Materials Research Laboratory

Monday, October 13, 2025

- 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- MRL 280
MRSEC Grad students and Postdocs Monthly Meeting

Monthly MRSEC Grad students & postdocs meeting.
- Social/Informal Event
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Yin-Chen He (Stonybrook), "A Fuzzy Sphere Journey: from 3D Ising to Chern-Simons-matter CFT "
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Broadband quantum-limited amplification and near-ultrastrong nonlinear light-matter coupling with superconducting circuits", Kevin O'Brien, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Speaker: Kevin O'Brien, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 3110
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - Darius Shi (Stanford)), "Chiral superconductivity from non-Abelian anyon fluids"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Nitash Balsara, University of California, Berkeley "Movement of Polymer Molecules under Electric Fields and Relevance to Rechargeable Batteries" (host: Damien Guironnet)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- TBD
Inorganic Seminar, "Iron Carbenes for Olefin Metathesis", Professor Vlad Iluc, University of Notre Dame
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Loomis Laboratory of Physics, Room 141
ChBE/NPRE Presents-Prof. Jospeh D. Smith, Missouri University of Science and Technology
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

- 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
- HMNTL 1000
Vacuum Science and Thin Film Deposition
- Informational
- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Optimal Sample Complexity of Quantum Hypothesis Testing and its Private Variant," Theshani Nuradha, Leditzky Group

Speaker: Theshani Nuradha, Leditzky Group
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium Peter Abbamonte (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) "Conformal Invariance in Strange Metals" TBD
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 16, 2025

- 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
- HMNTL 1000
Vacuum Science and Thin Film Deposition
- Informational
- 12:00 pm
- Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
Johnny Bajko CHEM 575 Seminar "Expanding Proximity Proteomics: From nanometer-Scale Mapping to Multicellular Interfaces"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
Natalie King CHEM 575 Seminar "Engineering Diazotrophs: Harnessing Bacteria for Sustainable Nitrogen Supply in Cereal Crops"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 17, 2025

- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Atom-by-atom characterization of 2D materials with electron ptychography"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 3269 Beckman Institute (3rd floor tower room).
STC-QCB / Biological Physics Seminar: Jamie Williamson (Scripps Research) “Structure and Dynamic Analysis of Bacterial Ribosome Assembly in Cells.”
- Seminar/Symposium