Events at Physics |
Events During February, 2018
- Thursday, February 1st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; chamberlin 5310
- Supercurrent in the quantum Hall regime, Gleb Finkelstein, Duke University
- Friday, February 2nd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Playing Newton: Learning equations of motion from data, Ilya Nemenman, Emory University
- Monday, February 5th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Progress Toward Magnetic Confinement of Positron-Electron Plasma, Dr. Matthew Stoneking, Lawrence University
- Tuesday, February 6th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Prions and the environment, Joel Pedersen, UW Department of Soil Science
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Coral skeleton growth, Pupa Gilbert, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Thursday, February 8th
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM, Talk Begins 3:45 PM
- Stellar Binaries: a Testbed for Planetary Formation and Dynamics, Diego Munoz, Northwestern University
- Friday, February 9th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- The hunt for dark matter with neutrinos, Carsten Rott, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
- Monday, February 12th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Particle transport from the bottom up, Dr. Saskia Mordijck, College of William and Mary
- Tuesday, February 13th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Complexity in gene editing outcomes with defined CRISPR nanoparticles, Kris Saha, UW Department of Biomedical Engineering
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Astrophysics with the highest energy photons in the Universe, Justin Vandenbroucke, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Council Meeting
- 4:00 pm; 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Wednesday, February 14th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, February 15th
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Search for Dark Matter: CMS Strikes Back!, Zeynep Demeragli, MIT
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Coffee at 3:30 pm, Talk begins 3:45 pm
- The Microphysics of AGN Feedback , Karen Yang, University of Maryland
- Careers for Physicists, Women and Gender Minorities in Physics;
5:00 pm; B343 Sterling Hall Conference room - Communication and Negotiation Skills Seminar for Women, Prof. Laura McCollough
- Friday, February 16th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration in space and astrophysical systems, James Drake, University of Maryland
- Saturday, February 17th
- Wonders of Physics
- 11:00 am - 4:00 pm; Chamberlin Hall
- Monday, February 19th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Tokamak Disruption Simulation: Progress toward Comprehensive Modeling, Prof. Carl Sovinec, UW-Madison, Engineering Physics
- Tuesday, February 20th
- Department Meeting
- 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Interactions between environment and host epigenome: metabolism, the microbiota, and hibernation, Kim Krautkramer, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
- Council Meeting
- 12:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Quantum Bits in Silicon Quantum Dots, Mark A Eriksson, UW Madison Department of Physics
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- The neutrino quantum system and DUNE, Jonathan Miller, Fermilab
- Wednesday, February 21st
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, February 22nd
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Where is all the antimatter?, Nuno Barros, University of Pennsylvania
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 4421 Sterling Hall, Cookies and coffee 3:30 pm , Talk starts at 3:45 pm
- The Positive Side of the Galactic Baryon Ledger: the Evidence for Cold Inflow, Chris Howk, University of Notre Dame
- Friday, February 23rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- A Brief History of Time(keeping): Metrology, quantum simulation, and tests of relativity with optical lattice clocks, Shimon Kolkowitz, UW-Madison
- Monday, February 26th
- Council Meeting
- 2314 Chamberlin Hall
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- nitial Results on the Impact of Background Hydrogen Isotope on Impurity Behavior in the EC-heated LHD plasmas, Prof. N. Tamura, NIFS (National Institute for Fusion Science) at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKEDAI) in Japan.
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum; 3:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Understanding CP-Violation in Leptons , Daniel Cherdack, Colorado State University
- Tuesday, February 27th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
- Thoughts on drumlins, a major component of Wisconsin's glacial landscape, David Mickelson, UW Department of Geology
- "Physics Today" Undergrad Colloquium (Physics 301); 1:20 pm - 2:10 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Exploring the High-Energy Universe with HAWC, Stefan Westerhoff, UW Madison Department of Physics
- Wednesday, February 28th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall