Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the 2021 Fall Semester
August 2021
September 2021
- Friday, September 10th
- Mark Eriksson, Department Chair, UW-Madison, Department of Physics
- State of the Department
- 3:30 pm, 2103 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Alex Levchenko
- Friday, September 17th
- Sarah Vigeland, UW-Milwaukee
- Supermassive Black Holes and Merging Galaxies: Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Detection with Pulsar Timing Arrays
- 3:30 pm, 2103 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Ellen Zweibel
- Friday, September 24th
- Alex Levchenko, UW-Madison
- Wonders of Electronic Hydrodynamics
- 3:30 pm, 2103 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by tbd
October 2021
- Friday, October 1st
- Victor Vakaryuk, APS (PRX)
- Physical Review: An inside look
- 3:30 pm, 2103 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Alex Levchenko
- Friday, October 8th
- Leslie Rogers, University of Chicago
- Glimpsing the Compositions of Sub-Neptune-Size Worlds
- 3:30 pm, 2103 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Ellen Zweibel
- Friday, October 15th
- Nadya Mason, UIUC
- Electronic Transport in Strain-Engineered Graphene
- 3:30 pm, 2103 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Alex Levchenko
- Friday, October 22nd
- David Weiss, Penn State
- Extremely out-of-equilibrium 1D gases
- 3:30 pm, 2103 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Alex Levchenko
- Friday, October 29th
- Nathalie de Leon, Princeton
- Correlating materials analysis with qubit measurements to systematically eliminate sources of noise
- 3:30 pm, 2103 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Shimon Kolkowitz
November 2021
- Friday, November 5th
- Steve Nahn, Fermilab
- LHC reloaded
- 3:30 pm, 2103 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Tulika Bose
- Friday, November 12th
- Howard Baer, University of Oklahoma
- The naturalness issue and weak scale supersymmetry in the LHC era
- 3:30 pm, 2103 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Vernon Barger
- Friday, November 19th
- Christopher Jarzynski, UMD
- Scaling down the laws of thermodynamics
- 3:30 pm, 2103 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Alex Levchenko
December 2021
- Friday, December 3rd
- Stewart Prager, Princeton
- The Increasing Peril from Nuclear Arms: and how physicists can help reduce the threat
- 3:30 pm, 2103 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Cary Forest
- Friday, December 10th
- Grads , UW-Madison
- Special Event
- 3:30 pm, 2103 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Cameron Kuchta