Materials Research Laboratory

IQUIST Seminar: "Device Independence Day: Using Distributed Entanglement to Achieve a Quantum Advantage," Krister Shalm, University of Colorado Boulder

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 10/1/2024
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Krister Shalm, Sr. Research Associate, University of Colorado Boulder

Seminar/Symposium

IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Secret Sharing: What is it and why should you care?", Sarah Hagen, Chitambar Group

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 10/2/2024
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Sarah Hagen, Chitambar Group

Seminar/Symposium

MRSEC/MRL Spanish Conversation Group

Time: 12:00 pm 10/2/2024
Location: 208 MRL or outside on the MRL porch (if the weather is nice)

Social/Informal Event

Prof. Seogjoo Jang, City University of New York, "Rate Theories and Computational Methods for Quantum Transitions and Dynamics of Molecular Excitons"

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm 10/2/2024
Location: CLSL B102

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Physics Colloquium: "Making Carbon Magnetic"

Time: 4:00 pm 10/2/2024
Location: Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

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I-MRSEC IRG1 Strainscapes Meeting

Recurring

Time: 10:00 am 10/4/2024
Location: 2008 Supercon

Meeting

Condensed Matter Seminar - "Quantum mechanics of 2D electron crystals"

Time: 1:00 pm 10/4/2024
Location: ESB 190

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2nd Changwoo Park-Walter Klemperer Inorganic and Materials Chemistry Allerton Conference

Time: 8:30 am 10/5/2024
Location: Allerton Park and Retreat Center

Conference/Workshop

The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: "Extending Topological Classification: Real-Space Invariants for Electronic and Photonic Bands"

Time: 12:00 pm 10/7/2024
Location: ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

2024 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: Professor Judith Klinman, UC Berkeley, "In Appreciation of 'Slow' Science: Biochemical Conversions of Amino Acids to Quinones"

Time: 7:00 pm 10/7/2024
Location: B102 CLSL

Ceremony/Service

IQUIST Seminar: "Developing quantum technologies through materials design and integration," Joseph Heremans, Argonne National Laboratory

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 10/8/2024
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Joseph Heremans, Scientist, Argonne National Laboraotry

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CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Jeffrey Richards, Northwestern University, "Engineering the Conductivity of Electrically Active Suspensions" (host: Rogers)

Time: 2:00 pm 10/8/2024
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

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2024 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: Professor Judith Klinman, UC Berkeley, "A New Approach to Understanding Enzyme Catalysts: The Role of Solvent to Active Site Protein Networks in the Initiation of Chemical Reactivity"

Time: 3:30 pm 10/8/2024
Location: 1024 Chem Annex

Ceremony/Service

IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Localizable multipartite entanglement," Chris Vairogs, Leditzky Group

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 10/9/2024
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Chris Vairogs, Leditzky Group

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Prof. Emilie Ringe, University of Cambridge, "Magnesium Plasmonics"

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm 10/9/2024
Location: CLSL B102

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Physics Colloquium: "Ergodicity breaking in quantum dynamics"

Time: 4:00 pm 10/9/2024
Location: Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

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CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Reika Katsumata, “ 'Slower' Processes in Polymers: From Nanocomposites to Homopolymers", University of Massachusetts Amherst (host: Sing, Diao)

Time: 2:00 pm 10/10/2024
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

I-MRSEC IRG2 Photoionics Meeting

Recurring

Time: 9:00 am 10/11/2024
Location: 208 MRL

Meeting

Condensed Matter Seminar - "Control of chiral orbital currents in quantum materials"

Time: 1:00 pm 10/11/2024
Location: ESB 190

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The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: "Interactions and topology within the narrow bands of twisted bilayer graphene"

Time: 12:00 pm 10/14/2024
Location: ESB 190

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IQUIST Seminar: "Subspace-thermal discrete time crystals from phase transitions between different n-tuple discrete time crystals," Tzu Chieh Wei, Stony Brook University

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 10/15/2024
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Tzu Chieh Wei, Professor, Stony Brook University

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Professor Peter Wolczanski, Cornell University, "Ruminations in Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry by a Grumpy Old Man" (I)

Time: 3:30 pm 10/15/2024
Location: 1024 Chem Annex

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IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Conformally invariant charge fluctuations in a strange metal," Xuefei Guo, Abbamonte Group

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 10/16/2024
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Xuefei Guo, Abbamonte Group

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Physics Colloquium: Timothy L. Killeen, President, University of Illinois System

Time: 4:00 pm 10/16/2024
Location: Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

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CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Aiden Houck, UIUC, "Biodegradation of Per- and Polyfluorinated Forever Chemicals"

Time: 12:00 pm 10/17/2024
Location: 163 Noyes Laboratory

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I-MRSEC IRG1 Strainscapes Meeting

Recurring

Time: 10:00 am 10/18/2024
Location: 2008 Supercon

Meeting

Condensed Matter Seminar - "Exploring piezomagnetic coupling in quantum materials"

Time: 1:00 pm 10/18/2024
Location: ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

Samuel W. Parr Lecture in Chemical Engineering, Prof. Craig Hawker, University of California Santa Barbara, "Pushing the Limits of Polymeric Materials through High-throughput Synthesis and Characterization"

Time: 3:00 pm 10/18/2024
Location: 2079 Natural History Building (NHB)

Lecture

The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: "Topological phases of many-body localized systems and quantum cellular automata"

Time: 12:00 pm 10/21/2024
Location: ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

IQUIST Seminar: "Open Quantum Dynamics and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, " Jong Yeon Lee, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 10/22/2024
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Jong Yeon Lee, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Marcel Schreier, University of Wisconsin Madison, " Controlling Electrocatalytic C-H and C-C Bond Transformation and Fuel Formation to Enable a Sustainable Chemical and Fuels Industry" (host Prof. Paul Kenis)

Time: 2:00 pm 10/22/2024
Location: 116 Roger Adams Lab

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Emerging Leaders Seminar: Professor Kelly Chacon, Reed College, "Adventures in X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy" (I)

Time: 3:30 pm 10/22/2024
Location: 1024 Chem Annex

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IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Exploring Signatures of Majorana States in the Current-Phase Relation of Lateral S-TI-S Josephson Junctions," Jessica Montone, Van Harlingen Group

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 10/23/2024
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Jessica Montone, Van Harlingen Group

Seminar/Symposium

FINAL DEFENSE, Siying Yu, "Size- and Composition-Controlled Specialty Nanocatalysts for Fuel Cell and Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production"

Time: 2:00 pm 10/23/2024
Location: 117 RAL

Ceremony/Service

Physics Colloquium: "From Dirac fermions to topological materials to the Standard Model: A common thread in particle and condensed matter physics"

Time: 4:00 pm 10/23/2024
Location: Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

Seminar/Symposium

I-MRSEC IRG2 Photoionics Meeting

Recurring

Time: 9:00 am 10/25/2024
Location: 208 MRL

Meeting

Condensed Matter Seminar - "Interface-Engineered Topological Quantum Matter"

Time: 1:00 pm 10/25/2024
Location: ESB 190

Seminar/Symposium

The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: "The entanglement bootstrap view of conformal symmetry"

Time: 12:00 pm 10/28/2024
Location: ESB 190

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Prof. Tobias Brixner, Universität Würzburg, "Space–Time-Resolved Sppectroscopy of Multi-Particle Interactions"

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm 10/28/2024
Location: CLSL B-102

Seminar/Symposium

ChBE Alumni and Friends Reception at AIChE

Time: 8:00 - 10:00 pm 10/28/2024
Location: San Diego Convention Center, Room 26 AB

Social/Informal Event

IQUIST Seminar: "Many-body dynamics in driven-dissipative superconducting quantum circuits," Alex Ruichao Ma, Purdue University

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 10/29/2024
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Alex Ruichao Ma, Assistant Professor, Purdue University

Seminar/Symposium

Emerging Leaders Seminar: Professor Shiyu Zhang, Ohio State University, "Elucidating the Role of Unsymmetric Features in Bimetallic Active Sites" (I)

Time: 3:30 pm 10/29/2024
Location: 1024 Chem Annex

Ceremony/Service

IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Towards a 171Yb Atom Array in a Near-Concentric Cavity," Aakash, Covey Group

Time: 11:00 - 11:50 am 10/30/2024
Location: 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Aakash, Covey Group

Seminar/Symposium

MRSEC/MRL Spanish Conversation Group

Time: 12:00 pm 10/30/2024
Location: Bake Lab - 410 N Lincoln Ave, Urbana, IL

Social/Informal Event

Prof. Vojtech Vlcek, University of California Santa Barbara, "Towards Ab Initio Simulations of Driven and Non-equilibrium Systems Through Novel Theoretical and Numerical Approaches"

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm 10/30/2024
Location: Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium

Seminar/Symposium

Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium

Time: 4:00 pm 10/30/2024
Location: Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

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Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - "Quantum LDPC codes with transversal gates"

Time: 10:00 am 10/31/2024
Location: ESB 190

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CHEM 575 Literature Seminar: Samantha Dye, UIUC, "Leveraging Raman Spectroscopy for Cancer Biomarker Detection with Enhanced Molecular Sensitivity"

Time: 12:00 pm 10/31/2024
Location: 163 Noyes Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Dinh Nguyen, Final Defense, UIUC, "Post-Translational Modifications as a Route to New Chemistry and Useful Enzymes"

Time: 3:00 pm 10/31/2024
Location: 612 Institute for Genomic Biology

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