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Upcoming Events

Today
11/20/2009
1:00 pm
Condensed Matter Seminar: Spectroscopy at a Ballistic Constriction: Probing Quasiparticle Scattering and Superconducting Order Parameter
Speaker: Wan Kyu Park, Visiting Research Asst. Professor, Dept. of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Today
11/20/2009
2:00 pm
"Cooperative Interactions During DNA Transcription"
Speaker: Eric Galburt
Today
11/20/2009
2:30 pm
Thesis Defense: Non-Linear Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nano-Structures for Slow Light and Wavelength Conversion
Speaker: David Nielsen
Monday
11/23/2009
3:00 pm
HETEP Seminar: No Seminar
Wednesday
11/25/2009
4:00 pm
MEDIUM ENERGY SEMINAR: No Seminar

Community Outreach

Physics VanPhysics Van is a traveling science road show for elementary school children and their teachers.
Whys Guy with Mats SelenPhysics' own Mats Selen, the Whys Guy, explains the science behind everything.
Saturday Physics Honors ProgramSaturday Physics Honors Program is a series of lectures on modern aspects of the physical sciences held Saturday mornings each fall.
Physics Undergrad OutreachDuring the summer, the undergraduate programs office sponsors a campus visit for 50 high school students.
Links for Teachers Links for Physics Teachers is a physical sciences resource center, including lecture demos, videos, and physics education research at Illinois.
Chancellor's ColloquiumThe 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.