UW-Madison Physics - This Week at Physics

Physics > This Week at Physics

This Week at Physics

Physics Events this
Semester

Colloquia & Seminars
Home

Physics Department
Home

Astronomy Colloquia

Atomic Seminars

Chaos & Complex
Systems Seminars

College of Engineering
Events

Condensed Matter Theory Seminars

Department Meetings

High Energy Seminars

Medical Physics
Seminars

NPAC Forums

Physics Department
Colloquia

"Physics Today"
Undergraduate
Colloquia

Plasma Physics
(Physics/ECE/NE 922)
Seminars

R. G. Herb Materials
Physics Seminars

Theory Seminars (High
Energy/Cosmology)

Wonders of Physics

Physics Department Colloquia
Fall 2012 Spring 2013

Add an Event
Modify Events

<< September 2012 >>

>

>

>

>

>

>

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

2 3 4 5 6 7 8

9 10 11 12 13 14 15

16 17 18 19 20 21 22

23 24 25 26 27 28 29

30

Events During the 2012 Fall Semester
September 2012
Friday, September 7th: Mark Trodden, Center for Particle Cosmology, University of Pennsylvania
Pushing Einstein’s Boundaries: Gravitational Approaches to the Challenges of Modern Cosmology
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Hosted by Chung; Video: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/vod/2012/09/07.html
Friday, September 14th: Jan Egedal, MIT Dept. of Physics & Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Magnetic Reconnection in Plasmas: a Celestial Phenomenon in the Laboratory
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Hosted by Forest; Video: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/vod/2012/09/14.html
Friday, September 21st: Laura Grego, Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
Julian Mack Lecture
Space Security and Missile Defense: What is at Stake?
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Hosted by Meghan McGarry Unks
Friday, September 28th: Liantao Wang, University of Chicago
Higgs Boson and New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Hosted by Everett; Video: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/vod/2012/09/28.html
October 2012
Friday, October 5th: No Colloquium
Friday, October 12th: Michael Corradini, UW-Madison
Nuclear Power After Fukushima
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Hosted by Himpsel; Video: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/vod/2012/10/12.html
Friday, October 19th: Sau Lan Wu, UW-Madison
Discovery of the Higgs Boson - the God Particle
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Hosted by Himpsel
Friday, October 26th: Yong-Zhong Qian, University of Minnesota
Neutrinos and the Origin of the Elements
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Hosted by Balantekin & Lawler
November 2012
Friday, November 2nd: Jeff Gore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anticipating sudden transitions in biological populations: Cooperation, cheating, and collapse
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Hosted by Gilbert
Wednesday, November 7th: Steven Kivelson, Stanford University
Electronic Liquid Crystalline Phases in Highly Correlated Electronic Systems
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Hosted by Chubukov and Coppersmith
Friday, November 9th: Glennys Farrar, New York University
Canceled
Unexpected, new Particle Physics presenting itself in UHECR air showers
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Hosted by Coppersmith
Friday, November 16th: Uwe Czarnetzki, Ruhr University Bochum
Physics at the edge: Plasmas with dynamic sheaths
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Hosted by Lin
Friday, November 23rd: Thanksgiving Recess
Friday, November 30th: Natalia Perkins, UW-Madison
Emergent phases of correlated electrons in materials with spin-orbit coupling and magnetic frustration.
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Hosted by Chung
December 2012
Friday, December 7th: John Bechhoefer, Simon Fraser University
Testing Landauer’s Principle in a feedback trap
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm); Hosted by Coppersmith
Friday, December 14th: Last Day of Class; 3rd Year Graduate Students, UW Madison Department of Physics
Holiday Colloquium
Title to be announced
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin (2103 tentative); Hosted by Coppersmith

Questions? Contact seminars@physics.wisc.edu

Template last updated: 4/20/2010