IQUIST Master Calendar

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

- 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 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Optimal Sample Complexity of Quantum Hypothesis Testing and its Private Variant," Theshani Nuradha, Leditzky Group

Speaker: Theshani Nuradha, Leditzky Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 1022 Lincoln Hall
Quantum Working Group Seminar: Testing product states, quantum Merlin-Arthur games and tensor Optimisation

Speaker: Yueying Wu
- 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

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

- 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 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Jierui Hu, Fang Group

Speaker: Jierui Hu, Fang Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 1022 Lincoln Hall
Quantum Working Group Seminar: A Classifying Space for Phases of Matrix Product States

Speaker: Daniel Spiegel (Harvard)
- 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

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

- 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 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: John Floyd, Kwiat Group

Speaker: John Floyd, Kwiat Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 1022 Lincoln Hall
Quantum Working Group Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium "Chirality Meets Quantum"
- 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 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Zhanzhi Jiang, Kou Group

Speaker: Zhanzhi Jiang, Kou Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 1022 Lincoln Hall
Quantum Working Group Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium Smitha Vishveshwara (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) TBD
- 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 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Santiago Vargas-Daniels, Anderson Group

Speaker: Santiago Vargas-Daniels, Anderson Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 1022 Lincoln Hall
Quantum Working Group Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium Neil Cornish (Montana State University) TBD
- 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

- 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 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Jasper Bradford, Pfaff Group

Speaker: Jasper Bradford, Pfaff Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 1022 Lincoln Hall
Quantum Working Group Seminar
- 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

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 1022 Lincoln Hall
Quantum Working Group Seminar
- 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 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Amanda Gatto, Hughes Group

Speaker: Amanda Gatto, Hughes Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- 1022 Lincoln Hall
Quantum Working Group Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium Bonnie Fleming (Fermi Lab) TBD
- 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 - 4:50 pm
- 1022 Lincoln Hall
Quantum Working Group Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium Adam Kaufman (CU Boulder) TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Sarah Hagen, Chitambar Group

Speaker: Sarah Hagen, Chitambar Group
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Hannah Day, Pfaff/Kahn Group

Speaker: Hannah Day, Pfaff Group
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

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

Speaker: Xinan Chen, Chitambar Group
- Seminar/Symposium