Events During the 2012 Fall Semester
September 2012
- Tuesday, September 4th
- First Day of Class
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
The Beginning and End of Heavy Element Nucleosynthesis; Ian Roederer, Carnegie Observatories
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
Myths of Mathematics; Moe Hirsch, UW Department of Mathematics
- Wednesday, September 5th
- Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Friday, September 7th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- 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
- Video: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/vod/2012/09/07.html
- Monday, September 10th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
Instabilities of a magnetized free shear layer in rotating liquid metal; Austin Roach, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Tuesday, September 11th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
Computational complexity theory -- The world of P and NP; Jin-Yi Cai, UW Department of Computer Science
- Wednesday, September 12th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
How strain unintentionally causes quantum dots in silicon nano-devices; Ted Thorbeck, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Thursday, September 13th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Competing Phases of 2D Electrons at ν = 5/2 and 7/3 in fractional quantum Hall systems; Jing Xia, University of California - Irvine
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274
Astroparticle physics with the ARGO-YBJ detector; Dr. Roberto Iuppa, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Roma, Italy
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
"Large-Scale Surveys of Star Formation in the Milky Way"; Peter Barnes, University of Florida
- Prospective Undergraduate Majors in Physics; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (Food & Soda will be served)
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:45 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
Astrophysics I: Experimental Astro/Space Physics; McCammon, Timbie, UW Madison
- Friday, September 14th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- 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
- Video: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/vod/2012/09/14.html
- Monday, September 17th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
Innovative plasma CVD technology for the synthesis of carbon nanomaterials (nanocrystalline diamond film and graphene film); Jaeho Kim, AIST, Japan
- Tuesday, September 18th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
The discovery of the ER-based acetylation machinery: from aging to Alzheimer's disease ... cancer too?; Luigi Puglielli, UW Department of Medicine
- Careers for Physicists; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Careers for Physicists; Dai Dee Pun, Skyline Solar
- Wednesday, September 19th
- Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, September 20th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Surprises! and Puzzles? from Probing Neutral Atoms Trapped in Noble Gas Ice; Jaideep Singh, Argonne National Lab
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Albrecht Karle;
2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Evidence of Electron Neutrino Appearance at T2K; Melanie Day, University of Rochester
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
"Turbulence and Cosmic-Rays in Galaxy Clusters"; Peng Oh, UC Santa Barbara
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:45 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
Condensed Matter Experimental; Eriksson, Himpsel, Lagally, McDermott, Onellion, Rzchowski, Winokur, UW Madison
- Friday, September 21st
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- 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
- Monday, September 24th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
Dynamos in spherical boundary-driven flows; Ivan Khalzov, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
Pairing near quantum critical points; Andrey Chubukov
- Tuesday, September 25th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
Games, learning & the future of education; Kurt Squire & Constance Steinkuehler, UW Department of Curriculum and Instruction
- Thursday, September 27th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
"Early Star Forming Galaxies and the Reionization of the Universe"; Dan Stark, University of Arizona
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:45 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
Biophysics; Coppersmith, Gilbert, UW Madison
- Friday, September 28th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- 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
- Video: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/vod/2012/09/28.html
October 2012
- Monday, October 1st
- Special Seminar; 11:30 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Tunneling spectroscopy of many-body effects in a two-dimensional electron gas of near-surface delta-doped layer; Sergey Dizhur, Institute of Radioengineering & Electronics, Russian Academy of Science
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
Neutronics of ARIES and ITER: Progress and Challenges; Laila El-Guebaly, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Tuesday, October 2nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
Mitochondrial proteins, pathways and pathogenesis; Dave Pagliarini, UW Department of Biochemistry
- High Energy Seminar; 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Updated results from the T2K long baseline neutrino experiment; Kendall Mahn, TRIUMF
- Wednesday, October 3rd
- Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, October 4th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Atom Interferometry in an inductively coupled ring trap; Jonathan Pritchard, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Probing the Gas Around Galaxies and Black Holes; Aleks Diamond-Stanic, UC San Diego
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:45 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
High Energy Phenomenology String Theory & Theoretical Cosmology; Bai, Barger, Chung, Everett, Hashimoto, Shiu, UW Madison
- Friday, October 5th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Three Exceptions for Thermal Dark Matter with Enhanced Annihilation to Gamma Gamma; Hai-Bo Yu, University of Michigan
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm;
- Monday, October 8th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
Electronic properties of ultimate nanowires; Franz Himpsel
- Tuesday, October 9th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
A few things that we learned from Galileo, and a few things we didn't; Jim Lattis, Director, Director, UW Space Place, UW Department of Astronomy
- Thursday, October 11th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
The Kondo exciton: a quantum quench towards strong spin-reservoir correlations; Hakan Tureci, Princeton University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Searches for Lorentz Violation in the Top Quark Sector; Denver Whittington, Indiana University
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:45 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
Condensed Matter Theory; Chubukov, Coppersmith, Joynt, Perkins, Vavilov, UW Madison
- Friday, October 12th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Phenomenology of next generation neutrino oscillation experiments; Kaoru Hagiwara, KEK
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
Nuclear Power After Fukushima; Michael Corradini, UW-Madison
- Video: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/vod/2012/10/12.html
- Monday, October 15th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
Strong beaming of high-energy particle acceleration and radiation in magnetic reconnection in relativistic pair plasmas; Dmitri Uzdensky, Center for Integrated Plasma Studies, UC-Boulder
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
Electronic and structural correlations at oxide interfaces; Mark Rzchowski
- Tuesday, October 16th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
Applications of computed tomography; Rock Mackie, UW Departments of Molecular Biology and Medical Physics
- Wednesday, October 17th
- Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, October 18th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Quantum Technology: The Second Quantum Revolution; Jonathan Dowling, Louisiana State University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Blue Straggler Formation in the Old Open Cluster NGC188; Aaron Geller, Northwestern University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Physics in a Big Universe; Sean Carroll, Caltech
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:45 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
High Energy Collider Experiment; Carlsmith, Dasu, Herndon, Mellado, Pan, Smith, Wu, UW Madison
- Friday, October 19th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- 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
- Monday, October 22nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
Local and global plasma response and plasma-facing component performance of the liquid lithium divertor in NSTX; Michael Jaworski, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Special Lunch Astronomy Talk; 12:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Cores, anisotrophy and (complex) rotation: the (Classical) dwarf Spheroidals; Nicola Amorisco, University of Copenhagen
- Tuesday, October 23rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
Adaptive macroscopic properties of biological systems as the outcome of collective social computation; Jessica Flack, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
- Thursday, October 25th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Majorana fermions in vortex lattices; Rudro Rana Biswas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:25 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
The Magellanic Stream: Probing the Baryon Cycle in the Galactic Halo; Andrew Fox, STSci
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:45 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics; Lawler, Lin, Saffman, Walker, Wehlitz, Yavuz, UW Madison
- Friday, October 26th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Exploring Majorana landscape: the NEXT generation; Juan José Gómez Cadenas, IFIC - Instituto de Física Corpuscular, Valencia, Spain
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Using Singularity for Missing Mass Measurements; Ian-Woo Kim, University of Michigan
- 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
- Monday, October 29th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- Special Lunch Astronomy Talk; 12:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
"Star Formation in N-Body Dwarf Galaxy Simulations"; Ferah Munshi, University of Washington
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
Progress in Superconducting Quantum Circuits; Robert McDermott
- Tuesday, October 30th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
The role of the lunar cycles in human evolution; Art Schmaltz, Prairie State College
- High Energy Seminar; 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
The Search for the Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a Top Quark Pair; Kevin Lannon, University of Notre Dame
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Indirect detection of dark matter at GeV and TeV scales; Alexander Belikov, Institut d'Astrophysics, Paris
- Special Undergraduate Seminar; 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Fun Facts about the Higgs Boson and Graduate School at Notre Dame; Kevin Lannon, University of Notre Dame
- Wednesday, October 31st
- Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
November 2012
- Thursday, November 1st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Nonlinear and nonreciprocal effects in magnetic garnet films; Pradeep Kumar, Michigan Technological University
- Careers in Physics; 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:45 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
Neutrinos, Dark Matter, and Fundamental Interactions; Balantekin, Heeger, Maruyama, Ramsey-Musolf, UW Madison
- Friday, November 2nd
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- 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
- Monday, November 5th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- Tuesday, November 6th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin
Long Range, Cold Rydberg Atom Molecules and Interactions; James Shaffer, University of Oklahoma
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
Food waste, hunger and the environment: the solution is a pile of garbage; Jed Colquhoun, UW Department of Horticulture
- High Energy Seminar; 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
W Mass From CDF; Ashutosh Kotwal, Duke University
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Recent MiniBooNE Results and the Status of Sterile Neutrinos; Christina Ignarra, MIT
- 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
- Thursday, November 8th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Observation of fractional ac Josephson effect: the signature of Majorana particles; Leonid Rokhinson, Purdue University
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:45 pm; IceCube Offices at 222 W. Washington Avenue
Astrophysics II: IceCube, ARA, DM-Ice; Halzen, Karle, Maruyama, UW Madison
- Friday, November 9th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Overview of System Identification applications to MHD control: How to control MHD activity without using the MHD equations in the feedback model [Note room change]; James Drake, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm [NOTE room change]
- 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
- Monday, November 12th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
RMP-Flutter-Induced Plasma Transport in DIII-D; James Callen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
Quantum Optics with Quantum Dots and Microwave Resonators: Photon and Electron Statistics; Maxim Vavilov
- Tuesday, November 13th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
Role of biofuels in meeting our future energy demands; Natalie Hunt, UW Department of Forest Ecology and Management
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Cosmological Perturbations: Isocurvature, Vorticity and Magnetic Fields; Adam Christopherson, University of Nottingham
- Wednesday, November 14th
- Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, November 15th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
On-chip cavity quantum phonodynamics; Charles Tahan, Laboratory for Physical Science
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Neutrino Oscillations: Present Status and Future Plans; Jenny Thomas, University College London
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:45 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
Plasma Physics; Boldyrev, Forest, Sarff, Schnack, Terry, Zweibel, UW Madison
- Friday, November 16th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- 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
- Monday, November 19th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
Fast Ion Confinement and Stability of an NBI-heated RFP; Jay Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
The Anderson-Higgs mechanism in Condensed Matter Physics; Dushko Kuzmanovski & Saurabh Maiti
- Tuesday, November 20th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
Searching for the earliest life on Earth; Clark Johnson, UW Department of Geoscience
- Thursday, November 22nd
- Thanksgiving Recess
- Friday, November 23rd
- Thanksgiving Recess
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, November 26th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
Observing the acceleration of suprathermal electrons by Alfven waves using the diagnostic of whistler-mode wave absorption; Fred Skiff, University of Iowa
- Tuesday, November 27th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
The prospects for extraterrestrial life; Jim Blair, Milton and Edgewood College
- Special ASTRONOMY TALK; 3:45 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
"The Cosmological Challenges of Dwarf Galaxies"; Julio Navarro, University of Victoria
- Wednesday, November 28th
- Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium, Special Colloquium;
4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
A screening of "Hubble's Diverse Universe"; Dr. Jarita Holbrook
- Thursday, November 29th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Microwave Detection of Cosmic Ray Air Showers; Christopher Williams, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, The University of Chicago
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
"Revealing the origins and environments of Mg II absorbers with the SDSS and 3D-HST"; Britt Lundgren, Astronomy Department
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:45 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
Astrophysics III: HAWC/CTA/Fermi; Westerhoff, Vandenbrouke, UW Madison
- Friday, November 30th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- 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
- Monday, December 3rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
Gyrokinetic Simulations of Solar Wind Turbulence and Dissipation; Jason TenBarge, University of Iowa
- Special Lunch Astronomy Talk; 12:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
"H-alpha Dots: A Catalog of Faint Emission-line Objects Discovered in Narrowband Images"; Jessica Kellar, Darthmouth College
- Tuesday, December 4th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin
Towards Precision Spectroscopy of Single Trapped Molecular Ions ; Brian Odom, Northwestern University
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
Cognitive functions of language and their implications for language evolution; Gary Lupyan, UW Department of Psychology
- High Energy Seminar; 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
What can a W boson and some jets reveal at CMS?; Jake Anderson, Fermilab
- Thursday, December 6th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Searching for Pulsars and Radio Transients with the Murchison Widefield Array; David Kaplan, UW Milwaukee, Department of Physics
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Adaptive Mesh Refinement Dimulations of Cosmic Rays in Clusters of Galaxies; Samuel Skillman, University of Colorado
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:45 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
Quantum Computing & Information; , UW Madison
- Friday, December 7th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- 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
- Monday, December 10th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
The Application and Use of 3D Stellarator Fields on the Compact Toroidal Hybrid to Avoid Tokamak Disruptions; David Maurer, Auburn University
- Special Lunch Astronomy Talk; 12:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Title to be announced; Chris Fassnacht, UC Davis
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Searching for physics beyond the standard model: the neutron electric dipole moment experiment at the TUM; Michael Marino, Technical University of Munich
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
A hybrid quantum dot spin qubit; Susan Coppersmith
- Tuesday, December 11th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
Is there a path to renewable fuels, and why would we want to go there?; Tom Jeffries, UW Department of Bacteriology
- High Energy Seminar; 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Project X Seminar; Robert S Tschirhart, Fermilab
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Yukawa Hierarchies from Spontaneous Flavor Symmetry Breaking; Chee Sheng Fong, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy
- Wednesday, December 12th
- Department Meeting; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, December 13th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Field-induced thermal transport in BEC antiferromagnets; Sasha Chernyshev, University of California, Irvine
- Careers in Physics Monthly Meeting; 3:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310
Careers in Physics: Grad School; Physics grad students, UW-Madison
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
The WISP survey: overview of recent results for galaxies in the 1
- Friday, December 14th
- Last Day of Class
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Systematics of Supersymmetric Boundary Conditions in N=4 Yang-Mills Theory; Akikazu Hashimoto, UW Madison
- 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
