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Events During the 2025 Summer Semester
May 2025
- Thursday, May 1st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Superconductivity with Anyons, Hart Goldman, UMN
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Unlocking High Redshift Hydrogen Cosmology with Machine Learning (Differentiable Bayesian Forward Models for Detecting Cosmic Dawn), Nick Kern, MIT & University of Michigan
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- What JWST Reveals about the Hubble Tension, Adam Riess, Johns Hopkins University
- Friday, May 2nd
- Academic Calendar
- Last Spring Semester class day
- Climate & Diversity; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; Chamberlin 5310 & Zoom
- Diversity Forum Fridays! Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Underrepresented Collegiate Students , Rachel Zizmann, UW-Madison Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Electroweak Symmetry Restoration at High Energies, Tao Han, University of Pittsburgh
- Thesis Defense; 2:15 pm - 3:45 pm; 2104 CH
- Superconducting diode effect, Jaglul Hasan, Physics PhD student
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- TBD, Erika Marin-Spiotta, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Awards; 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm; Discovery Building
- Physics Student & Alumni Awards Banquet, Kevin Black
- Saturday, May 3rd
- Academic Calendar
- Study Day
- Sunday, May 4th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Monday, May 5th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Tuesday, May 6th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, May 7th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5280 CH
- Search for dark matter recoiling from pencil-thin jets using CMS data with machine learning techniques, Abhishikth Mallampalli, Physics PhD student
- Preliminary Exam; 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall Room 5310
- Tunable control and readout of quantum dot hybrid qubits, Jared Benson
- Thesis Defense; 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 CH
- IMPLEMENTATION OF QUANTUM ALGORITHMS WITH NEUTRAL ATOM ARRAYS, Cody Poole, Physics PhD Student
- Thursday, May 8th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Mott insulators with boundary zeros, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Wuerzburg
- Friday, May 9th
- Academic Calendar
- Exams
- Physics Graduation Ceremony; 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
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- Academic Calendar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Graduate School Spring 2025: Master's degree deadline
- Academic Calendar; 5:30 pm - 12:00 am
- Spring 2025 Commencement
- Saturday, May 10th
- Academic Calendar
- Commencement Weekend
- Academic Calendar; 12:30 pm - 12:00 am
- Spring 2025 Commencement
- Sunday, May 11th
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Spring 2025: Doctoral degree deadline
- Monday, May 12th
- Academic Calendar
- Spring Semester Grading deadline
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Title to be announced, Michael Nee, Harvard University
- Preliminary Exam; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; B343 Sterling or
- The Magellanic System: The Clouds and their circumgalactic medium within a cosmological context, Robin Chisholm, Physics PhD student
- Wednesday, May 14th
- Climate & Diversity; 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm; Sterling B343
- Suicide Prevention Workshop: Physics Department, Wendy Ellis, University Health Services
- Thursday, May 15th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Superconducting quantum networks (and what to do with them), Wolfgang Pfaff, UIUC
- Friday, May 16th
- Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5280 CH
- Noise characterization for Spin and Charge qubits, Deepak Mallubhotla, Physics PhD student
- Sunday, May 18th
- Academic Calendar
- Faculty contract year ends
- Monday, May 19th
- Academic Calendar
- 4-week summer session begins
- Thesis Defense; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall Room 5310
- Nanoscale imaging of viscous and nonlocal transport of electrons in graphene, Zachary Krebs, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Thursday, May 22nd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Miguel Morales
- Monday, May 26th
- Academic Calendar
- Memorial Day (Observed)
- Tuesday, May 27th
- Academic Calendar
- 3-week Summer session begins
June 2025
- Friday, June 13th
- Academic Calendar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2025: Summer Degree Window Period deadline for master's students
- Sunday, June 15th
- Academic Calendar
- 4-week summer session ends
- Academic Calendar
- 3-week summer session ends
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Summer 2025: Summer degree window period deadline for doctoral students
- Monday, June 16th
- Academic Calendar
- 8-week summer session begins
- Thursday, June 26th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Title to be announced, Justyna Zwolak, NIST
July 2025
- Friday, July 4th
- Academic Calendar
- Independence day (Observed)
- Monday, July 14th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Title to be announced, Pyungwon Ko, Korea Institute for Advanced Study
August 2025
- Friday, August 1st
- Academic Calendar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2025: Request for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants
- Friday, August 22nd
- Academic Calendar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Graduate School Summer 2025: Master's degree deadline
- Sunday, August 24th
- Academic Calendar; 11:55 pm - 12:55 am
- Graduate School Summer 2025: Doctoral degree deadline
- Thursday, August 28th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 CH
- Qualifying Exam - Classical Mechanics
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 CH
- Qualifying Exam - Statistical Mechanics
- Friday, August 29th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 CH
- Qualifying Exam - Electricity and Magnetism
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 CH
- Qualifying Exam - Quantum Mechanics