Seminars & Speakers

PhD Final Defense – Javier J. García Mainieri

CEEB 2015

Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - Racheff Lecture - "Bringing Materials Fabrication to 21st Century: 3D Nano- and Micro-Architected Materials as Key Enablers for Enhanced Properties, Responsiveness, and Impact Mitigation"

Julia Greer, California Institute of Technology

100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

Final Defense of Neil Tran, "Elucidating Reactivity of Atomically Dispersed Catalysts via Multiscale Modeling: Active Sites, Reaction Mechanisms, and Fluid-Modulated Kinetics"

165 Noyes

Final Exam: Qihao Wang

ZOOM

Theory Seminar: Annie Zeng, "Packing Steiner Forests in Graphs."

Annie Zeng

3401 Siebel Center

Final Exam: Anuj Maheshwari

ECEB 5070

The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, John McGreevy (UC San Diego), "Entanglement Bootstrap and Conformal Field Theory"

John McGreevy

ESB 190

Bridging Physics and AI: Large Language Models for Welding Defect Prediction and Fracture Analysis

Professor Jingjing Li

Room 303, Transportation Bldg. (104 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana)

AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Jacob Rome - In-Space Servicing, Assembly & Manufacturing Snapshots through the Orbital Manufacturing Initiative and the COSMIC Capstone Challenge

CIF 2035

PhD Final Defense – Ahmed Ibrahim

Newmark Quade Conference Room

PhD Final Defense – Sun Young Park

PhD Final Defense – Dachina Gunasekaran

Newmark 2218

Midwest Mechanics Seminar: Fluid mechanics of riblets drag reduction

Professor Daniel Chung, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne

100 Material Science Engineering Building

Soft Materials Seminar - "Leveraging Intermolecular Interactions to Control Actuation of Polymer Fibers"

Montse Solis (Evans)

119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

Soft Materials Seminar

Dhyanesh Baskaran (Wang)

119 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

Prelim Exam: Masa Sakakura

ECEB 5086

IQUIST Seminar: "Entanglement-Enhanced Quantum Measurements and Sensing," Zheshen Zhang, University of Michigan

Speaker: Zheshen Zhang, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan

Zheshen Zhang, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan

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

Final Exam: Zhongweiyang (Alan) Xu

CSL 301

Final Defense of Rajarshi Samajdar, CONFORMATION GOVERNS NANOSCALE ELECTRON TRANSPORT IN BIOMOLECULES AND SYNTHETIC ORGANICS

217 Noyes

Final Defense of Haowei Long, Low-Temperature Anion Exchange Membrane Ammonia Electrolysis for Hydrogen Production

117 Roger Adams Lab

PhD Final Defense – Kunxuan Wang

CEEB 3017

BIOE Seminar Series: Stanley Dicker Professor X. Edward Guo

Stanley Dicker Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Medical Sciences , Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University

Everitt 2310

The Physics Colloquium: The Klaus Schulten Lecture - Elizabeth Villa "Discovering Chimallivirus biology with in-cell cryo-EM"

Elizabeth Villa (University of California San Diego)

Loomis Lab 141

Final Defense of Sonji Lamichhane, "SCREENING AND IMAGING TOOLS FOR DETECTING MAMMALIAN CELL DIFFERENTIATION AND ALGAL BACTERIAL INTERACTION"

433 Roger Adams Lab

PhD Final Defense – Jianan Feng

CEEB 3019

SE 290 - James Muenzenberger

1310 DCL

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Todd Squires, University of California, Santa Barbara, (Host: Prof. Baron Peters) "Driving Particles and Fluids Using Chemical Fluxes"

116 Roger Adams Lab

Hard Materials Seminar - "Calculation of temperature-dependent magneto conductivity of ferromagnetic Fe"

Jinyoung Byun

100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

Hard Materials Seminar - "Heterogeneous Integration of Power Electronics"

Jisung Seo

100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street

Final Exam: Nikita Duggar

HMNTL 1000

AImpact Center Seminar Series: Dr. Alex Moehring, "Designing Human-AI Collaboration: A Sufficient Statistic Approach."

Dr. Alex Moehring

4045 School of Information Sciences

Prelim Exam: Sahil Bhandary Karnoor

CSL 239

FGI Webinar: Lithium Solar Evaporation Pond Geomembrane Durability

In this webinar, Dr. Stark will describe the use of solar evaporation ponds for lithium and other minerals in Chile. In particular, he will focus on geomembrane durability in the harsh desert environment after five years of exposure. Durability was assessed by sampling and testing 45 different factory fabricated panels, including seams, that had been exposed in the desert.

Timothy D. Stark, Ph.D., P.E.

Kent Seminar: Yang Zhou, Texas A&M University

ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866

Final Exam: Arjun Gupta

CSL 301

High Energy Physics Seminar - Ben Hooberman (UIUC)

Ben Hooberman (UIUC)

Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

PhD Final Defense – Casey Rodgers

CEEB 2015

Physics Careers Seminar: "From Condensed Matter Physics to Synthetic Biology"

Dr. Hector Martin, Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

Condensed Matter Seminar - "From quantized transport to advanced sensing: a dual perspective on topological light"

Philippe St-Jean, University of Montreal

ESB 190

MiV Seminar: Woodrow Shew, University of Arkansas - "Origins and functions of the cortical timescale repertoire: a temporal RG approach" - April 10, 2026

4100 LuMEB

ISE Seminar Series - Xian Yu

2079 Natural History Building 1301 West Green Street Urbana, IL 61801

Application of Hydrothermal Technologies for Destruction of Fluorochemical Contaminants and Resource Recovery from Organic Wastes

Recent work at the Colorado School of Mines have shown that highly persistent fluorochemical contaminants, including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) “forever chemicals”, can be mineralized using a hydrothermal alkaline treatment (HALT) process.

Dr. Timothy J. Strathmann, Prof. Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines

2311 NCEL - Yeh Center

Prelim Exam: Sujay Patel

CSL B02

Security & Privacy Seminar Series: Dr. Kexin Pei, "Synthesizing Fine-grained State Checks for Curriculum Fuzzing."

Dr. Kexin Pei

2013 ECEB

Machine Learning Seminar: Dr. Mengfan Xu, "Multi-objective and Multi-agent Perspectives on Bandit Learning."

Dr. Mengfan Xu

1214 Siebel Center

ChBE/OXE Undergraduate Research Symposium

Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

CHBE Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Reception

Levis Faculty Center, Room 300