Physics Main Calendar

Saturday, October 11, 2025

- 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

Monday, October 13, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Yin-Chen He (Stonybrook), "A Fuzzy Sphere Journey: from 3D Ising to Chern-Simons-matter CFT "
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Nuclear Physics Seminar - Chiara Bissolotti (Argonne National Lab) "Advancing TMD Extractions: Neural Networks and Lattice QCD Inputs"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Broadband quantum-limited amplification and near-ultrastrong nonlinear light-matter coupling with superconducting circuits", Kevin O'Brien, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Speaker: Kevin O'Brien, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 3110
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - Darius Shi (Stanford)), "Chiral superconductivity from non-Abelian anyon fluids"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame) "Interpreting the observables and multi messenger signals of r-process nucleosynthesis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Optimal Sample Complexity of Quantum Hypothesis Testing and its Private Variant," Theshani Nuradha, Leditzky Group

Speaker: Theshani Nuradha, Leditzky Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium Peter Abbamonte (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) "Conformal Invariance in Strange Metals" TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 16, 2025

- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Pratik Rath (UC Berkeley), "A Black Hole Airy Tail"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- ESB 3110
Condensed Matter Journal Club: Subspace-Protected Topological Phases and Bulk–Boundary Correspondence
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 17, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
High Energy Physics Seminar - Robert McGehee (University of Minnesota)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Atom-by-atom characterization of 2D materials with electron ptychography"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Jamie Williamson (Scripps Research) “Structure and Dynamic Analysis of Bacterial Ribosome Assembly in Cells.”
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, October 18, 2025

- 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

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum trajectories and stochastic excursions of thermal machines," Gabriel Landi, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester

Speaker: Gabriel Landi, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Nuclear Physics Seminar - Adam Takacs (Heidelberg) "Advancing the Theory of Jet Modification in the Quark–Gluon Plasma"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
The Ongoing Hunt for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Jay Kalinani (UIUC)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Jierui Hu, Fang Group

Speaker: Jierui Hu, Fang Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium McMillan Award: Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in twisted MoTe₂: discovery and recent advances
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 23, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- ESB 3110
Condensed Matter Journal Club: TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 24, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
High Energy Physics Seminar - Oz Amram (Fermilab) "AI, Anomaly Detection and the Search for the Unknown at CMS"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, October 25, 2025

- 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
- 10:15 am 11:15pm
- 141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics
Spooky Action and Beyond: The Power and Promise of Quantum Entanglement

In this talk, we’ll explore what entanglement is, how to create, shape, and detect it, and how we're learning to harness it for revolutionary technologies. We’ll also learn why it deeply troubled some of the greatest minds in science.
- Lecture

Monday, October 27, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Sukbum Chung (University of Seoul)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Nuclear Physics Seminar - Matt Caplan (Illinois State University) "Progress in Neutron Star Crusts"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 204 Loomis
Thesis Defense: ""
- Lecture

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Point Defects in Crystals: Trapped Atoms for Quantum Technologies," Kai-Mei Fu, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington

Speaker: Kai-Mei Fu, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Isaac Legred (UIUC)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: John Floyd, Kwiat Group

Speaker: John Floyd, Kwiat Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium "Chirality Meets Quantum"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 30, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- ESB 3110
Condensed Matter Journal Club: TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 31, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
High Energy Physics Seminar - Aurora Ireland (Stanford) "A Classical-to-Quantum Transition for Inflationary Perturbations"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - Barry Bradlyn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 1, 2025

- 10:15 am 11:30am
- 141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics
Extreme Matter: Physics at a Trillion Degrees Exploring the hottest, densest state of matter ever produced — and the detectors that can survive it.

When lead nuclei collide at near light speed in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, they create the hottest matter in the universe, the Quark-Gluon Plasma, a state that existed moments after the Big Bang. University of Illinois researchers developed radiation-hard detectors to study how this plasma forms and evolves, advancing the quest to recreate matter from the dawn of time.
- Lecture

Monday, November 3, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Yves Kwan (Dallas)
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: Wolfgang Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

Speaker: Wolfgang Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB Lab 3110
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - Eytan Grosfield (Ben Gurion University, Israel), "Shining Light on Bose-Hubbard Models: From Equilibrium Theory to Exotic Steady States"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Takahiro Tanaka (Yukawa Institute, Kyoto University)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Zhanzhi Jiang, Kou Group

Speaker: Zhanzhi Jiang, Kou Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 464 Loomis
Thesis Defense: ""
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium Smitha Vishveshwara (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 6, 2025

- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Luca Delacrétaz (U.Chicago)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- ESB 3110
Condensed Matter Journal Club: TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 7, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
High Energy Physics Seminar - Reza Ebadi (University of Maryland)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - Haidan Wen, Argonne National Laboratory
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Jeff Nivala (University of Washington) “TBA”
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 8, 2025

- 10:15 am 11:30am
- 141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics
Bringing Cells to Life on the Computer, and in Minecraft!

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.
- Lecture

Monday, November 10, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Olexei Motrunich (CalTech)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Nuclear Physics Seminar - Sylvester Joosten (Argonne National Lab)
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

Speaker: Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Alex Drlica Wagner (U. Chicago/FNAL)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Santiago Vargas-Daniels, Anderson Group

Speaker: Santiago Vargas-Daniels, Anderson Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium Neil Cornish (Montana State University) TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 13, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- ESB 3110
Condensed Matter Journal Club: TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 14, 2025

- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - James McIver, Columbia University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Rohit Pappu (Washington University) "Complex phase behaviors of RNA binding proteins."
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 15, 2025

- 10:15 am 11:30am
- 141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics
Quantum Tech is in Your Public Library

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.
- Lecture

Monday, November 17, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Tyler Ellison (Purdue)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Nuclear Physics Seminar - Yuuka Kanakubo (Berkeley)
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Computing Enhanced Sensing," Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Speaker: Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Richard Feder (University of California, Berkeley)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Jasper Bradford, Pfaff Group

Speaker: Jasper Bradford, Pfaff Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium McMillan Award: Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effects in Rhombohedral Graphene
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 20, 2025

- 1:10 - 2:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Andrea Dei (U.Chicago)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- ESB 3110
Condensed Matter Journal Club: TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 22, 2025

- 8:30 am
Fall break begins
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, December 1, 2025

- All Day
Instruction resumes
- Other
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Yiming Wu (Stanford)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Nuclear Physics Seminar - Dien Nguyen (University of Tennessee Knoxville)
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar -
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Amanda Gatto, Hughes Group

Speaker: Amanda Gatto, Hughes Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium Bonnie Fleming (Fermi Lab) TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 4, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- ESB 3110
Condensed Matter Journal Club: TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, December 5, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
High Energy Physics Seminar - Kevin Langhoff (MIT)
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, December 8, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Veit Elser (Cornell)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Nuclear Physics Seminar - Matt Luzum (Universidade de São Paulo)
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: Liang Jiang, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

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

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

- All Day
Last Day of Instruction, Fall Semester
- Other
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium Adam Kaufman (CU Boulder) TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

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

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Sarah Hagen, Chitambar Group

Speaker: Sarah Hagen, Chitambar Group
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Hannah Day, Pfaff/Kahn Group

Speaker: Hannah Day, Pfaff Group
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, March 14, 2026

- 1:00 pm
Spring Vacation Begins
- Other

Monday, March 23, 2026

- 7:00 am
Instruction resumes
- Other

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Prince, Chitambar Group

Speaker: Xinan Chen, Chitambar Group
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

- All Day
Instruction Ends
- Other

Thursday, May 7, 2026

- All Day
Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect
- Other

Friday, May 8, 2026

- All Day
Final Exams Begin
- Other

Saturday, May 16, 2026

- 8:30 am
- Memorial Stadium
Commencement
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, May 18, 2026

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

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

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