Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Artist's conception of a digital quantum battery. The gold material is the cathode and the silvery material is the anode. The wall material is transparent glass, providing a vacuum between the electrodes. Image by Qi Chen.

Nigel Goldenfeld and Carl Woese at the University of Illinois. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer, UI News Bureau.

Associate Professor of Physics Matthias Grosse Perdekamp

Karin Dahmen, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Illinois

The ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, Geneva, Switzerland

Physics News

Illinois physicists propose digital quantum battery

Horizontal or vertical? Woese and Goldenfeld take on Darwin

Grosse Perdekamp named Willett Faculty Scholar

Weissman cited in NYT

Dahmen elected member-at-large

LHC breaks beam-energy world record

Upcoming Events

Today 2/9/2010 4:00 pm: Astrophysics Colloquium: Woojin Kwon, UIUC: "Circumstellar Disks and Envelopes of Young Stellar Objects Revealed by CARMA"
Speaker: Woojin Kwon
Tomorrow 2/10/2010 12:00 pm: CTA Theoretical Astrophysics & General Relativity Seminar: "Radiation from GRMHD Models of Sagittarius A*".
Speaker: Joshua Dolence (UIUC)
Tomorrow 2/10/2010 2:00 pm: Effects of membrane adducts on chemical and physical processes in biological membrane: computational studies using atomistic and coarse-grained models
Speaker: Jejoong Yoo, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tomorrow 2/10/2010 4:00 pm: Medium Energy Seminar: "New States of Matter Revisited "
Speaker: Professor Gordon A. Baym Department of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL
Thursday 2/11/2010 4:00 pm: Colloquium: FIONA Looks at Individual Molecular Motors Walk and Run
Speaker: Professor Paul R. Selvin Department of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL

More upcoming events

Behind the Physics

Jimmy Kryger at the Rube Goldberg Contest

How many murders does it take to screw in a light bulb? This is the first machine built by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rube Goldberg Society, led by engineering physics undergrad Jimmy Kryger. Works every time. Task: to change a light bulb in 20 steps or more.

More about Jimmy Kryger at the Rube Goldberg Contest

Community Outreach

: Physics Van is a traveling science road show for elementary school children and their teachers.
: Physics" own Mats Selen, the Whys Guy, explains the science behind everything.
: Engineering Open House is an annual student-led event featuring two days of exhibits that showcase the talent and ingenuity of engineering students and attracts thousands of visitors to the Illinois campus.
: The Chancellor's Colloquium on Evolution: Biology and Beyond is our way of bringing fundamental and cross-cutting questions about evolution to the campus community during the forthcoming academic year.