Events at Physics |
Events During October, 2021
- Friday, October 1st
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Making Movies of Molecules - The Emerging Science of Powerful New X-ray Sources, Uwe Bergmann, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Physical Review: An inside look, Victor Vakaryuk, APS (PRX)
- Monday, October 4th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The onset of magnetic reconnection in collisional and collisionless plasmas, Nuno Loureiro (MIT)
- Tuesday, October 5th
- High Energy Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Video Recording:
- Studies for a Low EMittance Muon Accelerator (LEMMA), Manuela Boscolo & Marco Zanetti, INFN
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall and Zoom:
- Instrumentation and Commissioning of the Prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope Camera, Leslie Taylor, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm;
- Mode-by-mode Relative Binning: Fast Likelihood Estimation for Gravitational Waveforms with Spin-Orbit Precession and Multiple Harmonics, Nathaniel Leslie, UC Berkeley
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
- Wednesday, October 6th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280 (Zoom link also available for online participants who signed up on our mailing list)
- Normalizing Flows for scientific applications, Uros Seljak, UC Berkeley
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling
- 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm;
- Particles Unknown, IceCube, IceCube
- Thursday, October 7th
- Graduate Program Event, B.O.V. Presentation;
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall and/or - Entrepreneurship in the Physical Sciences, Thomas Rockwell Mackie, Emeritus Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 pm, Talk starts at 3:45 pm
- Probing the primordial universe with high-resolution CMB and galaxy surveys, Moritz Muenchmeyer, UW Madison
- Friday, October 8th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Quantum Hardware Simulations, Maxim Vavilov, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Glimpsing the Compositions of Sub-Neptune-Size Worlds, Leslie Rogers, University of Chicago
- Monday, October 11th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- TBD, Jim Schroeder (Wheaton College)
- Tuesday, October 12th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm;
- An Early Cosmological Epoch of QCD Confinement, Tim Tait , UC Irvine
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Cutting and gluing with running couplings in N=2 QCD, Jan Manschot, Trinity College Dublin
- Thursday, October 14th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- The Emergence of Superconductivity in Inhomogeneous Systems, Nadya Mason , UIUC
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 pm, Talk starts at 3:45 pm
- Exploring the Interaction of Convection and Rotation in the Core Region of Massive Stars through 3-D simulations, Paul Woodward, University of Minnesota
- Friday, October 15th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Astrophysics and Cosmology, Peter Timbie, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Electronic Transport in Strain-Engineered Graphene , Nadya Mason, UIUC
- Monday, October 18th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm
- Overcoming challenges in atmospheric pressure plasma studies: instabilities, self-organization and complex interfaces, Peter Bruggeman (Univ of MN)
- Tuesday, October 19th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Jet Timing, Matthew Low, University of Pittsburgh
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm; Zoom:
- Exploring Axion-like Particles with Nearby Supernovae, Kanji Mori , Fukuoka University, Japan
- Wednesday, October 20th
- Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Chamberlin 5280 (Zoom link also available for online participants who signed up on our mailing list)
- Machine Learning Application for the Event Horizon Telescope, Joshua Yao-Yu Lin , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Thursday, October 21st
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 pm, Talk starts at 3:45 pm
- Star Formation, Solar Physics, and Stellar Astrophysics: A Data-Intensive Approach, Keivan Stassun, Vanderbilt University
- Friday, October 22nd
- Wonders of Physics
- 10:00 am - 10:00 pm; Ingersoll Physics Museum
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Linking the theory and observation of astroparticles , Ke Fang, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Extremely out-of-equilibrium 1D gases, David Weiss, Penn State
- Wonders of Physics
- 6:00 pm - 6:25 pm; Top of State Street, near the Historical Museum
- Wonders of Physics
- 7:00 pm - 7:25 pm; Top of State Street, near the Historical Museum
- Saturday, October 23rd
- Wonders of Physics
- 9:00 am - 10:00 pm; Ingersoll Physics Museum
- Sunday, October 24th
- Wonders of Physics
- 10:00 am - 4:00 pm; Ingersoll Physics Museum
- Monday, October 25th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Using magnetic fields and microgravity to explore the physics of dusty plasmas, Ed Thomas, Jr. (Auburn)
- Tuesday, October 26th
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm;
- Comparing Supernova Models Using Past and Future Neutrino Data , Jackson Olsen , University of Minnesota
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Muon g-2 Experiments as Dark Matter Detectors, Ryan Janish, Fermilab
- 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 1003 Engineering Centers Building
- Astronaut Scholarship Foundation presentation, Brewster Shaw, NASA
- Thursday, October 28th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 pm, Talk starts at 3:45 pm
- Probing Dynamic Intracluster Medium: Insights from X-ray Surface Brightness Fluctuations, Irina Zhuravleva , University of Chicago
- Friday, October 29th
- Graduate Introductory Seminar (Physics 701); 12:05 pm - 12:55 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Condensed Matter and Quantum Science, Mark Eriksson, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Correlating materials analysis with qubit measurements to systematically eliminate sources of noise, Nathalie de Leon, Princeton