Events at Physics |
Events During December, 2012
- Monday, December 3rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- Gyrokinetic Simulations of Solar Wind Turbulence and Dissipation, Jason TenBarge, University of Iowa
- Special Lunch Astronomy Talk; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- H-alpha Dots: A Catalog of Faint Emission-line Objects Discovered in Narrowband Images, Jessica Kellar, Darthmouth College
- Tuesday, December 4th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin
- Towards Precision Spectroscopy of Single Trapped Molecular Ions , Brian Odom, Northwestern University
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Cognitive functions of language and their implications for language evolution, Gary Lupyan, UW Department of Psychology
- High Energy Seminar; 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- What can a W boson and some jets reveal at CMS?, Jake Anderson, Fermilab
- Thursday, December 6th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Searching for Pulsars and Radio Transients with the Murchison Widefield Array, David Kaplan, UW Milwaukee, Department of Physics
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Adaptive Mesh Refinement Dimulations of Cosmic Rays in Clusters of Galaxies, Samuel Skillman, University of Colorado
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:45 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Computing & Information, , UW Madison
- Friday, December 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 (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Testing Landauer’s Principle in a feedback trap, John Bechhoefer, Simon Fraser University
- Monday, December 10th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- The Application and Use of 3D Stellarator Fields on the Compact Toroidal Hybrid to Avoid Tokamak Disruptions, David Maurer, Auburn University
- Special Lunch Astronomy Talk; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Title to be announced, Chris Fassnacht, UC Davis
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Searching for physics beyond the standard model: the neutron electric dipole moment experiment at the TUM, Michael Marino, Technical University of Munich
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- A hybrid quantum dot spin qubit, Susan Coppersmith
- Tuesday, December 11th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Is there a path to renewable fuels, and why would we want to go there?, Tom Jeffries, UW Department of Bacteriology
- High Energy Seminar; 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Project X Seminar, Robert S Tschirhart, Fermilab
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Yukawa Hierarchies from Spontaneous Flavor Symmetry Breaking, Chee Sheng Fong, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy
- Wednesday, December 12th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, December 13th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Field-induced thermal transport in BEC antiferromagnets, Sasha Chernyshev, University of California, Irvine
- Careers in Physics Monthly Meeting; 3:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310
- Grad School, Physics grad students, UW-Madison
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The WISP survey: overview of recent results for galaxies in the 1<z<2 redshift range, Claudia Scarlata, CALTECH
- Friday, December 14th
- Last Day of Class
- 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 - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Systematics of Supersymmetric Boundary Conditions in N=4 Yang-Mills Theory, Akikazu Hashimoto, UW Madison
- Physics Department Colloquium, Holiday Colloquium;
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin (2103 tentative) - Title to be announced, 3rd Year Graduate Students, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Monday, December 17th
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Dissipative generation of entanglement, Mark Saffman
- Thursday, December 20th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Electronic Transport in Bi<sub>2</sub>Se<sub>3</sub> Thin Films in the Topological Insulator Regime, Dohun Kim, University of Maryland
- Friday, December 21st
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology