Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Monday, May 5, 2025

• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • CSL 301

  Prelim Exam: Kaiwen Cao

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Sarah Sterman, "Designing for Ways and Whys: Transforming Process into a Material for Creative Reflection"

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

  Theory Seminar: Euiwoong Lee, "Theory and applications of complete Min-CSPs: A case study in Correlation Clustering"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2124 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

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

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Preslav Nakov, “ Towards Truly Open, Language-Specific, Safe, Factual, and Specialized Large Language Models”

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

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - Racheff student awardees

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

• • 9:00 am
  • 1306 Everitt Laboratory

  FINAL DEFENSE, Kyle Benjamin Timmer, "Development of Multicompartment Biomaterials to Modulate Cellular Environments for Improved Tendon-to-Bone Rotator Cuff Repair"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:30 am
  • Siebel Center 201 N Goodwin Ave- Room 3401

  Chengpeng Wang- Title: Neuro-Symbolic Static Analysis for Reliable Software Systems

  • Lecture
• 

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

  IQUIST Seminar: "Overview of learning and Testing Stabilizer States", Srinivasan Arunachalam, IBM

  Speaker: Srinivasan Arunachalam, IBM

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

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Emily Davidson, Princeton University, (host: Ying Diao)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 4:50 pm
  • 2035 Campus Instructional Facility

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Senior Design Presentations

  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 - Electrical actuation and control of soft fluidic robots: towards wearable and implantable soft robotic systems for daily purposes

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Fengyuan Zhu, "Navigating the Future of Extended Reality: Overcoming Barriers and Unleashing Potential in Cross-Device Integration"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Special Seminar - "Quantum Computation using Majorana-Based Topological Qubits"

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Ilan Shomorony, "An Information Theory for Out-of-Order Information: Applications in DNA Data Storage and Genomics"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 3:30 pm
  • Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 0216

  Haoqi Zhang "Computational Ecosystems: Tech-enabled Communities to Advance Human Values"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 8, 2025

• • 3:00 pm

  Special Seminar: Noman Bashir, "Rethinking Systems Design for Reliable and Sustainable Computing in a Constrained World"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 9, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • Supercon 1002

  Condensed Matter Special Seminar - Michael Manley (Oak Ridge), "Phason Dominated Thermal Conductivity in an Incommensurate Crystal""

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
  • NCSA-2000

  Prelim Exam: Tingkai Liu

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 8:00 pm
  • Analog Wind Library, 129 N Race St. Urbana, IL

  Mind in Vitro featured in Art of Science show: "Aerenchyma"

  • Exhibition