Physics Main Calendar

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Towards properties-on-demand in quantum materials", Richard Averitt, University of California, San Diego

Speaker: Richard Averitt, Professor, University of California, San Diego
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Wei Ku, "Universal low-temperature fluctuation of unconventional superconductors revealed"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 - 4:30 pm
- NCSA Auditorium
New Frontiers in Transient Astrophysics: Gravitational-Wave Multi-Messenger Sources and R-process Nucleosynthesis
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois
Food For Thought: Fahad Mahmood and Peter Fritzsche
- Lecture
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Ultra High-Q tunable microring resonators by slow light", Priyash Barya, Goldschmidt Group/Electrical and Computer Engineering

Speaker: Priyash Barya, Goldschmidt Group/Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Biwei Dai (Princeton, IAS) “Deep Generative Models for Bayesian Inference in Astrophysics”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: "Open Questions on the Dynamics of Black Holes"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 7:00 - 8:00 pm
- Lincoln Hall Theater
The Universe In Us
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 27, 2025

- 9:00 am
- 236 Loomis
Thesis Defense: "Testing General Relativity and Cosmology with Gravitational Waves: Polarizations, Propagation Speeds, and Backgrounds"
- Lecture
- 5:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Undergraduate Physics Seminar: "Black Holes in a Condensed Matter Laboratory", David Balut

My name is David Bałut. I am a physics junior working in the condensed matter department, advised by Professors Peter Abbamonte, Barry Bradlyn, Philip Phillips, and Thomas Faulkner.
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 28, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040
Flaring Activity of Sgr A* at infrared with JWST

Speaker: Dr. Farhad Yusef-Zadeh
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Kitaev spin model, disguised Ising chain, and beyond"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 31, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - "Ab-Initio Downfolding for Strongly Correlated Systems: Benchmarks and Applications"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Probing Topology and Correlation by Milli-Kelvin Microwave Microscopy", Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin

Speaker: Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

- 10:00 am
- 280 MRL
Thesis Defense: "Beyond Linear Responses: Exploring Magnetic Materials through Nonlinear Terahertz Spectroscopy"
- Lecture
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Samantha Isaac, Kwiat Group

Speaker: Samantha Isaac, Kwiat Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Marc Favata (Montclair State University)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2025

- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - Daniel Shoemaker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 1024 Chemistry Annex
Thesis Defense: ""
- Lecture

Monday, April 7, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Eun Ah Kim, Cornell University
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "On the Extended Church-Turing Thesis, Quantum Mechanics, and Beyond, Bill Fefferman, University of Chicago

Speaker: Bill Fefferman, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 464 Loomis
Thesis Defense: "Novel Effects in Self-Interacting Scalar Field Dark Matter Solitons"
- Lecture

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Xiaochuan (David) Ding, Clark Group

Speaker: Xiaochuan (David) Ding, Clark Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Andreas Hoecker (CERN), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 11, 2025

- 11:00 am
- 464 Loomis
High Energy Physics Seminar - Qianshu Lu (IAS)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040
CAPS Seminar: Peter Nugent

Speaker: Dr. Peter Nugent
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
Physics Careers Seminar: ""
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Nonlinear Coupled Magnonics"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, April 12, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Room 1013, ECE Building, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61820
Saturday Engineering for Everyone: Quantum Steampunk - The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow
- Lecture

Monday, April 14, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Trithep Devakul, Stanford University
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Randy Owen, Kou Group

Speaker: Randy Owen, Kou Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Marin Soljacic (MIT), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 17, 2025

- 11:00 am
- 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
Physics Careers Seminar: "Anderson Group Careers in Physics Panel"
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- LLP 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Vladimir Narovlansky, Princeton
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 18, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040
CAPS Seminar: SPHEREx and Galaxy Formation

Speaker: Dr. Jordon Mirocha
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 21, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Gil Rafael, California Institute of Technology
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Engineering (Useful) Trapped-Ion Quantum Technologies", Sara Mouradian, University of Washington

Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Ashwith Prabhu, Goldshmidt Group

Speaker: Ashwith Prabhu, Goldshmidt Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Ben Hooberman (UIUC), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 24, 2025

- 1:00 pm
- LLP 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Chis Akers, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, April 25, 2025

- 11:00 am
- 464 Loomis
High Energy Physics Seminar - Ben Hooberman (UIUC)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
Physics Careers Seminar: ""
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - Nandini Trivedi, The Ohio State University
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 28, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Special Condensed Matter Seminar - Zhanybek Alpichshev, IST Austria
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: Alexandre Bourassa, Google Quantum AI

Speaker: Alexandre Bourassa, Senior Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Fahad Mahmood (UIUC), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 2, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
Physics Careers Seminar: ""
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - Despina Louca, University of Virginia
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: Srinivasan Arunachalam, IBM

Speaker: Srinivasan Arunachalam, Senior Research Scientist, IBM
- Seminar/Symposium