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Events During February, 2013
- Friday, February 1st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Femtosecond hard X-ray lasers for atomic structure and biodynamics, John Spence, Arizona State University
- Monday, February 4th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:30 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Tuesday, February 5th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Are you thinking what I'm thinking?, Patricia B McConnell, UW Department of Zoology
- Thursday, February 7th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Topological Phases in Transition Metal Oxides, Gregory A. Fiete, University of Texas at Austin
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Galactic Winds: Lessons from Nearby Starbursts, Jay Gallagher, UW Astronomy Prof and Chair
- Friday, February 8th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Sister Higgs, Daniele Alves, Fermilab
- Saturday, February 9th
- 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 10th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Monday, February 11th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:30 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Tuesday, February 12th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Was 2012 a failure for the polls? Was Nate Silver exceptionally accurate?, Charles Franklin, UW Department of Political Science
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Higgs to di-photon decay with new vector fermions, Pedro Schwaller, Argonne National Laboratory
- Wednesday, February 13th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Careers for Physicists; 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Epic, Epic, Epic
- Careers for Physicists; 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Epic, Epic, Epic
- Thursday, February 14th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Catch and release microwave photons with 99% fidelity, John Martinis, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Feedback in Faint Galaxies During the Peak Epoch of Star Formation, Dawn Erb, UW Milwaukee Physics Dept
- Friday, February 15th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Superconducting Quantum Computing , John Martinis, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Saturday, February 16th
- Physics Fair; 11:00 am - 4:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall (1150 University Avenue)
- 6th Annual Physics Fair, , UW Department of Physics
- 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 17th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Monday, February 18th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:30 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Tuesday, February 19th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Thom's catastrophe theory and Zeeman's model of the stock market, Joel Robbin, UW Department of Mathematics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Interactions and width of the Higgs-like particle, Bogdan Dobrescu, Fermilab
- Thursday, February 21st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Spin-Orbit Tuned Ground States in Single-Crystal Iridates, Gang Cao, University of Kentucky, Lexington
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Evolution of Galaxy Populations in the Most Distant Galaxy Clusters, Mark Brodwin, University of Missouri- Kansas City
- Friday, February 22nd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- The Brave Nu World, André de Gouvêa, Northwestern University
- Monday, February 25th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:30 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Orthogonal Metals - the simplest non-Fermi liquids, Rahul Nandkishore, Princeton University
- Tuesday, February 26th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Gate control of single electron spin in III-V semiconductor quantum dots: Anisotropy effects , Sanjay Prabhakar, Wilfrid Laurier University
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- The brave cyberworld of science communication, Dominique Brossard, UW Department of Life Sciences and Communication
- Wednesday, February 27th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced , Smitha Vishveshwara from the University of Urbana-Champaign.
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, February 28th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Engineering Synthetic Quantum Materials from Cold Atoms: Mott Insulators to Emergent Polariton Crystals, Jonathan Simon, University of Chicago
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Prospects for X-ray constraints on the local super-massive black hole occupation Fraction, Elena Gallo, Universtiy of Michigan