Seminars & Speakers

Special Biological Physics Seminar-Hyun Youk "Slowed or Suspended Lives of Cells"

Hyun Youk, University of Massachusetts

The Rhondale Tso Seminar Room Loomis 236

Special Seminar: Yasra Chandio, "System Signals to Felt Experience: Designing Human-Centered Mixed Reality"

https://illinois.zoom.us/j/88199799900?pwd=I3wRViAILdEd8yj7O5AoFBhnpDXuPa.1

CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sijin Li, Cornell University, "An Integrated Synthetic Biology Pipeline to Understand and Harness Plant Specialized Metabolism" (host: Huimin Zhao)

116 Roger Adams Lab

Soft Materials Seminar - "Accelerated Design of Epoxy-Based Nanocomposites"

Dr. Daniel Krogstad, Principal Research Scientist at the Applied Research Institute, UIUC

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

Designing Redox-Flow Batteries for Renewable Energy Storage and CO2 Capture

Professor David Kwabi, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University

4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

IQUIST Seminar: "Floquet Topology and Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Quantum Matter", Babak Seradjeh, Professor of Physics, Indiana University

Speaker: "Floquet Topology and Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Quantum Matter", Babak Seradjeh, Professor of Physics, Indiana University

"Floquet Topology and Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Quantum Matter", Babak Seradjeh, Professor of Physics, Indiana University

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

NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Dr. Jhansi Kandasamy

Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

Jhansi Kandasamy Vice President of Regulatory and External Affairs, The Nuclear Company

2035 Campus Instructional Facility

Prelim Exam: Seo Taek Kong

CSL 141

Special Seminar: Rainer Engelken, "Harnessing Neural Dynamics: Principled Algorithms for Efficient AI and Large-Scale Computational Neuroscience"

https://illinois.zoom.us/j/87649116180?pwd=AdizgS8nu1IxjsU3jD8XHfjhItx3Tg.1

Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Ariane Dekker (University of Chicago) "Dark matter insights from the smallest galaxies"

Ariane Dekker, University of Chicago, KICP

Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

Dave Patterson & Andy Konwinski, "Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives"

NCSA Auditorium

COLLOQUIUM: Halil Kilicoglu, "Enhancing Rigor and Integrity of Biomedical Research using Natural Language Processing"

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Fireside Chat with Andy Konwinski and Pete Sonsini: "My Journey From Research to Startup"

NCSA Auditorium

IQUIST Special Seminar: "Light, Silicon, and Steel: PsiQuantum's Path to Utility-Scale, Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing, Aaron Fluitt, Senior Director of Technology Partnerships, PsiQuantum

Speaker: Aaron Fluitt, Senior Director of Technology Partnerships, PsiQuantum

Speaker: Aaron Fluitt, Senior Director of Technology Partnerships, PsiQuantum

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

Prelim Exam: Wen Jin

Beckman Institute 4369

Prelim Exam: Furkan Sahbaz

HMNTL 3003

Prelim Exam: Ruiyang Zhao

Beckman Institute 5369

SE 290 - Kevin Quaid

1310 DCL

Physics Careers Seminar: "Anderson Group Careers in Physics Panel"

Anderson Group Panel

204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Vladimir Narovlansky, Princeton

Vladimir Narovlansky

LLP 464

Special Seminar: Yichun He, "Advancing Molecular and Functional Understandings of Cells with Multimodal AI"

https://illinois.zoom.us/j/82722806480?pwd=yvf5z5FEirtMNS8hWby15xzBFiTBx5.1

Hard Materials Seminar - "Spectroscopic investigation of electrocatalytic mechanisms across length scales: Probing surface kinetics and diffusion"

Jae Kim

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

Hard Materials Seminar - "Determination of the Magnetic Phase Diagram in 2D Magnet Fe5-xGeTe2 using Cryogenic Lorentz 4D-STEM"

Haoyang Ni

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

Investigations in unsteady fluid-structure-control interactions

Professor Matteo Aureli, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Nevada, Reno

https://illinois.zoom.us/j/81298736844?pwd=pRQdug0McWcaP4DaJ1lHtArTXi5wUm.1 Meeting ID: 812 9873 6844 Password: 699465

Final Exam: Amartya Purushottam

John Deere Pavilion, Mechanical Engineering Lab

Kent Seminar: Mani Golparvar-Fard, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

ICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866

2025 Illinois Structural Engineering Conference

I Hotel and Conference Center

Quantum Low-Density Parity-Check Code Constructions and Decoders

Henry Pfister, Ph.D. - Duke University

1002 Grainger Auditorium

High Energy Physics Seminar - Heliudsen Bernardo (Brown) "Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity: Causality constraints, anomalies, and neutrinos."

Heliudsen Bernardo (Brown)

Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

MiV Seminar: Xiaotian Zhang - topic TBD

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

ISE Graduate Seminar Series- Zhaosong Lu

1310 DCL - 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801

Human-Driven Evolution in Wastewater Treatment Bioreactors

Masaru K. Nobu, PhD, Senior Researcher, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

2311 NCEL - Yeh Center

Special Seminar: Nishil Talati, "Co-Design for the AI Era: From Traditional Systems to Generative AI"

https://illinois.zoom.us/j/88181700267?pwd=sTbTte6jTSBllXABlNlcxNbCqnbZKb.1

Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Gil Rafael, California Institute of Technology

Gil Refael, California Institute of Technology

ESB 190

COLLOQUIUM: Xinwei Shen, "Distributional Learning: From Methodology to Applications"

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Understanding the Impact of Grain Boundary Inclination on Grain Growth using Modeling and Simulation and Experiments"

Prof. Michael Tonks

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

AE 590 Seminar Speaker: John Junkins - What does Meryl Streep and Heartbreak Hotel have to do with Computational Methods in Nonlinear Mechanics and Control?

CIF 2035

Kent Seminar Distinguished Lecture: Yinhai Wang, University of Washington

301 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL

Prelim Exam: Derek Chaw

ECEB 5086

UAAT/UIUC - semiconductors + quantum international exchange

Yi-Jen Chiu, Mitch Chou, Chuck Lee

HMNTL Conference room 1000

PhD Final Defense – Paul Gharzouzi

Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, Room 3350

Special Biological Physics Seminar- "Single molecules, imaging, tracking, and the diffraction limit for finite photons."

Fang Huang, Purdue University

The Rhondale Tso Seminar Room Loomis 236

Title: The X-59: A High-Speed Journey from Finite Element Models to Aeroservoelasticity

Dr. Walter A. Silva, Senior Research Scientist, X-59 NASA Structures Lead, Aeroelasticity Branch NASA, Langley Research Center

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_Y2RlNTQ2ZGUtMTI3Yy00M2UxLWExYjQtZjgzMmU0OGZjZTZm@thread.v2/0?context=%7B%22Tid%22:%227005d458-45be-48ae-8140-d43da96dd17b%22,%22Oid%22:%22c73097df-23f6-4a5b-905e-1dd434162760%22%7D

Soft Materials Seminar - "Cross-shaped patch formation on gold stellated octahedron templates with structural change"

Dr. Jiyeon Kim (Chen)

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

Mechanics of glioma cells and T cells in brain tissue

Professor David Odde, Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota

4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

IQUIST Seminar: "Engineering (Useful) Trapped-Ion Quantum Technologies", Sara Mouradian, University of Washington

Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washington

Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washington

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

Prelim Exam: Shubhang Bhatnagar

TBD

NPRE 596 Graduate Seminar Series - Michael Tonks

Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

Prof. Michael Tonks, Materials Science & Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, University of Florida

2035 Campus Instructional Facility