Physics Main Calendar

Monday, April 28, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Special Condensed Matter Special Seminar - "Tracing light: on Linear and Nonlinear Terahertz Polaritonics in Quantum Paraelectrics"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
  • Loomis 464

  Special Biological Physics Seminar- "Chaotic worms: from the dynamics of animal behavior towards a physics of complex, evolved systems"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

• 

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

  IQUIST Seminar: "Below Threshold Quantum Error Correction", Alexandre Bourassa, Google Quantum AI

  Speaker: Alexandre Bourassa, Senior Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Subroto Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore), Electron hydrodynamics: "Strong violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law and vortical effects"

  • 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

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

  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Towards remote entanglement schemes with trapped ions", Jianlong Lin, Goldschmidt/DeMarco Group

  Speaker: Jianlong Lin, Goldschmidt/DeMarco Group

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Lizhong Zhang (Flatiron Institute) "Modeling Black Hole Accretion with Radiation GRMHD: A Parameter Survey and Connection to Observations"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Fahad Mahmood (UIUC), "Seeing the World in a Grain of Sand, and Eternity in a Picosecond – Urbana style!"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 2, 2025

• • 12:30 pm
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)

  Physics Careers Seminar: "The Start of a Career at a National Lab"

  • Lecture
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Bonds and Bands"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 3110 ESB

  Thesis Defense: "A New Fixed Point for Mottness"

  • Lecture

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

• 

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

  IQUIST Seminar: "Overview of learning and Testing Stabilizer States", Srinivasan Arunachalam, IBM

  Speaker: Srinivasan Arunachalam, IBM

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • 464 Loomis

  Thesis Defense: "On the Exact Renormalization of States in Quantum Field Theory"

  • Lecture
• 

  • 3:45 - 4:45 pm
  • 134 Astronomy Building

  Probing the Galactic Baryon Cycle in our Solar Neighborhood (and Beyond)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

• • All Day

  Instruction Ends

  • Other
• • 2:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Special Seminar - "Quantum Computation using Majorana-Based Topological Qubits"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 pm   10/09/2024
  • ESB 3110

  Condensed Matter Journal Club: TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 8, 2025

• • All Day

  Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect

  • Other
• • 9:00 am
  • 236 Loomis

  Thesis Defense: "Fundamental Physics in Extreme-Gravity Environments"

  • Lecture

Friday, May 9, 2025

• • All Day

  Final Exams Begin

  • Other
• • 1:00 pm
  • Supercon 1002

  Condensed Matter Special Seminar - Michael Manley (Oak Ridge), "Phason Dominated Thermal Conductivity in an Incommensurate Crystal""

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
  • 1002 Supercon

  Thesis Defense: "Universe-Scale Universality: Avalanche Statistics From Nanoindentation to Active Galactic Nuclei"

  • Lecture

Monday, May 12, 2025

• • 3:00 pm
  • 236 Loomis

  Thesis Defense: "Hamiltonian Engineering with Synthetic Dimensions"

  • Lecture

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 464 Loomis

  Thesis Defense: "Simulation Algorithms, Floquet Phenomena and Superconducting Qubits"

  • Lecture

Thursday, May 15, 2025

• 

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

  IQUIST Seminar: "Ultralong-lived spins in silicon carbide", Cyrus Zeledon, University of Chicago

  Speaker: Cyrus Zeledon, University of Chicago

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 16, 2025

• • 2:30 pm
  • 276 Loomis

  Thesis Defense: "Unconventional Superconductivity in Topological Insulator and Magnetic Josephson Junctions"

  • Lecture

Saturday, May 17, 2025

• • 8:30 am

  Commencement

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, May 19, 2025

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1

  • Other

Thursday, May 29, 2025

• • 10:00 am
  • CLSL B102

  Thesis Defense: "Machine Learning-Driven Electronic Models for the Coarse-Grained Resolution of Soft Materials"

  • Lecture