Engineering Seminars Test Calendar 2.10

Monday, April 21, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Gil Rafael (California Institute of Technology), "Self-correcting GKP qubit and gates in a driven-dissipative circuit"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Saireet Misra/Belmont Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Pallob Barai/Chen Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: John Junkins - What does Meryl Streep and Heartbreak Hotel have to do with Computational Methods in Nonlinear Mechanics and Control?
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 7:00 pm
- Illini Union, South Lounge, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana
Luminous: An Evening of Poetry & Prose With National Poet-Engineer Richard Blanco and Physicist-Artist Smitha Vishveshwara

A book reading & signing featuring two art-science creators, with special guests. Richard Blanco, national poet laureate, will read from "Homeland of My Body." Artist-Physicist Smitha Vishveshwara will read from "Two Revolutions: Einstein’s Relativity and Quantum Physics." Books available for purchase. Light refreshments served. Free and open to all.
- Other

Tuesday, April 22, 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
- 10:00 am
- The Rhondale Tso Seminar Room Loomis 236
Special Biological Physics Seminar- "Single molecules, imaging, tracking, and the diffraction limit for finite photons."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Engineering (Useful) Trapped-Ion Quantum Technologies", Sara Mouradian, University of Washington

Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
Title: The X-59: A High-Speed Journey from Finite Element Models to Aeroservoelasticity
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 - 3:30 pm
- Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Jack D'Amelio , UIUC, "Capturing Crystallinity over Length and Time Scales"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Emerging Leaders Seminar: Professor Xavier Roy, Columbia University, "Quantum complexity in simple materials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
Dust in Supernovae, Galaxies and its Implications for Cosmology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- **Beckman Institute 5602**
"Cognitive Modes Detectable by fMRI," by Todd S. Woodward, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Mechanics of glioma cells and T cells in brain tissue
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Hunter Cobbley/Vanderpool Lab and Abigail Finn/Whitaker Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion
Data-driven, Physics-based Modeling of Strongly Nonlinear Mechanical Structures
- 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
- Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
Prof. Daniel Tabor, Texas A&M University, "Accelerating the Computational Design of Functional Organic Molecules and Polymers"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online
Distinguished Lecture: Jason Cong, "Efficient LLMs: From Model Innovation to Customized Acceleration"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Ben Hooberman (UIUC), "Tackling climate change with particle physics"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Xinyi Dai (Shapiro Lab) - "How FDA-approved Drug, Aprepitant, Induces Immunogenic Death of Cancer Cells"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 24, 2025

- 11:00 am
- HMNTL 1000
INVITED LECTURE: Charge Transport in Doped Conjugated Polymers for Organic Electronics
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- LLP 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Chis Akers (University of Colorado, Boulder), "On the reconstruction map in JT gravity"
- Ceremony/Service
- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Materials Chemistry Seminar, "Molecular Approaches to Advancing 2D Conductive MOFs for Tailored Properties and Applications", Dr. Jihye Park, University of Colorado Boulder
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Medical Sciences Bldg 274
Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. Wayne M. Yokoyama (Washington University Medical Center), “Challenging the Current Paradigms to Explain Autoimmunity: The HLA-B27 Story.”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Aerodynamic Design and Analysis of a 20 MW VSVP Horizontal-axis Wind Turbine
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, Stanford University: "Shaping the Future Shapers"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 25, 2025

- 9:00 am
- Third-floor tower room, 3269
Mission-Critical Work Discussion

Join Beckman's leadership team to ask questions about its financial plans during challenging times.
- Informational
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Frank McCormick, PhD, FRS, DSc (Hon) (University of California San Fransisco), "Remarkable progress in treating KRAS cancers"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
Distinguished Alumni Panel and Lunch

Join us for pizza and a Q&A with distinguished school alumni!
- Informational
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Detection of anyon braiding through pump-probe spectroscopy"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 1024 CHEM ANNEX
Materials Chemistry Seminar, Designed Synthesis and Assembly of Inorganic Nanomaterials for Hydrogen Production and Utilization, Prof. Taeghwan Hyeon (Seoul National University, South Korea)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Beckman Institute Room 3269 (3rd floor tower room)
STC for Quantitative Cell Biology Seminar: Yingjie Zhang

The STC for Quantitative Cell Biology Seminar Series continues with Yingjie Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and QCB Faculty, will lecture on "Mid-Infrared Spectromicroscopy of Living Cells"
- Lecture
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other
- 3:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium
Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar of Special Interest Guest Speaker: Dr. Noriko Saitoh
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- RAL 116
Professor Anna Wuttig, University of Chicago, "Electrocatalytic Synthesis with Interfacial Control"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:00 pm
- Illini Union, Illini Room
2025 Celebration of Excellence

This event honors Siebel School of Computing and Data Science students, faculty, staff, and alumni for their outstanding accomplishments of the past year.
- Ceremony/Service