Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Monday, April 21, 2025

• • All Day
  • HMNTL Conference room 1000

  UAAT/UIUC - semiconductors + quantum international exchange

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Nishil Talati, "Co-Design for the AI Era: From Traditional Systems to Generative AI"

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

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Gil Rafael (California Institute of Technology), "Self-correcting GKP qubit and gates in a driven-dissipative circuit"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Special Careers Event: "A Conversation with Poet Laureate and Engineer Richard Blanco"

  • Lecture
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Xinwei Shen, "Distributional Learning: From Methodology to Applications"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • CIF 2035

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: John Junkins - What does Meryl Streep and Heartbreak Hotel have to do with Computational Methods in Nonlinear Mechanics and Control?

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

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Understanding the Impact of Grain Boundary Inclination on Grain Growth using Modeling and Simulation and Experiments"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 301 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL

  Kent Seminar Distinguished Lecture: Yinhai Wang, University of Washington

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 6:00 pm
  • ECEB 5086

  Prelim Exam: Derek Chaw

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

• • All Day
  • HMNTL Conference room 1000

  UAAT/UIUC - semiconductors + quantum international exchange

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 9:00 am
  • Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, Room 3350

  PhD Final Defense – Paul Gharzouzi

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

  Special Biological Physics Seminar- "Single molecules, imaging, tracking, and the diffraction limit for finite photons."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

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

  IQUIST Seminar: "Engineering (Useful) Trapped-Ion Quantum Technologies", Sara Mouradian, University of Washington

  Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washington

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm

  Title: The X-59: A High-Speed Journey from Finite Element Models to Aeroservoelasticity

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 4:00 pm
  • TBD

  Prelim Exam: Shubhang Bhatnagar

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

  Mechanics of glioma cells and T cells in brain tissue

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

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

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Michael Tonks

  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 - "Cross-shaped patch formation on gold stellated octahedron templates with structural change"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • ECEB 5070

  Prelim Exam: Anuj Maheshwari

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

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Avery Tishue (UIUC) "Fundamental Physics with kSZ Tomography"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion

  Data-driven, Physics-based Modeling of Strongly Nonlinear Mechanical Structures

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

  Distinguished Lecture: Jason Cong, "Efficient LLMs: From Model Innovation to Customized Acceleration"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Ben Hooberman (UIUC), "Tackling climate change with particle physics"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 24, 2025

• • 10:00 - 11:00 am
  • 3019 CEEB-Hydro

  The Evolution of Biofuels Policy From 2005 to the Present and What the Next 20 Years May Bring

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • HMNTL Conference room 1000

  Charge Transport in Doped Conjugated Polymers for Organic Electronics

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Alan Landmann

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • LLP 464

  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Chis Akers (University of Colorado, Boulder), "On the reconstruction map in JT gravity"

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 3:30 - 5:30 pm
  • ECEB 5070

  Prelim Exam: Erkan Bayram

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

  Aerodynamic Design and Analysis of a 20 MW VSVP Horizontal-axis Wind Turbine

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

  Hard Materials Seminar - "On-Demand Control of Single-Molecule Chemistry through Vibrational Characterization and Manipulation"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 25, 2025

• • 9:30 - 11:30 am
  • CSL 301

  Prelim Exam: Neeloy Chakraborty

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

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

  ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Christian Kroer

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Physics Careers Seminar: "One Way to Not Be a Physicist"

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Detection of anyon braiding through pump-probe spectroscopy"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 - 4:00 pm
  • HMNTL 1000

  Prelim Exam: Brendan Wolan

  • Seminar/Symposium