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Prospective Undergraduate Majors in Physics
9/22 Colloquium: Laboratory cosmology
Physics Museum featured in On Wisconsin
Badgerloop Pod 3 Kickoff Thursday 9/7 from 7 to 8 in Engineering Hall 1413. Undergraduates and graduates student welcome. We are a world class hyperloop team representing UW-Madison on the international stage.
Fast radio bursts (marked with star) and best fit neutrino detections by IceCube (marked X)
Geoff (PhD 1968) and Josie Fox - Team Moto-X Fox
Measuring the dark matter that surrounds us
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Nonlinear normal modes for analysis of geometrically nonlinear structures
Tuesday, September 19, 2017 - 12:05 to 13:00
Magnetic Fields and the Early Stages of Star Formation
Thursday, September 21, 2017 - 15:30 to 17:00
Laboratory cosmology
Friday, September 22, 2017 - 15:30 to 16:30
Reflection-driven Alfvén turbulence in the inner heliosphere in preparation for Parker Solar Probe observations
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Prospective Undergraduate Majors in Physics
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2017
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Fast radio bursts (marked with star) and best fit neutrino detections by IceCube (marked X)
Monday, August 7th, 2017
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