Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the 2012 Fall Semester
August 2012
September 2012
- Friday, September 7th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Pushing Einstein’s Boundaries: Gravitational Approaches to the Challenges of Modern Cosmology, Mark Trodden, Center for Particle Cosmology, University of Pennsylvania
- Friday, September 14th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Magnetic Reconnection in Plasmas: a Celestial Phenomenon in the Laboratory, Jan Egedal, MIT Dept. of Physics & Plasma Science and Fusion Center
- Friday, September 21st
- Physics Department Colloquium, Julian Mack Lecture;
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm) - Space Security and Missile Defense: What is at Stake?, Laura Grego, Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
- Friday, September 28th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Higgs Boson and New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider, Liantao Wang, University of Chicago
October 2012
- Friday, October 5th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm
- No Colloquium
- Friday, October 12th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Nuclear Power After Fukushima, Michael Corradini, UW-Madison
- Friday, October 19th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Discovery of the Higgs Boson - the God Particle, Sau Lan Wu, UW-Madison
- Friday, October 26th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Neutrinos and the Origin of the Elements, Yong-Zhong Qian, University of Minnesota
November 2012
- Friday, November 2nd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Anticipating sudden transitions in biological populations: Cooperation, cheating, and collapse, Jeff Gore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Wednesday, November 7th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Special Colloquium;
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm) - Electronic Liquid Crystalline Phases in Highly Correlated Electronic Systems, Steven Kivelson, Stanford University
- Friday, November 9th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Canceled;
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm) - Unexpected, new Particle Physics presenting itself in UHECR air showers, Glennys Farrar, New York University
- Friday, November 16th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Physics at the edge: Plasmas with dynamic sheaths, Uwe Czarnetzki, Ruhr University Bochum
- Friday, November 23rd
- Thanksgiving Recess
- Friday, November 30th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Emergent phases of correlated electrons in materials with spin-orbit coupling and magnetic frustration., Natalia Perkins, UW-Madison
December 2012
- Friday, December 7th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Testing Landauer’s Principle in a feedback trap, John Bechhoefer, Simon Fraser University
- Friday, December 14th
- Last Day of Class
- Physics Department Colloquium, Holiday Colloquium;
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin (2103 tentative) - Title to be announced, 3rd Year Graduate Students, UW Madison Department of Physics