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Events During the 2016 Spring Semester

January 2016

   Monday, January 4th
Special Plasma Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Electron Thermal Confinement during Helicity Injection, and Turbulence Characteristics during LH Transitions in DIII-D, Dave Schlossberg, Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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   Tuesday, January 5th
Special Plasma Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Low edge safety factor disruptions in CTH: Operation in low-q regime, passive disruption avoidance and nature of MHD precursors, Mihir D. Pandya, Department of Physics, Auburn University
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   Monday, January 11th
Special Plasma Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Dynamics of Turbulence and Flows Under Electrode Biasing in a Linear Device, Tiffany Desjardins, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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   Tuesday, January 12th
Special Plasma Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Modeling of plasma rotation control for NSTX and NSTX-U, Imène Goumiri, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
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   Friday, January 15th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Superconducting proximity effect in topological and spin-orbit materials, Christopher Reeg, University of Florida
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   Tuesday, January 19th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
The Universe: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow, Ed Churchwell, UW Department of Astronomy
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Discrete Abelian symmetries in the MSSM and its extensions, Volodymyr Takhistov, University of California, Irvine
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   Wednesday, January 20th
Department Meeting
CANCELLED
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   Thursday, January 21st
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Transport coefficients of graphene: Interplay of impurity scattering, Coulomb interaction, and optical phonons, Hong-Yi Xie, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University
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   Tuesday, January 26th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
urbulence, the manifestation of eddies and their role in conservation laws, George Hrabovsky, Madison Area Science and Technology
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Condensed Dark Matter: An Axion Story, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, MIT
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   Wednesday, January 27th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Discovery of a Fast Radio Burst, Peter Timbie, UW - Madison, Department of Physics
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   Thursday, January 28th
Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee at 3:15 PM
The Past, Present, and Future of the Milky Way, Robert Benjamin, UW Whitewater
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   Friday, January 29th
 Physics Department Colloquium, ****NOTE SPECIAL START TIME****;
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Quantum trajectories and the quantum state of the past, Klaus Molmer, Aarhus University
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February 2016

   Tuesday, February 2nd
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
Developing value-added biomaterials, Dani Zhu, UW Department of Food Science
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Oscillations and Baryogenesis, David McKeen, University of Washington
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   Wednesday, February 3rd
Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   Thursday, February 4th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
TBD, Ivar Martin, Argonne National Laboratory
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R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
TBD, Ivar Martin, Argonne National Laboratory
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R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Dynamics of interacting disordered quantum spin systems, Ivar Martin, Argonne National Laboratory
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Forging the Heaviest Elements, Rebecca Surman, Notre Dame
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Special Cosmology Seminar; 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Design and Deployment of the first Multichroic Polarimeter array on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Rahul Datta, University of Michigan
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   Tuesday, February 9th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
Making computer networks work (Part II), Aditya Akella, UW Department of Computer Sciences
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
High-Scale Axions without Isocurvature from Inflationary Dynamics, Dr. Jack Kearney , Fermilab
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   Thursday, February 11th
Special LIGO Press Conference; 9:30 am - 10:30 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
LIGO Online Press Conference, LIGO online press conference
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R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Origin of the in-plane resistivity anisotropy of the iron pnictides: scattering rate or plasma frequency?, Michael Schuett, University of Minnesota
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
The Atacama B-mode Search: Cosmology at 17,000 Feet, Sara Simon, Princeton
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG), Brad Dober, University of Pennsylvania
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:15 PM
Gas dynamics and star formation in dwarf galaxies, Dr. Federico Lelli, Case Western Reserve University
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   Friday, February 12th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
High- and intermediate-velocity clouds as a tracer of cosmic rays in the Galactic halo, Luigi Tibaldo, MPIK, Heidelberg
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Deciphering IceCube’s High-Energy Neutrinos, Marek Kowalski, Humboldt University Berlin & DESY Zeuthen
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   Saturday, February 13th
Wonders of Physics
1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin
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Wonders of Physics
4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
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Wonders of Physics
7:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
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   Sunday, February 14th
Wonders of Physics
1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
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Wonders of Physics
4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
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   Monday, February 15th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1003 Engineering Centers Building (Tong Auditorium)
The Emergent Collective Behavior of Bacteria Under Stress, Robert Austin, Princeton
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Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering
Sustainment of a field reversed configuration with high power neutral beam injection, Dr. Richard Magee, Tri-Alpha
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   Tuesday, February 16th
Astronomy Colloquium; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, SPECIAL LUNCH TALK
Compact Neutron Star Binary Assembly n the Universe, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UC Santa Cruz
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Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
The dynamics of message-carrying between combatants, Joe Elder, UW Department of Sociology
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
The Unnatural (or Split) Composite Higgs, Tony Gherghetta, University of Minnesota
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   Wednesday, February 17th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Initial Results from HAWC on Gamma-Ray Bursts, Joshua Wood, University of Maryland
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   Thursday, February 18th
Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:15 PM
New Tools for Galactic Archaeology from the Milky Way, Gail Zasowski, Johns Hopkins University
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   Friday, February 19th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Searching for Dark Matter with Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices, Kent Irwin, Stanford/SLAC
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   Saturday, February 20th
9th Annual Physics Fair; 11:00 am - 4:00 pm; University Avenue Lobby
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Wonders of Physics
1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
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Wonders of Physics
4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
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Wonders of Physics
7:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
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   Sunday, February 21st
Wonders of Physics
1:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
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Wonders of Physics
4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
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   Monday, February 22nd
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering
Hall thrusters for space applications: Advanced concepts and research challenges, Yevgeny Raitses, Princeton University
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   Tuesday, February 23rd
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
Walking and stroke: A delicate balance, Kreg Gruben, UW Department of Kenesiology
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
The Surprising Emergent Phenomena of Perturbative QCD, Andrew Larkoski, Harvard University
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   Wednesday, February 24th
Department Meeting
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Scintillating v's, Adam Schreckenberger, Univ. of Texas-Austin
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Engineering Physics Colloquium; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 1025 Engineering Centers Building
Nuclear Arms Control: An Overview of Nuclear WMD and Paths to Verification, Dr. Thomas Atwood, Sandia National Laboratories
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   Thursday, February 25th
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
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
MicroBooNE: Unlocking the Secrets of the Neutrino with Liquid Argon Detector Technology, Matt Toups, MIT
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm - 5:00 am; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies served 3:30 PM
Thirty Meter Telescope Observatory: The next Generation ground based Optical/infra-Red Observatory", Warren Skidmore, Thirty Meter Telecope Observatory
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   Friday, February 26th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Gamma-Ray Observations of Pulsars with Cherenkov Telescopes, Nepomuk Otte, Georgia Tech
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   Monday, February 29th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering
Initial measurements of particle transport and self-ordering in the Magnetized Dusty Plasma Experiment (MDPX), Dr. Edward Thomas, Auburn
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March 2016

   Tuesday, March 1st
Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Higgs physics opportunities at future e+e- collider, Zhen Liu, Fermilab
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   Wednesday, March 2nd
Department Meeting
CANCELLED- Rescheduled for next week: 03/09/16
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   Thursday, March 3rd
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
To a loophole-free test of local realism and beyond., Brad Christensen, University Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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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
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:15 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:15, Talk at 3:30 PM
Quantitative Polarimetry: From Star Formation to Cosmological Studies, Thiem Hoang, CITA
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Careers for Physicists; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Careers at Epic, Sean Cotter (MS 2008), Epic
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   Friday, March 4th
Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Quantum information with cold atom ensembles: beyond continuous variables, Tim Byrnes, NYU
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Understanding when we can trust climate models: Characterizing uncertainty in climate change from global to regional scales, Chris E. Forest, Penn State
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   Monday, March 7th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering
"Nonlinear Convective Transport in Magnetized Temperature Filaments: Theory, Simulation and Experiments, Dr. Richard Sydora, University of Alberta, University of Alberta
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   Tuesday, March 8th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments will be served)
Cultural-responsivity, education, and health in Anishinaabe communities, Tim Frandy, UW Department of Medicine and Public Health
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   Wednesday, March 9th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   Thursday, March 10th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
Phonon-mediated decay of singlet-triplet qubits in double quantum dots in GaAs/AlGaAs and Si/SiGe heterostructures, Viktoriia Kornich, University of Basel
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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
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 PM, Talk at 3:45 PM
Toward a physically-predictive theory of galaxy formation: resolved stellar and black hole feedback, Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere, Northwestern University
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   Friday, March 11th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Microwave response and photon emission of a voltage baised Josephson junction, Salha Jebari, CEA Grenoble
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 1:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Compactifying M-theory on a G2 manifold to describe our world, Gordon Kane, University of Michigan
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Status and Future of Tau physics at the LHC , Isobel Ojalvo, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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   Monday, March 14th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering
Magnetic pumping of the solar wind, and new results from the Terrestrial Reconnection Experiment (TREX), Jan Egedal, UW Madison
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   Tuesday, March 15th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments will be served)
Coping with climate change and environmental degradation science, universities, and a great American challenge, Bernard Z. Friedlander and Noah M. Friedlander, University of Hartford
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Galaxy-galaxy lensing for cosmology in the Dark Energy Survey, Juliana Kwan, University of Pennsylvania
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   Wednesday, March 16th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
New results from RENO, Seon-Hee Seo, Seoul National University
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   Thursday, March 17th
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
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies at 3:30 PM, Talk at 3:45 PM
The Role of Dwarf-Dwarf Galaxy Interactions in Galaxy Assembly, Sabrina Stierwalt, NRAO
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Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:45 pm)
From Bell's inequalities to quantum information: a new quantum revolution, Alain Aspect, CNRS, Institut d’Optique
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   Friday, March 18th
10:30 am - 10:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Informal meeting with Fleming Crim, Fleming Crim, NSF
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Atomic Physics Seminar; 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Atomic Hong-Ou-Mandel effect: a mile-stone in Quantum Atom Optics, Alain Aspect, Institut d’Optique
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:15 pm)
Gene Surfing and Survival of the Luckiest, David Nelson, Harvard University
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   Monday, March 28th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering
Magnetic Reconnection Onset, Prof. Nuno Loureiro, MIT
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   Tuesday, March 29th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments will be served)
Star-beings and stones: Origins and legends, Herman Bender, Freelance Geologist
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Type Ia Supernovae and Heavy Metals From Dark Matter, Joseph Bramante, University of Notre Dame
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   Wednesday, March 30th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Cooling and stabilization of levitated graphite nanoplatelets, Pavel Nagornykh, University of Maryland
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Accelerating the Search for Cosmic Accelerators, Amanda Weinstein, Iowa State University
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   Thursday, March 31st
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
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 pm, Talk 3:45 PM
Supernovae as Drivers of Dust Evolution in Galaxies, Tea Temim, NASA
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April 2016

   Friday, April 1st
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
New Satellite Galaxies of Our Milky Way, Keith Bechtol, UW - Madison, Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center
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   Tuesday, April 5th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments will be served)
Toward an atlas of the physical internet, Paul Barford, UW Department of Computer Sciences
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280
Lepton Jets from Radiating Dark Matter, Malte Buschmann, Fermilab
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   Wednesday, April 6th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   Thursday, April 7th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Clearly witnessing the quantum fluctuations of a mechanical oscillator, Dr. Ray Simmonds , NIST, Boulder
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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
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 PM, Talk at 3:45 PM
'A Walk on the Warped Side: Searches for Gravitational Waves from Compact Objects in Advanced LIGO', Sarah Caudill, UW Milwaukee - Physics Dept
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SPECIAL TOPIC SEMINAR; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Intellectual Property, Commercialization of Innovation at UW-Madison, and an Introduction to D2P, Robert Pozner , Discovery to Product, UW Madison
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   Friday, April 8th
Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Fermion masses and mixings in F-theory GUTs, Gianluca Zoccarato, Instituto de Fisica Teorica, Madrid
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger, Daniel Holz, University of Chicago
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   Monday, April 11th
Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar; 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Non-ergodicity in many body systems and the phase diagram of Josephson junction chains, Lev Ioffe, Rutgers
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Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering
Generation and Reconnection of Magnetic Field in Colliding Laser High Energy-Density Plasmas, Dr. Gennady Fiksel, University of Michigan
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Department Meeting
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
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   Tuesday, April 12th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Out-of -time-order correlators in solid state physics, Lara Faoro, CNRS
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Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments will be served)
Data centric computing in emerging nonvolatile memory technologies, Jing Li, Department of Computer Sciences
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   Wednesday, April 13th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   Thursday, April 14th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Dynamically corrected entangling gates for spin qubits , Jason Kestner, UMBC
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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
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   Friday, April 15th
Department Meeting
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
D6-branes, axion monodromy inflation and moduli backreaction, Aitor Landete, Instituto de Fisica Teorica, Madrid
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Probing the Accelerating Universe with the Dark Energy Survey, Josh Frieman, Fermilab and the University of Chicago
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   Monday, April 18th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Fast Reconnection and Self-Generated Turbulence Mediated by the Plasmoid Instability, Dr. Amitava Bhattacharjee,, PPPL
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   Tuesday, April 19th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Semiconductors for Superconducting Qubits, Karl Petersson, University of Copenhagen
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 Astronomy Colloquium, TUESDAY TALK;
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
A Philosophically-Informed Appraisal of the Schmidt-Sanduleak Law of Star Formation: "Not Even Wrong", Barry F. Madore, Carnegie Observatories and Dept of Astronomy & Astrophysics University of Chicago
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Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments will be served)
Novel-writing as a way to organize data, Russell Gardner, Jr., Freelance scholar
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Evading non-linearities: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations at the linear point, Stefano Anselmi, Case Western Reserve University
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   Wednesday, April 20th
Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Best Practices in Large Introductory Physics Courses at the University of Maryland, Rosemary Russ, UW - Madison Department of Curriculum and Instruction
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   Thursday, April 21st
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
Quantum optics with ultra-cold atoms, Alex Kuzmich, University of Michigan
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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
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   Friday, April 22nd
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
First Results from Hitomi, Richard Mushotzky, University of Maryland/Goddard Space Flight Center
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   Monday, April 25th
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering
Simulation of energetic particle driven instabilities in 3D configurations, Dr. Donald Spong, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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   Tuesday, April 26th
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments will be served)
Green flexible electronics and the potential impact to our society and environment, Jack Zhenqiang, UW Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Simulating the neutrino sky: Cosmological probes of neutrino mass, JD Emberson, Argonne National Laboratory
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   Wednesday, April 27th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   Thursday, April 28th
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
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   Friday, April 29th
Special Physics 208 Lecture; 8:50 am - 9:40 am; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
SHINE and Medical Radioisotopes, Greg Piefer, SHINE Medical Technologies
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (Coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm)
When Magnetic Field Lines Break, Paul Cassak, West Virginia University
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May 2016

   Monday, May 2nd
Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1153 Mechanical Engineering
Pedestal-to-wall 3D plasma edge modeling using EMC3-EIRENE, Dr. Jeremy Lore, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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   Tuesday, May 3rd
Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments will be served)
Year-end celebration
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   Thursday, May 5th
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
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:05 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30, Talk begins 3:45
Precision Stellar Astrophysics: Asteroseismology and Large Spectroscopic Surveys, Dr. Marc Pinsonneault, Ohio State University
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Electroweak inos, natural SUSY and HL-LHC, Howard Baer
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Careers for Physicists; 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Career Panel with Physics Board of Visitors Members, Various BOV members
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   Friday, May 6th
 Physics Department Colloquium, Distinguished Alumni Award Winner;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
A Search for Space-Time Correlations from the Planck Scale with the Fermilab Holometer, Steve Meyer, The University of Chicago
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   Tuesday, May 10th
Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Imaging metabolism with hyperpolarized nuclei, Dr. Stephen Kadlecek, University of Pennsylvania
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   Wednesday, May 11th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Neutrino mass limits from galaxy surveys and implications for particle physics, Viviana Niro, Madrid, Autonoma U. & Madrid, IFT
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Department Meeting
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm; Union South - check TITU for room location
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   Thursday, May 12th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Measurement of resistance induced by a single potassium atom on chiral-angle known nanotubes: understanding the impact of a model scatterer for nanoscale sensors, Prof. Masa Ishigami, U. Central Florida
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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
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5248 Chamberlin Hall
A Fast Radio Burst Host Galaxy, David Kaplan, UW - Milwaukee
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Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 PM, Talk at 3:45 PM
The role of cosmic rays in stellar and supermassive black hole feedback, Mateusz Ruszkowski, University of Michigan, Department of Astronomy
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   Friday, May 13th
Undergraduate Graduation Reception; 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
, Albrecht Karle, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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   Tuesday, May 17th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
CMB Polarization Measurements: Cutting the trail to CMB-S4, Darcy Barron, University of California, Berkeley
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   Wednesday, May 18th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
HAWC: A New View of the Very High Energy Sky, Tom Weisgarber
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   Friday, May 27th
NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am; Room 4274
Leptophilic Dark Matter searches with XENON100 detector, Mayra Cervantes, Purdue University
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