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BME Seminar Series

In the fall and spring quarters, the Biomedical Engineering (BME) Department Seminars take place on Thursdays from 4-5pm in Tech M345 (Evanston) and are also streamed via Zoom.

In the winter quarter, students will attend Seminars from 1-2pm on either Mondays or Thursdays according to their assigned section. Finalized dates, speakers, section assignments, and room numbers will be announced soon.

If you have any questions about Seminar or you would like to be added to the BME Seminar Series mailing list in order to get notifications, please email bme-administrator@northwestern.edu.

Students registered in BME 512 are required to attend all dates within their registered section of both the Seminar and Student Development Series. Further details are available on the course Canvas page.

BME 512 Seminar Series

DATE	2026-2027 SPEAKERS	QUARTER
10/29/26	Dr. Andreas Hielscher, NYU	Fall
11/12/26	Dr. Sylvain Gigan, Kastler Brossel Laboratory	Fall
12/3/26	Dr. Patrick Link, University of Iowa	Fall
4/1/27	Dr. Laura Marcu, UC Davis	Spring
4/8/27	Dr. Jina Ko, U Penn	Spring
4/15/27	Dr. Kevin Otto, Purdue University	Spring
4/29/27	Dr. Karel Svoboda, Allen Institute	Spring
5/6/27	Jaharis Speaker - Dr. Mathai Mammen	Spring
5/27/27	Dr. Samir Mitragotri, Harvard	Spring

 

BME 512 Student Development Series

DATE	2026-2027 SESSIONS	QUARTER
10/1/26	Lab Overviews pt. 1	Fall
10/8/26	Lab Overviews pt. 2	Fall
10/15/26	Professional Development	Fall
11/5/26	Introduction to GSP with Mike Okun-Perlin	Fall
11/19/26	Industry Speaker: Rajesh Pamula, Medtronic	Fall

 

See a list of past speakers.