Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Monday, March 10, 2025

• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • BI 4269

  Final Exam: Jenna Cario

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Chang Xiao, "Bridging the Physical-Digital Divide with Tangible, Ambient and Context-Aware Interaction"

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

  Theory Seminar: Fernando Granha Jeronimo, "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Expanders in Coding Theory"

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

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - "Bootstrapping thermal equilibrium"

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

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Marcus Hermann - Modeling phase interfaces undergoing atomization in turbulent flows using Large Eddy Simulation

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

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Bioelectronics to Probe Brain-Body Physiology"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 1310 Newmark

  Shape Memory Alloy Structures: Modeling, Simulation, and Experiments | Chad Landis | Structural Engineering Seminar Series

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

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

  IQUIST Seminar: "Approximate Unitary k-Designs from Shallow, Low-Communication Circuits", Nicholas LaRacuente, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University - Bloomington

  Speaker: Nicholas LaRacuente, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University - Bloomington

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

  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Christian Petrie

  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 - "Factors affecting endocytosis of cargo bound to metabolically engineered cells"

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

  Soft Materials Seminar - "Interfacial liquid structure at heterogeneous interfaces"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Dominic Kao, "Virtual Futures: Exploring the Horizon"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Eve Vavagiakis (Duke University) "A new generation of millimeter and submillimeter observations for cosmology and astrophysics"

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

  Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 13, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 1310 DCL

  SE 290 - Stephanie Ziegle

  • Lecture
• • 12:00 - 2:00 pm

  Final Exam: Justin Wasserman

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

  CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Mark Swihart, University at Buffalo, "A Non-equilibrium Flame Aerosol Process to Create High-entropy Nanomaterials" (co-hosts: Hong Yang, Paul Kenis)

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

  Kent Seminar: Michael Levin, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

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

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Attempts to Stabilize the Cathode-Electrolyte Interface in Solid-State Batteries"

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

  Hard Materials Seminar - "Defect Chemistry of Y2+xRu2-xO7-δ Pyrochlore: An Acid-Stable Catalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER)"

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

  Meta-imaging of Textures and Tissues

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 14, 2025

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

  ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Hamid Norasi and Susan Hallbeck

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • LLP 464

  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Special Seminar: "TQFT gravity and ensemble holography"

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

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Universal Features of Emergent Electronic Fractals in Quantum Materials"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm   12:00 PM
  • CSL Studio Room 1232

  Robotics Seminar: Dave Cappelleri, "Microrobotics to Agricultural Robots: Robots at Different Length-Scales Interacting with the Environment"

  • Seminar/Symposium