Events at Physics |
Events During November, 2015
- Monday, November 2nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg
- Enhanced helium exhaust due to resonant magnetic perturbations at the TEXTOR tokamak and the LHD heliotron“, Oliver Schmitz, Engineering Physics, UW
- Tuesday, November 3rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- The downstream consequences of problem-solving mindsets: How playing with Legos influences creativity, Page Moreau, UW School of Business
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Looking for the origin of astrophysical neutrinos, Dmitri Semikoz, APC Paris
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Effective field theory for spacetime symmetry breaking, Toshifumi Noumi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Wednesday, November 4th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, November 5th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Detecting frequency fluctuations in mesoscopic oscillators, Yaxing Zhang, Michigan State University
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee 3:30 pm, Talk 3:45 PM
- Dwarf Galaxies, the Local Group, and Cosmology, James Bullock, UC Irvine
- Friday, November 6th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Meissner qubit - characterization and vortex-probing applications, Jaseung Ku , University of Illinois- Urbana Champaign
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241 (Coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm)
- Plasma kinetics in the inner heliosphere and the NASA Solar Probe Plus mission, Stuart D. Bale, UC Berkeley
- Monday, November 9th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg
- Dynamics of a reconnection-driven runaway ion tail in a reversed field pinch plasma/ Effect of Resonant Magnetic Perturbations on 3D equilibria in the MST RFP , Jay Anderson/Stefano Munaretto, UW Madison, Plasma Physics
- Tuesday, November 10th
- Astronomy Colloquium, Colloquium at Noon;
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, NOON TALK - Cosmic Ray Transport in MHD Turbulence, Huirong Yan, Max-Planck Institute
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Will Darwin become a casualty of the Cambrian Explosion?, Jim Blair, Milton and Edgewood College
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- The Weak Gravity Conjecture: Variants and Inflationary Implications, Tom Rudelius, Harvard University
- Wednesday, November 11th
- Department Meeting
- CANCELLED
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Electrically controlled qubits in silicon, Thaddeus Ladd, HRL Laboratories
- Thursday, November 12th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Topological Quantum Matter, Yong Chen , Purdue University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 am; 4421 Sterling Hall, Talk starts at 3:45 PM
- The Kepler Cluster Study: Planets and Gyrochronology, Soren Miebom, Harvard CfA
- Careers for Physicists; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- What can you do with a degree in physics? , Dr. Johannes Loschnigg
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Condensed Matter Physics, Coppersmith, Eriksson, Joynt, Levchenko, McDermott, Onellion, Rzchowski, Vavilov, Winokur
- Friday, November 13th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm; 5294 Chamberlin (Faculty Lounge)
- SRC Tantalus Historic Site Reception, N/A, N/A
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Dedication of SRC Tantalus as a Historic Site, Dr. Sam Aronson, APS President
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (Coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm)
- Scientific advances at Tantalus, world's first dedicated synchrotron radiation facility, and beyond, Tai Chiang with intro by David Lynch (Iowa State), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Saturday, November 14th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 8:00 am - 7:00 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Midwest Cold Atom Workshop (MCAW), various, various
- Monday, November 16th
- High Energy Seminar; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- High Energy Colliders: Past, Present and Future, Dmitri Denisov, Fermilab
- Tuesday, November 17th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- The evolution of music from emotional signals, Charles T. Snowdon, UW Department of Psychology
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Superfluid Dark Matter, Lasha Berezhiani, Princeton University
- Thursday, November 19th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Physical Review B: An inside look, Victor Vakaryuk, APS Physical Review B
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Talk starts at 3:45 PM
- Ejective Feedback and the Gas Around Galaxies, Aleks Diamond-Stanic, UW Astronomy Grainger postdoctoral Fellow
- Careers for Physicists; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Physical Review B, Victor Vakaryuk , Editor at the Physical Review B
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- High Energy Experiment , Carlsmith, Dasu, Herndon, Palladino, Pan, Smith, Wu
- Friday, November 20th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (Coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm)
- Dark Matter Annihilation in the Gamma-Ray Sky, Dan Hooper, University of Chicago/Fermilab
- Monday, November 23rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg
- Theory and Modeling of Electron Pressure Anisotropy during Magnetic Reconnection, Ari Le, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Tuesday, November 24th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Pluto: Planet, TNO, KBO, or a dwarf planet is still the last solar system outpost?, Sanjay Limaye, UW Space Science and Engineering
- Wednesday, November 25th
- Department Meeting
- CANCELLED
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, November 30th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg
- MHD SIMULATIONS IN DEVICES WITH COMPLEX 3D BOUNDARIES: THE PSI-TET CODE AND ITS APPLICATION , Christopher Hansen, University of Washington