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Upcoming Events

Apr
2

Physics Careers Seminar: "Life and Lessons Learned as a Sandia Postdoc Fellow"

  • April 2, 2026
  • Thursday, 11:00 AM
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
  • Dr. Kathleen Oolman, Gil Herrera Postdoctoral Fellow in Quantum Information Science, Sandia National Laboratory
Apr
2

HMNTL Invited Lecture: "Quantum Photonic Integrated Circuits and Packaging," Stefan Preble, Rochester Institute of Technology

  • April 2, 2026
  • Thursday, 11:00 AM
  • 1000 Nick Holonyak Jr. Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory
  • Stefan Prebble
Apr
2

Thesis Defense: "Exploring Multi-Telescope Cosmology with the South Pole Observatory and SPIDER"

  • April 2, 2026
  • Thursday, 3:00 PM
  • Virtual (Zoom)
  • Amber Lennox, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Apr
8

The Physics Colloquium: The Klaus Schulten Lecture - Elizabeth Villa "Discovering Chimallivirus biology with in-cell cryo-EM"

  • April 8, 2026
  • Wednesday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Loomis Lab 141
  • Elizabeth Villa (University of California San Diego)
Apr
15

The Physics Colloquium: Harold Hwang (Stanford University) “Superconductivity in layered nickelates”

  • April 15, 2026
  • Wednesday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Loomis Lab 141
  • Harold Hwang (Stanford University)
Apr
22

The Physics Colloquium: Hyun Youk (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Self-organization capacity of living systems"

  • April 22, 2026
  • Wednesday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Loomis Lab 141
  • Hyun Youk (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

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Apr
2

Physics Careers Seminar: "Life and Lessons Learned as a Sandia Postdoc Fellow"

  • April 2, 2026
  • Thursday, 11:00 AM
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
  • Dr. Kathleen Oolman, Gil Herrera Postdoctoral Fellow in Quantum Information Science, Sandia National Laboratory
Apr
10

Physics Careers Seminar: "From Condensed Matter Physics to Synthetic Biology"

  • April 10, 2026
  • Friday, 12:30 PM
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
  • Dr. Hector Martin, Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Apr
24

Physics Careers Seminar

  • April 24, 2026
  • Friday, 12:00 PM
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
  • Prof. Rafael Fernandes, Professor of Physics, UIUC, and Lead Editor, Physical Review Letters

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Apr
18

Saturday Engineering for Everyone: Prof. Kiruba Haran

  • April 18, 2026
  • Saturday, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • ECEB 1015
  • Kiruba Haran, Grainger Chair, Director of CEME, and Professor in ECE
May
2

Saturday Engineering for Everyone: Prof. Larry Lee

  • May 2, 2026
  • Saturday, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • ECEB 1015
  • Larry Lee, Intel Alumni Endowed Faculty Scholar, Director of HMNTL, Professor in ECE

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May
6

Instruction Ends

  • May 6, 2026
  • Wednesday,
May
7

Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect

  • May 7, 2026
  • Thursday, All Day
May
8

Final Exams Begin

  • May 8, 2026
  • Friday,

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