Physics - String Theory

Monday, October 13, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Yin-Chen He (Stonybrook), "A Fuzzy Sphere Journey: from 3D Ising to Chern-Simons-matter CFT "

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

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

  IQUIST Seminar: "Broadband quantum-limited amplification and near-ultrastrong nonlinear light-matter coupling with superconducting circuits", Kevin O'Brien, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Speaker: Kevin O'Brien, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB 3110

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - Darius Shi (Stanford)), "Chiral superconductivity from non-Abelian anyon fluids"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

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

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame) "Interpreting the observables and multi messenger signals of r-process nucleosynthesis"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium Peter Abbamonte (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) "Conformal Invariance in Strange Metals" TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 16, 2025

• • 1:00 - 2:00 pm
  • Loomis 464

  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Pratik Rath (UC Berkeley), "A Black Hole Airy Tail"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 17, 2025

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

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Robert McGehee (University of Minnesota)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Atom-by-atom characterization of 2D materials with electron ptychography"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

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

  IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum trajectories and stochastic excursions of thermal machines," Gabriel Landi, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester

  Speaker: Gabriel Landi, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

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

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Jay Kalinani (UIUC)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium McMillan Award: Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in twisted MoTe₂: discovery and recent advances

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 24, 2025

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

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Oz Amram (Fermilab) "AI, Anomaly Detection and the Search for the Unknown at CMS"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 27, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Sukbum Chung (University of Seoul)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

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

  IQUIST Seminar: "Point Defects in Crystals: Trapped Atoms for Quantum Technologies," Kai-Mei Fu, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington

  Speaker: Kai-Mei Fu, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

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

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Isaac Legred (UIUC)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium "Chirality Meets Quantum"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 31, 2025

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

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Aurora Ireland (Stanford) "A Classical-to-Quantum Transition for Inflationary Perturbations"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Barry Bradlyn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 3, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Yves Kwan (Dallas)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

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

  IQUIST Seminar: Wolfgang Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

  Speaker: Wolfgang Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB Lab 3110

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - Eytan Grosfield (Ben Gurion University, Israel), "Shining Light on Bose-Hubbard Models: From Equilibrium Theory to Exotic Steady States"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

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

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Takahiro Tanaka (Yukawa Institute, Kyoto University)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium Smitha Vishveshwara (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 6, 2025

• • 1:00 - 2:00 pm
  • Loomis 464

  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Luca Delacrétaz (U.Chicago)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 7, 2025

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

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Reza Ebadi (University of Maryland)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - Haidan Wen, Argonne National Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 10, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Olexei Motrunich (CalTech)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

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

  IQUIST Seminar: Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

  Speaker: Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

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

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Alex Drlica Wagner (U. Chicago/FNAL)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium Neil Cornish (Montana State University) TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 14, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - James McIver, Columbia University

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 17, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Tyler Ellison (Purdue)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

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

  IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Computing Enhanced Sensing," Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Speaker: Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

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

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Richard Feder (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium McMillan Award: Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effects in Rhombohedral Graphene

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 20, 2025

• • 1:10 - 2:00 pm
  • Loomis 464

  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Andrea Dei (U.Chicago)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, December 1, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Yiming Wu (Stanford)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

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

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar -

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium Bonnie Fleming (Fermi Lab) TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, December 5, 2025

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

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Kevin Langhoff (MIT)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, December 8, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Veit Elser (Cornell)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

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

  IQUIST Seminar: Liang Jiang, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

  Speaker: Liang Jiang, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium Adam Kaufman (CU Boulder) TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium