Physics Main Calendar

Monday, September 28, 2026

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Pallab Goswami (Northwestern), "Symmetry, quantum information, and real-time dynamics of spin clusters."

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Nuclear Physics Seminar - Tej Kanwar (University of Edinburgh) "Machine Learning for Lattice Gauge Theories"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Magnetism: The Two-Way Street Between Quantum Materials and Quantum Hardware," Arnab Banerjee, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Arnab Banerjee

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Do Rocky Exoplanets Retain Their Atmospheres?

  Time

  3:30 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  NCSA Auditorium

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Giuseppe Ficarra (Università della Calabria) "Turbulence and Magnetic Reconnection near Black Holes: from Kinetic Scales to Horizon-Scale Images"

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Complete characterization of perfect quantum strategies in quantum magic rectangle games," Evelyn Wu, Clark Group

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Evelyn Wu, Clark Group

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Geoff Greene (University of Tennessee) "The Neutron Lifetime, Why do we keep measuring it? & Why do we keep getting it “wrong”?"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Terrestrial Worlds of Other Stars

  Time

  7:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Lincoln Hall Theater

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 1, 2026

• Condensed Matter Journal Club: "Von Neumann Algebras with Microscopic Data"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 3110

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 2, 2026

• High Energy Physics Seminar - Louis Hamaide (Johannes Gutenberg Universitat) "Searching for Ultralight Dark Matter with Mechanical Quantum Sensors"

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Andre Schleife, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, October 3, 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, October 5, 2026

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Jaewon Kim

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Hall Ferromagnetism in a Cavity Vacuum." Ceren Dag, Assistant Professor of Physics, Indiana University

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Ceren Dag

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• As the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Graduates from Construction to Discoveries

  Time

  3:30 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Astronomy Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Paul Duffell (Purdue University) "Binary Accretion"

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Sujeet Bhalerao, Leditzky Group

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Sujeet Bhalerao, Leditzky Group

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Alessandra Buonanno (Albert Einstein Institute) "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 8, 2026

• Condensed Matter Journal Club: "Probing the Momentum Structure of Superconducting Order Parameter with STM"

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 3110

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 9, 2026

• The Life and Science of Anthony Leggett. A Conference and Memorial in honor of Tony J. Leggett

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Loomis 464 & ESB 190 (TBC)

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, October 10, 2026

• The Life and Science of Anthony Leggett. A Conference and Memorial in honor of Tony J. Leggett

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Loomis 464 & ESB 190 (TBC)

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Sunday, October 11, 2026

• The Life and Science of Anthony Leggett. A Conference and Memorial in honor of Tony J. Leggett

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Loomis 464 & ESB 190 (TBC)

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

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

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Anıl Zenginoğlu (University of Maryland)

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Jason Elhaderi, Draper Group

  Time

  11:00 - 11:50 am

  Location

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

  Speaker: Jason Elhaderi, Draper Group

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• The Physics Colloquium: Andrea Young (University of California Santa Barbara) "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 16, 2026

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Peter Hirschfeld, University of Florida

  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

• 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, October 19, 2026

• The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Jacopo Gliozzi

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: 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

• 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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

• Condensed Matter Seminar - Jiwoong Park, University of Chicago

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

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

  

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

  

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

• Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Hannah 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) "Title TBD"

  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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

Tuesday, November 17, 2026

• IQUIST Seminar: Huan Zhao, 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

  

• 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

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

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, November 30, 2026

• 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

  

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

• 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

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

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

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