A Conference and Memorial In Honor of Sir Anthony J. Leggett

Physics

The ANTHONY J. LEGGETT INSTITUTE FOR CONDENSED MATTER THEORY

October 9-11, 2026

A Conference and Memorial in honor of Anthony J. Leggett

In this Conference and Memorial, we celebrate the magnificent scientific life of our beloved colleague Sir Anthony J. Leggett. Known for his depth of intellect and expansive view of physics, Sir Anthony J. Leggett was also deeply human. He insisted on being called simply Tony, a true sign of his inherent humility, a natural counterweight to his prodigious physics. His life spanned from 26 March 1938 to 8 March of this year. 

Confirmed Speakers

Daniel Agterberg (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Gordon Baym (UIUC) 
Stuart Brown (UCLA)
Amir Caldeira (Unicamp, Brazil)
Andrey Chubukov (Minnesota)
Séamus Davis (Oxford,UK/Cork, Ireland)
Michel Devoret (Yale/Google) (via zoom)
Matthew Fisher (UCSB)
Anupam Garg (Northwestern) 
Steven Girvin (Yale)
Markus Greiner (Harvard) (via zoom)
William Helperin (Northwestern)
Nigel Hussey (Bristol, UK)
Long Ju (MIT)
Steven Kivelson (Stanford)
Angela Kou (UIUC)
John Kirtley (Stanford) 
Ying Liu (PSU)
Tin-Lun (Jason) Ho (OSU)
Vidya Madhavan (UIUC)
Dirk van der Marel (U Geneva, Switzerland)
Chetan Nayak (Microsoft/UCSB)
Wolfgang Pfaff (UIUC)
Mohit Randeria (OSU) 
Ana María Rey (Colorado) 
Peter Schiffer (Princeton) 
Pragya Shukla (IIT, India)
Fernando Sols (U Complutense, Madrid, Spain) 
Clare Yu (UC Irvine)  

Organizers

Rafael Fernandes (UIUC)

Eduardo Fradkin (UIUC)

Taylor Hughes (UIUC)

Philip Phillips (UIUC)

To register for the Conference and/or the Memorial organized in Tony Leggett's memory, please visit our website.

The Conference will be held at UIUC's Loomis Laboratory of Physics.

The Memorial will be held on Friday, October 9th,at 4.30pm, at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center.

Information concerning streaming of the speakers' talks will be posted at a later date.