Events at Physics |
Events During September, 2012
- Monday, September 3rd
- Labor Day
- Tuesday, September 4th
- First Day of Class
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- The Beginning and End of Heavy Element Nucleosynthesis, Ian Roederer, Carnegie Observatories
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Myths of Mathematics, Moe Hirsch, UW Department of Mathematics
- Wednesday, September 5th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Friday, September 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)
- Pushing Einstein’s Boundaries: Gravitational Approaches to the Challenges of Modern Cosmology, Mark Trodden, Center for Particle Cosmology, University of Pennsylvania
- Monday, September 10th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- Instabilities of a magnetized free shear layer in rotating liquid metal, Austin Roach, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Tuesday, September 11th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Computational complexity theory -- The world of P and NP, Jin-Yi Cai, UW Department of Computer Science
- Wednesday, September 12th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- How strain unintentionally causes quantum dots in silicon nano-devices, Ted Thorbeck, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Thursday, September 13th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Competing Phases of 2D Electrons at ν = 5/2 and 7/3 in fractional quantum Hall systems, Jing Xia, University of California - Irvine
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274
- Astroparticle physics with the ARGO-YBJ detector, Dr. Roberto Iuppa, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Roma, Italy
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Large-Scale Surveys of Star Formation in the Milky Way, Peter Barnes, University of Florida
- Prospective Undergraduate Majors in Physics; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (Food & Soda will be served)
- PUMP Meeting
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:45 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Astrophysics I: Experimental Astro/Space Physics, McCammon, Timbie, UW Madison
- Friday, September 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)
- Magnetic Reconnection in Plasmas: a Celestial Phenomenon in the Laboratory, Jan Egedal, MIT Dept. of Physics & Plasma Science and Fusion Center
- Monday, September 17th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- Innovative plasma CVD technology for the synthesis of carbon nanomaterials (nanocrystalline diamond film and graphene film), Jaeho Kim, AIST, Japan
- Tuesday, September 18th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- The discovery of the ER-based acetylation machinery: from aging to Alzheimer's disease ... cancer too?, Luigi Puglielli, UW Department of Medicine
- Careers for Physicists; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- , Dai Dee Pun, Skyline Solar
- Wednesday, September 19th
- Department Meeting
- Canceled
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, September 20th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Surprises! and Puzzles? from Probing Neutral Atoms Trapped in Noble Gas Ice, Jaideep Singh, Argonne National Lab
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Albrecht Karle;
2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin - Evidence of Electron Neutrino Appearance at T2K, Melanie Day, University of Rochester
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Turbulence and Cosmic-Rays in Galaxy Clusters, Peng Oh, UC Santa Barbara
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:45 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Condensed Matter Experimental, Eriksson, Himpsel, Lagally, McDermott, Onellion, Rzchowski, Winokur, UW Madison
- Friday, September 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, Julian Mack Lecture;
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm) - Space Security and Missile Defense: What is at Stake?, Laura Grego, Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
- Monday, September 24th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- Dynamos in spherical boundary-driven flows, Ivan Khalzov, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Pairing near quantum critical points, Andrey Chubukov
- Tuesday, September 25th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Games, learning & the future of education, Kurt Squire & Constance Steinkuehler, UW Department of Curriculum and Instruction
- Thursday, September 27th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Early Star Forming Galaxies and the Reionization of the Universe, Dan Stark, University of Arizona
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:45 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Biophysics, Coppersmith, Gilbert, UW Madison
- Friday, September 28th
- 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)
- Higgs Boson and New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider, Liantao Wang, University of Chicago