Events at Physics |
Events During March, 2015
- Monday, March 2nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Mitigating Disruptions in Tokamaks, Dr. Nick Eidietis, General Atomics
- Council Meeting
- CANCELED
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall - Fundamental Physics with Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimetry, Kam Arnold, UC San Diego, Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences
- Tuesday, March 3rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Linking dynamics of chemistry, physiology and genetics in ecosystems through spectroscopy, Phil Townsend, UW Department of Forest &Wildlife Ecology
- Wednesday, March 4th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, March 5th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- News from the Extreme Energy Cliff, Professor Angela Olinto, University of Chicago
- Friday, March 6th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Monday, March 9th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Simulations of Centrifugal Magnetospheres in Massive Stars, Chris Bard, , UW-Madison, Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- SUSY strikes back: there is no crisis for SUSY but a new collider may be required for discovery, Howard Baer, University of Oklahoma
- Department Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Tuesday, March 10th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Characterizing variations in Wisconsin’s extreme weather, Steve Vavrus, UW Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Spontaneously broken supersymmetries in string compactifications, Hagen Triendl, CERN
- Wednesday, March 11th
- Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics Education Innovation, Duncan Carlsmith, UW - Madison, Department of Physics
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, March 12th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- The status of Himalayan Gamma Ray Observatory (HiGRO), Bannanje Sripathi Acharya, Tata Institute
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- The James Webb Space Telescope, Jonathan Gardner, NASA
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Sujeet Akula, Monash University
- PUBLIC TALK AT THE DISCOVERY CENTER; 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm; HF Deluca Forum, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
- PUBLIC TALK : Finding our origins with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, Jonathan Gardner, NASA
- Friday, March 13th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Quantum information and a Michelson-Morley test with electrons, Hartmut Haffner, University of California, Berkeley
- Monday, March 16th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Turbulence and Transport Response to 3D Resonant Magnetic Perturbations in ELM-Suppressed H-mode plasmas on DIII-D, Dr. George McKee, General Atomics
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
- Tuesday, March 17th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Chaos for the home electronics lab, Wesley Thio, Ohio State University
- Wednesday, March 18th
- Department Meeting
- CANCELED
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, March 19th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- What drives the evolution of the Milky Way’s disk?, Jo Bovy, Institute for Advanced Study
- Friday, March 20th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 3:30 pm, 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Molding the Flow of Light Using Metasurfaces and Metamaterials , Gennady Shvets, University of Texas at Austin
- Monday, March 23rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Approach to transient plasma phenomena using Thomson scattering measurements in LHD, Dr Ryo Yasuhara, National Institute for Fusion Science
- Tuesday, March 24th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- What is the Internet of Things (IOT) and key trends?, Sandra Bradley, UW Department of Industrial Engineering
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Dynamical Pion Collapse and Neutrino Beam Coherence, Benjamin Jones, MIT
- Thursday, March 26th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall (Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 PM)
- Self-regulated star formation and the diffuse ISM, Professor Eve Ostriker , Princeton University
- Friday, March 27th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- The present and future of solar neutrinos with Borexino, Andrea Pocar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst