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Events During the 2026 Spring Semester
January 2026
Thursday, January 8th: Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; B343 Sterling; Improved Techniques for the Determination of the Neutrino Mass Ordering with IceCube1 DeepCore and the IceCube Upgrade, Joshua Henry Peterson, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, January 15th: Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin; Physics Qualifying Exam - Classical Mechanics; Add this event to your calendar; Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin; Physics Qualifying Exam - Statistical Mechanics; Add this event to your calendar; Preliminary Exam; 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm; B343 Sterling or; Kinetic impacts on Rayleigh-Taylor-driven magnetic reconnection in accretion flows, Braden Buck, Physics PhD Graduate Student; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, January 16th: Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin; Physics Qualifying Exam - Electricity and Magnetism; Add this event to your calendar; Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin; Physics Qualifying Exam - Quantum Mechanics; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, January 19th: Academic Calendar; Martin Luther King Jr. Day; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, January 20th: Academic Calendar; Spring Semester Instruction Begins; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, January 22nd: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Tiancheng Song; Title to be announced, Mingyang Zheng, University of Florida; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, January 23rd: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241; Title to be announced, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, University of New Hampshire; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, January 26th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Title to be announced, Gabriele Montefalcone, U. Texas, Austin; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, January 30th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241; Title to be announced, Dana Z. Anderson, University of Colorado; Add this event to your calendar
February 2026
Monday, February 2nd: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Title to be announced, Christopher Dessert, Flatiron Inst., New York; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 6th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241; Title to be announced, Philip Kim, Harvard University; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, February 7th: Wonders of Physics; 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, February 8th: Wonders of Physics; 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, February 12th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Title to be announced, Oskar Vafek , UMN-FTPI; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 13th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241; Title to be announced; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, February 14th: Wonders of Physics; 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, February 15th: Wonders of Physics; 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar; Wonders of Physics; 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 20th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241; Title to be announced, Cole Miller, University of Maryland at College Park; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, February 27th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241; Title to be announced; Add this event to your calendar
March 2026
Friday, March 6th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241; Title to be announced, David B. Kaplan, University of Washington; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, March 12th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Title to be announced, John Toner, University of Oregon; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 13th: Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall; Title to be announced, Thomas Schaefer, University of Trieste; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall; Title to be announced, John Toner, U Oregon; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 16th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Title to be announced, Kimberly K. Boddy, University Texas, Austin; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 20th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241; Title to be announced, Abhay Ashtekar, Penn State; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, March 27th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241; Title to be announced; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, March 28th: Academic Calendar; Spring Recess; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, March 29th: Academic Calendar; Spring Recess; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, March 30th: Academic Calendar; Spring Recess; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, March 31st: Academic Calendar; Spring Recess; Add this event to your calendar
April 2026
Wednesday, April 1st: Academic Calendar; Spring Recess; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 2nd: Academic Calendar; Spring Recess; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 3rd: Academic Calendar; Spring Recess; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, April 4th: Academic Calendar; Spring Recess; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, April 5th: Academic Calendar; Spring Recess; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 6th: Academic Calendar; Classes Resume; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 9th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Title to be announced, Sheng Ran, Washington University in St Louis; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 10th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241; Title to be announced, Justin Evans, University of Manchester; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 17th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241; Title to be announced, Alex Kamenev , FTPI-UMN; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, April 24th: Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241; Title to be announced, Linda Young, ANL; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, April 27th: Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280; Title to be announced, José Calderón-Infante, Caltech; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, April 30th: R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Title to be announced, Aditi Mitra, NYU; Add this event to your calendar
May 2026
Friday, May 1st: Academic Calendar; Last Class Day; Add this event to your calendar; Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241; RESERVED — Title to be announced, TBA, TBA; Add this event to your calendar
Saturday, May 2nd: Academic Calendar; Study Day; Add this event to your calendar
Sunday, May 3rd: Academic Calendar; Exams Begin; Add this event to your calendar
Monday, May 4th: Academic Calendar; Exams; Add this event to your calendar
Tuesday, May 5th: Academic Calendar; Exams; Add this event to your calendar
Wednesday, May 6th: Academic Calendar; Exams; Add this event to your calendar
Thursday, May 7th: Academic Calendar; Exams; Add this event to your calendar; R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin; Title to be announced, Shimon Kolkowitz, Berkeley; Add this event to your calendar
Friday, May 8th: Academic Calendar; Exams End; Add this event to your calendar

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