Physics Main Calendar

Thursday, November 20, 2025

Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Andrea Dei (U.Chicago), "On the string theory of a single NS5-brane"

1:10 - 2:00 pm

Loomis 464
- Seminar/Symposium
Condensed Matter Journal Club: Signatures of spin-phonon coupling in altermagnetic MnF2

2:00 pm

ESB 3110
- Seminar/Symposium
Undergraduate Physics Seminar: "Quantum Sensing on a Chip: Exploring NV Centers and All-Electric Magnetometry", Ashi Poorey

5:00 pm

Loomis 464
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 21, 2025

Condensed Matter Seminar - "Probing dynamics of collective modes in a charge density wave state with ultrafast scanning tunneling microscopy"

1:00 pm

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 22, 2025

Fall break begins

8:30 am
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, December 1, 2025

Instruction resumes

All Day
- Other
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Yiming Wu (Stanford)

12:00 - 1:00 pm

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium
Nuclear Physics Seminar - Dien Nguyen (University of Tennessee Knoxville) "The Pairing Mechanism of Short Range Correlations and the impact of Nuclear Structure"

1:00 pm

Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Answering Cosmological Questions with Low-mass Galaxies

3:45 - 4:45 pm

134 Astronomy Building
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - David Zegeye (UIUC)

11:00 am

Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
- Seminar/Symposium
IQUIST Special Seminar: "Floquet engineering qubits and couplers for fast, robust parametric gates," Jacob Repicky, Yale University

11:00 am - 12:20 pm

1002 Supercon

Speaker:
- Seminar/Symposium
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Amanda Gatto, Hughes Group

11:00 - 11:50 am

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Amanda Gatto, Hughes Group
- Seminar/Symposium
The Physics Colloquium Bonnie Fleming (Fermi Lab) TBD

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 4, 2025

Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Divij Gupta (UIUC)

1:00 - 2:00 pm

Loomis 464
- Seminar/Symposium
Condensed Matter Journal Club: TBD

2:00 pm

ESB 3110
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, December 5, 2025

High Energy Physics Seminar - Kevin Langhoff (MIT) "A Flavor of SO(10) Unification with a Spinor Higgs"

11:00 am

Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, December 8, 2025

Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Seth Musser (University of Maryland), "Minimal order, maximal insight"

12:00 - 1:00 pm

ESB 190
- Seminar/Symposium
Nuclear Physics Seminar - Matt Luzum (Universidade de São Paulo)

1:00 pm

Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

IQUIST Seminar: Liang Jiang, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

11:00 - 11:50 am

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Liang Jiang, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Last Day of Instruction, Fall Semester

All Day
- Other
Thesis Defense: ""

3:00 pm

236 Loomis
- Lecture
The Physics Colloquium “Programmable optical clocks for quantum metrology”

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Loomis Lab 141
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Reading Day - IT No Change Period in effect

All Day
- Other

Friday, December 12, 2025

Final Exams Begin

8:30 am
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, December 22, 2025

First Day of Instruction, Winter Session

All Day
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, January 16, 2026

Final Exams Begin

8:30 am
- Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester

All Day
- Other

Monday, January 26, 2026

Nuclear Physics Seminar - Gian Michele

1:00 pm

Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, January 30, 2026

High Energy Physics Seminar - Leonardo Badurina (Caltech)

11:00 am

Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
- Seminar/Symposium
Physics Careers Seminar

12:00 pm

204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
- Lecture

Monday, February 2, 2026

Nuclear Physics Seminar - Carmen Romo Luque

1:00 pm

Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 13, 2026

High Energy Physics Seminar - Irene Dutta (Fermilab)

11:00 am

Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Sarah Hagen, Chitambar Group

11:00 - 11:50 am

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Sarah Hagen, Chitambar Group
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 27, 2026

High Energy Physics Seminar - Wenzer Qin (NYU)

11:00 am

Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 2, 2026

The End of Star Formation
Recurring

All Day

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

End of SF
- Conference/Workshop

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

The End of Star Formation
Recurring

All Day

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

End of SF
- Conference/Workshop

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

The End of Star Formation
Recurring

All Day

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

End of SF
- Conference/Workshop
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Hannah Day, Pfaff/Kahn Group

11:00 - 11:50 am

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Hannah Day, Pfaff Group
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 5, 2026

The End of Star Formation
Recurring

All Day

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

End of SF
- Conference/Workshop

Friday, March 6, 2026

The End of Star Formation
Recurring

All Day

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

End of SF
- Conference/Workshop

Saturday, March 14, 2026

Spring Vacation Begins

1:00 pm
- Other

Monday, March 23, 2026

Instruction resumes

7:00 am
- Other

Friday, March 27, 2026

High Energy Physics Seminar - Daniel Guerrero (Fermilab)

11:00 am

Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Prince, Chitambar Group

11:00 - 11:50 am

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Xinan Chen, Chitambar Group
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 1, 2026

High Energy Physics Seminar - Mike Schmitt (Northwestern)

11:00 am

Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Instruction Ends

All Day
- Other

Thursday, May 7, 2026

Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect

All Day
- Other

Friday, May 8, 2026

Final Exams Begin

All Day
- Other

Saturday, May 16, 2026

Commencement

8:30 am

Memorial Stadium
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, May 18, 2026

First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1

All Day
- Other

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2

All Day
- Other