Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the 2015 Fall Semester
August 2015
September 2015
- Friday, September 18th
- Karen G. Andeen, Marquette University
- Latest Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer: a multipurpose particle physics detector aboard the International Space Station
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Albrecht Karle
- Friday, September 25th
- Philip Kim, Harvard
- Materials in 2-dimension and beyond: 10 years after graphene
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm), hosted by Mark Rzchowski
October 2015
- Friday, October 2nd
- Troy Carter, UCLA
- Taming Turbulence in Magnetized Plasmas: From Plasmas for Fusion Energy to Black Hole Accretion Disks
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241 (coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm), hosted by Forest
- Friday, October 9th
- Xavier Siemens, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Building a galactic scale gravitational wave observatory
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (Coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm), hosted by Peter Timbie
- Friday, October 16th
- Anatoly Spitkovsky, Princeton University
- Particle acceleration and magnetic field generation in astrophysical plasmas
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (Coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm), hosted by Jan Egedal
- Friday, October 23rd
- Stuart Rojstaczer, Writer/UW-Madison Alumni
- Just Because We're Smart Doesn't Mean We're Crazy and Evil: Giving Scientists and Mathematicians a Fair Shake in Literary Fiction
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (Coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm), hosted by Marshall Onellion
- Friday, October 30th
- Greg Jaczko
- The Future of Nuclear Power: Safety and Economics
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241 (Coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm), hosted by Albrecht Karle
November 2015
- Friday, November 6th
- Stuart D. Bale, UC Berkeley
- Plasma kinetics in the inner heliosphere and the NASA Solar Probe Plus mission
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 2241 (Coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm), hosted by Forest
- Friday, November 13th
- N/A, N/A
- SRC Tantalus Historic Site Reception
- 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm; 5294 Chamberlin (Faculty Lounge), hosted by Huber, Himpsel, Karle
- Dr. Sam Aronson, APS President
- Dedication of SRC Tantalus as a Historic Site
- 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Albrecht Karle
- Tai Chiang with intro by David Lynch (Iowa State), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Scientific advances at Tantalus, world's first dedicated synchrotron radiation facility, and beyond
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (Coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm), hosted by Himpsel, Huber, Karle
- Friday, November 20th
- Dan Hooper, University of Chicago/Fermilab
- Dark Matter Annihilation in the Gamma-Ray Sky
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (Coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm), hosted by Francis Halzen
December 2015
- Friday, December 4th
- Konrad Lehnert, University of Colorado Boulder
- Quantum Electromechanics
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (Coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm), hosted by Robert McDermott
- Friday, December 11th
- Graduate Students, UW Department of Physics
- Holiday Colloquium
- 3:30 pm - 8:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall , hosted by Walker