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Events During the 2014 Fall Semester
August 2014
- Thursday, August 7th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Collective Atom-Photon Interactions toward a Hybrid Quantum System, Jongmin Lee, Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), University of Maryland
- Monday, August 11th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Detection and Coherent Control of Rydberg States in Silicon, Dr. Byron Villis, London Centre for Nanotechnology
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- RF Spectroscopy of Optically Trapped Lithium : Magic Polarization., Huidong Kim, Korea University
- Thursday, August 21st
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Searching for UHE Cosmic Neutrinos with the Radio Cerenkov Technique, Amy Connolly, Ohio State University
- Monday, August 25th
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
- Tuesday, August 26th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Probing Majorana Neutrino, C. S. Kim
- Thursday, August 28th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Please note different TIME and LOCATION ;
4:00 pm; Rm. 265 in the MS&E Building - Complex nano-materials by solution chemistry; from molecules to applications, Gunnar Westin, Uppsala University, Sweden
September 2014
- Tuesday, September 2nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Writing a novel, Russell Gardner, Jr., Freelance scholar after psychiatry career without present institutional affiliation
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmology from the megaparsec to the micron, Amol Upadhye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Wednesday, September 3rd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, September 4th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Multiplexing of Nanostructure Devices, Dr. Luke Smith, University of Cambridge
- Friday, September 5th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Optical Atomic Clocks: A New Era of Precision Timekeeping, Chris Oates, NIST-Boulder
- Monday, September 8th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1025 Engineering Centers Building
- In pursuit of Ignition - recent progress and directions at the National Ignition Facility, John Edwards, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 514 ERB
- A parametric study of extended MHD effects on interchange modes in spheromak equilibria, Eric Howell, University of Wisconsin Madison
- Tuesday, September 9th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Upstairs/downstairs in our brains - What’s running our show?, Deric Bownds, UW Department of Zoology
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Search for LFV Higgs decays with the CMS experiment, Maria Cepeda Hermida, University of Wisconsin
- Thursday, September 11th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Studying Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillation at PINGU, Kaoru Hagiwara, KEK
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Probing the Origin of Supermassive Black Holes with Dwarf Galaxies, Amy Reines, NRAO
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Plasma Physics , Boldyrev, Egedal, Forest, Sarff, Terry, Zweibel
- Monday, September 15th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2255 Engineering Hall
- Part I: Sustained spheromaks with ideal n = 1 kink stability and pressure confinement and Part II: The development of validation metrics using biorthogonal decomposition, Brian Victor, University of Washington
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Council Meeting
- Canceled
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
- Tuesday, September 16th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Cyclin-dependent kinase-confined cortical chaos, Bill Bement, UW Department of Zoology
- Wednesday, September 17th
- Department Meeting
- Canceled
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, September 18th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Continuum methods for understanding membrane protein stability, Michael Grabe, UC San Francisco
- Garage Physics Kickoff; 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm; B613 Sterling
- , Duncan Carlsmith, UW - Madison
- Friday, September 19th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Shedding Light on Distant Galaxies with 200,000 Quasars, Britt Lundgren, UW Astronomy
- Monday, September 22nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2255 Engineering Hall
- Kinetic-fluid hybrid simulation of energetic particle interaction with MHD instabilities in toroidal plasmas, Guo-Yong Fu, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- PUMP; 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Prospective Undergraduate Majors in Physics, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Tuesday, September 23rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Wisconsin State Energy Office – Forecasting, monitoring, and responding to energy crises, Jim Mapp, Dark Energy Associates
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- The Goldstone Exception: Spontaneously broken global symmetry, i.e. the Goldstone theorem, protects the Higgs from a Fine Tuning (FT) Problem, Bryan Lynn, University College London and Case Western University
- Thursday, September 25th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Entanglement in many body systems, Israel Klich, University of Virginia
- Astronomy Colloquium, SPECIAL TIME! 2:30 PM;
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall - Angular Momentum Transport via Internal Gravity Waves in Evolving Stars, Jim Fuller, Caltech
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- PeV neutrinos from right handed neutrino dark matter, Ryosuke Sato, KEK
- Friday, September 26th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberin
- Hunting for topological dark matter with atomic clocks, Andrei Derevianko, University of Nevada, Reno
- Monday, September 29th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Coherent structures and magnetic reconnection in collisionless turbulence from the perspective of kinetic particle simulations, Vadim Roytershteyn, Space Science Institute
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
- Tuesday, September 30th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- The chaos in vocal fold vibration and sound production, Jack Jiang, UW Department of Surgery
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Hidden GeV-scale interactions of quarks and dark matter , Claudia Frugiuele
October 2014
- Wednesday, October 1st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, October 2nd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- The Zeeman Effect in Confined Superconductors: A new probe of absolute spin polarization on the atomic scale , Christian Ast, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Astrophysical neutrinos, PeV events at IceCube, and the Direct Detection of Dark Matter, Raj Gandhi, HRI, India and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Filaments in simulations of Molecular Cloud FOrmation, Gilberto Gomez, UNAM Mexico
- Friday, October 3rd
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 11:30 am; 5280 Chamberlin
- The nonexistence of the eternal black hole, Samir Mathur, Ohio State
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- The Black Hole Information Paradox, and its resolution in string theory, Samir Mathur, The Ohio State University
- Monday, October 6th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Chaotic coordinates for the Large Helical Device, Stuart Hudson, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Outreach event: movie show; 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm; Union South Marquee Theater
- Bringing the Universe to Wisconsin presents "Chasing the Ghost Particle"
- Tuesday, October 7th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Using distance correlation and SS-ANOVA to assess associations of familial relationships, lifestyle factors, diseases and mortality , Jing Kong, UW Department of Statistics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- The Higgs, Flavor and Large At in Extended GMSB, Jared Evans
- Thursday, October 9th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Clusters of galaxies as tools for cosmology, Mel Ulmer, Northwestern
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Puzzles in the Structure of Disk Galaxies, Stephane Courteau, Queen's University
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics , Lawler, Lin, Saffman, Walker, Yavuz
- Friday, October 10th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Neutrino Oscillations at Work, Jenny Thomas, University College London
- Monday, October 13th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Radiation Physics in HEDP (High Energy Density Plasma) Experiments, Typical Applications and Modeling Tools, Igor Golovkin, Prism Computational Sciences
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
- Tuesday, October 14th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Human Longevity: Where are we going and how are we getting there? , Alberto Palloni, UW Department of Sociology
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Detecting Boosted Dark Matter from the Sun with Large Volume Neutrino Detectors, Josh Berger
- Wednesday, October 15th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, October 16th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Anyonics: Designing exotic circuitry with non-Abelian anyons, Kirill Shtengel, UC Riverside
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- The Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background AND Searching for Satellite Galaxies of the Milky Way in the Dark Energy Survey, Keith Bechtol, University of Chicago
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Interstellar Medium in M31 - Small-Scale Processes in an Extragalactic Context , Karin Sandstrom, University of Arizona
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Biophysics , Coppersmith, Gilbert
- Friday, October 17th
- Special Astronomy Talk; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Structure of the Faintest Dwarf Galaxies, Ken Freeman, ANU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Quantum thermalization, many-body Anderson localization, and the entanglement frontier, David Huse, Princeton University
- Saturday, October 18th
- Wisconsin Science Festival; 2:00 pm - 3:05 pm; Discovery Building (WID)
- The God Particle - Discovery of the Higgs Boson, Sau Lan Wu, UW -Madison
- Monday, October 20th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Impact of the plasma response in three-dimensional edge plasma transport modelling for RMP ELM control scenarios at ITER and Comparison of Measurements of Profile Stiffness in HSX to Nonlinear Gyrokin, Oliver Schmitz and Gavin Weir, UW- Madison
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Impact of the plasma response in three-dimensional edge plasma transport modelling for RMP ELM control scenarios at ITER and Comparison of Measurements of Profile Stiffness in HSX to Nonlinear Gyrokin, Oliver Schmitz and Gavin Weir, UW- Madison
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Tuesday, October 21st
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Complex multi-systems redesign: regional food for regional markets, Michelle Miller, UW Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Hunting SUSY Particles in Compressed Spectra, Zhenyu Han
- Wednesday, October 22nd
- Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; B613 Sterling Hall
- Garage Physics going-forward, Carlsmith, UW-Madison
- Thursday, October 23rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- New Topological Excitations and Melting Transitions in Quantum Hall Effect, Yuli Lyanda-Geller, Purdue University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Future Computing, Carl Anderson, IBM Fellow
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:25 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Single white dwarfs as Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae?, Professor Marina Orio, UW Madison Astronomy Dept
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Astrophysics, McCammon, Timbie
- Friday, October 24th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Physics of the Crab Nebula, Serguei Komissarov , Leeds University
- Monday, October 27th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
- Tuesday, October 28th
- PUBLIC ASTRONOMY WHITFORD LECTURE; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 145 BIRGE HALL
- Heart of Darkness, Jeremiah Ostriker, Columbia Universty
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- On reactive model-free stock trading in a complex financial market, Bob Barmish, UW Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Galactic Center Gamma-ray Excess from a Dark Shower, Dean Robinson, University of California, Berkeley
- Wednesday, October 29th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, October 30th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Quantum Oscillations in Kondo Insulator SmB6, Lu Li, University of Michigan
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 am; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Future of Age: How asteroseismology reveals fundamental properties of Stars like out Sun, David Soderblom, Space Telescope Science Institution
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Condensed Matter Experiment and Theory, and Quantum Computing , Coppersmith, Eriksson, Himpsel, Joynt, McDermott, Onellion, Rzchowski, Saffman, Vavilov, Winokur
- Friday, October 31st
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Evaluating the Thermal WIMP Paradigm in the Light of Anomalies in 2014, Kuver Sinha, Syracuse University
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- The challenge of fault tolerant quantum computation, Lev Ioffe, Rutgers University
November 2014
- Monday, November 3rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Metamaterial-enhanced resistive wall amplifiers, Tyler Rowe, UW ECE
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Tuesday, November 4th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Organic chromophores for optoelectronic devices, Trisha Andrew, UW Department of Chemistry
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Stueckelberg U(1)'s and Axions in String Theory, Fang Ye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Thursday, November 6th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Accurate and efficient simulation of donors in silicon, John King Gamble, Sandia National Laboratories
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- New Windows into Supernova Explosions and Progenitors, Jennifer Hoffman, UW Milwaukee
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hal
- WIPAC: IceCube, HAWC, Cosmic Ray Physics, Halzen, Hanson, Karle, Vandenbroucke, Westerhoff
- Friday, November 7th
- Physics Department Colloquium, CANCELLED - To be rescheduled Spring 2015;
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm) - Title to be announced, M. Zahid Hasan, Princeton University
- Monday, November 10th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- 3D Modeling of RF Antennas, Sheaths, and Slow Waves in Time Domain, David Smithe, Tech-X Corporation
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
- Tuesday, November 11th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- The narrative structure of the default mode network and REM dreaming, Art Schmaltz, Prairie State College
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Aspects of Lepton-Flavored Dark Matter, Can Kilic, The University of Texas at Austin
- Wednesday, November 12th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, November 13th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Generalized Tunneling Model (GTM) for Two Level System (TLS) in amorphous materials and its predictions for their dephasing and the noise in superconducting microresonators, Lara Faoro, Universites Paris 6 et 7 and Rutgers University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Atmospheric Neutrinos, Professor Tom Gaisser, University of Delaware
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Faint Lyman-alpha Emitters and the Reionization of the Universe, Alan Dressler, Carnegie Observatories
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics , Balantekin
- Friday, November 14th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Neutrinos... Going International: Towards a New Understanding of the Quantum Universe, Dr. Nigel Lockyer, Director, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Monday, November 17th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Control of 3D equilibria with RMP in MST, Stefano Munaretto, UW Physics
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Tuesday, November 18th
- Special Seminar Announcement; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Advances and Future Directions of 3D Equilibrium Reconstruction: Opportunities for MST, Dr. Mark Ciancosa, Auburn Univerity
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Frac sand and related natural resources in Wisconsin, Jay Zambito, UW Department of Geoscience
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- New physics in Higgs kinematic distributions, Adam Martin, University of Notre Dame
- Faculty Search Committee Meeting (Particles); 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4272 Chamberlin Hall
- , Sridhara Dasu, UW - Madison, Search Committee Chair
- Wednesday, November 19th
- Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- WriteLaTeX, Diigo, Piazza, and a CLC for physics plus results from new assessments in 103/4 and 207/8, Professor Duncan Carlsmith and Professor Peter Timbie, UW-Madison
- Wednesday Night at the Lab; 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm; UW Biotechnology Center 425 Henry Mall, Room 1111, Madison, WI 53706
- Neutrinos: Measuring the Unexpected, Javier Diez
- Thursday, November 20th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Modes are Modes: Parametric quantum information processing in superconducting circuits, Jose Aumentado , NIST, Boulder
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The First Results From CHAOS: The Chemical Abundances Of Spirals Project, Danielle Berg, Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics, UW Milwaukee
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hal
- High Energy Experiment, Carlsmith, Dasu, Herndon, Smith, Wu
- Friday, November 21st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Quantum Entanglement for Fun and Profit: 101 Uses for Schroedinger's Cat, Paul Kwiat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Monday, November 24th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Progress on the generation and application of ion beams driven by high-intensity short-pulse lasers, Brian Albright, LANL
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Astronomy Colloquium, SPECIAL MONDAY TALK;
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 - The fall of disks and the raise of bulges through cosmic time, Marcella Carollo, ETH, Zurich
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
- Tuesday, November 25th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Mechanoreceptors and laryngeal motor control-Why such a touchy subject?, Michael J. Hammer, UW Department of Surgery/Division of Otolaryngology
- Wednesday, November 26th
- Department Meeting
- CANCELED
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Friday, November 28th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm
- No Event: Thanksgiving Break
December 2014
- Monday, December 1st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Spin bath decoherence of mixed spin qubits, Seto Balian, University College London
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- A retrospective on Dalton Schnack's contributions to plasma science, Carl Sovinec, UW
- Tuesday, December 2nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- 'Real School' : The tension of standard structures and varied social processes in schools, Mary Metz, School of Education
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Dark Matter in Dilepton Production, Nirmal Raj, University of Oregon
- Wednesday, December 3rd
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Neutrino oscillations at current and future experiments, Pilar Coloma
- Thursday, December 4th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Particle Physics at the Highest Energies, Peter Denton, Vanderbilt University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Cosmic-Ray Ionization Rates in the Galactic ISM, Nick Indriolo, University of Michigan
- Friday, December 5th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Deep, Dark Detection: the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Experiment, Art McDonald, SNOLAB
- Monday, December 8th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2535 Engineering Hall
- Relativistic runaway electrons, Boris Breizman, The University of Texas at Austin
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
- Tuesday, December 9th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Chasing fast dynamos in the Plasma Lab, Cary Forest, UW Department of Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Boosting Dark Matter Indirect Detection Signals with Black Holes, Jessie Shelton
- Faculty Search Committee Meeting; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4272 Chamberlin Hall
- Faculty Search Committee Meeting (Particle)
- Wednesday, December 10th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, December 11th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Probing the Materials Origins of Decoherence in Superconducting Qubits, Dr. Vincenzo Lordi, Lawrence Livermore Lab
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4272 Chamberlin Hall
- A preview of the Planck 2014 cosmology, Ben Wandelt, Institut Astrophysique de Paris
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Cosmological Context of Star Formation, Tom Quinn, University of Washington
- Friday, December 12th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Strong, Engineered Photon/Spin Qubit Coupling, Alex Rimberg, Dartmouth
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Variability of TeV gamma-ray blazars, Qi Feng, Purdue University
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm - 12:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Holiday Colloquium -- A Treatise on the Probabalistic Projectile PizZA Problem, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Monday, December 15th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Tuesday, December 16th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Atomic Physics Seminar;
10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall - Extending the quantum domain with quantum optics , Christoph Simon, University of Calgary
- Atomic Physics Seminar, R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar;
10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall - TBD, Christoph Simon, University of Calgary
- Wednesday, December 17th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin hall
- Application of mesoscopic atomic ensembles with random number of atoms to quantum information and quantum optics, Ilya Beterov, Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics :Novosibirsk State University: Novosibirsk, Russia
- Thursday, December 18th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Hydrodynamic Coulomb and Hall drag of strongly correlated electron liquids, Alex Levchenko, Michigan State University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- An Effective Field Theory Analysis of the LUX WIMP Search, Nicole Larsen, Yale University