Physics - Departmental EventsOLD

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Saturday, November 8, 2025

  • PhD student Kevin Tan explores the CraftCells using a VR headset

    Bringing Cells to Life on the Computer, and in Minecraft!

    10:15 am   11:30am
    141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics

    This presentation will introduce participants to a groundbreaking project called CraftCells: A Window into Biological Cells. This is the first tool that lets anyone—from researchers to curious students—step inside an accurate 3D model of a cell and see how life is organized at the tiniest scale.

Saturday, November 15, 2025

  • Quantum Tech is in Your Public Library

    10:15 am   11:30am
    141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics

    Did you know the internet is distributed using light? A quantum network uses the smallest possible blips of light, called photons, to share information in a fundamentally different way, based on the concepts of quantum mechanics. This presentation will share the work that led to the launch of the first Public Quantum Network (PQN) at The Urbana Free Library.