Materials Research Laboratory

IQUIST at Engineering Open House
Recurring

All Day 3/31/2023 - 4/1/2023

Lobby - Loomis Laboratory, 1110 W Green St, Urbana, IL

Join the Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center at Engineering Open House for a day filled with quantum information science-based activities and events.

Reception/Open House

FINAL DEFENSE, Kianoush Falahkheirkhah, "Digital Chemical Pathology"

10:00 am 4/3/2023

4269 Beckman Institute

Seminar/Symposium

Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: "Monitoring Quantum Dynamics"

12:00 pm 4/3/2023

190 ESB

Seminar/Symposium

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum-enhanced interferometric imaging: A step toward quantum-enhanced very-long-baseline interferometry for astronomy," Brian Smith, University of Oregon

11:00 - 11:50 am 4/4/2023

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Brian Smith, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Oregon

Seminar/Symposium

I-MRSEC IRG2 meeting
Recurring

2:00 pm 4/4/2023

2008 MRL and zoom

Meeting

Professor Robert Gilliard, Massachusettes Institute of Technology, "The Cationization Strategy in Main-Group Chemistry: From Bond Activation to Luminescent Materials" (I)

3:30 pm 4/4/2023

Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Photon-photon interaction mediated by a virtual photon in nonlinear photonic circuits" Mengdi Zhao, Fang Group

12:00 - 12:50 pm 4/5/2023

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Mengdi Zhao, Fang Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC

Seminar/Symposium

QSQM Research Symposium: "Chemical origins and experimental probes of defects and domains in semimetallic and Dirac materials Bi2Te3 and (TaSe4)2I"

2:00 - 2:50 pm 4/5/2023

UIUC: 190 Engineering Sciences Building | SLAC: 335 McCullough Building

Seminar/Symposium

Physics Colloquium: Lucas Wagner (UIUC), Title: Linking simulations at the subatomic level to macroscopic (or slightly smaller) physics

4:00 pm 4/5/2023

Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

Lecture

FINAL DEFENSE, Susannah Miller , ""Tunable Latency by Catalyst Encapsulation for Silicone Crosslinking"

4:00 pm 4/5/2023

100 Lincoln Hall

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE, Ryan Miller , "Microfluidic-engineered antioxidant crystals for biologics manufacturing"

5:10 pm 4/5/2023

1024 Chem Annex

Seminar/Symposium

CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Nohemy Celis Chance, UIUC, "Increasing Probiotic Stickiness Mitigates the Effects of Inflammatory Bowel Disease"

12:00 pm 4/6/2023

217 Noyes Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Emanuel Tutuc, University of Texas, Austin

Condensed Matter Seminar - "Tunneling and Interlayer Coherence in Twist-Controlled van der Waals Heterostructures"

1:00 pm 4/7/2023

ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

Biological Physics (iPoLS) Seminar: Fang Huang (Purdue University) "Ultra‐high resolution structural and molecular imaging of cells and tissues"

2:00 pm 4/7/2023

3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).

Lecture

Matthew Gilbert, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: "Something with Topology and Magnetism"

12:00 pm 4/10/2023

190 ESB

Seminar/Symposium

IQUIST Seminar Series featuring Dr. Roni Harnik on April 11 2023 at 11am in 190 Engineering Sciences Building

IQUIST Seminar: "New Particle Searches with Nonlinear Optics," Roni Harnik, Fermilab

11:00 - 11:50 am 4/11/2023

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Roni Harnik, Senior Scientist, Quantum Theory Department Head, Fermilab; Science Thrust Leader, Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center (SQMS)

Seminar/Symposium

IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Excited-state properties of oxygen vacancies near α-Al2O3 (0001) surfaces from first principles and quantum defect embedding," Vijaya Begum-Hudde, Schleife Group

12:00 - 12:50 pm 4/12/2023

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Vijaya Begum-Hudde, Schleife Group, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC

Seminar/Symposium

QSQM Junior Research Hour: “1/4 is the new 1/2: Interaction-induced Unification of Quantum Anomalous and Spin Hall Effects”, Peizhi Mai

1:00 - 2:00 pm 4/12/2023

UIUC: 280 Materials Research Laboratory | SLAC: 130 McCullough Building

Seminar/Symposium

Professor Timothy Berkelbach, Columbia University, Electronic Excitations in Nanomaterials: New Theories and Methods

2:00 - 3:00 pm 4/12/2023

CLSL B-102

Seminar/Symposium

Physics Colloquium: Title; "Symmetry in Quantum Field Theory"

4:00 pm 4/12/2023

Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

Lecture

Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar: "Fractional Quantum Hall edge modes from topological fluid dynamics"

11:00 am 4/13/2023

ESB 3110

Seminar/Symposium

CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Diego Orea, UIUC, "Tick-Tock, Hack the Clock: Modulating the Circadian Rhythm with Small Molecules"

12:00 pm 4/13/2023

217 Noyes Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Shrayesh Patel, University of Chicago, "Leveraging the Electrochemically Properties of Redox-Active Particles for Energy Storage" (M)

3:30 pm 4/13/2023

Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

CHBE/OXE Research Symposium and Scholarship Awards Ceremony

All Day 4/14/2023

Illini Union Ballroom

Other

World Quantum Day

All Day 4/14/2023

Campus Instructional Facility & Superconductivity Center

Join the Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center (IQUIST) for an evening filled with quantum information science-based activities and events.

Seminar/Symposium

MRL Spanish Conversation Group
Recurring

12:00 pm 4/14/2023

280 MRL

Social/Informal Event

Axel Hoffmann, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Condensed Matter Seminar - "Magnetic Matchmaking: Hybrid Magnon Modes"

1:00 pm 4/14/2023

ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

Biological Physics (iPoLS) Seminar: Yingjie Zhang (UIUC) "Imaging the hidden species in liquid: solvation layers, small molecules, and beyond "

2:00 pm 4/14/2023

3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).

Lecture

Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: "One-Dimensional Electron Systems and Light"

12:00 pm 4/17/2023

190 ESB

Seminar/Symposium

Professor John McCutcheon, Arizona State University, "The origins and end points of cell-in-cell relationships"

4:00 pm 4/17/2023

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

IQUIST Seminar: "The theory of quantum information: Channels, Capacities, and all that," Graeme Smith, University of Colorado Boulder

11:00 - 11:50 am 4/18/2023

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Graeme Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder

Seminar/Symposium

CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Michael Doherty, University of California Santa Barbara (Su), "Integrated Chemical Reaction Process Systems: From Alan Turing to Martin Feinberg"

2:00 pm 4/18/2023

116 Roger Adams Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

I-MRSEC IRG2 meeting
Recurring

2:00 pm 4/18/2023

2008 MRL and zoom

Meeting

IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "A device for routing arbitrary microwave quantum states in waveguide quantum electrodynamics," Xi Cao, Pfaff Lab

12:00 - 12:50 pm 4/19/2023

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Xi Cao, Pfaff Lab, Department of Physics, UIUC

Seminar/Symposium

Physics Colloquium: Title: 1, 2, 3, ∞, Random Organization, Random Close Packing, Jamming in n dimensions

4:00 pm 4/19/2023

Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

Lecture

Informational Webinar: CHBE Master of Engineering in Chemical Engineering Leadership

8:00 pm 4/19/2023

Informational

CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Shelley Minteer, University of Utah (Su), Enzymatic Bioelectrocatalysis for Electrosynthesis"

2:00 pm 4/20/2023

116 Roger Adams Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

CANCELLED - Biological Physics (iPoLS) Seminar: Minjoung Kyoung (University of Maryland) "Functional regulation of 4D metabolic network between multienzyme glucosome condensates and mitochondria "

2:00 pm 4/21/2023

3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).

Lecture

IQUIST at Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
Recurring

7:00 - 10:00 pm 4/21/2023

Pine Lounge, Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801

Film Screening

IQUIST at Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
Recurring

7:00 - 10:00 pm 4/22/2023

Pine Lounge, Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801

Film Screening

Professor Vivian Yam, Hong Kong University, "From Simple Discrete Metal-Ligand Motifs to Supramolecular Assembly, Nanostructures and Morphologies" (I)

7:00 pm 4/24/2023

Seminar/Symposium

IQUIST Seminar Series with Dr David Kribs held on April 25, 2023 in 190 Engineering Sciences Building

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Error Correction and Operator Algebras," presented by David Kribs, University of Guelph

11:00 - 11:50 am 4/25/2023

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: David Kribs, Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Guelph

Seminar/Symposium

CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Matthew E. Helgeson, University of California, Santa Barbara (Rogers), "Development of High-throughput Microrheology to Fuel the Biomaterials Revolution"

2:00 pm 4/25/2023

116 Roger Adams Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Professor Vivian Yam, Hong Kong University, "From Fundamentals to Molecular Design for Energy, Materials and Biomedical Applications" (I)

3:30 pm 4/25/2023

Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Quantum Electrodynamics with Time-Varying Dielectrics," Ashwith Prabhu, Goldschmidt Lab

12:00 - 12:50 pm 4/26/2023

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Ashwith Prabhu, Goldschmidt Lab, Department of Physics, UIUC

Seminar/Symposium

QSQM Junior Research Hour: "Scattering probe in the time domain," Yijing Huang

1:00 - 2:00 pm 4/26/2023

UIUC: 280 Materials Research Laboratory | SLAC: 130 McCullough Building

Seminar/Symposium

IQUIST Special Seminar: "Get Hands-On With Quantum Circuit Design and Execution," presented by Erik Garcell

2:00 - 4:00 pm 4/26/2023

1043 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building

Join Dr. Erik Garcell (Technical Marketing Manager) from Classiq in a Quantum Software Development Workshop. Classiq offers its quantum software development platform free to academics and will host a free workshop where students and researchers can learn how to use their platform.