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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 (Will end in time to get to the Astronomy/Physics Colloquium at 3:30.)
- 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 -
- Unearthing the history of our disciplines to better science, 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
- Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Seminar; 2:00 pm; Join Zoom Meeting: Meeting ID: 965 9696 7335
- Toward understanding supranuclear-density matter with gravitational waves, Koutarou Kyutoku , Chiba University
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- M.S. In Physics – Quantum Computing Event; 4:00 pm - 4:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Research Flash Presentation: Device Fabrication for Visualizing 2D Magnetism with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy, Siwei Wang, M.S. in Physics - Quantum Computing, UW-Madison
- 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; 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; 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
- Axion couplings as UV probes, 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
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Sterling B343
- Quantum Entanglement Theory and Its Generic Searches at the Colliders, Tianjun Li, Beijing, Inst. Theor. Phys.
- 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; 5310 CH or
- Nanoscale imaging of viscous and nonlocal transport of electrons in graphene, Zachary Krebs, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Tuesday, May 20th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, May 21st
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- The Hyper-Kamiokande Project, Teppei Katori, King's College London
- Thursday, May 22nd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Revisiting the electron gas in the era of 2D materials, Miguel Morales, Center for Computational Quantum Physics, Flatiron Institute
- Monday, May 26th
- Academic Calendar
- Memorial Day (Observed)
- Tuesday, May 27th
- Academic Calendar
- 3-week Summer session begins
- Wednesday, May 28th
- Summer Schools; 9:00 am - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Wisconsin Summer School for Quantum Science, McDermott, Choy, Ping, Kawasaki, Saffman, Otten, Eriksson, Woods
- Department Coffee Hour; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hall in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Anyone
- Thursday, May 29th
- Summer Schools; 9:00 am - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Wisconsin Summer School for Quantum Science, McDermott, Choy, Ping, Kawasaki, Saffman, Otten, Eriksson, Woods
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Small-Scale Structure of the "Dark ISM", Joanne Dawson, Macquarie University
- Friday, May 30th
- Summer Schools; 9:00 am - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 2241
- Wisconsin Summer School for Quantum Science, McDermott, Choy, Ping, Kawasaki, Saffman, Otten, Eriksson, Woods
June 2025
- Tuesday, June 3rd
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, June 4th
- Department Coffee Hour; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hall in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Anyone
- Thursday, June 5th
- Department Coffee Hour; 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm; outside on the front steps (overlooking University Ave).
- Cookie Potluck!
- Wednesday, June 11th
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hall in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- Thursday, June 12th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- tbd, Sanchayeta Mudi, University of Pittsburgh
- 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
- Tuesday, June 17th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, June 18th
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hall in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- Thursday, June 19th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum Resource Estimations for future quantum hardware, Katerina Gratsea, UW-Madison
- Friday, June 20th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Neutrinoless double beta decay VS. two neutrino beta decay, C.S. Kim, Yonsei University
- Monday, June 23rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 10:00 am - 11:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin
- Vera Rubin "First Look" watch party, Keith Bechtol, Miranda Gorsuch, Nicholas Stone, Dean Wilcots, UW–Madison Physics, Astronomy, and College of Letters & Science
- Wednesday, June 25th
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hall in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- Thursday, June 26th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Title to be announced, Justyna Zwolak, NIST
- Friday, June 27th
- Preliminary Exam; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 CH
- Fast, high fidelity, on demand qubit initialization out of a latched state using baseband pulses, Piotr Marciniec, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Preliminary Exam; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5310 CH
- High-fidelity gates in a disordered Si/SiGe wiggle well with strong spin-orbit coupling, Hudaiba Soomro, Physics PhD Graduate Student
July 2025
- Tuesday, July 1st
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, July 2nd
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hall in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- Friday, July 4th
- Academic Calendar
- Independence day (Observed)
- Wednesday, July 9th
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hall in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- 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
- Tuesday, July 15th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, July 16th
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hall in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- Wednesday, July 23rd
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hall in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- Tuesday, July 29th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, July 30th
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hall in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
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
- Wednesday, August 6th
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hall in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- Sunday, August 10th
- Academic Calendar
- 8-week summer session ends
- Tuesday, August 12th
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, August 13th
- Academic Calendar
- Summer Semester Grading deadline (8-week)
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hall in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- Monday, August 18th
- Academic Calendar
- Faculty contract year begins
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 12:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- PhD Orientation
- Graduate Program Event; 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; 3320 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam Study Hall
- Tuesday, August 19th
- Graduate Program Event; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Grad Professional Development
- Graduate Program Event; 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; 3320 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam Study Hall
- Wednesday, August 20th
- Thesis Defense; 10:30 am - 12:30 pm; B343 Sterling
- Searches for transient astrophysical neutrino sources in real time with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, Jessie Thwaites, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Graduate Program Event; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hall in front of Birge Hall
- All Grad lunch/recess
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Bascom Hall in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- Graduate Program Event; 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; 3320 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam Study Hall
- Thursday, August 21st
- Graduate Program Event; 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; 3320 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam Study Hall
- Friday, August 22nd
- Graduate Program Event; 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm; 3320 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam Study Hall
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Title to be announced, Raffaele Savelli, University of Rome - Tor Vergata
- 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
- Monday, August 25th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 3320 CH
- Qualifying Exam Study Hall
- Tuesday, August 26th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 3320 CH
- Qualifying Exam Study Hall
- Wisconsin Quantum Institute; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Rm.5294, Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Coffee Hour
- Wednesday, August 27th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 3320 CH
- Qualifying Exam Study Hall
- 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