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Events During the 2008 Summer Semester
May 2008
- Thursday, May 1st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Magnetic 1/f noise from the semiconductor/oxide interface and spin-dependent scattering in silicon transistors, Rogerio de Sousa, University of Victoria
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Effective Field Theory of Light Nuclei, Bira van Kolck, University of Arizona
- Physics Department Colloquium, Winner of the Distinguished Alumni Award 2008;
5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm) - Exoplanet Detection and Characterization: Status and Prospects, Wesley A. Traub, Jet Propulsion Lab
- Friday, May 2nd
- Physics Department Colloquium, H.T. Richard Lecture;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Neutrino Oscillations: Recent Triumphs and Future Challenges, Bob McKeown, Caltech
- Monday, May 5th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Magnetic Reconnection, a Celestial Phenomenon in the Laboratory, Jan Egedal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Seach for SM Higgs with H to tautau and 2 Jets, Kohei Yorita, University of Chicago
- Tuesday, May 6th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Addressing complex challenges by engaging groups, Darin Harris and Harry Webne-Behrman, UW Office of Quality Improvement
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm in 6521 Sterling)
- Molecular Gas in High-Redshift Galaxies, Andrew Baker, Rutgers University
- String Theory Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Timo Weigand, University of Pennsylvania
- Wednesday, May 7th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Joint NPAC/Pheno Seminar;
3:30 pm - 4:30 am; 4274 Chamberlin - Dirac Leptogenesis in Extended nMSSM, Eung Jin Chun, KIAS
- Thursday, May 8th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Force-Producing Machines in Living Cells, Ben OShaughnessy, Columbia University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- The South Pole Telescope: Beyond Clusters, Tom Crawford, University of Chicago
- Friday, May 9th
- Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Terrance Figy, University of Durham
- Department of Geology & Geophysics General Talk; 3:30 pm; Room AB20 Weeks Hall
- Exploring Mercury by Spacecraft: Seeking clues to the formation and evolution of the inner planets, Sean C Solomon, Director, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Climate Change: Local to Global and Back Again, John Magnuson, Emeritus Professor of Zoology and Limnology, UW-Madison
- Saturday, May 10th
- Physics Department; 9:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Huber-Fest, Multiple Speakers
- Monday, May 12th
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 am; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (coffee & cookies at 3:30 pm)
- New Physics in B to Kll Decays, Kevin Flood, University of Wisconsin
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1335 Health Sciences Learning Center (HSLC) (refreshments at 3:30)
- Radiation Therapy of Moving & Deforming Patients, Katja M. Langen, Ph.D., M.D. Anderson Cancer Center-Orlando, Orlando, Florida
- Thursday, May 15th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Mach-Zehnder Interferometry and Microwave-Induced Cooling in Persistent-Current Qubits, Will Oliver, MIT/Lincoln Labs
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Probing the TeV Scale with Parity-Violating Electron Scattering, Krishna Kumar, UMass
- Friday, May 16th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Christian Bauer, LBNL & UC-Berkeley
- Thursday, May 22nd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Order by distortion and chiral magnetism in frustrated pyrochlore magnet, Gia-Wei Chern, Johns Hopkins University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Measurement of muon neutrino charged current quasielastic (CCQE) scattering on carbon in MiniBooNE, Teppei Katori, Indiana University
- Tuesday, May 27th
- Astronomy Colloquium, SPECIAL Astronomy Colloquim;
3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall - Dissecting the Red Sequence: Star Formation Histories and Structural Evolution of Early Type Galaxies, Genevieve Graves, UC - Santa Cruz
June 2008
- (none)
July 2008
- Tuesday, July 15th
- Special Astronomy Talk; 12:00 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- Secrets from the Stellar Nursery, Alison Sills, McMaster University
August 2008
- Wednesday, August 20th
- Special Plasma Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Visualizing Magnetic Reconnection in Simulations of SSPX, Bick Hopper, LLNL
- Thursday, August 21st
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- The quest for missing baryons through X-ray spectroscopy, Yoh Takei, ISAS in Tokyo
- Friday, August 29th
- Joint PHENO Seminar/NPAC Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Anisotropic Inflation from vector impurity, Sugumi Kanno, IPMU, University of Tokyo