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Events During the 2017 Spring Semester

January 2017

   Friday, January 20th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Very-high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics with HAWC, Ignacio Taboada, Georgia Tech
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   Friday, January 27th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
A New Spin on Superconductivity, Amir Yacoby, Harvard University
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February 2017

   Friday, February 3rd
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Lab Astro and the Origins of the Chemical Elements, James E. Lawler, introduced by UW Emeritus Prof. Wilmer Anderson, UW-Madison
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   Friday, February 10th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
The Science Driving Particle Physics, JoAnne Hewett, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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   Friday, February 17th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
The basic physics of collisionless magnetic reconnection, Michael Hesse, NASA & Birkeland Centre for Space Science
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March 2017

   Friday, March 3rd
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
Quantum measurement in superconducting circuits: mapping quantum trajectories from spontaneous emission., Kater Murch, Washington University, St. Louis
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   Friday, March 10th
 Physics Department Colloquium, ****NOTE SPECIAL START AND END TIMES: 3:00 - 5:00 PM****;
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
Breaking the Bias Habit, Jennifer Sheridan & Prof. Molly Carnes, UW Madison
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   Friday, March 17th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
Theories and Signals of a "Dark" Photon, Spencer Chang, Oregon University
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   Friday, March 31st
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
The Dark Matter in the Universe, Katherine Freese, University of Michigan
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April 2017

   Friday, April 7th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
Quark Gluon Plasma: Surprises from strongly coupled QCD matter, Barbara Jacak, UC-Berkeley/LBL
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   Friday, April 14th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
New Dark Matter Search Results from PICO 60, Carsten Krauss, University of Alberta
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   Friday, April 21st
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Carbon Dioxide – A Force for Global Change Throughout the Earth’s Atmosphere, Martin Mlynczak, NASA Langley Research Center
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   Friday, April 28th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
A research-validated approach to transforming upper-division physics courses, Steve Pollock, Colorado University
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May 2017

   Friday, May 5th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin hall
Simulating the Ionosphere, one electron at a time, Meers Oppenheim, Boston University, Astronomy Department
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