Physics Main Calendar

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: "Hybrid Superconducting Photonic Circuits," Hong Tang, Llewellyn West Jones Jr. Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics, Yale University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Mapping Cosmic Star Formation in 3D with [CII] Line-Intensity Mapping

  Time

  3:30 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Astronomy Building

  Large-scale structure (LSS) studies provide insights on the nature of dark matter, dark energy, and evolution of galaxies, which remain central questions in modern cosmology and astronomy. The CMB probes the LSS in the early Universe, galaxy surveys trace the LSS at later epochs, while ALMA and JWST have revealed the early stages of galaxy formation.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Anıl Zenginoğlu (University of Maryland) "Nonlinear evolution of gravitational waves to infinity"

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "An approach to quantum simulation of a higher form lattice gauge theory", Jason K. Elhaderi, Draper Group

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Jason K. Elhaderi, Draper Group

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Andrea Young (University of California Santa Barbara) "Superconductivity and magnetism in crystalline graphite allotropes"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 15, 2026

• Condensed Matter Journal Club: "Sliding Ferroelectricity in 2D material: From atomic motion to artificial synapses"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 3110

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 16, 2026

• Condensed Matter Seminar - "Disorder and time reversal symmetry breaking in unconventional superconductors"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Special Seminar - Avi Loeb (Harvard University) "Searching for Extraterrestrial Technological Artifacts Near Earth: Are There Packages in Our Mailbox?"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab Room 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, October 17, 2026

• Science at the Market: Physics Grad Student Association

  Time

  8:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets

  • Community Service

  

• Saturday Physics for Everyone: How Physicists Sparked a Revolution in College Teaching

  Time

  9:45 - 11:30 am

  Location

  Lobby - Loomis Laboratory Of Physics 1110 W Green St Urbana, IL 61801-3003 United States

  Join the Physics Department for this fall's Saturday Physics for Everyone on Saturday, the 19th. This in-person lecture series starts with Eric Shaffer. Breakfast will be served at 9:45am and the lecture begins at 10:15am.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, October 19, 2026

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Jacopo Gliozzi, "Long-range toric code: finite-temperature topological order in two dimensions"

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Nuclear Physics Seminar - Chun Shen (Wayne State) "Bayesian Inference in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions"

  Time

  1:00 pm   https://webtools.illinois.edu/20261002120741.action?componentId=2#

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: "Benchmarking quantum simulation at scale", Niklas Mueller, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Niklas Mueller

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Relativistic Stellar Explosions: The Landscape Revealed by Wide-field, High-cadence Optical Surveys

  Time

  3:30 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Astronomy Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Moritz Muenchmeyer (University of Wisconsin - Madison) "KSZ velocity reconstruction and AI-augmented BAO reconstruction"

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Harshvardhan Mantry, Pfaff Group

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Harshvardhan Mantry, Pfaff Group

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Peter Abbamonte (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Title"

  Time

  4:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 23, 2026

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Nirmal Ghimire, University of Notre Dame

  Time

  8:30 am

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• High Energy Physics Seminar - Ting Cheng (FNAL)

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, October 26, 2026

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Andreas Gleis (Rutgers)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Nuclear Physics Seminar - Shengquan Tuo (Vanderbilt University) " "

  Time

  1:00 pm   https://webtools.illinois.edu/20261002120741.action?componentId=2#

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Thesis Defense

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  236 Loomis

  • Lecture

  

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Hannah Manetsch, Senior AMO Physicist, Oratomic

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Hannah Manetsch

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Molecular Cloud Scale "Micro-physics" as Drivers of the Baryon Cycle and Galaxy Evolution

  Time

  3:30 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Astronomy Building

  The cycling of baryonic matter between gas phases and into / out of stellar systems is fundamental to our understanding of many astrophysical processes, from star and planet formation to galaxy evolution.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Aditya Vijaykumar (University of Chicago)

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "An optimal analysis of the product test," Jacob Beckey, Leditzky Group

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Jacob Beckey, Leditzky Group

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Gordon Baym (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Why must photons exist?: from Einstein to Bohr, Hanbury Brown-Twiss and Hong-Ou-Mandel interference"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 30, 2026

• High Energy Physics Seminar - Vincent Lee (UC San Diego)

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Physics Careers Seminar

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  • Lecture

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Jiwoong Park, University of Chicago

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Thesis Defense: "Vortex Dynamics and Anomalous Metallic Behavior in Superconducting Island Arrays"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  276 Loomis

  • Lecture

  

Saturday, October 31, 2026

• Saturday Physics for Everyone

  Time

  9:45 - 11:30 am

  Location

  Lobby - Loomis Laboratory Of Physics 1110 W Green St Urbana, IL 61801-3003 United States

  Join the Physics Department for this fall's Saturday Physics for Everyone on Saturday, the 19th. This in-person lecture series starts with Eric Shaffer. Breakfast will be served at 9:45am and the lecture begins at 10:15am.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, November 2, 2026

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Shuo Liu (Princeton)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Nuclear Physics Seminar - Whitney Armstrong (Argonne National Lab) " "

  Time

  1:00 pm   https://webtools.illinois.edu/20261002120741.action?componentId=2#

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Chong Wang, Research Faculty, Perimeter Institute

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Chong Wang

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Thesis Defense: "Portable Mesoscale Simulation: From Peptides to Nanoscale Assemblies, and Toward Whole-Cell Modeling"

  Time

  12:30 pm

  Location

  3169 Beckman

  • Lecture

  

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Hannah Sousa-Fronenberg (KICP/University of Chicago)

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Will Chistopherson, DeMarco Group

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Will Christopherson, DeMarco Group

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium McMillan Award: Patrick Ledwith (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Strong Correlations in Topological Bands"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, November 6, 2026

• High Energy Physics Seminar - Grant Remmen (Harvard)

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Thaís Trevisan, São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo (Brazil)

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, November 9, 2026

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Kendrick Lev (Harvard)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Nuclear Physics Seminar - Jean-Francois Paquet (Vanderbilt University) " "

  Time

  1:00 pm   https://webtools.illinois.edu/20261002120741.action?componentId=2#

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Thesis Defense

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  464 Loomis

  • Lecture

  

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: "Learning Ground State Observables from Quantum Experiments," Kunal Sharma, Senior Research Scientist, IBM

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Kunal Sharma

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Thesis Defense

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  236 Loomis

  • Lecture

  

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Katie Harrington (Argonne National Laboratory)

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Javier Montaner, Clark Group

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Javier Montaner, Clark Group

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Dylan Yost (Colorado State University) "Precision tests of quantum electrodynamics through hydrogen spectroscopy and vacuum birefringence"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, November 12, 2026

• Thesis Defense

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  464 Loomis

  • Lecture

  

• Thesis Defense

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  236 Loomis

  • Lecture

  

Friday, November 13, 2026

• Condensed Matter Seminar - "The tenfold way on a finite Hilbert space: topology of entanglement for qubits and fermions"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, November 14, 2026

• Saturday Physics for Everyone

  Time

  9:45 - 11:30 am

  Location

  Lobby - Loomis Laboratory Of Physics 1110 W Green St Urbana, IL 61801-3003 United States

  Join the Physics Department for this fall's Saturday Physics for Everyone on Saturday, the 19th. This in-person lecture series starts with Eric Shaffer. Breakfast will be served at 9:45am and the lecture begins at 10:15am.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, November 16, 2026

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Ruben Verresen (U Chicago)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Nuclear Physics Seminar - Frederica Capellino (Heidelberg/Stony Brook) " "

  Time

  1:00 pm   https://webtools.illinois.edu/20261002120741.action?componentId=2#

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, November 17, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: "Scanning NV Microscopy for Quantum Materials: From Magnetic Imaging to Nanoscale EPR", Huan Zhao, Eugene Wigner Distinguished Staff Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Huan Zhao

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, November 18, 2026

• IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Exact unitary designs under symmetry," Chris Vairogs, Leditzky Group

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Chris Vairogs, Leditzky Group

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Physics Careers Seminar

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  464 Loomis

  • Lecture

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Ahmet Yildiz (University of California Berkeley) "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, November 20, 2026

• Thesis Defense

  Time

  10:00 am

  Location

  276 Loomis

  • Lecture

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Riccardo Comin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, November 21, 2026

• Fall break begins

  Time

  8:30 am

  Location

  Swanlund Administration Building

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Monday, November 30, 2026

• Instruction resumes

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  I-Hotel

  • Other

  

• Thesis Defense

  Time

  10:00 am

  Location

  464 Loomis

  • Lecture

  

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Raquel Pinheiro de Almeida Queiroz (Columbia U.)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Nuclear Physics Seminar - Maria Dawid (Washington University) " "

  Time

  1:00 pm   https://webtools.illinois.edu/20261002120741.action?componentId=2#

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, December 1, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Charlotte Bottcher, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Charlotte Bottcher

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, December 2, 2026

• IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Xi Zhang, Kou Group

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Xi Zhang, Kou Group

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Brian Fields (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, December 4, 2026

• Thesis Defense

  Time

  10:00 am

  Location

  276 Loomis

  • Lecture

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Sheng Ran, Washington University

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, December 5, 2026

• Saturday Physics for Everyone

  Time

  9:45 - 11:30 am

  Location

  Lobby - Loomis Laboratory Of Physics 1110 W Green St Urbana, IL 61801-3003 United States

  Join the Physics Department for this fall's Saturday Physics for Everyone on Saturday, the 19th. This in-person lecture series starts with Eric Shaffer. Breakfast will be served at 9:45am and the lecture begins at 10:15am.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, December 7, 2026

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Shiwei Zhang

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, December 8, 2026

• Planetary Architectures and Insights Towards Planet Formation

  Time

  3:30 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Astronomy Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, December 9, 2026

• Last Day of Instruction, Fall Semester

  Time

  All Day

  • Other

  

• Biological Physics Seminar: Ruobo Zhou (Penn State)

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Lecture

  

• Thesis Defense

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  236 Loomis

  • Lecture

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Doug Natelson (Rice University) "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, December 11, 2026

• Final Exams Begin

  Time

  8:30 am

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Friday, December 18, 2026

• First Day of Instruction, Winter Session

  Time

  All Day

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Friday, January 15, 2027

• Winter Session Final Exams Begin

  Time

  8:30 am

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Tuesday, January 19, 2027

• First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester

  Time

  All Day

  • Other

  

Thursday, February 11, 2027

• Biological Physics Seminar: Shixin Liu (Rockefeller University)

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Lecture

  

Saturday, March 13, 2027

• Spring Vacation Begins

  Time

  1:00 pm

  • Other

  

Monday, March 22, 2027

• Instruction resumes

  Time

  7:00 am

  • Other

  

Wednesday, March 24, 2027

• IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Phillip Kim, Pfaff Group

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Philip Kim, Pfaff Group

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, April 21, 2027

• IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Sonia Rani, Pfaff Group

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Sonia Rani, Pfaff Group

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, May 5, 2027

• Instruction Ends

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Swanlund Administration Building

  • Other

  

Thursday, May 6, 2027

• Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Swanlund Administration Building

  • Other

  

Friday, May 7, 2027

• Final Exams Begin

  Time

  All Day

  • Other

  

Saturday, May 15, 2027

• Commencement

  Time

  8:30 am

  Location

  Memorial Stadium

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Monday, May 17, 2027

• First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1

  Time

  All Day

  • Other

  

Monday, June 14, 2027

• First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2

  Time

  All Day

  • Other