Physics Main Calendar

Monday, February 27, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- 190 ESB
Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: Where does non-Fermi liquid transport come from?
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 464 Loomis
Nuclear Physics Seminar - Mark Neubauer (UIUC) "Graph Neural Networks for Particle Physics"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Schrödinger cat states of a 16-microgram mechanical oscillator," Yiwen Chu, ETH Zürich

Speaker: Yiwen Chu, Professor, Department of Physics, ETH Zürich
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 pm
- Kaler Classroon, Astronomy Building
Astronomy Colloquium - " Searching for B Modes with BICEP3 and BICEP Array"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

- 11:00 am
- 276 Loomis
Condensed Matter Journal Club: March Meeting Practice Talks
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 2:50 pm
- UIUC: 190 Engineering Sciences Building | SLAC: 335 McCullough Building
QSQM Research Symposium: "De Gennes narrowing in the density fluctuation spectrum of a strange metal," presented by Peter Abbamonte
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Mike Crommie (Berkeley), Title: "Imaging frozen electrons in a 2D Wigner crystal"
- Lecture

Thursday, March 2, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Bruno Balthazar (UChicago) "Geometry of Conformal Manifolds and the Inversion Formula"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 3, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Room 464
High Energy Phenomenology Seminar: Elena Pinetti (Fermilab) "Probing dark matter with cosmic voids"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- NCSA 1040
Radio Transients with ASKAP

Speaker: Prof. David Kaplan
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Designing Quantum Properties and Functionalities in Heterostructures"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
Biological Physics (iPoLS) Seminar: Paola Mera (UIUC) "It’s all about communication: how bacteria coordinate their life cycles"
- Lecture

Monday, March 6, 2023

- 1:00 pm
- 464 Loomis
Nuclear Physics Seminar - Xing Fan (Northwestern U) "Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Moment and a new Dark Photon Limit"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
IQUIST Seminar: NO SEMINAR
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Nima Lashkari (Purdue) "Black hole Information loss, wormholes, and emergent type III_1 algebras"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 pm
- Kaler Classroon, Astronomy Building
Astronomy Colloquium - "Probing the Universe’s expansion and the origin of compact object binaries with multi-messenger astronomy "
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Saturday, March 11, 2023

- 1:00 pm
Spring Vacation Begins
- Other

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

- 4:00 pm
Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium
- Lecture

Monday, March 20, 2023

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum and Quantum-Inspired Microscopy of Molecules and Materials," Mikael Backlund, UIUC

Speaker: Mikael Backlund, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 pm
- Kaler Classroon, Astronomy Building
Astronomy Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

- 11:00 am
- 276 Loomis
Condensed Matter Journal Club: "Magnetochiral Anisotropy and Cr1/3NbS2 Josephson Junctions"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Astrophysics, Gravitation and Cosmology Seminar - Sebastiano von Fellenberg (Max Planck Radioastronomy) "Young Stars in the Galactic Center"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Cynthia Keeler (Arizona State University), Title: "Three Ways To Build A Spacetime"
- Lecture

Friday, March 24, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Room 464
High Energy Phenomenology Seminar: Anson Hook (University of Maryland) "Constraining Vector Dark Matter with Neutrino Experiments"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
No Condensed Matter Seminar
- Ceremony/Service
- 2:00 pm
- 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
Biological Physics (iPoLS) Seminar: Eric Morgan (UIUC) "Science Communication and the Importance of Culture"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- 222 Loomis
Physics Careers Seminar: "Career Paths of Physics Degree Holders"
- Lecture

Monday, March 27, 2023

- 1:00 pm
- 464 Loomis
Nuclear Physics Seminar - Kyle Steffen (Indiana U.) "Investigating Fundamental Symmetries and Interactions Using Neutron Polarimetry"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Epitaxial nitride thin films for superconducting quantum circuits & the LQC," Christopher J.K. Richardson, Laboratory for Physical Sciences
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 pm
- Kaler Classroon, Astronomy Building
Astronomy Colloquium - "A New View of Molecular Gas within High-redshift Clusters"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Astrophysics, Gravitation and Cosmology Seminar - Alex van Engelen (Arizona State University) "Investigating Fundamental Symmetries and Interactions Using Neutron Polarimetry"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
- UIUC: 280 Materials Research Laboratory | SLAC: 130 McCullough Building
QSQM Junior Research Hour
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Haiyan Gao (Duke University), Title: The Structure of the Nucleon
- Lecture

Thursday, March 30, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Henry Lin (Stanford) ""
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 31, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Room 464
High Energy Phenomenology Seminar: Ben Lehmann (MIT) "Kinetic recoupling of dark matter"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- NCSA 1040
The Science of Science

Speaker: Prof. Jana Diesner
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- 3110 ESB
Thesis Defense: "Modeling Friction Force Avalanches in Molybdenum Disulfide and Spiking Neuronal Avalanches in Mouse Cortex"
- Lecture