Physics Main Calendar

Monday, November 27, 2023

- All Day
Instruction resumes
- Other
- 9:00 - 10:00 am
Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Special Seminar: The Thermoelectric Effect in Twisted Bilayer Graphene within the Heavy Fermion Picture
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Computational Benchmarks for Noisy Quantum Processors
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:30 pm
- 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
Biological Physics / iPoLS / STC-QCB Seminar: Prasanth Kannanganattu (UIUC MCB) "NcRNA-mediated gene regulation during cancer progression "
- Lecture

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Photogeneration of Electron Spin Qubit Pairs in Molecular Materials for Quantum Information Applications," Michael Wasielewski, Northwestern University

Speaker: Michael R. Wasieleski, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 3110
Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Special Seminar: Fluctuating fermions: charge fluctuations and fermionic topological order between a metal and Wigner-Mott insulator
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy
"Constraining the Chemistry of Planet Formation in the Era of HST and JWST"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Learning Dynamic Quantum Circuits for State Preparation," Faisal Alam, Clark Group

Speaker: Faisal Alam, Clark Group, Department of Physics, UIUC
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- ESB 3110
The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Models of Deconfined Criticality for Square and Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnets
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 464
Astrophysics, Gravitation and Cosmology Seminar - Mark Alford (U. Wash. STL) "Desperately seeking equilibrium: the dynamics of warm nuclear matter"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 280 MRL
Final Defense
- Informational
- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
- UIUC: 2008 Superconductivity Center| SLAC: 130 McCullough Building
QSQM Junior Research Hour: "A Balancing Act Between Phonons and Spins", Dr. Stefan Lohaus, California Institute of Technology

A Balancing Act Between Phonons and Spins, Dr. Stefan Lohaus, California Institute of Technology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: "It's all about mass"
- Lecture

Thursday, November 30, 2023

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 3110
The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Two-dimensional non-Fermi liquids with quenched disorder
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- Loomis Room 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Information Geometry and the Renormalization Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Undergraduate Physics Seminar: "Josephson Junction: Building Block of a Transmon Qubit", Harshvardhan Mantry

Harshvardhan is a senior in Physics with a minor in Mathematics. He is an enthusiastic researcher, exploring fields such as superconductivity, quantum computing, and hybrid quantum systems. His curiosity extends to the nuanced interconnection between physics and mathematics, reflecting his interest in cryptography, condensed matter physics, and quantum field theory.
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, December 1, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Room 464
High Energy Phenomenology Seminar - Ken Van Tilburg (NYU) - "Extended-Path Intensity Correlation (EPIC)"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040
CAPS Seminar: Rich cosmological signatures of composite dark matter

Speaker: Anoma Ganguly, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Electronic pseudogap from fluctuations in low dimensional materials"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, December 2, 2023

- 9:45 - 11:30 am
- 141 Loomis Laboratory
Saturday Physics for Everyone: Ballooning, Antarctica, and the Baby Pictures of our Universe
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, December 4, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Measurement Induced Criticality in Monitored Quantum Systems
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 464 Loomis
Nuclear Physics Seminar -Riccardo Longo (UIUC) "Probing proton size fluctuations and nuclear effects via dijet measurements in heavy ion collisions at the LHC"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:30 pm
- 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
Biological Physics / iPoLS / STC-QCB Seminar: Mark Anastasio (UIUC BioE) "Objective assessment of biomedical imaging technologies in the age of deep learning"
- Lecture

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Searching for Dark Matter and Dark Energy with Mechanical Systems," Swati Singh, Assistant Professor, University of Delaware

Speaker: Dr. Swati Singh, Assistant Professor, University of Delaware
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Loomis 276
Condensed Matter Journal Club: "Approximate Unitary t-designs"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy
Uncovering the Elusive Origin of Fast Radio Bursts and other Radio Transients
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

- All Day
Last Day of Instruction, Fall Semester
- Other
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Progress on the Testbed Ion Trap Networking Experiment", Mari Cieszynski, DeMarco Group

Speaker: Mari Cieszynski, DeMarco Group, Department of Physics, UIUC
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Dynamical defects in a two-dimensional Wigner crystal: self-doping and kinetic magnetism
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Astrophysics, Gravitation and Cosmology Seminar - Leo Stein (University of Mississippi) "Resolving memory in NR, and importance of BMS frames for modeling"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium
- Lecture

Thursday, December 7, 2023

- All Day
Reading Day - IT No Change Period in effect
- Other

Friday, December 8, 2023

- 8:30 am
Final Exams Begin
- Ceremony/Service
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040
CAPS Seminar: Unraveling hierarchical galaxy formation: the potential from galaxy stellar halos in deep imaging surveys

Speaker: Dr. Tjitske Starkenburg
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- 464 Loomis
Thesis Defense: "Information Theory and Mereology with Applications to Biology"
- Lecture

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Simulating Strong-Field Quantum Electrodynamics on Near-Term Quantum Computers," Luis Hidalgo, Draper Group

Speaker: Luis Hidalgo, Draper Group, Department of Physics, UIUC
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
- UIUC: 280 Materials Research Laboratory | SLAC: 130 McCullough Building
QSQM Junior Research Hour
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, December 15, 2023

- 2:00 pm
- 276 Loomis
Thesis Defense: "CEF-Phonon Interactions in Rare Earth Sesquioxides: Pressure-, Temperature-, and Magnetic Field-Dependent Raman Scattering Studies"
- Lecture

Monday, December 18, 2023

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Winter Session
- Ceremony/Service