Astronomy Department Calendar

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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  • 3:45 - 4:45 pm
  • NCSA Auditorium

  The Vera C. Rubin Observatory- A New Eye on the Universe Opens.

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Josu Aurrekoetxea (MIT) "Scalar fields around black hole binaries in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Charles P. Slichter Memorial Colloquium - "Negotiations with Nature - What Happens When a Physicist Tries to be a Chemist."

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

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  • 3:45 - 4:45 pm
  • 134 Astronomy Building

  Dark Energy Dynamics, Spatial Curvature, Neither, or Both?

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Hao-Jui Kuan (UIUC) "Tidal resonance: Nonlinearities revealed by numerical relativity"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium Eric Kuo (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) “Developing the Skills and Mindsets for Future Success Through Physics Education”

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium Peter Abbamonte (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) "Conformal Invariance in Strange Metals" TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

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  • 3:45 - 4:45 pm
  • 134 Astronomy Building

  The Ongoing Hunt for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Jay Kalinani (UIUC)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium McMillan Award: Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in twisted MoTe₂: discovery and recent advances

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

• • 11:00 am
  • Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236

  Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology Seminar - Isaac Legred (UIUC)

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Loomis Lab 141

  The Physics Colloquium "Chirality Meets Quantum"

  • Seminar/Symposium