The Grainger College of Engineering Physics

Physics Main Calendar

Monday, March 3, 2025

- 11:00 am
- ESB Lab 3110
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Avalanche Dynamics in Interdependent Networks and Beyond
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, 236 Loomis
Special Physics Seminar - Confining Dark Sectors: from Novel Dynamics to Rich Phenomenology
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum controls and error mitigation from geometric space curves", Ed Barnes, Professor of Physics and Moore Faculty Fellow, Virginia Tech University

Speaker: Ed Barnes, Professor of Physics and Moore Faculty Fellow, Virginia Tech - "Quantum control and error mitigation from geometric space curves",
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
Cosmology from DESI's First Year of Large-Scale Structure Measurements
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

- 3:00 pm
- ESB 3110
Condensed Matter Journal Club: A 2e-ARPES study of the iron pnictide superconductor EuRbFe4As4
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: “Nu-e or not Nu-e? And other fundamental questions"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Friday, March 7, 2025

- 12:00 - 12:30 pm
- NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040
CAPS Seminar: Millimeter-wave transient detection in the Galactic plane with SPT-3G

Speaker: Yujie Wan
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 - 1:00 pm
- NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040
CAPS Seminar: Effect of molecular hydrogen self-shielding modeling on galaxy formation in cosmological simulation

Speaker: Thịnh Nguyễn
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Memory and Plasticity in Amorphous Solids"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4:30pm
- 1803 Philo Rd Urbana, IL
STEM at The Well Experience Inc. in Urbana, IL.

IQUIST is hosting STEM exhibits for The Well Experience Inc. Kids to STEM program. Kids to STEM is a program of The Well Experience Inc for their K-5th grade students.
- Community Service

Monday, March 10, 2025

- 10:00 am
- 280 MRL
Thesis Defense: "Floquet-Bloch Manipulation of Correlated Topological Materials"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - "Bootstrapping thermal equilibrium"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Approximate Unitary k-Designs from Shallow, Low-Communication Circuits", Nicholas LaRacuente, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University - Bloomington

Speaker: Nicholas LaRacuente, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University - Bloomington
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
Discoveries of Interstellar PAHs from Cold Clouds to the Solar System
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

- 10:00 am
- 280 MRL
Thesis Defense: "Nonlinear THz Emission Spectroscopy of Spin and Charge Dynamics in Correlated Materials"
- Lecture
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Spin-photon entanglement of a single Yb-171 atom in the telecom band", Lintao Li, Covey Group

Speaker: Lintao Li, Covey Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Eve Vavagiakis (Duke University) "A new generation of millimeter and submillimeter observations for cosmology and astrophysics"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 13, 2025

- 5:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Undergraduate Physics Seminar: "How do Cells Make Decisions?", Arya Desai
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 14, 2025

- 11:00 am
- LLP 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Special Seminar: "TQFT gravity and ensemble holography"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Universal Features of Emergent Electronic Fractals in Quantum Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 4:30pm
- 1803 Philo Rd Urbana, IL
STEM at The Well Experience Inc. in Urbana, IL.

IQUIST is hosting STEM exhibits for The Well Experience Inc. Kids to STEM program. Kids to STEM is a program of The Well Experience Inc for their K-5th grade students.
- Community Service

Saturday, March 15, 2025

- 1:00 pm
Spring Vacation Begins
- Other

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 24, 2025

- 7:00 am
Instruction resumes
- Other
- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Ben Wieder, "Topological Superconductor Hierarchies from Superconducting Space Groups and Charge-Resolved Topology"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Nuclear Physics Seminar - Adrian Dumitru (Baruch College) "Entanglement correlations in double quark PDFs"
- Seminar/Symposium

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

Friday, March 28, 2025

- 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
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- Lecture

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