Physics Main Calendar

Monday, October 28, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: "The entanglement bootstrap view of conformal symmetry"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Undergraduate Physics Seminar: "Electro-Optic Materials for Microwave-Optical Quantum Transduction", River Chen
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Many-body dynamics in driven-dissipative superconducting quantum circuits," Alex Ruichao Ma, Purdue University

Speaker: Alex Ruichao Ma, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
Massive Black Holes: Insights from Cosmological Simulations
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Towards a 171Yb Atom Array in a Near-Concentric Cavity," Aakash, Covey Group

Speaker: Aakash, Covey Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Adrian Chung (UIUC) "Rotating black-hole METRICS and fundamental physics"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- Loomis 222
Condensed Matter Journal Club: Prethermal SPT phases and discrete time quasicrystals in a Rydberg array
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 31, 2024

- 10:00 am
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - "Quantum LDPC codes with transversal gates"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- Loomis Room 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: "Proper Time Correlators in Field Theory and Gravity"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Undergraduate Physics Seminar: "An Overview of Superconducting Circuits for Quantum Computation", Shishir Sudhaman
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 1, 2024

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040
CAPS Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Quantum photonics with rare-earth materials"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 4, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: "Topo-photovoltaics"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 464 Loomis
Nuclear Physics Seminar - Wenbin Zhao (LBL) "Connections between Heavy-ion Collisions and Electron-Ion Collisions"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Thin film intermetallics: new structure-types and unconventional superconductivity," Joseph Falson, California Institute of Technology

Speaker: Joseph Falson, Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science, California Institute of Technology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 464 Loomis
Thesis Defense: ""
- Lecture

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Public Quantum Network: Dealing with People and Polarization Qubits over Optical Fiber," Jaehoon Choi, Lorenz Group

Speaker: Jaehoon Choi, Lorenz Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Fatemeh Taherasghari (UIUC) "Probing Gravitational Lorentz Invariance: Einstein-Aether Theory and Compact Binary Dynamics in Post-Minkowskian Framework"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- Loomis 222
Condensed Matter Journal Club: Unoccupied topological surface states of magnetic Weyl semimetal candidate EuCd2As2
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: "Quantum networking with solid-state emitters"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 7, 2024

- 5:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Undergraduate Physics Seminar: "Tuning into the dark side: the resonance approach to dark matter detection", Aarav Mande
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 8, 2024

- 11:00 am
- Room 464
High Energy Physics Seminar - Jure Zupan (University of Cincinnati) - "Rare muon transitions and searches for new physics"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040
CAPS Seminar: Gravitational wave observations with LIGO and Virgo
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Spin dynamics with materials, atoms, and quantum computers: from Heisenberg chains at infinite temperature to triangular lattice antiferromagnets at 20 mK"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- 222 Loomis
Thesis Defense: "Strain Superlattice Effects on the Electronic Properties of Graphene"
- Lecture

Saturday, November 9, 2024

- 10:00 - 11:30 am
- LOBBY - Loomis Laboratory of Physics, University of Illinois: 1110 W Green St Urbana, IL 61801 United States
Saturday Physics for Everyone: Physics of Music, and Music as a Physicist

Join the Physics Department for this fall's Saturday Physics for Everyone on Saturday, the 9th. This in-person lecture series continues with Yonatan Kahn's "Physics of Music, and Music as a Physicist". Breakfast will be served at 10AM and the lecture begins at 10:15AM. We hope to see you there!
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 11, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: "Quantum Oscillations from Bosonization"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 464
Theoretical Minimum Seminar: "Topology and Condensed Matter"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Thermally stabilized superconductivity and photon kinetics in Josephson junction arrays," Andrew Higginbotham, University of Chicago

Speaker: Andrew Higginbotham, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Chicago
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:45 - 4:45 pm
- 134 Astronomy Building
Pre-peak Emission in Tidal Disruption Event
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

- 9:00 am
- 464 Loomis
Thesis Defense: "Stoichiometric Rare-Earth Materials at Cryogenic Temperatures as a Platform for Quantum Memory Devices"
- Lecture
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Irreducibly Interacting Topology through a Hubbard hack," Dmitry Manning-Coe, Bradlyn Group

Speaker: Dmitry Manning-Coe, Bradlyn Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - “The stability problem for extremal black holes”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: "When a Symmetry Breaks"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:00 - 8:00 pm
- Link Gallery, School of Art & Design
Resident Artist in Physics Program (RAPP) reception

A reception for the Resident Artist in Physics Program (RAPP) will be held on Wednesday, November 13, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Link Gallery at the School of Art & Design. This event is open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.
- Exhibition

Thursday, November 14, 2024

- 11:00 am
- ESB 190
The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Special Seminar: "Theory of Coulomb driven nematicity in a multi-valley two-dimensional electron gas"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- Loomis Room 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: "Black hole interiors from the boundary"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
Physics Careers Seminar: "The Meandering Path of Multidisciplinary Science at Argonne National Laboratory"
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
- 280 MRL
Thesis Defense: ""
- Lecture
- 5:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Undergraduate Physics Seminar: "On the Hunt for BaryoGenesis: the nEDM @ SNS Project", Shiv Chanan
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 15, 2024

- 10:00 am
- 2049 Natural History Building
Thesis Defense: "The Physics, Economics, and Political Economy of Climate Risk"
- Lecture
- 11:00 am
- Room 464
High Energy Physics Seminar - Scott Haselschwardt - (University of Michigan) "New Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment’s Search for Dark Matter"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040
CAPS Seminar: SPHEREx: Extending Our Understanding of How New Worlds Obtain The Basic Ingredients for Life
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 276 Loomis
Physics Careers Seminar: "Exceptional Service: Careers at Sandia National Laboratories"
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Feeling the strain: longitudinal and transverse fields for electric quadrupole order"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 16, 2024

- 10:00 - 11:30 am
- LOBBY - Loomis Laboratory of Physics, University of Illinois: 1110 W Green St Urbana, IL 61801 United States
Saturday Physics for Everyone: Weights and Measures

Join the Physics Department for this fall's Saturday Physics for Everyone on Saturday, the 1th. This in-person lecture series continues with Professor Chen-Yu Liu's "Weights and Measures". Breakfast will be served at 9:45AM and the lecture begins at 10:15AM. This event is free and open to everyone: friends, family, kids and grandparents. We hope to see you there!
- Seminar/Symposium