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Events During April, 2009
- Thursday, April 2nd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Nonequilibrium effects in single-channel and two-channel Kondo systems, Aditi Mitra, New York University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Echoes of Supersymmetry: Baryon Asymmetry, Relic Q-balls, and Gravity Waves, Alex Kusenko, UCLA
- Friday, April 3rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Neutrinos, and the Dark Side of the Light Fermions, Alex Kusenko, UCLA
- Monday, April 6th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall
- Experiments on Turbulence and Zonal Flows in TJ-K, Prof. Uli Stroth, University of Stuttgart-Germany
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Instability-Enhanced Collisional Effects Near Plasma Boundaries:Langmuir's Paradox and Bohm's Criterion, Scott Baalrud, UW-Madison, CPTC
- Tuesday, April 7th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- A search for the simplest chaotic partial differential equation, Charlie Brummitt, UW Department of Physics
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- Massive Star Clusters in the Milky Way: The known and the known unkowns, Margaret Hanson, University of Cincinnati Physics Dept
- Thursday, April 9th
- Passover
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Simple Atom, Extreme Nucleus: Laser Trapping and Probing of Helium-8, Zheng-Tian Lu, Argonne National Laboratory an University of Chicagod
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 4:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310
- Coulomb drag in quantum circuits, Alex Kamenev, University of Minnesota
- Friday, April 10th
- Good Friday
- Special Astronomy Colloquium Talk; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- Positron Annihilation Radiation from the Center of our Galaxy, Nidhal Guessoum, American University of Sharjah,
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Light Higgsino-LSP Scenario in the BMSSM, Jeonghyeon Song, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- What's so Cool about Ultra-Cold Neutrons, Brad Filippone, Caltech
- Monday, April 13th
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm) i
- A study of Z events produced at low transverse momentum using a novel technique, Mika Vesterinen, University of Manchester
- Tuesday, April 14th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Taking the pulse of the geodynamo, Brad S. Singer, UW Department of Geoscience
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- Polarized FIR Emission from T Tauri Disks, Jungyeon Cho, UW Astronomy Dept
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Recent Results from MINOS (Joint NPAC/HEP Seminar), Christopher White, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Wednesday, April 15th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Electroweak phase transition in the U(1)'-extended MSSM, Eibun Senaha, National Central University, Taiwan
- Thursday, April 16th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum Control and Measurement of Spins in Cold Atomic Gases, Ivan Deutsch, University of New Mexico
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- High Energy Cosmic Rays with CREAM, Fermi, and Beyond, Terri J. Brandt, Ohio State University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Quark Matter in Neutron Stars, Mark Alford, Washington University
- Friday, April 17th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Implications of a Scalar Dark Force for Terrestrial Experiments, Sonny Mantry, UW-Madison Physics Dept.
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Neutrino Physics Beyond SNO, Mark Chen, Queen's University
- Monday, April 20th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall
- Electron Bernstein Waves in Tokamaks, Spherical Tokamaks, Stellarators and RFPs, Francesco Volpe, University of Wisconsin, Dept. of Engineering Physics
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Title to be announced, Andrew Cole, UW-Madison, CPTC & Dept of EP
- Tuesday, April 21st
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Title to be announced, Olga Trubetskoy, Pharmacy and Comparative Biosciences
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- A Census of Baryons in Groups and Clusters of Galaxies, Ann Zabludoff, Univ of AZ, Steward Observatory
- Wednesday, April 22nd
- Special Plasma Seminar - Dept of ECE; 12:00 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall
- Impact of Wall Conditioning on Plasma Parameters in the TJ-II Stellarator, Francisco Tabares, CIEMAT-Madrid, Spain
- Thursday, April 23rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- BCS-BEC Crossover in Ultracold Atoms: Quantum Fluctuations and Vortices, Mohit Randeria, Ohio State University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:30 pm - 2:25 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Poincare Invariant Three-Body Scattering, Charlotte Elster, Ohio University, Athens
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Searching for exoearths and measuring the acceleration of the universe with femtosecond laser frequency combs, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, Harvard CFA
- Friday, April 24th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Let's go Skating... and do some Physics on the Ice, Charlotte Elster, Ohio University
- Monday, April 27th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall
- Particle Acceleration and Magnetic Field Amplification in Collsionless Shocks, Brian Reville, Max-Planck Intsitut fuer Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany
- Special Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4534 Sterling Hall
- Cosmic Rays emission from active and non-active Galaxies, Dr. Julia Becker, Physics Institute, Gothenberg University Sweden
- Tuesday, April 28th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Applications of neural networks in time-series analysis, Adam Maus, UW Department of Physics
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- How Black Holes get their Kicks, Kelley Holley-Bockelman, Vanderbilt University
- Thursday, April 30th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Giant Nernst Effect due to Fluctuating Cooper Pairs in Superconductors, Andrei Varlamov, INFM & CNR, Italy, Moscow Technological University, Russia
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- AdS/QCD, Misha Stephanov, U. Illinois Chicago