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Physics Main Calendar

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Monday, January 30, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- 190 ESB
Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: Non-Fermi liquid behaviors and superconductivity in the antiferromagnetic quantum critical metal
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Error correction in quantum computers and beyond," Aleksander Kubica, Amazon Web Services Center for Quantum Computing

Speaker: Aleksander Kubica, Research Scientist, Amazon Web Services Center for Quantum Computing
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 pm
- Kaler Classroon, Astronomy Building
Astronomy Colloquium - "Unveiling the initial conditions for planet formation"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 276 Loomis
Physics Careers Seminar: "Physics Career Opportunities at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory"
- Lecture

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

- 11:00 am
- 276 Loomis
Condensed Matter Journal Club: "Majorana Bound States in Systems with Magnetic Textures"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Astrophysics, Gravitation and Cosmology Seminar - Rita Teixeira da Costa (Princeton and Cambridge) "Revisiting mode stability for Kerr(-dS) black holes"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 2:50 pm
- UIUC: 190 Engineering Sciences Building | SLAC: 335 McCullough Building
QSQM Research Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Chen-Yu Liu (UIUC): "Goldilocks and the three bears or: How we made the most precise neutron lifetime measurement and why."
- Lecture

Thursday, February 2, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- 464 Loomis
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: De Sitter Black Holes and the Euclidean Path Integral
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, February 3, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Room 464
High Energy Phenomenology Seminar: Anastasia Sokolenko (KICP) "Intergalactic medium as a probe of fundamental physics"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Anomalies in (2+1)D symmetry-enriched topological phases"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 6, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- 190 ESB
Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: Observer driven phase transitions
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Robust decoding of quantum orders in NISQ devices," Jong Yeon Lee, University of California Santa Barbara

Speaker: Jong Yeon Lee, University of California Santa Barbara
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 pm
- Kaler Classroon, Astronomy Building
Astronomy Colloquium - "Time-domain Astrophysics in the Era of Big Data"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

- 11:00 am
- 276 Loomis
Condensed Matter Journal Club: "Harnessing Measurements in Quantum Matter"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Astrophysics, Gravitation and Cosmology Seminar - Ron Tso (UIUC) "Constraining Screened Massive Gravitons with Next Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors"
- 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
Physic Colloquium: Marc Kamionkowski (Johns Hopkins), Title: Hubble trouble and the early Universe
- Lecture

Thursday, February 9, 2023

Friday, February 10, 2023

- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "More layers are different: designing quantum matter with assembled heterostructures"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 13, 2023

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Computational Advantage: Recent Progress and Next Steps," Xun Gao, Harvard University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 pm
- Room 276
High Energy Phenomenology Special Seminar: John Ellis (KCL/CERN) "Atom Interferometer experiments to search for ultralight dark matter and gravitational waves"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 pm
- Kaler Classroon, Astronomy Building
Astronomy Colloquium - "Cosmological probe combination for current and future surveys"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Kate Scholberg (Duke University), Title: Scattering in Neutrino Alley
- Lecture

Thursday, February 16, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- 190 ESB
Special Institite for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: Constructive approaches to frustrated magnetism: Moiré and Measurements
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, February 17, 2023

- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - Pengjie Wang, Princeton University
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 20, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- 190 ESB
Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: Han Ma
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

- 9:00 am
- 2008 MRL
Thesis Defense: "Development of Superconducting Microwave Resonators for Terahertz Intensity Mapping From Balloon And Space"
- Lecture
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
IQUIST Seminar: Sandy Irani, University of California, Irvine

Speaker: Sandy Irani, Professor, Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 pm
- Kaler Classroon, Astronomy Building
Astronomy Colloquium - "Transforming a “Static” View of Galaxy Clusters into a Full Dynamic Picture"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

- 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: Emanuele Berti (Johns Hopkins), Title: "Agnostic black hole spectroscopy"
- Lecture

Thursday, February 23, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- 190 ESB
Special Institite for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: Daniel Parker
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 24, 2023

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- NCSA 1040
LSST

Speaker: Prof. Beth William
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - Yihang Zeng, Cornell University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
Biological Physics (iPoLS) Seminar: Paola Mera (UIUC) "It’s all about communication: how bacteria coordinate their life cycles"
- Lecture

Monday, February 27, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- 190 ESB
Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: Hart Goldman
- 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
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Astrophysics, Gravitation and Cosmology Seminar - Susanne Staggs (Princeton) ""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 2:50 pm
- UIUC: 190 Engineering Sciences Building | SLAC: 335 McCullough Building
QSQM Research Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Mike Crommie (Berkeley), Title TBA
- Lecture

Friday, March 3, 2023

- 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