Test Master Calendar (OCR)

Monday, October 13, 2025

- 8:30 am
PhD Final Defense – Ruolin Zhang
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 - 11:00 am
- 3401 Siebel Center
Theory Seminar: Nikhil Shagrithaya, "Probabilistic Guarantees to Explicit Constructions: Local Properties of Linear Codes."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- MRL 280
MRSEC Grad students and Postdocs Monthly Meeting

Monthly MRSEC Grad students & postdocs meeting.
- Social/Informal Event
- 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
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 1038 CIF
TEC Programs Office Hours
- Other
- 2:00 - 3:20 pm
- 317 David Kinley Hall
Mechanism Design for Personalized Policy: A Field Experiment Incentivizing Exercise
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- CIF 2035
AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Tamer Zaki - Turbulence From an Observer Perspective
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "The Search for Accurate Predictors of Grain Growth"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:00 - 7:00 pm
- Sidney Lu 2055
ANS General Meeting
- Social/Informal Event

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 am - 12:15 pm
- 0216 Siebel Center
Computing Startup Seminar Series: Sudip Chakrabarti
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- iSchool MPR, 4th Floor - iSchool - 614 E. Daniel St.
The Second Impression: Follow-Up That Feels Human

Join us at the iSchool on Tuesday, October 14th, from 12:00 to 1 PM at the iSchool for "The Second Impression: Follow-Up That Feels Human."
- Professional Development
- 12:30 - 1:30 pm
- 1038 CIF
TEC Academics Open Office Hour
- Other
- 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
- Beckman Institute 1005
"Hippocampal engrams regulating fear memory," by Steve Maren, Director, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- 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 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Isabelle Lakis/Heath Lab and Megan Ringling/Blanke Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 141 Loomis Laboratory Of Physics
NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Prof. Joseph D. Smith

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
- 4:00 pm
- 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Printer 3D Microelectronics: Process Development, Materials Science, and Devices Applications
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar - "Peptide-polymer amphiphiles meet lipid membranes: A morphological analysis of thermally actuated dynamic hybrid systems"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Soft Materials Seminar - "Recyclable by Design: Additive Manufacturing of Thermosets via Frontal Polymerization"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- Coble Hall, Conference Room 108 -- 801 S. Wright Street
ACDIS: Seminar Series - Andrew Nelson, Sandia National Laboratory - Principal Member of Technical Staff
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- Coble Hall, Conference Room 108 -- 801 S. Wright Street
ACDIS: Seminar Series - Deli Yang, Jeremiah Sullivan Fellowship Awardee, PhD program in Political Scienc
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- 220 Talbot Lounge
ANS Project Development Meeting
- Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

- 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
- Main Quad
WiN Flower Sale
- Community Service
- 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 - 1:00 pm
- 1038 CIF
TEC Programs Office Hours
- Other
- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- W109 - Turner Hall
"Underground connections: microbial interactions in US farming systems" with Dr. M. Soledad Benitez Ponce
- 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
- O'Leary Learning Center
Coffee and Conversation
- Social/Informal Event
- 2:00 - 3:20 pm
- 317 David Kinley Hall
"Not Incentivizes Yet Efficient: Working From Home in the Public Sector"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1304 Siebel Center
Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Ali Cem Kaynak, "Usability Problems in the digital application process for subsidized student loans in Germany."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
PEEC Seminar - Dr. John J. Wiens, University of Arizona, "The Origins and Future of Global Biodiversity"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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
- 4:00 pm
- 116 RAL
Yuwei Pan (Zhao Lab) - “Development of a new refactoring strategy for large complex natural product biosynthetic gene clusters.”
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 16, 2025

- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Coordinated Science Lab 239
Prelim Exam: Rajalaxmi Rajagopalan
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 114 Transportation Building
Engineering in Residence Seminar (SE 290) - Toni Baumann
- Lecture
- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
MIP Seminar Student Seminar: Lucy Liu (Christian-Hinman Lab) & Gabe McKenna (Tsai Lab) "TBA"
- 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
- 2:00 - 3:20 pm
- 317 David Kinley Hall
Coordinating the Behavior of Imperfectly-Informed Teammates: The Case for Single Standards
- 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
- 3:30 pm
- 106B1 Engineering Hall
Statistics Seminar - Yuqi Gu, Columbia University
- Ceremony/Service
- 3:30 - 4:30 pm
- 1038 CIF
TEC Programs Office Hours
- Other
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
CBI-TG Seminar: Petra Levin, Washington University St. Louis -- Trainee Host: Rodrigo Arana Garrido/Mera Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 4401 Siebel School
CS CARES Coffee Social
- Social/Informal Event
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 3102 Siebel Center
CS Compiler Seminar: Marvin Massey, "LLM-Vectorizer: LLM-Based Verified Loop Vectorizer."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "Plastic Localization Behavior in Ferritic-Martensitic Steels"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Hard Materials Seminar - "Three-dimensional Fourier Transform Infrared Microscope"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- CIF 3039
The Artemis Program – NASA’s Return to the Moon
- Lecture
- 7:00 - 8:30 pm
- 3025 Campus Instructional Facilty
Patents and Trademarks Info Night

Take advantage of this opportunity to get FREE patent and trademark assistance!
- Conference/Workshop

Friday, October 17, 2025

- 9:00 am
- 2004, NHB
EEB Colloquium: Tandy Warnow, EEB Affiliate, “TIPP3: a new method for abundance profiling of microbiomes”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:00 am
- 3100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building
Interfacial Stress Balances Across Scales: Thin-Film Stability and Pulmonary Surfactant
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 - 10:50 am
- 1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Myrtede Alfred
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 4124 Siebel Center
DAIS Distinguished Alumni Seminar: Dr. Jiaming Shen, "Identifying and Incentivizing Grounded Natural Language Generation.""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
High Energy Physics Seminar - Robert McGehee (University of Minnesota)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:30 am
- Newmark 2312
PhD Final Defense – Binxin Fu
- 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
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign
Champaign Blockchain Meetup - October

This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive
Startup Launch Series: Building a Successful Founder-Investor Partnership with Dennis Beard

Join us on Friday, October 17 from 12 to 1 PM at EnterpriseWorks for Building a Successful Founder-Investor Partnership with Dennis Beard.
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 1038 CIF
TEC Programs Office Hours
- Other
- 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

- 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
Science at the Market: Carl Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
- Community Service
- 9:30 - 10:30 am
Cancer Research Advocacy Group Online Seminar

Save the date for a webinar focused on navigating mental health during a cancer diagnosis.
- Webinar
- 9:30 am
- University of Illinois Golf Course - 800 Hartwell Drive Savoy, IL 61874
Veterinary Medical Alumni Association Golf Outing
- Other
- 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