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Events During the 2015 Fall Semester

August 2015

September 2015

   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
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   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
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October 2015

   Friday, October 2nd
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
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   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
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   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
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   Friday, October 23rd
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
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   Friday, October 30th
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
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November 2015

   Friday, November 6th
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
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   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
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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
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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
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   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
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December 2015

   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
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   Friday, December 11th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 8:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
Holiday Colloquium, Graduate Students, UW Department of Physics
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