Events at Physics |
Events During October, 2018
- Monday, October 1st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Understanding Heavy Ion Impurity Transport in Tokamaks, Dr. Emily Belli, General Atomics
- Tuesday, October 2nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Some half-baked philosophy of mathematics, Moe Hirsch, UW Department of Mathematics
- Thursday, October 4th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Topological quantum computation with Majorana zero modes, Roman Lutchyn, Microsoft Station Q
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium, Diermeier Visiting Professor;
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM. Talk Begins at 3:45 PM - Chemical Cartography of the Milky Way Disk with SDSS/APOGEE, Jon Holtzman, Department Head, Astronomy, New Mexico State University
- Friday, October 5th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:25 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- The Effective Description of Stringy de Sitter, Lars Aalsma, University of Amsterdam
- Physics Department Colloquium, Special Event: Julian E. Mack Lecture;
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall - The changing flow of energy through the Earth's Climate System, Kevin Trenberth, NCAR
- Monday, October 8th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Exploring turbulence saturation in 3D plasmas, Dr. Benjamin Faber, Department of Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 12:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Unlocking the Higgs portal with exotic Higgs decays, Verena Martinez, UMASS Amherst
- Tuesday, October 9th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Observations concerning forensic and clinical encounters involving children with autism spectrum disorder, Doug Maynard, UW Department of Sociology
- Council Meeting
- 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, October 10th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, October 11th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Epitaxial Growth of Isotopically Enhanced SiGe Quantum Dots, Dr. Lisa Edge, HRL
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Direct laser cooling and trapping of diatomic molecules, Prof. David DeMIlle, Yale University
- Friday, October 12th
- 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- P.U.M.P.: Prospective Undergrads Majoring in Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:25 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Spontaneous symmetry breaking in open systems, Suro Kim, Kobe University
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- A tabletop-scale probe for TeV physics: the electric dipole moment of the electron, David DeMille, Yale
- Monday, October 15th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Relativistic Hybrid Simulations of Cosmic Ray Generation and Transport, Dr. Colby Haggerty, University of Chicago
- Tuesday, October 16th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Exploring quantum many-body dynamics and quantum information processing with reconfigurable arrays of atoms, Prof. Hannes Bernien, University of Chicago
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Renewable energy: A viable path forward, Michael Winokur, UW Department of Physics
- Thursday, October 18th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Non-equilibrium Quasiparticles in Superconducting Quantum Circuits, Prof. Eli Levenson-Falk, University of Southern California
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM. Talk Begins at 3:45 PM
- Pulsating White Dwarfs and Orbital Decay in Binaries, Meng Sun, UW Astronomy Department
- Friday, October 19th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:25 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Consistency relations in multi-field inflation, Jinn-Ouk Gong, KASI
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The Physics of Divergence: Resurgence and Non-Perturbative Physics, Gerald Dunne, University of Connecticut
- Monday, October 22nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Dalton Schnack Memorial Lecture: Three-dimensional Coherent Plasmoids in Current-Carrying Plasmas, Dr. Fatima Ebrahimi, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
- Tuesday, October 23rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- The dynamics of mood in bipolar disorder, Amy Cochran, UW Departments of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
- Council Meeting
- 3:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, October 24th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, October 25th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM. Talk Begins at 3:45 PM
- How ionizing photons escape galaxies to reionize the universe, John Chisholm, University of Califormina - Santa Cruz
- Friday, October 26th
- Board of Visitors Meeting; 9:00 am - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics Board of Visitors Meeting, Robert Joynt, UW-Madison
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:25 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Dark quark nuggets, Sida Lu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (RECEPTION TO FOLLOW TALK)
- Quantum Engineering of Superconducting Qubits, William D. Oliver, MIT-Lincoln Labs
- Physics Museum; 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics Museum 100th Anniversary Reception/Talk, Robert Joynt & James Reardon, UW - Madison, Physics
- Monday, October 29th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Wave Conversion from Stellar Magnetic Fields, Daniel Lecoanet, Princeton University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm; 4272 Chamberlin
- Vector Boson Fusion Production of WZ at CMS, Kenneth Long, University of Wisconsin
- Tuesday, October 30th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Jevons paradox, economic EROI and r- and K-selection, Tim Allen, UW Department of Botany