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Events During the 2017 Spring Semester
January 2017
- Tuesday, January 17th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 12:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Control of Ultracold Dipolar Molecules, Huanqian Loh, MIT
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin
- How worried should we be about congenital Zika virus?, Dave O'Connor, UW Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- The Fate of Axion Stars, Hong Zhang, Ohio State
- Thursday, January 19th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar, Physics / Electrical and Computer Engineering;
10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin - Physics after the lab and the desk: Your work in PRL, Samindranath Mitra , Editor in Physical Review Letters
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum entanglement for precision sensing with atoms and light, Onur Hosten, stanford
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmic-ray proton measurements with the Fermi-LAT, David Green, University of Maryland/Goddard
- Friday, January 20th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Very-high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics with HAWC, Ignacio Taboada, Georgia Tech
- Monday, January 23rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- Divertor Transport Physics in the LargeHelical Device, Dr. Masahiro Kobayashi, National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan
- 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
- Tuesday, January 24th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 12:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- A Brief History of Time(keeping): Metrology and quantum simulation with optical lattice clocks, Shimon Kolkowitz, JILA - University of Colorado Boulder
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- The Lyapunov exponent, George Hrabovsky, Madison Area Science and Technology
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Hunting for Sterile Neutrinos at Long and Short Baselines, Adam Aurisano, UC Cincinnati
- Wednesday, January 25th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin hall
- Thursday, January 26th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin hall
- Observation of new fractional quantum Hall states in graphene heterostructures, Andrea Young, University of California Santa Barbara
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 12:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- From fundamental physics to aspects of photosynthesis: Controlling and studying complex quantum systems, Boerge Hemmerling, UC Berkeley
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Multi-messenger searches for astrophysical sources at ultra-high energies, Foteini Oikonomou, Penn State University
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 pm, Talk at 3:45 pm
- An X-ray View of the Dusty Universe, Lia Corrales, Einstein Fello, UW Madison Astronomy Department
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Discovering a new approach to cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey and Gravitational Waves, Marcelle Soares-Santos, Fermi Lab
- Friday, January 27th
- Atomic Physics Seminar, AMO ;
10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin - Ultralow-Power Nonlinear Optics using Metastable Xenon in a Cavity, Garrett Hickman, UMBC
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
- A New Spin on Superconductivity, Amir Yacoby, Harvard University
- Monday, January 30th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- New Insights into the Origin of Cosmic Rays, Dr. Damiano Caprioli, University of Chicago, USA
- 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
- Tuesday, January 31st
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 12:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Building materials from light: Photonic Landau levels and Rydberg-mediated interactions, Ariel Sommer, MIT
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Climate change science, impacts, and mitigation strategies, Susan Nossal, UW Department of Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Top Yukawa coupling enhancement in the composite Higgs models, Da Liu, Argonne National Laboratory
February 2017
- Thursday, February 2nd
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 pm, Talk begins at 3:45 PM
- Gas and Star Formation In Minor Mergers: Molecular gas feeding the central starbursts in NGC 1614 and the Medusa mergers, Sabine Koenig, Chalmers University
- Friday, February 3rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Lab Astro and the Origins of the Chemical Elements, James E. Lawler, introduced by UW Emeritus Prof. Wilmer Anderson, UW-Madison
- Monday, February 6th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- An Overview of the DIII-D Metal Tile Mini-Campaign: Initial Result Highlighting the Characterization of Different Divertor Tungsten Sources, Migration and Impact on the Core in H-mode Conditions, Dr. Ezekial Unterberg, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- 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
- Council Meeting
- 5:15 pm; 2314 Chamberlin hall
- Tuesday, February 7th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Child poverty in the United States, Julia Isaacs, UW Urban Institute
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmology with the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array, Daniel Jacobs, Arizona State
- Wednesday, February 8th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin hall
- Thursday, February 9th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Two-dimensional epitaxial superconductor-semiconductor heterostructures: A platform for topological superconducting networks, Javad Shabani , City College, City University of New York
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 am; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 pm. Talk Begins 3:45 PM
- Insights into Galaxies using Dynamical Modeling, Shravan Shetty, UW Madison Astronomy Department
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Neutrinos: From idea to discovery to precision measurements, Minerba Betancourt, Fermilab
- Friday, February 10th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The Science Driving Particle Physics, JoAnne Hewett, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Monday, February 13th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- Plasma Material Interaction in Radiation Environments - the Next Grand Challenge- CANCELLED, Dr. Juergen Rapp, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- 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
- Tuesday, February 14th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Functional integration and split in the brain, Shun Sasai, UW Department of Psychiatry
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Studying Neutrino Oscillations at NOvA: From Experimental Design to Pioneering Analysis, Alexander Radovic, William and Mary
- Thursday, February 16th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Exploring the analogy between atoms and optical nanoresonators -- atomic metasurfaces, super-scattering, and super-radiant thermal emission, Zongfu Yu, UW-Madison
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 1:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics with a 10-year Color Movie of 40 Billion Stars and Galaxies, Keith Bechtol, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk Begins 3:45 PM
- Systematic Serendipity: Novel Discoveries in Astronomical Surveys, Lucianne Walkowicz, Chicago Planetarium
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Unlocking neutrino mysteries with the NOvA experiment, Chris Backhouse, Caltech
- Friday, February 17th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
- The basic physics of collisionless magnetic reconnection, Michael Hesse, NASA & Birkeland Centre for Space Science
- Monday, February 20th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- Optimizing 3-D Configurations, Dr. Andrew Ware, University of Montana, USA
- 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
- 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Faculty Search Committee Meeting, Dasu
- Tuesday, February 21st
- Council Meeting
- 12:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin hall
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- A Deep Look for New Physics with Neutrino Oscillations, Taritree Wongjirad, MIT
- 5:15 pm - 6:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Faculty Search Committee Meeting, Dasu
- Wednesday, February 22nd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin hall
- Thursday, February 23rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Semi-classical limit for the Schrodinger equation with lattice potential, and band-crossing, Qin Li , UW-Madison
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, February 27th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- Plasma Stability and Impurity Radiation Physics, Dr. Luis Delgado-Aparicio, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA
- 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
- Tuesday, February 28th
- Council Meeting
- 12:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin hall
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- The future of nuclear energy in a carbon constrained world, Mike Corradini, UW Department of Engineering Physics
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter with Supersymmetry, Bibhushan Shakya, University of Cincinnati/University of Michigan
March 2017
- Thursday, March 2nd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; Chamberlin 5310
- Spiraling energy dispersion of arc states in Weyl semimetals, Anton Andreev, University of Washington
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 PM. Talk starts 3:45 PM
- "The Internal Structure of Interstellar Filaments in the Southern Milky Way" , Audra Hernandez, UW Madison Astronomy Dept
- Friday, March 3rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
- Quantum measurement in superconducting circuits: mapping quantum trajectories from spontaneous emission., Kater Murch, Washington University, St. Louis
- Monday, March 6th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- Edge Localized Mode Suppression by Resonant Magnetic Perturbation Fields at DIII-S and ASDEX-Upgrade, Dr. Raffi Nazikian, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA
- 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
- Tuesday, March 7th
- Council Meeting
- 12:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin hall
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Bach's integration of complexity and simplicity, Trevor Stephenson, Harpsicord
- Wednesday, March 8th
- 9:45 am - 10:30 am; 4272 Chamberlin Hall
- Faculty Candidate Search Committee Meeting , Dasu, UW-Madison
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin hall
- Thursday, March 9th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Hyperpolarized Spins in Nanodiamond, Ewa Rej, University of Sydney
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Physical Sciences Lab, Stoughton, WI
- Neutrinos, DUNE, and Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers, Michelle Stancari, Fermilab
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 PM. Talk begins 3:45 PM
- Physical Conditions in the Cold ISM of Nearby Galaxies and Their Relation to Star Formation, Adam Leroy, Ohio State University
- Friday, March 10th
- Physics Department Colloquium, ****NOTE SPECIAL START AND END TIMES: 3:00 - 5:00 PM****;
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall - Breaking the Bias Habit, Jennifer Sheridan & Prof. Molly Carnes, UW Madison
- Monday, March 13th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- High Energy Density Plasmas, Dr. Hye-Sook Park, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
- 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
- Tuesday, March 14th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- The complexity of the U.S. tax system and the consequences for reform, John Witte, UW Lafollette Institute
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Lattice Insights for Composite BSM Models, Ethan Neil, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Physics Education Innovation Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics Education and Active Learning, Ben Spike, UW - Madison Department of Physics
- Thursday, March 16th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 am; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM Talk at 3:45 PM
- Seven Years of Wise, Ned Wright, UCLA
- Friday, March 17th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
- Theories and Signals of a "Dark" Photon, Spencer Chang, Oregon University
- Monday, March 20th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Revealing quantum behavior with coupled superconducting devices , Prof. Nadav Katz, Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 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
- Tuesday, March 21st
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Relaxion from particle production, Gustavo Marques Tavares, Stanford University
- Thursday, March 23rd
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 8:00 am - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
- ARL CDQI Review, Mark Saffman, et al.
- Friday, March 24th
- Atomic Physics Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Rydberg crystals in a cold lattice gas, Prof. David Petrosyan, Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser (IESL) Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) Heraklion, Crete, GREECE
- Monday, March 27th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- Plasma Shocks, Dr. Paul Drake, University of Michigan, USA
- 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
- Faculty Candidate Seminar ; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- How to find dark matter, Dr. Bjoern Penning, University of Bristol
- Tuesday, March 28th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- 2016 Polling in Nation and State: A scorecard, Charles Franklin, Law and Public Policy and Director of the Marquette University Law School Poll
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Cosmology from Non-Linear Weak Lensing, Zoltan Haiman, Columbia Univ
- Thursday, March 30th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Micro-X: A Sounding Rocket Dark Matter Search, Antonia Hubbard, Northwestern
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 pm, Talk begins 3:45 pm
- Towards understanding the inefficiency of star formation in galaxies, Andrey Kravtsov, The University of Chicago
- Friday, March 31st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The Dark Matter in the Universe, Katherine Freese, University of Michigan
April 2017
- Monday, April 3rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- Fast Ion Confinement in Tokamaks, Dr. Benedikt Geiger, Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany
- 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
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (SPECIAL LOCATION AND DATE)
- Hidden Valley searches at the LHCb, Yue Zhao, University of Michigan
- Tuesday, April 4th
- Council Meeting
- 12:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin hall
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- “Wet chaos”: Characteristics of extreme rains in a changing climate, John Young, UW Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Next steps in new physics searches, LHC and beyond. , Liantao Wang, University of Chicago
- Wednesday, April 5th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin hall
- Thursday, April 6th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Coherent coupling between a quantum dot and a donor in silicon, Patrick Harvey-Collard, Sandia National Labs
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies at 3:30 PM, Talk begins at 3:45 PM
- Turbulence and Dynamo Action in Accretion Flows, Fausto Cattaneo, University of Chicago
- Friday, April 7th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
- Quark Gluon Plasma: Surprises from strongly coupled QCD matter, Barbara Jacak, UC-Berkeley/LBL
- Monday, April 10th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- Laboratory Investigation of the Dynamics of Jets and Spheromaks in a Background Magnetized Plasma, Dr. Mark Gilmore, University of New Mexico, USA
- 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
- Tuesday, April 11th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 am - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- The influence of spatial connectivity on landscape regime shifts and pattern formation after external pulses, Zak Ratajczak, UW Department of Zoology
- Council Meeting
- 12:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin hall
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Dark Matter Interpretations of the AMS Positron Excess, Ian Low, Northwestern
- Wednesday, April 12th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, April 13th
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm - 4:30 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- A new top-down model of inflation, Marjorie Schillo, K.U. Leuven
- Friday, April 14th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
- New Dark Matter Search Results from PICO 60, Carsten Krauss, University of Alberta
- Monday, April 17th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- Multi-Scale Plasma Modeling, Dr. Gian Luca Delzanno, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
- 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
- Tuesday, April 18th
- Council Meeting
- 2314 Chamberlin hall
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Life inside the black box: Soil microbes, climate change, and fire, Thea Whitman, UW Department of Soil Science
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Ubiquity of non-geometry in heterotic string compactifications, Stefano Massai, University of Chicago
- Wednesday, April 19th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin hall
- Thursday, April 20th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Entangling approaches for capacitively coupled semiconductor spin qubits, Vanita Srinivasa, Sandia
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 PM, Talk at 3:45 PM
- Galaxy Transformations And The Quenching of Star Formation at High Redshift, Mauro Giavalisco, University of Massachusetts
- Friday, April 21st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Carbon Dioxide – A Force for Global Change Throughout the Earth’s Atmosphere, Martin Mlynczak, NASA Langley Research Center
- Monday, April 24th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- Understanding the Plasma Response to Resonant Magnetic Perturbations, Dr. Alan Turnbull, General Atomics, USA
- 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
- Tuesday, April 25th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Scenarios, simulations, and sustainability science: Planning for the future of complex systems , Chris Kucharik, UW Nelson Institute
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- what can we learn from the current Higgs data? , Peisi Huang, Texas A&M
- Thursday, April 27th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm, Talk at 3:45 PM
- Simulating the Evolving Milky Way: From Disk to Halo, Sarah Loebman, University of MI
- Friday, April 28th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
- A research-validated approach to transforming upper-division physics courses, Steve Pollock, Colorado University
- 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm; The University Club
- Physics Awards Banquet
May 2017
- Monday, May 1st
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm; 2317 Engineering Hall
- Advances in Stellarator Optimization, Dr. David Gates, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA
- BAUTZ LECTURE; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Physics Of The Stochastic Excitation Of Stellar Modes, Peter Goldreich, CALTECH
- 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
- Tuesday, May 2nd
- Council Meeting
- 12:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin hall
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Year-end celebration
- Wednesday, May 3rd
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin hall
- Thursday, May 4th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Coherent defects in diamond, Nathalie de Leon, Princeton
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Cookies and Coffee at 3:30 PM, Talk at 3:45 PM
- The IllustrisTNG Simulations: Elemental Evolution in Cosmological Simulations, Jill Naiman, CfA Boston
- Friday, May 5th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin hall
- Simulating the Ionosphere, one electron at a time, Meers Oppenheim, Boston University, Astronomy Department
- Monday, May 8th
- 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
- Thursday, May 11th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
- Next-Generation Cosmological Simulations: Galaxy Assembly and Evolution, Lars Hernquist, ITC/Harvard
- Friday, May 12th
- 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm; 2241 Chamberbelin
- The Department of Physics Undergraduate Reception
- Monday, May 15th
- 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
- Thursday, May 18th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk starts at 3:45 PM
- Deep spectroscopy in nearby galaxy clusters: the cases of A85 and Hercules clusters, Alfonso Aguerri, Titular OPI en Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias - ?Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
- Monday, May 22nd
- High Energy Physics CMS Workshop; 9:00 am - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- CMS HL-LHC TRIGGER WORKSHOP
- Tuesday, May 23rd
- High Energy Physics CMS Workshop; 9:00 am - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- CMS HL-LHC TRIGGER WORKSHOP
- Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Emerging Jets, Daniel Stolarski
- Wednesday, May 24th
- High Energy Physics CMS Workshop; 9:00 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- CMS HL-LHC TRIGGER WORKSHOP
- High Energy Physics CMS Workshop; 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- US CMS HL-LHC Trigger Project Workshop date
- Thursday, May 25th
- High Energy Physics CMS Workshop; 9:00 am - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- US CMS HL-LHC Trigger Project Workshop