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Events During March, 2010
- Monday, March 1st
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Spontaneous Stochasticity and the Breakdown of Flux-Freezing in a Turbulent Plasma, G. L. Eyink, John Hopkins University
- Tuesday, March 2nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Overview of Satellite-based Aviation Application for Detection of Thunderstorms, Turbulence and Volcanic Ash, Wayne Feltz, UW-Madison, Dept. of Space Science and Engineering Center
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- Interstellar Constraints on the Evolution of Cosmic Lithium, Chris Howk, Notre Dame University, Physics Dept
- Wednesday, March 3rd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Seminar; 6:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments will be served)
- From Space Surveillance to Microelectronics: A Survey of Research at M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory, Dr. Matthew Vanderhill, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Thursday, March 4th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Fermi Surface investigation across the quantum critical point in CeIrIn5 and CeCoIn5 via de Haas van Alphen measurements, Cidgem Capan, UC-Irvine
- Friday, March 5th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Uncovering the Nature of Dark Matter with Direct Detection Experiments. Status and Prospects from a XENON Perspective., Uwe Oberlack, Rice University
- Monday, March 8th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Varying Stochasticity in the Core of the MST RFP, Joshua Reusch, UW-Madison Dept of Physics/Plasma
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Magnetic Barriers as Possible q95-Dependence Inhibitors of ELM Control by Resonant Magnetic Perturbations at DII-D, Jonathan Kessler, Southeast Missouri State
- String Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- On the existence of meta-stable vacua in the Klebanov-Strassler Background, Nick Halmagyi, Saclay
- Tuesday, March 9th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Ultrafast physics in photosynthesis: Mapping sub-nanometer energy flow, Naomi Ginsberg, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Why We Need to Conserve Crop Diversity and What We Need to Know-An Example from the Andes, Eve Emshwiller, UW-Madison, Dept of Botany
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- The Role of Gas Bearing Dwarfs in Near Field Cosmology, Dr. Sabrina Stierwalt, CALTECH
- Thursday, March 11th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Theory of nonequilibrium magnetooscillations in 2D electron transport in high Landau levels, Ivan Dmitriev, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Karlsruhe University, Germany
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Physics with ultra-cold and very cold neutrons at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France, Peter Geltenbort, Institute Laue-Langevin, Grenoble
- Friday, March 12th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Richards Lecture;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Probing Early Universe Particle Physics with Neutrons at the Institut Laue-Langevin, Peter Geltenbort, ILL Grenoble
- Monday, March 15th
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Double-Diffusive Magnetic Buoyancy and Shear Dynamics, Dr. Geoff Vasil, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophyiscs
- Tuesday, March 16th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Exploring the Conformational Search Leading to Protein Folding in Vitro and in the Cell, Silvia Cavagnero, UW-Madison, Dept. of Chemistry
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- Synergistic Transient Searches in the Ultraviolet and Optical, Suvi Gezari, Hubble Fellow, John Hopkins
- String Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Non-perturbative effects on seven-brane Yukawa couplings, Fernando Marchesano, CERN
- Wednesday, March 17th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, March 18th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum Information Science with Trapped Ca<sup>+</sup> Ions, Rainer Blatt, Universitat Innsbruck
- Friday, March 19th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Electroweak Contributions to Squark and Gluino Production at the LHC, Maike Trenkel, UW-Madison, Physics Department
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Quantum Computer: Dream and Realization, Rainer Blatt, Institute for Experimental Physics University of Innsbruck and Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information
- Monday, March 22nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Research on DIII-D to Address the Challenges of Fusion Power, Richard Buttery, General Atomics
- Tuesday, March 23rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Emotional Communication in Primates: Music to Their Ears?, Chuck Snowdon, UW-Madison, Dept. of Psychology
- Astronomy Colloquium, Whitford Lecture;
3:30 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall - Bringing our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole and Environs into Focus with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics, Andrea Ghez, UCLA
- Thursday, March 25th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Holographic Algorithms Capture Precisely Tractable Planar Counting Problems, Jin-Yi Cai, UW-Madison
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Title to be announced, David Ernst, Vanderbilt University
- Friday, March 26th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Dark Matter from the Baryon Asymmetry, Kathyrn Zurek, University of Michigan
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Increasing Diversity in Physics: the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters to PhD Bridge Program, David J. Ernst, Vanderbilt University, Fisk University
- Monday, March 29th
- Spring Break
- Tuesday, March 30th
- Spring Break
- Wednesday, March 31st
- Spring Break