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Events During March, 2011
- Tuesday, March 1st
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Wind Turbine Generators: The Basics, Mitch Bradt, Program Manager, Department of Engineering Professional Development
- High Energy Seminar; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Probing the Universe with Neutrinos, Erik Blaufuss, University of Maryland
- Wednesday, March 2nd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 1:20 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- An Alternative Subtraction Scheme for Next-to-leading Order QCD Calculations, Tania Robens, University of Glasgow
- Thursday, March 3rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Universal energy fluctuations in driven thermally isolated systems, Anatoli Polkovnikov, Boston University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The missing baryons around galaxies and galaxy clusters, Joel Bregman, University of Michigan
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Neutrinos and the Future of the Standard Model, Dan Dwyer, Caltech
- Friday, March 4th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- The Fermilab Holometer: an Experimental Probe of Planck Scale Physics, Craig Hogan, Fermilab and University of Chicago
- Monday, March 7th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- High-Energy-Density Laboratory Astrophysics Experiments at the Omega Laser Facility and the National Ignition Facility, Carolyn Kuranz, University of Michigan
- Special Physics Talk; 2:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments at 2:15 pm)
- A Discussion with Brian Cox, Brian Cox, High Energy Physics group of the University of Manchester
- Tuesday, March 8th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Psychotherapy is Remarkably Effective-- For the Reasons Patients (but not scientists) Know, Bruce Wampold, UW Department of Counseling Psychology
- Wednesday, March 9th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, March 10th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Topological Insulators, Liang Fu, Harvard University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Formation of Molecular Clouds and Massive Stars, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, American Museum of Natural History
- Friday, March 11th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Using Spin-Stable Neutron Stars to Detect Nano-Hertz Gravitational Waves from Cosmological Sources, Jim Cordes, Cornell University
- Monday, March 14th
- Spring Break
- Tuesday, March 15th
- Spring Break
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum wire dots and quantum posts, Craig Pryor, University of Iowa
- Wednesday, March 16th
- Spring Break
- Thursday, March 17th
- Spring Break
- Friday, March 18th
- Spring Break
- Furlough Day
- Monday, March 21st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Separation of energy and particle transport barriers in the I-Mode regime on Alcator C-Mod, Amanda Hubbard, MIT
- Tuesday, March 22nd
- Atomic Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Laser cooling and trapping of dysprosium, Seo Ho Youn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Wednesday, March 23rd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, March 24th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Symmetry methods for the nuclear shell model, Mark Caprio, University of Notre Dame
- Friday, March 25th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- The Particle Physics and Cosmology of SU(4) Heterotic Vacua---the B-L MSSM, Burt Ovrut, University of Pennsylvania
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Cosmology without Cosmic Variance, Gary Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania
- Monday, March 28th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Inertial Fusion Energy Prospects - The LIFE Reactor Concept, Greg Moses, UW-Madison Dept of Engineering Physics
- Wednesday, March 30th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Special Plasma Seminar; 2:15 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Geomagnetic Secular Variation as a Window on the Dynamics of Earth's Core, Andrew Jackson, ETH Zurich
- Thursday, March 31st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum Phases of the Cairo Pentagonal Lattice, Ioannis Rousochatzakis, Max-Planck Insitute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The HERMES project - reconstructing the ancient Galaxy, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Federation Fellow, University of Sydney