Physics Main Calendar

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois

  Food For Thought: Fahad Mahmood and Peter Fritzsche

  • Lecture
• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Ultra High-Q tunable microring resonators by slow light", Priyash Barya, Goldschmidt Group/Electrical and Computer Engineering

  Speaker: Priyash Barya, Goldschmidt Group/Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Biwei Dai (Princeton, IAS) “Deep Generative Models for Bayesian Inference in Astrophysics”

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: "Open Questions on the Dynamics of Black Holes"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 7:00 - 8:00 pm
  • Lincoln Hall Theater

  The Universe In Us

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 27, 2025

• • 9:00 am
  • 236 Loomis

  Thesis Defense: "Testing General Relativity and Cosmology with Gravitational Waves: Polarizations, Propagation Speeds, and Backgrounds"

  • Lecture
• • 5:00 pm
  • Loomis 464

  Undergraduate Physics Seminar: "Black Holes in a Condensed Matter Laboratory", David Balut

  My name is David Bałut. I am a physics junior working in the condensed matter department, advised by Professors Peter Abbamonte, Barry Bradlyn, Philip Phillips, and Thomas Faulkner.

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 28, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040

  CAPS Seminar: Flaring Activity of Sgr A* at infrared with JWST

  Speaker: Dr. Farhad Yusef-Zadeh

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Kitaev spin model, disguised Ising chain, and beyond"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 31, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - "Ab-Initio Downfolding for Strongly Correlated Systems: Benchmarks and Applications"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

• 

  • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: "Probing Topology and Correlation by Milli-Kelvin Microwave Microscopy", Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin

  Speaker: Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

• • 10:00 am
  • 280 MRL

  Thesis Defense: "Beyond Linear Responses: Exploring Magnetic Materials through Nonlinear Terahertz Spectroscopy"

  • Lecture
• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Samantha Isaac, Kwiat Group

  Speaker: Samantha Isaac, Kwiat Group

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Marc Favata (Montclair State University)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 pm
  • ESB 3110

  Condensed Matter Journal Club: Conformally invariant charge fluctuations in a strange metal

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2025

• • 9:00 am
  • 280 MRL

  Thesis Defense: "Nonlinear THz Emission Spectroscopy of Spin and Charge Dynamics in Correlated Materials"

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Daniel Shoemaker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • 1024 Chemistry Annex

  Thesis Defense: ""

  • Lecture

Monday, April 7, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Eun Ah Kim, Cornell University

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

• 

  • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: "On the Extended Church-Turing Thesis, Quantum Mechanics, and Beyond, Bill Fefferman, University of Chicago

  Speaker: Bill Fefferman, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 464 Loomis

  Thesis Defense: "Novel Effects in Self-Interacting Scalar Field Dark Matter Solitons"

  • Lecture

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Xiaochuan (David) Ding, Clark Group

  Speaker: Xiaochuan (David) Ding, Clark Group

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Andreas Hoecker (CERN), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 11, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 464 Loomis

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Qianshu Lu (IAS)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040

  CAPS Seminar: The La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey

  Speaker: Dr. Peter Nugent

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Physics Careers Seminar: ""

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Nonlinear Coupled Magnonics"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, April 12, 2025

• • 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Electrical Computer and Engineering Building, 306 N Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801

  World Quantum Day Celebration

  • Reception/Open House
• • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Room 1013, ECE Building, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61820

  Saturday Engineering for Everyone: Quantum Steampunk - The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow

  • Lecture

Monday, April 14, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Trithep Devakul, Stanford University

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Randy Owen, Kou Group

  Speaker: Randy Owen, Kou Group

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Marin Soljacic (MIT), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 17, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Physics Careers Seminar: "Anderson Group Careers in Physics Panel"

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • LLP 464

  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Vladimir Narovlansky, Princeton

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 18, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 464 Loomis

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Heliudsen Bernardo (Brown)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040

  CAPS Seminar: SPHEREx and Galaxy Formation

  Speaker: Dr. Jordon Mirocha

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 21, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Gil Rafael, California Institute of Technology

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • 464 Loomis

  Nuclear Physics Seminar - Gordon Baym (UIUC)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

• 

  • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: "Engineering (Useful) Trapped-Ion Quantum Technologies", Sara Mouradian, University of Washington

  Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washington

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Ashwith Prabhu, Goldshmidt Group

  Speaker: Ashwith Prabhu, Goldshmidt Group

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Ben Hooberman (UIUC), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 24, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • LLP 464

  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Chis Akers, University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Ceremony/Service

Friday, April 25, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 464 Loomis

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Ben Hooberman (UIUC)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Physics Careers Seminar: ""

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Nandini Trivedi, The Ohio State University

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 28, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Special Condensed Matter Seminar - Zhanybek Alpichshev, IST Austria

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Alexandre Bourassa, Google Quantum AI

  Speaker: Alexandre Bourassa, Senior Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Fahad Mahmood (UIUC), Title TBA

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 2, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Physics Careers Seminar: ""

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Despina Louca, University of Virginia

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: Srinivasan Arunachalam, IBM

  Speaker: Srinivasan Arunachalam, Senior Research Scientist, IBM

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • 464 Loomis

  Thesis Defense: ""

  • Lecture

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

• • All Day

  Instruction Ends

  • Other
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Geraldine Cochran (Ohio State University), "Leveraging Familial Capital to Improve Graduate Students Experiences"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 8, 2025

• • All Day

  Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect

  • Other
• • 9:00 am
  • 236 Loomis

  Thesis Defense: ""

  • Lecture

Friday, May 9, 2025

• • All Day

  Final Exams Begin

  • Other

Saturday, May 17, 2025

• • 8:30 am

  Commencement

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, May 19, 2025

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1

  • Other

Monday, June 16, 2025

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2

  • Other

Monday, August 25, 2025

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Fall Semester

  • Other

Saturday, November 22, 2025

• • 8:30 am

  Fall break begins

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, December 1, 2025

• • All Day

  Instruction resumes

  • Other

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

• • All Day

  Last Day of Instruction, Fall Semester

  • Other

Thursday, December 11, 2025

• • All Day

  Reading Day - IT No Change Period in effect

  • Other

Friday, December 12, 2025

• • 8:30 am

  Final Exams Begin

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, December 22, 2025

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Winter Session

  • Ceremony/Service

Friday, January 16, 2026

• • 8:30 am

  Final Exams Begin

  • Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester

  • Other