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Events During the 2011 Spring Semester
January 2011
- Monday, January 17th
- Martin Luther King Day; 8:00 am
- Wednesday, January 19th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Friday, January 21st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- The role of quantum coherence in photosynthetic energy transfer, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University
- Monday, January 24th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Ion Energization During Magnetic Reconnection in MST, Rich Magee, University of Wisconsin/Dept. of Physics/Plasma
- Tuesday, January 25th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Chaos in Easter Island Ecology, Clint Sprott, University of Wisconsin/Dept. of Physics/Plasma
- High Energy Seminar; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- New Experiments with Antiprotons, Daniel Kaplan, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Thursday, January 27th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Shock waves in cold Fermi atoms, Alexander Abanov, Stony Brook University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- "Toward the Formation of Realistic Disk Galaxies"., Alyson Brooks, CALTECH
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- New CMB Polarization Results from QUIET at 43-GHz, Immanuel Buder, University of Chicago
- Monday, January 31st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Equilibrium Reconstruction and Measurement of Currents in the HSX Stellarator, John Schmitt, UW-Madison Dept. of Electrical Engineering
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Realistic quantum critical points, Munehisa Matsumoto, University of California-Davis
February 2011
- Tuesday, February 1st
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Spatial and Temporal Variability in Groundwater Chemistry: Is There Any Such Thing as a "Representative" Sample?, Jean Bahr, UW-Madison Dept of Geoscience
- SPECIAL ASTRONOMY TALK; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- How do Galaxies get their Gas?, Dusan Keres, UC Berkeley
- Wednesday, February 2nd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, February 3rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Two-dimensional electron gas with universal subbands at the surface of SrTiO<sub>3</sub>, Andres Santander, CSNSM - Université Paris-Sud, France
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Peculiar Velocity and its Effects on Cosmology with 21cm Tomography, Yi Mao, UT Austin
- Friday, February 4th
- Astronomy Colloquium, Special Astronomy Colloquium;
3:15 pm - 4:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall - Direct Imaging of Exoplanets: Prospects for comparative Exoplanetology, Beth Biller, MPIA Heidelberg
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Multiferroic Vortices and Graph Theory, Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers Center for Emergent Materials
- Monday, February 7th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- MHD Simulations of Magnetic Reconnection with Application to Solar Flares and Magnetospheric Substorms, Joachim Birn, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Weyl Problem and the Casimir Effect in Spherical Shell Geometry, Hussain Zaidi, University of Virginia
- Tuesday, February 8th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- How Video Games Model Agency in Complex Systems, Rich Halverson, UW School of Education
- Wednesday, February 9th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, February 10th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Electrical and Optical Characterization of Molecular Nanojunctions, Dan Ward, Rice University
- Friday, February 11th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Top Quark Polarization Measurement in Dilepton Channel and New Physics Search, Qing-Hong Cao, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Strings and the Real World, Gordy Kane, University of Michigan
- Saturday, February 12th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 7:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Sunday, February 13th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Monday, February 14th
- Special Seminar; 9:00 am; Forum room, Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery
- Microbial Interaction Networks in Soil and in Silico, Kalin H. Vetsigian, Harvard University
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Turbulent Mixing: Problems, Concepts, Solutions, Snezhana Abarzhi, University of Chicago
- Tuesday, February 15th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Global Warming, Jim Blair, Milton and Edgewood College
- High Energy Seminar; 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Long and Longer Baseline Neutrino Oscillations: Searching for Symmetry Violation, Roger Wendell, Duke University
- Wednesday, February 16th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, February 17th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Topological Insulators With Point Group Symmetry, Andrei Bernevig, Princeton University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Supernova Burst Studies in DUSEL Detectors, Alex Friedland, LANL
- Friday, February 18th
- High Energy Seminar; 11:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- New Spectacles for Spectacular Discoveries, Prof. Daniel Ferenc, University of California Davis
- Physics Department Colloquium, Fay Ajzenberg-Selove Colloquium;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Regular and Irregular Polyhedra in Multi-Component Crystalline Shells, Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Northwestern University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Saturday, February 19th
- 4th Annual Physics Fair; 11:00 am - 4:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Special Physics Talk; 2:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- The Physics of Color, Pupa Gilbert, UW Department of Physics
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 7:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Sunday, February 20th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Monday, February 21st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Current Layer Disruptions and Associated Turbulence in the Magnetic Reconnection Experiment (MRX), Seth Dorfman, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Origin of 1/f magnetic noise in superconducting circuits, Kostyantyn Kechedzhi, Rutgers University
- Tuesday, February 22nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Chaos in the Three-Body Coulomb Problem, Vladimir Zhdankin, UW-Madison Dept. of Physics
- High Energy Seminar; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Searching for the Identity of Dark Matter, Lauren Hsu, Fermilab
- Thursday, February 24th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Hybrid Quantum Information Processing with Circuit QED, David Schuster, University of Chicago
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Young Circumstellar Disks: Exoplanet Diagnostics, John Wisniewski, University of Washington
- Friday, February 25th
- Special High Energy Physics Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- First Results of Higgs Searches and Prospects for 2011/2012 with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC, Bruce Mellado, UW-Madison Physics Department
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Led by the Nodes: Forging an Understanding of Fe-Based Superconductors, Peter Hirschfeld, University of Florida
- Monday, February 28th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Numerical Simulation and Analysis of Plasma Turbulence in LAPD, Max Umansky, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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
April 2011
- Friday, April 1st
- Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Dark Matter at LEP and the Tevatron, Patrick Fox, Fermilab
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- How the Hippies Saved Physics, David Kaiser, MIT
- Monday, April 4th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Have Process will Travel: Adventures in Plasma Astrophysics, Anatoly Spitkovsky, Princeton University
- Tuesday, April 5th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- A New Dynamical Mechanism for Major Climate Shifts, Anastasios Tsonis, UW-Milwaukee Department of Mathematical Sciences
- Friday, April 8th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Ingersoll Lecture;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Beauty in Complexity: Low Friction and Adsorption Properties of Quasicrystal Surfaces, Pat Thiel, Iowa State University
- Monday, April 11th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Quasi-axisymmetric Tokamak: Breaking Tokamak Symmetry -- The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful, Tony Taylor, General Atomics
- Tuesday, April 12th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Interacting fermions on the honeycomb and its bilayer, Oskar Vafek, Florida State University
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- The Search for the Monsters at the Centers of Galaxies, Andy Sheinis, UW Department of Astronomy
- Wednesday, April 13th
- Public Lecture at Wisconsin Institute for Discovery; 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; Wisconsin Institute for Discovery Town Center
- The Birth of the Zooniverse: How Citizen Scientists are Taking On Research from Galaxies to Climate Change, Lucy Fortson, Associate Professor UMN Physics
- Thursday, April 14th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Interface engineering in epitaxial oxide heterostructures, Alex Demkov, University of Texas at Austin
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The new world of Gamma Ray Astronomy, Lucy Fortson, University of Minnesota
- Friday, April 15th
- Phenomenology Seminar, Theory/Phenomenology Seminar;
2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall - CP Violation in Bs Mixing in the MSSM and Beyond, Wolfgang Altmannshofer, Fermilab
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Searching for Inflation from the South Pole with CMB Polarimetry, John Kovac, Harvard University
- Monday, April 18th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- How the Tail Wags the Dog: Understanding the Physics of the H-Mode Pedestal and ELMs in Tokamaks, Phil Snyder, General Atomics
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:30 pm; 5310
- Microcalorimeter Arrays for High-Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy, Catherine Bailey, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Tuesday, April 19th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- "Response of Pollen in Devils Lake WI to the Younger Dryas Event, Lou Maher and Clarence Clay, UW-Madison Dept of Geoscience
- High Energy Seminar; 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- China Jinping underground lab and the PANDAX dark matter experiment, Xiang Liu
- Wednesday, April 20th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, April 21st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Interactions and superconductivivity in the polaronic Fermi liquid SrTiO<sub>3</sub>, Dirk van der Marel, University of Geneva
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Recent Results From The VERITAS TeV Gamma-Ray Observatory, Andrew Smith, Argonne National Laboratory
- Friday, April 22nd
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:35 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- News from ν's: Interpretations of Recent Neutrino Anomalies, Joachim Kopp, Fermilab
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Next Steps in Nuclear Weapons Control, Jay Davis, The Hertz Foundation
- Monday, April 25th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Reducing turbulent transport in toroidal configurations through shaping, Harry Mynick, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Tuesday, April 26th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Paradise Lost? Teaching About Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region, Dolly Ledin, UW Center for Biology Education
- Wednesday, April 27th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, April 28th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Improved Charge Collection in Nanostructured Organic Semiconductor Solar Cells, Charles Black, Brookhaven National Lab
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- A Holistic View of Unstable Dark Matter: Spectral and Anisotropy Signatures in Astrophysical Backgrounds, Le Zhang, UW-Madison/Hamburg University/DESY
- Friday, April 29th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Distinguished Award Winner;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Atomic Clocks: Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?, Thomas R. O'Brian, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and JILA
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