Events at Physics |
Events During November, 2009
- Tuesday, November 3rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 5310 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Poetry, mathematics, and science, Robin Chapman, UW Department of Communicative Disorders
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- Can Quasars Quench Star Formation?, Christy Tremonti, UW Astronomy Dept
- String Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 2301 Sterling Hall
- Toward a Holographic Model of Color Flavor Locking, Heng-Yu Chen, UW-Madison
- Thursday, November 5th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Invariant form of spin-transfer switching condition, Yaroslaw Bazaliy, University of South Carolina
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- The Baryon Resonance Spectrum and the 1/Nc Expansion, Richard Lebed, Arizona State University
- Introductory Graduate Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Astrophysics II: Astroparticle Physics and Neutrinos, Faculty, University of Wisconsin Department of Physics
- Friday, November 6th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 2301 Sterling Hall
- Rapidity Gap Events in Squark Pair Production at the LHC, Sascha Bornhauser, University of New Mexico
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Precision Muon Physics: Capturing a Moment in a Lifetime, David Hertzog, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Monday, November 9th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2301 Sterling
- Lithium Experiments on the T-11M Tokamak: Development of Plasma Facing Components for a Steady-State fusion Reactor, Sergei Mirnov, TRINITI Laboratory, Troitsk, Russia
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- The first year of the Fermi Large Area Telescope in space, Markus Ackermann
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Search for active neutrino disappearance in MINOSSearch for active neutrino disappearance in MINOS, Brian Rebel, FNAL
- Tuesday, November 10th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 5310 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- The stability of oscillators, George Hrabovsky, Madison Area Science and Technology
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- What sets the Maximum Spin Rate of Neutron Stars?, Ira Wasserman, Cornell University, Astronomy Department
- Thursday, November 12th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Oxide Nanoelectronics, Jeremy Levy, University of Pittsburgh
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Galactic cosmic ray anisotropy : origin and implications and the role of IceCube, Paolo Desiati, University of Wisconsin at Madison
- Introductory Graduate Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Phenomenology, Barger, Everett, Halzen, Han, Petriello, University of Wisconsin Department of Physics
- Friday, November 13th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 2301 Sterling Hall
- Lepton) Flavor Violation in SUSY GUT and Randall-Sundrum Models, Mu-Chun Chen, U. C. Irvine
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Inward Turbulent Diffusion of Plasmas in a Levitated Dipole, Michael Mauel, Columbia University
- Monday, November 16th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2301 Sterling
- New Directions in Stellarator Optimization/Design, Donald Spong, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- An Inclusive Search for H->WW at CDF, Dr. Matthew Herndon, Wisconsin
- Tuesday, November 17th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 5310 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Age Related Macular Degeneration Through the Eye of the Fly, Nansi Colley, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 2301 Sterling Hall
- Jets and Jet Substructure at the LHC, David Krohn, Princeton University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- The subtle Physics of Black Hole Accrection", Chris Reynolds, University of Maryland
- Wednesday, November 18th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Small Josephson Arrays as Protected Qubits, Michael Gershenson, Rutgers University
- Thursday, November 19th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Silicon metal insulator semiconductor nanostructures for solid-state quantum computing, Malcolm Carroll, Sandia National Laboratory
- Introductory Graduate Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Medical Physics, Meyerand, Nickles, Christian, University of Wisconsin Department of Medical Physics
- Friday, November 20th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 2301 Sterling Hall
- Collider and Flavor Phenomenology in the Scalar Sector of Warped Extra Dimensions, Manuel Toharia, University of Maryland
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Superconductivity at the Dawn of the Iron Age, Zlatko Tesanovich, John Hopkins University
- Monday, November 23rd
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- A New High-Sensitivity Search for Muon-to-Electron Conversion at Fermilab, Dr. Robert Bernstein, FNAL, Mu2e Co-Spokesperson
- Tuesday, November 24th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Directed evolution of ionizing radiation resistance in Escherichia coli, Michael Cox, UW Department of Biochemistry
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- The Evolution of Red Galaxies in Clusters Over Half of Cosmic Time, Dr. Greg Rudnick, University of Kansas
- String Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 2301 Sterling Hall
- Stanford Holographic Lattices, Dimers, and Glasses, Sho Yaida, Stanford University
- Thursday, November 26th
- Thanksgiving
- 10:00 am
- No Seminar--Thanksgiving Recess
- Friday, November 27th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm
- No Colloquium--Thanksgiving Recess
- Monday, November 30th
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Fully Leptonic Charged B Decays at Babar., Dr. Luke Corwin, Indiana University