Events at Physics |
Events During December, 2010
- Wednesday, December 1st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, December 2nd
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Explanetary Systems-What do they teach about the Solar System?, George Rieke, University of Arizona
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- New Physics in B_s mixing: Uplifted SUSY, Adam Martin, Fermilab
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Condensed Matter Experimental, Eriksson, Himpsel, Lagally, McDermott, Onellion, Rzchowski, Winokur
- Friday, December 3rd
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Joint with Pheno;
2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall - String moduli phenomenology, cosmological history, and dark matter, Gordy Kane, U. Michigan
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Monday, December 6th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Liquid Metal Plasma-Facing Components and the Lithium Tokamak eXperiment (LTX), Dick Majeski, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Flux Surface Shaping and Ballooning Stability for Tokamaks with 3-D RMP Fields, Tom Bird, UW-Madison Dept of Engineering Physics
- Tuesday, December 7th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin
- Measurement of the dipole moment for transitions to Rydberg states in ultracold rubidium, Michal Piotrowicz, The Open University, Milton Keynes UK
- String Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Fernando Marchesano, IFT Madrid
- Wednesday, December 8th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Pierre Auger Neutrino Measurement, Lukas Nellen, UNAM
- Special IceCube Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Antineutrino Oscillation Results from MiniBooNE & Implications for IceCube & Future Experiments, Bill Louis, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Thursday, December 9th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Theory of Josephson photomultipliers: current biased Josephson junctions as microwave photon counters, Emily Pritchett, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Gas Accretion in Galaxies, Dusan Keres, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Friday, December 10th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Signatures of WIMPless Dark Matter, Jason Kumar, University of Hawaii at Manoa
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Holiday Colloquium, Holliday Colloquium
- Monday, December 13th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Electronic correlations in the optical properties of the iron-based superconductors, Christopher Homes, Brookhaven National Lab
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- The Surprising? Effect of Lithium Wall Coatings on Edge Profiles, Transport and ELM Stability in NSTX, Rajesh Maingi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Wednesday, December 15th
- Last Day of Class; 8:00 am
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, December 16th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Star Formation and Feedback in High-Redshift Galaxies, Kristian Finlator, UC-Santa Barbara
- Thursday, December 30th
- UW Furlough Day; 8:00 am