Physics Main Calendar

Monday, November 3, 2025

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  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Yves Kwan (Dallas), "Strongly-correlated topological phenomena in graphene multilayers"

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

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  IQUIST Seminar: "The Quantum Intranet", Wolfgang Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  11:00 - 11:50 am

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

  Speaker: Wolfgang Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - Eytan Grosfeld (Ben Gurion University, Israel), "Shining Light on Bose-Hubbard Models: From Equilibrium Theory to Exotic Steady States"

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  ESB Lab 3110

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

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  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Isaac Legred (UIUC) "Connecting Compact Binaries to Dense Matter"

  11:00 am

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Probing Quantum Devices with Scanning Resonators," Zhanzhi Jiang, Kou Group

  11:00 - 11:50 am

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

  Speaker: Zhanzhi Jiang, Kou Group

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Thesis Defense: "Localization and Diffusion of RNase E and the RNA Degradosome via Single-Particle Tracking in Live E. Coli"

  1:00 pm

  464 Loomis

  • Lecture
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  The Physics Colloquium "Quantum Voyages, Cosmic Journeys: Our Shared Stories" (2025 AIP Andrew Gemant Award)

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Loomis Lab 141

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 6, 2025

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  Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Luca Delacrétaz (U.Chicago), "Quantum Nonlinear Bosonization of Fermi surfaces"

  1:00 - 2:00 pm

  Loomis 464

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Condensed Matter Journal Club: Chiral Domains Induced by Structural Phase Transition in CsCuCl3

  2:00 pm

  ESB 3110

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Undergraduate Physics Seminar: "Shooting Lasers at Rocks and Figuring Out What Happened", River Chen

  5:00 pm

  Loomis 464

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 7, 2025

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  High Energy Physics Seminar - Reza Ebadi (University of Maryland) "Probing Ultralight Dark Matter with Rydberg Atoms and Electro-Optics"

  11:00 am

  Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Condensed Matter Seminar - "Exploring Ultrafast Collective Dynamics of Emergent Materials"

  1:00 pm

  ESB 190

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Jeff Nivala (University of Washington) “TBA”

  2:00 pm

  3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 8, 2025

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  Bringing Cells to Life on the Computer, and in Minecraft!

  10:15 am   11:30am

  141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics

  This presentation will introduce participants to a groundbreaking project called CraftCells: A Window into Biological Cells. This is the first tool that lets anyone—from researchers to curious students—step inside an accurate 3D model of a cell and see how life is organized at the tiniest scale.

  • Lecture