Graduate Program Events |
Events During the 2023 Fall Semester
August 2023
- Thursday, August 3rd
- Susmita Mondal, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Analysis on ZZ vector boson polarization using CMS Run 2 data
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Friday, August 4th
- Graduate School Summer 2023: Requests for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants
- Sunday, August 13th
- 8-week summer session ends
- Thursday, August 17th
- Wilson B Lough, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Biophysical applications of Lie groups and moving frames
- 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Monday, August 21st
- Faculty contract year begins
- Thursday, August 24th
- Leah Tom, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Defect Identification using Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy and Optimization of Long Single-Channel One-dimensional Quantum Wires
- 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Friday, August 25th
- Juan Camilo Bohorquez, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Rydberg Physics in a Cryogenic System for Hybrid Quantum Interfaces
- 10:00 am - 11:30 am; B343 Sterling
- Sunday, August 27th
- Graduate School Summer 2023: Doctoral degree deadline
- Monday, August 28th
- Graduate School Fall 2023: Fall degree window period begins
- variety of speakers
- Incoming PhD Orientation
- 9:00 am - 12:30 pm; 2223 CH, hosted by Sharon Kahn
- Wednesday, August 30th
- Grad Student lunch/Recess
- Thursday, August 31st
- Sharon Kahn
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2023 - Classical Mechanics
- 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin
- Sharon Kahn
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2023 - Statistical Mechanics
- 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
September 2023
- Friday, September 1st
- Sharon Kahn
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2023 - Electricity & Magnetism
- 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin
- Sharon Kahn
- Physics Qualifying Exam - Fall 2023 - Quantum Mechanics
- 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Monday, September 4th
- Labor day
- Tuesday, September 5th
- Graduate School Fall 2023: Fall degree window period deadline for doctoral students
- Wednesday, September 6th
- Fall semester instruction begins
- Friday, September 8th
- Michael Bulatowicz, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Advances in All-Optical Magnetometry for Femto-Tesla Sensitivity in Earth-Field-Scale Magnetic Fields
- 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 5280 Chamberlin
- Wednesday, September 13th
- Various, DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Centers
- Quantum Information Science (QIS) Career Fair
- 10:00 am - 4:00 pm; virtual, visit for more info and to register, hosted by Department of Energy Office of Science
- Friday, September 15th
- Emma Brann, Samuel Hori, Alysa Rogers, Sarah Perdue, UW–Madison physics
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship intro session
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin, hosted by Soyeon Choi, Shivani Lomte, Sarah Perdue
- Thursday, September 28th
- Pupa Gilbert, Physics Faculty
- Coral biomineralization vs. climate change
- 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
October 2023
- Tuesday, October 3rd
- Augustus Azelis, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Intermittency in the Dimits Regime of Toroidal Ion Temperature Gradient Driven Turbulence
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling
- Monday, October 30th
- Jeffrey Lazar, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Innovative Approaches in Neutrino Telescope Research and Analysis
- 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
November 2023
- Thursday, November 9th
- Shay Inbar, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Generation and detection of axions using four-wave mixing in optical fibers
- 9:00 am - 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin
- Shravan Patel, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Extracting Contributions to Qubit Loss from Superconducting Microwave Resonators
- 10:30 am - 12:00 pm; 2104 Chamberlin
- Wednesday, November 15th
- Luca Riitano, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Upgraded Electronics for the Prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Gamma-Ray Telescope
- 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Thursday, November 23rd
- Thanksgiving recess
- Friday, November 24th
- Thanksgiving recess
- Saturday, November 25th
- Thanksgiving recess
- Sunday, November 26th
- Thanksgiving recess
- Tuesday, November 28th
- Michael Martinez, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Finding Radio-Loud Strong Gravitational Lenses Using Large Surveys
- 2:30 pm - 6:00 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Keith Bechtol
- Wednesday, November 29th
- Emre B. Yildizci, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- PeV Neutrino Astronomy with IceCube
- 1:45 pm - 3:45 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Lu Lu
December 2023
- Friday, December 1st
- Graduate School Fall 2023: Request for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants
- Wednesday, December 6th
- Cameron Kuchta, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Towards Measurement of Pressure Anisotropy during Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection
- 2:30 pm - 6:00 pm; B343 Sterling or , hosted by Jan Egedal
- Friday, December 8th
- Rachel Myers, Department of Physics Graduate Student
- Detection and Characterization of Core Magnetic Fluctuations on DIII-D using Faraday-Effect Polarimetry
- 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 2301 Sterling
- Monday, December 11th
- Mitch McNanna, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Discovery, Demographics, and Dark Matter Implications of Faint Dwarf Galaxies in Wide-area Optical Surveys
- 12:00 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Keith Bechtol
- Tuesday, December 12th
- Daniel Heimsoth, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Subatomic to Supernova: Two unrelated tales of neutrinos and dark matter
- 12:30 pm - 6:00 pm; 3124 Chamberlin, hosted by Baha Balantekin
- Megan Tabbutt, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Synthetic Source Injection in The Dark Energy Survey: Measurements of the Survey Transfer Function and Applications to Precision Cosmology
- 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Keith Bechtol
- Wednesday, December 13th
- Last Fall Semester class day
- Kairui Zhang, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Naturalness Demands an Answer: The Imperative of Natural SUSY at the HL-LHC
- 11:00 am; 5310 CH, hosted by Vernon Barger
- Elise Chavez, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- A Search for Vector-Like Leptons (VLLs)
- 2:30 pm; tbd, hosted by Tulika Bose
- Emily Joseph, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Investigation of oxide defects and heterostructure modifications for use in quantum computing
- 3:30 pm; B343 Sterling, hosted by Mark Eriksson
- Thursday, December 14th
- Study day
- Friday, December 15th
- Exams
- Saturday, December 16th
- Exams
- Sunday, December 17th
- Commencement
- Monday, December 18th
- Exams
- Tuesday, December 19th
- Exams
- Adam Rouhiainen, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Cosmology at the Field Level with Probabilistic Machine Learning
- 3:00 pm; 5310 CH, hosted by Moritz Münchmeyer
- Wednesday, December 20th
- Exams
- Neil Campbell, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- The Hall effect in Nonmagnetic, Ferromagnetic, and Antiferromagnetic Thin films
- 9:00 am; 5310 CH, hosted by Mark Rzchowski
- Thursday, December 21st
- Exams
- Sunday, December 24th
- Fall Semester Grading deadline
- Graduate School Fall 2023: Doctoral degree deadline