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Events During the 2009 Spring Semester
January 2009
- Thursday, January 15th
- Special Plasma Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Observation of Magnetocoriolis Waves in the Princeton Experiment, Mark Nornberg, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Monday, January 19th
- Martin Luther King, Jr Day
- Tuesday, January 20th
- First Day of Class
- Monday, January 26th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:15 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall
- "A Kalman Filter for Feedback Control of Rotating External Kink Instabilities in a Tokamak, Jeremy Hanson, Columbia University
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin: (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm)
- On the road to the Higgs: evidence for semileptonic WW/WZ decays at DZero, Wade Fisher, FNAL
- Tuesday, January 27th
- Special Plasma Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:15 pm; Room 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Magnetic Fluctuations in Maryland Centrifugal Experiment (MCX), Ilker Uzun-Kaymak, University of Maryland
- Wednesday, January 28th
- Astronomy Colloquium, Special Astronomy Colloquium Talk;
12:00 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall - Magnetic Fields and Cosmic Rays in Galaxy Clusters, Klaus Dolag, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
- Thursday, January 29th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Status and first results of the ANTARES neutrino telescope, Simona Toscano, Valencia
- Special Plasma Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm; Room 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Upgrade of Motional Stark Effect Diagnostic on Alcator C-Mod, Jinseok Ko, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
- Friday, January 30th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Long range interactions between Rydberg atoms, Saffman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
February 2009
- Monday, February 2nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall
- Recent 2-Fluid Simulation Results on Internal Kink and Tearing, Prof. Carl Sovinec, UW-Madison, Dept of EP
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Dissipation Range of MHD Turbulence, Paul Terry, UW-Madison, Dept of Physics/Plasma
- Tuesday, February 3rd
- Special Plasma Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- "Tests of Collision Operators Using Laboratory Measurements of Shear Alfven Wave Dispersion and Damping, Derek Thuecks, University of Iowa
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Norepinephrine, Networks, and Behavior: One aproach to Systems Neuroscience, David Devilbiss, UW Department of Psychology
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- The Incredible Omega Centauri- A Laboratory for Chemical Enrichment, Caty Pilachowski, Univ of Indiana-Bloomington
- Thursday, February 5th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Probing Electron Energy Distribution in Carbon Nanotubes, Yung-Fu Chen, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Lab, UIUC
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Cosmology and the LHC, Carlos E M Wagner, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago
- Special Plasma Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- "Ion Current Estimations in the Irvine Field Reversed Configuration:, Wayne Harris, University of California/Irvine
- Friday, February 6th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Ingersoll Lecture;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm) - Exploiting protein-crystal interactions to build switches, throttles and brakes: what shells, bones and kidney stones can teach us about managing CO2, James J. De Yoreo, Molecular Foundry, LBNL
- Monday, February 9th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:05 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall
- News from the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak Programme, Professor Hartmut Zohm, Max-Planck Intsitut fuer Plasmaphysik, Garching, German7
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Phase-space Structure of the Milky Way's Dark Halo, Leanne Duffy, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- High Energy Seminar, Joint HEP-NPAC Seminar;
4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin: (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm - Latest Results from MiniBoone, Chris Polly, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Joint NPAC Forum/HEP Seminar;
4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin - New oscillation results from MiniBooNE, Chris Polly, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Tuesday, February 10th
- Special Plasma Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Measurements of Fast Ion Profiles During High Harmonic Fast Wave Heating on NSTX, Deyong Liu, University of California/Irvine
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- A brief survey of financial derivatives, Don Hester, UW Department of Economics
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- The Evolution of AGN in Clusters of Galaxies, Paul Martini, Ohio State
- Astronomy Colloquium, Astronomy/Physics Colloquium;
3:45 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall - Science with the International X-ray Observatory, Randall Smith, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Thursday, February 12th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Precision Measurements of the London Penetration Depth and Pairing Symmetry in Superconductors, Ruslan Prozorov, Iowa State University & Ames Laboratory
- Atomic Seminar; 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Ultracold plasma dynamics in a magnetic field, Xianli Zhang, University of Maryland
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Covariance, Dynamics and Symmetries, and Hadron Physics, Craig Roberts, Argonne National Laboratory
- Friday, February 13th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Gravity on the Test Bench: Torsion Balance Renaissance, Jens Gundlach, University of Washington
- Monday, February 16th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:05 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall
- Exponential Growth and Filamentary Structure of Nonlinear Ballooning Instability, Ping Zhu, UW-Madison, Dept of EP
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin: (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm)
- Search for charged massive stable particles at D0, Tulika Bose, Boston University
- Tuesday, February 17th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Poetry, mathematics, and science, Robin Chapman, UW Department of Communicative Disorders
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- Title to be announced, Ethan Vishniac, Johns Hopkins University
- Wednesday, February 18th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Cosmological recombination: The effect of high-n states, Daniel Grin, Caltech
- Thursday, February 19th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Science with the International X-ray Observatory, Randall Smith, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Friday, February 20th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Disorder-induced superfluid-to-insulator transition in an optical lattice, Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Spontaneous R-parity Violation in Supersymmetry, Sogee Spinner, UW-Madison Physics Dept.
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Experiments on Dirty Bosons, Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Monday, February 23rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:15 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall
- Beyond MHD in Astrophysics: Buoyancy Instabilities in Galaxy Clusters, Dr. Ian Parrish, Dept of Astronomy at University of California-Berkeley
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Magnetic REconnection with Asymmetry in the Outflow Direction, Nick Murphy, University of Wisconsin. Dept of Astronomy/Physics
- Tuesday, February 24th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Studying Dynamical Systems with Computer Algebra Systems, George Hrabovsky, Madison Area Science and Technology
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- Structure and Generation of the Solar Transition Region, Hakeem Oluseyi, Florida Institute of Technology
- Wednesday, February 25th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Heavy-flavor Inclusive Production: Formalism and Applications, Bernd Kniehl, University of Hamburg
- Thursday, February 26th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Supersymmetric U(1)' Models, Gil Paz, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- Friday, February 27th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Diatomic Molecules as Quantum Tools, David DeMille, Yale University
March 2009
- Monday, March 2nd
- Atomic Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- High-Precision Single-Ion Penning Trap Mass Spectrometry, Matthew Redshaw, Florida State University
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm)
- The Truth the Top Quark is Hiding, Andrew Ivanov, University of California Davis
- Tuesday, March 3rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Radio Frequency Spectroscopy in Ultra-cold Fermi gases Undergoing BCS-BEC Crossover, Yan He, University of Chicago
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Place; It's complicated: Nagas in the Himalaya, Chris Limburg, UW Department of Geography
- String Theory Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- An Inverted Mass Hierarchy for Exciting Dark Matter, Andrew Frey, McGill University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- The Origins and Evoluation of Weak MB II Quasar Absorption Line Systems, Anand Narayanan, UW Astronomy Dept
- String Theory Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5280 Chmaberlin Hall
- A Tour of Flux Compactification Dynamic, Andrew Frey McGill
- Thursday, March 5th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum computing with Ba ions, Boris Blinov, University of Washington - Seattle
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Active Galactic Nuclei: Sources for ultra high energy cosmic rays?, Peter L. Biermann, MPI Bonn
- Friday, March 6th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Fay Ajzenberg-Selove Distinguished Lecture;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm) - Harnessing Attosecond Science in the Quest for Coherent X-Rays, Margaret Murnane, JILA/UC-Boulder
- Monday, March 9th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall
- Helical States and Feedback Control in RFX: Building the RFP Future in the ITER ERA, Piero Martin, Consorzio RFX, Physics Dept., University of Padova, ITALY
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- RF Stabilization Mechanisms for Resistive Tearing Modes, Tom Jenkins, UW-Madison, Dept of Physics/Plasma
- Tuesday, March 10th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Single-Particle Properties of Graphene: Magnetotransport and Superlattice-Controlled Band Gap, Rakesh Tiwari, Ohio State University
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Engaging the flow: a creative dialogue revisited, Harry Webne-Behrman, UW Office of Human Resource Development
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- The Local Group Manifesto, Kathryn Johnston, Columbia University
- Thursday, March 12th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Coulomb Correlations and the Wigner-Mott Scenario for the 2D-MIT, Vladimir Dobrosavljevic, Florida State University
- Whitford Lecture; 3:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- A brief History of Cosmic Expansion and Acceleration, Adam Riess, JHU and STSci
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- New Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory, Segev BenZvi, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Monday, March 16th
- Spring Break
- Tuesday, March 17th
- Spring Break
- Wednesday, March 18th
- Spring Break
- Thursday, March 19th
- Spring Break
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Spring Break, No Herb Seminar scheduled
- Friday, March 20th
- Spring Break
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; --
- No Colloquium--Spring Break, --
- Monday, March 23rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Circuit QED<sup>2</sup>: Two amplifiers, two resonators, and two photons, Matteo Mariantoni, Walther-Meissner-Institut and Technical University
- Tuesday, March 24th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Dynamics of the white pine blister rust pathogen on wild gooseberry hosts, Maria Newcomb, UW Department of Plant Pathology
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- The Magnetic Universe Revealed Through Radio Polarimetry, Bryan Gaensler, The University of Sydney
- Thursday, March 26th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- What can we learn from spin-dependent shot noise in semiconductor and graphene nanostructures?, Branislav Nikolic, University of Delaware
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- M-flation, Amjad Ashoorioon, University of Michigan
- Monday, March 30th
- Quantum Computing Seminar; 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Single Charge Detection in Silicon Using Vertically Coupled Al and Si Single-Electron Transistors, Luyan Sun, Laboratory for Physical Sciences, University of Maryland
- Tuesday, March 31st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Room Temperature demonstration of Quantum Cellular Automata formed by Single Si Atom Quantum Dots, Baseer Haider, University of Alberta
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- The origins of emergent behavior in bacterial communities, Douglas B. Weibel, UW Department of Biochemistry
- High Energy Seminar, NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin(Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm) - DUSEL - Progress on the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory, Kevin Lesko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- DUSEL - Progress on the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory, Kevin Lesko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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
May 2009
- Friday, May 1st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Physics in the Kitchen, Andrei Varlamov, INFM & CNR, Italy, Moscow Technological University, Russia
- Monday, May 4th
- Physics Department Lecture; 7:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Angels & Demons of the CERN Large Hadron Collider, Wesley Smith, UW Department of Physics
- Tuesday, May 5th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Earthquakes beneath the sea: Understanding the mechanics of fault zones through subsurface imaging and scientific drilling, Harold Tobin, UW Department of Geology and Geophysics
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall
- The Power of Cooling Cores in Clusters in Galaxies, Mateusz Ruszkowski, University of Michigan
- Wednesday, May 6th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Electronic, spin and transport properties of a triple quantum dot molecule, Yun-Pil Shim
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 3345 Engineering Hall
- "Simultaneous Measurement of Electron temperature and Density Fluctuations in the Core of DIII-D Plasmas and Comparison with Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Simulations, Dr. Anne White, General Atomics
- Thursday, May 7th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Let there be light: from graphene oxide to dark excitons, Jay Kikkawa, University of Pennsylvania
- Atomic Physics Seminar-Note special time; 12:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Schlieren measurements of Hg density gradients in an ultra-high pressure arc lamp, Joe Kane, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- High Precision Cosmology with Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, Hee-Jong Seo, Fermilab and U. Arizona
- Friday, May 8th
- Last Day of Class
- Physics Department Colloquium, Physics Department Awards Colloquium;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - What life is like for a physicist in Congress, Bill Foster, U.S. Congressman Representing the 14th District of Illinois
- Monday, May 11th
- Joint HEP-NPAC Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Title to be announced, David Hertzog, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- String Theory Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5280 Chmaberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Koji Hashimoto, RIKEN (tentative)
- Thursday, May 14th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Fermionic spinons in two and three dimensions, Zhihao Hao, Johns Hopkins University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:45 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- (Joint with Phenomenology) A New Approach to Flavor (?), Keith Dienes, University of Arizona
- Joint NPAC Forum/HEP Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- The Fermilab Neutrino Program, Steve Brice, FNAL
- Friday, May 15th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Title to be announced, Michael Weissman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Monday, May 18th
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Elgenmode Decomposition of Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Turbulence Simulations, David Hatch, UW-Madison, Dept of Physics/Plasma
- Tuesday, May 19th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Electrical Control of a Hydrogenic Donor's Spin in Semiconductor Nanostructures, Amrit De, University of Iowa
- Thursday, May 21st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Rare-earth impurities in conventional and unconventional superconductors: Pr-based filled-skutterudite and UPd2Al3, Ilya Eremin, TU Braunschweig and MPI Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden