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Events During the 2026 Summer Semester
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
June 2026
- Tuesday, June 2nd
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin or
- Electron liquids and crystals in bilayer and topological quantum systems, Dmitry Zverevich, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Wednesday, June 3rd
- Thesis Defense; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5310 CH
- Phenomenology of Dark Sector Inspired Portal Matter Models, Ricardo Ximenes, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Lawn in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- Wednesday, June 10th
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Lawn in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- Sunday, June 14th
- Academic Calendar
- 4-week Summer Session Ends
- Academic Calendar
- 3-week Summer Session Ends
- Monday, June 15th
- Academic Calendar
- 8-week Summer Session Begins
- Tuesday, June 16th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; WIPAC Supernova /
- Searching for Dark Matter with LHAASO, Kenny Ng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Wednesday, June 17th
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Rainy day location - 5310 Chamberlin
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- Monday, June 22nd
- Thesis Defense; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 1313 Sterling or
- Precision Cosmology from Cross-Correlations of the Cosmic Microwave Background and Large-Scale Structure, Yurii Kvasiuk
- Tuesday, June 23rd
- Thesis Defense; 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm; Chamberlin 5310
- From Cosmic Structures to String Geometries with Topological and Machine Learning Methods, Jacky Yip
- Wednesday, June 24th
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Rainy day location - 5310 Chamberlin
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- Monday, June 29th
- Preliminary Exam; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; B343 Sterling (NOTE UPDATED LOCATION!)
- Seeing the unseen: Passive frequency upconversion imaging of incoherent near-infrared light, Justin Edwards
- Tuesday, June 30th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; WIPAC supernova /
- Searching for Sterile Neutrinos with KM3NeT/ORCA, Rogan Clark, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
July 2026
- Wednesday, July 1st
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Lawn in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- Saturday, July 4th
- Academic Calendar
- Independence Day
- Wednesday, July 8th
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Lawn in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- Thesis Defense; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310 or
- Heterostructure modifications and strain engineering for valley splitting enhancement in Si/SiGe quantum dots for quantum computation, Emily Joseph
- Thursday, July 9th
- Thesis Defense; 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310
- Search for Neutrinos with Energy Greater than 10^17 eV Using All 5 Stations of the Askaryan Radio Array at the South Pole, Abigal Bishop
- Thesis Defense; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; B343 Sterling or
- Tunability of Si/SiGe Quantum Dot Qubit Devices , Sanghyeok Park
- Monday, July 13th
- Thesis Defense; 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlinn or
- Implementing Structured Quantitative Inquiry Labs in Physics 202, Isaac Barnhill, Physics MS Graduate Student
- Wednesday, July 15th
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Lawn in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- Friday, July 17th
- Social Gathering; 5:30 pm; Picnic Point Fire Circle #2
- Dept of Physics Bonfire Social
- Wednesday, July 22nd
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Lawn in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- Wednesday, July 29th
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Lawn in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
August 2026
- Tuesday, August 4th
- Thesis Defense; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Applications of Statistical Data Assimilation to Neutrino Flavor Oscillations in Solar and CCSN Environments, Caroline Laber-Smith, Physics PhD Graduate Student
- Wednesday, August 5th
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Lawn in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- Sunday, August 9th
- Academic Calendar
- 8-week Summer Session Ends
- Wednesday, August 12th
- Social Gathering; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm; Lawn in front of Birge Hall
- Summer Recess, Everyone is welcome
- Monday, August 17th
- Academic Calendar
- Faculty Contract Year Begins
- Wednesday, August 19th
- Graduate Program Event; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; Lawn in front of Birge Hall
- All Grad Lunch/recess, Everyone is welcome
- Thursday, August 27th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam - Classical Mechanics
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam - Statistical Mechanics
- Friday, August 28th
- Graduate Program Event; 9:00 am - 10:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam - Electricity and Magnetism
- Graduate Program Event; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Qualifying Exam - Quantum Mechanics