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The Beckman
Institute is a barrier-busting,
interdisciplinary
research facility
and community
of innovation.
The Beckman Institute is a barrier-busting, collaborative
research facility
and community of innovation.

We Break Barriers.

The Beckman Institute was created to support interdisciplinary research among University of Illinois faculty. We foster scientific advances that couldn’t be done in any other way.
Our founder, Arnold Beckman, was an inventor and philanthropist who knew firsthand the power of interdisciplinary work.
The Beckman Institute is a barrier-busting, collaborative
research facility
and community of innovation.

We Propel Science and Technology.

The Beckman Institute is a unique engine for research. We're making incredible advances while helping ordinary people.
Beckman researchers have developed a new polymer-curing process that could reduce the cost, time, and energy needed.
The Beckman Institute is a barrier-busting, collaborative
research facility
and community of innovation.

We Help You Connect.

We offer a café with drinks and daily specials, events from concerts to research lectures, and plenty of study and meeting spaces.
The Beckman Institute was built to help people connect. Learn more about exploring Beckman.

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Upcoming events

Today

Graduate Student Seminar: Hossain, Baby

5602 Beckman Institute and Zoom

Contact name: Jeanne N'Diaye
Contact email: jndiaye@illinois.edu

Two graduate students will present their research at the second Beckman Graduate Student Seminar of the fall semester: Md Saddam Hossain and Aravind Baby. Lunch will be provided to registered attendees. You may register here.

The event takes place Wednesday, October 4 at noon in 5602 Beckman Institute.

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Today

Yoga at Beckman

Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

Contact name: Elena Romanova
Contact email: romanova@illinois.edu

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat! 

New-to-Beckman tour

MRI Exhibit

Contact name: Lexie Kesler
Contact email: lkesler@illinois.edu

Come find out more about the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology! Learn about the barrier-busting interdisciplinary research facility and community of innovation. Tours will be offered the first Thursday of the month from 10-10:30 a.m.

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Beckman-Brown Lecture: Dr. Emery Brown

Beckman Institute Auditorium, Room 1025

Contact name: Stacy Olson
Contact email: srolson@illinois.edu
Contact phone: 217-244-8373

Beckman-Brown Lecture on Interdisciplinary Science

Professor Emery N. Brown, M.D., Ph.D. is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience at MIT; the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School; and an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.

His talk is titled, "General Anesthesia, Neuromodulation and Altered States of Arousal."

The annual Beckman-Brown Lecture on Interdisciplinary Science honors Dr. Arnold O. Beckman, the founder of the Institute, and Dr. Theodore “Ted” Brown, the founding director. The series is funded by a gift from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Learn more.

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Carle Illinois Advancing Imaging Seminar: Mark Lowe

Beckman Institute Room 2269 (2nd Floor Tower Room)

Contact name: Debbie Styan
Contact email: witruk@illinois.edu

Title: “High Spatial Resolution Ex-vivo Brain Imaging at 7T: A New Method For Informing Pathology Studies of Neurodegeneration.”

Dr. Lowe will discuss the ongoing program being developed at the Cleveland Clinic using ultra high field MRI to perform a very high spatial resolution imaging of ex-vivo brains. The brains are collected as part of a multi-faceted brain donation program of neurodegenerative diseases that includes multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease. The high-resolution imaging is used to inform postmortem pathology studies via neuroradiology/neuropathology consensus conferences. Initial experiences will be described.

Attend in person at 2269 Beckman Institute or join via Zoom.

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Gather in the Garden

Beckman West Garden

Contact name: Mollie Stevens
Contact email: mollie@illinois.edu
Contact phone: 217-244-2603

Join your colleagues this fall for informal conversation and coffee in the Beckman West Garden.

This Gather in the Garden Series will be from 10-10:30 a.m. every Tuesday.

Yoga at Beckman

Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

Contact name: Elena Romanova
Contact email: romanova@illinois.edu

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat! 

Beckman Director’s Seminar: Fan Lam

Beckman Institute, Room 1005

Contact name: Mollie Stevens
Contact email: mollie@illinois.edu
Contact phone: 217-333-3287

Fan Lam will present: "Multiscale, Multiparametric Biochemical Imaging of the Brain." Lam is an assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering at UIUC, a full-time faculty member with the Beckman Institute and the director of the Master of Science in Biomedical Image Computing (MS-BIC) program.  

The seminar will be held at noon on Thursday, October 12 in Beckman Institute, room 1005. Lunch will be provided to registered attendees. You can register here.

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Gather in the Garden

Beckman West Garden

Contact name: Mollie Stevens
Contact email: mollie@illinois.edu
Contact phone: 217-244-2603

Join your colleagues this fall for informal conversation and coffee in the Beckman West Garden.

This Gather in the Garden Series will be from 10-10:30 a.m. every Tuesday.

Yoga at Beckman

Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

Contact name: Elena Romanova
Contact email: romanova@illinois.edu

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat! 

Cookie Collab

Atrium

Contact name: Molly Stevens
Contact email: mollie@illinois.edu

Join members of the Beckman community for coffee and cookies in the Beckman Atrium. The Cookie Collab is scheduled for 3 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month. 

Theoretical & Computational Biophysics Group Seminar: Jie Liang

Beckman Institute Room 3269 (3rd Floor Tower Room)

Contact name: Paritosh Gargya
Contact email: paritosh@illinois.edu

Title: “Computational understanding of biological patterns: 3D genome folding and landscape of stochastic cellular fate.”

Experimental measurements of chromosome conformation, epigenetic modifications, and stochastic cellular behavior present new opportunities for understanding fundamental biology. Dr. Liang will discuss how 3D polymer models using the CHROMATIX method and Hi-C chromosome conformation capture studies can identify a small set of non-random polymer interactions, which can drive chromatin folding. Large ensemble models of independently folded chromatin conformations can uncover hubs of many-body interactions, revealing novel mechanisms of promoter-enhancer interactions and gene regulation. Dr. Liang will then discuss the recent development of the ACME (accurate chemical master equation) method that can construct the exact time-evolving probabilistic landscapes of stochastic reaction networks by solving the underlying discrete chemical master equation. Examples of how these landscapes can be used to study cellular fate will be given. Finally, Dr. Liang will discuss how to meet the rising challenges of deciphering these newly computable high-dimensional probability landscapes and quantify their exact topological structures of peaks and cycles of various dimensions through persistent homology.

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Gather in the Garden

Beckman West Garden

Contact name: Mollie Stevens
Contact email: mollie@illinois.edu
Contact phone: 217-244-2603

Join your colleagues this fall for informal conversation and coffee in the Beckman West Garden.

This Gather in the Garden Series will be from 10-10:30 a.m. every Tuesday.

Yoga at Beckman

Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

Contact name: Elena Romanova
Contact email: romanova@illinois.edu

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat! 

Gather in the Garden

Beckman West Garden

Contact name: Mollie Stevens
Contact email: mollie@illinois.edu
Contact phone: 217-244-2603

Join your colleagues this fall for informal conversation and coffee in the Beckman West Garden.

This Gather in the Garden Series will be from 10-10:30 a.m. every Tuesday.

Yoga at Beckman

Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

Contact name: Elena Romanova
Contact email: romanova@illinois.edu

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat! 

New-to-Beckman tour

MRI Exhibit

Contact name: Lexie Kesler
Contact email: lkesler@illinois.edu

Come find out more about the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology! Learn about the barrier-busting interdisciplinary research facility and community of innovation. Tours will be offered the first Thursday of the month from 10-10:30 a.m.

Read more

iOptics Seminar: Frederic Grillot

Beckman Institute Room 3269 (3rd Floor Tower Room)

Contact name: Alexander Ho
Contact email: ah36@illinois.edu

Title: "Semiconductor Quantum Dots: Genesis, prospects & challenges."

Semiconductor nanostructures with low dimensionality like quantum dots are one the most attractive solutions for achieving high performance photonic devices. Quantum dots are currently experiencing a second revolution, thanks to their very high potential for silicon photonics & quantum technologies. When one or more spatial dimensions of the nanocrystal approach the de Broglie wavelength, nanoscale size effects create a spatial quantization of carriers along with various other phenomena based on quantum mechanics. Thanks to their compactness, great thermal stability, and large reflection immunity, semiconductor quantum dot lasers are very promising candidates for low energy consumption and isolation free photonic integrated circuits. When directly grown on silicon, they even show a four-wave mixing efficiency much superior compared to the conventional quantum well devices. This remarkable result paves the way for achieving high-efficiency frequency comb generation from a photonic chip. Quantum dot lasers also exhibit a strong potential for applications in optical routing and optical atomic clocks. Finally, a quantum dot single photon source is a building block in secure communications, and therefore can be applied to quantum information processing for applications such as quantum computers. Dr. Grillot will review the recent findings and prospects on nanostructure based light emitters made with quantum-dot technology. Many applications ranging from silicon-based integrated solutions to quantum information systems will be presented. In addition, Dr. Grillot will strongly highlight the importance of nanotechnologies in industry and society. Especially for shaping the future information and communication society.

 

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