Physics Main Calendar

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

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  IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum trajectories and stochastic excursions of thermal machines," Gabriel Landi, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester

  11:00 - 11:50 am

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

  Speaker: Gabriel Landi, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Nuclear Physics Seminar - Adam Takacs (Heidelberg) "Advancing the Theory of Jet Modification in the Quark–Gluon Plasma"

  1:00 pm

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium
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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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  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "High-Performance Quantum Frequency Conversion and Applications via Nanophotonic Waveguides", Jierui Hu, Fang Group

  11:00 - 11:50 am

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

  Speaker: Jierui Hu, Fang Group

  • 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

Thursday, October 23, 2025

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  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Jinwei Chu (U Chicago), "A new approach to small black holes in string theory"

  1:00 - 2:00 pm

  Loomis 464

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Condensed Matter Journal Club: Observation of a pseudo-Quantum Hall effect in strained graphene

  2:00 pm

  ESB 3110

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Undergraduate Physics Seminar: "Torsional Force Microscopy for Nanoscale Characterization at the Thickness Limit", Eric Zhang

  5:00 pm

  Loomis 464

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 24, 2025

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  High Energy Physics Seminar - Oz Amram (Fermilab) "AI, Anomaly Detection and the Search for the Unknown at CMS"

  11:00 am

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Orbital Evolution in the Outskirts of Planetary Systems

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  NCSA 1040

  Speaker: Dr. Sam Hadden

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Condensed Matter Seminar - Mikael Backlund, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  1:00 pm

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, October 25, 2025

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  Science at the Market: Physics Graduate Student Association

  8:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets

  • Community Service
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  Spooky Action and Beyond: The Power and Promise of Quantum Entanglement

  10:15 am   11:15pm

  141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics

  In this talk, we’ll explore what entanglement is, how to create, shape, and detect it, and how we're learning to harness it for revolutionary technologies. We’ll also learn why it deeply troubled some of the greatest minds in science.

  • Lecture