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Events During the 2011 Fall Semester
August 2011
- Thursday, August 18th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Spins in GaAs: 2 dots - 2 qubits, Dr. Lars Schreiber, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, TU Delft, The Netherlands
- Monday, August 22nd
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Precision Spectroscopy of Helium and Radium Atoms: Probing nuclear structure and testing discrete symmetries, Ibrahim Sulai, Argonne National Lab
- Monday, August 29th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Recent Results from the Cogent Dark Matter Search, Mike Miller, University of Washington, CENPA
- Wednesday, August 31st
- High Energy Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Observation of Two-Neutrino Double-Beta Decay in Xe-136 with EXO-200, Liang Yang, SLAC
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin (coffee and cookies at 2:15 in 5310)
- Lepton Flavor Mixing and Neutrino Mass: an Experimental Assessment, Prof. Flavio Gatti, Genoa University
September 2011
- Friday, September 2nd
- First Day of Class
- Monday, September 5th
- Labor Day
- Tuesday, September 6th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Flavor Symmetries and Lepton Mixing in Light of Non-Vanishing theta13, Claudia Hagedorn, INFN, Padua and the University of Padua
- Wednesday, September 7th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, September 8th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- The search for Majorana Fermions in semiconductor nanowires, Roman M. Lutchyn, Microsoft Station Q, University of California
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Atomic, Molecular and Optical Seminar, Lawler, Lin, Saffman, Walker, Wehlitz, Yavuz
- Friday, September 9th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Transport in High-mobility Two-dimensional Electron Systems, Maxim Vavilov, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Monday, September 12th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- On the inner machinery of collisionless magnetic reconnection, Michael Hesse, NASA
- Tuesday, September 13th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Systems Virology: Models and measures of virus growth and infection spread, John Yin, WI Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering Systems Biology Theme, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
- Thursday, September 15th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- How d-wave pair fluctuations arise from strong electronic correlations, William Putikka, Ohio State University
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Reusable Neutral Atom Qubits for Quantum Information Applications, Michael Gibbons, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 am; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Reconnection Diffusion: Changing the Star Formation Paradigm, Professor Alexander Lazarian
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Theoretical Nuclear, Particle, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Seminar, Ramsey-Musolf
- Friday, September 16th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- The Quantum and Fluid Mechanics of Global Warming, Brad Marston, Brown University
- Monday, September 19th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- A 24/7 tokamak: the Vulcan conceptual design, Dennis Whyte, A 24/7 tokamak: the Vulcan conceptual design
- Tuesday, September 20th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Bees: What is all the buzz about?, Hannah R. Gaines, UW Department of Entomology
- Wednesday, September 21st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, September 22nd
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Tails of Stellar Mass Loss: The HI 21-cm Line as a Probe of the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution, Lynn Matthews, MIT Haystack Observatory
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- High Energy Collider Experiment Seminar, Carlsmith, Dasu, Herndon, Mellado, Pan, Smith, Wu
- Friday, September 23rd
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- The Matrix Element Method for Higgs Discovery and Spin Determination, Jamie Gainer, Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern U.
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Recent Results from CMS at LHC, Sridhara Dasu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Monday, September 26th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- TBD, Ben Longmeier, University of Huston
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Orbital ice: an exact Coulomb phase on diamond lattice, Gia-Wei Chern, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, September 27th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Bed bugs - They will rule the world, Phil Pellitteri, UW Department of Entomology
- Wednesday, September 28th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, September 29th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Coupled modes and parametric quantum informationprocessing--from classical pendula to single photons, Jose Aumentado, NIST Boulder
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Probing Dark Matter with Neutrinos, Ina Sarcevic, University of Arizona
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Large-Scale Flows in Galaxies for the last 6 Billion Years", Nicolas Lehner, University of Notre Dame
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- High Energy Phenomenology, String Theory, and Theoretical Cosmology, Barger, Chung, Everett, Hashimoto, Shiu
- Friday, September 30th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Vibrations, Conical Intersections, and Reaction Dynamics in Gases and Liquids, Fleming Crim, University of Wisconsin-Madison
October 2011
- Monday, October 3rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- TBD, Greg Howes, University of Iowa
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 1:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Fe-based superconductors at high magnetic fields, Alex Gurevich, Old Dominion University
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Strong coupling theory of quantum critical points in heavy fermion compounds, Peter Wölfle, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Tuesday, October 4th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Topological chaos, Jean-Luc Thiffeault, UW Department of Mathematics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- A global perspective on string inflation, Ted van der Aalst, Leiden University
- Wednesday, October 5th
- Department Meeting
- Canceled
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, October 6th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Superconducting gap symmetry in novel superconductors: insights from quasiparticle interference, Ilya Eremin, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Going to the ends of the earth to glimpse the beginnings of time: Observing the Big Bang with the BICEP Telescope at the South Pole, Brian Keating, UCSD Department of Physics
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Condensed Matter Theory Seminar, Chubukov, Coppersmith, Joynt, Perkins, Vavilov
- Friday, October 7th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- No Colloquium, Cancelled
- Monday, October 10th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- TBD, James Hansen, Auburn University
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Localization of quantum particles and classical waves in disordered media (Part I), Peter Wölfle, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Tuesday, October 11th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Recent changes in Wisconsin's forests as seen by satellites, Mutlu Ozdogan, UW Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Signals of CP Violation Beyond the MSSM in Higgs and Flavor Physics, Stefania Gori, University of Chicago
- Thursday, October 13th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Pairing of critical Fermi-surface states, Max Metlitski, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC-Santa Barbara
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Flavor symmetries and processes with tops, Jure Zupan, University of Cincinnati
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Do Supermassive Black Holes Co-Evolve with Their Host Galaxies?, Chien Peng, Carnegie Observatories
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Neutrino and Dark Matter Physics Seminar, Balantekin, Heeger, Maruyama
- Friday, October 14th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Quantum Phase Transitions and Scale Invariance of Atomic Quantum Gases, Cheng Chin, University of Chicago
- Monday, October 17th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- TBD, David Gates, PPPL
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism at the LaAlO<sub>3</sub>/SrTiO<sub>3</sub> interface, Venkat Chandrasekhar, Northwestern University
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Localization of quantum particles and classical waves in disordered media (Part II), Peter Wölfle, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Tuesday, October 18th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Algorithmic music composition - Philosophy, methods, implications, and possible applications, Dave Smith, UW Space Science and Engineering Center
- Astronomy Colloquium, Special Astronomy Colloquium;
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall - Sample formation and AGN Outflows in a Sample of Local AGN's, Lisa Winter, University of Colorado
- Wednesday, October 19th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, October 20th
- Informal Condensed Matter Seminar; 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Discussion on Quantum Criticality, Elihu Abrahams, UCLA
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Can hints of new flavor structures form top quarks and B mesons be related?, John Ng, TRIUMF
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm; IceCube Offices 222 W. Washington Avenue
- Astrophysics I: IceCube, HAWC, ARA, Auger, DM-Ice, Halzen, Karle, Maruyama, Westerhoff
- Friday, October 21st
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- The Kondo effect: from magnetic alloys to nanoelectronics, Peter Wölfle, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Monday, October 24th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- The Solar-Wind Plasma, Joe Borovski, LANL
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Theory of Anderson localization III: diagrammatic approach and experiment, Peter Wölfle, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Tuesday, October 25th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Airway sensory deficits in Parkinson’s Disease – Evidence of a complex system gone awry? Now what?, Michael J. Hammer, UW School of Medicine and Public Health
- Whitford Lecture; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421
- "The Restless Universe (Palomar Transient Factory), Shrinivas Kulkarni, CALTECH
- Wednesday, October 26th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- GRB Observations with Fermi Large Area Telescope, Vlasios Vasileiou, LUPM, Universite de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Spectroscopic Support of Southern Photometric Surveys, Mario Mateo, University of Michigan
- Thursday, October 27th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- COSMIC RAY ACCELERATION IN SUPERNOVA REMNANTS, Pasquale Blasi, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Florence, Italy)
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Biophysics Seminar, Coppersmith, Gilbert
- Friday, October 28th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Phenomenology of a pseudoscalar inflaton: naturally large non-gaussianity, Marco Peloso, University of Minnesota
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Nature Adorns a Vacuum: The Casimir Force, Steve Lamoreaux, Yale University
- Monday, October 31st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- TBD, Christopher Chen, UC-Berkely
November 2011
- Tuesday, November 1st
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Linear social interactions models, Steven Durlauf, UW Department of Economics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Approaching the string landscape, in principle and in practice, Jim Halverson, University of Pennsylvania
- Wednesday, November 2nd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, November 3rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Chiral superconductivity from repulsive interactions in doped graphene, Rahul Nandkishore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Astrophysics II: Experimental Astro/Space Physics, McCammon, Timbie
- Friday, November 4th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Search for new non-standard decay modes of SM-like Higgs at the LHC, Jinrui Huang, University of California, Irvine
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm
- No Colloquium
- Tuesday, November 8th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- The early development of empathy, Carolyn Zahn-Wexler, UW Departments of Psychology & Psychiatry
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Massive gravitons and enhanced gravitational lensing, Mark Wyman, University of Chicago
- Thursday, November 10th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Universal Dynamic Decoupling and Quantum Walks in Functional Spaces, Adilet Imambekov, Rice University
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 12:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Neutron Spin Filter Development at the Spallation Neutron Source, Tony Tong, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- The Non-perturbative Gluon Propagator & The Nucleon and Roper Form Factors in a Contact Interaction., David Wilson, Argonne National Laboratory
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Plasma Seminar, Boldyrev, Forest, Sarff, Schnack, Terry, Zweibel
- Friday, November 11th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Higher Spin Gravity in Three Dimensional de Sitter Space, Peter Ouyang, Purdue
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm
- No Colloquium
- Monday, November 14th
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Interaction effects on localization, Peter Wölfle, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Tuesday, November 15th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Teaching computers to extract complex information from news articles, Jude Shavlik, Jude Shavlik, UW Department of Computer Science
- Wednesday, November 16th
- Department Meeting
- Canceled
- 12:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, November 17th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Resonant Passage of Spin States in a Triple Quantum Dot, Xuedong Hu, University of Buffalo
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Magic, precise, and electroweak, Andrei Derevianko, University of Nevada-Reno
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Condensed Matter Experimental Seminar, Eriksson, Himpsel, Lagally, McDermott, Onellion, Rzchowski, Winokur
- Friday, November 18th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Condensation of excitons and polaritons, Peter Littlewood, Argonne National Laboratory
- Monday, November 21st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- TBD, John Canik, ORNL
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Spin resonance in Fe-based superconductors, Saurabh Maiti, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, November 22nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Sleep: A global or a local process?, Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, UW Department of Psychiatry
- Thursday, November 24th
- Thanksgiving Break
- Friday, November 25th
- Thanksgiving Break
- Monday, November 28th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- TBD, TBD
- Tuesday, November 29th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Feeding behavior elicited from the prefrontal cortex: a case of lower-level brain centers for homeostatic energy-balance control “taking orders from above?”, Brian A. Baldo, UW Department of Psychiatry
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Nonstandard Dark Matter Signatures at the LHC, Yang Bai, SLAC
- Wednesday, November 30th
- Department Meeting
- Canceled
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
December 2011
- Thursday, December 1st
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:30 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Medical Physics Seminar, Birn, Christian, Nickles
- Friday, December 2nd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Strong-Arming Electron Spin Dynamics, Jason Petta, Princeton University
- Monday, December 5th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- A Fashionably Late Higgs, Jamison Galloway, University of Rome La Sapienza
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- TBD, Phil Chang, UW-Milwaukee
- Tuesday, December 6th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- A history of El Niño / the Southern Oscillation, Dan Vimont, UW Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Scicnces
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Stealth Supersymmetry, Matt Reece, Harvard University
- Thursday, December 8th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Imaging the Surfaces of Stars, John Monnier, University of Michigan
- Friday, December 9th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall (Beer and Pizza at 4:00 pm)
- Holiday Colloquium, 3rd Year Physics Graduate Students, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Monday, December 12th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- TBD, Gennady Fiksel, University of Rochester
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Magnon spectrum in a spiral magnetic order on the pyrochlore lattice, Eunsong Choi, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, December 13th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Dimensional Analysis: Can a trick to help physics students pass exams provide insight into the Nature of the Universe?, Jim Blair, Milton and Edgewood College
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Spotting an invisible Higgs at the 7 TeV LHC, Jessie Shelton, Yale University
- Wednesday, December 14th
- Department Meeting
- Canceled
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, December 15th
- Last Day of Class
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Orbital and magnetic ordering in ZnV2O4, Yasuyuki Kato, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- AGB Dust Production in the Local Group, Martha Boyer, Space Telescope Science Institute
- Monday, December 19th
- High Energy Seminar; 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Recent Higgs results from ATLAS, Bill Quayle, UW-Madison