Metabolism" (host: Huimin Zhao)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CSL 141

  Prelim Exam: Seo Taek Kong

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

  Designing Redox-Flow Batteries for Renewable Energy Storage and CO2 Capture

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 2035 Campus Instructional Facility

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Dr. Jhansi Kandasamy

  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 - "Accelerated Design of Epoxy-Based Nanocomposites"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

• 

  • 10:00 - 10:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Special Seminar: "Light, Silicon, and Steel: PsiQuantum's Path to Utility-Scale, Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing, Aaron Fluitt, Senior Director of Technology Partnerships, PsiQuantum

  Speaker: Aaron Fluitt, Senior Director of Technology Partnerships, PsiQuantum

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Beckman Institute 4369

  Prelim Exam: Wen Jin

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Rainer Engelken, "Harnessing Neural Dynamics: Principled Algorithms for Efficient AI and Large-Scale Computational Neuroscience"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Ariane Dekker (University of Chicago) "Dark matter insights from the smallest galaxies"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 4:00 pm
  • HMNTL 3003

  Prelim Exam: Furkan Sahbaz

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:30 pm
  • NCSA Auditorium

  Dave Patterson & Andy Konwinski, "Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Beckman Institute 5369

  Prelim Exam: Ruiyang Zhao

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Halil Kilicoglu, "Enhancing Rigor and Integrity of Biomedical Research using Natural Language Processing"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • NCSA Auditorium

  Fireside Chat with Andy Konwinski and Pete Sonsini: "My Journey From Research to Startup"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 17, 2025

• • 8:00 am - 4:15 pm
  • I Hotel and Conference Center

  2025 Illinois Structural Engineering Conference

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 9:00 - 11:00 am
  • John Deere Pavilion, Mechanical Engineering Lab

  Final Exam: Amartya Purushottam

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Physics Careers Seminar: "Anderson Group Careers in Physics Panel"

  • Lecture
• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Kevin Quaid

  • Lecture
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866

  Kent Seminar: Mani Golparvar-Fard, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 pm

  Special Seminar: Yichun He, "Advancing Molecular and Functional Understandings of Cells with Multimodal AI"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Room 3102 (Siebel)

  CS Compiler Seminar: Brant Qian, "Floating-Point TVPI Abstract Domain"

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

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Determination of the Magnetic Phase Diagram in 2D Magnet Fe5-xGeTe2 using Cryogenic Lorentz 4D-STEM"

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

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Spectroscopic investigation of electrocatalytic mechanisms across length scales: Probing surface kinetics and diffusion"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm

  Investigations in unsteady fluid-structure-control interactions

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1002 Grainger Auditorium

  Quantum Low-Density Parity-Check Code Constructions and Decoders

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 18, 2025

• • 9:30 am - 6:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Fractional Chern Insulators Workshop - 2025

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 - 10:50 am
  • 2311 NCEL - Yeh Center

  Human-Driven Evolution in Wastewater Treatment Bioreactors

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

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

  ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Zhaosong Lu

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

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Heliudsen Bernardo (Brown) "Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity: Causality constraints, anomalies, and neutrinos."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  MiV Seminar: Seung Kim - "In vitro living neurons for computation through dynamic control and reservoir computing"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, April 19, 2025

• • 9:30 am - 6:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Fractional Chern Insulators Workshop - 2025

  • Seminar/Symposium