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Events During the 2015 Spring Semester
January 2015
- Tuesday, January 6th
- Faculty Search Committee Meeting; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4272 Chamberlin Hall
- Faculty Search Committee Meeting (Particle)
- Thursday, January 8th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- A Quantitative Study of Bias Triangles in Chemical Potential Space, Dr. Justin Perron
- Friday, January 9th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Modular Quantum Information Processing, David Hucul , University of Maryland
- Monday, January 12th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Studies of Correlations in Low-Disorder 2D Electron Gases in MBE-Grown GaAs, John Watson, Purdue
- Astronomy Colloquium; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Astronomy Colloquium Room (Sandwiches provided)
- From the Interstellar Medium to Prime Time, Making Astronomy News, Terry Devitt & Tom Ziemer, UW-Madison Research Communications & Letters and Science Office of Advancement
- Wednesday, January 14th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- The pumpistor: understanding the parametrically flux-pumped SQUID by its electrical impedance, Kyle Sundqvist , Texas A&M
- Tuesday, January 20th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- The passenger pigeon: Why it went extinct, and can we resurrect it? , Stan Temple, Nelson Institute
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall - The LUX and LZ Dark Matter Experiments, Kevin O'Sullivan, Yale
- Wednesday, January 21st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall - The non-thermal Universe, Markus Ahlers, UW - Madison
- Public event ; 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm; Marquee Theater, Union South
- Particle Fever screening , Sridhara Dasu & Wesley Smith, UW–Madison
- Thursday, January 22nd
- Atomic Physics Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall - Magnetism, rotons, and beyond: engineering atomic systems with lattice shaking, Colin Parker, University of Chicago, James Franck Institute and Department of Physics
- Friday, January 23rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Entanglement, Bell's Inequality, Trapped Ions, and Quantum Computing, Chris Monroe, JQI, University of Maryland
- Monday, January 26th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Current redistribution and transport in the RFP, Dr. Eli Parke, UW- Madison
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall - From Quantum Communications to Small Quantum Computers, Graeme Smith, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
- Tuesday, January 27th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Madison Science Museum: from chaos to complexity, Olga Trubetskoy and Dave Nelson, Madison Science Museum
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall - Chasing our Cosmic Dawn: Opening the 21cm cosmological window on the universe, Daniel C. Jacobs, NSF Fellow, Arizona State University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall - One century of neutrino mass experiments: from radium salts to microwaves, Benjamin Monreal, UCSB
- Wednesday, January 28th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall - Quantum control of atoms, ions, and nuclei , Christian Schneider, UCLA
- Thursday, January 29th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin
- Observation of ultracold Cs Rydberg molecules with kiloDebye dipole moments, Donald Booth, University of Oklahoma
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Puzzles in Massive Galaxy Assembly, Nicholas McConnell, Ifa, University of Hawaii
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin - Noise in superconducting circuits: microscopic theory and open questions, Lara Faoro, Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Hautes Energies
- Friday, January 30th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Hunting for Hierarchies in PSL2(7), Michael Jay Perez, University of Florida
February 2015
- Monday, February 2nd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Safety and sustainability of ITER from the point of view of the tungsten armor, Dr. Beata Tyburska-Püschel, Dept of EP, UW-Madison
- Council Meeting
- 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 - Expeditions to the Next Energy Scale, Victor Gehman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Extended MHD analysis of the g-mode, Eric Howell, Engineering Physics, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, February 3rd
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Re-conceptualizing visuospatial memory development as an increase in dynamic stability , Vanessa Simmering, UW Department of Psychology
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin - It's a Marvel: LZ and the Next Era of Dark Matter Searches , Kim Palladino, SLAC
- Wednesday, February 4th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Science Policy Movie Screening; 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm; Marquee Theater, Union South
- The Man Who Saved the World, American Nuclear Society, UW Madison Chapter
- Friday, February 6th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Monday, February 9th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- The tokamak density limit: a thermo-resistive disruption mechanism, Dr. David Gates, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm; 4272 Chamberlin Hall - Surface Plasmons and Impurity States in Graphene, Victor Brar , California Institute of Technology
- Tuesday, February 10th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Energy and ecosystems: Howard Odum's seminal 1973 paper, "Energy, ecology, and economics," 42 years later , Bill Fischer, Agronomy, Business, Law, and Psychiatry
- Wednesday, February 11th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin - Dynamical signatures and applications of many-body localization, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Harvard University
- Thursday, February 12th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Dynamical Structure in the Galactic disk -- a new Decade of Galactic Discovery, Alice Quillen, Univeristy of Rochester, Astronomy & Astrophysics
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 474 Chamberlin Hall - Spin orbit interaction induced magnetic dynamics, Luqiao Liu, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
- Friday, February 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, Special Colloquium presented by WARF;
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall - WARF on Campus, Rafael Diaz, Licensing Associate, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
- Monday, February 16th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Development of Innovative Wall and Divertor Plasma-Facing Components for Magnetically-Confined 3D Plasmas, Prof. Davide Curreli, Univ of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana
- Council Meeting
- CANCELED
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin - Custom low-dimensional material systems explored from atom to bulk , Adina Luican-Mayer, Argonne National Lab, Center for Nanoscale Materials
- Tuesday, February 17th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- The limits to growth or the limits to models? , Jim Blair, Milton and Edgewood College
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall - Using kaons to unlock the secrets of the neutrino, Joshua Spitz, MIT
- Wednesday, February 18th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
8:30 am - 9:30 am; 4274 Chamberlin Hall - Measuring the Neutrino Mass with Tritium Beta Decays, Noah Oblath, MIT
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall - Spin-charge scattering in Luttinger Liquids, Alex Levchenko
- Friday, February 20th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Monday, February 23rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Rossby Waves - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Prof. Matthew Hitchman, , Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UW-Madison
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall - Benchtop Particle Astrophysics, Gray Rybka, University of Washington
- Tuesday, February 24th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Sweet talks and trade deals in symbiotic associations, Jean-Michel Ané, UW Department of Agronomy
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall - The Discovery of Fermi Bubbles and Future Gamma-ray Telescopes, Meng Su, MIT, Joint MIT Pappalardo and NASA Einstein Fellow
- Thursday, February 26th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Cosmic ray feedback in Galaxies and Cool Core Clusters, CHristopher Pfrommer, HITS Heidelberg
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Faculty Candidate Seminar;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall - Many body localization: a new frontier for quantum statistical physics, Rahul Nandkishore, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science
- Friday, February 27th
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- NPAC Faculty Search Committee Meeting; 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4272 Chamberlin
- , Dasu, UW - Madison
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Detection of B-mode polarization at 150GHz and degree angular scales by BICEP2 and Keck Array, Dr. Clem Pryke, University of Minnesota
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
April 2015
- Friday, April 3rd
- Physics Department Colloquium
- No Event: Spring Break
- Monday, April 6th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- Optical Emission Spectroscopy as a Diagnostic of Low-Temperature Plasmas, Dr. John Boffard, UW-Madison, Physics
- Tuesday, April 7th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Movement of eosinophils into lungs of patients with asthma, Deane Mosher, UW Department of Biomolecular Chemistry
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Higgs Trilinear Coupling as a Probe of Electroweak Phase Transition, Peisi Huang, University of Chicago
- Wednesday, April 8th
- Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 11:00 am - 11:50 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Active Learning in Large Enrollment Classes: Literature Review, Peter Timbie, UW Madison - Physics
- Thursday, April 9th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall(Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 PM)
- Digging for buried Quasars with WISE and Planck, Mike Di Pompeo, University of Wyoming
- Friday, April 10th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Joint Physics - Astronomy Colloquium;
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall - Coffee and cookies at 11:45 - Kinetic and Gyrokinetic Astrophysical Turbulence Above and Below the Mirror and Firehose Stability Thresholds, Matt Kunz, Princeton
- Physics Department Colloquium, Heinz H. Barschall Colloquium;
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall - Search for permanent electric dipole moments of protons and deuterons using storage rings, Frank Rathmann, Institut fuer Kernphysik , Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
- Saturday, April 11th
- Barschall - Haeberli Symposium; 9:00 am - 5:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
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- Monday, April 13th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- FNSF: Next Facility to Qualify/Validate Nuclear Technologies for US DEMO, Dr. Laila El-Guebaly, UW-Madison, Engineering Physics
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
- Tuesday, April 14th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- How scale-dependent are ecosystem-atmosphere exchanges?, Ankur Desai, UW Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Natural Inflation and the Weak Gravity Conjecture, William Cottrell, University of Wisconsin
- Wednesday, April 15th
- SPECIAL NOON TALK; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Hubble Clocks the High-Velocity Outflow from the Milky Way's Core, Andrew Fox, StSci
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, April 16th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- A solar close-up view of physical processes in magnetized plasmas , Paola Testa, Harvard CfA
- Careers for Physicists; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Panel with BOV members re: Careers outside academia, Lloyd Hackel & Bob Leach
- Friday, April 17th
- 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)
- Has Compelling Experimental Evidence for Order-by-Disorder at Last Been Found in a Frustrated Magnetic Material?, Michel Gingras, University of Waterloo
- Monday, April 20th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- First identification of an Island-induced Alfvén Eigenmode (IAE) on MST, Carson Cook, UW-Madison
- Tuesday, April 21st
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Towards understanding IceCube high energy neutrinos, Yang Bai, UW Department of Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Perturbative Unitarity Constraints on Dark Sectors, Sonia El Hedri
- Wednesday, April 22nd
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- Charm jet identification in searches for new physics with the ATLAS detector, Dan Guest, Yale University
- Thursday, April 23rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Spins in Nanostructures: Coherence, Measurement, and Collective Dynamics, Bill Coish, McGill University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- The status of India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO), Bannanje Sripathi Acharya, Tata Institute
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling hall
- Gamma-rays from Type Ia supernova SN2014J , Eugene Churazov, MPA Garching
- Friday, April 24th
- 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)
- Universal quake statistics: from nanopillars to earthquakes, Karin Dahmen, University of Illinois
- Chemistry Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 1315 Chemistry Building
- Scientific Publishing from the Inside Out, Dr. Jake Yeston, Science magazine
- Monday, April 27th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 2317 Enginering hall
- Physics of the Current Injection Process in Localized Helicity Injection, Edward Hinson, UW-Madison, Engineering
- Council Meeting
- CANCELED
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin (Chair's Conference Room)
- Tuesday, April 28th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
- Barker frailty, Barker echoes and warped older age mortality dynamics, Alberto Palloni and Hiram Beltran Sanchez, UW Center for Demography and Health of Aging
- Wednesday, April 29th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, April 30th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Pushing GaAs to the extreme: from the 5/2 FQHE to spin qubits, Mike Manfra, Purdue University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Heavy element synthesis in the Universe, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UCO Lick
May 2015
- Friday, May 1st
- Cosmology Journal Club; 12:15 pm; 5242 Chamberlin Hall
- An Informal discussion about a broad variety of arXiv papers related to Cosmology
- Monday, May 4th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1610 Engineering Hall
- 43 years of fun basic plasma experiments, Noah Hershkowitz , UW-Madison
- Thursday, May 7th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Probing hadronic interactions with atmospheric leptons, Anatoli Fedynitch, Karlsruhe
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:35 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Searching for evidence for ongoing cold accretion in the local universe using the Green Bank Telescope, DJ Pisano, West Virginia University Physics & Astronomy
- Friday, May 8th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Distinguished Alumni Award Winner;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Where Did Half the Starlight in the Universe Go?, Mark Devlin, University of Pennsylvania
- Monday, May 11th
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Resonant 3-D Magnetic Field Effects -- penetration, resistive reconnection, islands, transport, Prof. James D. Callen, UW-Madison, Engineering Physics, UW-Madison, Engineering Physics
- Tuesday, May 12th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- A leakage-resilient approach to topological quantum error correction with superconducting elements, Joydip Ghosh, University of Calgary
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Naturalness in Supergravity Models: The Higgs Mass and Higgsino Mass, Sujeet Akula, Monash University
- Wednesday, May 13th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, May 14th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Anomalous reactor antineutrino flux and spectrum measurements, Bryce Littlejohn, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- A "New" Galaxy Formation Mechanism from Joint Galactic and High Redshift Constraints, Jonathan Bird, Vanderbilt University
- Monday, May 18th
- Fermilab Talk; 3:30 pm; Fermilab, Ramsey Auditorium
- A Complete Demonstrator of a Cooled-Muon Higgs Factory, Carlo Rubbia, GSSI-INFN
- Thursday, May 21st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Surprises in topological insulators -- singular paramagnetism and superconductivity, Vadim Oganesyan, CUNY
- Friday, May 22nd
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Three flavour neutrino oscillations with MINOS and CHIPS, Andy Perch, University College London