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Alumna Eun-ah Kim: ‘At the brink in quantum computing’

Work by Eun-Ah Kim, an Illinois Physics alumna and professor at Cornell University, helps prove the feasibility of using non-Abelian anyons in quantum computing.

Quantum science and the arts—a beautiful entanglement

Illinois Physics Professor Smitha Vishveshwara and her longtime creative collaborators, Illinois Theatre Professor Latrelle Bright and Illinois Music Professor Stephen Taylor, launched the Collective for Art-Science, Creativity, and Discovery, etc. (CASCaDe) in April 2024 with a performance of the first scene of Quantum Voyages at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Now the team of art-science creatives is preparing a reimagined full production of Quantum Voyages—including performances by Le PeTiT CiRqUe, a youth circus group directed by Nathalie Yves Gaulthier—for the largest gathering of physicists in history, coming up this March.

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) The Physics Seminary and Library

Picture of the Week

Photo circa 1912 to 1914 of the Physics Seminary and Library in the original Physics Building at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (which now houses Materials Science and Engineering). The building and its library served as an intellectual hub for physicists and physics teaching and it facilitated collaboration as well as research. 

At its founding in 1889, the department was housed in University Hall. Then from 1894 to1909, the Physics Department was housed in Engineering Hall, until a dedicated building was erected.

Copyright Illinois Physics, courtesy of the Emilio Sègre Visual Archives of the American Institute of Physics.

Submitted by: Illinois Physics Historical Images

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