The Grainger College of Engineering Physics

Physics - String Theory

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Special Seminar - "Nonequilibrium Probes of Hidden Neutral Modes in the Flatland"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 4, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum science and technology with rare earth ions and nano-photonics", Andrei Faraon, William L. Valentine Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Speaker: Andrei Faraon, William L. Valentine Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 5, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
High Energy Physics Seminar - Gongjun Choi (University of Minnesota) "Cheshire θ terms, Aharonov-Bohm effects, and axions"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 8, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Jaewon Kim, Berkeley/UIUC, "Linear Magnetoresistance from Glassy Orders"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum science and technology with rare earth ions and nano-photonics", Andrei Faraon, William L. Valentine Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Speaker: Andrei Faraon, William L. Valentine Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Nick Kern (University of Michigan) "Mapping the High Redshift Universe with Neutral Hydrogen: New Insights at Cosmic Dawn and the Future of Line Intensity Mapping Cosmology"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 12, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
High Energy Physics Seminar - Marcell Howard (University of Pittsburgh) "Gravitational Particle Production as a Mechanism for Generating Dark Matter"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "The evolution of the electronic structure in going from the cuprate (La2CuO4,LaNiO2 ;3d9) to the high formal valence state Nickelates (La4Ni3O10; 3d6/3d7)"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 15, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Jeroen van den Brink (Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden), "Topological surface superconductivity in PtBi2"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Building better superconducting qubits", Angela Kou, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois

Speaker: Angela Kou, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Michael Zhang (University of Chicago) "The carbon-rich atmosphere of a windy pulsar planet"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 19, 2025

- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Atomic-level Engineering of Topological Quantum States: Flat-Band Ladders and High-Order Weyl Superconductors"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 22, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Kai Sun (U. Michigan), "Flat Bands, Topology, and Fractionalization: Similarities and Differences Between Fractional States in Flat Chern Bands and Landau Levels"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "New opportunities in quantum simulation with ultrapolar molecules," Zoe Yan, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Chicago

Zoe Yan, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Chicago
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Yunyang Li (University of Chicago) "Largest angular scale CMB polarization measurement with CLASS"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Physics Colloquium The "Golden Dome": An Assessment of the Science and the Consequences
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 25, 2025

- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Bowen Shi (UIUC), "Homogeneity versus defects: an entanglement bootstrap view"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 26, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
High Energy Physics Seminar - Curtis Peterson (Michigan State University)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Measurement of the dynamical charge susceptibility near the charge density wave transition in ErTe3"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 29, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Paul Goldbart (Stony Brook U.), "Random proximity measurements in quantum fluids and the hidden organization they induce"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

- 11:00 - 11:50 am
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
IQUIST Seminar: "Studying multipartite entanglement through the lens of symmetries," Felix Leditzky, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Josu Aurrekoetxea (MIT) "Scalar fields around black hole binaries in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Loomis Lab 141
The Charles P. Slichter Memorial Colloquium - "Negotiations with Nature - What Happens When a Physicist Tries to be a Chemist."
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 2, 2025

- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
- Loomis 464
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: Xuchen Cao (UIUC), "One Sided Black Holes in DSSYK Model: An Algebraic Approach"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 3, 2025

- 1:00 pm
- ESB 190
Condensed Matter Seminar - "Strain induced magnetism and superconductivity in Heusler membranes"
- Seminar/Symposium

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