Events at Physics |
Events During November, 2010
- Monday, November 1st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Peak Neoclassical Toroidal Viscosity in DII-D, Andrew Cole, UW-Madison Dept of Engineering Physics
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Nonlinear Evolution of Edge Localized MHD Instabilities: A Comparison of Ballooning and Peeling-Dominated Equilibria, Bonnie Burke, UW-Madison Dept. of Physcs
- Tuesday, November 2nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Water: Wild Card in the Climate System, John Young, UW-Madison Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- String Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Phenomenology of D-branes at Toric Singularities, Sven Krippendorf, Cambridge University
- Wednesday, November 3rd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, November 4th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall Same Location
- Resonant Stripping as the origin of dwarf spheroidal galaxies, Elena D'Onghia, Harvard CfA
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Phenomenology, Barger, Everett, Han
- Friday, November 5th
- Special Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Simultaneous Trapping of Ultracold Gases of Lithium and Ytterbium, Vlad Ivanov, University of Washington
- Phenomenology Seminar, Theory/Phenomenology Seminar;
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall - Model Building in the LHC Era, Neil Christensen, University of Michigan
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Reionization and Cosmology with 21 cm Fluctuations, Miguel Morales, University of Washington
- Tuesday, November 9th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- How People Get the Way We Are--A Table of Elements: Chaos, Complex Systems and Conflict in Human Development, Bernard Z. Friedlander, UW-Madison Faculty, 1967-70; Research Professor of Human Development, Emeritus, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
- String Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Freed-Witten anomaly and 7-branes, Raffaele Savelli, SISSA
- Thursday, November 11th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Experiments with atoms in optical lattices, David Weiss, Penn State University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Photoionization of High Altitude Gas in a Supernova-Driven Turbulent Interstellar Medium, Kenny Wood, University of St Andrews, School of Physics and Astronomy
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Discovery of gamma-ray Emission from Andromeda Galaxy, Hakki Ogelman, University of Wisconsin at Madison
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- String Theory & Theoretical Cosmology, Chung, Hashimoto, Shiu
- Friday, November 12th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Electroweak Superconductivity, Andy Cohen, Boston University
- Tuesday, November 16th
- String Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- D-brane Instanton Effects from D-brane Particle Loops, Pablo Soler, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
- Wednesday, November 17th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- New Applications of World Line Effective Theories, Ira Rothstein, Carnegie Mellon University
- Thursday, November 18th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Diverse Fates of Single and Binary Massive Stars, Nathan Smith, University of Arizona
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Astrophysics with Gravitational-Wave Detectors, Vuk Mandic, University of Minnesota
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Medical Physics, Birn, Christian, Nickles
- Friday, November 19th
- Phenomenology Seminar, Theory/Phenomenology Seminar;
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall - The Little Hierarchy Problem in a Generalized NMSSM, Christopher Kolda, University of Notre Dame
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Weighing Neutrinos, Joseph Formaggio, MIT
- Tuesday, November 23rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- How Drifting Continents Jumped From Fringe to Core, Jim Blair, Milton College, Emeritus
- Thursday, November 25th
- Thanksgiving Break; 8:00 am
- Friday, November 26th
- Thanksgiving Break; 8:00 am
- UW Furlough Day; 8:00 am
- Physics Department Colloquium, No Colloquium--Thanksgiving Break;
4:00 pm; none - Monday, November 29th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Electric Fields in Quasi-Symmetric and Quasi-Isodynamic Stellarators, Matt Landreman, MIT Plasma Science & Fusion Center
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- A Pedestal Structure Model, James D. Callen, UW-Madison Dept of Engineering Physics