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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
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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
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
The Fate of Axion Stars, Hong Zhang, Ohio State
Presentation: Axion_Hong_Zhang.pdf
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   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
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Atomic Physics Seminar; 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Quantum entanglement for precision sensing with atoms and light, Onur Hosten, stanford
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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
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   Friday, January 20th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Very-high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics with HAWC, Ignacio Taboada, Georgia Tech
Presentation: Hawc-340day-constellations-english.png
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   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
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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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   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
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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
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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
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   Wednesday, January 25th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin hall
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   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
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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
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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
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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
An X-ray View of the Dusty Universe, Lia Corrales, Einstein Fello, UW Madison Astronomy Department
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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
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   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
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Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
A New Spin on Superconductivity, Amir Yacoby, Harvard University
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   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
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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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   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
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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
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Top Yukawa coupling enhancement in the composite Higgs models, Da Liu, Argonne National Laboratory
Presentation: Talk_Da.pdf
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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
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   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
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   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
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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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Council Meeting
5:15 pm; 2314 Chamberlin hall
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   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
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Cosmology with the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array, Daniel Jacobs, Arizona State
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   Wednesday, February 8th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin hall
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   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
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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
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Neutrinos: From idea to discovery to precision measurements, Minerba Betancourt, Fermilab
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   Friday, February 10th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
The Science Driving Particle Physics, JoAnne Hewett, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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   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
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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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   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
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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
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   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
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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
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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
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Unlocking neutrino mysteries with the NOvA experiment, Chris Backhouse, Caltech
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   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
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   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
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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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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
Faculty Search Committee Meeting, Dasu
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   Tuesday, February 21st
Council Meeting
12:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin hall
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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
A Deep Look for New Physics with Neutrino Oscillations, Taritree Wongjirad, MIT
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5:15 pm - 6:30 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
Faculty Search Committee Meeting, Dasu
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   Wednesday, February 22nd
Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin hall
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   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
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   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
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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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   Tuesday, February 28th
Council Meeting
12:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin hall
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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
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter with Supersymmetry, Bibhushan Shakya, University of Cincinnati/University of Michigan
Presentation: Wisconsin seminar.pdf
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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
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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
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   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
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   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
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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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   Tuesday, March 7th
Council Meeting
12:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin hall
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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
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   Wednesday, March 8th
9:45 am - 10:30 am; 4272 Chamberlin Hall
Faculty Candidate Search Committee Meeting , Dasu, UW-Madison
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Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin hall
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   Thursday, March 9th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
Hyperpolarized Spins in Nanodiamond, Ewa Rej, University of Sydney
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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
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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
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   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
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   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
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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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   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
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Lattice Insights for Composite BSM Models, Ethan Neil, University of Colorado, Boulder
Presentation: madison-0317-web.pdf
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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
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   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
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   Friday, March 17th
Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
Theories and Signals of a "Dark" Photon, Spencer Chang, Oregon University
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   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
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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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   Tuesday, March 21st
Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Relaxion from particle production, Gustavo Marques Tavares, Stanford University
Presentation: gmt-relaxion.pdf
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   Thursday, March 23rd
Atomic Physics Seminar; 8:00 am - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
ARL CDQI Review, Mark Saffman, et al.
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   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
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   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
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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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Faculty Candidate Seminar ; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
How to find dark matter, Dr. Bjoern Penning, University of Bristol
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   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
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Cosmology from Non-Linear Weak Lensing, Zoltan Haiman, Columbia Univ
Presentation: Haiman-slides.pdf
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   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
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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
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   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
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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
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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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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
Presentation: HV-LHCb.pdf
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   Tuesday, April 4th
Council Meeting
12:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin hall
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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
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Next steps in new physics searches, LHC and beyond. , Liantao Wang, University of Chicago
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   Wednesday, April 5th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin hall
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   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
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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
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   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
Presentation: jacakfordirectory.jpg
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   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
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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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   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
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Council Meeting
12:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin hall
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Dark Matter Interpretations of the AMS Positron Excess, Ian Low, Northwestern
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   Wednesday, April 12th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
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   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
Presentation: Madison13417.pdf
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   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
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   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
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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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   Tuesday, April 18th
Council Meeting
2314 Chamberlin hall
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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
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
Ubiquity of non-geometry in heterotic string compactifications, Stefano Massai, University of Chicago
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   Wednesday, April 19th
Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin hall
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   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
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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
Galaxy Transformations And The Quenching of Star Formation at High Redshift, Mauro Giavalisco, University of Massachusetts
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   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
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   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
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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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   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
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
what can we learn from the current Higgs data? , Peisi Huang, Texas A&M
Presentation: Huang_tth.pdf
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   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
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   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
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5:30 pm - 8:00 pm; The University Club
Physics Awards Banquet
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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
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BAUTZ LECTURE; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall
Physics Of The Stochastic Excitation Of Stellar Modes, Peter Goldreich, CALTECH
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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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   Tuesday, May 2nd
Council Meeting
12:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin hall
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Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
Year-end celebration
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   Wednesday, May 3rd
Department Meeting
12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin hall
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   Thursday, May 4th
R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
Coherent defects in diamond, Nathalie de Leon, Princeton
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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
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   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
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   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
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   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
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   Friday, May 12th
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm; 2241 Chamberbelin
The Department of Physics Undergraduate Reception
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   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
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   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
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   Monday, May 22nd
High Energy Physics CMS Workshop; 9:00 am - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
CMS HL-LHC TRIGGER WORKSHOP
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   Tuesday, May 23rd
High Energy Physics CMS Workshop; 9:00 am - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
CMS HL-LHC TRIGGER WORKSHOP
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Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology); 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
Emerging Jets, Daniel Stolarski
Presentation: Wisconsin.pdf
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   Wednesday, May 24th
High Energy Physics CMS Workshop; 9:00 am - 1:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
CMS HL-LHC TRIGGER WORKSHOP
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High Energy Physics CMS Workshop; 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
US CMS HL-LHC Trigger Project Workshop date
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   Thursday, May 25th
High Energy Physics CMS Workshop; 9:00 am - 6:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
US CMS HL-LHC Trigger Project Workshop
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