Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Monday, April 28, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • Siebel 3401

  THEORY SEMINAR: Zhengcheng Huang, "Faster Algorithms for Reverse Shortest Path in Unit-Disk Graphs and Related Geometric Optimization Problems: Improving the Shrink-and-Bifurcate Technique"

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

  Special Condensed Matter Special Seminar - "Tracing light: on Linear and Nonlinear Terahertz Polaritonics in Quantum Paraelectrics"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
  • Loomis 464

  Special Biological Physics Seminar- "Chaotic worms: from the dynamics of animal behavior towards a physics of complex, evolved systems"

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

  COLLOQUIUM: Umang Mathur, “ Equivalences for Causal Concurrency”

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

  AE 590 Seminar Speaker Mykel Kochenderfer: Automated Decision Making for Safety Critical Applications

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

  Current Trends in Performance Based Wind and Seismic Design for Tall Buildings | Jeff Dragovich | Structural Engineering Seminar Series

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

  Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "From large to small: Nanoscale Processes in Energy Storage Systems"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • CSL 141

  Prelim Exam: Rakibul Islam

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

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

  IQUIST Seminar: "Below Threshold Quantum Error Correction", Alexandre Bourassa, Google Quantum AI

  Speaker: Alexandre Bourassa, Senior Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:30 - 2:30 pm
  • ECEB 5070

  Prelim Exam: Gabriel Muniz Negron

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

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Subroto Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore), Electron hydrodynamics: "Strong violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law and vortical effects"

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

  A Soft Material Paradigm To Address Energy-Water Nexus Challenges

  • 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 - "MatSE Community Town Hall"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

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

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Lizhong Zhang (Flatiron Institute) "Modeling Black Hole Accretion with Radiation GRMHD: A Parameter Survey and Connection to Observations"

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

  Physics Colloquium: Fahad Mahmood (UIUC), "Seeing the World in a Grain of Sand, and Eternity in a Picosecond – Urbana style!"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 - 7:00 pm
  • CSL 141

  Prelim Exam: Abhi Kamboj

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 1, 2025

• • 9:00 - 11:00 am
  • ECEB TBA

  Prelim Exam: Zhongmin Zhu

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • ECEB 5086

  Prelim Exam: Sangrui Luo

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

  SE 290 - Aakrit Vaish

  • Lecture
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium

  Architectures and Topologies for High-Frequency, High-Density Power Conversion

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

  Hard Materials Seminar - no seminar

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

  Harnessing Fluid Mechanics for Single-Cell Manipulation in Personalized Medicine

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 6:00 pm
  • HMNTL 2003

  Prelim Exam: He Lin Zhao

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 2, 2025

• 

  • 8:30 am - 6:00 pm
  • Illini Union- Room 103 and 104

  2nd Annual ISE Student Conference

  • Conference/Workshop
• 

  • 10:00 - 10:50 am
  • 2311 NCEL - Yeh Center

  Innovative Mineral–Hydrogel Composites for Effective Nutrient Removal to Reduce Harmful Algal Blooms and to Upcycle Nutrients

  Harmful algal blooms pose significant threats to industries such as fisheries and tourism and also impact public health through the production of cyanobacterial toxins. To address the escalating concerns associated with HABs, we have developed novel calcium alginate hydrogel composites seeded with various minerals to effectively remove and recover phosphorus and nitrogen.

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

  Physics-Guided Machine Learning for Acoustic and Spectral Imaging

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:30 pm
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Physics Careers Seminar: "The Start of a Career at a National Lab"

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Bonds and Bands"

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

  MiV Seminar: Ki Yun Lee and Saeduur Rahman - "Characterization of in vitro neuron behavior for biological computing"

  • Seminar/Symposium