Physics Main Calendar

Monday, June 30, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 276 Loomis

  Physics Careers Seminar: "Rewriting My Trajectory: Reflections on Moving from Physics to Policy"

  • Lecture

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • 236 Loomis

  Thesis Defense: "Exploring Tunable Nonlinearities for Phase-Sensitive Systems"

  • Lecture

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

• • 9:00 am
  • 276 Loomis

  Thesis Defense: "Understanding and Modeling the Mechanics of Quasi-2D Biological Tissues Through Morphological Cues"

  • Lecture

Friday, July 4, 2025

• • All Day

  Holiday July 4, 2025

  • Ceremony/Service

Saturday, July 5, 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: LabEscape

  • Community Service

Monday, July 7, 2025

• • 10:00 am
  • 276 Loomis

  Thesis Defense: "Momentum-Resolved Electron Dynamics in the Strange Metal Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x"

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • 276 Loomis

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  • Lecture

Friday, July 11, 2025

• • 12:00 - 12:30 pm
  • NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040

  CAPS Seminar: The Vera Rubin Observatory LSST Recommendation System for Spectroscopic Follow-up (RESSPECT)

  Speaker: Amanda Wasserman

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:30 - 1:00 pm
  • NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040

  CAPS Seminar: Catching Changing-Look AGN Transitions with the Zwicky Transient Facility

  Speaker: Margaret Verrico

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, July 12, 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: Molecular & Cellular Biology Graduate Student Association

  • Community Service

Saturday, July 19, 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: AAP Summer Research Fellowship Program

  • Community Service

Friday, July 25, 2025

• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • ESB Lab 3110

  The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - "Understanding chiral gapped phases from entanglement bootstrap" (Xiang Li, UC SanDiego)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, July 26, 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: Women and Gender Minorities in Physics Association

  • Community Service

Monday, July 28, 2025

• • 9:30 am
  • 276 Loomis

  Thesis Defense: "Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries of Neutral Pions and Eta Mesons in 200 GeV Polarized p+p Collisions with sPHENIX"

  • Lecture

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

• • 9:00 am
  • 276 Loomis

  Thesis Defense: "Phase-Sensitive Probes of Extended Topological Josephson Junctions"

  • Lecture

Friday, August 1, 2025

• • 10:00 am
  • 1000 HMNTL

  Thesis Defense: "Quenching and Lasing Effects in Erbium Doped Fibers Made with Alkaline Earth Fluoride Nanoparticles"

  • Lecture
• • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • ESB Lab 3110

  The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - "Non-Abelian Fractionalizations and Anyon Superconductivity in Small-Angle Twisted Bilayer MoTe2" (Gil Young Cho, POSTECH University of Science and Technology (Pohang, Korea))

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, August 2, 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: Cancer Center at Illinois

  • Community Service