Astronomy Department Calendar

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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  The Vera C. Rubin Observatory- A New Eye on the Universe Opens.

  3:45 - 4:45 pm

  NCSA Auditorium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

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  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Josu Aurrekoetxea (MIT) "Scalar fields around black hole binaries in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA"

  11:00 am

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  The Charles P. Slichter Memorial Colloquium - "Negotiations with Nature - What Happens When a Physicist Tries to be a Chemist."

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

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  Dark Energy Dynamics, Spatial Curvature, Neither, or Both?

  3:45 - 4:45 pm

  134 Astronomy Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

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  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Hao-Jui Kuan (UIUC) "Tidal resonance: Nonlinearities revealed by numerical relativity"

  11:00 am

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  The Physics Colloquium Eric Kuo (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) “Developing the Skills and Mindsets for Future Success Through Physics Education”

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

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  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame) "Interpreting the observables and multi messenger signals of r-process nucleosynthesis"

  11:00 am

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  The Physics Colloquium Peter Abbamonte (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) "Conformal Invariance in Strange Metals"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

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  The Ongoing Hunt for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

  3:45 - 4:45 pm

  134 Astronomy Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

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  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Jay Kalinani (UIUC) "Towards end-to-end modelling of jets from binary neutron star mergers"

  11:00 am

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  The Physics Colloquium McMillan Award: Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in twisted MoTe₂: discovery and recent advances. Jiaqi Cai (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

  4:00 pm

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

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  Icko Iben Jr. Series: The Fates of Stars Orbiting too Close to Massive Black Holes

  3:45 - 4:45 pm

  NCSA Auditorium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

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  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Takahiro Tanaka (Yukawa Institute, Kyoto University) "Evolution of super-radiant axion clouds"

  11:00 am

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  The Physics Colloquium "Chirality Meets Quantum"

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Icko Iben Jr. Series: Cosmic Gold: Neutron Star Collisions, Gravitational Waves, and the Origin of the Elements

  7:00 - 8:00 pm

  Lincoln Hall Theater

  • Seminar/Symposium