Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the 2012 Spring Semester
January 2012
- Wednesday, January 18th
- Physics Department Colloquium
- Title to be announced, No Colloquium -- please remove
- Friday, January 27th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Atom Trap, Krypton-81, and Global Groundwater, Zheng-Tian Lu, Argonne National Laboratory & the University of Chicago
February 2012
- Friday, February 3rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Beyond the Standard Model: The Particle Physics Frontier, Michael Ramsey-Musolf, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Friday, February 10th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Reinventing the Accelerator, Prof. James B. Rosenzweig, UCLA Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- Friday, February 17th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Plasma Techniques Used to Trap Antihydrogen[1], Joel Fajans, University of California, Berkeley
- Friday, February 24th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- FT-IR spectrochemical imaging: Design and applications with Focal Plane Array and multiple beam synchrotron radiation source, Carol Hirschmugl, UW-Milwaukee
March 2012
- Friday, March 2nd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Particle Astrophysics with Space- and Ground-Based Telescopes, Reshmi Mukherjee, Barnard College & Columbia University
- Friday, March 9th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Superconductivity from Repulsive Interactions, Andrey Chubukov, University of Wisconsin Department of Physics
- Friday, March 16th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Kelvin, Pascal, and mollusk shells, Pupa Gilbert, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Friday, March 23rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- The quantum and classical properties of spins on surfaces, Andreas Heinrich, IBM Almaden Research Lab
- Friday, March 30th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Canceled, Michael Corradini, Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
April 2012
- Friday, April 6th
- Spring Break
- Friday, April 13th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Ultracold Polar Molecules, Deborah Jin, NIST & JILA
- Friday, April 20th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- The Neutrino at Eighty - A remarkable journey and a feisty future, John Wilkerson, University of North Carolina
- Friday, April 27th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Topological insulators and topological superconductors, Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford University
May 2012
- Friday, May 4th
- Physics Department Colloquium, 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award Winner;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Alumni Award Speaker, Ronald Lockwood, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Friday, May 11th
- Last Day of Class - No Colloquium