Physics Main Calendar
Monday, October 13, 2025
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
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Speaker: Kevin O'Brien, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
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Speaker: Theshani Nuradha, Leditzky Group
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Friday, October 17, 2025
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
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Speaker: Gabriel Landi, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
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Speaker: Jierui Hu, Fang Group
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Friday, October 24, 2025
Saturday, October 25, 2025
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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.
Monday, October 27, 2025
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
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Speaker: Kai-Mei Fu, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
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Speaker: John Floyd, Kwiat Group
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Friday, October 31, 2025
Saturday, November 1, 2025
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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.
Monday, November 3, 2025
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
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Speaker: Wolfgang Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
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Speaker: Zhanzhi Jiang, Kou Group
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Friday, November 7, 2025
Saturday, November 8, 2025
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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.
Monday, November 10, 2025
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
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Speaker: Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
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Speaker: Santiago Vargas-Daniels, Anderson Group
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Friday, November 14, 2025
Saturday, November 15, 2025
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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.
Monday, November 17, 2025
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
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Speaker: Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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Speaker: Jasper Bradford, Pfaff Group
Thursday, November 20, 2025
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Monday, December 1, 2025
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
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Speaker: Amanda Gatto, Hughes Group
Thursday, December 4, 2025
Friday, December 5, 2025
Monday, December 8, 2025
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
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Speaker: Liang Jiang, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Friday, December 12, 2025
Monday, December 22, 2025
Friday, January 16, 2026
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
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Speaker: Sarah Hagen, Chitambar Group
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
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Speaker: Hannah Day, Pfaff Group
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Monday, March 23, 2026
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
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Speaker: Xinan Chen, Chitambar Group