Engineering Seminars Test Calendar 2.10

Monday, April 28, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Shreyasi Neogi/Belmont Lab
- 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
- 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
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine Lecture: Dr. Daniel Pippel, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, "The Role of “Discovery Process Research” in Acceleration of New Medicines at Johnson & Johnson"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine Lecture: Professor Christo S. Sevov, Ohio State University, "Electrochemical Methods for C-C and C-X Bond-Forming Reactions"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

- 10:00 - 10:30 am
- Beckman Institute Center Atrium
Gather in the Garden

All are welcome to join our weekly 10-10:30 a.m. Tuesday gather in the atrium sessions. Please feel free to bring your own favorite beverage and enjoy the company!
- Social/Informal Event
- 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
- 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
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Professor Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran, University of Minnesota, (TBD) (I)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
Quest for the Most Distant Universe – Today and Beyond
- 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 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Aniritha Ramalingam Balasubramanian/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Yishue Jiang/Sirk Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:50 pm
- 2036 Campus Instructional Facility
Women in Engineering Social Craft
- Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

- 10:00 - 11:00 am
- B02 CSL Auditorum & Zoom
Dr. Carmelo Sferrazza ECE Faculty Candidate Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Craig Alexander Mackinnon
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower
Yoga at Beckman

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this spring 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
ISTC Webinar | Emerging Environmental Exposures and Cancer: The Case for Hydraulic Fracturing and Hormone Disruptors
- Webinar
- 3:00 - 5:00 pm
- 105 Noyes Laboratory
SCS Academic Advising and Career Services Open House
- Reception/Open House
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Janhavi Borkar (Nair Lab) - "Mechanism of ATP-dependent phosphonate ester formation"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Katrine Dailey (Wu Lab) - "TBA"
- 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
- 4:00 - 4:45 pm
Tower Research Capital Information Session
- Informational

Thursday, May 1, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Distinguished Inorganic Lecture: Professor Jonas Peter, California Institute of Technology, (TBD) (I)
- 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 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Klas Udekwu, University of Idaho -- "Dissecting 'function' in microbial communities"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 2, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion
Physics-Guided Machine Learning for Acoustic and Spectral Imaging
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Bonds and Bands"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 3110 ESB
Thesis Defense: "A New Fixed Point for Mottness"
- Lecture
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102
2025 Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor Emily A. Carter, Princeton University, "Carbon Dioxide Conversion for a Sustainable Future: Research and Policy"
- Lecture