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Events During the 2013 Fall Semester
August 2013
- Thursday, August 1st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Subthreshold behavior and avalanches in an exactly solvable charge density wave system, Muhittin Mungan, Bogazici University, Istanbul
- Friday, August 16th
- Astronomy Colloquium, SPECIAL TALK;
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall - Towards 1% Measurements of Cosmological Distances with Cosmic Sound, Nikhil Padmanabhan, YALE
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thermal Kinetic Inductance Detectors for X-ray Spectroscopy, Dr. Thomas Cecil, Argonne National Laboratories
- Monday, August 26th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin
- Quantum Effects in Transport Through Semiconductor Nanocrystals and Their Ensembles, Omri Wolf, Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
September 2013
- Tuesday, September 3rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- he taxonomy of fuels, Jim Blair, Milton and Edgewood College
- Wednesday, September 4th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, September 5th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Random Matrix Approach to Understand the Statistical Properties of Complex Wave Scattering Systems, Jen-Hao Yeh, University of Maryland
- Special Talk; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Massive Galaxies in the Early Universe: New Insights into Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Danilo Marchesini, Tufts University
- Friday, September 6th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Memories of John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Raymond L. Orbach, University of Texas at Austin
- Tuesday, September 10th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Multistability and hidden attractors, Clint Sprott, UW Department of Physics
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Atomic clocks, fundamental symmetries, and the search for new physics, Marianna Safronova, University of Delaware
- Thursday, September 12th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Physics of Starburst Galaxies, Todd Thompson, Ohio State
- Friday, September 13th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- A simple, yet subtle, invariance of the two body decay, Roberto Franceschini, University of Maryland
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Project Poltergeist, a Ghostly Neutrino and a Specter, Patrick Huber, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
- Monday, September 16th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:30 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Tuesday, September 17th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Scaling wireless network capacity with node density, Xinyu Zhang, Xinyu Zhang, UW Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Wednesday, September 18th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, September 19th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Atomic to Molecular Gas Transition in Galaxies, Tony Wong, Univesity of IL- Urbana -Champaign
- Prospective Undergraduate Majors in Physics; 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- PUMP Meeting
- Garage Physics; 5:30 pm; B651 Sterling Hall
- Kickoff Meeting
- Friday, September 20th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Yunified GUTS: MSSM at Large tanb, Archana Anandakrishnan, Ohio State University
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; Notice--different location: Room AB20, Dept. of Geoscience, Weeks Hall, 1215 W. Dayton Street
- A Scientist’s View of Research for Sustainable Energy, Ellen Williams, BP, Chief Scientist
- Monday, September 23rd
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:30 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Tuesday, September 24th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Hydrogen energy levels in n dimensions via group theory, Adam Bincer, UW Department of Physics
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Coherent Photoassociation in a Strontium BEC, Tom Killian, Rice University
- Wednesday, September 25th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmic Ray Diffusion in a Dynamic Milky Way: recovering the observed B/C ratio in a spiral-armed cosmic ray propagation model, David Benyamin, Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Thursday, September 26th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Cavity-mediated near-critical dissipative dynamics of a driven condensate, Dr. Manas Kulkarni, Princeton University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Cosmic magnetogenesis: From spontaneously emitted aperiodic turbulent to ordered equipartition fields, Reinhard Schlickeiser, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
- Friday, September 27th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Triangle Anomaly in Quark-Gluon Plasma : Chiral Magnetic Wave, Ho-Ung Yee, UIC/RIKEN-BNL
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Topological Phases in Correlated Materials, Yong-Baek Kim, University of Toronto
- Monday, September 30th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:30 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
October 2013
- Tuesday, October 1st
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Aging and delayed aging by caloric restriction, Rozalyn Anderson, UW School of Medicine and Public Health
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- U(1) Portals into Hidden Sectors, Pablo Soler, Hong Kong IAS and University of Wisconsin
- Wednesday, October 2nd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, October 3rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Quantum Critical Spin Systems;
10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin - Title to be announced, Ribhu K. Kaul, University of Kentucky, Lexington
- Friday, October 4th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- The Dilaton, the Radion, and Duality, Zackaria Chacko, University of Maryland
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Cosmic Past, Present, Future: Planck and Beyond, Benjamin Wandelt, Paris Institute for Astrophysics (IAP) at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Sorbonne University
- Monday, October 7th
- 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
- Superconductivity at the onset of spin-density-wave order in a metal, Yuxuan Wang, Physics Department
- Tuesday, October 8th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- The infinitesimal , Terry Millar, UW Department of Mathematics
- Thursday, October 10th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Constraining the Cosmological Evolution of Galaxies Using Bars, Kartik Sheth, NRAO
- Friday, October 11th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- The Higgs Boson in the Golden Channel, Jamie Gainer, University of Florida
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Exoplanetary Systems from Kepler, Daniel Fabrycky, UC Santa Cruz
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Understanding the Higgs Boson, Sridhara Dasu, University of Wisconsin Department of Physics
- Monday, October 14th
- 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
- Composite Scattering and Transport in a 2D Fermi Liquid near Autiferromagnetic Critical Point, Andrey Chubukov, Physics Department
- Tuesday, October 15th
- Information Session; 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- University of Illinois - Chicago Liautaud Graduate School of Business Information Session, Caroline Latorre, University of Illinois - Chicago
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- From here to there: From neuroscience of the human brain to complex system realities in every day human life , Bernard Z. Friedlander, Department of Psychology, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Falling, intersecting, and magnetized flavors in AdS/CFT, Paul McGuirk, Cornell University
- Wednesday, October 16th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, October 17th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Molecular gas, AGNs, star formation and galaxy evolution: a local look at galaxies undergoing the transition, Katherine Alatalo, CALTECH
- Friday, October 18th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Neutrino Advances and Developments in Finite Group Models, David A. Eby, Vanderbilt University
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Search for Higgs Boson Decays into Invisible Particles at the LHC, Ketevi Assamagan, Brookhaven National Lab
- Monday, October 21st
- 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
- tba, Dushko Kuzmanovski, Physics Department
- Tuesday, October 22nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- A physics approach to understanding complex networks (Clay Memorial Lecture), Michelle Girvan, University of Maryland
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- The Many Ways to Galileon Inflation and an Intriguing Window in Parameter Space, Matteo Fasiello, Case Western Reserve University
- Wednesday, October 23rd
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- Yukawas in F-theory GUTs, Fernando Marchesano, Instituto de Fısica Teorica, Madrid
- Thursday, October 24th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Galaxy Clusters in the Distant Universe, Kim-Vy Tran, Texas A&M University
- Friday, October 25th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Yue Zhao, Stanford University
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Search for signatures of dark matter induced nucleon decay, Yue Zhao, Stanford University
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Multiwavelength Astronomy, the Origin of Cosmic Rays, and the HAWC Observatory, Petra Hüntemeyer, Michigan Technological University
- Monday, October 28th
- 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
- Raman Scattering as an Effective Tool to Study the Low-Temperature Properties of Low-Dimensional Quantum Magnets. Theoretical Perspectives., Natalia Perkins, Physics Department
- Tuesday, October 29th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- DNA databasing for forensic use, Rohaizah James, Promega Corp
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm; to be reserved
- Steady-state switching and dispersion/absorption spectroscopy of multilevel atoms inside an optical ring cavity, Jiteng Sheng, University of Arkansas
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; Chamberlin 5280
- A second look at the string theory landscape , Thomas Van Riet, University of Leuven
- Wednesday, October 30th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, October 31st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Robust, self-consistent, closed-form tomography of quantum logic gates on a trapped ion qubit, John Gamble, Sandia National Laboratory
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 am; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The E-Nova Project: A Multi -Wavelength Initiative to Prove the ejecta and Environments of Novae, Laura Chomiuk, Michigan State
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
December 2013
- Monday, December 2nd
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:30 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Tuesday, December 3rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- What happens when policy comes before science?, Sherry Tanumihardjo, UW Department of Nutritional Sciences
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Spin Ice with Rydberg dressed atoms, Alexander Glaetzle, University of Innsbruck
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- A hybrid Rydberg atom-superconductor quantum interface, Jonathan Pritchard, UW Madison
- Wednesday, December 4th
- Career Talk; 3:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- SHINE Medical Technologies, Greg Piefer, CEO, SHINE Medical Technologies
- Thursday, December 5th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Non-equilibirum Dynamics with Cold Polar Molecules: Glasses and the Hexatic Phase, Dr. Wolfgang Lechner, University of Innsbruck
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- “Star Formation, Solar Physics, and Stellar Astrophysics: A Data-Intensive Approachâ€, Keivan Stassun, Vanderbuilt University
- Friday, December 6th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology), CANCELLED - TO BE RESCHEDULED;
2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall - Title to be announced, Devin Walker, SLAC
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- The dark 3+1+1 model, Jinrui Huang, Los Alamos National Lab
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- New Frontiers of Quantum Simulations with Atoms and Ions, Prof. Dr. Peter Zoller, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck
- Monday, December 9th
- 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
- Interplay between many-body and single-particle interactions in iridates and rhodates, Yuriy Sizyuk, Physics Department
- Tuesday, December 10th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Responding to climate change: poetry and local action, Robin Chapman and Jean Bahr, UW Department of Communicative Disorders and Department of Geoscience
- Wednesday, December 11th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, December 12th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Topological Kondo Insulators, Victor Galitski, University of Maryland
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Newborn Pulsars as sources of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays, Ke Fang, U. Chicago
- Friday, December 13th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 12:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Strongly-Interacting Supersymmetry: Theoretical Motivations and Phenomenology, Lauren Pearce, UCLA
- Physics Department Colloquium, Holiday Office Party;
4:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall - Holiday Colloquium, 3rd Year Graduate Students, UW Madison
- Monday, December 16th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Electroweak Higgs Boson Production in Association with Three Jets (A.K.A. VBF + 1 Jet) at NLO QCD, Terrance Figy, The University of Manchester
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; Chamberin 5310
- The effect of magnetic order on the superconducting gap in the co-existence phase of Fe-pnictides, Alberto Hinojosa Alvarado, Physics Department