Events at Physics |
Events During the 2015 Summer Semester
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
June 2015
- Thursday, June 4th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Steering many-body quantum dynamics, Tommaso Calarco, University of Ulm
July 2015
- Thursday, July 9th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Multi-qubit quantum co-tunneling as a computational resource, Kostya Kechedzhi
- Tuesday, July 14th
- Careers for Physicists; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Meeting the Challenges! Opportunities for Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Dr. Ian S. Anderson, Director, Graduate Education and University Partnerships, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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