Anthony J. Leggett Memorial and Conference 2026
October 9-11, 2026
A Conference and Memorial in honor of Anthony J. Leggett
In this Conference and Memorial, we celebrate the magnificent scientific life of our beloved colleague Sir Anthony J. Leggett. Known for his depth of intellect and expansive view of physics, Sir Anthony J. Leggett was also deeply human. He insisted on being called simply Tony, a true sign of his inherent humility, a natural counterweight to his prodigious physics. His life spanned from 26 March 1938 to 8 March of this year.
A Memorial will be held on Friday, October 9th, at 4.30pm, at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. Please complete this form if you would like to be considered as a speaker at Tony Leggett's memorial service.
Confirmed Speakers
Daniel Agterberg (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Gordon Baym (UIUC)
Stuart Brown (UCLA)
Amir Caldeira (Unicamp, Brazil)
Andrey Chubukov (Minnesota)
Séamus Davis (Oxford,UK/Cork, Ireland)
Michel Devoret (Yale/Google) (via zoom)
Matthew Fisher (UCSB)
Anupam Garg (Northwestern)
Steven Girvin (Yale)
Markus Greiner (Harvard) (via zoom)
William Helperin (Northwestern)
Nigel Hussey (Bristol, UK)
Long Ju (MIT)
Steven Kivelson (Stanford)
Angela Kou (UIUC)
John Kirtley (Stanford)
Ying Liu (PSU)
Tin-Lun (Jason) Ho (OSU)
Vidya Madhavan (UIUC)
Dirk van der Marel (U Geneva, Switzerland)
Chetan Nayak (Microsoft/UCSB)
Wolfgang Pfaff (UIUC)
Mohit Randeria (OSU)
Ana María Rey (Colorado)
Peter Schiffer (Princeton)
Pragya Shukla (IIT, India)
Fernando Sols (U Complutense, Madrid, Spain)
Clare Yu (UC Irvine)
Organizers
Rafael Fernandes (UIUC)
Eduardo Fradkin (UIUC)
Taylor Hughes (UIUC)
Philip Phillips (UIUC)
The Anthony J. Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory, University of Illinois, 1101 W Springfield Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, IL
A special thanks to Grainger College of Engineering,
and the Department of Physics, for sponsoring this conference.