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Events During May, 2026

   Friday, May 1st
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Last Class Day
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Thesis Defense; 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin or
Taking Inventory of the Most Promising Lensed Radio Sources for Constraining Fundamental Properties of Dark Matter, Michael Martinez, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Physics Department Colloquium; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241 -
Building a quantum computer out of single photons and single atoms (coffee & cake to follow the lecture), Josiah Sinclair, Carl & Brynn Anderson Assistant Professor of Physics, UW - Madison
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 Physics Department Colloquium, Anderson, Lin, Lawler annual Lecture (inaugural);
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall -
Aerosol Nexus in the Stratosphere, David Fahey, NOAA, Director of the Chemical Sciences Laboratory
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Physics Department Awards Banquet; 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm; Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
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   Saturday, May 2nd
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Study Day
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   Sunday, May 3rd
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Exams Begin
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   Monday, May 4th
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Exams
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Preliminary Exam; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling
Cosmological Information Recovery from Large-Scale Structure, Shihui Zang, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Preliminary Exam; 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm; B343 Sterling
Creating new low-switching orderings by stacking order engineering of 2D materials, Carter Fox, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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   Tuesday, May 5th
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   Wednesday, May 6th
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Preliminary Exam; 10:15 am - 12:15 pm; 5310 CH or
Neutrino astronomy and oscillations with IceCube, Samyak Jain, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
The Physical Properties and Redshifts of Dusty Star-forming Galaxies: Observational Studies with ALMA and JWST, Stephen McKay
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   Thursday, May 7th
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R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Scalable and Parallel Quantum Sensing of Correlated Noise with Individual Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond, Shimon Kolkowitz, Berkeley
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   Friday, May 8th
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Exams End
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Commencement: Doctoral and Medical Professional
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Preliminary Exam; 10:30 am - 12:30 pm; 5310 CH
Offset charge jumps in Si/SiGe quantum dot qubits from radiation, Brighton Coe, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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Graduate Program Event; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 1310 Sterling (NOTE NEW LOCATION!)
Physics Graduation Celebration Event
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Graduation event; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 1310 Sterling (NOTE NEW LOCATION)
Physics Graduation Celebration Event
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   Saturday, May 9th
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Commencement: Bachelor’s, Master’s, Law
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   Tuesday, May 12th
 Graduate Program Event, Preliminary Exam;
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310
Single-spin readout in Si/SiGe quantum dots via proton-assisted tunneling, Owen Eskandari
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Council Meeting
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
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   Wednesday, May 13th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling
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   Thursday, May 14th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Quantum computing and quantum simulations with high-impedance superconducting circuits, Roman Kuzmin , UW-Madisoon
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   Sunday, May 17th
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Faculty Contract Year Ends
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   Monday, May 18th
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4-week Summer Session Begins
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   Monday, May 25th
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Memorial Day
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   Tuesday, May 26th
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3-week Summer Session Begins
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   Wednesday, May 27th
Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling or
Measurements of Electron Pressure Anisotropy during Laboratory Magnetic Reconnection, Cameron Kuchta, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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   Thursday, May 28th
Thesis Defense; 10:30 am - 12:30 pm; 5280 CH
Dynamical Imprints in Galactic Disks: Tracing History with Stellar Ages, Motions, and Structure, Lekshmi Thulasidharan, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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   Friday, May 29th
Graduate Program Event; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280 or
Baryoid Dark Matter: Explaining the Dark Matter-Baryon Coincidence, Dean Chen, Physics PhD Graduate Student
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