Seminars and Colloquia Archive

  • Great Problems, Great Minds Seminar Series: Rural Road Stimulus and the Role of Matching Mandates on Economic Recovery in China

    Great Problems, Great Minds Seminar Series: Rural Road Stimulus and the Role of Matching Mandates on Economic Recovery in China

    Join the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event featuring guest speaker Anthony Howell, an associate professor of public policy and management in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. He will present a talk on “Rural Road Stimulus and the Role of Matching Mandates on Economic Recovery in China.” This event will take place on September 15, from 3:15–4:30 p.m. via Zoom. 

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  • Great Problems Great Minds Seminar Series: The MacArthur Foundation’s Commitment to Equity in Chicago

    Great Problems Great Minds Seminar Series: The MacArthur Foundation’s Commitment to Equity in Chicago

    Join the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event featuring guest speaker Tara Magner, the Director of the Chicago Commitment at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Prior to taking this role in January 2016, Tara served as a Program Officer in U.S. Programs, focusing on the Migration, Policy Research, and other program areas.

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  • MMAE Seminar Series: Heng Wang

    MMAE Seminar Series: Heng Wang

    The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents a 2023–2024 Seminar Series featuring Heng Wang, assistant professor in materials engineering at IIT, who will give a presentation on “Thermoelectric Research from New Materials to New Phenomena.” This seminar will take place on Wednesday, September 6, 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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  • MMAE Seminar Series: Theresa Saxton-Fox

    MMAE Seminar Series: Theresa Saxton-Fox

    The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents a 2023–2024 Seminar Series featuring guest speaker Theresa Saxton-Fox, who will give a presentation on “History effects in turbulent boundary layers: spatially and temporally varying pressure gradients.”  This seminar will take place on Wednesday, September 13, 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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  • 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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