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Mar 26 2025

Spring Break - No Colloquium

Wednesday, 3:00 pm–4:00 pm
Apr 2 2025

CDAC Webinar- TBA with Dr. Nir Goldman (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Wednesday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Apr 2 2025

Colloquium- "QBist Descending a Staircase, No. 2" with Prof. Christopher Fuchs (University of Massachusetts Boston)

Wednesday, 3:00 pm–4:00 pm
238 2SES
Apr 9 2025

Colloquium- TBA with Prof. Kevin Boergens

Wednesday, 3:00 pm–4:00 pm
Apr 11 2025

Biophysics Seminar- TBA

Friday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
SES 2214
Apr 16 2025

CDAC Webinar- TBA with Dr. Daniel Phelan (Advanced Photon Source)

Wednesday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
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Dr. Fengyuan Shi with the Quantum Design Physical Property Measurement System
Quantum Design Physical Property Measurement System installed at UIC
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
A Quantum Design Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS) has just been installed at UIC.  This unique, versatile, and highly configurable instrument will measure electrical, magnetic, thermal transport, and thermodynamic properties of materials over…
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UIC graduate students win poster and travel awards at Biophysical Society Meeting
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Members of the Spille Lab attended the 69th Biophysical Society Meeting in Los Angeles, California, to present their research on the nanoscale organization of the cell nucleus. Graduate student Ganesh Pandey won the Student…
Researchers used a diamond anvil cell to subject sulfur to over 1 million atmospheres of pressure in order to analyze its superconductive properties. (Graphic/Image: Kui Wang)
Elemental superconductor reveals new physics under pressure
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Superconductivity, in which electrons flow with zero resistance, has long defied simple explanation. In 1997, a team led by UIC scientist Russell Hemley showed that under pressure, sulfur becomes an elemental superconductor, making it an ideal…

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Mar 11 2025

HEP-HEN Seminar- "Revisiting Kohn and Luttinger after 60 years: superconductivity from a repulsive interaction and application to quark matter" with Prof. Yuki Fujimoto (RIKEN-Berkeley Center, University of California, Berkeley)

Tuesday, 11:00 am–11:00 am
SES 2214
Mar 10 2025

HEP-HEN Seminar- "Soft Hadronic Probes: Particle Correlations and Collectivity in heavy-ion Collisions" with Prof. Prabhat Ranjan Pujahari (IIT-Madras)

Monday, 3:00 pm–4:00 pm
SES 2244A
Mar 5 2025

Colloquium- "Ultraviolet divergences and the breakdown of quantum field theory at short distance" with Prof. Michael Miller (University of Toronto)

Wednesday, 3:00 pm–4:00 pm
238 2SES
Mar 5 2025

CDAC Webinar- "Quasicrystals Shift Nature’s Boundaries" with Prof. Luca Bindi (University of Florence)

Wednesday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Mar 4 2025

HEP-HEN Seminar- "Road to Minimal WIMPs" with Dr. Rodolfo Capdevilla (Fermilab)

Tuesday, 11:00 am–11:00 am
SES 2214
Feb 28 2025

Biophysics Seminar- Updates from Biophysical Society Annual Meeting 2025

Friday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
SES 2214
Feb 26 2025

LAS Faculty Research Symposium: From Atoms to Astronomy

Wednesday, 9:00 am–6:00 pm
Illinois Rooms, Student Center East
Feb 21 2025

ECE Seminar- "The Edge of Tomorrow: Real-time Artificial Intelligence for Science" with Dr. Nhan Tran (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Friday, 11:00 am–11:00 am
LC C1