Upcoming Events

Apr 9 2025

Colloquium- TBA with Prof. Kevin Boergens

Wednesday, 3:00 pm–4:00 pm
238 2SES
Apr 10 2025

CM Seminar- TBA with Prof. Ian Mondragon Shem (UIC ECE)

Thursday, 10:00 am–11:00 am
SES 2214
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
Apr 16 2025

Colloquium- "From low-energy gaseous positronics to geophysics and beyond: a personal tour" with Prof. Tim Killeen (University of Illinois System)

Wednesday, 3:00 pm–4:00 pm
238 2SES
Apr 22 2025

HEP-HEN Seminar- TBA with Dr. Alexi Cherman

Tuesday, 11:00 am–11:00 am
SES 2214
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The figure represents the structure of CuCN at (a) & (b) 0.4 GPa and (c) & (d) at 6.4 GPa viewed in the ac plane. Elongation along the a-axis under high pressure is observed due to the hinging of the wine-rack structure.
Giant ‘Wine-Rack’ Compressibility in Copper Cyanide Crystals
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Research at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) has led to the discovery of giant negative linear compressibility in copper cyanide (CuCN) in which the material behaves like a “wine rack” expanding in…
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…

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The Department of Physics carries out world-class forefront research in seven main fields of study: applied laser, biological and soft matter, condensed matter, materials physics, nuclear physics, particle physics, and renewable energy.
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Past Events

Mar 19 2025

Colloquium- "Exploring new scientific frontiers with quantum computation and quantum information" with Prof. Jordan Cotler (Harvard University)

Wednesday, 3:00 pm–4:00 pm
238 2SES
Mar 19 2025

CDAC Webinar- "Modeling High-Pressure Organic Reactions" with Dr. Bo Chen (Donostia International Physics Center, Spain)

Wednesday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Mar 14 2025

Biophysics Seminar- "Effects of DNA sequence on DNA-intrinsically disordered protein coacervation" with Hashini Ekanayake Mudiyanselage (UIC Chemistry) and "Spatial organization of regulatory chromatin at transcription condensates" with Ganesh Pandey (UIC Physics)

Friday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
SES 2214
Mar 13 2025

CM Seminar- "Sensing New Quantum Limits at the Atomic Scale: from dynamical Coulomb blockade to superconducting quantum interference" with Dr. Christian R. Ast (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany)

Thursday, 10:00 am–11:00 am
SES 2214
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