Materials Research Laboratory

Monday, November 10, 2025

Monthly MRSEC Grad students and Postdocs Meeting

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

MRL 280

Monthly MRSEC Grad students and Postdocs meeting.
- Social/Informal Event
Final Defense: Thompson, Gunnar - " Advancing Techniques for Engineered Tissue Models of the Bone Marrow"

1:00 - 1:50 pm

157 Noyes Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
*CANCELED* Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Jeffery W. Kelly, Scripps Research Institute, "The Scientific Origins of Drugs that Slow Neurodegeneration and the Pharmacological Future of Treating Dementias"

4:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

IQUIST Seminar: "Hidden time-reversal symmetry in dissipative quantum systems: from exact solutions to engineering many-body entanglement," Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

11:00 - 11:50 am

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
- Seminar/Symposium
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Justin Notestein, Northwestern University, (co-hosts: Chris Rao, Paul Kenis) "Selective Oxidations and Oxygenate Production over Nanostructured and Well-Defined Oxide Catalysts"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Inorganic Seminar, "Heavy Elements in Nature: From Waste Management to Precision Medicine", Professor Rebecca Abergel, University of California, Berkeley

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Santiago Vargas-Daniels, Anderson Group

11:00 - 11:50 am

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Santiago Vargas-Daniels, Anderson Group
- Seminar/Symposium
CHEM 545 Practice Seminars

2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 pm

Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
- Seminar/Symposium
FINAL DEFENSE: Zhengyi Bian "From Purification, Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Carbon Dots to Synthesis Modeling and AI-assisted Spectral Data Extraction" Advisor: Stephan Link

3:30 pm

Everett Lab 3100
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium "Gravitational Wave Detection in Space"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 13, 2025

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Jovan Kamcev, University of Michigan (host: Xiao Su) "Controlling the Selectivity of Charged Polymer Membranes"

2:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
Cookies & Coffee Hour

2:30 - 3:30 pm

MRL 280

Cookies & Coffee Hour by I-MRSEC & IQUIST. Please come and have some cookies, coffee and good conversation.
- Social/Informal Event
Materials Literature Seminar, “Photocatalytic Degradation of Forever Chemicals”, Julia Koldobskiy

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium
Materials Literature Seminar, "Soft by Nature, Smart by Design: Tuning the Properties of PEDOT:PSS- based Conductive Hydrogels for Future Bioelectronics", Sonam Rani

3:30 pm

Chem Annex 1024
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 14, 2025

Final Defense Jiankai Ge "Kinetic Modeling Frameworks for the Chemical Recycling of Polyolefins"

12:00 pm

116 Roger Adams Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
*CANCELLED* - Condensed Matter Seminar - James, McIver, Columbia University

1:00 pm

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium
STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Rohit Pappu (Washington University) "Complex phase behaviors of RNA binding proteins."

2:00 pm

3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
- Seminar/Symposium