Events at Physics |
Events During April, 2024
- Monday, April 1st
- Academic Calendar
- Spring Semester Classes resume
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 9:00 am - 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall and
- Opening the PeV Neutrino Window with Trinity, A. Nepomuk Otte, Georgia Tech
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- “Disruption physics gaps encountered in the SPARC design pertinent to the design of the ARC power plant”, Ryan Sweeney, MIT PSFC/CFS
- Tuesday, April 2nd
- Academic Calendar; 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
- Election Day - Wisconsin Presidential Primary, including same-day registration
- Academic Calendar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Last Steps to Completing the Doctoral Degree
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Thursday, April 4th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 9:00 am - 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Tuning into Cosmic Neutrinos at the Highest Energies, Stephanie Wissel, Penn State
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum materials through the nano-lens: surprises beyond the diffraction limit, Alexander McLeod, UMN
- Thesis Defense; 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin
- The Cosmic Symphony: Magnetic Fields and Turbulence Across Clouds, Galaxies, to Galaxy Clusters, Yue Hu, Physics Graduate Student
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; CH 5280
- Multi-wavelength emission from Jets of nearby radio galaxies, Riku Kuze, Tohoku University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- CANCELLED
- Friday, April 5th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 1:00 pm - 4:15 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- 2024 UW Physics Student Research Colloquium, UW Physics Students, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Physics Department Colloquium; 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Falling Walls Lab Wisconsin, various, various
- Saturday, April 6th
- Outreach; 11:00 am - 2:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall, 2nd floor lobby
- Physics Fair, Various, Dept of Physics
- Wonders of Physics
- 11:30 am - 12:15 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Monday, April 8th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Dr
- “Controlling plasma-material interactions with real-time powdered material injection”, Florian Effenberg, PPPL
- Thursday, April 11th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 9:00 am - 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall and
- Mysteries of the High-Energy Sky, Dan Hooper, Fermilab
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Water under X-ray Vision - A Molecular Look at Life’s Mysterious Elixir, Uwe Bergmann, UW-Madison
- Friday, April 12th
- Climate & Diversity; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Climate and Diversity Committee End of Year Town Hall and Mixer, , Climate and Diversity Committee
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Mitigating climate and air pollution from the electricity and transportation sectors in the United States , Inês Azevedo, Stanford University
- Monday, April 15th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- “Continuum gyrokinetic study of high-field mirror fusion plasmas”, Manaure Francisquez, PPPL
- Tuesday, April 16th
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, April 17th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
- Careers for Physicists; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Career Talk - Inpleo Data Science, Orly Olbum, Chief of Data Science, Inpleo, Inc.
- Thursday, April 18th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- New twists on topology in moiré quantum matter, Matthew Yankowitz, U Washington
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; CH 5310 /
- Hunting for Galactic PeVatrons in the X-ray Regime, Shuo Zhang, MSU
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum
- Visible-Light Photonic Integration for Atomic and Quantum Sciences and Applications, Daniel J Blumenthal, University of California Santa Barbara
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- NIRWALS: the Near InfraRed Washburn Astronomical Laboratories Spectrograph on SALT, Marsha Wolf, UW-Madison
- Friday, April 19th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Dual-Species Quantum Processors and Quantum Networks, Hannes Bernien, University of Chicago
- Academic Calendar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Graduate School Spring 2024: Request for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants
- Monday, April 22nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- "Advancing Fusion Research through Virtual Design", Frank Jenko, IPP
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Tuesday, April 23rd
- Preliminary Exam; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Nonlocal transport effects in electron bilayers, Dmitry Zverevich, Physics Graduate Student
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 6:00 pm - 6:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 912 3071 4547
- Microscopic calculations of neutrino scattering and absorption in warm dense nuclear matter, Prof. Jeremy Holt , Texas A&M University
- Wednesday, April 24th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling Hall
- Preliminary Exam; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin or
- Scaling Technologies for Si/SiGe Quantum Dot Qubits, Michael Wolfe, Physics Graduate Student
- Thursday, April 25th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Rydberg physics: From Ultralong-Range Molecules to Quantum Simulation and Quantum Optimization, Peter Schmelcher, U Hamburg
- Preliminary Exam; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; Sterling Hall B343
- Progress towards cooling and imaging on an alkali atom forbidden transition, Jacob Scott, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- NOvA Cross-section Measurement of Muon Antineutrino Charge Current Inclusive Interactions, Prabhjot Singh, Queen Mary University of London
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Goodbye to “Chi-by-Eye” : Results from a Bayesian Analysis of Photometric Binaries in Open Clusters, Aaron M Geller, Northwestern University
- Friday, April 26th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Structure and Dynamics from Random Observations, Abbas Ourmazd, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Monday, April 29th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 1227 Engineering Hall
- “Metastability of stratified magnetohydrodynamic equilibria and their relaxation”, David Hosking, Princeton University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall and Zoom:
- Physics Potential at a future Muon Collider, Cari Caserotti, MIT
- Tuesday, April 30th
- Preliminary Exam; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin;
- Modeling Solar Neutrino Flavor Evolution with Data Assimilation, Caroline Laber-Smith
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum
- Nano-Photonic Emitters for the “Quantum Age”: where imperfections lead to opportunities, Evelyn Hu, Harvard University
