Events at Physics |
Events During April, 2010
- Thursday, April 1st
- Spring Break
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Electronic Orbital Currents and Polarization in Mott Insulators, Cristian Batista, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Friday, April 2nd
- Spring Break
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm
- No Colloquium--Spring Break
- Monday, April 5th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- How to Make a Big International Project Happen: Lessons from ITER, James W. Van Dam, University of Texas-Austin/Institute for Fusion Studies
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm)
- A New High-Sensitivity Search for Muon-to-Electron Conversion at Fermilab, Dr. Robert Bernstein, FNAL
- Tuesday, April 6th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Running Form Modification: When Self-selected is not Preferred, Bryan Heiderscheit, UW-Madison, Dept. of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation
- Astronomy Colloquium, Sponsored by WOWSAP (Women of WI Strengthening Astronomy and Physics";
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall - Probing the Inner and Outer Milky Way, Juna Kollmeier, Carnegie Observatories
- Wednesday, April 7th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, April 8th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Spin electronics for materials spectroscopy, Christoph Boehme, University of Utah
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- The Chiral Magnetic Effect and local parity violation at RHIC, Dmitri Kharzeev, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Friday, April 9th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Diffuse Emission of GeV and TeV Gamma Rays: Prospects with Fermi and HAWC, Petra Huentemeyer, Michigan Technological University
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Baryons: Testing Ground of QCD Dynamics, Jose Goity, JLab/Hampton University
- Monday, April 12th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Ideal and Non-Ideal Tokamak Edge Stability Calculations, Nate Ferraro, General Atomics
- High Energy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm)
- New Results for Electron-Neutrino Appearance in MINOS, Prof. Mayly Sanchez, Iowa State
- Tuesday, April 13th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Shock Waves in Nature and in Numerical Computations, James Rossmanith, UW-Madison, Dept. of Mathematics
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- Nearby, Thermally Emitting Neutron Stars, David Kaplan, UW-Milwaukee
- Wednesday, April 14th
- Phenomenology Seminar; 11:00 am; 4272 Chamberlin Hall
- Precise Predictions for Higgs Production at Hadron Colliders within the SM and Beyond, Radja Boughezal, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Zürich
- Thursday, April 15th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum Critical Behavior in Cuprate Superconductors, Tom Lemberger, The Ohio State University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- DeepCore - Extending the physics reach of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, Darren Grant, University of Alberta
- Friday, April 16th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Fay Ajzenberg-Selove Colloquium;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Dark Matter in the Universe, Katherine Freese, University of Michigan
- Monday, April 19th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Multi-Energy SXR Imaging for Magnetically Confined Fusion Studies, Luis Felpe Delgado-Aparicio, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Tuesday, April 20th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- The Dynamics of Performance Management: Governance Reform Amidst Complexity, Donald Moynihan, UW-Madison La Folette School of Public Affairs
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- Modeling surface velocity fields from tidal interactions: the one-layer approximation, Gloria Konigsberger, UNAM
- Wednesday, April 21st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- A search for ultrahigh energy neutrinos in the ANITA experiment, Dr. Brian Mercurio, The Ohio State University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Core Collapse Supernova Neutrino Detection, Kate Scholberg, Duke University
- Thursday, April 22nd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Emergent Supersymmetry and String in Condensed Matter Systems, Sung-Sik Lee, McMaster University
- Friday, April 23rd
- Physics & Astronomy Department; 12:00 pm; Courtyard between Chamberlin & Sterling (weather permitting)
- Senior Sendoff Pizza Party
- Special Plasma Theory Seminar; 12:00 pm; 414 ERB
- Two Novel Diagnostic Techniques for Spherical Tokamaks (plus a bit of biology), Dr. Roddy Vann, University of York, York, UK
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Prospects for Hypercharged and Gaugino AMSB at the LHC, Howie Baer, University of Oklahoma
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- The Transient Revolution in Astrophysics, Eliot Quataert, UC-Berkeley
- Monday, April 26th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Joint with High Energy;
4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin - Cosmic Rays and the Quest for New Physics, Stefano Profumo, U.C. Santa Cruz
- Tuesday, April 27th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Ananth Seshadri, UW-Madison, Dept. of Economics
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- The Nova Outburst: Evidence for a New Paradigm?, Dr. Robert Williams, STSci
- Thursday, April 29th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Can the Moon affect entanglement transfer?, Joseph H. Eberly, University of Rochester
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Many-body high energy QCD: from wee partons to the perfect fluid, Raju Venugopalan, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Friday, April 30th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Joint with Phenomenology;
2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin - A Lattice Calculation of QCD Critical Point from Canonical Ensemble, Keh-Fei Liu, University of Kentucky
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Plasma Turbulence in the Solar Wind, Bill Dorland, University of Maryland