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Oct
17

Saturday Physics for Everyone: How Physicists Sparked a Revolution in College Teaching

  • October 17, 2026
  • Saturday, 9:45 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Lobby - Loomis Laboratory Of Physics 1110 W Green St Urbana, IL 61801-3003 United States
  • Professor Eric Kuo
Oct
17

Science at the Market: Physics Grad Student Association

  • October 17, 2026
  • Saturday, 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square: Corner of Illinois and Vine Streets
Oct
19

Nuclear Physics Seminar - Chun Shen (Wayne State) "Bayesian Inference in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions"

  • October 19, 2026
  • Monday, 1:00 PM
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
  • Chun Shen (Wayne State)

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Oct
21

The Physics Colloquium: Peter Abbamonte (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "A Peculiar Connection Between Quantum Entanglement and Wave Function Geometry in Matter"

  • October 21, 2026
  • Wednesday, 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Loomis Lab 141
  • Peter Abbamonte, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Oct
28

The Physics Colloquium: Gordon Baym (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Why must photons exist?: from Einstein to Bohr, Hanbury Brown-Twiss and Hong-Ou-Mandel interference"

  • October 28, 2026
  • Wednesday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Loomis Lab 141
  • Gordon Baym, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Nov
4

The Physics Colloquium McMillan Award: Patrick Ledwith (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Strong Correlations in Topological Bands"

  • November 4, 2026
  • Wednesday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Loomis Lab 141
  • Patrick Ledwith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Oct
30

Physics Careers Seminar

  • October 30, 2026
  • Friday, 12:00 PM
  • 204 Loomis (Interaction Room)
  • Dr. Joshua Lin, Machine Learning Scientist, Prescient Design/Genentech
Nov
18

Physics Careers Seminar

  • November 18, 2026
  • Wednesday, 11:00 AM
  • 464 Loomis
  • Dr. Huan Zhao, Wigner Distinguished Staff Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Nov
21

Fall break begins

  • November 21, 2026
  • Saturday, 8:30 AM
  • Swanlund Administration Building
Nov
30

Instruction resumes

  • November 30, 2026
  • Monday,
  • I-Hotel
Dec
9

Last Day of Instruction, Fall Semester

  • December 9, 2026
  • Wednesday,

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