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Events During January, 2026


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   Thursday, January 8th
Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; B343 Sterling
Improved Techniques for the Determination of the Neutrino Mass Ordering with IceCube1 DeepCore and the IceCube Upgrade, Joshua Henry Peterson, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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   Friday, January 9th
Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlain
AMO Seminar, Pavel Stroganov, Harvard
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   Tuesday, January 13th
Preliminary Exam; 10:30 am - 12:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall Room 5280
Progress towards Quantum Error Correction (QEC) on Neutral atom quantum computing., Linipun Phuttitarn
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   Wednesday, January 14th
Preliminary Exam; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Tokamak Plasmas above Traditional Density Limits in the Madison Symmetric Torus, Joseph Flahavan
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   Thursday, January 15th
Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin
Physics Qualifying Exam - Classical Mechanics
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Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
Physics Qualifying Exam - Statistical Mechanics
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Preliminary Exam; 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm; B343 Sterling or
Kinetic impacts on Rayleigh-Taylor-driven magnetic reconnection in accretion flows, Braden Buck, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Notebook reclamation project; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4328 Chamberlin
Notebook reclamation project - January 2026 edition, Sharon Kahn
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   Friday, January 16th
Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin
Physics Qualifying Exam - Electricity and Magnetism
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Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
Physics Qualifying Exam - Quantum Mechanics
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   Monday, January 19th
Academic Calendar
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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   Tuesday, January 20th
Academic Calendar
Spring Semester Instruction Begins
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Council Meeting
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
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   Wednesday, January 21st
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling
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   Thursday, January 22nd
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Tiancheng Song
Coulomb Drag Studies of Interacting Luttinger Liquids, Mingyang Zheng, University of Florida
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   Friday, January 23rd
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
Title to be announced, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, University of New Hampshire
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   Saturday, January 24th
Outreach; 7:30 pm - 6:00 pm; Collins Hall, Hamel Music Center
Quantz & Physics Lecture Recital, Elio König and Verità Baroque, UW–Madison Physics
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   Monday, January 26th
Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
Title to be announced, Gabriele Montefalcone, U. Texas, Austin
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   Friday, January 30th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
Title to be announced, Dana Z. Anderson, University of Colorado
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