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2025

April 3: Alain Aspect To Give Fano Lecture

March 12, 2025


2024

$4.8 million grant from NIH BRAIN Initiative for novel PEEM Microscope

October 31, 2024

Sarah King and collaborators at UChicago, Chicago State University, and University of Illinois Chicago were awarded $4.8 million from the NIH BRAIN Initiative toward developing a novel PEEM microscope designed for brain connectomics.


Physics With a Bang 2023 Welcomes 400 visitors

January 30, 2024

The annual Physics With A Bang MRSEC open house welcomed 400 visitors of all ages on Dec. 9 to get them excited about science. Attendees explored a hall of interactive demonstrations, toured lab spaces, and watched Heinrich Jaeger and Sidney Nagel’s double act of dazzling science presentations.


2023

Non-Fermi Liquid Workshop organized by Son and Delacrétaz

November 30, 2023

Dam Thanh Son and Luca Delacrétaz helped organize a 3-day workshop from Oct. 27-29 on Non-Fermi Liquids: Recent Developments and Future Prospects. The lectures are available on Panopto.


Over 180 researchers attend the Midwest Cold Atom Workshop

November 14, 2023


2017

JaegerFest: In Honor of Heinrich Jaeger’s 60th Birthday

June 5, 2017

JaegerFest Group Photo

The World in a Grain of Sand: A Symposium on the Collective Behavior of Particles.

In honor of Heinrich Jaeger’s 60th birthday and to celebrate his highly productive and inspiring scientific career, the MRSEC, JFI, and Physics Department hosted a special Symposium on June 2-3. JaegerFest welcomed to campus more than 100 friends, colleagues, staff and administrators both current and retired, as well as many generations of current and former graduate students. Participants enjoyed a full day of talks related to granular physics, and dinner at the local Experimental Station that included a "roast" where everyone could only think of nice things to say.