Physics Main Calendar

Friday, April 19, 2024

- 12:00 - 12:30 pm
- NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040
CAPS Seminar: Prospects for Finding Neutron Star Mergers without LIGO
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 - 1:00 pm
- NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040
CAPS Seminar: A search for millimeter-wave transient sources in the galactic plane with SPT-3G
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Designing and Understanding Novel Quantum Spin Liquid Candidates"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- Loomis Room 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Special Seminar: A higher-dimensional bulk/edge correspondence and topological entanglement
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 7:00 pm
- Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Lobby/Stage 5/Stage 6
A free celebratory art-science event at KCPA
- Social/Informal Event

Monday, April 22, 2024

- 10:00 am
- 222 Loomis
Thesis Defense: "Long-Wavelength Density Fluctuations and Momentum Scrambling in the Strange Metal Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Stabilizing topologically non-trivial steady states with local dynamics in open quantum systems
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 464 Loomis
Nuclear Physics Seminar - Juliette Mammei (University of Manitoba) "Parity-violating electron scattering to measure nuclear and nucleon properties"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building
IQUIST Special Seminar: "A university team's on-going journey in building a space-based quantum network," Alexander Ling, National University of Singapore

Speaker: Alexander Ling, National University of Singapore
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Scaling Trapped-Ion Quantum Computers at Quantinuum," Steven Moses, Quantinuum

Speaker: Steven Moses, Quantinuum
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ICASU, Loomis 230
Japanese Manga, Cultural Exchange, and Intersecting Art/Physics

Manga artist Kofi Bazzell-Smith will give a talk on his latest project "Radius." In the story, human society is fueled by the discovery of antimatter resources and the ability to produce energy through particle annihilation; robots are used for labor and entertainment. The artist explores the consequences of progress and the relationship between humans and machines.
- Lecture
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
CSI Gravity: Investigating Mysteries of Fundamental Physics with Black Holes
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Heralded arbitrary graph states with inefficient quantum emitters", Max Gold, Chitambar Group

Speaker: Max Gold, Chitambar Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Chloe Richards and Aaron Ouellette (UIUC, 2023 ICASU Fellows) Aaron O. "Cross-correlating IceCube neutrinos with a large set of galaxy samples around redshift z ~ 1"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
- UIUC: 2008 Superconductivity Room | SLAC: 130 McCullough Building
QSQM Junior Research Hour: "Quantum Geometry and Orbital Frustration in Twisted Bilayer Graphene", Haidong Tian, Ohio State University

Speaker: Haidong Tian, Ohio State University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Juna Kollmeier (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics), Title TBA
- Lecture

Thursday, April 25, 2024

- 10:00 am
- 3110 ESB
Thesis Defense: "Crystalline-Electromagnetic Responses of Topological Semimetals and Insulators"
- Lecture
- 5:00 pm 6:00 PM
- Loomis 464
Undergraduate Physics Seminar: "AI Safety in Physics (Title TBD)", Max Winga

See later for more details
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 26, 2024

- 11:00 am
- Room 464
High Energy Physics Seminar - Cari Cesarotti (MIT) - "Physics Potential at a future Muon Collider"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Few-Electron Plasmon Resonances"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 29, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Xie Chen, California Institute of Technology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 464 Loomis
Nuclear Physics Seminar - Ian Cloet (Argonne National Laboratory) "Generalized Parton Distributions: Challenges in their Calculation & Extraction from Data"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 - 4:00 pm
- Beckman 3269 3rd Floor Tower Room
Biological Physics / iPoLS / STC-QCB Seminar: Luke Chao (Harvard University) ""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- Beckman 3269
STC-QCB Seminar: Luke Chao (Harvard University) "Ultrastructural regulation of the mitochondrial inner-membrane"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Sensing of Two-Dimensional Magnetism," Chunhui Du, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Speaker: Chunhui Du, Assistant Professor, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

- All Day
Instruction Ends
- Other
- 12:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Tom Baumgarte
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
Physics Colloquium: Andrey Gromov (Maryland) Title: TBA
- Lecture

Thursday, May 2, 2024

- All Day
Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect
- Other
- 12:00 - 12:50 pm
- 2008 Superconductivity Center
HQAN Research Coordination Talks - Brian DeMarco & Matthew Otten
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 3, 2024

- All Day
Final Exams Begin
- Other
- 10:00 am
- Zoom
Thesis Defense: ""
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- Talbot 101A
Thesis Defense: ""
- Lecture

Saturday, May 4, 2024

- 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
Science at the Market: UIUC Astronomy
- Community Service
- 11:00 am
- Room 464
PIKIMO Speaker Henry Lamm
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 6, 2024

- 3:00 pm
- 222 Loomis
Thesis Defense: ""
- Lecture

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

- 10:00 am
- 276 Loomis
Thesis Defense: ""
- Lecture
- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
- UIUC: 190 Engineering Sciences Room | SLAC: 130 McCullough Building
QSQM Junior Research Hour
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 9, 2024

- 2:00 pm
- 3110 ESB
Thesis Defense: ""
- Lecture

Friday, May 10, 2024

- 1:00 pm
- 276 Loomis
Thesis Defense: ""
- Lecture

Saturday, May 11, 2024

- 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
Science at the Market: Champaign-Urbana Astronomical Society
- Community Service
- 8:30 am
Commencement
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, May 13, 2024

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1
- Other

Saturday, May 18, 2024

- 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
Science at the Market: Physics Graduate Student Association
- Community Service

Monday, May 20, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Kyung-Su Kim, Stanford University
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
- UIUC: 2008 Superconductivity Room | SLAC: 130 McCullough Building
QSQM Junior Research Hour
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, June 1, 2024

- 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
Science at the Market: Micro-CCS REU
- Community Service

Monday, June 10, 2024

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2
- Other

Saturday, June 15, 2024

- 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
Science at the Market: Molecular & Cellular Biology Graduate Student Association
- Community Service

Monday, June 17, 2024

- 9:00 am
- 276 Loomis
Thesis Defense: ""
- Lecture

Wednesday, June 19, 2024

- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
- UIUC: 2008 Superconductivity Room | SLAC: 130 McCullough Building
QSQM Junior Research Hour
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, June 20, 2024

- 10:00 am
- 276 Loomis
Thesis Defense: ""
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- 276 Loomis
Physics Careers Seminar
- Lecture

Friday, June 21, 2024

- 10:00 am
- 276 Loomis
Thesis Defense: ""
- Lecture

Saturday, June 22, 2024

- 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
Science at the Market: Fischer Laboratory
- Community Service

Thursday, June 27, 2024

- 3:00 pm
- Zoom
Thesis Defense: ""
- Lecture

Saturday, June 29, 2024

- 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
Science at the Market: ASAP at HMNTL
- Community Service

Saturday, July 6, 2024

- 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
Science at the Market: Physics REU Program
- Community Service

Friday, July 12, 2024

- 10:00 am
- 276 Loomis
Thesis Defense: ""
- Lecture

Saturday, July 13, 2024

- 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
Science at the Market: Illinois Science Explorers
- Community Service

Saturday, July 20, 2024

- 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
Science at the Market: AAP Summer Research Fellowship Program
- Community Service

Saturday, July 27, 2024

- 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
Science at the Market: Molecular & Cellular Biology Graduate Student Association
- Community Service

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

- 10:00 am
- Zoom
Thesis Defense: ""
- Lecture

Friday, August 9, 2024

- 12:00 pm
Thesis Defense: ""
- Lecture

Saturday, August 10, 2024

- 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
Science at the Market: ASAP at MNTL
- Community Service

Saturday, August 17, 2024

- 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
Science at the Market: Molecular & Cellular Biology Graduate Student Association
- Community Service

Saturday, August 24, 2024

- 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
Science at the Market: Carl Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
- Community Service

Saturday, August 31, 2024

- 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
Science at the Market: Graduate Students in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (GEEB)
- Community Service

Tuesday, September 3, 2024

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: Nate Earnest-Noble, Global lead and manager for IBM Quantum User Enablement, IBM

Speaker: Nate Earnest-Noble, Global lead and manager for IBM Quantum User Enablement, IBM
- Seminar/Symposium