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Events During the Week of June 20th through June 27th, 2021
Monday, June 21st, 2021
- No events scheduled
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar
- TBD
- Time: 2:00 pm
- Place:
- Host: Baha Balantekin
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021
- No events scheduled
Thursday, June 24th, 2021
- Cosmology Journal Club
- Time: 12:00 pm
- Place:
- Abstract: Each week, we start with a couple scheduled 15 minute talks about one's research, or an arXiv paper. The last 30 minutes will typically be open to the group for anyone to discuss an arXiv paper.
All are welcome and all fields of cosmology are appropriate.
Contact Ross Cawthon, cawthon@wisc, for more information.
Zoom info
Meeting ID: 93592708053, passcode: cmbadger
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https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93592708053?pwd=VWVNMDJXV2N1blV0emg4ZUg3ZGRiUT09 Friday, June 25th, 2021
- Thesis Defense
- The Formation of Parallel and Perpendicular Collisionless Shocks on the Big Red Ball
- Time: 10:30 am
- Place: B343 Sterling Hall
- Speaker: Doug Endrizzi, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Abstract: Collisionless shocks are common in space environments. Unlike collisional shocks, where the dissipation of flow kinetic energy into thermal energy is well described by the Rankine-Hugoniot shock jump conditions, collisionless shocks are often not: they can have an unequal partition of energy between particle species, produce electromagnetic waves and radiation, and even accelerate cosmic rays. A good understanding of the structure of such shocks will help interpret many astrophysical systems. But producing collisionless shocks in the laboratory to test theoretical models and simulations is a challenge. To be presented are results from laboratory experiments exploring shocks that are both parallel and perpendicular to the background magnetic field. Two characteristic collisionless shock dissipation mechanisms were observed together in experiment for the first time: reflected ions and large amplitude Whistler waves. This provides nice experimental corroboration of the ‘pulsation shock’ model of the Earth’s quasi-parallel bow shock. Future experimental work will be suggested. https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92535586865
- Host: Cary Forest, Faculty Advisor