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Events During the 2014 Summer Semester
May 2014
- Thursday, May 1st
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Gas Flows in Galaxy Clusters, Brian McNamara, University of Waterloo
- Physics Department Awards Banquet; 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm; tbd
- Friday, May 2nd
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:15 pm; 5280
- A MSSM scenario with a light stau and a bino DM, Kaoru Hagiwara, KEK Theory Center, Japan
- Physics Department Colloquium, Annual Awards Banquet Speaker;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - The 1991 UN Inspections of Iraq: A Look Back Across Two Decades, Jay Davis, President of Hertz Foundation and Chair of the Physics Department Board of Visitors
- Monday, May 5th
- 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; 2241 Chamberlin
- HIT-SI Results, Brian Nelson, University of Washington, Seattle
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Magnetization and current, Artem Abanov, TAMU
- Tuesday, May 6th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Twentieth Anniversary Celebration, Robin Chapman, UW Department of Communicative Disorders
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- The Double-Dark Portal, David Curtin, Stony Brook University
- Wednesday, May 7th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, May 8th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- On the way to understanding quantum matter: The death and rebirth of quasiparticles, Peter Wolfle
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The Disks of the Milky Way Galaxy, Rosemary Wyse, The John Hopkins University
- Friday, May 9th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- “Phun” with Photoelectrons - or - What Sets the Tc in Cuprate High-Temperature Superconductors?, Dan Dessau, University of Colorado-Boulder
- Monday, May 12th
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; Chamberlin 5310
- Quench dynamics of the anisotropic Heisenberg model through an exact approach, Wenshuo Liu, Rutgers University
- Thursday, May 15th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Realization of a Single-Cooper-Pair Josephson Laser, Alex Rimberg, Dartmouth
- Special Talk ; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Calibrating the radio continuum-star formation relation in WSRT SINGS galaxies, Volker Heesen, University of Southhampton
- Friday, May 16th
- Special Friday Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The interplay between condensation and chemistry in the formation of solid particles in the ejecta of supernova explosions, Davide Lazzati
- Department of Physics; 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Undergraduate Majors Reception, Department of Physics
- Friday, May 23rd
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 10:30 am; 4274 Chamberlin
- The Physics and Technology of Liquid Argon Scintillation Light Detection, Benjamin James Poyner Jones, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
June 2014
- Thursday, June 5th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Radio detection of air showers -- Recent results of LOFAR and AERA, Anna Nelles, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Nehterlands
- Thursday, June 12th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 3:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310
- Efficient Qubit Readout Using Josephson Photomultipliers, Luke C.G. Govia, Univ des Saarlandes
- Monday, June 16th
- SPECIAL MONDAY TALK; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- THE (NOT-SO) SIMPLE STELLAR POPULATIONS OF GLOBULAR CLUSTERS, Henny Lamers, University of Amsterdam
- Monday, June 30th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Infrared Spectroscopy via Scanning Tunneling Microscope: Recent Advances and Future Outlook, Ivan Pechenezhskiy, University of California, Berkeley
July 2014
- (none)
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