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Events During the 2013 Spring Semester
January 2013
- Friday, January 25th
- K. Birgitta Whaley, University of California, Berkeley
- Quantum Coherence in Biology
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Gilbert
- Quantum Coherence in Biology
February 2013
- Friday, February 1st
- John Spence, Arizona State University
- Femtosecond hard X-ray lasers for atomic structure and biodynamics
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Gilbert
- Video: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/vod/2013/02/01.html
- Femtosecond hard X-ray lasers for atomic structure and biodynamics
- Friday, February 8th
- Open
- Friday, February 15th
- John Martinis, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Superconducting Quantum Computing
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by McDermott
- Video: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/vod/2013/02/15.html
- Superconducting Quantum Computing
- Friday, February 22nd
- André de Gouvêa, Northwestern University
- The Brave Nu World
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Balantekin
- Video: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/vod/2013/02/22.html
- The Brave Nu World
March 2013
- Friday, March 1st
- Niayesh Afshordi, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics & the University of Waterloo
- Life after Lorentz: Quantum Mechanics, Gravity, and the Crisis of Falsifiability
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Chung
- Video: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/vod/2013/03/01.html
- Life after Lorentz: Quantum Mechanics, Gravity, and the Crisis of Falsifiability
- Friday, March 8th
- Timothy Donohue, UW-Madison Dept. of Bacteriology & Director, Great Lakes Bioenergy
- Meeting the Energy needs of a Growing Population
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Forest
- Video: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/vod/2013/03/08.html
- Meeting the Energy needs of a Growing Population
- Friday, March 15th
- Philip Argyres, University of Cincinnati
- New perspectives on quark confinement
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Hashimoto
- Video: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/vod/2013/03/15.html
- New perspectives on quark confinement
- Friday, March 22nd
- Adam Burrows, Princeton University
- Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions: The Theoretical Challenge
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Halzen
- Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions: The Theoretical Challenge
- Friday, March 29th
- Open
April 2013
- Friday, April 5th
- Leonid Glazman, Yale University
- Nonlinear Quantum Liquids in One Dimension
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Vavilov
- Nonlinear Quantum Liquids in One Dimension
- Friday, April 12th
- Andrew Millis, Columbia University
- Superconductivity and the Pseudogap in theory and in copper-oxide based superconductors
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Chubukov
- Superconductivity and the Pseudogap in theory and in copper-oxide based superconductors
- Friday, April 19th
- Mark Raizen, University of Texas at Austin
- Breaking Barriers with Maxwell's Demon
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Saffman
- Breaking Barriers with Maxwell's Demon
- Friday, April 26th
- Glennys Farrar, New York University
- Physics and Astrophysics from Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray observations
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Coppersmith
- Physics and Astrophysics from Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray observations
May 2013
- Friday, May 3rd
- David Fahey, Earth System Research Laboratory, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
2013 Alumni Award Winner
- Pursuing Climate Science: From Small Particles to Large Airplanes
- 4:00 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Pursuing Climate Science: From Small Particles to Large Airplanes
- Friday, May 10th
- David Nygren, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Gas-filled detectors: the Darwinian Champions of Particle Physics
- 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Halzen
- Gas-filled detectors: the Darwinian Champions of Particle Physics