Grainger College of Engineering Seminars & Speakers

Monday, November 3, 2025

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  Final Exam: Hieu Hoang

  9:00 - 11:00 am

  CSL 141

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Theory Seminar: Dr. Daniel Alabi, "Existence of Error-Correcting Codes Imply Privacy Lower Bounds."

  10:00 - 11:00 am

  3401 Siebel Center

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Prelim Exam: Christopher Lee

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Yves Kwan (Dallas), "Strongly-correlated topological phenomena in graphene multilayers"

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Final Exam: Rajat Chakraborty

  3:00 - 5:00 pm

  MNTL 3005

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  COLLOQUIUM: Sarah Lawsky, "Formalization and Rule-Intensive Law"

  3:30 pm

  HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Octree Discretizations, Neural Geometric Representations, and Immersed Approaches for Scalable PDE Solvers | Baskar Ganapathysubramanian | Structural Engineering Seminar Series

  4:00 pm

  1310 Yeh Student Center, 205 N Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

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  Computing Startup Seminar Series: Prof. Mariana Silva, CEO, PrairieLearn

  11:00 am - 12:15 pm

  0216 Siebel Center (with refreshments!)

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  IQUIST Seminar: "The Quantum Intranet", Wolfgang Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Speaker: Wolfgang Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - Eytan Grosfeld (Ben Gurion University, Israel), "Shining Light on Bose-Hubbard Models: From Equilibrium Theory to Exotic Steady States"

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  ESB Lab 3110

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Prelim Exam: Weiman Yan

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  CSL 419

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Prof. Daniel Andruczyk

  4:00 - 4:50 pm

  1306 Everitt Laboratory

  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
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  Variational phase-field modeling of fracture: toward second-generation models

  4:00 pm

  4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

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  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Isaac Legred (UIUC) "Connecting Compact Binaries to Dense Matter"

  11:00 am

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  The Physics Colloquium "Quantum Voyages, Cosmic Journeys: Our Shared Stories" (2025 AIP Andrew Gemant Award)

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 6, 2025

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  PhD Final Defense – Shiyu Shen

  9:00 am

  Newmark Quade Conference Room

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Prelim Exam: Andre Schreiber

  9:00 - 11:00 am

  CSL 301

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  PhD Final Defense – Sagnik Paul

  10:00 am

  Newmark 3019

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Engineering in Residence Seminar (SE 290) - Jeff Mikulina

  11:00 am

  114 Transportation Building

  • Lecture
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  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Luca Delacrétaz (U.Chicago), "Quantum Nonlinear Bosonization of Fermi surfaces"

  1:00 - 2:00 pm

  Loomis 464

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Kent Seminar: Stefan Tongur, Electreon

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  CS Compiler Seminar: Dr. Keshav Pingali, "A Graphical Model for Context-Free Grammar Parsing."

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  3102 Siebel Center

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Hard Materials Seminar - "Plasma Assisted Surface Modification of Cathode Materials for High Voltage Lithium-ion Batteries"

  4:00 pm

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Hard Materials Seminar - "Structural characterization of interfacial liquid at Cu-aqueous electrolyte interfaces"

  4:00 pm

  100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  The challenge of invasive fish in streams: some lessons from laboratory experiments

  4:00 pm

  4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 7, 2025

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  ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Carla Michini

  10:00 - 10:50 am

  1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  High Energy Physics Seminar - Reza Ebadi (University of Maryland) "Probing Ultralight Dark Matter with Rydberg Atoms and Electro-Optics"

  11:00 am

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Professor Kunal Mukherjee, Stanford

  11:00 am

  HMNTL 1000

  • Ceremony/Service
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  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Exploring Ultrafast Collective Dynamics of Emergent Materials"

  1:00 pm

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Jeff Nivala (University of Washington) “TBA”

  2:00 pm

  3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).

  • Seminar/Symposium