Events at Physics |
Events During February, 2014
- Monday, February 3rd
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Faculty Candidate Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- CANCELED--Mechanics and self-organization of motor-driven filamentous assemblies: from swimming sperm to active gels, Daniel Chen, Brandeis University
- Tuesday, February 4th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments will be served)
- Predicting fate, Jim Blair, Milton and Edgewood College
- Special Plasma Physics Seminar; 12:05 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Spectral Line Profile Modeling Under the Action of Dynamic Electric and Static Magnetic Fields, Elijah Martin, North Carolina State University
- Faculty Candidate Seminar; 4:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall 4274
- Searching for dark matter with bubble chambers, Hugh Lippincott
- Wednesday, February 5th
- Faculty Candidate Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- From colloids to bacteria: anisotropy in self-organizing systems at the mesoscopic scale, Kun Zhao, UCLA
- Thursday, February 6th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Electrically controlled spin qubits in coupled quantum dot systems, Vanita Srinivasa, UMD
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Searching for Q-balls with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory, Peter Karn, UC Irvine
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Measuring Magnetic Fields Near and Far via the Zeeman Effect, Tim Robishaw, Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory
- Friday, February 7th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Top Portal Dark Matter, Christopher Jackson, University of Texas at Arlington
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Quantum Optics with Microwave Photons, Maxim Vavilov, University of Wisconsin Department of Physics
- Saturday, February 8th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Sunday, February 9th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Monday, February 10th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Faculty Candidate Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Notes from Underground: Direct Dark Matter Searches and Single Phase Liquid Argon Detectors, Kim Palladino, MIT
- Tuesday, February 11th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- How does dark matter interact with us?, Yang Bai, UW Department of Physics
- Wednesday, February 12th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Faculty Candidate Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Exploring Fundamental Physics through Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background, Bradford Benson, University of Chicago
- Thursday, February 13th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Hadronic Interaction Models and the Interpretation of Astroparticle Data, Dimitra Atri, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Asymmetries in Protoplanetary Transition Disks, Hui Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Faculty Candidate Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Engineering New Electronic States in Graphene Heterostructures: Massive Dirac Fermions, Hofstadter’s Butterfly and the Quantum Spin Hall Effect, Benjamin Hunt, MIT
- Friday, February 14th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:15 pm - 2:15 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- First Evidence for Energetic Cosmic Neutrinos with IceCube, Albrecht Karle, University of Wisconsin Department of Physics
- Saturday, February 15th
- Physics Fair; 11:00 am; Chamberlin Hall
- 7th 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 16th
- Wonders of Physics
- 1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Wonders of Physics
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
- Monday, February 17th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Tuesday, February 18th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Direct imaging of the nearest habitable planets , Margaret Turnbull, Global Science Institute
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Tim Linden, University of Chicago
- Faculty Candidate Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Emerging spin-orbit interaction driven phenomena in magnetic heterostructures, Xin Fan, University of Deleware
- Wednesday, February 19th
- Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Undergraduate research: Garage Physics independent projects and ECE379 and Innovations in Physics 103 this Semester
- Faculty Candidate Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- The Riddle of the Invisible Universe, Matthew Szydagis, UC Davis
- Thursday, February 20th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Two- and three-dimensional spin liquid and interacting Majorana systems, Zohar Nussinov, Washington University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Four Problems in Trying to Form Galaxies(and how ISM Physics can Save US), Desika Narayanan, Haverford College
- Friday, February 21st
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- A light Higgs boson from a composite Higgs theory, Hsin-Chia Cheng, University of California, Davis
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Equilibrium and Driven Mesoscopic Dynamics in Complex Oxides, Paul Evans, UW Materials Science & Engineering
- Monday, February 24th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Transport Properties of Strongly Coupled Plasmas, Scott Baalrud, University of Iowa
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 5310
- Valleytronics in Silicon: the Principles and the Practice, Andre Saraiva, University of Wisconsin
- Tuesday, February 25th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Roving the Red Planet: A field geologist explores gale crater on Mars, Rebecca Williams, Planetary Science Institute
- Wednesday, February 26th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, February 27th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Topological phases, Majorana fermions and disorder in superconductors, Smitha Vishveshwara , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Coherent control of strongly interacting Rydberg gases in thermal vapor cells, Prof. Tilman Pfau, University of Stuttgart
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Scaling Computational Astrophysics, Matthew Turk, Columbia University
- Friday, February 28th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Pure Gravity Mediation, Jason Evans, University of Minnesota
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- A single Rydberg electron in a Bose-Einstein Condensate, Prof. Tilman Pfau, University of Stuttgart