Physics Main Calendar

Monday, April 7, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Eun Ah Kim, "Non-Abelian anyons on synthetic platforms"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

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  • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: "On the Extended Church-Turing Thesis, Quantum Mechanics, and Beyond, Bill Fefferman, University of Chicago

  Speaker: Bill Fefferman, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • 464 Loomis

  Thesis Defense: "Novel Effects in Self-Interacting Scalar Field Dark Matter Solitons"

  • Lecture
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  • 3:45 - 4:45 pm
  • 134 Astronomy Building

  Connections between nuclear activity and galaxy evolution: Can you quench a galaxy without shredding a few stars along the way?

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

• • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Classical Post-processing on Unitary Block Optimization Scheme for Better VQE Optimization", Xiaochuan (David) Ding, Clark Group

  Speaker: Xiaochuan (David) Ding, Clark Group

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 pm
  • ESB 3110

  Condensed Matter Journal Club: Information Theoretic Phase Transitions in Many Body Physics

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Andreas Hoecker (CERN), "Physics at the high-energy frontier — Deciphering the Higgs sector"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

• • 5:00 pm
  • Loomis 464

  Undergraduate Physics Seminar: "An Introduction to Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion", Michael Furlin

  Michael is a third-year undergrad doing a dual-degree in physics and nuclear, plasma, and radiological engineering. He helps develop and test novel plasma diagnostics for inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) plasma sources in the Fusion Studies Laboratory at UIUC.

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 11, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • 464 Loomis

  High Energy Physics Seminar - Qianshu Lu (IAS) "The Quality/Cosmology Tension for a Post-Inflation QCD Axion"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040

  CAPS Seminar: The La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey

  Speaker: Dr. Peter Nugent

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:00 pm
  • ESB 190

  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Nonlinear Coupled Magnonics"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, April 12, 2025

• • 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Electrical Computer and Engineering Building, 306 N Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801

  World Quantum Day Celebration

  • Reception/Open House
• • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Room 1013, ECE Building, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61820

  Saturday Engineering for Everyone: Quantum Steampunk - The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow

  • Lecture
• • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Room 1013, ECE Building, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61820

  Saturday Engineering for Everyone: Quantum Steampunk - The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow, Nicole Yunger Halper, University of Maryland

  Speaker: Nicole Yunger Halpern, University of Maryland

  • Lecture