Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the 2017 Spring Semester
January 2017
- Friday, January 20th
- Ignacio Taboada, Georgia Tech
- Very-high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics with HAWC
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Westerhoff
- Friday, January 27th
- Amir Yacoby, Harvard University
- A New Spin on Superconductivity
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall, hosted by Mark Eriksson
February 2017
- Friday, February 3rd
- James E. Lawler, introduced by UW Emeritus Prof. Wilmer Anderson, UW-Madison
- Lab Astro and the Origins of the Chemical Elements
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Friday, February 10th
- JoAnne Hewett, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- The Science Driving Particle Physics
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Baha Balantekin
- Friday, February 17th
- Michael Hesse, NASA & Birkeland Centre for Space Science
- The basic physics of collisionless magnetic reconnection
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall, hosted by Jan Egedal
March 2017
- Friday, March 3rd
- Kater Murch, Washington University, St. Louis
- Quantum measurement in superconducting circuits: mapping quantum trajectories from spontaneous emission.
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall, hosted by Justin Vandenbroucke
- Friday, March 10th
- Jennifer Sheridan & Prof. Molly Carnes, UW Madison
- Breaking the Bias Habit
- 3:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall, hosted by Gender Minorties and Women in Physics (GMaWiP) spearheaded by Steph Kubala
- Friday, March 17th
- Spencer Chang, Oregon University
- Theories and Signals of a "Dark" Photon
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall, hosted by Yang Bai
- Friday, March 31st
- Katherine Freese, University of Michigan
- The Dark Matter in the Universe
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Susan Coppersmith
April 2017
- Friday, April 7th
- Barbara Jacak, UC-Berkeley/LBL
- Quark Gluon Plasma: Surprises from strongly coupled QCD matter
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall, hosted by Baha Balantekin
- Friday, April 14th
- Carsten Krauss, University of Alberta
- New Dark Matter Search Results from PICO 60
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall, hosted by Kim Palladino
- Friday, April 21st
- Martin Mlynczak, NASA Langley Research Center
- Carbon Dioxide – A Force for Global Change Throughout the Earth’s Atmosphere
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Susan Nossal
- Friday, April 28th
- Steve Pollock, Colorado University
- A research-validated approach to transforming upper-division physics courses
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall, hosted by Baha Balantekin
May 2017
- Friday, May 5th
- Meers Oppenheim, Boston University, Astronomy Department
- Simulating the Ionosphere, one electron at a time
- 3:30 pm; 2103 Chamberlin hall, hosted by Jan Egedal
