Seminars and Colloquia Archive

  • MMAE Seminar Series: Hassan M. Nagib

    MMAE Seminar Series: Hassan M. Nagib

    The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents a 2023–2024 Seminar Series featuring speaker Hassan M. Nagib, who will give a presentation on “Wall-Bounded Turbulence: Recent Lessons from Experiments-Asymptotics-Computation.”  This seminar will take place on Wednesday, September 20, 2023 in the auditorium (room 104) of the John T. Rettaliata Engineering Center from 3:30–4:30 p.m. This event is open to all graduate students and faculty.

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  • ChBE Fall 2023 Seminar: “Phase Transitions and Mesoscale Aggregation in Liquid-Liquid Extraction”

    ChBE Fall 2023 Seminar: “Phase Transitions and Mesoscale Aggregation in Liquid-Liquid Extraction”

    The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering presents the fall 2023 seminar series with guest speaker Michael J. Servis, a scientist in the Heavy Element and Separation Science group at Argonne National Laboratory, who will present a lecture on “Phase Transitions and Mesoscale Aggregation in Liquid-Liquid Extraction.” This event will take place on Wednesday, September 20, from 3:15–4:30 p.m. in the Perlstein Hall Auditorium (room 131).

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  • Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Seminar Series Begins Again September 1

    Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Seminar Series Begins Again September 1

    The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering will continue its Seminar Series on Friday, September 1, 2023, from 12:45-1:45 p.m. in Siegel Hall, Room 118, featuring guest speaker Hiva Nasiri, Ph.D.

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  • 2023 Supreme Court IP Review Conference Is September 29

    2023 Supreme Court IP Review Conference Is September 29

    The Supreme Court IP Review (SCIPR) conference is designed to provide intellectual property practitioners, jurists, legal academics and law students with a review of IP cases from the U.S. Supreme Court’s previous term, a preview of cases on the docket for the upcoming term, and a discussion of cert. petitions to watch.

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  • MMAE Seminar Series Hosts Dr. Partha S. Dutta (United Semiconductors LLC)

    MMAE Seminar Series Hosts Dr. Partha S. Dutta (United Semiconductors LLC)

    The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents a 2023–2024 Seminar Series featuring guest speaker Partha S. Dutta who will give a presentation on “Bulk Crystal Growth of Ternary III-V Compound Semiconductors.”  This seminar will take place on Wednesday, August 30, 2023 in the auditorium (room 104) of the John T. Rettaliata Engineering Center from 3:30–4:30 p.m. This event is open to all graduate students and faculty.

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  • IFSH to Host 6th High-Throughput Sequencing (HTS) Symposium

    IFSH to Host 6th High-Throughput Sequencing (HTS) Symposium

    The Institute for Food Safety and Health (IFSH) will present the sixth installment of its annual High-Throughput Sequencing (HTS) Symposium, titled "Food Safety, HTS, Big Data, and Data Sharing: Perspectives from Food Industry, Governmental Agencies, Biotech Companies, and Academia," at the Chicago Marriott Southwest at Burr Ridge, 1200 Burr Ridge Parkway, on May 31–June 1, 2023 from 1–4:50 p.m.

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  • Socially Responsible Modeling, Computation, and Design (SoReMo) Fellows to Present Research Findings

    Socially Responsible Modeling, Computation, and Design (SoReMo) Fellows to Present Research Findings

    The Spring 2023 fellows of the Socially Responsible Modeling, Computation, and Design (SoReMo) initiative will present findings of their semester-long research project from 12:45–1:45 p.m. May 5 at the MTCC Auditorium. All are welcome to attend the forum.

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  • FDSN Seminar Series: Bacteriophage-Based Biocontrol of Salmonella

    FDSN Seminar Series: Bacteriophage-Based Biocontrol of Salmonella

    The Department of Food Science and Nutrition will host Thomas Brenner, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Wang Lab of Molecular Food Safety at the University of British Columbia, for a seminar titled “Bacteriophage-Based Biocontrol of Salmonella: A One-Health Approach” on Thursday, April 27, beginning at 12:45 p.m. The virtual seminar will take place on Zoom.

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  • Great Problems, Great Minds Seminar Series: Local Economic Specialization and the Long-term Impact of an Earthquake

    Great Problems, Great Minds Seminar Series: Local Economic Specialization and the Long-term Impact of an Earthquake

    Join the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event, “Local Economic Specialization and The Long-term Impact of an Earthquake” featuring guest speaker Marco Modica, an associate professor at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy. This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Thursday, April 20, 2023 over Zoom from 12:40–1:40 p.m.

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  • FDSN Seminar Series: Approximating the Needle in the Haystack: Using Simulation Models to Improve Food Safety Controls

    FDSN Seminar Series: Approximating the Needle in the Haystack: Using Simulation Models to Improve Food Safety Controls

    The Department of Food Science and Nutrition will host Claire Zoellner, a food safety scientist at iFoodDS, for a seminar titled “Approximating the Needle in the Haystack: Using Simulation Models to Improve Food Safety Controls ” on Thursday, April 20, beginning at 12:45 p.m. The virtual seminar will take place on Zoom.

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