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Events During the 2015 Fall Semester
August 2015
- Friday, August 21st
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Ultracold electron and ion beams from cold gases: Beating Coulomb effects with beam shaping and Rydberg blockade, Dene Murphy , University Melbourne
- Thursday, August 27th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- The quantum dot hybrid qubit - prospects for two-qubit gates, Sebastian Mehl
September 2015
- Wednesday, September 2nd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, September 3rd
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Biophysics , Coppersmith, Gilbert
- Tuesday, September 8th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Field Day Lab @ An introduction to memristors, Wesley Thio, Ohio State University
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Natural Inflation and the Weak Gravity Conjecture, Pablo Soler Gomis, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Wednesday, September 9th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, September 14th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg
- Progress and plans for NSTX Upgrade and prospects for next-step spherical tori , Jon Menard, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
- Tuesday, September 15th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Field Day Lab @ Wisconsin Institute for Discovery: At the intersection of media and education theory, David Gagnon, UW Department of Academic Technology
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- High-mass H --> VV signal and Higgs width determination at the LHC, Nikolas Kauer, University of London
- Wednesday, September 16th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, September 17th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 am; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Cosmic Accretion and Star formation in Dwarf Galaxies , Bruce Elmegreen, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Astrophysics, Arnold, McCammon, Timbie
- Friday, September 18th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Latest Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer: a multipurpose particle physics detector aboard the International Space Station, Karen G. Andeen, Marquette University
- Monday, September 21st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg
- Smaller and Sooner: Exploiting new superconductor technology to accelerate fusion's development , Dennis Whyte, MIT
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Searches for Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetry with Run I Data from CMS, Rachel Yohay, CERN
- Tuesday, September 22nd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Chemical selection and the origin of life, David Baum, UW Department of Botany
- Thursday, September 24th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- New Views of Black Hole Disk Winds, Jon Miller, University of MI
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Phases of Complex Oxides Driven Out of Equilibrium, John Freeland , Argonne National Lab
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- WIPAC: IceCube, HAWC, CTA, ARA, Halzen, Hanson, Karle, Vandenbroucke, Westerhoff
- Friday, September 25th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm)
- Materials in 2-dimension and beyond: 10 years after graphene, Philip Kim, Harvard
- Monday, September 28th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg
- Linear and non-linear 3D plasma response for tokamak control, Carlos Paz Soldan, General Atomics
- Tuesday, September 29th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- What’s a “bone attack” and why should I care?, Neil Binkley, UW Institute on Aging
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmological Constraints on the Gravitational Interactions of Matter and Dark Matter, Ben Stefanek, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Prospective Undergraduate Majors in Physics -- PUMP Meeting; 3:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, September 30th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
October 2015
- Thursday, October 1st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Tunable mid-infrared photonics, Mikhail Kats
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Spectral and flavor composition of the ultrahigh energy neutrinos seen at IceCube, Aaron Vincent, Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology , Durham University
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Computing, Coppersmith, Eriksson, Joynt, McDermott, Saffman, Vavilov, Walker, Yavuz
- Friday, October 2nd
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Advanced quantum communication using hyperentangled photons, Trent Graham , Urbana-Champaign
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241 (coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm)
- Taming Turbulence in Magnetized Plasmas: From Plasmas for Fusion Energy to Black Hole Accretion Disks, Troy Carter, UCLA
- Monday, October 5th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg
- Turbulence Dynamo and Origin of Magnetic Fields in Galaxy Clusters., Professor Jungyeon Cho, Chungnam National University, Korea
- Tuesday, October 6th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Making computer networks work, Aditya Akella, UW Department of Computer Sciences
- Thursday, October 8th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- TBD, Kurt Jacobs , Army Research Lab
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Quantum Control and Quantum Networks , Kurt Jacobs, Army Research Lab
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Stellar Forensics with Explosions: Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and their Environments , Maryam Modjaz, New York 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 9th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (Coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm)
- Building a galactic scale gravitational wave observatory, Xavier Siemens, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Monday, October 12th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg
- H-mode and ELM Studies at Near-Unity Aspect Ratio, Kathreen Thome, Engineering Physics
- Tuesday, October 13th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- The power to change lives: The UW Odyssey Project, Emily Auerbach, UW Department of English
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmological Probes of Nearly Decoupled Dark Sectors, Josh Berger, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Wednesday, October 14th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, October 15th
- 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 - 1:15 am; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 PM
- Observational Assessment of Stellar Feedback in Star-Forming Regions, Laura Lopez, Ohio State University
- Graduate Introductory Seminar; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Plasma Physics, Boldyrev, Egedal, Forest, Sarff, Terry, Zweibel
- Friday, October 16th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (Coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm)
- Particle acceleration and magnetic field generation in astrophysical plasmas, Anatoly Spitkovsky, Princeton University
- Monday, October 19th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg
- The JET-ILW Pedestal and the Fate of the H-mode, David Hatch, Institute for Fusion Studies, UT Austin,
- Tuesday, October 20th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- What climate change and world change really mean for all of us, Bernard Z. Friedlander, Department of Psychology, Emeritus, University of Hartford
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Galilean creation of the inflationary universe, Masahide Yamaguchi, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Thursday, October 22nd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Programmable nonreciprocity in multi-mode parametric devices, Dr. Leonardo Ranzani, BBN/Raytheon
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Astronomy Colloquium, Bautz Lecturer;
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 PM - Exoplanetary Science's Kepler Revolution, Professor John Johnson , Harvard CfA
- Friday, October 23rd
- Special Friday Noon Talk; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Where are all the black folk in astronomy?, Professor John Johnson , Harvard CfA
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (Coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm)
- Just Because We're Smart Doesn't Mean We're Crazy and Evil: Giving Scientists and Mathematicians a Fair Shake in Literary Fiction, Stuart Rojstaczer, Writer/UW-Madison Alumni
- Monday, October 26th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg
- Badger Gyrokinetics: Recent Advances in Plasma Microturbulence, M.J. Pueschel, Physics, UW
- Tuesday, October 27th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Cosmic rays from the simple to the complex, Justin Vandenbroucke, UW Department of Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Z'-portal for dark mesons in the SIMP scheme, Min-Seok Seo, Seoul National University
- Wednesday, October 28th
- Department Meeting
- CANCELLED
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, October 29th
- 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; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Cookies and Coffee at 3:30 PM
- Understanding Galaxy Evolution with Massive Starburst Galaxies, Hai Fu, University of Iowa
- Friday, October 30th
- Special Friday Lunch Talk; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Widespread buried ice in Arcadia Planitia, Mars , Ali Bramson, University of Arizona
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241 (Coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm)
- The Future of Nuclear Power: Safety and Economics, Greg Jaczko
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
December 2015
- Tuesday, December 1st
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Effects of Facebook self-presentation on individual and relational well-being, Catalina Toma, UW Department of Communication Arts
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Membranes, monodromy, and the weak gravity conjecture, Miguel Montero, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
- Thursday, December 3rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Electromagnetic coupling of spins and pseudospins in bilayer graphene, Prof. Roland Winkler, Northern Illinois 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, Talk starts at 3:45 PM
- Star Formation in HI Dominated Environments , Jennifer Donovan Meyer, NRAO
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 am; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30, Talk 3:45 PM
- Star Formation in HI Dominated Environments, Jennifer Donavan Myer, NRAO
- Friday, December 4th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (Coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm)
- Quantum Electromechanics, Konrad Lehnert, University of Colorado Boulder
- Monday, December 7th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics
- Dusty plasmas for fundamental physics, fusion, semiconductor manufacturing, and astronomy, John Goree, University of Iowa
- Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 12:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Online Activities to Improve In Person Learning, Tim Stelzer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Tuesday, December 8th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Imaging around obstacles and into lunar caves using scattered light, Andreas Velten, UW Department of Molecular Biology
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Gauge and fermion preheating and the end of axion inflation, Evangelos Sfakianakis, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Wednesday, December 9th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, December 10th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Design and modeling of superconducting hardware for quantum computation and simulation, Jens Koch, Northwestern University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 am; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee at 3:30 PM, Talk at 3:45 PM
- Effects of Radial Mixing on Galactic Disks, Carlos Vera-Ciro, UW Astronomy Department
- Friday, December 11th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 8:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Holiday Colloquium, Graduate Students, UW Department of Physics
- Monday, December 14th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Physics Bldg
- Plasma Microinstability Saturation in Toroidal Plasmas, Paul Terry, UW Madison
- Tuesday, December 15th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Raymond Stora's last discovery: Hidden U(1)_Y symmetry and new Ward-Takahashi identities in the Abelian Higgs model, Bryan Lynn, Visiting Professor
- Thursday, December 17th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Designing Gates for a Spin-Based Quantum Computer, Daniel Zeuch, Florida State
- Wednesday, December 23rd
- Department Meeting
- CANCELLED
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall