Events at Physics |
Events During October, 2012
- Monday, October 1st
- Special Seminar; 11:30 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Tunneling spectroscopy of many-body effects in a two-dimensional electron gas of near-surface delta-doped layer, Sergey Dizhur, Institute of Radioengineering & Electronics, Russian Academy of Science
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- Neutronics of ARIES and ITER: Progress and Challenges, Laila El-Guebaly, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Tuesday, October 2nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Mitochondrial proteins, pathways and pathogenesis, Dave Pagliarini, UW Department of Biochemistry
- High Energy Seminar; 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Updated results from the T2K long baseline neutrino experiment, Kendall Mahn, TRIUMF
- Wednesday, October 3rd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, October 4th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- No Herb Seminar -- Atomic Seminar held at this time
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Atom Interferometry in an inductively coupled ring trap, Jonathan Pritchard, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Probing the Gas Around Galaxies and Black Holes, Aleks Diamond-Stanic, UC San Diego
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:45 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- High Energy Phenomenology String Theory & Theoretical Cosmology, Bai, Barger, Chung, Everett, Hashimoto, Shiu, UW Madison
- Friday, October 5th
- 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
- Three Exceptions for Thermal Dark Matter with Enhanced Annihilation to Gamma Gamma, Hai-Bo Yu, University of Michigan
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm
- No Colloquium
- Monday, October 8th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- No seminar
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Electronic properties of ultimate nanowires, Franz Himpsel
- Tuesday, October 9th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- A few things that we learned from Galileo, and a few things we didn't, Jim Lattis, Director, Director, UW Space Place, UW Department of Astronomy
- Thursday, October 11th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- The Kondo exciton: a quantum quench towards strong spin-reservoir correlations, Hakan Tureci, Princeton University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Searches for Lorentz Violation in the Top Quark Sector, Denver Whittington, Indiana University
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:45 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Condensed Matter Theory, Chubukov, Coppersmith, Joynt, Perkins, Vavilov, UW Madison
- Friday, October 12th
- 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
- Phenomenology of next generation neutrino oscillation experiments, Kaoru Hagiwara, KEK
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Nuclear Power After Fukushima, Michael Corradini, UW-Madison
- Monday, October 15th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- Strong beaming of high-energy particle acceleration and radiation in magnetic reconnection in relativistic pair plasmas, Dmitri Uzdensky, Center for Integrated Plasma Studies, UC-Boulder
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Electronic and structural correlations at oxide interfaces, Mark Rzchowski
- Tuesday, October 16th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Applications of computed tomography, Rock Mackie, UW Departments of Molecular Biology and Medical Physics
- Wednesday, October 17th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, October 18th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum Technology: The Second Quantum Revolution, Jonathan Dowling, Louisiana State University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Blue Straggler Formation in the Old Open Cluster NGC188, Aaron Geller, Northwestern University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Physics in a Big Universe, Sean Carroll, Caltech
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:45 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- High Energy Collider Experiment, Carlsmith, Dasu, Herndon, Mellado, Pan, Smith, Wu, UW Madison
- Friday, October 19th
- 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)
- Discovery of the Higgs Boson - the God Particle, Sau Lan Wu, UW-Madison
- Monday, October 22nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- Local and global plasma response and plasma-facing component performance of the liquid lithium divertor in NSTX, Michael Jaworski, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Special Lunch Astronomy Talk; 12:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Cores, anisotrophy and (complex) rotation: the (Classical) dwarf Spheroidals, Nicola Amorisco, University of Copenhagen
- Tuesday, October 23rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Adaptive macroscopic properties of biological systems as the outcome of collective social computation, Jessica Flack, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
- Thursday, October 25th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Majorana fermions in vortex lattices, Rudro Rana Biswas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:25 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Magellanic Stream: Probing the Baryon Cycle in the Galactic Halo, Andrew Fox, STSci
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:45 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Lawler, Lin, Saffman, Walker, Wehlitz, Yavuz, UW Madison
- Friday, October 26th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Exploring Majorana landscape: the NEXT generation, Juan José Gómez Cadenas, IFIC - Instituto de FÃsica Corpuscular, Valencia, Spain
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Using Singularity for Missing Mass Measurements, Ian-Woo Kim, University of Michigan
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Neutrinos and the Origin of the Elements, Yong-Zhong Qian, University of Minnesota
- Monday, October 29th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- No seminar
- Special Lunch Astronomy Talk; 12:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- "Star Formation in N-Body Dwarf Galaxy Simulations", Ferah Munshi, University of Washington
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Progress in Superconducting Quantum Circuits, Robert McDermott
- Tuesday, October 30th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- The role of the lunar cycles in human evolution, Art Schmaltz, Prairie State College
- High Energy Seminar; 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- The Search for the Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a Top Quark Pair, Kevin Lannon, University of Notre Dame
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Indirect detection of dark matter at GeV and TeV scales, Alexander Belikov, Institut d'Astrophysics, Paris
- Special Undergraduate Seminar; 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Fun Facts about the Higgs Boson and Graduate School at Notre Dame, Kevin Lannon, University of Notre Dame
- Wednesday, October 31st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall