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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
- 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
- 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
- Tuesday, January 24th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Linear social interactions models, Steven Durlauf, UW Department of Economics
- Wednesday, January 25th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Matt Reece, Harvard University
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
- 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
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- A (Re) Introduction to the Milky Way (AAS Reprise), Bob Benjamin, UW Whitewater
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Matt Buckley, Fermilab
- 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
- Department Meeting
- CANCELED
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- 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
- 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
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmic Accelerators: Pulsars and Pulsar Wind Nebulae, Aous Abdo, George Mason University
- 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
- 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
- Saturday, February 11th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 7:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Sunday, February 12th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- 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
- 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
- Tuesday, February 14th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Energy harvesting for mobile electronics, Ashley Taylor, UW Department of Mechanical Engineering
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Saturday, February 18th
- Physics Fair; 11:00 am; Chamberlin Hall
- The 5th Annual Physics Fair
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 7:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Sunday, February 19th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- 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
- 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
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Topology of Quantum Discord, Nga Nguyen, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, February 21st
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Evolution of intelligence, David Krakauer, Director, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- W+jj: collider physics on the wild frontier, Adam Martin, Fermilab
- Wednesday, February 22nd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, JiJi Fan, Princeton University
- 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
- 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
- Tuesday, February 28th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Dreaming and language evolution, Art Schmaltz, Prairie State College
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Yang Bai, SLAC
- Wednesday, February 29th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Tests of Lorentz Invariance with Neutrinos, Teppei Katori, MIT
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Collective instabilities of fermions on a hexagonal lattice, Andrey Chubukov, UW-Madison
- 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)
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Perturbation in the system: Creative network practice, Michelle Riel, Artist, Designer, Theorist
- Wednesday, March 7th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- 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
- High Energy Seminar; 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Higgs Results From ATLAS, Bruce Mellado, University of Wisconsin Madison
- 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
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- 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
- Monday, March 12th
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Electroweak Phase Transition, Michael Ramsey-Musolf, UW-Madison
- 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
- 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
- Wednesday, March 14th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- 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
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- New Results on Gas Flows In and Out of Galaxies, Alice Shapley, UCLA
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Wednesday, March 21st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- 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
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- TIdes and magnetic fields in Hot Jupiter Systems, Evgenya Shkolnik, Lowell Observatory
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Tuesday, March 27th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- The anatomy of economics, Jim Blair, Milton and Edgewood College
- Wednesday, March 28th
- Department Meeting
- CANCELED
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- Canceled, Michael Corradini, Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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
- 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
- Wednesday, April 11th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- 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
- 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
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Plasma physics in the intracluster medium on large scales, Aurora Simionescu, Stanford University
- 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
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Ultracold Polar Molecules, Deborah Jin, NIST & JILA
- 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
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Multiparticle Quantum Walks and the Graph Isomorphism Problem, Kenny Rudinger, UW-Madison
- 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
- Wednesday, April 18th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, April 19th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- CANCELLED, Craig Zaspel, University of Montana Western
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Infrared-luminous galaxies: their Evolution, Clustering and Fates, Benjamin Weiner, Steward Observatory
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Two-electron dephasing in single Si and GaAs quantum dots, John Gamble, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, April 24th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Adaptive information, Rob Nowak, UW Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- High Energy Seminar; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Experimental Muon Physics: an Overview, David Webber, University of Wisconsin Madison
- 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
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Dark Matter from Weak Polyplets, Jennifer Kile, Northwestern University
- 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
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Topological insulators and topological superconductors, Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford University
- 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
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
- Wednesday, May 2nd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- 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
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Here be dragons :The Dynamic Radio Sky, Geoffrey Bower, University of California - Berkeley
- 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
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- VBFNLO: vector boson fusion and more, Dieter Zeppenfeld, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- The finite temperature phase diagram for Kitaev-Heisenberg model, Craig Price, UW-Madison
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Monday, May 28th
- Memorial Day