Physics Main Calendar

Friday, April 18, 2025

• • 9:30 am - 6:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Fractional Chern Insulators Workshop - 2025

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Heliudsen Bernardo (Brown) "Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity: Causality constraints, anomalies, and neutrinos."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040

  CAPS Seminar: Mapping the near-infrared sky with SPHEREx

  Speaker: Dr. Jordan Mirocha

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, April 19, 2025

• • 9:30 am - 6:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Fractional Chern Insulators Workshop - 2025

  • 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), "Self-correcting GKP qubit and gates in a driven-dissipative circuit"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Special Careers Event: ""

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • 464 Loomis

  Nuclear Physics Seminar - Gordon Baym (UIUC) "The puzzle of angular momentum conservation in beta decay and related processes"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 - 7:00 pm
  • Illini Union, South Lounge, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana

  Luminous: An Evening of Poetry & Prose With National Poet-Engineer Richard Blanco and Physicist-Artist Smitha Vishveshwara

  A book reading & signing featuring two art-science creators, with special guests. Richard Blanco, national poet laureate, will read from "Homeland of My Body." Artist-Physicist Smitha Vishveshwara will read from "Two Revolutions: Einstein’s Relativity and Quantum Physics." Books available for purchase. Light refreshments served. Free and open to all.

  • Other

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

• • 10:00 am
  • The Rhondale Tso Seminar Room Loomis 236

  Special Biological Physics Seminar- "Single molecules, imaging, tracking, and the diffraction limit for finite photons."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 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
• 

  • 3:45 - 4:45 pm
  • 134 Astronomy Building

  Dust in Supernovae, Galaxies and its Implications for Cosmology

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Avery Tishue (UIUC) "Fundamental Physics with kSZ Tomography"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 pm   10/09/2024
  • ESB 3110

  Condensed Matter Journal Club: Effects of Na3Bi charge-compensated and charge-uncompensated slabs on double Fermi arcs and Fermi loops

  • 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

• • 12:00 pm
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Physics Careers Seminar: ""

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Detection of anyon braiding through pump-probe spectroscopy"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 28, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Special Condensed Matter Special Seminar - "Tracing light: on Linear and Nonlinear Terahertz Polaritonics in Quantum Paraelectrics"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
  • Loomis 464

  Special Biological Physics Seminar- "Chaotic worms: from the dynamics of animal behavior towards a physics of complex, evolved systems"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

• 

  • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: "Below Threshold Quantum Error Correction", Alexandre Bourassa, Google Quantum AI

  Speaker: Alexandre Bourassa, Senior Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 3:45 - 4:45 pm
  • 134 Astronomy Building

  Quest for the Most Distant Universe – Today and Beyond

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Jianlong Lin, Goldschmidt/DeMarco Group

  Speaker: Jianlong Lin, Goldschmidt/DeMarco Group

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Lizhong Zhang (Flatiron Institute) "Modeling Black Hole Accretion with Radiation GRMHD: A Parameter Survey and Connection to Observations"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 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
• • 2:00 pm
  • 3110 ESB

  Thesis Defense: ""

  • Lecture

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
• • 3:30 pm
  • 464 Loomis

  Thesis Defense: ""

  • Lecture

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

• • All Day

  Instruction Ends

  • Other
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Geraldine Cochran (Ohio State University), "Leveraging Familial Capital to Improve Graduate Students Experiences"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 8, 2025

• • All Day

  Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect

  • Other
• • 9:00 am
  • 236 Loomis

  Thesis Defense: ""

  • Lecture

Friday, May 9, 2025

• • All Day

  Final Exams Begin

  • Other

Monday, May 12, 2025

• • 3:00 pm
  • 276 Loomis

  Thesis Defense: ""

  • Lecture

Friday, May 16, 2025

• • 2:30 pm
  • 276 Loomis

  Thesis Defense: ""

  • Lecture

Saturday, May 17, 2025

• • 8:30 am

  Commencement

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, May 19, 2025

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1

  • Other

Monday, June 9, 2025

• • 9:00 am
  • 276 Loomis

  Thesis Defense: ""

  • Lecture

Monday, June 16, 2025

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2

  • Other

Thursday, June 19, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 276 Loomis

  Thesis Defense: ""

  • Lecture

Monday, July 7, 2025

• • 10:00 am
  • 276 Loomis

  Thesis Defense: ""

  • Lecture

Monday, August 25, 2025

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Fall Semester

  • Other

Saturday, November 22, 2025

• • 8:30 am

  Fall break begins

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, December 1, 2025

• • All Day

  Instruction resumes

  • Other

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

• • All Day

  Last Day of Instruction, Fall Semester

  • Other

Thursday, December 11, 2025

• • All Day

  Reading Day - IT No Change Period in effect

  • Other

Friday, December 12, 2025

• • 8:30 am

  Final Exams Begin

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, December 22, 2025

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Winter Session

  • Ceremony/Service

Friday, January 16, 2026

• • 8:30 am

  Final Exams Begin

  • Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester

  • Other

Saturday, March 14, 2026

• • 1:00 pm

  Spring Vacation Begins

  • Other

Monday, March 23, 2026

• • 7:00 am

  Instruction resumes

  • Other