Physics Main Calendar

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
- 12:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Marc Favata (Montclair State University) "Topics in testing GR"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- ESB 3110
Condensed Matter Journal Club: Conformally invariant charge fluctuations in a strange metal
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 3, 2025

- 5:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Undergraduate Physics Seminar: Dhruv Srivastava
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2025

- 9:00 am
- 280 MRL
Thesis Defense: "Nonlinear THz Emission Spectroscopy of Spin and Charge Dynamics in Correlated Materials"
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Discovery and Defects in Optical and Chiral Quantum Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 1024 Chemistry Annex
Thesis Defense: ""
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- ESB Lab 3110
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Shivaji Sondhi (Oxford), "Towards a theory of quantum games"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, April 5, 2025

- 11:00 am 3:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 Loomis Lab 1110 W. Green Street, Urbana IL
Physics Van 30th Anniversary
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, April 7, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Eun Ah Kim, "Non-Abelian anyons on synthetic platforms"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "On the Extended Church-Turing Thesis, Quantum Mechanics, and Beyond, Bill Fefferman, University of Chicago

Speaker: Bill Fefferman, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 464 Loomis
Thesis Defense: "Novel Effects in Self-Interacting Scalar Field Dark Matter Solitons"
- Lecture
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
Connections between nuclear activity and galaxy evolution: Can you quench a galaxy without shredding a few stars along the way?
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Classical Post-processing on Unitary Block Optimization Scheme for Better VQE Optimization", Xiaochuan (David) Ding, Clark Group

Speaker: Xiaochuan (David) Ding, Clark Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- ESB 3110
Condensed Matter Journal Club: Information Theoretic Phase Transitions in Many Body Physics
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Andreas Hoecker (CERN), "Physics at the high-energy frontier — Deciphering the Higgs sector"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

- 5:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Undergraduate Physics Seminar: "An Introduction to Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion", Michael Furlin

Michael is a third-year undergrad doing a dual-degree in physics and nuclear, plasma, and radiological engineering. He helps develop and test novel plasma diagnostics for inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) plasma sources in the Fusion Studies Laboratory at UIUC.
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 11, 2025

- 11:00 am
- 464 Loomis
High Energy Physics Seminar - Qianshu Lu (IAS) "The Quality/Cosmology Tension for a Post-Inflation QCD Axion"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040
CAPS Seminar: The La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey

Speaker: Dr. Peter Nugent
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Nonlinear Coupled Magnonics"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, April 12, 2025

- 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Electrical Computer and Engineering Building, 306 N Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801
World Quantum Day Celebration
- Reception/Open House
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Room 1013, ECE Building, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61820
Saturday Engineering for Everyone: Quantum Steampunk - The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow
- Lecture
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Room 1013, ECE Building, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61820
Saturday Engineering for Everyone: Quantum Steampunk - The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow, Nicole Yunger Halper, University of Maryland

Speaker: Nicole Yunger Halpern, University of Maryland
- Lecture

Monday, April 14, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Trithep Devakul, Stanford University
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

- 10:00 am
- The Rhondale Tso Seminar Room Loomis 236
Special Biological Physics Seminar-Hyun Youk
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Floquet Topology and Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Quantum Matter", Babek Saradjeh, Professor of Physics, Indiana University

Speaker: "Floquet Topology and Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Quantum Matter," Babek Saradjeh, Professor of Physics, Indiana University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 426 Loomis
Thesis Defense: ""
- Ceremony/Service
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
Gas Evolution in Protoplanetary Disks
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

- 10:00 - 10:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Special Seminar: "Light, Silicon, and Steel: PsiQuantum's Path to Utility-Scale, Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing, Aaron Fluitt, Senior Director of Technology Partnerships, PsiQuantum

Speaker: Aaron Fluitt, Senior Director of Technology Partnerships, PsiQuantum
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Andreev Bound State Spectroscopy using circuit-QED techniques", Randy Owen, Kou Group

Speaker: Randy Owen, Kou Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Ariane Dekker (University of Chicago) "Dark matter insights from the smallest galaxies"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Marin Soljacic (MIT), Title TBA
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 17, 2025

- 11:00 am
- 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
Physics Careers Seminar: "Anderson Group Careers in Physics Panel"
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- LLP 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Vladimir Narovlansky, Princeton
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 18, 2025

- 11:00 am
- 464 Loomis
High Energy Physics Seminar - Heliudsen Bernardo (Brown)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040
CAPS Seminar: SPHEREx and Galaxy Formation

Speaker: Dr. Jordon Mirocha
- 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
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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

- 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

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

- 8:30 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Avery Tishue (UIUC)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: Ashwith Prabhu, Goldshmidt Group

Speaker: Ashwith Prabhu, Goldshmidt Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Ben Hooberman (UIUC), Title TBA
- 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

- 11:00 am
- 464 Loomis
High Energy Physics Seminar - Ben Hooberman (UIUC)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
Physics Careers Seminar: ""
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - Nandini Trivedi, The Ohio State University
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 28, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Special Condensed Matter Seminar - Zhanybek Alpichshev, IST Austria
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

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

- 8:30 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Lizhong Zhang (Flatiron Institute)
- 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