Engineering Seminars Test Calendar 2.10

Monday, October 6, 2025

- 9:00 am
- Discovery Partners Institute (DPI), 200 S. Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL
Gul Agha Festschrift Symposium

Join us for a symposium honoring the groundbreaking career of Professor Gul Agha.
- Festival/Celebration
- 9:00 - 10:30 am
- 2102 Siebel Center for Computer Science
Sandia Open Office Hours
- Informational
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Zohar Nussinov (WashU), "Inhomogeneous phases and glasses- a many-body perspective"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Coordinated Science Lab 1308 W Main st, Urbana, 61801 CSL B02
Prof. Ketan Rajawat & Prof. Indranil Saha - AI Research and Education at IIT Kanpur
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Derek Attig - Networking Strategies for Graduate Students.
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

- 9:00 am
- Discovery Partners Institute (DPI), 200 S. Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL
Gul Agha Festschrift Symposium

Join us for a symposium honoring the groundbreaking career of Professor Gul Agha.
- Festival/Celebration
- 9:30 am
- MRI Exhibit
New-to-Beckman tour

Come find out more about the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology! Learn about the barrier-busting interdisciplinary research facility and community of innovation. First Thursday of the month from 9:30-10 a.m.
- Informational
- 10:00 - 10:30 am
- Beckman Institute Center Atrium
Gather in the Garden

Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Gather in the Garden will take place every Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.
- Social/Informal Event
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum computing and simulation with multimode superconducting random-access memories," Srivatsan Chakram, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University

Speaker: Srivatsan Chakram, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center for Computer Science Atrium
ServiceNow Lobby Day
- Informational
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB Lab 3110
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Bruno Uchoa (University of Oklahoma), "Quantum geometry in flat bands"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Dr. Shailendra Bordawekar, AbbVie (host: Paul Kenis)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm 10/07/2025
- Chem Annex 1024
Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, "Exploring and Engineering Iron Enzymes", Professor Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran, University of Minnesota
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
Dark Energy Dynamics, Spatial Curvature, Neither, or Both?
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Junya Li/Martinez Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Polarization of Thermal Emission from Micro/Nanostructured Materials
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Unraveling the Circuit Logic of Neuropeptide Signaling," by Sung Han, Associate Professor, Clayton Foundation Laboratory for Peptide Biology, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- 280 MRL
Final Defense - Jarom Sederholm, SUSTAINABLE BATTERY ENGINEERING: SINGLE-STEP BATTERY RECYCLING, BATTERY MODELING, AND BATTERY ELECTROLYTE ANALYSIS
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Andrew Riley / Brieher Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower
Yoga at Beckman

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
- Health/Fitness
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
Prof. Oleg Prezhdo, University of New Mexico, "Quantum Dynamics in Optoelectronic Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium Eric Kuo (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) “Developing the Skills and Mindsets for Future Success Through Physics Education”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:30 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
ServiceNow Tech Talk
- Informational

Thursday, October 9, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
Emma Guo CHEM 575 Seminar "CRISPR - inspired Strategies for RNA - Protein Interactome Investigation"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
Frank Zhang CHEM 575 Seminar: Bioremediation 3.0: A Brave New Paradigm
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Erin Ratcliff, Georgia Institute of Technology (host: Ying Diao) "Soft PhotoElectroChemical Systems for Energy Conversion and Storage"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- CLSL B102
Prof. Erik Lindahl, Stockholm University, "Structure and mechanisms of subtype-specific binding and allosteric modulation in GABAA receptors"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications Auditorium
Student Startup to Top-Tier VC Funded Company
- Informational
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 4401 Siebel School
CS CARES Coffee Social
- Social/Informal Event
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Kimberly Seed, University of California - Berkeley -- "Fighting with phages: how Vibrio cholerae defends against viral attack"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 7:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE590 Seminar: Toward predictive models for gas phase phenomena in hypersonic flows
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 10, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Arnold Mathijssen (University of Pennsylvania) - "Rheotaxis: Invasion of bacteria swimming upstream into microstructured devices
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Observation of constructive interference at the edge of quantum ergodicity"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Rong Ma (Harvard University) "Modern Nonlinear Embedding Methods Unpacked: Empowering Biological Discoveries with Statistical Insights"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other
- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
Literature Seminar, "Advanced Methods for the Detection of Potential Bioterrorism Agent Ricin”, Tyler Bechard
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
Literature Seminar, “Fast and Reliable Analytical Tools for Drug Detection in Time Sensitive Forensic Toxicology”, Zayne Carney
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm CST
- ECEB 3015
IEEE Trivia Night
- Social/Informal Event