Events at Physics |
Events During November, 2013
- Friday, November 1st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Canceled, Mark Ratner, Northwestern University
- Monday, November 4th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:30 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; Chamberin 5310
- Full Counting Statistics of Photons Emitted by Double Quantum Dot, Canran Xu, Physics Department
- Tuesday, November 5th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Optimizing the design of air pollution control measures to improve human health, Jamie Schauer, UW Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Wednesday, November 6th
- Physics Club Event; 5:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Graduate Student Panel
- Thursday, November 7th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Ultracold atoms in synthetic gauge fields: Novel phases and dynamics, Arun Paramekanti, University of Toronto
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Massive Star Formation Through the Universe, Jonathan Tan, University of Florida
- Friday, November 8th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Sam McDermott, University of Michigan
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Constraining Dark Matter with Background Light, Sam McDermott, University of Michigan
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Higgs Boson Discovery: What's Next?, Marcela Carena, Fermilab & Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
- Monday, November 11th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:30 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; Chamberin 5310
- Topological transport in spin-orbit coupled bosonic Mott insulators, Clement H. Wong
- Tuesday, November 12th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Tutankhamun's Chariots, Stunt-Kite Ballet, and the Exodus (Chaos Choreography and Modeling), Bela Sandor, UW Department of Engineering Physics
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- A multi-messenger quest for the sources of the highest energy cosmic rays, Foteini Oikonomou, UCL
- Wednesday, November 13th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, November 14th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Universal Features of Counting Statistics of Phase Slips in Superconducting Nanocircuits, Alex Levchenko, Michigan State University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- The MicroBooNE and ArgoNeuT Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers, Jonathan Asaadi, Syracuse
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Diagnosing Elliptical Galaxy Formation with Simulations, Greg Snyder, STSci
- Friday, November 15th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5280
- Geometry and the quantum Hall effect, Dam Son, University of Chicago
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Tongyan Lin, University of Chicago
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Flavored Dark Matter and R-Parity Violation, Tongyan Lin, University of Chicago
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Viscosity, Quark Gluon Plasma, and String Theory, Dam Son, University of Chicago
- Monday, November 18th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:30 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 5310
- Tunnel-Fluctuoscopy: Fluctuation Induced Low-Bias Anomaly, Andrey Varlamov, CNR-SPIN, Rome, Italy
- Tuesday, November 19th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- A historical introduction to quantum computing, Marty Lichtman, UW Department of Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Detecting dark Matter sub halos with Gaia, Douglas Spolyar, Institut d’astrophysique de Paris
- Wednesday, November 20th
- Physics Educational Innovation Forum; 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Organization Meeting
- Thursday, November 21st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Probing the chiral anomaly with nonlocal transport in Weyl semimetals, Dmytro Pesin, University of Utah
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- First Evidence of High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at IceCube, Claudio Kooper, UW - Madison
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Constraining the Physics of Star Formation in Galaxies Using the JVLA and GBT, Amanda Kepley, NRAO
- Outreach and Education; 7:30 pm; Milwaukee Public Museum
- Chasing the Ghost Particle Premiere, Prof Francis Halzen
- Friday, November 22nd
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- The Holomorphic Higgs Portal -- General Methods for the Higgs Lagrangian, Piyush Kumar, Yale University
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- First results from the LUX dark matter experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, Daniel McKinsey, Yale University
- Monday, November 25th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:30 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Tuesday, November 26th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- What is art? Arts Immersion five-year report, Russell Gardner, Jr., Medical College of Wisconsin
- Wednesday, November 27th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall