Events at Physics |
Events During May, 2026
- Friday, May 1st
- Academic Calendar
- Last Class Day
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Physics Department Awards Banquet; 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm; Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
- Saturday, May 2nd
- Academic Calendar
- Study Day
- Sunday, May 3rd
- Academic Calendar
- Exams Begin
- Monday, May 4th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Preliminary Exam; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling
- Cosmological Information Recovery from Large-Scale Structure, Shihui Zang, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- 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
- Tuesday, May 5th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Wednesday, May 6th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Preliminary Exam; 10:15 am - 12:15 pm; 5310 CH or
- Neutrino astronomy and oscillations with IceCube, Samyak Jain, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- 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
- Thursday, May 7th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- 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
- Friday, May 8th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams End
- Academic Calendar
- Commencement: Doctoral and Medical Professional
- 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
- Graduate Program Event; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 1310 Sterling (NOTE NEW LOCATION!)
- Physics Graduation Celebration Event
- Graduation event; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 1310 Sterling (NOTE NEW LOCATION)
- Physics Graduation Celebration Event
- Saturday, May 9th
- Academic Calendar
- Commencement: Bachelor’s, Master’s, Law
- 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
- Council Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin
- Wednesday, May 13th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; B343 Sterling
- 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
- Sunday, May 17th
- Academic Calendar
- Faculty Contract Year Ends
- Monday, May 18th
- Academic Calendar
- 4-week Summer Session Begins
- Monday, May 25th
- Academic Calendar
- Memorial Day
- Tuesday, May 26th
- Academic Calendar
- 3-week Summer Session Begins
- 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
- 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
- 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