Physics Main Calendar

Monday, September 29, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Operation of a high frequency, phase slip qubit," Cheeranjeev Purmessur, Kou Group

Talk Title: "Operation of a high frequency, phase slip qubit" Speaker: Cheeranjeev Purmessur, Kou Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Paul Goldbart (Stony Brook U.), "Random proximity measurements in quantum fluids and the hidden organization they induce"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Nuclear Physics Seminar - Matthew Hoppesch (UIUC) “Probing new scales of path length-dependent energy loss via a dijet balance measurement in light-ion collisions”
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Studying multipartite entanglement through the lens of symmetries," Felix Leditzky, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- NCSA Auditorium
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory- A New Eye on the Universe Opens.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- NCSA Auditorium
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory- A New Eye on the Universe Opens.

Speaker: Dr. Christopher Stubbs
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Josu Aurrekoetxea (MIT) "Scalar fields around black hole binaries in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Universal distillation of quantum resources," Xinan Chen, Chitambar Group

Speaker: Xinan Chen, Chitambar Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- MRL 1002
Condensed Matter Special Seminar - "Exploring electronic band structure and collective excitations in quantum materials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Charles P. Slichter Memorial Colloquium - "Negotiations with Nature - What Happens When a Physicist Tries to be a Chemist."
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 2, 2025

- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Xuchen Cao (UIUC), "One Sided Black Holes in DSSYK Model: An Algebraic Approach"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- ESB 3110
Condensed Matter Journal Club: Thermodynamics of dilute anyon gases from fusion constraints
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Undergraduate Physics Seminar: "Quantum Communication Protocols Utilizing Higher Dimensional Embedding", Hussain Razvi
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 3, 2025

- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Strain induced magnetism and superconductivity in Heusler membranes"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 222/276 Loomis
WGMPA Physics Careers Alumni Panel
- Lecture

Saturday, October 4, 2025

- 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
Science at the Market: Illinois Mathematics Lab
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, October 6, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Zohar Nussinov (WashU), "Inhomogeneous phases and glasses- a many-body perspective"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Nuclear Physics Seminar - Jen-Chieh Peng (UIUC) “Probing the partonic structure of pion and kaon with dilepton production”
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum computing and simulation with multimode superconducting random-access memories," Srivatsan Chakram, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University

Speaker: Srivatsan Chakram, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB Lab 3110
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Bruno Uchoa (University of Oklahoma), "Quantum geometry in flat bands"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
Dark Energy Dynamics, Spatial Curvature, Neither, or Both?
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Hao-Jui Kuan (UIUC) "Tidal resonance: Nonlinearities revealed by numerical relativity"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Faithful quantum teleportation via a nanophotonic nonlinear Bell state analyzer," Joshua Akin, Fang Group

Speaker: Joshua Akin, Fang Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium Eric Kuo (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) “Developing the Skills and Mindsets for Future Success Through Physics Education”
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 9, 2025

Friday, October 10, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
High Energy Physics Seminar - Xiaojun Yao (University of Washington) "Quantum Computing of Real-Time Correlators in 2+1D SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Observation of constructive interference at the edge of quantum ergodicity"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Rong Ma (Harvard University) "Modern Nonlinear Embedding Methods Unpacked: Empowering Biological Discoveries with Statistical Insights"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, October 11, 2025

- 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
Science at the Market: Graduate Students in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (GEEB)
- Community Service

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
- 1:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Nuclear Physics Seminar - Chiara Bissolotti (Argonne National Lab) "Advancing TMD Extractions: Neural Networks and Lattice QCD Inputs"
- 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 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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 - 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
- 2:00 pm
- ESB 3110
Condensed Matter Journal Club: TBD
- 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
- 2:00 pm
- 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Jamie Williamson (Scripps Research) “Structure and Dynamic Analysis of Bacterial Ribosome Assembly in Cells.”
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, October 18, 2025

- 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
Science at the Market: Carl Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
- Community Service

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
- 1:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Nuclear Physics Seminar - Adam Takacs (Heidelberg) "Advancing the Theory of Jet Modification in the Quark–Gluon Plasma"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
The Ongoing Hunt for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
- 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
- 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 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium McMillan Award: Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in twisted MoTe₂: discovery and recent advances
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 23, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- ESB 3110
Condensed Matter Journal Club: TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 24, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
High Energy Physics Seminar - Oz Amram (Fermilab)
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, October 25, 2025

- 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
Science at the Market: Physics Graduate Student Association
- Community Service
- 10:15 am 11:15pm
- 141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics
Spooky Action and Beyond: The Power and Promise of Quantum Entanglement

In this talk, we’ll explore what entanglement is, how to create, shape, and detect it, and how we're learning to harness it for revolutionary technologies. We’ll also learn why it deeply troubled some of the greatest minds in science.
- Lecture

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
- 1:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Nuclear Physics Seminar - Matt Caplan (Illinois State University) "Progress in Neutron Star Crusts"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 204 Loomis
Thesis Defense: ""
- Lecture

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 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Isaac Legred (UIUC)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium "Chirality Meets Quantum"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 30, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- ESB 3110
Condensed Matter Journal Club: TBD
- 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