Saturday, February 21 - Sunday, February 22, 2026
The University of Chicago
Michelson Center for Physics (MCP), room 201
The Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics and James Franck Institute are happy to host the 2026 UChicago - UIUC Workshop.
Organizers: Luca Delacretaz (UChicago), Jong-Yeon Lee (UIUC), and Eduardo Fradkin (UIUC).
| Saturday February 21 |
Location: MCP 201 |
Title |
| 9:00AM |
Dam Thanh Son |
TBA |
| 9:45AM |
Grgur Palle |
Improper Altermagnetism |
| 10:30AM |
coffee |
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| 11:00AM |
Claudio Chamon |
Fast pseudorandom quantum state generators with inflationary quantum gates |
| 11:45AM |
Marvin Qi |
Planckian bound on the local equilibration time |
| 12:30PM |
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| 2:00PM |
Yi-Ting Hsu |
Van-Hove driven Symmetry-Broken Phases in Few-Layer Van der Waals Systems |
| 2:45PM |
Jaewon Kim |
Maximal Chaos and Ordering in Fully Solvable Gross-Neveu-Yuakwa Models |
| 3:30PM |
coffee + Poster session (MCP 3rd floor) |
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| 4:30PM |
Minjae Cho |
A bootstrap framework for equilibrium, nonequilibrium, and disorder |
| 5:15PM |
Andrew Higginbotham |
Non-equilibrium Josephson Systems in One and Two Dimensions |
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| 6:00PM |
Buffet dinner (MCP 3rd floor)
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| Sunday February 22 |
Location: MCP 201 |
Title |
| 9:00AM |
Paul Wiegmann |
Geometric Hydrodynamics and the current algebra |
| 9:45AM |
Jong-Yeon Lee |
Rich landscape of Non-equilibrium Phases |
| 10:30AM |
coffee |
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| 11:00AM |
Wilbur Shirley |
Anomalies, Gauging, and Onsiteability |
| 11:45AM |
Rafael Fernandes |
Gauge Constraints of Elasticity Inherited by Electronic Nematic Criticality |
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| 12:30PM |
Lunch to go (MCP 3rd floor)
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The University of Chicago
Michelson Center for Physics (MCP), room 201
933 East 56th Street
Chicago IL 60637
Parking
The parking garage closest to MCP is the Campus North Garage on the corner of 55th St (Garfield Blvd) and Ellis Avenue. On the weekend, there should be street parking available in the area near MCP.
