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Events During the 2012 Spring Semester

January 2012

   Monday, January 16th
Martin Luther King Day
   Wednesday, January 18th
Physics Department Colloquium
Title to be announced, No Colloquium -- please remove
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   Thursday, January 19th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Nematic order and magnetism in the high-temperature iron-based superconductors, Rafael Fernandes, Columbia University
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   Monday, January 23rd
First Day of Class
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
Understanding and predicting turbulence in laboratory plasmas, Prof. Frank Jenko, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching
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   Tuesday, January 24th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Linear social interactions models, Steven Durlauf, UW Department of Economics
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   Wednesday, January 25th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   Thursday, January 26th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Measuring the Extragalactic Magnetic Field Via Gamma-Ray Blazar Observations, Tom Weisgarber, University of Chicago
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Probing the dark hearts of dusty galaxies - molecules as diagnostic tools, Susanne Aalto, Chalmers University of Technology
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   Friday, January 27th
Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Preparation and stabilisation of a non-classical field in cavity by quantum feedback, Clément Sayrin, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, l'Ecole Normale Supérieure
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
Atom Trap, Krypton-81, and Global Groundwater, Zheng-Tian Lu, Argonne National Laboratory & the University of Chicago
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   Monday, January 30th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Fusion Cuisine: Mingling Inertial and Magnetic Fusion Concepts in High Energy Density Plasma Physics, Dr. Kirk Flippo, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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   Tuesday, January 31st
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
3D and beyond: Multidimensional imaging of cell based processes, Kevin W. Eliceiri, UW Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Biology Director, Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI)
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Title to be announced, Matt Reece, Harvard University
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February 2012

   Wednesday, February 1st
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
Ambipolar ion acceleration from plasma expansion through a magnetic nozzle and near-term spacecraft propulsion applications, Dr. Benjamin Longmier, University of Houston
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   Thursday, February 2nd
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Recent Results from the COUPP Dark Matter Search, Andrew Sonnenschein, Fermilab
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
A (Re) Introduction to the Milky Way (AAS Reprise), Bob Benjamin, UW Whitewater
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   Friday, February 3rd
Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Atomic dipole traps formed in the diffraction pattern of a circular aperture for use in neutral atom quantum computing, Katharina Gillen, California Polytechnic State University
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
Beyond the Standard Model: The Particle Physics Frontier, Michael Ramsey-Musolf, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Presentation: https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/presentations/2328.pdf
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   Monday, February 6th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
High energy density plasmas generated by radial foils on COBRA, Dr. Pierre-Alexandre Gourdain, Cornell University
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Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
Quantum efficiency of a microwave photon detector based on a current-biased Josephson junction, Amrit Poudel, UW-Madison
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   Tuesday, February 7th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Social networking sites and adolescent health, Megan A. Moreno, UW School of Medicine and Public Health
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Title to be announced, Matt Buckley, Fermilab
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   Wednesday, February 8th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
The evolution of the edge pedestal structure and turbulence during the edge localized mode (ELM) cycle on NSTX, Dr. Ahmed Diallo, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboatory
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Department Meeting
CANCELED
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   Thursday, February 9th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
The Empirical Case For 10 GeV Dark Matter, Dan Hooper, Fermilab / University of Chicago
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
A New Look at Stellar Evolution: Chi-by-Eye Evolves to Bayesian Statistics, Ted von Hippel, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Cosmic Accelerators: Pulsars and Pulsar Wind Nebulae, Aous Abdo, George Mason University
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   Friday, February 10th
Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Title to be announced, Brock Tweedie, Boston University
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
Reinventing the Accelerator, Prof. James B. Rosenzweig, UCLA Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
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   Saturday, February 11th
Wonders of Physics
1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
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Wonders of Physics
4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
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Wonders of Physics
7:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
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   Sunday, February 12th
Wonders of Physics
1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
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Wonders of Physics
4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
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   Monday, February 13th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
Complex Plasma - A Potential Field for Interdisciplinary Research Using Laboratory and Space Experiments, Dr. Uwe Kokopka, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching
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Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
Magnetic penetration depth of iron-pnictides in case of coexistence between superconducting and spin-density wave orders, Dushko Kuzmanovski, UW-Madison
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   Tuesday, February 14th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Energy harvesting for mobile electronics, Ashley Taylor, UW Department of Mechanical Engineering
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Ghosts in the ice - Searching for the Universe's most elusive particles at the South Pole, Darren Grant, University of Alberta
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   Wednesday, February 15th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Hunting for Dark Matter in Antarctica, Carsten Rott, Ohio State University
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   Thursday, February 16th
Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Through a Glass Darkly: Galaxy Clusters and Strong Lensing, Michael Gladders, University of Chicago
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   Friday, February 17th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
Plasma Techniques Used to Trap Antihydrogen[1], Joel Fajans, University of California, Berkeley
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   Saturday, February 18th
Physics Fair; 11:00 am; Chamberlin Hall
The 5th Annual Physics Fair
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Wonders of Physics
1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
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Wonders of Physics
4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
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Wonders of Physics
7:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
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   Sunday, February 19th
Wonders of Physics
1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
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Wonders of Physics
4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
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   Monday, February 20th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
High-Energy Astrophysics with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Experiment, John Pretz, Los Alamos National Lab
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Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
Impulsive Fast Reconnection via Flux Rope Dynamics, Hantao Ji, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
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Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
Topology of Quantum Discord, Nga Nguyen, UW-Madison
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   Tuesday, February 21st
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Evolution of intelligence, David Krakauer, Director, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
W+jj: collider physics on the wild frontier, Adam Martin, Fermilab
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   Wednesday, February 22nd
Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   Thursday, February 23rd
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Seeing and Sculpting Nematic Liquid Crystal Textures with the Thom construction, Bryan Chen, University of Pennsylvania
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Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Studying Fast Magnetic Reconnection with Laboratory Plasmas, William Fox, University of New Hampshire
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Star Formation, gas loss, and the molecular gas in simulations of evolving galaxies, Charlotte Christensen, University of Arizona
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
The Pierre Auger Observatory: the highest energy frontier, Ines Valino Rielo, University of Santiago de Compostela
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   Friday, February 24th
Special NOON Astronomy Talk; 12:00 pm - 1:10 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
The early Evolution of the Milky Way Satellite Galaxies, Professor Gerhard Hensler, Institute of Astronomy, University of Vienna
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Title to be announced, JiJi Fan, Princeton University
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
FT-IR spectrochemical imaging: Design and applications with Focal Plane Array and multiple beam synchrotron radiation source, Carol Hirschmugl, UW-Milwaukee
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   Monday, February 27th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Neutrino Oscillation Physics at the South Pole, David Jason Koskinen, Penn State
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   Tuesday, February 28th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Dreaming and language evolution, Art Schmaltz, Prairie State College
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Title to be announced, Yang Bai, SLAC
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   Wednesday, February 29th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Tests of Lorentz Invariance with Neutrinos, Teppei Katori, MIT
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March 2012

   Thursday, March 1st
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Challenges in Quantum Computer Architecture, Ken Brown, Schools of Chemistry & Biochemistry; Computational Science & Engineering; and Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Rotation and turbulence in laboratory and astrophysical systems, Eric Edlund, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Secular Chaos: Formation of Hot Jupiters and the organization of Planetary Systems, Yoram Lithwick, Northwestern University
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   Friday, March 2nd
Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Title to be announced, Liam Fitzpatrick, Stanford University
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
Particle Astrophysics with Space- and Ground-Based Telescopes, Reshmi Mukherjee, Barnard College & Columbia University
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   Monday, March 5th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Antiparticles in the shadow of the Earth: cosmic-ray positrons with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Justin Vandenbroucke, SLAC
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Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
Using liquid metal experiments to test models of MHD turbulence, Mark Nornberg, UW-Madison
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Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
Collective instabilities of fermions on a hexagonal lattice, Andrey Chubukov, UW-Madison
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   Tuesday, March 6th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Magnetic interactions and anisotropies in iron superconductors, Leni Bascones, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM-CSIC)
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Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Perturbation in the system: Creative network practice, Michelle Riel, Artist, Designer, Theorist
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   Wednesday, March 7th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   Thursday, March 8th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Raman scattering in molecular junctions, Michael Galperin, University of California, San Diego
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High Energy Seminar; 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Higgs Results From ATLAS, Bruce Mellado, University of Wisconsin Madison
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   Friday, March 9th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
Superconductivity from Repulsive Interactions, Andrey Chubukov, University of Wisconsin Department of Physics
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   Monday, March 12th
Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
Electroweak Phase Transition, Michael Ramsey-Musolf, UW-Madison
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   Tuesday, March 13th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Navigating oceans of consciousness with science and art, Bernard Z. Friedlander, Department of Psychology, Emeritus, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
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High Energy Seminar; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Observation of electron-antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay, Karsten M. Heeger, University of Wisconsin
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   Wednesday, March 14th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   Thursday, March 15th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Graphene: it’s all about the surface, Kirill Bolotin, Vanderbilt University
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
New Results on Gas Flows In and Out of Galaxies, Alice Shapley, UCLA
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   Friday, March 16th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
Kelvin, Pascal, and mollusk shells, Pupa Gilbert, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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   Monday, March 19th
Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
Quantum criticality of vanadium chains with strong relativistic spin-orbit interaction, Natalia Perkins, UW-Madison
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   Tuesday, March 20th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Rise and fall of a billion dollar molecule, Olga Trubetskoy, UW Departments of Pharmacy and Comparative Biosciences
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   Wednesday, March 21st
Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   Thursday, March 22nd
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; CANCELLED
Quantum and classical fluctuation phenomena in low-dimensional superconductors, Victor Galitski, University of Maryland -- CANCELLED
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
TIdes and magnetic fields in Hot Jupiter Systems, Evgenya Shkolnik, Lowell Observatory
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   Friday, March 23rd
Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Confronting Top AFB with Parity Violation Constraints, Ian-Woo Kim, University of Michigan
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
The quantum and classical properties of spins on surfaces, Andreas Heinrich, IBM Almaden Research Lab
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   Monday, March 26th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
The search for direct detection of Dark Matter with MiniCLEAN, Raul Hennings-Yeomans, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
Superconducting Instabilities in Cuprates Mediated by Spin Density Wave Order at Quantum Criticality, Yuxuan Wang, UW-Madison
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   Tuesday, March 27th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
The anatomy of economics, Jim Blair, Milton and Edgewood College
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   Wednesday, March 28th
Department Meeting
CANCELED
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   Thursday, March 29th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Atomic-Layer Engineering and Topological insulators, Seongshik Oh, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Rutgers University
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Probing TeV scale physics in ultra-cold neutron decays, Rajan Gupta, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
X-ray Spectroscopy of Massive Stars: Constraints on Stellar Wind Mass-Loss Rates, Clumping, and Shock Physics, David Cohen, Swarthmore College
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   Friday, March 30th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
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Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
Canceled, Michael Corradini, Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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April 2012

   Monday, April 2nd
Spring Break
   Tuesday, April 3rd
Spring Break
   Wednesday, April 4th
Spring Break
   Thursday, April 5th
Spring Break
   Friday, April 6th
Spring Break
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
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   Tuesday, April 10th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine (CIBM), David J. Baumler, UW Biotechnology Center
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   Wednesday, April 11th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   Thursday, April 12th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
The modulated spin liquid and hidden order in URu2Si2, Sébastien Burdin, University of Bordeaux, France
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Observation of Reactor Antineutrino Disappearance at RENO, Soo-Bong Kim, Seoul National University
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Plasma physics in the intracluster medium on large scales, Aurora Simionescu, Stanford University
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   Friday, April 13th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
Ultracold Polar Molecules, Deborah Jin, NIST & JILA
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   Monday, April 16th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
Kinetic Turbulence in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas: Theoretical, Numerical, and Experimental Investigations, Prof. Greg Howes, University of Iowa
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Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
Multiparticle Quantum Walks and the Graph Isomorphism Problem, Kenny Rudinger, UW-Madison
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   Tuesday, April 17th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Towards quantifying biological complexity: Lessons from circadian rhythms, Amir Assadi, UW Department of Mathematics
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   Wednesday, April 18th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   Thursday, April 19th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
CANCELLED, Craig Zaspel, University of Montana Western
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Infrared-luminous galaxies: their Evolution, Clustering and Fates, Benjamin Weiner, Steward Observatory
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   Friday, April 20th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
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Special Physics History Lecture; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Matter waves in Paris: the de Broglie you don't know, Bruce R. Wheaton, Technology & Physical Science History Associates, Berkeley, CA
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
The Neutrino at Eighty - A remarkable journey and a feisty future, John Wilkerson, University of North Carolina
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   Monday, April 23rd
ECE 600 Seminar: Silicon Nanomembrane based Photonic Crystal Nanostructures for On-chip Open Sensor Systems; 3:30 pm; Engineering Hall, Room 1800
, Prof. Ray Chen, University of Texas-Austin
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Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
Two-electron dephasing in single Si and GaAs quantum dots, John Gamble, UW-Madison
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   Tuesday, April 24th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Adaptive information, Rob Nowak, UW Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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High Energy Seminar; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Experimental Muon Physics: an Overview, David Webber, University of Wisconsin Madison
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   Thursday, April 26th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
"Rare" Fluctuations and the Anderson Model of Localization, Ravin Bhatt, Princeton University
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Dark Matter from Weak Polyplets, Jennifer Kile, Northwestern University
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   Friday, April 27th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
Topological insulators and topological superconductors, Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford University
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   Monday, April 30th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
Formation of Magnetic Microphases in Ca$_3$Co$_2$O$_6$, Yoshitomo Kamiya, Los Alamos National Lab
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May 2012

   Tuesday, May 1st
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
From dragonfly eyes to fish eyes: a summary of ways to understand social-ecological systems across disciplinary lines, Bethany Laursen, UW Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
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   Wednesday, May 2nd
Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   Thursday, May 3rd
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Non-classical noise in quantum optomechanical systems, Aashish Clerk, McGill University
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Here be dragons :The Dynamic Radio Sky, Geoffrey Bower, University of California - Berkeley
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   Friday, May 4th
Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
VBFNLO: vector boson fusion and more, Dieter Zeppenfeld, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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 NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, CANCELED;
2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Uncovering the nature of neutrinos via double beta decay, Allen Caldwell, Director, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany
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 Physics Department Colloquium, 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award Winner;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
Alumni Award Speaker, Ronald Lockwood, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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   Monday, May 7th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
Magnetic Reconnection in Plasmas; a Celestial Phenomenon in the Laboratory, Prof. Jan Egedal, MIT
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Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
The finite temperature phase diagram for Kitaev-Heisenberg model, Craig Price, UW-Madison
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   Tuesday, May 8th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Are you holding your breath? - Structures of arousal and calm, Deric Bownds, UW Department of Zoology
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   Thursday, May 10th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Shedding Light on Artificial Quantum Materials and Interfaces by Photoemission Spectroscopy, Kyle Shen, Cornell University
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   Friday, May 11th
Last Day of Class - No Colloquium
Dissertation Defense; 8:30 am; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Observation of Electron Antineutrino Disappearance at the Daya Bay Experiment, Bryce Littlejohn, UW Department of Physics Graduate Student
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Structure of dimension-six derivative interactions in pseudo Nambu-Goldstone N Higgs doublet models, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, University of Tokyo
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   Tuesday, May 15th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
A neutrino beam to IceCube/PINGU?, Walter Winter, University of Würzburg, Germany
Presentation: https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/presentations/2671.ppt
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   Thursday, May 17th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
Probing Time-reversal Invariance with Atoms and Neutrons, Tim Chupp, University of Michigan
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   Monday, May 21st
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
Advancements in epitaxial trilayer growth utilizing Nb/Re bilayers on sapphire, Paul Welander, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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   Monday, May 28th
Memorial Day