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Events During February, 2009
- Monday, February 2nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall
- Recent 2-Fluid Simulation Results on Internal Kink and Tearing, Prof. Carl Sovinec, UW-Madison, Dept of EP
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Dissipation Range of MHD Turbulence, Paul Terry, UW-Madison, Dept of Physics/Plasma
- Tuesday, February 3rd
- Special Plasma Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- "Tests of Collision Operators Using Laboratory Measurements of Shear Alfven Wave Dispersion and Damping, Derek Thuecks, University of Iowa
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Norepinephrine, Networks, and Behavior: One aproach to Systems Neuroscience, David Devilbiss, UW Department of Psychology
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- The Incredible Omega Centauri- A Laboratory for Chemical Enrichment, Caty Pilachowski, Univ of Indiana-Bloomington
- Thursday, February 5th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Probing Electron Energy Distribution in Carbon Nanotubes, Yung-Fu Chen, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Lab, UIUC
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Cosmology and the LHC, Carlos E M Wagner, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago
- Special Plasma Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- "Ion Current Estimations in the Irvine Field Reversed Configuration:, Wayne Harris, University of California/Irvine
- Friday, February 6th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Ingersoll Lecture;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm) - Exploiting protein-crystal interactions to build switches, throttles and brakes: what shells, bones and kidney stones can teach us about managing CO2, James J. De Yoreo, Molecular Foundry, LBNL
- Monday, February 9th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:05 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall
- News from the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak Programme, Professor Hartmut Zohm, Max-Planck Intsitut fuer Plasmaphysik, Garching, German7
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Phase-space Structure of the Milky Way's Dark Halo, Leanne Duffy, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- High Energy Seminar, Joint HEP-NPAC Seminar;
4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin: (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm - Latest Results from MiniBoone, Chris Polly, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Joint NPAC Forum/HEP Seminar;
4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin - New oscillation results from MiniBooNE, Chris Polly, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Tuesday, February 10th
- Special Plasma Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Measurements of Fast Ion Profiles During High Harmonic Fast Wave Heating on NSTX, Deyong Liu, University of California/Irvine
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- A brief survey of financial derivatives, Don Hester, UW Department of Economics
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- The Evolution of AGN in Clusters of Galaxies, Paul Martini, Ohio State
- Astronomy Colloquium, Astronomy/Physics Colloquium;
3:45 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall - Science with the International X-ray Observatory, Randall Smith, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Thursday, February 12th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Precision Measurements of the London Penetration Depth and Pairing Symmetry in Superconductors, Ruslan Prozorov, Iowa State University & Ames Laboratory
- Atomic Seminar; 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Ultracold plasma dynamics in a magnetic field, Xianli Zhang, University of Maryland
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Covariance, Dynamics and Symmetries, and Hadron Physics, Craig Roberts, Argonne National Laboratory
- Friday, February 13th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Gravity on the Test Bench: Torsion Balance Renaissance, Jens Gundlach, University of Washington
- Monday, February 16th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:05 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall
- Exponential Growth and Filamentary Structure of Nonlinear Ballooning Instability, Ping Zhu, UW-Madison, Dept of EP
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin: (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm)
- Search for charged massive stable particles at D0, Tulika Bose, Boston University
- Tuesday, February 17th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Poetry, mathematics, and science, Robin Chapman, UW Department of Communicative Disorders
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- Title to be announced, Ethan Vishniac, Johns Hopkins University
- Wednesday, February 18th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Cosmological recombination: The effect of high-n states, Daniel Grin, Caltech
- Thursday, February 19th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Science with the International X-ray Observatory, Randall Smith, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Friday, February 20th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Disorder-induced superfluid-to-insulator transition in an optical lattice, Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Spontaneous R-parity Violation in Supersymmetry, Sogee Spinner, UW-Madison Physics Dept.
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Experiments on Dirty Bosons, Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Monday, February 23rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:15 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall
- Beyond MHD in Astrophysics: Buoyancy Instabilities in Galaxy Clusters, Dr. Ian Parrish, Dept of Astronomy at University of California-Berkeley
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Magnetic REconnection with Asymmetry in the Outflow Direction, Nick Murphy, University of Wisconsin. Dept of Astronomy/Physics
- Tuesday, February 24th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Studying Dynamical Systems with Computer Algebra Systems, George Hrabovsky, Madison Area Science and Technology
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- Structure and Generation of the Solar Transition Region, Hakeem Oluseyi, Florida Institute of Technology
- Wednesday, February 25th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Heavy-flavor Inclusive Production: Formalism and Applications, Bernd Kniehl, University of Hamburg
- Thursday, February 26th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Supersymmetric U(1)' Models, Gil Paz, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- Friday, February 27th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Diatomic Molecules as Quantum Tools, David DeMille, Yale University