Events at Physics |
Events During March, 2014
- Monday, March 3rd
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Recent Highlights in Low Temperature Plasmas, Mark Kushner, University of Michigan
- Tuesday, March 4th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- The relationship between obesity, genetics, nutrition, environment and metabolic diseases , James M. Ntambi, UW Departments of Biochemistry and of Nutritional Sciences
- Thursday, March 6th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- How Stars Move in Galactic Disks, Carlos Vera-Ciro, UW Madison Astronomy Dept
- Friday, March 7th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; Chamberlin Hall
- Experimental review on the disordered-driven superconductor to insulator transition, Daniel Sherman, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Verner Suomi’s Vision with a Spotlight on Benchmarking the Earth’s Climate from Space, Hank Revercomb, UW-Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center
- Monday, March 10th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Faculty Candidate Seminar; 4:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall 4274
- How, when and where in pattern formation: Spying on embryonic development one molecule at a time, Hernan Garcia, Princeton
- Tuesday, March 11th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Variability, uncertainty, and vulnerability in our chaotic climate , John Young, UW Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- Faculty Candidate Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Photonic topological insulators and pseudomagnetism, Mikael Rechtsman, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,
- Wednesday, March 12th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Faculty Candidate Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Communications and Computation, Graeme Smith, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
- Thursday, March 13th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310
- Many body localization: a new frontier for quantum statistical physics, Rahul Nandkishore, Princeton University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The secret lives of Galaxy Clusters, Brian O'shea, Michigan State University
- Faculty Candidate Seminar; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum control of interactions between spin and photons in semiconductor quantum dot, Wei-bo Gao, Institute of Quantum Electronics - ETH Zurich
- Friday, March 14th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Dark Matter: The Lepton Connection, Prateek Agrawa, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Status and prospects for achieving thermonuclear ignition on the National Ignition Facility, Riccardo Betti, Rochester
- Tuesday, March 18th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Role of dissipation and losses in neutral atom based quantum computing, Dr. Durga Dasari, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Friday, March 21st
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Consistency tests of gravity using large scale structure dynamics, Elise Jennings, University of Chicago
- Physics Department Colloquium, No Event--Spring Break;
3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm) - Monday, March 24th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Tuesday, March 25th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Managing complexity at the molecular scale, Tehshik Yoon, UW Department of Chemistry
- Wednesday, March 26th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, March 27th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Superconducting qubits and cavities: sidebands and vortices, Professor Britton Plourde, Syracuse University
- Faculty Candidate Seminar; 1:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Radar Detection of HE Neutrinos in the Ice, Kael Hanson, Université Libre de Bruxelles
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Sizing up Kepler's exoplanets with Asteroseismology, Travis Metcalfe, Space Science Institute
- Van Vleck Lecture ; 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Application of Orthogonalized Linear Combination of Atomic Orbital Methods to Complex Materials , Professor Wai-Yim Ching, Curator’s Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Friday, March 28th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:15 pm; 5280
- The IceCube Puzzle, Markus Ahlers, Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Realism and the epistemic view of quantum states, Terry Rudolph
- Monday, March 31st
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:00 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Exploring Boundary Plasma and PMI Research at MIT with New Diagnostics and Experiments, Dennis Whyte, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Rydberg-atom trapping and spectroscopy in optical trapping fields, Georg Raithel, University of Michigan