Phys Test Master calendar

Sunday, April 20, 2025

- All Day
University Appointments Refresh

UIF pulls updated Faculty Staff data each month from University Banner System
- Informational

Monday, April 21, 2025

- All Day
University Appointments Refresh

UIF pulls updated Faculty Staff data each month from University Banner System
- Informational
- 11:00 am
THEORY SEMINAR: Robert Wang, "Spectral Sparsification by Deterministic Discrepancy"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Gil Rafael (California Institute of Technology), "Self-correcting GKP qubit and gates in a driven-dissipative circuit"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
Special Careers Event: "A Conversation with Poet Laureate and Engineer Richard Blanco"
- Lecture
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Xinwei Shen, "Distributional Learning: From Methodology to Applications"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 7:00 pm
- Illini Union, South Lounge, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana
Luminous: An Evening of Poetry & Prose With National Poet-Engineer Richard Blanco and Physicist-Artist Smitha Vishveshwara

A book reading & signing featuring two art-science creators, with special guests. Richard Blanco, national poet laureate, will read from "Homeland of My Body." Artist-Physicist Smitha Vishveshwara will read from "Two Revolutions: Einstein’s Relativity and Quantum Physics." Books available for purchase. Light refreshments served. Free and open to all.
- Other
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
Quantum Working Group Seminar: Classical and quantum algorithms for characters of the symmetric group

Speaker: Louis Schatzki
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

- All Day
University Appointments Refresh

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- Informational
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Engineering (Useful) Trapped-Ion Quantum Technologies", Sara Mouradian, University of Washington

Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

- All Day
University Appointments Refresh

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- Informational
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Physics Colloquium: Ben Hooberman (UIUC), "Tackling climate change with particle physics"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory
Playing the Changes: Jazz and Education in South Africa

Darius and Catherine Brubeck discuss their pioneering jazz curriculum and performance program developed in apartheid-era South Africa that brought black and white musicians together to create a soundtrack to the freedom struggle and its aftermath. South African jazz scholar and performer Colin Miller joins this conversation.
- Lecture

Thursday, April 24, 2025

- All Day
University Appointments Refresh

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- Informational
- 8:30 am
- 343 Altgeld Hall
IRT Seminar - The Doubly Periodic Aztec Diamond Dimer Model: Gaussian Free Field and Discrete Gaussians
- Ceremony/Service
- 8:30 am
- 343 Altgeld Hall
IRT Seminar - The Doubly Periodic Aztec Diamond Dimer Model: Gaussian Free Field and Discrete Gaussians
- Ceremony/Service
- 8:30 am
- 343 Altgeld Hall
IRT Seminar - The Doubly Periodic Aztec Diamond Dimer Model: Gaussian Free Field and Discrete Gaussians
- Ceremony/Service
- 11:00 am
- HMNTL 1000
INVITED LECTURE: Charge Transport in Doped Conjugated Polymers for Organic Electronics
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- LLP 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Chis Akers (University of Colorado, Boulder), "On the reconstruction map in JT gravity"
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, April 25, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
Distinguished Alumni Panel and Lunch

Join us for pizza and a Q&A with distinguished school alumni!
- Informational
- 12:00 pm
- 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
Physics Careers Seminar: "One Way to Not Be a Physicist"
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Detection of anyon braiding through pump-probe spectroscopy"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 - 1:50 pm
- 3217 Everitt Lab
NSF CAREER Q&A for assistant professors in Mathematics

Informal Q&A about NSF CAREER awards application.
- Informational
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other
- 6:00 pm
- Illini Union, Illini Room
2025 Celebration of Excellence

This event honors Siebel School of Computing and Data Science students, faculty, staff, and alumni for their outstanding accomplishments of the past year.
- Ceremony/Service