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Events During the 2012 Fall Semester
August 2012
- Friday, August 3rd
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
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
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 - 5:00 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 - 1:00 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 - 1:00 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 - 5:00 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 - 1:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- No seminar
- Special Lunch Astronomy Talk; 12:00 pm - 1:00 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
November 2012
- Thursday, November 1st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Nonlinear and nonreciprocal effects in magnetic garnet films, Pradeep Kumar, Michigan Technological University
- Careers for Physicists; 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:45 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Neutrinos, Dark Matter, and Fundamental Interactions, Balantekin, Heeger, Maruyama, Ramsey-ÂMusolf, UW Madison
- Friday, November 2nd
- 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)
- Anticipating sudden transitions in biological populations: Cooperation, cheating, and collapse, Jeff Gore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Monday, November 5th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- No seminar
- Tuesday, November 6th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin
- Long Range, Cold Rydberg Atom Molecules and Interactions, James Shaffer, University of Oklahoma
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Food waste, hunger and the environment: the solution is a pile of garbage, Jed Colquhoun, UW Department of Horticulture
- High Energy Seminar; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- W Mass From CDF, Ashutosh Kotwal, Duke University
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Recent MiniBooNE Results and the Status of Sterile Neutrinos, Christina Ignarra, MIT
- Wednesday, November 7th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Special Colloquium;
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm) - Electronic Liquid Crystalline Phases in Highly Correlated Electronic Systems, Steven Kivelson, Stanford University
- Thursday, November 8th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Observation of fractional ac Josephson effect: the signature of Majorana particles, Leonid Rokhinson, Purdue University
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:45 pm; IceCube Offices at 222 W. Washington Avenue
- Astrophysics II: IceCube, ARA, DM-Ice, Halzen, Karle, Maruyama, UW Madison
- Friday, November 9th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Overview of System Identification applications to MHD control: How to control MHD activity without using the MHD equations in the feedback model [Note room change], James Drake, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm [NOTE room change]
- Physics Department Colloquium, Canceled;
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm) - Unexpected, new Particle Physics presenting itself in UHECR air showers, Glennys Farrar, New York University
- Monday, November 12th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- RMP-Flutter-Induced Plasma Transport in DIII-D, James Callen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Quantum Optics with Quantum Dots and Microwave Resonators: Photon and Electron Statistics, Maxim Vavilov
- Tuesday, November 13th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Role of biofuels in meeting our future energy demands, Natalie Hunt, UW Department of Forest Ecology and Management
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Cosmological Perturbations: Isocurvature, Vorticity and Magnetic Fields, Adam Christopherson, University of Nottingham
- Wednesday, November 14th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, November 15th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- On-chip cavity quantum phonodynamics, Charles Tahan, Laboratory for Physical Science
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Neutrino Oscillations: Present Status and Future Plans, Jenny Thomas, University College London
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:45 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Plasma Physics, Boldyrev, Forest, Sarff, Schnack, Terry, Zweibel, UW Madison
- Friday, November 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)
- Physics at the edge: Plasmas with dynamic sheaths, Uwe Czarnetzki, Ruhr University Bochum
- Monday, November 19th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- Fast Ion Confinement and Stability of an NBI-heated RFP, Jay Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- The Anderson-Higgs mechanism in Condensed Matter Physics, Dushko Kuzmanovski & Saurabh Maiti
- Tuesday, November 20th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Searching for the earliest life on Earth, Clark Johnson, UW Department of Geoscience
- Thursday, November 22nd
- Thanksgiving Recess
- Friday, November 23rd
- Thanksgiving Recess
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Monday, November 26th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 1310 Sterling Hall
- Observing the acceleration of suprathermal electrons by Alfven waves using the diagnostic of whistler-mode wave absorption, Fred Skiff, University of Iowa
- Tuesday, November 27th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- The prospects for extraterrestrial life, Jim Blair, Milton and Edgewood College
- Special ASTRONOMY TALK; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Cosmological Challenges of Dwarf Galaxies, Julio Navarro, University of Victoria
- Wednesday, November 28th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium, Special Colloquium;
4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall - A screening of "Hubble's Diverse Universe", Dr. Jarita Holbrook
- Thursday, November 29th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Microwave Detection of Cosmic Ray Air Showers, Christopher Williams, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, The University of Chicago
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Revealing the origins and environments of Mg II absorbers with the SDSS and 3D-HST, Britt Lundgren, Astronomy Department
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 5:45 pm; 2223 Chamberlin Hall
- Astrophysics III: HAWC/CTA/Fermi, Westerhoff, Vandenbrouke, UW Madison
- Friday, November 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)
- Emergent phases of correlated electrons in materials with spin-orbit coupling and magnetic frustration., Natalia Perkins, UW-Madison
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