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Apr 24 2024

Physics Seminar-"Characterization of Photonuclear Collisions and the Search for Quark-Gluon Plasma" with Sruthy Das

Wednesday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm
SES 2214
Apr 24 2024

CDAC Webinar- "New Opportunities for High-Pressure Research in the APS-U Era" with Dr. Guoyin Shen

Wednesday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Apr 24 2024

Colloquium- "Toward solving two mysteries in life" with Prof. Huan-Xiang Zhou and "Design of novel material properties induced by strong correlations from first-principles" with Prof. Hyowon Park

Wednesday, 3:00 pm–4:00 pm
SES 238
Apr 26 2024

Biophysics Seminar- "The many phases of a cell" with Krishna Shrinivas

Friday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
SES 2214
May 3 2024

Biophysics Seminar- "Prairie State College" with Jianing Li

Friday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
SES 2214
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Effect of increasing pressure on electron localization in the body-centered cubic structure (top) and face-centered cubic structure (lower) of elemental sodium from 0 to 110 GPa (effectively 1 atmosphere to 1.1 million atmospheres). The electronic changes drive the formation of more complex structures under pressure in this and other elements.
New institute bonds UIC and Argonne National Laboratory on research and education
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Just 20 miles separate Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois, and the downtown campus of University of Illinois Chicago. But starting this year, the research mission of the two Chicagoland institutions that formed…
Precipitate forms in the aqueous layer of a liquid-liquid extraction. (Photos from Pan Sun and Mark Schlossman)
UIC physicists find hidden flaw in century-old, common chemical extraction technique
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
For nearly a century, a technique called liquid-liquid extraction has been standard practice in science and industry. It’s used to purify rare earth metals, treat nuclear waste and make perfumes and other consumer…
Effect of increasing pressure on electron localization in the body-centered cubic structure (top) and face-centered cubic structure (lower) of elemental sodium from 0 to 110 GPa (effectively 1 atmosphere to 1.1 million atmospheres). The electronic changes drive the formation of more complex structures under pressure in this and other elements.
Robert Klie is named UIC Distinguished Researcher of the Year
Monday, March 25, 2024
As an undergraduate, Robert Klie wanted to be an astrophysicist, studying cosmic objects with the world’s most powerful telescopes. But he soon became fascinated with the galaxies closer to home: the atomic particles that make…

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Past Events Heading link

Apr 24 2024

Colloquium- "Toward solving two mysteries in life" with Prof. Huan-Xiang Zhou and "Design of novel material properties induced by strong correlations from first-principles" with Prof. Hyowon Park

Wednesday, 3:00 pm–4:00 pm
SES 238
Apr 24 2024

CDAC Webinar- "New Opportunities for High-Pressure Research in the APS-U Era" with Dr. Guoyin Shen

Wednesday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Apr 24 2024

Physics Seminar-"Characterization of Photonuclear Collisions and the Search for Quark-Gluon Plasma" with Sruthy Das

Wednesday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm
SES 2214
Apr 22 2024

High Energy Nuclear Physics Seminar- "Energy in Chiral Media" with Jeremy Hansen

Monday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm
SES 2214
Apr 17 2024

High Energy Nuclear Physics Seminar- "(New) physics from lower dimensions" with Dr. Adrien Florio

Wednesday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm
SES 2214
Apr 12 2024

Biophysics Seminar- "Determinants for the morphologies of biomolecular condensates" with Yi Zhang and "Measurements of DNA dynamics and deformability with implications for DNA mismatch repair" with Viktoriya Zvoda

Friday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
SES 2214
Apr 11 2024

Condensed Matter Seminar- Applications and development of RIXS: study of cobaltates, nickelates and rhenates" with Dr. Alex Taekyung Lee

Thursday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm
SES 2214
Apr 10 2024

Colloquium- "UIC at the LHC and EIC: The Present and Future of Nuclear Physics" with Prof. Austin Baty and "Nanoscale Organization of Biomolecules in the Cell Nucleus" withProf. Jan-Hendrik Spille

Wednesday, 3:00 pm–4:00 pm
SES 238
Apr 10 2024

CDAC Webinar- "Nano Confinement of Metal Hydrides Inside Functionalized Host Materials" with Dr. Mohana Shivanna

Wednesday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Apr 3 2024

Colloquium- "Simulations of Two Amphipathic Peptides" with Dr. Richard W. Pastor

Wednesday, 3:00 pm–4:00 pm
SES 238