Phys Test Master calendar

Monday, April 28, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Siebel 3401
THEORY SEMINAR: Zhengcheng Huang, "Faster Algorithms for Reverse Shortest Path in Unit-Disk Graphs and Related Geometric Optimization Problems: Improving the Shrink-and-Bifurcate Technique"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Special Condensed Matter Special Seminar - "Tracing light: on Linear and Nonlinear Terahertz Polaritonics in Quantum Paraelectrics"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- 300 Noyes Lab
Wonwoo Kang's Final Defense
- Other
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Umang Mathur, “ Equivalences for Causal Concurrency”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
Quantum Working Group Seminar: Approximate orthogonality of permutation operators, with application to quantum information

Speaker: Jacob Beckey
- 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
- 4:00 - 5:50 pm
- 2036 Campus Instructional Facility
Women in Engineering Social Craft
- Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

- 10:00 - 11:00 am
- B02 CSL Auditorum & Zoom
Dr. Carmelo Sferrazza ECE Faculty Candidate Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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
- 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
- 4:00 - 5:30 pm
- Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) 2039
Reflecting on the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and the Illinois Energy Landscape

This panel convenes energy researchers and activists to reflect on lessons learned from the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in Illinois, and on present-day issues in our energy landscape.
- Lecture

Thursday, May 1, 2025

- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 1002 ECEB - Grainger Auditorium
Architectures and Topologies for High-Frequency, High-Density Power Conversion
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Altgeld 245
Department Colloquium: Curve counts and cluster varieties

Speaker: Gus Schrader (Northwestern)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- Coble Hall, Conference Room 108 -- 801 S. Wright Street
Seminar Series - Behnam Ben Taleblu
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 2, 2025

- 8:30 - 9:40 am
- 182 Armory Building
Effective, Valid Peer Observations for Formative and Summative Assessments

Speaker: Cheelan Bo-Linn (Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 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
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other

Monday, May 5, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Siebel 3401
Theory Seminar: Euiwoong Lee, "Theory and applications of complete Min-CSPs: A case study in Correlation Clustering"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2124 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Halil Kilicoglu, "Enhancing Rigor and Integrity of Biomedical Research using Natural Language Processing"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Preslav Nakov, “ Towards Truly Open, Language-Specific, Safe, Factual, and Specialized Large Language Models”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Music Building Auditorium, 1114 W. Nevada
CAS/MillerComm, Amy Williams, Music, Drama, and the Piano

American composer and pianist Amy Williams will speak about her work, especially its connection to poetry, art, and dramatic literature. Bassoon Professor Ben Roidl-Ward joins for a concert premiering Professor Williams’ Last Lines for bassoon and piano.
- Lecture
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- 1022 Lincoln Hall
Quantum Working Group Seminar: Approximate orthogonality of permutation operators, with application to quantum information

Speaker: Jacob Beckey
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

- 10:30 am
- Siebel Center 201 N Goodwin Ave- Room 3401
Chengpeng Wang- Title: Neuro-Symbolic Static Analysis for Reliable Software Systems
- Lecture
- 10:30 am
- Siebel Center 201 N Goodwin Ave- Room 3401
Chengpeng Wang- Title: Neuro-Symbolic Static Analysis for Reliable Software Systems
- Lecture
- 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
- 2:00 pm
- 241, Altgeld Hall
Teaching and Diversity Seminar
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Special Seminar - "Quantum Computation using Majorana-Based Topological Qubits"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Ilan Shomorony, "An Information Theory for Out-of-Order Information: Applications in DNA Data Storage and Genomics"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 0216
Haoqi Zhang "Computational Ecosystems: Tech-enabled Communities to Advance Human Values"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 8, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Altgeld 245
Department Colloquium: Analysis and Geometry on Singular Spaces

Speaker: Paolo Piazza (Rome)
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 9, 2025

- 1:00 pm
- Supercon 1002
Condensed Matter Special Seminar - Michael Manley (Oak Ridge), "Phason Dominated Thermal Conductivity in an Incommensurate Crystal""
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, May 10, 2025

- All Day
University Appointments Refresh

UIF pulls updated Faculty Staff data each month from University Banner System
- Other

Sunday, May 11, 2025

- All Day
University Appointments Refresh

UIF pulls updated Faculty Staff data each month from University Banner System
- Other

Monday, May 12, 2025

- All Day
University Appointments Refresh

UIF pulls updated Faculty Staff data each month from University Banner System
- Other
- 12:00 pm
- DCL 2240
Final Defense: "Thermo-Optic Phase Spectroscopy Techniques for Enhanced Thermal Conductance Characterization of Semiconductor Chips"
- Other

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

- All Day
University Appointments Refresh

UIF pulls updated Faculty Staff data each month from University Banner System
- Other

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

- All Day
University Appointments Refresh

UIF pulls updated Faculty Staff data each month from University Banner System
- Other
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Masooda Bashir, "Privacy, Security, and Trust: Aligning Computing Solutions with Human Needs"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 15, 2025

- All Day
University Appointments Refresh

UIF pulls updated Faculty Staff data each month from University Banner System
- Other
- 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
- 4:00 - 4:50 pm
- Altgeld Hall 143
Grothendieck Polynomials of Inverse Fireworks Permutations

Speaker: Jack Chou (University of Florida)
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 16, 2025

- All Day
University Appointments Refresh

UIF pulls updated Faculty Staff data each month from University Banner System
- Other
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other

Saturday, May 17, 2025

- All Day
University Appointments Refresh

UIF pulls updated Faculty Staff data each month from University Banner System
- Other
- 6:00 am - 12:00 pm
TED Impact Release

TED will be unavailable for a period of time on Saturday, May 17th, to upgrade TED. Online Giving and and Hyland OnBase® will be available. Please contact UIF AIMS at aims@uif.uillinois.edu for any questions regarding this outage.
- Other
- 6:00 - 11:00 am
UIF TED Impact Release

TED will be down for a period of time on Saturday, May 17th to install software enhancements and fixes. Hyland OnBase and Online Giving will be available. Please contact UIF AIMS at aims@uif.uillinois.edu for any questions regarding this outage.
- Informational

Sunday, May 18, 2025

- All Day
University Appointments Refresh

UIF pulls updated Faculty Staff data each month from University Banner System
- Other
- 6:00 - 11:30 am
UIF Monthly Server Patching

UIF Monthly Server Patching
- Other
- 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
- I-Hotel Ballroom
Graduation Bruncheon
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, May 19, 2025

- All Day
University Appointments Refresh

UIF pulls updated Faculty Staff data each month from University Banner System
- Other

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

- All Day
University Appointments Refresh

UIF pulls updated Faculty Staff data each month from University Banner System
- Other

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

- All Day
University Appointments Refresh

UIF pulls updated Faculty Staff data each month from University Banner System
- Other

Thursday, May 22, 2025

- All Day
University Appointments Refresh

UIF pulls updated Faculty Staff data each month from University Banner System
- Other

Friday, May 23, 2025

- All Day
University Appointments Refresh

UIF pulls updated Faculty Staff data each month from University Banner System
- Other

Friday, May 30, 2025

- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other