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Events During the 2009 Summer Semester
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
June 2009
- Friday, June 5th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Electronic refrigeration of two-dimensional electron gases, Jon Prance, Cambridge University
- SPECIAL SEMINAR TALK; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4534 Sterling Hall
- Clustering of accreting supermassive blackholes: An X-ray perspective, Yuxuan Yang, University of Illinois
- Thursday, June 11th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Intriguing Magneto-transport Behavior in Nanostructured NbN Superconductors and in Nanowires of the NbSe<sub>3</sub> Charge Density Wave System, Umesh Patel, Argonne National Lab
- Monday, June 15th
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Gyrokinetic Simulations of Ion Temperature Gradient Driven Instability in a Toroidal Reversed Field Pinch Geometry, Varun Tangri, UW-Madison, Dept of Physics/Plasma
- Thursday, June 18th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Cosmic acceleration as the gravitational feedback of mass-varying dark matter, Andre Fuzfa, GAMASCO, University of Namur (FUNDP); Louvain U; Paris Observatory;
- Monday, June 29th
- Special Plasma Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Experiments on 3D Evolution of Spontaneous Magnetic Reconnection, Noam Katz, MIT
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for MHD, James Rossmanith, UW-Madison, Dept. of Math
July 2009
- Thursday, July 2nd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum Dots and Quantum Information, Neil Zimmerman, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Monday, July 6th
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Nonlinear Evolution of Kink Unstable Jets, Chris Carey, UW-Madison, Dept of Physics/Plasma
- Friday, July 24th
- SPECIAL Astronomy Colloquium at 11 AM; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 2223 Chamberlin
- Isotropic Luminosity Indicators in a Complete AGN Sample, Aleks Diamond-Stanic, University of Arizona
- Monday, July 27th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- The MARE project: status and perspectives, Angelo Nuciotti, University of Milan Bicocca
August 2009
- Thursday, August 13th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Singlet-triplet qubits in silicon quantum dots, Dimi Culcer, Dept. of Physics, University of Maryland