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Events During February, 2021

   Monday, February 1st
Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;
Monday Science Seminar w/ Benjamin Rosenwasser (UW-Madison), Benjamin Rosenwasser, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Presentation: Monday_Science_Seminar.pdf
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Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting
Real-time wall conditioning of fusion devices by injection of low-Z powders, Alessandro Bortolon, PPPL
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Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
MHD Transient Seeding of Disruptive Neoclassical Tearing Modes (NTMs), J. D. Callen, UW-Madison
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   Tuesday, February 2nd
Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
New Physics and the Black Hole Mass Gap, Sam McDermott , Fermilab
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   Wednesday, February 3rd
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
TBD, Justyna Zwolak
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:30 pm; Zoom Meeting
The diffusion of cosmic rays and post-doc application, Yingying Guo, Institute of High Energy Physics, China
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Graduate Program Event; 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm; or see Facebook link in abstract
3MT® Three Minute Thesis Finals, Jimena Gonzalez, UW–Madison Physics
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   Thursday, February 4th
 Astronomy Colloquium, SPECIAL TIME 10 AM;
10:00 am - 11:00 am; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) SPECIAL TIME 10AM
Interstellar Shocks, Antoine Gusdorf, Laboratoire de Physique de l’École Normale Supérieure & Paris Observatory, Paris, France
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Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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   Friday, February 5th
Women+ in Plasma Physics (W+iPP); 12:00 pm; Zoom
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
Phenomenological and Quantum Gravity constraints from Charged Black Hole Evaporation in de Sitter Space, Gerben Venken, Heidelberg University
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 2:50 pm; Zoom meeting
Long-term TeV spectra of blazars Mrk 421 and Mrk 501, Sara Coutino, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Mexico
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
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   Monday, February 8th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am - 11:50 am; Zoom meeting
Data Analysis and Simulations of Compact Objects and Performance of the X-Calibur Telescope, Banafsheh Beheshitour, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Hannover, Germany
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Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
Stellarator Optimization in the 2020s, Aaron Bader, UW-Madison
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Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm
no Plasma Theory Seminar
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   Tuesday, February 9th
Academic Calendar; 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Online - Faculty Spotlight: Commitment to Equity
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Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
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   Wednesday, February 10th
Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
Physics meets ML to solve cosmological inference, Ben Wandelt, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris / Institut Lagrange, Sorbonne University and Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, New York
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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   Thursday, February 11th
Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm; visit for YouTube or Facebook watch links
Women of CTA, Leslie Taylor, UW–Madison Physics
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Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30 pm, Talk 3:45 PM
The Astrophysics of Gas with Simulations , Simeon Bird, UC Riverside
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   Friday, February 12th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm; Zoom Meeting
Closing in on the sources of UHECRs: A multimessenger approach, Marco Muzio, New York University
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
Phenomenology of Magnetic Black Holes, Nicholas Orlofsky, Carleton University
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
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Department Meeting
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Zoom:
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   Monday, February 15th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am - 11:50 am; Zoom meeting
The High Energy Light Isotope Experiment (HELIX) and Galactic Cosmic Rays, Keith McBride, Ohio State University
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Monday Science Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm;
, Dr. Leon Trapman, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
Poking the pedestal: Progress and Potential of Pellet ELM Pacing, Bob Wilcox, ORNL
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Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom Meeting
tbd, J. S. Schmitt, Auburn University
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   Tuesday, February 16th
Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
Election Day
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; online
MINERvA measurements of Neutrino Interactions in the GeV Regime, Xianguo Lu, University of Oxford
Presentation: xlu_20210216_Wisconsin_abstract.pdf
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Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm;
Hydrogen Mixing and the EDGES Anomaly, Luke Johns, UC-Berkeley
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:00 pm - 3:50 pm; Zoom meeting
Neutrino astronomy with IceCube: an improved muon track reconstruction and a search for cross-correlations with AGN cores, Federica Bradascio, DESY and Humboldt University of Berlin
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   Wednesday, February 17th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; cancelled due to lack of urgent business
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   Thursday, February 18th
Graduate Program Event; Virtual
Prospective Ph.D. Student VIRTUAL Visit Day, PhD Program Faculty & Graduate Students, UW-Madison, Department of Physics
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Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
Looking at the Universe through gravitational lenses, Lindsay King, University of Texas-Dallas
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   Friday, February 19th
Graduate Program Event; Virtual
PhD Prospective Student VIRTUAL Visit Day, PhD Program Faculty & Graduate Students, UW-Madison, Department of Physics
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
Resolving spacetime singularities in flux compactifications and KKLT, Jakob Moritz, Cornell University
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 2:40 pm; Zoom meeting
Searching for UHE- photons at the Pierre Auger Observatory: a two variable approach exploiting the air-shower Universality, Pierpaolo Savina, Università del Salento, Italy and Université Paris-Saclay, France
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
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   Monday, February 22nd
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; Zoom
DIII-D and The Advanced Tokamak Path to Fusion Energy, Richard Buttery, GA
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Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; Zoom meeting
Automated Normal Mode Analysis in Reduced Models of Turbulence for Stellarator Optimization, Ben Faber, UW-Madison
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   Tuesday, February 23rd
Council Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm;
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   Wednesday, February 24th
 Plasma Theory Seminar, Special Plasma Seminar;
9:00 am; Zoom Meeting
Plasma rotation: from mass separation applications to light manipulation, Renaud Gueroult, Laplace, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France
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Physics ∩ ML Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:15 pm; Online Seminar: Please sign up for our mailing list at www.physicsmeetsml.org for zoom link
Neural Mechanics: Symmetry and Broken Conservation Laws in Deep Learning Dynamics, Daniel Kunin and Hidenori Tanaka, Stanford University
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; Virtual see "abstract" for connection info
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   Thursday, February 25th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Zoom meeting(see Abstract ) Coffee and tea 3:30pm, Talk 3:45pm
PHANGS Results: Connecting the Small Scale ISM Physics to the Galaxy Structures, Dyas Otomo, NRAO
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   Friday, February 26th
Thesis Defense; 12:00 pm;
Thermal Transport Across Interfaces, Two-Dimensional Materials, and III-V Ternary-Alloy Superlattice, Gabriel Jaffe, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; For zoom link, sign up at:
Decoding and bootstrapping cosmological fluctuations, Guilherme Pimentel, Leiden University & University of Amsterdam
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Department Coffee Hour; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Virtual (see abstract for connection info)
Department Coffee Hour (Virtual)
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