The Grainger College of Engineering Physics

Physics Main Calendar

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Instruction Ends

All Day
- Other

Thursday, May 7, 2026

Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect

All Day
- Other
Thesis Defense: "Search for Higgs Boson Pair Production Decaying Into b¯bWW* 1-Lepton Final State at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector and Machine Learning Techniques"

2:00 pm

204 Loomis
- Lecture
Condensed Matter Journal Club: "Reformulate HK Model Via Local Current Algebra"

4:00 pm

ESB 3110
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 8, 2026

Final Exams Begin

All Day
- Other

Saturday, May 9, 2026

Science at the Market: Physics Graduate Student Association

8:00 am - 12:00 pm

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

Monday, May 11, 2026

Thesis Defense: "Measurement of Muon Anomalous Precession Frequency in Run-4/5/6 of the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment"

9:00 am

222 Loomis
- Lecture

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Thesis Defense: "Ecological Landscapes for Microbiomes: Sparsity, Circuits, and Scalable Inference"

11:00 am

136 Loomis
- Lecture

Thursday, May 14, 2026

Thesis Defense: "Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of Strong Correlations in Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides and Strain-Engineered Graphene"

9:30 am

236 Loomis
- Lecture

Saturday, May 16, 2026

Science at the Market: UIUC Astronomy Department

8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
- Community Service
Commencement

8:30 am

Memorial Stadium
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, May 18, 2026

First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1

All Day
- Other

Saturday, May 23, 2026

Science at the Market: Champaign-Urbana Astronomical Society

8:00 am - 12:00 pm

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

Thursday, May 28, 2026

Thesis Defense

2:30 pm

Virtual (Zoom)
- Lecture
Condensed Matter Journal Club: TBD

3:00 pm

ESB 3110
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, May 30, 2026

Science at the Market: LabEscape

8:00 am - 12:00 pm

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

Monday, June 1, 2026

Thesis Defense

2:00 pm

276 Loomis
- Lecture

Friday, June 5, 2026

Thesis Defense

12:00 pm

236 Loomis
- Lecture

Monday, June 8, 2026

Thesis Defense

11:00 am

276 Loomis
- Lecture

Thursday, June 11, 2026

Condensed Matter Journal Club: TBD

3:00 pm

ESB 3110
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, June 15, 2026

Thesis Defense

10:00 am

236 Loomis
- Lecture

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2

All Day
- Other
Thesis Defense

1:00 pm

464 Loomis
- Lecture

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Thesis Defense

10:00 am

236 Loomis
- Lecture

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Thesis Defense

9:00 am

236 Loomis
- Lecture

Thursday, July 9, 2026

Thesis Defense

10:00 am

236 Loomis
- Lecture

Monday, August 24, 2026

First Day of Instruction, Fall Semester

All Day

your class
- Other

Saturday, November 21, 2026

Fall break begins

8:30 am

Swanlund Administration Building
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, November 30, 2026

Instruction resumes

All Day

I-Hotel
- Other

Wednesday, December 9, 2026

Last Day of Instruction, Fall Semester

All Day
- Other

Friday, December 11, 2026

Final Exams Begin

8:30 am
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, December 18, 2026

First Day of Instruction, Winter Session

All Day
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, January 15, 2027

Winter Session Final Exams Begin

8:30 am
- Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, January 19, 2027

First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester

All Day
- Other

Saturday, March 13, 2027

Spring Vacation Begins

1:00 pm
- Other

Monday, March 22, 2027

Instruction resumes

7:00 am
- Other

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