Physics Main Calendar
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Theshani Nuradha, Leditzky Group
Thursday, October 16, 2025
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1:00 - 2:00 pmLoomis 464
Friday, October 17, 2025
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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2:00 pm3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
Saturday, October 18, 2025
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8:00 am - 12:00 pmUrbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Gabriel Landi, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester
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1:00 pmRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Jierui Hu, Fang Group
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Friday, October 24, 2025
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Saturday, October 25, 2025
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8:00 am - 12:00 pmUrbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
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10:15 am 11:15pm141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics
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
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1:00 pmRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
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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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: John Floyd, Kwiat Group
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Friday, October 31, 2025
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Saturday, November 1, 2025
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10:15 am 11:30am141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics
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
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12:00 - 1:00 pmESB 190
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Wolfgang Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Zhanzhi Jiang, Kou Group
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4:00 - 5:00 pmLoomis Lab 141
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Friday, November 7, 2025
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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2:00 pm3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
Saturday, November 8, 2025
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10:15 am 11:30am141 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.
Monday, November 10, 2025
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12:00 - 1:00 pmESB 190
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1:00 pmRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Santiago Vargas-Daniels, Anderson Group
Thursday, November 13, 2025
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1:00 - 2:00 pmLoomis 464
Friday, November 14, 2025
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2:00 pm3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
Saturday, November 15, 2025
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10:15 am 11:30am141 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.
Monday, November 17, 2025
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12:00 - 1:00 pmESB 190
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Richard Feder (University of California, Berkeley)
11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236 -
11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Jasper Bradford, Pfaff Group
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4:00 - 5:00 pmLoomis Lab 141
Thursday, November 20, 2025
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Monday, December 1, 2025
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12:00 - 1:00 pmESB 190
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1:00 pmRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Amanda Gatto, Hughes Group
Thursday, December 4, 2025
Friday, December 5, 2025
Monday, December 8, 2025
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12:00 - 1:00 pmESB 190
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1:00 pmRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 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
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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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Sarah Hagen, Chitambar Group
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Hannah Day, Pfaff Group
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Monday, March 23, 2026
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Xinan Chen, Chitambar Group