Events at Physics |
Events During May, 2011
- Monday, May 2nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- What can we learn from the glow? Optical emission spectroscopy (OES) diagnostics of non-equilibrium electron energy distributions in low-temperature plasmas, Amy Wendt, UW-Madison Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Tuesday, May 3rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- GPU Accelerated Simulations of Chaotic PDEs, Jon Seaton, UW-Madison Dept. of Physics
- High Energy Seminar, NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum;
3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin - Exciting Prospects in the Study of the Ghostly Neutrino: the Reactor Anti-Neutrino Anomaly, John G. Learned, University of Hawaii, Manoa
- Astronomy Colloquium, Hilldale Lecture;
3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall - The Small Star Opportunity, Prof David Charbonneau, Harvard CfA
- Wednesday, May 4th
- Physics & Astronomy Departments; 11:30 am; Rooftop of Sterling Hall
- Senior Send off Pizza Party
- Public 2011 Physical Sciences Hilldale Lecture; 6:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- The Last Generation of Lonely Astronomers, Dr David Charbonneau, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Thursday, May 5th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Complex Materials, Calorimetry, and Energy Landscapes, Alexandra Navrotsky, University of California - Davis
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- The Development of Large Area Microchannel Plate Photodetectors, Bob Wagner, Argonne
- Friday, May 6th
- Last Day of Class
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- First Results from the T2K Neutrino Oscillation Experiment, Scott Oser, University of British Columbia
- Thursday, May 12th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Radioargon dating with Atom Trap Trace Analysis (detection of 39Ar at the part-per quadrillion level), Will Williams, Argonne National Lab
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Jeff Allen, NYU
- Friday, May 13th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Title to be announced, Mischa Malkov, UCSB
- Monday, May 16th
- Furlough Day
- Monday, May 23rd
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Transmutation of nuclear waste: Basics, Methods, Perspectives, Arnd Junghans, Institut für Strahlenphysik, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
- Thursday, May 26th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Frenkel-Kontorowa Models, Pinned Particle Configurations and Burgers Shocks, Muhittin Mungan, Dept. of Physics, Boğaçizi University, Istanbul
- Monday, May 30th
- Memorial Day