BW Users at UoI

Monday, October 13, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Yin-Chen He (Stonybrook), "A Fuzzy Sphere Journey: from 3D Ising to Chern-Simons-matter CFT "
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Lunch with CNRG: Biocluster

"Biocluster" Dan Davidson Director of CNRG and Research Computing
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

- 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: "Broadband quantum-limited amplification and near-ultrastrong nonlinear light-matter coupling with superconducting circuits", Kevin O'Brien, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Speaker: Kevin O'Brien, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:30 am - 12:00 pm
- Beckman Institute Center Atrium
Visit with Therapy Dog K9 ROSIE
- Social/Informal Event
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 3110
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - Darius Shi (Stanford)), "Chiral superconductivity from non-Abelian anyon fluids"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Nitash Balsara, University of California, Berkeley "Movement of Polymer Molecules under Electric Fields and Relevance to Rechargeable Batteries" (host: Damien Guironnet)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- TBD
Inorganic Seminar, "Iron Carbenes for Olefin Metathesis", Professor Vlad Iluc, University of Notre Dame
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 2079 NHB
Seminar Speaker: Professor Alex Haberlie, Northern Illinois University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Laboratory of Physics, Room 141
ChBE/NPRE Presents-Prof. Jospeh D. Smith, Missouri University of Science and Technology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave, 116 RAL
Kameron Wildeman CHEM 535 Seminar "Going Sub-Stoichiometric: The Evolution of Samarium(II) Catalysis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Printer 3D Microelectronics: Process Development, Materials Science, and Devices Applications
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame) "Interpreting the observables and multi messenger signals of r-process nucleosynthesis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Aggregation and division aberrations in model archaeon lacking its S-layer

"Aggregation and division aberrations in model archaeon lacking its S-layer" Abigail Finn, PhD Candidate Microbiology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- Everitt 1306
BIOE Seminar Series: Assistant Professor Boxuan Zhao
- 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
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium Peter Abbamonte (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) "Conformal Invariance in Strange Metals" TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 16, 2025

- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Coordinated Science Lab 239
Prelim Exam: Rajalaxmi Rajagopalan
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
Johnny Bajko CHEM 575 Seminar "Expanding Proximity Proteomics: From nanometer-Scale Mapping to Multicellular Interfaces"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
Natalie King CHEM 575 Seminar "Engineering Diazotrophs: Harnessing Bacteria for Sustainable Nitrogen Supply in Cereal Crops"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Pratik Rath (UC Berkeley), "A Black Hole Airy Tail"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- Beckman 3169
Prelim Exam: Mingrui Liu
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- Atrium
Cookie Collab

Join other members of the Beckman community for coffee and cookies in the Beckman Atrium. The Cookie Collab is scheduled for 3 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month.
- Social/Informal Event
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 4401 Siebel School
CS CARES Coffee Social
- Social/Informal Event
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- CIF 3039
The Artemis Program – NASA’s Return to the Moon
- Lecture

Friday, October 17, 2025

- 9:00 am
- 3100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Interfacial Stress Balances Across Scales: Thin-Film Stability and Pulmonary Surfactant
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:45 am - 1:00 pm
- Engineering Quad
BIOE Bags & Hot Dogs for CCFD on the Quad
- Social/Informal Event
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ian Wilson (The Scripps Research Institute) - "From antibodies to small molecules: structure-based design of novel therapeutic candidates to influenza virus"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Atom-by-atom characterization of 2D materials with electron ptychography"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Jamie Williamson (Scripps Research) “Structure and Dynamic Analysis of Bacterial Ribosome Assembly in Cells.”
- 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, TBD, Nina Wang
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, October 18, 2025

- 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
- Lincoln Square Mall, 201 Lincoln Square, Urbana, IL 61801
Genome Day

Join us for a fun day of hands-on science! Talk with scientists and explore exhibits and activities including learning how organisms relate to each other on the Tree of Life, extracting strawberry DNA to make necklaces, and understanding how genomics pervades every aspect of our daily lives. Although designed for K-12 children, all members of the community are welcome.
- Festival/Celebration